1.1.1 Incident Category
The train derailment response was conducted under an emergency response action.

1.1.2 Site Description
On January 26, 2016, A CSX freight train struck a rock slide and lost 5,520 gallons of diesel fuel and lube oil at Mile Post 217 in Whick, Breathitt County, Kentucky. The derailment was adjacent to the North Fork of the Kentucky River and fuel impacted the river. CSX mobilized resources and contractors to remediate the release.

1.1.2.1 Location
The derailment was located near the railroad Mile Post 217 in Whick, Breathitt County, Kentucky. The derailment was approximately 0.5 mile form the intersection of Wolf Coal road and the railroad track and it is adjacent to the North Fork of the Kentucky River. The diesel fuel impacted the river.

1.1.2.2 Description of Threat
5,520 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled from the two locomotives onto the ground and flowed underground and into the North Fork of the Kentucky River. Approximately 20 river miles downstream of the derailment is the drinking water intake for the City of Jackson, Kentucky. 

1.1.3 Preliminary Removal Assessment/Removal Site Inspection Results

5,520 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled from the two locomotives onto the ground and flowed underground into the North Fork of the Kentucky River.

2.1.1 Narrative
On January 26, 2016, A CSX freight train struck a rock slide and lost 5,520 gallons of diesel fuel and lube oil at Mile Post 217 in Whick, Breathitt County, KY. The derailment was adjacent to the North Fork of the Kentucky River. The diesel fuel impacted the river. CSX mobilized resources and contractors to remediate the release. The locomotives were hauling empty coal cars. Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection (KYDEP) requested EPA Region 4 assistance due to the amount of fuel released and the proximity to the river. OSC Harper was deployed from Atlanta and integrated into Unified Command with CSX and KYDEP. EPA Superfund Technical Assessment and Response Team (START) contractors were also deployed. the downstream drinking water facility was notified and KYDEP is assisting them with water sampling from the river upstream of the water treatment plant and both raw and finished water sampling.

2.1.2 Response Actions to Date

CSX has up righted the locomotives, placed them on the rail and removed them from site. The rock slide was removed from the railroad bed and the railroad line was repaired. CSX excavated approximately 600 to 800 tons of impacted soils and stockpiled it adjacent to the railroad track. The soils will be sampled for disposal and will be loaded into gondola cars for transportation off site. The gondola cars will be moved to the rail yard to be secured until disposal can be approved.

CSX dug an interceptor trench parallel to the river. The test trench ran the approximate length of the two derailed engines. No fuel seeped into the test pits trench, so two test pits were dug near the location of the two fuel tank spill areas. No fuel seeped into the test pits. CSX then had their contractor mobilize a geoprobe to install multiple test wells to locate the diesel fuel.

2.1.3 Enforcement Activities, Identity of Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs)

CSX owned and operated the locomotives that spilled the diesel fuel. 

2.1.4 Progress Metrics

2.2.1 Anticipated Activities

KYDEP will work with CSX to develop a plan to manage the disposal of the impacted soils and a plan for long term clean-up of the diesel seeping into the Kentucky River.

2.2.1.1 Planned Response Activities

Remidiate the diesel fuel from the river bank soil.

2.2.1.2 Next Steps
CSX will develop a plan to manage the long term clean-up of the diesel seeping into the Kentucky River.

2.2.2 Issues

Identifying the location of the underground fuel plum.

* 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.

CSXT

KYDEP

USEPA

3.2 Cooperating Agencies

KYDEP

USEPA

City of Jackson

Joe McCann                 CSXT-HAZMAT

JB Roberts                   CSXT-EFS

Dan Dyer                      CSXT-Env

Rob James                   CSXT-HAZMAT

Robert Stidham             KYDEP

Alex Sandlin                 KYDEP

Kelly Fugate                 KYDEP

Greg Harper                 USEPA

Ben Iden                       AMEC Foster Wheeler

Scott Wilson                 Marion Environmental, Inc. (MEI)

Max Koran                    EnviroScience

Todd Robinson             HEPACO

David Czayka               EnviroScience

Sam Taylor                   MEI

Tim Acri                        EMS

Paul Pryce                    Terta Tech EMI