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Peoples Natural Gas Co.

This site is currently on the EPA Superfund National Priorities List and remains under federal cleanup oversight. Most-cited contaminant of concern: Benzene.

502 E 11Th St, Dubuque, Iowa · ZIP 52001 · EPA ID IAD980852578

CLEANUP TIMELINE

Listing-date and cleanup-phase enrichment from EPA's per-site SEMS profile is queued for a follow-up ingest pass. Until then, this section will populate from EPA's published timeline data.

Anomaly engine

Notable Signals

No notable signals at this Superfund site for the current ingest. Cleanup-phase and SEMS-action flags are deferred to a follow-up engineering pass.

Contaminants of concern · per EPA SEMS

What's In This Site

Each row pairs a contaminant with the medium it was found in (the exposure pathway). Hover any named contaminant for an agency-cited health-risk summary. Cited count = number of SEMS decision records (RODs and related) that name the pair.

ContaminantPathwayCited
BenzeneHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen. Long-term inhalation causes leukemia and bone-marrow disorders. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater2
Benzo(B)FluorantheneGroundwater2
Benzo(K)FluorantheneGroundwater2
Benzo[A]AnthraceneHealth riskPAH; IARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; common combustion byproduct and creosote constituent. (IARC)Groundwater2
Benzo[A]PyreneHealth riskPAH; IARC Group 1 carcinogen; the prototypical PAH used to benchmark PAH-mixture cancer risk. EPA MCL 0.2 µg/L. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater2
ChryseneGroundwater2
Dibenzo(A,H)AnthraceneGroundwater2
EthylbenzeneHealth riskIARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; eye and respiratory irritant. (IARC)Groundwater2
Indeno(1,2,3-Cd)PyreneGroundwater2
NaphthaleneHealth riskIARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; causes hemolytic anemia, especially in infants. (IARC)Groundwater2
TolueneHealth riskCentral-nervous-system depressant. Chronic high exposure causes hearing loss and developmental effects. (EPA, ATSDR)Groundwater2
Xylene (Mixed Isomers)Health riskEye, skin, and respiratory irritant; central-nervous-system effects from chronic exposure. (EPA)Groundwater2
1,2-DihydroacenaphthyleneGroundwater1
1,2-DihydroacenaphthyleneSoil1
9H-FluoreneGroundwater1
9H-FluoreneSoil1
AnthraceneGroundwater1
AnthraceneSoil1
BenzeneHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen. Long-term inhalation causes leukemia and bone-marrow disorders. (IARC, EPA)Soil1
Benzo(B)FluorantheneSoil1
Benzo(K)FluorantheneSoil1
Benzo[A]AnthraceneHealth riskPAH; IARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; common combustion byproduct and creosote constituent. (IARC)Soil1
Benzo[A]PyreneHealth riskPAH; IARC Group 1 carcinogen; the prototypical PAH used to benchmark PAH-mixture cancer risk. EPA MCL 0.2 µg/L. (IARC, EPA)Soil1
Carcinogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Cpah)Health riskPAH class includes IARC Group 1 carcinogens (e.g., benzo[a]pyrene); long-term exposure raises cancer risk. (IARC, EPA)Soil1
ChryseneSoil1
CyanideHealth riskAcutely lethal at high doses by blocking cellular respiration; chronic low-dose exposure damages the thyroid and nervous system. (EPA, ATSDR)Groundwater1
CyanideHealth riskAcutely lethal at high doses by blocking cellular respiration; chronic low-dose exposure damages the thyroid and nervous system. (EPA, ATSDR)Soil1
Dibenzo(A,H)AnthraceneSoil1
FluorantheneGroundwater1
FluorantheneSoil1

Showing the top 30 pairs by SEMS citation count. 5 additional (contaminant, pathway) pairs are recorded for this site.

Drinking-water linkage · SDWIS

Groundwater Systems Serving Communities Within 3 Miles

The 11 systems below draw on groundwater (or mixed sources) and serve communities whose centroid sits within 3 miles of this site. Distance is to the served-city centroid — SDWIS does not expose individual wellhead locations, so this is a proximity screen, not a wellhead-impact assessment.

Water systemServesDistancePopulation servedSourceStatus
Spring Valley Park PrivateDubuque2.5 mi180GROUNDWATERIn compliance
North End Mobile Home Park PrivateDubuque2.5 mi40GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Ace Mobile Home Park PrivateDubuque2.5 mi32GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Gavin Estates PrivateDubuque2.5 mi52GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Dubuque Water Works MunicipalDubuque2.5 mi59,667GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Quality Water, Inc. #2 (K-L) PrivateDubuque2.5 mi70GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Lore Oaks Homeowners Assn. PrivateDubuque2.5 mi64GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Green Brier Subdivision PrivateDubuque2.5 mi35GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Regency West Subdivision PrivateDubuque2.5 mi46GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Star Water PrivateDubuque2.5 mi110GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Shagbark Estates PrivateDubuque2.5 mi38GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED

Methodology: served-city centroid (TIGER 2020) is used as the PWS coordinate. Source-water classification from SDWIS primary_source_code; only groundwater and mixed-source systems are queried. Click any system above for its full SDWIS profile.

Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics

Who Lives Near This Site

Within 1 mile of this site (9 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 7,858. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
51.5%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
25.8%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
6.7%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
11.0%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 1-mile buffer around this site (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). NPL site proximity contributes to the national EJ pattern; indicator-level percentile and disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page.

Source. EPA Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) · retrieved 2026-05-07. SEMS is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.

What this is not. We report EPA's published Superfund record — site listing, status, and contaminants of concern as named in EPA's decision documents. We do not perform site visits, independent air or water sampling, or current-state health-risk assessment. NPL listing reflects EPA's Hazard Ranking Score at a point in time; it does not by itself describe present-day exposure.