Site Report: Fort Wainwright (OU-1) Eng Park Drum FTWW-079

Site Name:	Fort Wainwright (OU-1) Eng Park Drum FTWW-079
Address:	Engineers Park Drum Field, Fort Wainwright, AK 99703
File Number:	108.38.068.13
Hazard ID:	1109
Status:	Cleanup Complete - Institutional Controls
Staff:	Carly Jensen, 9072697558 carly.jensen@alaska.gov
Latitude:	64.845460
Longitude:	-147.586780
Horizontal Datum:	WGS84

We make every effort to ensure the data presented here is accurate based on the best available information currently on file with DEC. It is therefore subject to change as new information becomes available. We recommend contacting the assigned project staff prior to making decisions based on this information.

Site Chronology
IC / Closure Details
Documents
Associated Sites

Problems/Comments

40 drums found in various stages of decay. In 2010, approximately 12 cubic yards of benzene-contaminated soil were staged in a long-term stockpile at the Chipbarn Stockpile Site on Fort Wainwright, and 1,200 pounds of scrap metal from the site was recycled. Soil sample results did not exceed ADEC Method Two cleanup criteria for gasoline range organics, diesel range organics (DRO), residual range organics, volatile organic compounds, semi-volatile organic compounds, and poly-chlorinated biphenyls. Select metals (arsenic, barium, and chromium) had results above ADEC cleanup criteria; however, background concentrations of these metals may be a contributing factor. One groundwater sample exceeded ADEC Table C cleanup criteria for DRO (1.5 mg/L) with a result of 2.0 mg/L. The site is near a former drum burial area (Hazard ID 1109) and a leaking underground storage tank site (Hazard IDs 25012 and 2489), both of which were remediated. COCs entered on 5/6/08 to evaluate proposed revised Table B1 cleanup levels and whether further action is needed at any sites. COCs entered based on the following entry in the IC Tracker: "Approximately 10% contained POL, PCBs, or degreasing solvents. Soil concentrations did not exceed risk-based cleanup levels and the site was closed in the OU1 ROD."

Action Information

Action Date	Action	Description	DEC Staff
5/29/1992	Site Added to Database	Drums.	Former Staff
5/29/1992	Preliminary Assessment Approved	This site was evaluated in a document produced by Harding and Lawson. OU1 PSE1.	Former Staff
8/25/1992	Update or Other Action	(Old R:Base Action Code = FI - Field Inspection (General)). Site visit. Level C protection.	Rielle Markey
9/4/1992	Update or Other Action	(Old R:Base Action Code = FI - Field Inspection (General)). Site visit. More drums found in ravine area 90% empty. Protection level D.	Ronan Short
9/23/1992	Update or Other Action	(Old R:Base Action Code = FI - Field Inspection (General)). Drum removal complete, total 680 drums, soil samples taken.	Ronan Short
2/9/1993	Update or Other Action	(Old R:Base Action Code = SI - Site Investigation). Report results from August 1992 removal action.	Ronan Short
4/12/1993	Meeting or Teleconference Held	Report Army proposed to move site to OU-1. A PSE2 will be done to confirm absence of contaminants.	Ronan Short
6/11/1993	Update or Other Action	Final Report, "Drummed Waste Removal" received 2-9-93, 3 volume white binders placed in NRO library 6-11-93. NFAs proposed for these areas.	Ronan Short
10/15/1993	Proposed Plan	Revised workplan for Blair Lakes Drum Site now includes Engineering Park and East and West Drum Sites south of Landfill # 029 and 033. Blair Lakes field work done in fall 1993.	Ronan Short
3/1/1994	Site Characterization Report Approved	Preliminary Source Evaluation report Approved	Sharon Richmond
5/16/1994	Update or Other Action	(Old R:Base Action Code = RPL2 - Site Information Request Letter). Sent PRP-CS Database Notification Letter to Cristal Fosbrook requesting update/confirmation of information concerning the contaminated site.	Jeff Peterson
7/25/1994	Update or Other Action	(Old R:Base Action Code = NFA - No Further Action Required (CERCLA)). NFA under CERCLA signed by all parties this date.	Ronan Short
7/25/1994	Cleanup Plan Approved	Decision Document signed	Janice Adair
1/17/1995	Risk Assessment Report Approved	Post-wide Risk Assessment Approach Document received this date. Comments by RM. Document prepared by HLA.	Ronan Short
6/1/1996	Update or Other Action	Revised Draft Record of Decision, Contract DACA85-93-D-0009, Delivery Order Number 25, Implementation of Community Relations Activities, received 6/25/1996.	Rielle Markey
8/16/1996	Record of Decision	Draft Version 3, Record of Decision for OU-2, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, received 8/21/1996.	Rielle Markey
8/16/1996	Institutional Control Record Established	Institutional controls involve access and use limitations that require maintenance of institutional boundaries in an Army GIS database. Action entered by Buck.	Rielle Markey
9/16/1996	Update or Other Action	(Old R:Base Action Code = RI - Remedial Investigation). Final, Remedial Investigation Report, OU-1, document date September 1, 1996.	Rielle Markey
6/27/1997	Conditional Closure Approved	This source area was formally closed in a record of decision. A drum removal of 680 unburied drums occurred in 1992. GPR confirmed that no additional drums remained at this source area. A No Further Action document exists in the administrative record.	Rielle Markey
3/2/2001	Update or Other Action	File number corrected from 108.38.030 to 108.38.068.	Mitzi Read
12/12/2001	Institutional Control Record Established	1. All organizations conducting activities on United States Army Alaska (USARAK) controlled land are responsible for complying with established institutional controls (ICs). ICs are administrative, procedural, and regulatory measures to control human access to and usage of property. They are applicable to all known or suspected contaminated sites where contamination has been left in place. 2. These controls have been established to implement the selected remedial actions agreed upon by the U.S. Army (Army), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) in accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) as amended by the Superfund Amendment Reauthorization Act (SARA). These controls also apply to remedial actions agreed upon under Two-Party Compliance Agreements. These agreements are concluded between USARAK and ADEC and apply to petroleum/oil/lubricants- (POL) contaminated sites. 3. ICs such as limitations on access, water use, excavations, and property transfers will supplement engineering controls as appropriate for short-term and long-term management to prevent or limit human and environmental exposure to hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants. Specific ICs include, among other things: limitations on the depth and location of excavations, prohibition of or restrictions on well drilling and use of ground water, requirements for worker use of personal protective equipment, site monitoring, and prohibition of certain land uses, types of vehicles, etc. 4. Organizational units, tenants, and support/contractor organizations must obtain an Excavation Clearance Request (ECR) for all soil disturbing activities impacting soils six inches or more below the ground surface. The review process for approval of an ECR begins with the identification of the current status (known or suspected hazardous waste site or “clean” site) of a work location. ECR’s for work in known or suspected hazardous waste sites: a. will include specific limitations and controls on such work; b. will include specific IC procedures, and notification, monitoring, reporting, and stop work requirements; c. may include procedures for management, characterization, and disposal of any soil or groundwater encountered or removed; d. will identify “project managers” for both the unit/contractor requesting the work and DPW Environment Resources. 5. The DPW project manager will conduct on-site inspections of each work site (at which ICs apply) to determine continued compliance with the terms and conditions of the approved ECR. DPW has the authority to revoke ECR approval if the specified terms and conditions are not being met. ECR forms are available at the Customer Service Desks at: a. Building 730 at Fort Richardson; b. Building 3015 at Fort Wainwright; c. Building 605 at Fort Greely. 6. USARAK has negotiated (with USEPA and/or ADEC) decision documents and/or Records of Decision (RODs) that mandate the implementation of ICs USARAK Directorate of Public Works, Environmental Resources Department (PWE), maintains copies of all decision documents and RODs requiring ICs in its real property files. PWE provides regularly updated post maps showing all areas affected by ICs. These maps can easily be accessed by using an approved intranet mapping interface application. Copies of these maps will be available to each directorate, activity, and tenant organization. To ensure the effectiveness of ICs, all organizational units and tenant activities will be informed on an annual basis of ICs on contaminated soils and groundwater in effect near their facilities. 7. ICs are enforceable by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC). Failure to comply with an IC mandated in a decision document or ROD will violate the USARAK Federal Facility Agreement and may result in stipulated fines and penalties. This does not include the costs of corrective actions required due to violation of an established IC.	Sharon Richmond
9/10/2003	Site Number Identifier Changed	Changed Workplan from X9 to X1.	Former Staff
10/10/2003	Cleanup Plan Approved	Work has begun on the phytoremediation study site decommissioning. This site was a study of the effectiveness of phytoremediation on pesticide contaminated soil from OU 1 on Fort Wainwright. The results were not successful. The soil will be moved to the Fort Wainwright landfill and placed in a lined cell. Due to heavy rainfall this summer, the two lined cells at the site are saturated with water. Staff gave permission to the Army to pump excess water from the cells and discharge the water after filtration	Patrice Buck
10/24/2003	Update or Other Action	The soil from phytoremediation study site has been moved to the Fort Wainwright landfill and placed in a lined cell. This site was a study of the effectiveness of phytoremediation on pesticide contaminated soil from OU 1 on Fort Wainwright. The results were not successful. Confirmation samples under the fabric in the unsaturated cells show levels of dieldrin that exceeded the regulatory cleanup level of 15 µg/L. Further excavation of this soil may be delayed until next spring	Patrice Buck
2/23/2007	Update or Other Action	This site was closed in the OU1 ROD No Further Action. Add Site Closure Approved Action to this database.	Sharon Richmond
2/25/2011	Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other	Draft After-Action Report, Engineer Park Sports Complex, 2010 Construction Support, Fort Wainwright, February 2011 The values identified as EPA MCL’s throughout this report are not the Maximum Contaminant Level for Drinking Water which is the usual definition of MCL. The values appear to be the Protection of Groundwater Soil Screening Level from the USEPA Regional Screening Levels Table November 2010. Please correct the references and labels as appropriate throughout the document. I can not find the results of confirmation samples obtained after the excavation of the 12 yards of benzene impacted soil. This excavation also is not included in the field log books either. Please provide the information.	Debra Caillouet
8/3/2011	Site Characterization Report Approved	Final After-Action Report, Engineer Park Sports Complex, 2010 Construction Support, Fort Wainwright, July 2011 The report documents the removal 1200 pounds of scrap metal from the site and 12 cubic yards of benzene contaminated soil. Confirmation samples in all test pits were below cleanup levels. One groundwater sample at soil boring 11 contained diesel range organics at 2.0 mg/l.	Debra Caillouet
9/1/2015	Update or Other Action	Transferred to Fairbanks	Susan Carberry
1/1/2017	Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other	DEC approved the 2015 Annual Institutional Controls Report, Fort Wainwright, Alaska (August 2016).	Dennis Shepard

Action Date

Action

Description

DEC Staff

5/29/1992

Site Added to Database

Drums.

Former Staff

5/29/1992

Preliminary Assessment Approved

This site was evaluated in a document produced by Harding and Lawson. OU1 PSE1.

Former Staff

8/25/1992

Update or Other Action

(Old R:Base Action Code = FI - Field Inspection (General)). Site visit. Level C protection.

Rielle Markey

9/4/1992

Update or Other Action

(Old R:Base Action Code = FI - Field Inspection (General)). Site visit. More drums found in ravine area 90% empty. Protection level D.

Ronan Short

9/23/1992

Update or Other Action

(Old R:Base Action Code = FI - Field Inspection (General)). Drum removal complete, total 680 drums, soil samples taken.

Ronan Short

2/9/1993

Update or Other Action

(Old R:Base Action Code = SI - Site Investigation). Report results from August 1992 removal action.

Ronan Short

4/12/1993

Meeting or Teleconference Held

Report Army proposed to move site to OU-1. A PSE2 will be done to confirm absence of contaminants.

Ronan Short

6/11/1993

Update or Other Action

Final Report, "Drummed Waste Removal" received 2-9-93, 3 volume white binders placed in NRO library 6-11-93. NFAs proposed for these areas.

Ronan Short

10/15/1993

Proposed Plan

Revised workplan for Blair Lakes Drum Site now includes Engineering Park and East and West Drum Sites south of Landfill # 029 and 033. Blair Lakes field work done in fall 1993.

Ronan Short

3/1/1994

Site Characterization Report Approved

Preliminary Source Evaluation report Approved

Sharon Richmond

5/16/1994

Update or Other Action

(Old R:Base Action Code = RPL2 - Site Information Request Letter). Sent PRP-CS Database Notification Letter to Cristal Fosbrook requesting update/confirmation of information concerning the contaminated site.

Jeff Peterson

7/25/1994

Update or Other Action

(Old R:Base Action Code = NFA - No Further Action Required (CERCLA)). NFA under CERCLA signed by all parties this date.

Ronan Short

7/25/1994

Cleanup Plan Approved

Decision Document signed

Janice Adair

1/17/1995

Risk Assessment Report Approved

Post-wide Risk Assessment Approach Document received this date. Comments by RM. Document prepared by HLA.

Ronan Short

6/1/1996

Update or Other Action

Revised Draft Record of Decision, Contract DACA85-93-D-0009, Delivery Order Number 25, Implementation of Community Relations Activities, received 6/25/1996.

Rielle Markey

8/16/1996

Record of Decision

Draft Version 3, Record of Decision for OU-2, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, received 8/21/1996.

Rielle Markey

8/16/1996

Institutional Control Record Established

Institutional controls involve access and use limitations that require maintenance of institutional boundaries in an Army GIS database. Action entered by Buck.

Rielle Markey

9/16/1996

Update or Other Action

(Old R:Base Action Code = RI - Remedial Investigation). Final, Remedial Investigation Report, OU-1, document date September 1, 1996.

Rielle Markey

6/27/1997

Conditional Closure Approved

This source area was formally closed in a record of decision. A drum removal of 680 unburied drums occurred in 1992. GPR confirmed that no additional drums remained at this source area. A No Further Action document exists in the administrative record.

Rielle Markey

3/2/2001

Update or Other Action

File number corrected from 108.38.030 to 108.38.068.

Mitzi Read

12/12/2001

Institutional Control Record Established

1. All organizations conducting activities on United States Army Alaska (USARAK) controlled land are responsible for complying with established institutional controls (ICs). ICs are administrative, procedural, and regulatory measures to control human access to and usage of property. They are applicable to all known or suspected contaminated sites where contamination has been left in place. 2. These controls have been established to implement the selected remedial actions agreed upon by the U.S. Army (Army), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) in accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) as amended by the Superfund Amendment Reauthorization Act (SARA). These controls also apply to remedial actions agreed upon under Two-Party Compliance Agreements. These agreements are concluded between USARAK and ADEC and apply to petroleum/oil/lubricants- (POL) contaminated sites. 3. ICs such as limitations on access, water use, excavations, and property transfers will supplement engineering controls as appropriate for short-term and long-term management to prevent or limit human and environmental exposure to hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants. Specific ICs include, among other things: limitations on the depth and location of excavations, prohibition of or restrictions on well drilling and use of ground water, requirements for worker use of personal protective equipment, site monitoring, and prohibition of certain land uses, types of vehicles, etc. 4. Organizational units, tenants, and support/contractor organizations must obtain an Excavation Clearance Request (ECR) for all soil disturbing activities impacting soils six inches or more below the ground surface. The review process for approval of an ECR begins with the identification of the current status (known or suspected hazardous waste site or “clean” site) of a work location. ECR’s for work in known or suspected hazardous waste sites: a. will include specific limitations and controls on such work; b. will include specific IC procedures, and notification, monitoring, reporting, and stop work requirements; c. may include procedures for management, characterization, and disposal of any soil or groundwater encountered or removed; d. will identify “project managers” for both the unit/contractor requesting the work and DPW Environment Resources. 5. The DPW project manager will conduct on-site inspections of each work site (at which ICs apply) to determine continued compliance with the terms and conditions of the approved ECR. DPW has the authority to revoke ECR approval if the specified terms and conditions are not being met. ECR forms are available at the Customer Service Desks at: a. Building 730 at Fort Richardson; b. Building 3015 at Fort Wainwright; c. Building 605 at Fort Greely. 6. USARAK has negotiated (with USEPA and/or ADEC) decision documents and/or Records of Decision (RODs) that mandate the implementation of ICs USARAK Directorate of Public Works, Environmental Resources Department (PWE), maintains copies of all decision documents and RODs requiring ICs in its real property files. PWE provides regularly updated post maps showing all areas affected by ICs. These maps can easily be accessed by using an approved intranet mapping interface application. Copies of these maps will be available to each directorate, activity, and tenant organization. To ensure the effectiveness of ICs, all organizational units and tenant activities will be informed on an annual basis of ICs on contaminated soils and groundwater in effect near their facilities. 7. ICs are enforceable by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC). Failure to comply with an IC mandated in a decision document or ROD will violate the USARAK Federal Facility Agreement and may result in stipulated fines and penalties. This does not include the costs of corrective actions required due to violation of an established IC.

Sharon Richmond

9/10/2003

Site Number Identifier Changed

Changed Workplan from X9 to X1.

Former Staff

10/10/2003

Cleanup Plan Approved

Work has begun on the phytoremediation study site decommissioning. This site was a study of the effectiveness of phytoremediation on pesticide contaminated soil from OU 1 on Fort Wainwright. The results were not successful. The soil will be moved to the Fort Wainwright landfill and placed in a lined cell. Due to heavy rainfall this summer, the two lined cells at the site are saturated with water. Staff gave permission to the Army to pump excess water from the cells and discharge the water after filtration

Patrice Buck

10/24/2003

Update or Other Action

The soil from phytoremediation study site has been moved to the Fort Wainwright landfill and placed in a lined cell. This site was a study of the effectiveness of phytoremediation on pesticide contaminated soil from OU 1 on Fort Wainwright. The results were not successful. Confirmation samples under the fabric in the unsaturated cells show levels of dieldrin that exceeded the regulatory cleanup level of 15 µg/L. Further excavation of this soil may be delayed until next spring

Patrice Buck

2/23/2007

Update or Other Action

This site was closed in the OU1 ROD No Further Action. Add Site Closure Approved Action to this database.

Sharon Richmond

2/25/2011

Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other

Draft After-Action Report, Engineer Park Sports Complex, 2010 Construction Support, Fort Wainwright, February 2011 The values identified as EPA MCL’s throughout this report are not the Maximum Contaminant Level for Drinking Water which is the usual definition of MCL. The values appear to be the Protection of Groundwater Soil Screening Level from the USEPA Regional Screening Levels Table November 2010. Please correct the references and labels as appropriate throughout the document. I can not find the results of confirmation samples obtained after the excavation of the 12 yards of benzene impacted soil. This excavation also is not included in the field log books either. Please provide the information.

Debra Caillouet

8/3/2011

Site Characterization Report Approved

Final After-Action Report, Engineer Park Sports Complex, 2010 Construction Support, Fort Wainwright, July 2011 The report documents the removal 1200 pounds of scrap metal from the site and 12 cubic yards of benzene contaminated soil. Confirmation samples in all test pits were below cleanup levels. One groundwater sample at soil boring 11 contained diesel range organics at 2.0 mg/l.

Debra Caillouet

9/1/2015

Update or Other Action

Transferred to Fairbanks

Susan Carberry

1/1/2017

Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other

DEC approved the 2015 Annual Institutional Controls Report, Fort Wainwright, Alaska (August 2016).

Dennis Shepard

Contaminant Information

Name	Level Description	Media	Comments
PCBs - Total	Other

Name

Level Description

Media

Comments

PCBs - Total

Other

Control Type

Type	Details
Federal or State Agency GIS Database Note	site is entered in Army GIS database
Other	In 1992, 680 drums were removed from this site. Approximately 10% contained POL, PCBs, or degreasing solvents. Soil concentrations did not exceed risk-based cleanup levels and the site was closed in the OU1 ROD.
Land Use Plan / Maps / Base Master Plan

Type

Details

Federal or State Agency GIS Database Note

site is entered in Army GIS database

Other

In 1992, 680 drums were removed from this site. Approximately 10% contained POL, PCBs, or degreasing solvents. Soil concentrations did not exceed risk-based cleanup levels and the site was closed in the OU1 ROD.

Land Use Plan / Maps / Base Master Plan

Requirements

Description

Details

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No associated sites were found.

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Site Report: Fort Wainwright (OU-1) Eng Park Drum FTWW-079

Site Chronology

IC / Closure Details

Documents

Associated Sites

Problems/Comments

Action Information

Contaminant Information

Control Type

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Missing Location Data

State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation