| Action Date |
Action |
Description |
DEC Staff |
| 7/9/2002 |
Site Added to Database |
DRO and RRO. |
Donald Seagren |
| 7/9/2002 |
Site Ranked Using the AHRM |
Initial ranking. |
Donald Seagren |
| 7/10/2002 |
Preliminary Assessment Approved |
Reviewed Phase I Site Assessment conducted for potential property transfer. |
Donald Seagren |
| 7/10/2002 |
Site Characterization Report Approved |
Reviewed Phase II Site Assessment conducted for potential property sale. |
Donald Seagren |
| 7/10/2002 |
Update or Other Action |
Sent letter requesting additional soil and GW assessment to determine the extent of contamination at the facility. Required a Corrective Action Plan to be developed based on results of further site assessment. |
Donald Seagren |
| 7/23/2003 |
Update or Other Action |
Have received no response to the July 10, 2002 letter. Sent letter requesting work plan for required additional site assessment. |
Donald Seagren |
| 8/4/2003 |
Update or Other Action |
Received letter stating current conditions/operations of the facility. No additional site assessment has been done nor is currently scheduled. No remediation is being done at the facility. |
Donald Seagren |
| 2/19/2004 |
Update or Other Action |
File number assigned and entered into the Fileroom DB and CS DB. |
Alyce Hughey |
| 3/2/2005 |
Update or Other Action |
Reviewed reports and files. Sent letter requesting status update of site operations and cleanup and assessment work. |
Donald Seagren |
| 3/21/2005 |
Update or Other Action |
No plans for further site assessment at this time. No processing being done at the facility. Fuel remaining in the tanks is being sold off as demand warrants. Only a caretaker remains on site to monitor the facility. |
Donald Seagren |
| 8/17/2005 |
GIS Position Updated |
Using Figure 1and 2 from a Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment Uganik Bay Processing Plant, from GeoEngineers, dated March 25, 2002, in conjunction with TopoZone Pro, entered the coordinates for this site. Metadata includes USGS Topo Map 1:63K, on a Medium Size Map, View Scale 1:24,000, Coordinate Datum NAD83. Moderate to High degree of confidence in accuracy of location. |
Alyce Hughey |
| 4/13/2007 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
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Donald Seagren |
| 6/12/2008 |
Update or Other Action |
Site transferred from Don Seagren to Paul Horwath per Linda Nuechterlein. |
Alyce Hughey |
| 9/18/2013 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
A new updated ranking with ETM has been completed for source area 74916 various releases. |
Paul Horwath |
| 3/13/2015 |
Update or Other Action |
Corrected Lat/Long decimal coordinates obtained from ADEC CS internal GIS web map, and entered into CS database.
57.731883 -153.319183 |
Paul Horwath |
| 1/25/2016 |
Update or Other Action |
Cook Inlet Processing has merged with Ocean Beauty Seafoods LLC, according to their web site. The Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Corporations, Business, and Professional Licensing indicates 50% owned by Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp, and 50% owned by Ocean Beauty Holdings, Inc. |
Paul Horwath |
| 2/12/2018 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Reviewed the Phase I and Phase II Environmental site assessment reports dated March 25, 2002, and June 18, 2002, respectively. Also reviewed the rest of the file contents and the correspondence between ADEC and Cook Inlet Processing, preparatory to updating the ETM ranking for this site in the CSP database. |
Paul Horwath |
| 2/15/2018 |
Update or Other Action |
Updated the Affiliate section of the database to identify Polar Equipment, Inc., as the current landowner. This based on the Kodiak Island Borough Tax Assessing department website.
Michael C Shupe is shown as the 100% owner of the Corporation, as well as the Registered Agent, Director, President, Secretary, Shareholder, and Treasurer, according to the State of Alaska, DCCED website as of 02/15/2018. |
Paul Horwath |
| 2/21/2018 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
A new updated ranking with ETM has been completed for source area 74916 various releases. The site assessment is considered incomplete. The facility was constructed in 1926, and fuels have are presumed to have been stored and used at the facility since that time. |
Paul Horwath |
| 2/22/2018 |
Potentially Responsible Party/State Interest Letter |
Issued a PRP letter to Michael Shupe, Registered Agent, Polar Equipment, Inc., Anchorage, AK. |
Paul Horwath |
| 2/23/2018 |
Workplan Requested |
Issued a letter to Polar Equipment, Inc., requiring the preparation and submittal of a Site characterization work plan to ADEC by no later than April 30, 2018. |
Paul Horwath |
| 4/23/2018 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Reviewed an April 20, 2018, Site Characterization Work Plan, prepared by Environmental Management, Inc. ADEC provided work plan review comments, and now awaiting re-submittal of a revised work plan. |
Paul Horwath |
| 5/24/2018 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Received and approved a 5/24/2018 Site Characterization Work Plan, prepared by Environmental Management, Incorporated (EMI). Mailed hard copy approval decision to Polar Equipment and delivered copy electronically to EMI. |
Paul Horwath |
| 11/16/2018 |
Update or Other Action |
ADEC received a Site Characterization Report, prepared by EMI on behalf of Polar Equipment, Inc. |
Paul Horwath |
| 11/28/2018 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Horwath provided a list of questions to Glenn Hasburgh, EMI, after reviewing the November 16, 2018 Site Characterization Report. |
Paul Horwath |
| 1/21/2019 |
Update or Other Action |
ADEC received EMI's response to the ADEC questions presented to EMI via e-mail on November 28, 2018. |
Paul Horwath |
| 2/27/2019 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
Completed the review of EMI's revised January 15, 2019 Site Characterization Report and e-mail answers and clarifications to ADEC's questions and comments concerning their report. |
Paul Horwath |
| 2/28/2019 |
Workplan Requested |
Issued a letter providing ADEC comments in response to EMI's January 15, 2019 Site Characterization Report, which includes a requirement to provide ADEC with a site characterization work plan by April 30, 2019. |
Paul Horwath |
| 5/16/2019 |
Site Characterization Workplan Approved |
Issued ADEC approval of EMI's Site Characterization Work Plan - Area 2. |
Paul Horwath |
| 10/1/2019 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
ADEC provides comments on the report titled "Cook Inlet Processing Plant, Area 2 Characterization Report, Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska, ADEC File No. 2638.38.001" dated August 22, 2019. DRO contamination has not been characterized to most stringent cleanup levels on any inland side, and DRO contamination extends up to the bluff. DRO is above maximum allowable in some locations, 33/34 samples exceed MTG, and 13 exceed human health. |
Kara Kusche |
| 11/21/2019 |
Update or Other Action |
Sent letter to approve Cook Inlet Processing Plant
Area 2 Characterization Report dated November 15, 2019, with the exception that ADEC disagrees that the northern and southern boundaries of the contamination are clearly defined as the site has not achieved characterization to most stringent clean up levels. |
Jessica Hall |
| 2/12/2020 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Meeting with Shayla Marshall and Glenn Hasburgh of Environmental Management, Inc. Discussed plans for sampling the northern and southern boundaries of the contamination at the site, which has not achieved characterization to most stringent clean up levels. One person lives at the site and there are no drinking water wells, drinking water comes from a near by waterfall. Human health and drinking water is not suspected to be an issue at present. It was discussed that two existing tanks (Tank 4&5) on site and will be investigated for continued release of contaminates. It is not clear if Area 1&3 have been characterized. Lance will possible take seep samples. Most likely will close the site with ICs. |
Jessica Hall |
| 10/12/2020 |
Update or Other Action |
Per email with Glenn Hasburgh: At this time no work has been done during the 2020 season, but with Kodiak being as mild as it is there is still a couple months of window left. COVID and busy fishing season did not help the timeline.
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Jessica Hall |
| 1/19/2021 |
Update or Other Action |
The lines at the Uganik Cannery, according to the watchman,they looked into each of the tanks and each appeared empty. Around 2011 or 2012 he did recover approximately 25 gallons of fuel from one of the lines which he used to power equipment on sight. This does indicate that there was some fuel in the lines after the tanks were emptied. The watchman also said he checked lines coming from some smaller tanks by opening valves and all of those were empty. Unclear exactly what smaller tanks he is referring to, but will look into that. Will also check the valves again come summer time to ensure ice blockages were not present. |
Jessica Hall |
| 12/14/2021 |
Update or Other Action |
Per email from EMI December 14, 2021; going into the future they are planning on putting together a work plan for future monitoring at the site. Will need to get a proposal to Polar Equipment Inc. to develop this plan. •EMI is going to propose that water sampling from the seeps in the bluff, which were sampled during the previous events, continue to be sampled on an annual or semiannual basis for DRO. Due to the significant costs associated with the logistics of getting a sampler out there (they only fly every few days) EMI is going to propose that the watchman collect the samples following detailed instructions EMI will provide.
•At this time EMI does not have any immediate plans to conduct any more soil sampling at the site. This is because they have sufficient data indicating the levels of contamination and there has not been a significant amount of time since the last sampling event to allow for natural attenuation, which EMI feels is the best option for the site because of numerous factors. EMI will probably propose doing a sampling event in 2024, which will be 5 years from the previous sampling event. This should give enough time to see if natural attenuation is occurring. •In 2021 all that was done is confirming the lines were empty.• For the 2022 season EMI will submit the work plan for future water sampling and will begin sampling of the waters exiting the site.
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Jessica Hall |
| 8/2/2022 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
ADEC sent Polar Equipment Inc. comments from review on the “Long-Term Site Monitoring Plan Cook Inlet Processing – Uganik”, dated June 1, 2022. ADEC requested a revised work plan be submitted for review. |
Jessica Hall |
