Site Report: Joe Ward Slough Former Dumpsite, Fort Yukon
| Site Name: | Joe Ward Slough Former Dumpsite, Fort Yukon |
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| Address: | on the west end of town, Joe Ward Slough, Fort Yukon, AK 99740 |
| File Number: | 740.57.001 |
| Hazard ID: | 4157 |
| Status: | Informational |
| Staff: | No Longer Assigned, 9074655229 dec.icunit@alaska.gov |
| Latitude: | 66.571111 |
| Longitude: | -145.281111 |
| Horizontal Datum: | NAD83 |
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Problems/Comments
This site is part of an area that has been known in Fort Yukon as "Old Village Lands." It is about 2 acres in size, and was the location of an unregulated dump used historically (between approximately 1930-1970) by the residents of Fort Yukon, the old Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital, the BIA Territorial School, and local merchants. There is no known contamination but it is suspected to have contaminated the water ways through the entrance into Joe Ward Slough. Residents suspect that old transformers and junk vehicles, among other refuse, were disposed in this dump. The site is currently abandoned and not in use. The City of Fort Yukon applied in 2005 for a DEC Brownfield Assessment (DBA) of this site. At that time it was entered into the database under the name "BFT - Old Landfill - Joe Ward Slough." It did not rank in the top six applicant sites that year and thus was not awarded an assessment. In 2006 the Gwichyaa Zhee Gwich'in Tribal Government (Native Village of Fort Yukon) applied again for a DBA for this site; this time the site was awarded a DBA. Concerns are that the site may be contaminated and that the contamination may be leaching into groundwater and the adjacent surface water bodies. The community would like to use the site for a new rifle range or possibly a new fuel-storage tank farm.
Action Information
| Action Date | Action | Description | DEC Staff |
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| 9/23/2005 | Update or Other Action | Letter sent to the city manager informing her that the site was not selected for a DEC brownfield assessment. | John Carnahan |
| 9/27/2005 | Site Added to Database | Brownfield tracking site. | Deborah Williams |
| 9/27/2005 | GIS Position Updated | Locational data from Topozone.com, NAD 83 from site map in the DEC Brownfields Assessment Request form. | Deborah Williams |
| 9/22/2006 | Brownfields Award | Brownfield Confirmed: Applied again and this year was awarded a DEC brownfield assessment. FY 2007 EPA STRP funds $49,524 awarded to Gwichyaa Zhee Gwich'in Tribal Gov't for a site characterization at the Old Landfill at Joe Ward's Slough. NTP # 1890281319. Current status: Phase I/II. Site received a site assessment. No contaminants above cleanup level. | John Carnahan |
| 12/19/2006 | Meeting or Teleconference Held | Preliminary planning and scoping meeting was held by teleconference between DEC, term contractor for the DEC brownfield assessment, and stakeholders in Fort Yukon. Assessment work will include Phase I records review and interviews, site visit will be concurrent with sampling in May 2007. | Sonja Benson |
| 2/7/2007 | Update or Other Action | Received concurrence from the State Historic Preservation Office that no historic properties would be affected by the sampling for the assessment work at this site. | Sonja Benson |
| 2/15/2007 | Update or Other Action | Received concurrence from the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Field Office of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Branch, that no endangered species would be affected by the sampling planned at this site for May 2007. | Sonja Benson |
| 5/24/2007 | Site Characterization Workplan Approved | Quality Assurance Project Plan, Joe Ward Slough (Former Dumpsite), Fort Yukon, Alaska, April 27, 2007 received and approved. | John Carnahan |
| 10/1/2007 | Site Characterization Report Approved | Joe Ward Slough Former Dumpsite, Site Assessment/Limited Field Investigation, Fort Yukon Alaska, June 29, 2007 report received and approved. Significant findings include: permafrost or seasonally frozen soil was encountered in each of 6 trenches advanced to investigate depth of burial; soil gas levels indicate little to no biological activity; soil samples were collected and analyzed for a variety of parameters in each trench; surface water analytical data had detectable concentrations of several analytes, but all below NOAA SQuiRT tables; groundwater was not sampled during this field effort since permafrost or seasonally frozen soil was encountered from 3-5 feet bgs in each test trench; mercury was identified, but below cleanup level; DDT was detected, but below cleanup level; arsenic was identified above cleanup level, but likely background. | John Carnahan |
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