United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region X
POLLUTION REPORT



Date:
Monday, November 30, 2009
From:
Kathy Parker, OSC

To:
Debbie Bailey, ODEQ
Ken Itel, Clackamas County
Anthony Barber, EPA Region 10 (POLREP List)
Dan Opalski, EPA Region 10 (POLREP List)
Chris Field, EPA Region 10 (POLREP List)
Deb Yamamoto, EPA
Lori Cohen, EPA Region 10
Tara Aarnio, Oregon Iron Work

Subject: 

Continuation of Site Work - Week 9
Northwest Pipe and Casing
9585 Mather Road, Clackamas, OR
Latitude: 45.4149000
Longitude: -122.5200000


POLREP No.:
10
Site #:
10G8
Reporting Period:
10/25/2009 to 10/31/2009
D.O. #:
Start Date:
8/12/2009
Response Authority:
CERCLA
Mob Date:
8/12/2009
Response Type:
Time-Critical
Demob Date:
 
NPL Status:
NPL
Completion Date:
 
Incident Category:
Removal Action
CERCLIS ID #:
ORD980988307
Contract #
RCRIS ID #:
ORD980988307
 

Current Activities

This Polrep covers Site work performed from Sunday 10/25/09 through Saturday 10/31/09. Work on site began at 7am and ended at 5:30pm unless otherwise noted.

Sunday 10/25/09 – no site work.

Monday 10/26/09
On-site today: OSC Parker, 1 START, 10 ERRS. Safety Meeting at 7 am. Work ended at 420pm
Excavation:
* Continued backfilling Excavation Area #1 with rock and cap material.

Containment Cells:
* Finished loading out contaminated soil to Wasko landfill – 36 loads.
* Covered contaminated soil stockpile with visqueen at day’s end.

Water Treatment System:
* Back-flushed sand filters into tank #2.
* Pumped water in tank #2 down to sediment line over to tank #1.
* Collected water and sediment samples from tank #1.

Other work:
Deconned a 25 ton Haul Truck.
Demobilized tanks #12 and #13.

Tuesday 10/27/09
On-site today: OSC Parker, 1 START, 10 ERRS. Safety Meeting at 7:30 am. Work ended at 5pm
Excavation:
* Continued backfilling Excavation Area #1 with rock and cap material.
* Shaped road over Excavation Area #1 to make it a straight north-south line and dug a ditch to the wetland to drain Excavation Area #2.

Containment Cells:
* Started shaping contaminated soil stockpile.
* Covered with visqueen at day’s end.

Water Treatment System:
* Pumped the last water through the water treatment system and discharged treated water from tanks #6 through 11 to POTW.
* Started disassembling water treatment system.
* Moved sand filters to containment cell #8 to decon.
* Sampled sediment from sand filter inlet.
* Sampled carbon from GAC vessel #1 inlet and 60 inches below inlet.

Wednesday 10/28/09
On-site today: OSC Franklin, 1 START, 8 ERRS. Safety Meeting at 7:30 am. Work ended at 5pm
Excavation:
* Finished backfilling Excavation Area #1 with rock and cap material.

Containment Cells:
* Finished shaping contaminated soil stockpile and covered with visqueen and sandbags to hold down the visqueen.
* Sampled soil at bottom of containment cell #8.

Water Treatment System:
* Started to dismantle water treatment system and clean tanks #6 through 11 and 2.

Other work:
Deconned a second 25 ton Haul truck, the 330 Excavator and two excavator buckets.

Thursday 10/29/09
On-site today: OSC Franklin, 8 ERRS. Safety Meeting at 7:30 am. Work ended at 5pm.
Containment Cells:
* Continued making sandbags to hold down the visqueen.

Water Treatment System:
*Finished dismantling water treatment system and cleaning all tanks.

Other work:
* Deconned and demobilized 330 Excavator and three portable toilets and handwash station.

Friday 10/30/09
On-site today: OSC Franklin, 6 ERRS. Safety Meeting at 7:30 am. Work ended at 5pm.
Other work:
* Continued making sandbags to hold down the visqueen.
*Cleaned and demobilized: office trailer, two gators, 1000 gallon fuel tank, service truck, satellite internet dish.
* Cleaned radios and moved remaining office equipment into smaller permanent office trailer.


Planned Removal Actions

Excavate contaminated soil, backfill and cap to specifications.


Next Steps

1. Excavate contaminated soil and transport to appropriate landfill.
2. Backfill excavations with adequate compaction
3. Include soil amendment in backfill
4. Cap excavations with specified capping material


Estimated Costs *
  Budgeted Total To Date Remaining % Remaining
Extramural Costs
ERRS - Cleanup Contractor $2,100,000.00 $1,423,951.00 $676,049.00 32.19%
START $100,000.00 $76,061.06 $23,938.94 23.94%
Intramural Costs
 
Total Site Costs $2,200,000.00 $1,500,012.06 $699,987.94 31.82%

* 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 #10 Last Updated 11/30/2009