Action Date |
Action |
Description |
DEC Staff |
1/1/1994 |
Preliminary Assessment Approved |
CH2MHill was contracted by the USACE to conduct a PA for the Nikolski White Alice Communication System Site. In 1984, the USAF removed PCB soil and transformers. In 1988 the facility was demolished and the debris and asbestos buried in an on-site landfill. |
Debra Caillouet |
11/1/1995 |
Preliminary Assessment Approved |
EMCON was contracted by the USAF 611th to perform a PA/SI. The site was divided into two Installation Restoration Program (IRP) sites and ten areas of concern (AOC). This site-OT01 consists of the former composite building, former transformer building, four former White Alice arrays. |
Debra Caillouet |
2/12/1997 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = SI - Site Investigation). SI action added by Shannon and Wilson, Inc., based on Air Force Relative Risk Evaluation Worksheet dated 9/14/95. No other information available. |
S&W-Miner |
12/1/2000 |
Update or Other Action |
A site survey was conducted with the 611th, Jacobs Engineering and Jeff Brownlee (ADEC). |
Debra Caillouet |
12/21/2000 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Scoping meeting for the remedial investigation at this former White Alice site. The site operated on Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands from 1957 to 1977. All the facilities except a tank farm and pipeline were demolished and buried on site in 1986. A Preliminary Assessment/Site Investigation was done in 1995. A drum removal was performed in 1997. Ten Areas of Concern and two IRP sites were identified during the PA/SI. Contaminants of concern include PCBs, petroleum, metals and TCE at one AOC. |
Jeff Brownlee |
2/22/2001 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Meeting was to get to know the team and goals/plans for summer 2001 work. |
Debra Caillouet |
4/11/2001 |
Site Added to Database |
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Former Staff |
5/17/2001 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
A public meeting was held in Nikolski on May 14. The Air Force, Jacobs Engineering and ADEC presented information on the cleanup process and the RI work scheduled for 6/2001. The meeting was well attended and well received by the community. |
Debra Caillouet |
6/25/2001 |
Update or Other Action |
Staff traveled to Nikolski to review the characterization work being done. Work was proceeding well. |
Debra Caillouet |
11/29/2001 |
Site Characterization Report Approved |
All detected concentrations in soil samples were below site regulatory limits therefore no further action is recommended to address soil at this site.
Concentrations for DRO, RRO, trichlorethylene (TCE) and cis-1,2-dichlorethylene were detected in the tank liquid at concentrations exceeding site regulatory limits. Therefore, it is recommended that the tank liquid be removed and treated on site prior to discharge. Furthermore, it is recommended the tank be abandoned in place per ADEC guidance. |
Debra Caillouet |
5/15/2002 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Staff attended a public meeting in Nikolski |
Debra Caillouet |
10/14/2002 |
Update or Other Action |
Staff submitted comments on the draft feasibility study. |
Debra Caillouet |
12/11/2002 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Staff participated in the Air Force peer review of the proposed plan for Nikolski. |
Debra Caillouet |
1/18/2005 |
Update or Other Action |
File number issued 2621.38.004 |
Aggie Blandford |
2/16/2007 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
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Debra Caillouet |
1/15/2009 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
Initial ranking with ETM completed for source area id: 71107 name: Composite bldg. septic tank and outfall |
Debra Caillouet |
9/29/2011 |
CERCLA ROD Approved |
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Debra Caillouet |
9/29/2011 |
Cleanup Complete Determination Issued |
The site poses no unacceptable risk under current and reasonably anticipated future recreational use, or unrestricted use. No response action under CERCLA is necessary at this site to protect the public health or welfare or the environment from actual or threatened releases of hazardous substances into the environment. No CERCLA COCs are present at the site above 18 AAC 75 soil cleanup levels.
Therefore, no action is required to remediate contamination at the site. The site is suitable for unrestricted use and the USAF proposes no remedial action. This proposal may change based upon new information. |
Louis Howard |
8/20/2021 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Staff approved the 2021 Final Uniform Federal Policy for Quality Assurance Project Plan for Long-Term Management and Remedial Action Operations Activities, Nikolski Radio Relay Station, Alaska, August 2021. The Work Plan described the approach and procedures for site-specific long-term management and remedial action-operation activities at Nikolski Radio Relay Station sites, including annual groundwater sampling for site SS004. The Work Plan covers work being performed over a 5-year period. |
Axl LeVan |