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Tar Lake

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

Ne Cor Sec30 T29N R6W, Mancelona Township, Michigan · ZIP 49659 · EPA ID MID980794655

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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
ArsenicHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen via inhalation and ingestion. EPA MCL 10 µg/L; chronic exposure causes skin, lung, bladder cancer and cardiovascular disease. (IARC, EPA, ATSDR)Soil2
Benzo(B)FluorantheneSoil2
Benzo(K)FluorantheneSoil2
Benzo[A]AnthraceneHealth riskPAH; IARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; common combustion byproduct and creosote constituent. (IARC)Soil2
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)Soil2
ChryseneSoil2
Dibenzo(A,H)AnthraceneSoil2
LeadHealth riskNeurotoxin. Even low childhood exposure impairs cognitive development; chronic adult exposure damages kidneys and the cardiovascular system. (EPA, ATSDR)Soil2
NaphthaleneHealth riskIARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; causes hemolytic anemia, especially in infants. (IARC)Soil2
PhenanthreneSoil2
PyreneSoil2
StyreneHealth riskIARC Group 2A probable carcinogen; central-nervous-system effects from inhalation. (IARC, EPA)Soil2
1,2,4-TrimethylbenzeneHealth riskEye, skin, and respiratory irritant; high exposure causes nervous-system effects. (ATSDR)Soil1
1,2-DihydroacenaphthyleneSoil1
1-MethylnaphthaleneSoil1
2,4-DimethylphenolGroundwater1
2,4-DimethylphenolSoil1
2-Butanone (Methyl Ethyl Ketone)Soil1
2-MethylnaphthaleneGroundwater1
2-MethylnaphthaleneSoil1
2-Methylphenol (O-Cresol)Groundwater1
2-Methylphenol (O-Cresol)Soil1
4-Methyl-2-Pentanone (Methyl Isobutyl Ketone)Soil1
4-Methylphenol (P-Cresol)Groundwater1
4-Methylphenol (P-Cresol)Soil1
AcenaphthyleneGroundwater1
AcenaphthyleneSoil1
AluminumHealth riskInhaled aluminum fumes can cause lung scarring (aluminosis); high cumulative exposure has been linked to neurological effects. (NIOSH)Soil1
AnthraceneSoil1
AntimonyHealth riskInhaled antimony trioxide is an IARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; respiratory and cardiovascular effects from long-term exposure. EPA MCL 6 µg/L. (IARC, EPA)Soil1

Showing the top 30 pairs by SEMS citation count. 32 additional (contaminant, pathway) pairs are recorded for this site.

Drinking-water linkage · SDWIS

Groundwater Systems Serving Communities Within 3 Miles

The 3 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
Mancelona Area Water And Sewer Authority MunicipalMancelona1.2 mi3,900GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Rapid River Meadows PrivateMancelona1.2 mi46GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Mancelona Area Wsa - The Chief MunicipalMancelona1.2 mi40GROUNDWATERIn compliance

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

Antrim County, Michigan (no Census block groups within 1 mile and no host city — falling back to containing county): a population of 23,662. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
9.4%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
6.7%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
4.9%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
27.9%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year) + USEPA-clone EJ blockgroup stats (raw indicators + EJ disparity mirror). 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.