Week Ending August 14, 2009
On August 10, 2009, EPA, START, and ERRS mobilized to the Site. An office trailer and generator were delivered and set up for on-site use. All personnel met to discuss the removal activities and schedule. The consolidation and over-packing of the 126 drums and containers originally planned for this day was delayed until August 21, 2009.
Week Ending August 21, 2009
On August 21, 2009, EPA, START, and ERRS mobilized to the Site to supervise the consolidation and over-packing of all 126 drums and containers. Global Remediation personnel were present on-site and performed the over-packing. The drums and containers were consolidated into a total of 19, 55-gallon steel drums, 8, 85-gallon over-pack drums, and 3, 5-gallon pails. All over-packs were staged in the building for transportation and disposal.
Week Ending August 28, 2009
On August 24, 2009, EPA, START, and ERRS mobilized to the Site to begin the asbestos/ACM removal activities. A Marcor business representative met with EPA, START, and ERRS personnel to discuss the removal schedule and scope of work. The asbestos/ACM removal process shall include provisions for on-site decontamination of larger debris, and segregation of asbestos-free debris. Asbestos/ACM material will be documented, and shipped off site for disposal at EPA-approved facilities. All wastes will be staged in a secure area on-site while awaiting shipment to CERCLA compliant off-site disposal facilities.
START photo documented the removal areas prior to the commencement of removal activities. START will also photodocument daily removal activities during the duration of the removal action.
Over the course of this week, Marcor personnel set up negative air containment in the first floor shipping/receiving area and removed approximately 250-feet of pipe/fitting insulation and 400 square-feet of floor tiles. Once the asbestos removal activities were completed in the shipping and receiving area, Marcor personnel set up negative air containment in the second floor Dry Process/Carding room and removed approximately 300 linear-feet of pipe/fitting insulation and 2 vibration cloth dampers. The removed asbestos/ACM were placed in double-lined plastic bags, stored on polyethylene sheets, and given a site specific label until roll-off dumpsters were brought to the Site for load-out. Marcor personnel performed all removal tasks in Level C PPE and performed personal air monitoring inside of the containment areas. Once work was completed in the shipping and receiving area, a Marcor certified hygienist mobilized to the Site, visually cleared the room and ran clearance air samples. Marcor will follow the same asbestos removal activity protocol during the entire duration of the removal action.
On August 27, 2009, an ERRS T&D representative and a Clean Ventures chemist arrived on site to transport and dispose of the staged over-packed drums. Clean Ventures delivered a portion of the over-packs to Cycle Chemical, Inc. in Elizabeth, NJ and a portion of over-packs to General Chemical Corp. in Framingham, MA.
START performed air monitoring every day at six locations around the perimeter of the Site to ensure that asbestos particulates were not escaping the negative air containment areas. START will follow this protocol during the entire duration of the removal action.
Week Ending September 4, 2009
On August 31, 2009, EPA, START, ERRS, and Marcor personnel mobilized to the Site. Marcor personnel continued removal asbestos and ACM activities in the second floor Dry Process/Carding room. Once removal activities were completed on the second floor, Marcor personnel began setting up for asbestos and ACM removal in the first floor and basement of the bleachery and the receiving cotton bail storage room. Due to the unsafe structural condition of the floors of these two areas, negative area containment was not implemented. Marcor personnel used glove bags to complete the removal work, and removed approximately 150 insulation elbow fittings.
On September 4, 2009, Marcor personnel finished removal activities in the first floor and basement of the bleachery and the cotton bail storage room and began setting up negative air containment in the Boiler Room.
START conducted photodocumention of the completed areas (shipping/receiving room, second floor Dry Process/Carding room, the first floor and basement of the Bleachery, and the Cotton Bail Storage room) once they were cleared by the hygienist. START will follow the photodocumentation protocol on all of the remaining removal action activities.
Week Ending September 11, 2009
On September 8, 2009, EPA, START, ERRS, and Marcor personnel mobilized to the Site. Marcor personnel continued to set up negative air containment in the Boiler and Chiller rooms. Once negative air containment was completed, Marcor personnel removed three boiler gaskets, 20 square-feet boiler insulation (on the south wall), 50 square-feet of transite, and 300 linear-feet of pipe and fitting insulation.
On September 9 and 10, 2009, Marcor personnel completed removal activities in the Boiler and Chiller rooms. Concurrently, Marcor personnel loaded two thirty cubic yard rolloffs with bags of asbestos/ACM. The roll-offs were double-lined with polyethylene sheets, secured, and covered with the supplied tarp in preparation for transport and disposal. All remaining roll-offs will be secured for disposal in the same manner as the first one.
On September 11, 2009, Marcor personnel began preparing negative air containment in the Process Line room.
Week Ending September 18, 2009
On September 14, 2009, EPA, START, ERRS, and Marcor personnel mobilized to the Site. Marcor personnel finished the negative air containment in the Process Line room. When negative air containment was completed, Marcor personnel removed 2,000 square-feet of transite cement board and 1,000 linear-feet of pipe and fitting insulation. On September 16, 2009, Marcor personnel loaded one thirty cubic yard rolloff with bags of asbestos/ACM.
On September 15,16 and 18, 2009, Moran Environmental picked up three roll-offs and transported them to Turn-Key Landfill in Rochester, NH for disposal.
On September 17, 2009, EPA in addressing the removal of the asbestos/ACM located in the troughs and pipe chases in the Process Line room, increased the scope of work resulting in ERRS re-bidding the additional removal work. A Site walk with potential bidders was scheduled for September 22, 2009. Because the troughs and pipe chases are in trenches covered by metal grates, the Removal Health and Safety Plan had to be amended by START to include work in confined spaces.
Week Ending September 25, 2009
On September 21, 2009, EPA, START, ERRS, and Marcor personnel mobilized to the Site. Marcor personnel completed the removal activities in the Process Line Room. Marcor Personnel loaded the staged asbestos/ACM into two roll-offs. On September 22, 2009, Marcor completed the 1st phase of the asbestos/ACM removal work and demobilized from the Site.
On September 22 and 23, 2009, Moran Environmental picked up the two roll-offs and transported them to Turn-Key Landfill in Rochester, NH for disposal.
Representatives from Marcor Environmental, Dec-Tam, TMC Environmental, Moran Environmental, Yankee Fiber, and A-D & T Enterprise, Inc. arrived on site to participate in the Site walk to bid on the remainder of the asbestos removal.
On September 23, 2009, ERRS secured and shut-down the Site until the bid was awarded for the remainder of the asbestos removal.
