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Black Butte Mine

All POLREP's for this site Black Butte Mine
Cottage Grove, OR - EPA Region X
POLREP #3 - Final POLREP 		Printer Friendly  |   PDF
 
On-Scene Coordinator - Kathy Parker 9/7/2007
Time-Critical - Removal Action Pollution Report (POLREP) #3
Start Date: 8/20/2007 Completion Date: 9/5/2007
Pollution Report (POLREP) #3
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