Site Report: Kwigillingok Old Head Start School
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The Old Head Start School was built in the early 1960s and historically used as a village school, community hall, and library. The building was used as a single family residence between 1994-2000. The building is now used as a shelter for the processing and storage of non-hazardous recyclable materials. This site was the subject of an EPA Targeted Brownfields Assessment Phase I ESA conducted in September 2011 to assess the site for historic petroleum, PCB, asbestos, and lead contamination. 55-gallon drums set on wooden cribbing were historically used as heating oil ASTs, but the drums were not present at the time of the site visit. A faint hydrocarbon odor was noted near the wooden cribbing of a probable former AST. Surface soil sampling near the AST cribbing areas showed DRO present at 99.4-149 mg/kg and RRO at 935-1460 mg/kg, all below the most stringent cleanup levels. No asbestos-containing material was found. A layer of green paint overlain by white paint in the school office was found to contain 18,000 ppm lead, above the 5,000 ppm threshold considered to be a lead-based paint by the EPA. Other paint samples, notably in the common room, kitchen, and office, also contained elevated levels of lead between 1000-2300 ppm. Fluorescent light ballasts not labeled "non-PCB" were considered to be potential PCB-containing material.
Staff assignment changed to No Longer Assigned due to remaining contamination being below DEC cleanup levels and potentially-hazardous building materials that have not been released to the environment. Further oversight is not required.
X-ref file no. 2425.38.006.
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