Lower Brule Sioux TribeEnvironmental Protection Office

Cedar Jandreau, Brownfields Coordinator

The LBST-EPO's Brownfields Mission Statement:

The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Environmental Protection Office's Brownfields Program main mission is to prevent, assess safely clean up and reuse Brownfields sites in a manner that reflects the Tribe's cultural responsibilities.

What are Brownfields?

Brownfields are real property, the expansion, redevelopment or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant.

Typical contaminants found in the soil, subsurface and groundwater in and around a Brownfields site may include but not limited to the following contaminants: solvents, pesticides, heavy metals petroleum products, diesel fuel, gasoline and asbestos.

Where are Brownfields sites usually found?

A Brownfield Site can be found almost anywhere.  Sites may include gas stations, underground storage tanks (UST's), methamphetamine labs, abandoned buildings, open dumps, and old landfills.

What does the LBST Brownfields Program provide the Lower Brule community?

Through funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Office our Brownfields Program is able to provide financial and technical assistance to the Lower Brule community for Brownfields activities based on four main elements:

1. The timely survey and inventory of Brownfields sites
2. Oversite and Enforcement Activities
3. Providing meaningful opportunities for "public participation"
4. Providing a mechanism for approval of a cleanup plan and verification and certification that the cleanup is complete

Brownfields Inventory List (as of December, 2019)

Sites in Lower Brule:

1. Rodeo Dump
2. Kids Pond
3. West Brule Dump
4. BIA Administration Building (competed)
5. Former BIA Jail (competed)
6. "Sioux Boys ", Underground Storage Tanks, UST's
7. The Old LBST Housing Office (phase II)
8. Old Transfer Station for municipal solid waste
9. Old Diabetic/Boxing Club Building (Burned down 1-26-13)
10. Lagoon Rubble Site/across from Brule Hills Trading Post
11. Old Shooting Range
12. Old Boys & Girls Club
13. Old Yellow School Buildings
14. Old Durkin Dump
15. Old Durkin Curve House
16. Thompson Site/Ft Hale Bottom
17. Thompson Site/Hwy 1806

Learn about lead hazards and how to protect your family from potential exposures.

• For information on the basics of lead, where it is found, the health effects, how to lower your chances of lead exposure, and much more, visit this EPA website:https://www.epa.gov/lead/learn-about-lead.
• To educate yourself about 1) sources of lead in your home, 2) how to make your home lead-safe, and 3) how to protect your children from lead hazards, visit this EPA website:https://www.epa.gov/lead/protect-your-family-exposures-lead#homeleadsafe.
• If you are planning to renovate or demolish a structure that may have lead-based paint, please contact your new brownfields coordinator Cedar Jandreau learn about available resources and visit EPA’sLead Renovation, Repair and Painting Programwebsite for additional information.  

Questions and Concern about Asbestos check out this link.

• https://www.asbestos.net/asbestos/recycling/

 

If your curious what doesnt go in the dumpster. Click the link to find out what doesn't go inside the dumpster!

                                                                                                                                                                          

If you would like to report a potential Brownfields site or have someone come check out a location that you think may qualify as a Brownfields site, please contact Cedar Jandreau @ 473-8056/473-0163

Links

U.S. EPA Region 8 Brownfields homepage
State of South Dakota's Brownfields Program homepage

U.S. EPA Region 8 Basic Information web page:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/basic_info.htm

Region 8 Tribal Brownfields Programs:
Ute Mountain Ute: http://www.utemountainuteenvironmental.org/index.cfm/brownfields-program/
Southern Ute: http://www.southernute-nsn.gov/environmental-programs/environmental-compliance-brownfields/
Blackfeet: http://www.blackfeetenvironmental.com/brownfields/sites.html
Northern Cheyenne: http://www.cheyennenation.com/brownfield.html
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe: http://www.sioux.org/index.php/main/inner/sioux/brownsfield_program
Confederated Salish & Kootenia Tribes: http://www.cskt.org/tr/epa_brownfield.htm
Spirit Lake: http://www.spiritlakenation.com/EPA_brownfields.htm
Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate: http://www.swo-oep.com/