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Site Report: Rollins Drum Site

Site Name: Rollins Drum Site
Address: 2925 East End Road, Homer, AK 99603
File Number: 2314.38.022
Hazard ID: 1511
Status: Active
Staff: Peter Campbell, 9072623412 peter.campbell@alaska.gov
Latitude: 59.664300
Longitude: -151.462000
Horizontal Datum:NAD83

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.

Problems/Comments

There are over two hundred drums on the property with over one hundred of them full of waste oil, many of them leaking, resulting in hydrocarbon contaminated, stained soil. A Notice of Violation and letter of State Intent was issued on 10/12/1992 to Leo Rollins, property owner. This site is a candidate for state lead cleanup. Update 2/13/2012 by Paul Horwath: ADEC's spill response staff and KSA staff initiated response work in the early 1990s. It appears that the drums have been removed and/or the remaining contents properly tended to. The used oil may have been used for heating oil. However there is no evidence that the hazardous substance releases to the land were ever cleaned up. There is no documentation of any assessment or cleanup, under the oversight of an impartial, qualified, environmental consultant. Any ADEC efforts to pursue the cleanup of hazardous substances appear to have ceased in approximately 1996 - 16 years ago. This site will remain listed as an open site in this ADEC contaminated sites database until a qualified, impartial consultant assesses the property and provides a written report identifying the environmental status of the soil and contaminant concentrations.

Action Information

Action Date Action Description DEC Staff
10/12/1992 Notice of Violation KDO is in the process of securing 470 funds to clean up this site. Letter sent to Leo Rollins, property owner. Former Staff
10/12/1992 Update or Other Action (Old R:Base Action Code = FI - Field Inspection (General)). Former Staff
1/12/1993 Site Added to Database Over 200 barrels of leaking petroleum products. Former Staff
1/27/1993 Update or Other Action (Old R:Base Action Code = CORR - Correspondence (General)). Rollins signed a "Letter of State Interest" which said if work was not done adequately or in a timely manner that the State of Alaska would hire a contractor to perform the cleanup. Former Staff
1/29/1993 Update or Other Action (Old R:Base Action Code = CORR - Correspondence (General)). Cleanup schedule for 55 gallon drums which included a work plan to be submitted within seven days, drums at the rear of the property to be stabilized within fourteen days, all paint containers to be picked up and stored within thirty days, all batteries to be picked up and delivered to the Homer Bailing Facility. Former Staff
3/1/1993 Interim Removal Action Approved (Old R:Base Action Code = FI - Field Inspection (General)). Rollins hired a man to begin the drum cleanup. The drums at the rear of the property have been removed, emptied, cleaned out and brought to the dump. The rest of the work will not be finished before March 2, 1993. The contractor was told verbally that all work must be done before spring breakup and that an ADEC inspector would return to the site in three to four weeks to determine the next course of action. Former Staff
3/17/1993 Site Ranked Using the AHRM Site ranked. No changes made to site managers form. Good comments provided. Former Staff
1/28/2002 Site Ranked Using the AHRM Changed Observed Environmental Impacts value from 3 to 0 because an entry exists for Surface Water Environments. Changed Surface Water Environments value from 2 to 3 based on Observed Environmental Impacts value. Former Staff
4/14/2004 Update or Other Action File number assigned and entered into the Fileroom DB and CS DB. Alyce Hughey
11/16/2004 Update or Other Action Coble Engineering in Homer was to conduct site assessment during the summer of 2004. Awaiting assessment report. Donald Seagren
8/9/2005 GIS Position Updated Checked site location due to site's designation as potential BF site. Unfamiliar with site, but looks relatively correct based on information in DB. Torsten Ernst
9/22/2005 GIS Position Updated Using the address and subdivision map in the file, in conjunction with TopoZone Pro and the KPB Parcel Lookup, entered the coordinates for this site. Metadata includes No Topo Basemap, Topo Zone Pro Street Maps, Black and White Aerial Photo, on a Medium Size Map, View Scale 1:10,000, Coordinate Datum NAD83. High degree of confidence in accuracy of location. Alyce Hughey
4/13/2007 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking Donald Seagren
6/11/2008 Update or Other Action Site transferred from Don Seagren to Paul Horwath per Linda Nuechterlein. Alyce Hughey
1/12/2009 Update or Other Action Project manager changed from Don Seagren to Don Fritz per Paul Horwath. Alyce Hughey
11/16/2011 Update or Other Action Site transferred from Don Fritz to Peter Campbell per Paul Horwath. Alyce Hughey
2/13/2012 Update or Other Action Reviewed the project file. The project was managed under KSA & PERP. There is no information in the ADEC file about soil cleanup. It appears that the drums were removed from the property. This is a long time junkyard and repair facility. There is no record of any communication with the landowner since 1996. Assessment and /or cleanup may be prompted concurrent with future land transaction or property sale. Peter Campbell
7/1/2015 Update or Other Action Delayed status. Peter Campbell

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