| Action Date |
Action |
Description |
DEC Staff |
| 9/1/1993 |
Site Added to Database |
File # 108.38.062. |
Ronan Short |
| 9/20/1993 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = SA2R - Phase II SA Review (CS)). Draft Work Plan received at ADEC 9/20/93 for The Farmer's Loop Dump Site. This area is part of the Farmer's Loop Research Area. It is on the north boundary, west of the Highway and just south of the KIAK radio tower. Recommended to Richard Jackson on teleconference that they add Dioxins to the Analytical list. Dames and Moore is contractor to the Corps. |
Former Staff |
| 12/14/1993 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = SA2 - Phase II Site Assessment (General)). Draft Report for Limited Site Investigation for Dump Site conference with ACOE held in Anchorage 6/16/94. Richard Jackson is Manager. CRREL requested abbreviated sampling plan. ADEC disagreed and plan and sampling schedule will stay as planned. |
Ronan Short |
| 5/9/1994 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = SA2 - Phase II Site Assessment (General)). Draft Workplan for Comprehensive Site Investigation received and conference with ACOE held in Anchorage 6/16/94. Richard Jackson is the Manager. CRREL requested abbreviated sampling plan. ADEC disagreed and plan and sampling schedule will stay as planned. |
Ronan Short |
| 5/14/1994 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = SI - Site Investigation). Draft Report for Farmers Loop Dump Site. NFA at this site is acceptable to ADEC. PCE levels are 1.6 ppb in GW. ADEC guidance says GW must be cleaned up to 5 ppb. Highest toluene levels were 7.9 ppb. Cleanup levels are 2,000 ppb. Note: The Dump Site is only part of the Farmer's Loop (Alaska Field Station) Area. |
Ronan Short |
| 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 |
| 8/11/1994 |
Site Characterization Workplan Approved |
(Old R:Base Action Code = SI - Site Investigation). Final Work Plan for Comprehensive Site Investigation for Alaska Field Station received. Prepared by Dames and Moore. |
Ronan Short |
| 12/1/1994 |
Update or Other Action |
The following information pertains to only the DUMP SITE LOCATION at this site: Final report confirms very low levels of PCE (1.6ppb), Toluene (7.9ppb) in MWs. Metals in soils appear to be natural background. Report by Dames and Moore. Hydrocarbon levels appear to be biogenic sources. |
Ronan Short |
| 1/4/1995 |
Site Ranked Using the AHRM |
Initial ranking. |
Jeff Peterson |
| 1/23/1995 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = SA2R - Phase II SA Review (CS)). Final Report for Limited Site Investigation Recommends closure for this old landfill. The department concurs. This closure is only for Dump site. Dames and Moore is contractor. |
Ronan Short |
| 6/6/1995 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = SI - Site Investigation). Draft Report on Comprehensive SI for Farmers Loop Research Site. The department concurs with report i.e. removal of soils at UST location near MWs #9 and #7. Soils to be treated offsite by LTTD. Total volume was approximately 100 cubic yards. |
Ronan Short |
| 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 |
| 10/24/2006 |
Update or Other Action |
File name changed from FTWW to Fort Wainwright, per Project Manager. |
April Woolery |
| 12/15/2008 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
Initial ranking with ETM completed for source area id: 72934 name: East and West dump sites |
Sharon Richmond |
| 8/31/2015 |
Update or Other Action |
Transferred to Fairbanks |
Susan Carberry |
| 12/13/2016 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
A two day Federal Facilities Agreement (FFA) and Stakeholders meeting was held on December 13 & 14, 2016. The main focus of the meeting was to develop a site discovery and site intake process that would satisfy requirements of the Fort Wainwright FFA, RCRA Permit, and two party agreements. The Army, EPA and DEC committed to a flowchart of the preliminary source evaluation process. Timelines were established for scoping a land use control implementation plan (LUCIP) and developing a contracting schedule for Fort Wainwright contaminated site investigations and remedial actions. Seven sites were proposed for inclusion into the FFA (three party agreement) by the Army and the RPMs documented the assignment of the regulatory path for these sites using a newly developed and agreed to signature form. |
Dennis Shepard |
| 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 |
| 11/21/2017 |
Update or Other Action |
As part of a Site Master List review, DEC completed a Site review for the Farmers loop site. The review was conducted to determine whether the site status is appropriate for a cleanup complete with ICs determination.
Based on the previous groundwater results for Area 3, DEC will request groundwater sample collection in 2018 for analysis of DRO, GRO, VOCs, SVOCs and metals. |
Dennis Shepard |
| 9/6/2019 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
DEC approved the Final Work Plan Addendum Groundwater Sampling of Existing Monitoring Wells at the Alaska Field Station, U.S. Army Garrison Alaska (dated September 2019). The document proposes groundwater sampling activities at existing monitoring wells located at the Alaska Field Station (AFS) along Farmers Loop Rd in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 2017, DEC conducted a site file review and requested more groundwater monitoring at this site. The six monitoring wells (MW-1, MW-7, MW-9, MW-10, MW-11 and MW-12) will be sampled for gasoline range organics (GRO), diesel range organics (DRO) residual range organics (RRO), volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Work is expected to occur September 2019. |
Erica Blake |
| 2/18/2020 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
DEC approved the Groundwater Sampling Report Farmer’s Loop Permafrost Station (Alaska Field Station), dated January 2020. The report describes 2019 groundwater monitoring activities at the Farmer’s Loop Permafrost Station (FLPS) located along the eastern portion of Farmer’s Loop Road. Six monitoring wells were sampled for gasoline range organics (GRO), diesel range organics (DRO), residual range organics (RRO), volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). RRO, DRO, benzene, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene, 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, benzo(a)anthracene and naphthalene were detected above the DEC cleanup levels. Additional site characterization work has been recommended for this site. |
Erica Blake |
| 6/29/2021 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
ADEC received the reviewed the Draft 2021 Preliminary Source Evaluations Work Plan, Fort Wainwright, Alaska dated June 2021. The Work Plan describes the proposed investigation approach for preliminary source evaluations at 6 sites: Fort Wainwright Bldg 1004 Parking Lot, Fort Wainwright Bldg 3480-3490 HBO Installation, Fort Wainwright Farmer's Loop, Fort Wainwright Motor Pool Parking Lots Bldgs 3485/3492/3494/3496 (Crane Sites & Fenceline Spill - two sites in the PSE Rpt), and CC-FTWW-106 Pipeline Breaks - Neely Road and Oak Avenue, which is not in the CS database. The Work Plan will be followed in conjunction with the 2020 Postwide FWA Uniform Federal Policy for Quality Assurance Project Plan (UFP-QAPP), dated June 2020. The objective of conducting this PSE is to determine if residual contamination remains that may present a threat to human health or the environment, and to determine appropriate further action. |
Cascade Galasso-Irish |
| 12/6/2021 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
A new updated ranking with ETM has been completed for source area 72934 Farmer's Loop Permafrost Station. |
Erica Blake |
| 3/21/2022 |
Offsite Soil or Groundwater Disposal Approved |
ADEC approved transport of approximately 25-gallons of petroleum contaminated soil from the hazardous waste facility on Fort Wainwright, AK to the U.S. Ecology soil treatment facility in Moose Creek, Alaska. The soil was generated from preliminary source evaluation (PSE) site work conducted 9/9/2021-9/11/2021. |
Erica Blake |
| 5/13/2022 |
Offsite Soil or Groundwater Disposal Approved |
ADEC approved transport of approximately 140 gallons of purge water generated from preliminary source evaluation investigations conducted in 2021 at two sites (Motor Pool Bldgs - 3492/3494/3496 - Fenceline Sites and Farmer's Loop). The purge water will be transported from Fort Wainwright Building 3491 to the U.S. Ecology Viking Facility in Anchorage, Alaska. |
Erica Blake |
| 1/10/2023 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
ADEC approved the Final Preliminary Source Evaluation 2 Report, FTWW-093 Farmers Loop, dated January 2023. The 2021 PSE2 results indicate a petroleum release occurred at the Farmers Loop Permafrost Station (FLPS) site from a historical underground storage tank (UST) containing gasoline, and several aboveground storage tanks (ASTs) containing heating oil. Future investigations of petroleum in soil and groundwater at the Farmer Loop site will be conducted under the Two-Party Program in accordance with the Federal Facilities Agreement. |
Cascade Galasso-Irish |
| 2/8/2023 |
Update or Other Action |
On this date, ADEC received the Historical Records Review, Alaska Field Station, Fairbanks, AK Final Report dated February 2023. This is a supplemental document to the Preliminary Source Evaluation conducted at the Farmer's Loop Site in 2022. |
Cascade Galasso-Irish |
