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Remediation Section Update and Voluntary Cleanup Program Case Studies
Tom Buell Carrie Wiese
Environmental Update 2015
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Presentation Overview
• Remediation Section Update
• VCP Overview and Update
• VCP Case Studies
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Remediation Section Update
Superfund
• Pre-Remedial work continues
• NPL Listing Update
• Preparing for O&M
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RCRA and Federal Facilities
RCRA – Corrective Action • 6 NDEQ lead sites • Working on Corrective Active authorization • RCRA to VCP Deferral
Federal Facilities
• Active cleanup at 3 active and 13 former DOD sites • Many are PBCs
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Brownfields
• Phase I and 2 assessments for local governments and non-profits (sites may be privately owned)
• 16 completed in 2014
• Brownfields inventories
• Asbestos cleanup cost-share
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• Other services include data gap reviews, comfort letters
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VCP Overview
• Fee-based oversight of properties in voluntary cleanup
• Applicant must thoroughly characterize the site, complete approved Remedial Action Plan (RAP), and submit report demonstrating remedial goals met NFA letter
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VCP Overview
• 22 sites active, 17 completed
• Variety of sites, including dry cleaners, FMGPs, former grain storage, trap range
• Flexibility of program allows range of remedial activities and encourages use of innovative technologies
• Program shifting to sites entering earlier
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Case Study – Fremont Trap Range
• Trap range from 1948- 1990s
• City received EPA cleanup grant
• 278,000 lbs of lead removed via sieve
• Resampling post-sieving still indicated significant lead > 400mg/kg
• Cleanup much larger than originally thought
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Case Study – Fremont Trap Range
• Soil stabilized and disposed of at “Subtitle D” facility
• Cleanup to unrestricted land use (400 ppm)
• Approx. 2 years to receive NFA letter
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Case Study – former Nebraska Solvents
• Solvent stored and distribution from 1966 to 1988
• Land owned by Union Pacific, leased to NSC
• NDEQ Superfund work in 2004
• UP joins VCP in 2006
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Case Study – former Nebraska Solvents
• Extensive Private well sampling
• 52 homes on whole-house carbon filtration systems
• Source area and dissolved plume delineation via MIP and DPT, followed by permanent wells
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Case Study – former Nebraska Solvents
Remedial Actions (RAC-1) • Excavation • Injections (Fenton's and UNL experimental candles) • Monitoring and ICs • Containment well • MNA • Water Line Extension (approx. 154 residences)
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Case Study – former Nebraska Solvents
Current Status
• Excavation complete
• Ongoing groundwater monitoring
• VI evaluation (near-source businesses)
• Evaluating need for additional injections
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Former Plattsmouth FMGP
• Operated from 1899 to 1940s
• BHE brought into VCP in 2011
• Approved RAP in 2012
• Excavation in 2012
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Former Plattsmouth FMGP
Remedial Actions (RAC-2)
• Excavation
• Monitoring and ICs
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Former Plattsmouth FMGP
Current Status
• New Operations building
• Ongoing groundwater monitoring
• NFA in 2015?
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CVS Pharmacy
• Former dry cleaner 1960s – 2004
• Speedway brought into VCP in 2010
• RAP approved in 2011
• NFA letter 2015
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CVS Pharmacy
Remedial Actions (RAC-3)
• Excavation (as interim action)
• VI Mitigation (Liquid Boot®)
• SVE
• Monitoring
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CVS Pharmacy
Current Status
• NFA, January 2015
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Questions
Tom Buell, Superfund/VCP Unit Supervisor
402-471-0803
Carrie Wiese, Brownfields and VCP Coordinator
402-471-6411
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