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Site Report: Tyonek North Forelands Facility

Site Name: Tyonek North Forelands Facility
Address: North Foreland Airstrip, Tyonek, AK 99682
File Number: 2337.38.042
Hazard ID: 2798
Status: Cleanup Complete
Staff: No Longer Assigned, 9074655229 dec.icunit@alaska.gov
Latitude: 61.046093
Longitude: -151.187049
Horizontal Datum:WGS84

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Problems/Comments

On April 25, 1997 fresh diesel was discovered beneath and around a 3,000-gallon aboveground storage tank (AST) that serviced the maintenance building at the airfield. EMCON Phase II Assessment estimated 500-800 gallons spilled due to leaking tank nozzle unattended. Petroleum hydrocarbon soil contamination exceeding ADEC cleanup levels exists.

Action Information

Action Date Action Description DEC Staff
8/3/2004 Site Characterization Report Approved 3 August 98 AST Phase II Contamination Assessment Report was located after being misfiled. Report reviewed indicating DRO & GRO soil contamination exceeding ADEC cleanup standards. Nested Bio-venting wells installed in borings B-1 and B-5. Donald Seagren
8/6/2004 Update or Other Action Sent letter to Tyonek Native corporation requesting site status update, any additional assessment/cleanup reports and if the bio-venting system had been operated. Awaiting response from TNC. Donald Seagren
11/18/2004 Site Added to Database Site added to DB by Alyce Hughey. Alyce Hughey
11/18/2004 Site Ranked Using the AHRM Initial ranking. Donald Seagren
11/18/2004 GIS Position Updated Using Figure 1 from an Above Ground Storage Tank Spill Phase II Contamination Assessment, from EMCON Alaska, Inc., dated August 3, 1998, in conjunction with TopoZone Pro and the KPB Parcel Lookup, entered the coordinates for this site. Metadata includes No Topo Basemap, TopoZone 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
11/18/2004 Update or Other Action File number 2337.38.042 assigned and entered into the Fileroom DB and CS DB. Alyce Hughey
5/8/2007 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking Donald Seagren
6/12/2008 Update or Other Action Site transferred from Don Seagren to Paul Horwath per Linda Nuechterlein. Alyce Hughey
9/23/2014 Update or Other Action File transfered to Anchorage Linda Nuechterlein
10/3/2014 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking A new updated ranking with ETM has been completed for source area 73774 leaking AST tank nozzle. Joshua Barsis
10/8/2014 Update or Other Action Sent a letter on this day, requesting additional information about the spill and site. Response received on October 22, 2014. The response stated that the site is located in a commercial area, with no residential structures in the vicinity. No drinking water wells or surface water intakes are present within 2.5 miles of the site. The site is primarily used for storing a fleet of vehicles. Additional characterization is planned. Joshua Barsis
5/28/2015 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Reviewed the Corrective Action Work Plan, dated May 2015. Activities described in the work plan include complete excavation of contaminated soil, land-farming without a liner, and periodic tilling to meet cleanup objectives. Joshua Barsis
12/16/2015 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Reviewed the revised Corrective Action Summary Report, dated July 2015, and received on December 16, 2015. Excavation commenced in June 2015 to remove contaminated soil from a historical release of diesel fuel that occurred in April 1997. Roughly 540 cubic yards of impacted soil was removed and land-spread just past the west end of the airplane landing strip. The impacted soil was spread about 6-inches in depth and within an area approximately 325 feet long and 90 feet wide. An 18-inch high soil berm surrounds the land-spread soils. Segregated clean material, and local fill material was used to backfill the excavation. Analytical results from the investigation revealed that concentrations of diesel range organics (DRO) remain within the excavation, and potentially beneath the adjacent structure up to 4,500 mg/kg, which exceeds the ADEC migration-to-groundwater (MTG) cleanup level of 250 mg/kg. Samples collected from the land-spread soil show levels up to 1,180 mg/kg DRO. Joshua Barsis
4/25/2018 Workplan Requested Letter sent on this day requesting a work plan for follow-on land farm sampling. Work plan requested by June 1, 2018. Joshua Barsis
8/15/2018 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Reviewed the Tyonek North Forelands Facility Landfarm Sampling Plan, dated August 13, 2018. Proposed activities include sampling the landfarm to determine if petroleum contamination remains after three years and also to re-evaluated impacts below the onsite building. Joshua Barsis
11/6/2019 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other Reviewed the Corrective Action Summary Report, dated October 2018. Completed activities included sampling the land farm, and resampling below the footprint of the adjacent building to determine if attenuation has occurred. Three analytical samples were collected from below the foundation of the building; with levels of DRO ranging from 313 to 4,920 mg/kg. Eight samples were collected from the land farm soils. Except for one sample (LF-2), DRO ranged from 24.8 to 196 mg/kg. Sample LF-2 exhibited a concentration of DRO at 1020 mg/kg and RRO at 7,110 mg/kg. Report recommendations call for further tilling and maintenance of the land farmed soils. Joshua Barsis
11/18/2019 Cleanup Complete Determination Issued Based on the information provided to date, it has been determined that the contaminant concentrations remaining on site do not pose an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment and no further remedial action will be required unless new information becomes available that indicates residual contaminants may pose an unacceptable risk. Joshua Barsis

Contaminant Information

Name Level Description Media Comments
DRO Between Method 2 Migration to Groundwater and Human Health/Ingestion/Inhalation Soil

Control Type

Type Details
No ICs Required

Requirements

Description Details
Advance approval required to transport soil or groundwater off-site.
Movement or use of contaminated material (including on site) in a manner that results in a violation of the water quality standards is prohibited (18 AAC 70)

No associated sites were found.

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