United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region V
POLLUTION REPORT

Subject: 

1. Site Location

See Initial Polrep.

2. Description of Threat

See Initial Polrep.

1. Current Situation

U.S. EPA contractors continued to inventory, stage, sample and haz-cat drums and vats.  Drums continued to be separated into waste streams and consolidated.  Additional composite samples from waste streams have been collected and submitted for analyses to prepare profiles for disposal.  ERRS (Earth Tech) Health and Safety Personnel reviewed personal data ram (PDR) particulate and dust sampled analyzed for metals and determined the levels not to be in exceedence of any action levels.  A total of 264 empty drums were sent off site for disposal to Maxi Container and 76 flammable paint sludges were sent off site to Petro-Chem Processing for disposal.  Air monitoring continued within the hot zones.  No detectable concentrations of volatile organic carbons (VOCs) have been recorded outside of the hot zones.  

Progress to date:
Drums inventoried/sampled: 2345
Drums hazcatted: 2030
Vats/Totes/Tanks inventoried/sampled: 22
Vats/Totes/Tanks hazcatted: 22

2. Removal Activities to Date

During the week of February 7 to 12, 2005, ERRS and START continued inventorying and sampling of drums in both the Warehouse and Manufacturing Buildings.  ERRS continued staging, haz-catting and consolidating drums of material for disposal.  Personal Data RAM (PDR) readings for total particulates in the air were collected for four days.  The time weighted averages for each work day did not indicated any exceedences of action levels for airborne particulates.  A sample of dust collected from the warehouse building detected elevated levels of metals.  ERRS Health and Safety Personnel reviewed the data and determined that there were no exceedences of any action levels.  Air samples will be collected as confirmation.

• Inventory, stage, sample, hazcat and dispose of all 55-gallon drums and small containers.
• Sample, drain, rinse and render unusable all AST's, tanks, vats, totes and process vessels.
• Rinse and dispose of all empty drums.
• Transport all wastes off site to a CERCLA compliant facility.

• Continue to rinse and dispose of all empty drums.
• Prepare site for staging and sampling of drums.
• Consolidate all small containers.
• Lab pack all materials from laboratory.
• Collect air sampled for metals analyses from Warehouse and Manufacturing Buildings.

• Amend Action Memo to define the Michigan Industrial Finishes Site as including the non-adjacent empty lot used by MIF to store drums and to include the sampling and excavation of any contaminated soils due to evidence of historical spills/leakage.