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Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
EBC Site Remediation and Redevelopment
Program: Update on Soil Re-Use in
Massachusetts for Large Reclamation
Projects (Interim Policy #COMM-15-01)
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Jonathan D. Kitchen
Chair, EBC Site Remediation &
Redevelopment Committee
Senior Project Manager, Civil &
Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Welcome
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Edward Van Doren
Program Co-Chair & Moderator
Principal Environmental Engineer,
CDM Smith
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Introduction
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David G. Austin
Program Co-Chair & Moderator
Technical Leader, AECOM
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Introduction
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Paul Locke
Assistant CommissionerBureau of Waste Site Cleanup
Massachusetts Department of
Environmental Protection
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Where Have All The Soils Gone?
10 Months After Comm-15-01
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Where Have All the Soils Gone?10 Months After Comm-15-01
Paul W. Locke
MassDEP Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup
One Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108www.Mass.Gov/dep
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10 Months of Talkin’ Soil
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MassDEP’s Basic Message
Presentations to…
• EBC
• LSPA
• BWSC Advisory Committee
• MHOA
• Meetings with proponents &
local officials
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Observations
• The “Screaming” has stopped
• Overall Comm 15-01 seems to work well
• We’re still learning & clarifying some issues
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What are appropriate site-specific differencesin ACO/SMP versus changing ground rules for
everyone?
•
What is appropriate level and form ofmunicipal & public input?
• What is de minimis ?
•
How to best coordinate resolution of cross-program issues
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What’s Up for the Next 10 Months
(10 years)?
• Let’s look back several years first…
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OLD FLOWCHART – USED FOR REMINISCING PURPOSES ONLY
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Hazardous Waste, Solid Waste or Highly Contaminated Soil
NOT Suitable for Re-Use – Treat/Dispose this Stuff
Addressed by Similar Soils Policy OR is Similar to Similar Soils
Addressed OR Could be Addressed by COMM-15-01
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What’s Up for the Next 10 Months
(10 Years)?
• We now have TOOLs to manage the soil
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EVALUATION: – Are these tools enough?
– Is there compliance with ACOs/SMPs
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Are regulations & permits needed? – Is there sufficient capacity
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Carl Shapiro
President
Avidar Environmental Consulting &
Engineering LLC
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
The “Early” MA Interim Soil
Re-Use Policy - Some LSP
Observations and Insights
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‘Clean’ Soil Management inMassachusetts
– An LSP’s Insights
Perspectives on Managing ‘Non - MCP’Soil in MA
from Source Propertyto RCS-1 Facility
Avidar Environmental, June 2016
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Carl Shapiro, [email protected]
A vidar Environmental
Consulting & Engineering LLC400 Franklin Street, Suite 304
Braintree, MA 02184(bus) 781-848-1114 * (mob) 781-726-2518
www.avidarco.com
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Program
I. MA Uncontaminated Soils Regulatory Framework Interim Soils Policy 2016
II. MA Soils Re-Use Facility Permitting
III. RCS-1 Facility Soil Acceptance Process Levels of Constituents No. of Soil Tests per Soil Volume Standard Operating Procedures
IV. Waterville Farms
New RCS-1 Facility Being Permitted Planned Use for Hydroponic Greenhouses
V. Closing Comments – Challenges and Opportunities for Regulators, Facility Operators, Soil Generators
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MA Soils Framework - Overview
Anti-Degradation Regulation – MCP
>> Crisis – Shortage of Air Space for Non-
Contaminated Soils >> Similar Soils Policy
Interim Policy for Re-Use of Soils at Large
Reclamation Sites Future: Final Policy for Re-Use of Soils ….
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Mystique of Soil Management in
Massachusetts Crisis of finding ‘air space’ for soils from new
construction underway
Quarries, sand & gravel pits – ‘hole-in-the-ground’ Environmental restoration of exploited properties
Evolution of the Interim Policy, waiting for themissing side of flow chart … for clean soils
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Mystique of Soil Management in
Massachusetts (cont’d)
Essential Soil Disposal Business Unit -
$0.25 Elephant in Room … Is soil ‘contaminated’
Elevated background levels of constituents
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RCS-1 Facility – State Permitting
Soil Re-Use Management Plan Soil Acceptance Criteria: Testing Frequency,
Levels of Constituents
Administrative Consent Order with Penalty Vehicle to Document Changes to Plan
Independent Third Party LSP Oversight
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Local Approvals
Town Approval – Town Manager, Board ofSelectmen, Town Departments
Earth Permits, if applicable to town
“No clear process in place to providedocument, and towns vary”
Manage noise, traffic, air/dust
Public Communication and Transparency:newspaper, letters, discussions
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Interim Soils Policy – Re: Local Approval
MassDEP will review documentation submitted by project proponents to demonstratethat the appropriate local officials are aware of the project and have been affordedthe opportunity for meaningful input. Examples of such documentation may include:
a copy of any local permit or other approval specific to the use of large volumes of fillmaterial that may be required (municipal approval of an up-to-date reclamation plan for thereceiving location, and/or or a municipal permit under an “earth filling” ordinance, and/orany other approval required by a municipality for activities that involve the transportationofsoil onto the receiving site);
a summary of the steps taken to solicit meaningful input from those local officials, copies ofcomments received, and a description of the ways in which these comments have been (orwill be) addressed.
MassDEP will not finalize an Administrative Consent Order on the proposed quarry,gravel pit or sand pit reclamation project unless and until all comments from suchlocal officials on project impacts related to noise, dust, odor and/or trucks have beenappropriately addressed by the project proponent.
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Soil Acceptance Approval Into
RCS-1 Facilities
Working with Other LSPs Acceptable Levels of Chemical Constituents – approved
as part of SRMP
Metals: MCP-14 vs. RCRA-5 for landfills VOCs: Rule of thumb developed as 10% SVOC/PAHs: Some can be restrictive
Rate of Analyses – 1 sample per … Arsenic in Worcester County Soils near MCP disposal site on property
LSP Opinion Letter
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Waterville Farms – Planned RCS-1
Facility, Middleborough MA Environmental Restoration of 42-Acre Site
Est. 1Million yards of sand & gravel removed
Hydroponic Greenhouses – nutrient-fed vegetables
Higher Education and R&D – agriculture, energy
Social Responsibility – working with public schools andfamilies
DEP Issued WF Project Draft Administrative Consent Order(ACO)
Working with Town for ANRAD – wetlands delineation – noimpact anticipated
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Challenges –
Clean Soils Management
Early Stages of Policy – will need to continue tobe exercised
Local Approval – new more intense introspection
for towns Budget for soil laboratory analyses
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Opportunities
Provision of Air Space for Excess Soils
Environmental Site Restoration and Return toPurposeful Use
New LSP opportunities: for RCS-1 facility; ThirdParty LSP oversight
Projects like Waterville Farms to provide lens of
future opportunities, through leadership inbusiness. Avidar Environmental, June 2016
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Working to understand – and achieve – our clients’
environmental goals in industry and government
Avidar Environmental
Consulting & Engineering LLCwww.avidarco.com
Carl Shapiro, LSP
[email protected] (cel) 781-726-2518
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Dan Walsh
Senior Project Manager / EnvironmentalEngineer
W. L. French Excavating Corporation
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Operation of Two Soil Reuse
Facilities Under MassDEP
Interim Policy
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Operation ofTwo Soil Reuse Facilities
Under MADEP ACOs
St. Mary Cemetery Expansion Project, Tewksbury, MA
and
Dudley Reclamation Project, Dudley, MA
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• Procedures to obtain ACO – May 2015 LSPA MeetingPresentation
•
Mass DEP Interim Policy Comm-15-01
• Local Regulations – Wetlands, Land Ordinances
• USEPA SWPPP
• Soil and Fill Management Plan
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St Mary Cemetery Expansion
• 450,000 cubic yards total
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implemented prior to Comm-15-001
• approximately 2 years remaining
• Close proximity to Boston
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Dudley Reclamation Project
• ACO in 2016
•
Over 2 million cubic yard capacity
• Estimated 15 years of operation
• 2 distinct areas – RCS-1 and RCS-2 sections
• 3 load day from Boston
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• Submittal Requirement
• Acceptance Criteria based on MassDEP Similar Soils
Policy
• WL French provides Transportation and Disposal
• Pricing readily available and quoted on job-specificbasis
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Contact InformationFor W.L. French Excavating Corp.
www.wlfrench.com 978-663-2623 Main Office
Fill Management Plans, submittal forms etc. on website
Bill French, Jr. President
Lisa French Kelly, Principal
Jarrett Everton, Project Manager
Chris Paulino, Project Manager
Dan Walsh, Project Manager
Call for information, quotes, or to set up Projects.
P l Di i
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Panel Discussion
Moderators: Edward Van Doren and David Austin
• Paul Locke, MassDEP
• Carl Shapiro, Avidar Environmental Consulting &
Engineering LLC• Dan Walsh, W. L. French Excavating Corporation
• Kevin Francis Gervais, Lighthouse
Environmental Management LLC
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
EBC Site Remediation and Redevelopment
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Environmental Business Council of New England
EBC Site Remediation and Redevelopment
Program: Update on Soil Re-Use in
Massachusetts for Large Reclamation
Projects (Interim Policy #COMM-15-01)
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