| Action Date |
Action |
Description |
DEC Staff |
| 9/2/1995 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = RI - Remedial Investigation). Action date used is the date of the Air Force Relative Risk Evaluation Worksheet, which indicates the site is in the RI phase. |
Former Staff |
| 3/3/1997 |
Site Added to Database |
Site added by Shannon and Wilson. |
S&W |
| 2/6/2003 |
Site Number Identifier Changed |
Changed the Region from 36 to 31 and Sequence Number from 11 to 02. |
Former Staff |
| 9/17/2003 |
Update or Other Action |
Staff completed a site visit of Bullen Point and Point Lonely Distant Early Warning Sites in order to determine the condition of their dump sites and the erosion impacts. The dump sites at both places are on the lagoon-side of the facilities so are not experiencing the dramatic effects of erosion that have been seen at Oliktok or Barter Island. However, the face of the dumps are becoming exposed and there is debris in the adjacent surface water bodies. These sites will need to addressed during the Air Force’s Clean Sweep Operations. Another issue was identified at Point Lonely, though, that requires immediate attention. The ocean-side of the facility has lost over 150 feet of shoreline this summer. This has caused a pump house (deactivated) to collapse on to the beach. It appears there was a small fuel release when the building and pipes collapsed. PERP was on site and had the Air Force take samples to determine the extent. Additional actions will be taken upon receipt of the results. |
Ann Farris |
| 1/14/2005 |
Update or Other Action |
Staff approved a workplan for soil sampling at the Point Lonely Long Range Radar Station during the demolition and removal of beach fuel tanks, pump house, tank berm, and associated fuel lines. (Youcha). |
Emily Youcha |
| 6/1/2005 |
Site Ranked Using the AHRM |
Initial ranking. |
Emily Youcha |
| 6/1/2005 |
Site Characterization Workplan Approved |
Staff approved a remedial investigation/feasibility study workplan for the site. Work will be conducted in July/August 2005 and will be coordinated with the 611th compliance program Clean Sweep work occuring this summer. Samples will be collected for DRO, BTEX, and PAHs. |
Emily Youcha |
| 7/25/2005 |
Update or Other Action |
Staff attended a site visit to Pt Lonely AFS on July 18 with BLM representatives. |
Emily Youcha |
| 7/29/2005 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Contaminated Sites staff is working with the Air Force on creating a template for ecological and human health risk assessments covering six sites across the North Slope, including this site. The Air Force determined it needs to conduct base-line risk assessments at these sites prior to making cleanup decisions on them. Developing a template is an effort to make the process more efficient. |
Emily Youcha |
| 9/30/2005 |
Cleanup Plan Approved |
Air Force compliance staff excavated petroleum contaminated soil associated with the removal of Beach tanks and associated piping. Apporximately 201 supersacks averaging 1778 pounds of soil was removed and staged at Pt. Lonely. 30 confirmation samples were collected after the removal and results are not yet available. |
Emily Youcha |
| 12/8/2005 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Staff attended the Restoration Advisory Board meeting in Barrow and provided a summary of the current activites at the site. |
Emily Youcha |
| 3/21/2006 |
Update or Other Action |
Staff received a copy of the 2005 draft RI/FS. Staff participated in a meeting with the BLM and the Air Force on February 17 to discuss the status of Pt. Lonely and a potential transfer of the Air Force Buildings to the North Slope Borough. |
Emily Youcha |
| 5/15/2006 |
Update or Other Action |
Staff recieved a copy of the report written by the compliance section of the 611th CES. The draft report is titled "Environmental Operations at Pt Lonely Beach Tank Farm SS03, with Post Closure Old Dump Site Cover data". The report describes remedial action at SS03 Beach Tanks and pumphouse, along with a soil cap placed in the inactive permitted landfill LF11. Soil was removed and staged in supersacks. Confirmation samples indicate low concentrations of DRO remains around some of the former tanks. |
Emily Youcha |
| 5/15/2006 |
Update or Other Action |
In Summer 2005 he compliance program removed the beach diesel tanks and about 200 tons of petroleum contaminated soil from the site. They also removed the former pumphouse that was sitting on the beach. Piping associated with the pumphouse and the tanks were removed. Staff provided comments on the cleanup report written by the compliance section.
Staff reviewed the Installation Restoration Program RI/FS for this site. After the removal actions, the IRP collected confirmation samples around the former locations of the beach diesel tanks and the pumphouse. These are two separate areas of concern that were proposed for no further action. Erosion rates are estimated to be up to 12 ft per year. Low-concentrations of Diesel Range Organics remain in the soil in the vicinity of two of the former tanks. Concentrations are below Method Two cleanup levels, but due to future erosion of this site, DEC's preference is to remove the rest of the contamination to avoid potential water-quality violations. At the pumphouse, DRO concentrations were detected up to 28,000 mg/kg, above soil cleanup levels. Staff did not concur with no further action and requested the removal of the contaminated soil at this location. |
Emily Youcha |
| 5/26/2006 |
Update or Other Action |
Contaminated Sites staff recently obtained term contractor review of a draft Air Force North Slope Risk Assessment Work Plan (RAWP). Comments were received from the term contractor, and a comment review teleconference was held with the term contractor risk assessor on 5/10/06. The RAWP seeks to develop risk based cleanup levels based on exposure pathways for categories of sites (e.g., garage sites) at Air Force radar stations in the north slope region. The work plan is generally well written, but some of the key items that need clarification are how data gaps will be handled at individual sites; determination of background levels for organics and inorganics; how it will be determined whether a large water body is potentially affected by a site; and how toxicity will be determined for trichloroethylene. |
Emily Youcha |
| 7/11/2006 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Staff performed a site visit to Pt. Lonely with the North Slope Risk Assessment team. Sites SS03 and SS02 are included as template sites, but nearly all sites at Pt Lonely were visited. The former location of the pumphouse was identified and has not yet eroded into the ocean. The coast continues to erode, particularly in the vicinity of the former Sewage Outfall site and little beach remains for vehicle or foot travel on the beach in that area. |
Emily Youcha |
| 8/18/2006 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Contaminated Sites staff met with the Air Force and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to discuss the upcoming cleanup at Point Lonely Air Force Station. This site is located in a right-of-way on BLM property and the Air Force has to meet several environmental requirements before relinquishing the property. The Air Force requested to re-open a permitted landfill at Point Lonely for one time use to deposit demolition debris and low-level petroleum-contaminated soil. BLM is hesitant to approve it because landfills built on BLM property are not consistent with their policy. |
Emily Youcha |
| 8/18/2006 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Contaminated Sites staff met with the Air Force and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to discuss the upcoming cleanup at Point Lonely Air Force Station. This site is located in a right-of-way on BLM property and the Air Force has to meet several environmental requirements before relinquishing the property. The Air Force requested to re-open a permitted landfill at Point Lonely for one time use to deposit demolition debris and low-level petroleum-contaminated soil. BLM is hesitant to approve it because landfills built on BLM property are not consistent with their policy. |
Emily Youcha |
| 7/11/2007 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
Intitial Ranking Complete for Source Area: 78234 (Autogenerated Action) |
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| 7/11/2007 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
Intitial Ranking Complete for Source Area: 78233 (Autogenerated Action) |
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| 10/25/2007 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
DEC staff attended Barrow Restoration Advisory Board meeting. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 12/13/2007 |
Public Notice |
Public meeting was held in Barrow to present Proposed Plan. Public comment period: 12/13/2007 - 1/11/2008. DEC contaminated sites staff attended. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 5/2/2008 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Contaminated sites staff reviewed and sent comments on a draft decision document. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 7/10/2008 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
DEC staff attended Barrow Restoration Advisory Board meeting. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 7/30/2008 |
Cleanup Plan Approved |
Staff reviewed and approved the Draft Quality Assurance Program Plan for 2008 Clean Sweep Activities (Cleanup Plan) for USAF Point Lonely SRRS. This work plan describes the cleanup activities that will be conducted at the Point Lonely SRRS during 2008. Work planned at SS003 is excavation of petroleum contaminated soil and treatment of the soil by landspreading at the Diesel Spills site (SS05). |
Tamar Stephens |
| 8/29/2008 |
CERCLA ROD Approved |
Decision document signed. Decision document was signed by Colonel Brent Johnson, USAF, on 8/27/2008 and by DEC Environmental Program Manager John Halverson on 8/29/2008. The main components of the remedy are excavation of DRO contaminated soil above the 18 AAC 75.341 method one arctic zone soil cleanup level of 200 mg/kg; treatment by landspreading of the excavated soil; verification that there is no surface staining at the landspread area and that landspread soil is not adversely impacting surface water. (This is not a CERCLA site; however the Air Force is following the CERCLA process and this is the most representative action available on the CS database.) |
Tamar Stephens |
| 8/29/2008 |
Cleanup Level(s) Approved |
Cleanup levels were approved with signing of the Decision Document on 8/29/2008. Cleanup levels are the 18 AAC 75.341 Table A2 method one cleanup levels for petroleum in the arctic zone. Method one cleanup levels apply at this site due to its proximity to the ocean |
Tamar Stephens |
| 10/13/2008 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
DEC staff attended Barrow Restoration Advisory Board meeting. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 3/12/2009 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
DEC staff attended Barrow Restoration Advisory Board meeting. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 6/12/2009 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Staff reviewed and sent comments on the Draft Quality Assurance Program Plan (cleanup work plan) for 2009 Clean Sweep Activities at the U.S. Air Force Point Lonely Short Range Radar Station, Alaska. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 7/17/2009 |
Cleanup Plan Approved |
Staff approved the Final Quality Assurance Program Plan (Cleanup Plan) for 2009 Clean Sweep Activities. This work plan is for continuation of cleanup begun at Point Lonely during 2008. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 12/13/2009 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
DEC staff attended Barrow Restoration Advisory Board meeting. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 3/18/2010 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
DEC staff attended Barrow Restoration Advisory Board meeting. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 4/21/2010 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Staff reviewed and sent comments on the Draft Cleanup Report for 2008-2009 Clean Sweep Activities, Point Lonely Short Range Radar Station, Alaska. This report describes cleanup actions that were performed during 2008 and 2009 at the Point Lonely Short Range Radar Station. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 6/17/2010 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
DEC staff attended Barrow Restoration Advisory Board meeting. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 7/29/2010 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Staff reviewed and sent comment on the draft Point Lonely Work Plan for 2010 Site Activities. The work plan describes activities to be conducted at Point Lonely during summer 2010. Work related to this site consists of surface water sampling at LF005 to verify no contamination is leaching from the landspread soils to the adjacent wetlands tundra. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 8/23/2010 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Staff approved the Final Work Plan for 2010 Site Activities (August 2010) for Point Lonely Short Range Radar Station, Alaska. Field work is planned to take place during August 2010 and includes surface water sampling at the Landspread Area (SS005) to verify water quality standards are not exceeded by migration of petroleum compounds from the landspread soil. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 10/13/2010 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
DEC staff attended Barrow Restoration Advisory Board meeting. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 2/23/2011 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
Initial ranking with ETM completed for source area id: 78234 name: Pumphouse and pipeline |
Evonne Reese |
| 3/17/2011 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
DEC staff attended Barrow Restoration Advisory Board meeting. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 9/1/2011 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Staff reviewed and sent comments on the draft 2010 Supplemental Remedial Investigation and Pipeline Survey report for U.S. Air Force Point Lonely Short Range Radar Station (SRRS). |
Tamar Stephens |
| 10/13/2011 |
Long Term Monitoring Established |
DEC project manager Tamar Stephens attended Barrow Restoration Advisory Board Meeting. |
Tamar Stephens |
| 5/28/2014 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
Initial ranking with ETM completed for source area id: 78233 name: Beach Diesel Tanks |
Debra Caillouet |
| 3/2/2015 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Draft Construction Completion Report #2, 2014 Building Demolition, Point Lonely Short Range Radar Station, AK, February 2015 |
Debra Caillouet |
| 7/24/2015 |
CERCLA Remedial Design/Remedial Action Plan Approved |
Final UFP-QAPP for Remedial Activities at Point Lonely Short Range Radar Station, AK, Revision 1 July 2015 |
Debra Caillouet |
| 7/31/2015 |
Update or Other Action |
Transfer to Fairbanks |
Susan Carberry |
| 8/4/2015 |
Update or Other Action |
Project management changed from Caillouet to Carnahan. |
John Carnahan |
| 11/29/2016 |
Cleanup Complete Determination Issued |
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John Carnahan |
