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Site Report: St Law Gambell Site 01 Landing Area

Site Name: St Law Gambell Site 01 Landing Area
Address: Gambell Village Area, Gambell, AK 99742
File Number: 660.38.006
Hazard ID: 226
Status: Cleanup Complete
Staff: Dennis Shepard, 9074512180 dennis.shepard@alaska.gov
Latitude: 63.783282
Longitude: -171.722916
Horizontal Datum:WGS84

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Problems/Comments

Site in and near village was used by the Army, Air Force and Navy from 1948 and abandoned in 1950s. The majority of contaminants were petroleum in soils. There were also low level PCBs and dioxins. Buried debris which occasionally surfaces from erosion or new construction has been a problem in the community. Unexploded ordnance reportedly buried near or in Troutman Lake. The investigation did not locate any ammo caches. Site 1 is subdivided into three areas. 1A is the North Beach Army Landing Area. No contaminants other than debris are associated with the area. Surface debris was removed in 1997. Site 1B is the Air Force Landing Area. Same as site 1A - surface debris removed in 1997. Site 1C is the whole North Beach and includes underwater debris located just offshore. The 1997 cleanup removed all exposed surface debris. See Facility Wide Site for complete action list. The Gambell site extends west from North Beach to West Beach, south to Nayvaghaq Lake, and east to include portions of Sevuokuk Mountain. The site encompasses the Village of Gambell. Last staff assigned were Noland, Ortelee, Kalu, Stephens, Rutkowski and Brownlee. (rpltr6)

Action Information

Action Date Action Description DEC Staff
3/1/2004 Site Added to Database Split out 13 new sites from main "Saint Lawrence Is. Gambell / DERP", site, Reckey 198532X917919. Former Staff
3/1/2004 Site Ranked Using the AHRM Copied latest AHRM Score from main site, "Saint Lawrence Is. Gambell / DERP", Reckey 198532X917910. Jeff Brownlee
12/13/2004 Site Ranked Using the AHRM Jeff Brownlee
1/10/2005 Update or Other Action File number correction 660.38.006 Aggie Blandford
6/27/2005 Site Closure Approved Jeff Brownlee
6/27/2005 Record of Decision A decision document was signed for Formerly Used Defense Sites at Gambell. Thirty four of thirty eight sites have been characterized, cleaned up and closed; soil cleanup methods and levels were formalized for two sites; debris cleanup will be conducted at a third site; one site was withheld from the decision document due to data gaps the Corps determined it needed to address before signing a decision on it. Jeff Brownlee
5/7/2007 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking Intitial Ranking Complete for Source Area: 71206 (Autogenerated Action)
5/8/2007 Update or Other Action Corrected status to "Closed" per Jeff Brownlee. Hannah Lager
3/21/2012 Update or Other Action File is archived in barcodes 555150, 555151, 587279, 587280. Susan Carberry
6/12/2019 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

Contaminant Information

Name Level Description Media Comments
For more information about this site, contact DEC at (907) 465-5390.

Control Type

Type Details
No ICs Required

Requirements

Description Details
Advance approval required to transport soil or groundwater off-site.

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