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Site Report: St Law NEC Site 22 Water Wells

Site Name: St Law NEC Site 22 Water Wells
Address: Northeast Cape, Saint Lawrence Island, Savoonga, AK 99769
File Number: 475.38.013
Hazard ID: 221
Status: Active
Staff: Erica Blake, 9074512182 erica.blake@alaska.gov
Latitude: 63.309622
Longitude: -168.964661
Horizontal Datum:NAD83

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Problems/Comments

Site operated 1957-1972. There are 29 separate sites associated with the main facility not including the White Alice site (Site 31) which is uphill about 1/2 mile. Site 30 is the name given to the various background sampling areas. Four water wells and four 60,000-gallon ASTs (water storage) were located on the south side of the facility. A small diesel AST was on the south side of the building to power a pump. Limited petroleum contamination is associated with the AST and had contaminated one well to just over action levels. EPA ID # D981765894. DERP/FUDS. See 475.15.006 for additional information. (rpltr3.1) Last staff assigned were Noland, Ortelee, Markey, Kalu, Rutkowski and Brownlee. A Building Demolition/Debris Removal was completed in 2003. All the buildings, above ground structures and debris were removed including those at the White Alice site.

Action Information

Action Date Action Description DEC Staff
3/1/2004 Site Added to Database Split out 17 new sites from main "Saint Lawrence NE Cape/DERP-Army", site, Reckey 198532X917901. Jeff Brownlee
3/1/2004 Site Ranked Using the AHRM Copied latest AHRM Score from main site, "Saint Lawrence NE Cape/DERP-Army", Reckey 198532X917901. Jeff Brownlee
6/19/2007 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking Jeff Brownlee
7/10/2007 Proposed Plan Final approved. Jeff Brownlee
11/7/2008 Update or Other Action Contaminated Sites staff reviewed a draft Decision Document for the Northeast Cape Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) on Saint Lawrence Island. There are several sites at the former surveillance station and White Alice Site to be remediated. The Headquarters Area has extensive diesel range organics impacting soil and groundwater. An insitu chemical oxidation pilot test will be done at a portion of this area to assess effectiveness for treating the larger contaminant mass. The drainage and wetlands below the Headquarters Area is planned for dredging or excavation of the more highly impacted sediments. There are several sites that will be excavated for petroleum and Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) soil contamination. There will be institutional controls on several areas including two landfills, areas with residual petroleum impacts and shallow groundwater use controls Jeff Brownlee
2/3/2011 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking Initial ranking with ETM completed for source area id: 78293 name: UST, diesel water pump Bianca Reece
10/13/2015 Meeting or Teleconference Held CS staff participated in the semiannual Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) meeting which was conducted in Savoonga, AK on Saint Lawrence Island. Participants included representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers, ADEC, Savoonga residents and RAB members, the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, and the University of Alaska, Anchorage (UAA). The agenda included presentations by the Army Corps which summarized the 2014 and 2015 remedial efforts and results. The Army Corps conducted the last major removal and offsite disposal actions in 2014 and conducted groundwater monitoring at the Main Operations Complex in 2015; the 2015 draft report is pending. Dr. Frank von Hippel of UAA presented a summary of the results from a multi-year fish tissue sampling and analysis study to evaluate PCBs in Nine-spine Stickleback and AK Blackfish in the Suqi River; the drainage of which flows through the Northeast Cape FUDS. Curtis Dunkin
1/9/2017 CERCLA Removal Action Report ADEC received the Final 2014 Northeast Cape Removal Action Report (which is dated May 2016), and submitted final approval of the report to the Army Corps of Engineers. Site characterization and removal action requirements that are outlined in the 2009 Decision Document were conducted in consecutive years since 2009 and were completed in 2014. Future and ongoing work planned within the current five-year review period (2014-2018) includes monitoring as well as follow-on sampling and analyses of surface waters, sediments, groundwater, and soils; including the development and implementation of land use controls, and notices of environmental contamination with the landowner. Curtis Dunkin
2/15/2019 CERCLA ROD Periodic Review CERCLA Five-year Review Questionnaire Submitted: ADEC completed its responses to the questionnaire (5 pages) for the prospective draft Second CERCLA Five-year Review for the Northeast Cape FUDS sites and submitted its responses to the Army Corps of Engineers. Scheduled distribution date of the draft review report is May 2019. Curtis Dunkin

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