United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region X
POLLUTION REPORT



Date:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
From:
Earl Liverman


Subject: 

Final POLREP
Coeur d'Alene River Excavator
Harrison Bridge, Harrison, ID
Latitude: 47.4653000
Longitude: -116.7681000


POLREP No.:
1
Site #:
Reporting Period:
D.O. #:
Start Date:
1/18/2008
Response Authority:
CERCLA
Mob Date:
1/17/2008
Response Type:
Emergency
Demob Date:
1/18/2008
NPL Status:
Non NPL
Completion Date:
1/8/2008
Incident Category:
Removal Action
CERCLIS ID #:
Contract #
RCRIS ID #:
 

Site Description

On the afternoon of 14 January 2008, a mid-sized excavator was being loaded onto a barge as part of the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) Harrison Bridge construction project.  The State Highway 97 bridge project is located near Harrison, Idaho.  One of several barge mooring lines gave way causing the barge to move before the excavator had been secured.  The excavator slid off the barge into the Coeur d'Alene River.  The effected river segment is found within the Coeur d'Alene Basin Superfund Site.


Current Activities

None.


Planned Removal Actions

EPA, along with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality met on several occasions with ITD to develop a recovery work plan, including erosion and sediment control best management practices, a contingency plan for fuel release, and a mine waste contaminated equipment decontamination and sediment disposal plan.

The recovery plan was implemented on the morning of 18 January 2008 without incident.


Next Steps

None.


Key Issues

Decontamination and disposal of mine waste contaminated sediments.0


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.


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POLREP #1 Last Updated 1/22/2008