Site Report: Galena Marine Header Release
| Site Name: | Galena Marine Header Release |
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| Address: | within 100' Yukon River, Old Town, Galena, AK 99741 |
| File Number: | 860.38.031 |
| Hazard ID: | 4101 |
| Status: | Active |
| Staff: | Livia Bracker, 9072697695 livia.bracker@alaska.gov |
| Latitude: | 64.741860 |
| Longitude: | -156.869900 |
| Horizontal Datum: | WGS84 |
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Problems/Comments
This spill was discovered on June 5, 2004. The City of Galena estimates approximately 1,000 gallons of #2 diesel fuel spilled approximately 100 feet from the Yukon River near the barge delivery header in Galena. The City of Galena utilities manager suspects that the rupture of the underground barge delivery pipeline made from High Density Poly Ethylene (HDPE) was due to the freezing and thawing of the ground resulting in stressing the pipe to the point of rupture. An estimated 550 gallons of free product was recovered from the spill site. Approximately 200 - 250 cubic yards of contaminated soil was removed and placed on a liner. The contaminated soil will remain in Galena and the City will attempt to remediate the soil via biological activity. No observed impact to the Yukon River or any wildlife. This site was transferred from PERP.
Action Information
| Action Date | Action | Description | DEC Staff |
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| 7/15/2004 | Site Added to Database | Site transferred from PERP. DRO contamination within 100 feet from the Yukon River and close to drinking water wells. | Deborah Williams |
| 7/15/2004 | Spill Transferred from Prevention Preparedness and Response Program | Site transferred from PERP. | Deborah Williams |
| 7/15/2004 | Site Ranked Using the AHRM | Preliminary ranking. | Deborah Williams |
| 7/20/2004 | Update or Other Action | Telephone conversation with Walt Wilcox and he stated that they had recovered approximately 600 gallons of diesel and excavated approximately 200 cubic yards of contaminated soil. He estimates that the clay layer that is in the bottom of the excavation is 2 feet deep. The closest drinking water well is 300 feet from the site and the well is 303 feet deep. All the residences in the area are on piped water. The next closest well from the site is another city drinking water well and it is over 1/2 mile from the site. The groundwater direction is from the mountains towards the river. The excavation is still open and there are no odors present. The excavated soil was placed in a biocell (20 mil liner) with the dimensions of 120' x 10'. The outside perimeter has pipes around it with the liner laying over the pipes. They plan to till the biocell annually and sample to verify remediation is occurring. A progress report will be sent to ADEC annually. | Deborah Williams |
| 8/24/2005 | Update or Other Action | Telephone conversation with Walt Wilcox and he wanted to know what steps he needed take with the biocell in order to close it. I recommended that he till it again this summer, cover it with a liner for the winter and then take off the liner in the spring, till it all summer and have a consultant sample it late next summer. If there is no hurry to remove the biocell, it would be good to let it remediate another year. | Deborah Williams |
| 4/15/2008 | Exposure Tracking Model Ranking | Initial ranking with ETM completed. | Tamara Cardona-Marek |
| 6/6/2008 | Update or Other Action | Sent letter to City of Galena (Walt Wilcox) requesting current status of biocell. | Tamara Cardona-Marek |
| 6/30/2008 | Update or Other Action | Contacted by Mr. Wilcox on 6/23. He indicated that the 200 cubic yards of contaminated soil are still in the containment area and they continue to be turned over every year. The soil will be sampled this summer to verify current status. | Tamara Cardona-Marek |
| 3/27/2009 | Update or Other Action | Contacted current City Manager of Galena requesting update on the site and follow up to samples that would be collected by Wilcox in 2008. | Tamara Cardona-Marek |
| 11/6/2009 | Update or Other Action | Transferred site management from Tamara Cardona-Marek to Jim Fish. | Janice Wiegers |
| 6/19/2012 | Update or Other Action | Contact City Manager (Greg Moyer) 6/11/12 to ask of the location & status of the soil stockpile. The stockpile was identified during a site visit by DEC Fed. Facilities staff. Contacted City Manger ask for collection of confirmation samples. | Jim Fish |
| 11/28/2012 | Update or Other Action | Follow-up call to City manager (Greg Moyer) about recent spill at Gana-A Yoo building and possible adding to/sampling of stockpile. | Jim Fish |
| 6/27/2013 | Update or Other Action | Update from PERP - stockpile was likely underwater during spring 2013 flood - PERP will look to possbily include soils in screening. | Jim Fish |
| 8/15/2013 | Update or Other Action | Sampling of stockpile conducted by PERP - results received today | Jim Fish |
| 2/4/2014 | Update or Other Action | Site transferred from Fish to Dieffenbacher. | Amy Rodman |
| 7/31/2014 | Update or Other Action | Staff changed from Amy Dieffenbacher to Melody Debenham. | Kristin Thompson |
| 8/20/2014 | Site Visit | The soil stockpile was visited by DEC staff Dennis Shepard and Monte Garroutte. Vegetation has grown over the top of the stockpile. It was observed that there is no signage in place around the stockpile, and there was an area of recent disturbance on the eastern side. | Monte Garroutte |
| 8/29/2014 | Update or Other Action | Staff reassigned from Debenham to Garroutte. | John Carnahan |
| 9/4/2014 | Update or Other Action | Contact City Manager (Shanda Huntington) on 9/4/2014 to recommend that signage be placed around the stockpile. Additionally, it was recommended that the stockpile be spread out to a thinner depth on site and phytoremediated to remove the remaining benzo(a)pyrene and benzo(b)fluoranthene contamination. | Monte Garroutte |
| 10/28/2014 | Update or Other Action | Spoke to Galena City Manager Shanda Huntington over the phone on 10/27/2014. She indicated that Darryl Thurmond, the City's lead mechanic, is aware of the stockpile and will contain and remediate it in the spring of 2015. DEC received an email from the City Manager stating this on 10/28/2014. | Monte Garroutte |
| 9/2/2015 | Site Visit | DEC conducted a site visit at the Galena Marine Header stockpile. The stockpiled soil has apparently been undisturbed, and additional vegetation has grown on the soil. | Monte Garroutte |
| 6/7/2016 | Update or Other Action | DEC held an internal meeting with brownfields staff to discuss all Galena private sites and their potential for brownfields funding. | Monte Garroutte |
| 11/10/2022 | Exposure Tracking Model Ranking | A new updated ranking with ETM has been completed for source area 75074 cracked fuel line. | Arika Garcia |
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