Superfund Site:

KASSAUF-KIMERLING BATTERY DISPOSAL
TAMPA, FL

Superfund Site Profile

Site Contacts

Community Involvement Coordinator
Tonya Spencer-Harvey
[email protected]
(404) 562-8463

Remedial Project Manager
Anita Saha
[email protected]
(404) 562-8856

Site Location

Street Address:
The end of N. 58th St. north of E. Columbus Dr.
TAMPA, FL 33619

Background

The Kassauf-Kimerling Battery Disposal Superfund Site (also referred to as the 58th Street Landfill Site) is located in Tampa, Florida. It includes a former peat extraction area later used as a landfill in the 1970s.

The EPA placed the site on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL) in 1993 because of contaminated sediment, soil, surface water and groundwater resulting from past waste handling operations.

The EPA, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP)Exit, and Gulf Coast Lead, Inc., Mr. Kassauf and Mr. Kimerling, the Site’s potentially responsible parties (PRPs), have investigated ...
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