The approximately 990-acre site is located south of the City of Lawrenceville, in Lawrence County, Illinois. The site is approximately 1.5 miles south of U.S. Route 50 on Illinois State Highway 1 which bisects the site. The site was operated as a refinery since the early 1900s, by various owners and operators until 1995. Residences, businesses and natural areas surround the site. Approximately 4900 people are supplied with drinking water from municipal wells serving the City of Lawrenceville.
People living in certain subdivisions near the site use private wells for drinking water.
This site is being addressed through Federal, State, municipal, and potentially responsible parties' action. Some sampling has been conducted at the site under a May 1992 agreement between the State of Illinois and the Indian Refining Company. Additional sampling has been conducted in limited areas to address specific releases. In October 1996, the U.S. EPA assessed the immediate threats posed by hazardous substances to human health and the environment, and to document whether hazardous substances that were disposed of at the Indian Acres area have migrated off-site into the adjacent residential area. The waste found in the residential area had a low pH and contained elevated levels of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons and metals.