United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region IX
POLLUTION REPORT

Subject: 

See POLREPs #1 and #17

The eastern warehouse at 10800 Burbank Blvd. has emptied of all radium containing materials and surface contaminated objects.  Items remaining in the east warehouse include storage units and gauges containing hazardous waste including solvents and mercury.

Photograph Description (web site only):  Removal of items from the roof of the offices in the east warehouse.  Additional photos can be found at http://www.epaosc.net/Preservation_Aviation.

February 4 - 17, 2005:  
Personnel:  1 OSC, 2 PST, 2 START, 10 ERRS

ERRS is dismantling the storage units inside the east side of 10800 Burbank Blvd and loading trays of gauges onto the conveyor system.  Once the items have been surveyed, ERRS is segregating the items based on survey results for bulking.  The START and PST are surveying trays of items for segregation into the different wastestreams.  The START is conducting air surveillance.  START and PST is conducting off-site migration surveys to insure contamination is not migrating off-site.  PST is also performing RCMS for government costs and medical monitoring of on-site personnel.

The east warehouse at 10800 Burbank Blvd. was emptied of all items on February 10, 2005.  The conveyors and survey area was moved over to the west warehouse on February 11, 2005.  Removal of items from the west warehouse began on February 14, 2005.  

Two 108 cubic feet B-25 waste containers and 152 drums of Radium Containing Materials (RCM) were transported off-site to U.S. Ecology, Richland, WA for disposal between  February 8 - 10, 2005.  Approximately 80-100 cubic yards of Surface Contaminated Objects are transported off-site to U.S. Ecology, Grandview, ID, for disposal each day.

1.  Phase 3:  Building Item Removal is expected to be completed by late March or early April.
2.  Phase 4:  Structural Contamination Assessment of the 10800 Burbank Blvd. building will begin as soon as the east side of the building is empty.  This will be conducted by the START.
3.  Phase 5:  Building Decontamination or Demolition:  The final disposition of the structures on-site will be based on the structural assessments.
4.  Phase 6:  Subsurface Assessment
5.  Phase 7:  Subsurface Removal (if necessary)

Removal of all items from the west warehouse is expected to be complete by week of March 21, 2005.  

Assessment of structural contamination is expected to commence in early March 2005.

1.  PRP Enforcement:  The business owner of Preservation Aviation has failed to provide plans agreed upon in December 2004.  The land owner has stated that they do not have the financial resources to conduct the cleanup.
2.  Structural Contamination Assessment