United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region IV
POLLUTION REPORT



Date:
Monday, April 30, 2007
From:
Steve Spurlin

To:
Bob Bittinger, US EPA Reg 4
Anita Davis, Removal & Oil Section

Subject: 

Initial and Final Polrep
Marshall County Hazmat Response
Benton, KY


POLREP No.:
1
Site #:
Reporting Period:
D.O. #:
Start Date:
 
Response Authority:
CERCLA
Mob Date:
4/26/2007
Response Type:
Emergency
Demob Date:
4/26/2007
NPL Status:
Non NPL
Completion Date:
 
Incident Category:
Removal Action
CERCLIS ID #:
Contract #
RCRIS ID #:
 

Site Description

At Kentucky DEPs request, OSC Glenn Adams was dispatched to the site at 8:30 pm on Wednesday, April 25th to assist local law enforcement and County Health officials with assessing and stabilizing unknown materials in a residence. Local law enforecement found several syringes and bags of material which appeared to be associated with mushroom cultivation of possibly hallucinagenic materials. The owner of the residence was arrested earlier in the day for other charges.


Current Activities

On April 26th, OSC Spurlin arrived on-site at approximately 1030 hrs CDT and received a briefing from OSC Adams. OSC Adams demobilized and OSC Spurlin remained to continue to provide technical support throughout the day to local responders.  Marshall County EMA requested assistance from KY EMA who mobilized their Hazmat Unit 1 out of Paducah, KY.  The KY Hazmat Unit 1 recovered the suspected material from the trailer and treated the material with a bleach solution.  This killed any active spores and rendered the material non-hazardous.  The material was then transported by county sanitation to the local landfill for burial.

Once these activities were completed, OSC Spurlin demobilized from the site at approximately 1930 hrs CDT on April 26th.

No further action by EPA is anticipated for this site.


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.


response.epa.gov/marshallco

POLREP #1 Last Updated 4/30/2007