United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region VII
POLLUTION REPORT



Date:
Saturday, April 3, 2004
From:
Dan Garvey, Eric Nold

To:
Marie Rabenau, U.S.E.P.A.
Dan Garvey, U.S.E.P.A.
Eric Nold, U.S.E.P.A.

Subject: 

Final POLREP
Omaha Lead
Greater Omaha Area, Council Bluffs, Carter Lake, Greater Omaha Area, NE
Latitude: 41.1997000
Longitude: -95.9303000


POLREP No.:
23
Site #:
NESFNO703481
Reporting Period:
4/3/2004
D.O. #:
Start Date:
8/18/2003
Response Authority:
CERCLA
Mob Date:
8/18/2003
Response Type:
Time-Critical
Demob Date:
12/20/2003
NPL Status:
NPL
Completion Date:
12/20/2003
Incident Category:
Removal Action
CERCLIS ID #:
NESFN0703481
Contract #
RCRIS ID #:
 

Site Description

The Omaha Lead site is located in the Omaha metropolitan area including Council Bluffs, and Carter Lake, Iowa. Specific boundaries of the site have not yet been defined because the sampling activities for the entire area of investigation are not complete.

Several businesses and manufacturing companies used or processed lead at their facilities in the Omaha metropolitan area. ASARCO Incorporated (ASARCO) operated a lead refinery at 500 Douglas St. in Omaha for over 100 years beginning in the 1870s. The operation of the refinery ceased in 1997. As a routine part of the refinery operation, lead particles were emitted into the atmosphere at the refinery. In addition, the Gould Inc. lead battery recycling plant, located at 555 Farnam Street in Omaha, was a secondary smelter of lead from discarded lead batteries, closing in 1982. The blast furnace used to smelt the lead at the Gould plant emitted lead particles into the air from that smelter.


Current Activities

The work that has been performed under this action memorandum has been combined with the second action memorandum and this action memorandum has been closed out.  All future day care and elevated blood levels (EBLs) will be completed under the second action memorandum.


Planned Removal Actions

None on this action memorandum - same activities will continue under the second action memorandum - see second action memorandum polreps starting on polrep #13.


Next Steps

none


Key Issues

none


Estimated Costs *
  Budgeted Total To Date Remaining % Remaining
Extramural Costs
ERRS - Cleanup Contractor $5,352,335.00 $292,684.00 $5,059,651.00 94.53%
RST/START $83,000.00 $50,144.00 $32,856.00 39.59%
Intramural Costs
 
Total Site Costs $5,435,335.00 $342,828.00 $5,092,507.00 93.69%

* The above accounting of expenditures is an estimate based on figures known to the OSC at the time this report was written. The OSC does not necessarily receive specific figures on final payments made to any contractor(s). Other financial data which the OSC must rely upon may not be entirely up-to-date. The cost accounting provided in this report does not necessarily represent an exact monetary figure which the government may include in any claim for cost recovery.


response.epa.gov/omahalead

POLREP #23 Last Updated 4/14/2004