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Site Report: Crab Creek Vehicle Maintenance Yard

Site Name: Crab Creek Vehicle Maintenance Yard
Address: 4.5 Mile Craig-Klawock Hwy., Craig, AK 99921
File Number: 1504.38.002
Hazard ID: 1998
Status: Active
Staff: Alena Voigt, 9072697556 alena.voigt@alaska.gov
Latitude: 55.486178
Longitude: -133.125817
Horizontal Datum:WGS84

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Problems/Comments

Former shop area has intermittent diesel and gasoline soil contamination throughout. Potential sources include aboveground storage tanks (ASTs), maintenance areas, gasoline dispenser, burn barrels, batteries, and spills. Site located in rock quarry near Crab Creek co-owned by Shaan Seet and the City of Craig. Risk Evaluation, Corrective Action Plan (CAP), Phase II submitted. ADEC agreed to a Level D cleanup based on information provided in the preliminary remedial estimate (PRE). However, this site is an exception, as it was being reviewed under different department policy. Note: the responsible party did not accept the Level D cleanup, and is pursuing a less stringent Alternative Cleanup Level (ACL).

Action Information

Action Date Action Description DEC Staff
8/5/1994 Update or Other Action This document was not a true risk assessment but a less comprehensive risk evaluation. Risk-based cleanup levels originally proposed in this document were approximately 11,000ppm for diesel, and approximately 46 ppm benzene. This action changed from a Risk Assessment Report Approved action to Update on 9/16/02 by the DBA. Sally Schlichting
11/4/1994 Site Added to Database A report was received from Geo Engineers on 9/5/94, titled, " Risk Evaluation and Corrective Action Plan, Crab Creek Vehicle Maintenance Yard, Craig, Alaska." Sally Schlichting
5/15/1995 Update or Other Action Review of Geo Engineers report, " Risk Evaluation and Corrective Action Plan, Crab Creek Vehicle Maintenance Yard, Craig, Alaska." done by Linda Himmelbauer. Linda Himmelbauer
9/29/1995 Site Ranked Using the AHRM Ranking based on 1000 cubic yards of c-soils at a proposed Level D cleanup. Quantity varies based on consultant's estimates and level of cleanup. Sally Schlichting
10/16/1995 Cleanup Level(s) Approved Letter issued to Shann Seet approving level D cleanup of 2000 ppm. Sally Schlichting
10/16/1995 Cleanup Plan Approved (Old R:Base Action Code = RAPR - Remedial Action Plan Review (CS)). ADEC approved a Level D cleanup for approximately 1000 cubic yards of DRO soils based on past input by ADEC staff, evidence provided by RP on soil holding capacities and PRE. RP originally proposed a 11,000 mg/kg cleanup level. Remediation by passive aerated mounds approved. Sally Schlichting
4/18/1996 Update or Other Action Site visit. Contamination appeared much less extensive than previously reported. Recommended excavation and biocell remediation. Site referred to VCP. No action reported by RP. Sally Schlichting
5/1/1996 Update or Other Action Recommendation for corrective action revised. Former Staff
8/10/2001 Update or Other Action Jaynes visited site week of 7/30/01 with Jim Shoemaker, Shaan Seet consultant. Someone has allowed this pit to be filled with debris material, mainly soils and some limited construction debris. No indications of contaminated material were observed in fill. The Solid Waste program has no records of permits for this facility. 1996 ADEC trip indicated contamination in this location to be minor. Facilities at the time were sited on bedrock, so no soils involved. Jaynes recommends we close out or list site as inactive once final fill is placed and landfill properly closed out, effectively sealing any potential contamination within site. Bill Janes
2/25/2008 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking Initial ranking with ETM completed. Bill Janes
11/13/2012 Site Visit With permission from the City of Craig DEC entered City property on Tanner Crab Road adjacent to the site and performed a brief plain view site visit inspection. Soil not useful for other purpose has been added by the City to cap the surface of the former material site. Property description is stated as those properties not otherwise described in Tract B of teh Crab Cove Heights Subdivision; Plat - 94-14 Ketchikan Recording District. Bruce Wanstall
1/2/2014 Potentially Responsible Party/State Interest Letter DEC letter was sent today to the manager of the facility to request a final report for any work completed under the approved DEC workplan (circa 1995/1996) and to inform the responsible party of the Alaska Statutes and Regulations that outline cleanup responsibility and authorize DEC to recovery costs associated with providing oversight during the cleanup, evaluating exposure pathways for contamination, and making determination for site closure. Bruce Wanstall
1/2/2018 Update or Other Action Requested a work plan by 3/1/18 via certified mail this date 7017 1450 0002 0295 6010. Delivered 1/8/18. Danielle Duncan
3/2/2018 Update or Other Action A consultant has been hired and a work plan should be received soon. Danielle Duncan
3/8/2018 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking A new updated ranking with ETM has been completed for source area 72976 Maintenance Shop and Yard. Danielle Duncan
6/21/2018 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Sent a letter today with comments on the recent submittal of a work plan. Danielle Duncan
6/27/2018 Meeting or Teleconference Held Teleconference with R&M to discuss changes to the work plan - a revised version will be rec'd soon. The main issue was that no samples were to be collected in the center of the site where known contamination exists. The work plan had proposed to sample only the down gradient edge - this is not a full characterization and was not approved. Danielle Duncan
9/13/2018 Site Characterization Workplan Approved Approved the Site Characterization Plan prepared by R&M Engineering – Ketchikan Inc. Test pits (11) will be dug to below the imported fill and sampled; also groundwater and surface water will be sampled. Danielle Duncan
6/17/2019 Update or Other Action Requested an update on site activities this date. A site characterization work plan was reviewed and approved by the ADEC in September 2018. To date, no report of this work has been received. Danielle Duncan
7/10/2019 Update or Other Action Site location was updated on this date. Coordinates for this site are used to determine the presence and position of the site on BLM’s ANCSA Conveyed Land web map. Rebekah Reams

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