United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region III
POLLUTION REPORT



Date:
Friday, September 11, 2009
From:
Robert Kelly, OSCs


Subject: 

PRP Removal Activities
Old Athens Turnpike Lead Site
Old Athens Road, Princeton, WV
Latitude: 37.3729885
Longitude: -81.0771334


POLREP No.:
4
Site #:
Reporting Period:
09/25/08 to 09/11/09
D.O. #:
Start Date:
 
Response Authority:
CERCLA
Mob Date:
 
Response Type:
PRP Oversight
Demob Date:
 
NPL Status:
Completion Date:
 
Incident Category:
Removal Action
CERCLIS ID #:
WVN000306554
Contract #
RCRIS ID #:
 

Site Description

Refer to previous Polreps.


Current Activities

OSC Kelly tasked START to subcontract to have a property survey conducted to determine the property boundaries.  The survey was completed in October 2008.

On December 1, 2008, an Action Memo was approved by EPA Region III to conduct a removal action at the site to remove and dispose of lead-contaminated soil.  Subsequently, an Administrative Settlement and Order on Consent for Removal Response Action (Consent Order) between Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSRC) and EPA Region III was signed on June 26, 2009.  Under the consent order, NSRC agreed to conduct remediation of the site to include excavation of contaminated soil and off-site disposal.  The clean up level for lead-contaminated soil was established as 400 parts per million (ppm).

NSRC submitted a draft Remedial Action Plan (RAP) to EPA in June, 2009.  EPA reviewed the RAP and provided comments/concerns to NSRC.  A revised RAP submitted to EPA on July 16, 2009, was subsequently approved.

OSC Kelly and the Office of Regional Counsel (ORC) obtained court-ordered access to the Old Athens Turnpike Site, because a portion of the site was not a part of NSRC property.

Contractors for NSRC commenced site preparatory operations on August 5, 2009.  NSRC conducted sampling to delineate the horizontal and vertical limits of lead-contaminated soil to be excavated.  Waste disposal profile samples were also collected.  Analytical results indicated that fourteen of twenty six 625 sq. ft. grids will have to be excavated to depths ranging from 0.5 ft. to 3 ft. depths.  Analytical results for the disposal profile samples indicated that the samples will have to be disposed of as hazardous waste.


Planned Removal Actions

Excavation of contaminated soil and transportation/disposal operations are scheduled to commence on September 24, 2009.


Estimated Costs *
  Budgeted Total To Date Remaining % Remaining
Extramural Costs
Intramural Costs
 
Total Site Costs $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 0.00%

* 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.


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POLREP #4 Last Updated 9/21/2009