United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region X
POLLUTION REPORT


Date:
Friday, September 7, 2007
From:
Kathy Parker


Subject: 

Final POLREP
Black Butte Mine
Cottage Grove, OR
Latitude: 43.5789000
Longitude: -123.0686000


POLREP No.:
3
Site #:
10EK
Reporting Period:
09/04/2007 - 09/07/2007
D.O. #:
0009
Start Date:
8/20/2007
Response Authority:
CERCLA
Mob Date:
8/19/2007
Response Type:
Time-Critical
Demob Date:
9/5/2007
NPL Status:
Non NPL
Completion Date:
9/5/2007
Incident Category:
Removal Action
CERCLIS ID #:
OR0000515759
Contract #
EP-R7-07-02
RCRIS ID #:
 

Current Activities

Tuesday 9/4/2007

Site activities consisted of placing brush and trees on the east and west slopes, placing straw bales around the repository and on east and west slopes and cleaning equipment.

Rained, no air monitoring performed. USCG, START demobilized.

Wednesday 9/5/2007

Cleaned equipment and started sending equipment off-site. Bryn Thoms, ODEQ, arrived mid-morning and assessed the final state of the site after the cleanup. No actions left to be taken except to get the site surveyed for the slopes and foot print of the caps and to hydroseed in a few weeks when the fall rains start. ERRS and OSC demobilized mid-day.


Planned Removal Actions

None


Next Steps

Survey extent of caps and slopes of main tailings piles.

Hydroseed main tailings piles.


Key Issues

None


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