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Site Report: Fort Wainwright (OU-5) Motor. Bldg. 1054 CC-FTWW-109

Site Name: Fort Wainwright (OU-5) Motor. Bldg. 1054 CC-FTWW-109
Address: Marks Road, Fort Wainwright, AK 99703
File Number: 108.38.071.06
Hazard ID: 2339
Status: Active
Staff: Tim Sharp, 9074512131 tim.sharp@alaska.gov
Latitude: 64.842636
Longitude: -147.611464
Horizontal Datum:WGS84

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

Motor pool building historically had three grease pits, parts room. Floor drains in shop connected to a wood stove. Grease pits now filled with concrete. Two-story building north of flight line. (rpltr7) Excavation in preparation for construction 10/2008 encountered contaminated soils. The site is reopened. FKA file number 108.38.068.17.

Action Information

Action Date Action Description DEC Staff
3/18/1994 Site Added to Database File# 108.38.066. Former Staff
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
7/25/1994 Update or Other Action NFA under CERCLA signed by all parties this date. Ronan Short
7/25/1994 Update or Other Action (Old R:Base Action Code = NFA - No Further Action Required (CERCLA)). NFA under CERCLA signed by all parties this date. Ronan Short
1/17/1995 Risk Assessment Report Approved Post-wide Risk Assessment Approach Document received this date. Comments by RM. Document prepared by HLA. Ronan Short
9/16/1996 Update or Other Action (Old R:Base Action Code = RI - Remedial Investigation). Final, Remedial Investigation Report, OU-1, document date September 1, 1996. Rielle Markey
3/2/2001 Update or Other Action File number corrected from 108.38.066 to 108.38.068. Mitzi Read
9/14/2009 Update or Other Action Email update received from FTW. My first contact on this was last Friday - 4 Sept. At that time it was just a notice that a 8'x8' 'Hot Spot' was discovered adjacent to the building and what do we want to do about it. I went out with our site engineer and decided that we want to be there when the excavation took place which was predicted to be that Friday afternoon some time. Prior to that further excavation was required to expose a concrete footer from the existing footprint for removal. During that operation a floating footer was discovered and when it was pulled out it broke apart revealing it to be a grease pit. I happened to be on site when this happened. The grease pit was filled with sand and gravel and cemented over. This pit had no opening to it - neither pipe drain nor even a fracture. The material inside had a high PID reading so that material was stockpiled, the concrete was thoroughly swept off, examined for weeping, and removed as construction debris. PID's under this pit were all below 1ppm so our confidence is high that nothing leaked out. The analytical suite to be performed on the stockpiled material will include POL, VOC's, SVOC's, and RCRA metals. Later on Friday the excavator operator was working on exposing more of the concrete footer when they encountered a concrete vault (about 6' x 6') with a 6" pipe coming out from under the building and into the vault possibly used as a separator or sand trap. Material from the inside the pipe was sampled with a PID and found to be contaminated. When further excavation was done to locate what the pipe was connected to it was found that the pipe was not connected to anything - it had been removed in a previous/unknown event. The concrete vault was excavated, swept clean, and hauled away as construction debris. The small quantity of material found in the vault was also registering high PID's so that was stockpiled. The soils immediately around the vault were registering high PID's. These soils were also excavated until PID's were below 20ppm. These soils are also stockpiled and analytical to be performed are POL, VOC's, SVOC's, and RCRA metals. Finally, on Tuesday, the original 'hotspot' was exposed. Since this area was largely outside the limits of excavation only a few bucket loads were removed. PID's remained high and so this area remains contaminated. This area corresponds with the area depicted in Photo 9, 10 & 11 of the Jan 09 Phase II ESA/RI that I understand is in your possession. That Phase II report indicates largely DRO and RRO contamination and some GRO contamination at this same point. TCLP Metals and VOC's were all No Detect except for one hit on Trimethylbenzene which was well below action levels. I suggest that this hot spot be properly delineated at a near future time since it's appearance is out from under the footprint of the new building being installed. Currently a sample from the 'hotspot' stockpile is being analyzed for POL products only. During the delineation process another opportunity to determined what the nature of the contamination looks like will become available. Currently I am working with the Environmental consultant (ARES - the same contractor that prepared the Phase II ESA/RI) on obtaining the lab analyicals for the existing stockpiles. Once received and summarized I will coordinate with you for the disposal of these contaminated soils. Debra Caillouet
12/24/2009 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking Initial ranking with ETM completed for source area id: 73317 name: auto-generated pm edit Fort Wainwright (OU-1) Motor. Bldg. 1054 Debra Caillouet
5/14/2010 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Comment sent on the Site Specific Work Plan, Building 1054, 2010 Removal Action. Debra Caillouet
6/14/2010 Update or Other Action Staff recieved results from the 2010 excavation by email and does not object to backfilling the excavation. Debra Caillouet
7/12/2010 Update or Other Action Ok to backfill excavation. DRO still above cleanup levels, but lead is gone. Debra Caillouet
8/9/2010 Offsite Soil or Groundwater Disposal Approved 600 tons to OIT. Note there was also about 100 tons of RCRA lead soil sent out by Emerald Debra Caillouet
2/4/2011 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Technical Memorandum, Draft Doyon Support at Building 1060 and Building 1054 After Action Report, 28 January 2011 reviewed and have no comment. Please note though, DEC has no record of reviewing the Building 1054 Construction Support Work Plan Addendum. Debra Caillouet
4/11/2011 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Technical Memorandum, Doyon Support at Building 1060 and Building 1054 After Action Report, April 2011. The report documents field screening during utility construction at both sites. No contamination was identified at these limited areas. Debra Caillouet
9/2/2011 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Draft After-Action Report, Building 1054 2010 Removal Action, Fort Wainwright Alaska, August 2011. The report describes the removal of petroleum and lead contaminated soil on the northeast side of Building 1054. A total of 500 cubic yards of soil was removed, 10 cubic yards were disposed as lead waste and the rest as petroleum. The report should be revised to indicate that there is a 2009 ARES Phase II Environmental Site Assessment/Release Investigation Report, Fort Wainwright Building 1054, Repair Concrete and Truss Failure, dated January 2009 that describes the field screening that occurred in 2008. This report is of sampling of the southern half of Building 1054 after its demolition in 2008 and before the construction of the southern half of the building in 2008-9. Debra Caillouet
1/6/2012 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Final After-Action Report, Building 1054 2010 Removal Action, Fort Wainwright Alaska, December 2011 Debra Caillouet
3/23/2012 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other reviewed and commented on Preliminary Draft 2012 Work Plan, Assessment and Monitoring at Various Post-Construction Sites, Fort Wainwright, March 2012 Debra Caillouet
3/16/2015 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Draft Work Plan Environmental Investigations various Sites, Fort Wainwright Alaska January 2015 was reviewed. This this work plan addresses 17 sites at Fort Wainwright. The plan was written in UFP-QAPP but has major deficiencies requiring a complete rewrite of the document. Detailed comment was sent to the Army. Debra Caillouet
6/15/2015 Update or Other Action The Army was sent a review of the response to comment that was provided for the comments sent in March on the draft work plan. The contractor still has difficulty with correctly completing a Conceptual Site Model, developing site specific DQO's and providing site history. Debra Caillouet
9/1/2015 Update or Other Action Transferred to Fairbanks Susan Carberry
10/30/2015 Update or Other Action Site name updated from "Fort Wainwright (OU-1) Motor. Bldg. 1054" to "Fort Wainwright (OU-5) Motor. Bldg. 1054" to reflect the correct designation as part of Operable Unit 5. The record of decision (ROD) for OU-1 states that the Motor Pool Buildings will be addressed through the OU-5 decision process and the ROD for OU-5 includes the Motor Pool Buildings. Mitzi Read
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
8/16/2022 Meeting or Teleconference Held Meeting held between FTW RPMs to discuss the additional sampling of PFAS in investigation derived waste groundwater samples during the RI phase at Building 1599, Building 1054, and North Town Sink Hole sites. Cascade Galasso-Irish
6/9/2023 CERCLA RI Plan Approved DEC completed a backcheck and partial approval of the Final Supplemental Remedial Investigation (SRI) Work Plan for 33B Barracks, Building 1054, Building 3014, and the Montgomery Road Extension. The objective of each SRI is to characterize the nature and extent of contamination and evaluate the human health and ecological risk. The SRI results will be used to develop preliminary remediation goals and identify remedial alternatives that will be further evaluated in a feasibility study (FS). The work plan is intended for use in conjunction with the Risk Assessment Work Plan, which is currently under regulatory review. Several comments on the draft work plan requested contamination in soil to be delineated to at least the most stringent of DEC’s promulgated cleanup levels, typically the migration to groundwater cleanup levels. DEC recognizes the importance of the intended field sampling, and the Army’s commitment to ensureanalytical methods have limits of detection that are able to achieve the DEC migration to groundwater cleanup levels. As the Army did not identify the fate and transport model that will be used to evaluate the migration to groundwater pathway, DEC will evaluate the results of this field effort as presented in the draft report to evaluate whether the nature and extent of the contamination has been delineated. DEC will identify at that point if sufficient information has been gathered to determine the fate and transport of contamination over time. Data gaps may persist after the SRI effort due to this oversight. Additionally, due to the recent DEC Bulk Petroleum Hydrocarbon Noncancer Toxicity for Human Health Risk Assessments Technical Memorandum (DEC, May 2023), DEC does not find the language in Section 1.3 regarding bulk petroleum risk to be in accordance with guidance, and the Army must address this issue further during comment resolution of the Risk Assessment Work Plan. All other responses to comments have been incorporated into the final document and are accepted. Lastly, on May 24, 2023, DEC was informed that the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) had begun conducting sampling without DEC approval of the SRI work plan. In accordance with 18 AAC 75.335(b) and 18 AAC 75.360(2), work may not begin at a site until the work plan has been approved. This formally documents the Army’s non-compliance with the above-referenced regulations and provides notice that future non-compliance with state regulations may result in a Compliance Advisory Letter or formal enforcement actions, as appropriate. Tim Sharp

Contaminant Information

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Control Type

Type Details
No ICs Required

Requirements

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

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