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Site Report: USCG Kodiak Site 09 Avgas Tank Farm

Site Name: USCG Kodiak Site 09 Avgas Tank Farm
Address: Kodiak, Kodiak, AK 99615
File Number: 2601.26.048
Hazard ID: 4332
Status: Active
Staff: Curtis Dunkin, 9072693053 curtis.dunkin@alaska.gov
Latitude: 57.731699
Longitude: -152.498955
Horizontal Datum:WGS84

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Problems/Comments

64 25,000-gallon USTs with 8,000 feet of piping and 36 valve boxes. Tanks set mostly on bedrock. Soil and groundwater impacts. No records show the tanks were ever used. Site is a Solid Waste Management Unit under a RCRA permit.

Action Information

Action Date Action Description DEC Staff
9/14/2006 Update or Other Action Contaminated Sites staff reviewed a Land Use Assurance Plan for Environmental Activities for the U.S. Coast Guard Base in Kodiak. The document outlines a plan to track institutional controls (ICs) at the various contaminated sites on base. There are currently about fifteen sites on base with institutional controls. The plan objective is for the Coast Guard Environmental Section to screen contractor and other activity such as above or below ground construction, well drilling, etc. against the sites listed in the plan. Work can then be tailored to meet any existing ICs Ray Burger
11/16/2006 Update or Other Action Contaminated Sites staff reviewed an Interim Corrective Action Report for the Site 9 Avgas Tanks at the U. S. Coast Guard Base on Kodiak Island. Two areas within the former tank farm had treatment systems installed using iSOC oxygen injectors to enhance bioremediation. One area was impacted with primarily vinyl chloride and the other with gasoline range and diesel range organics. The systems were operated for about six months and produced mixed results. The oxygen concentrations increased in the groundwater at both well clusters, but the contaminant levels increased. The contractor thinks the increase may be due to soil disturbance during well installations a few days prior to the second sampling event mobilizing contamination. The intent is to restart the oxygen injectors next season and continue monitoring for concentration trends Jeff Brownlee
12/8/2006 Site Added to Database Site added to the database. Mitzi Read
12/15/2006 Update or Other Action Contaminated Sites staff reviewed a corrective action plan for the Site 9 Avgas Site on the Coast Guard Base on Kodiak Island. The site was a former tank farm that has two areas of groundwater impacts. One area was impacted with primarily vinyl chloride and the other with gasoline range and diesel range organics. The remediation plan is to install four iSOC oxygen injectors to enhance bioremediation at each area. The DEC is recommending increasing the number of sampling events to better track contaminant concentration trend analysis Jeff Brownlee
8/17/2007 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking Jeff Brownlee
10/25/2007 Site Characterization Report Approved Contaminated Sites staff reviewed and commented on Interim Removal Action Reports for contaminated sites at the US Coast Guard Base in Kodiak. Approximately 4,700-tons of petroleum impacted soil were excavated from six above ground storage tank sites. The soils were thermally treated on site and reused for backfill in the area. Contamination above cleanup levels remains at all the sites. A couple sites may have justification for leaving contamination in-place for now including active utilities and an active asphalt pad in the area of contamination. Sites with impacts over cleanup levels remaining in-place will be listed on the USCG Land Use Control Assurance Plan for implementing institutional controls Jeff Brownlee
8/12/2008 Site Visit Contaminated Sites staff conducted site inspections with the EPA and Coast Guard at several Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) and Coast Guard sites on Kodiak Island. Field work had been done this season at Building A-711, Building A-141, Drury Gulch, Airport Staging Area, and the Site 3 Laundry. PCB and TCE soil removals have been completed at Drury Gulch and the contractor is working on the cap over the entire gulch and the drainage channel realignment. The biosparging pilot study at the Fire Training Pit is being evaluated and the cleanup team has decided to go back to the feasibility study and consider other remedial alternatives for the site Jeff Brownlee
1/22/2009 Meeting or Teleconference Held Contaminated Sites staff participated with the Corps of Engineers in a Kodiak Island Borough Assembly meeting and a public open house to discuss Formerly Used Defense Sites on Kodiak Island. An update was provided on sites currently being worked on including Drury Gulch, Buskin Beach, Airport Staging Area, and Building A-711 Jeff Brownlee
3/19/2009 Meeting or Teleconference Held Contaminated Sites staff participated in an annual scoping meeting with the Corps of Engineers, EPA and Coast Guard for the Kodiak FUDS projects. Agenda items included review of the 2008 field season, and planned investigations and remedial actions at Building A-711, Airport Staging Area and various Coast Guard Sites including the Lube Pits, Building A-141, Buskin Beach, and the Asphalt Disposal Area Jeff Brownlee
9/22/2010 Site Visit During an annual site prioritization meeting on Kodiak with representatives from the EPA, USCG, USACE, and ADEC, contaminated sites staff conducted site visits at the following Kodiak FUDS: Drury Gulch/Site 18, Building A711, Airport Staging Area, Former Navy Landfill/Red Lake Site 2, Buskin Beach, and the Site 9 AvGas Tank Farm. Curtis Dunkin
3/18/2011 Update or Other Action The Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) submitted a Revised Inventory Project Report (INPR) to ADEC. The report documented the Corps' approval of a new Hazardous Toxic and Radiological Waste (HTRW)project for the Kodiak Army/Navy Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS), Kodiak, AK. The revised INPR added Avgas Hill (aka Site 9 Avgas Tank Farm) as a new project. During Naval base operations during WWII, the Dept. of Defense (DOD) constructed a tank array system at this site that included 64 underground fuel storage tanks (25,000 gallon capacity each). The tank array system included roughly 8,000 linear feet of piping which connected all of the tanks to the truck fill stand located on Storis Drive and the fuel pier on the west side of the Nyman Peninsula. The USCG has no record of ever utilizing the AVGAS Hill tanks which were reportedly removed in the late 1970s by the DOD after the Navy turned over the facility to the USCG. Additional removal of piping and debris, including four previously excavated tanks and approximately 36 concrete valve boxes was performed in 1984. The tank excavations were backfilled and the site was regraded. The USCG conducted investigations at the site, and most recently in 2009 identified soil and groundwater contamination. Contaminants of concern include petroleum hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and chlorinated solvents. The revised INPR documents the DOD's determination that the contamination is present as a direct result of DOD use of the land. As of the date of the subject revised INPR and this action entry, both the responsible party and lead agency for this site have been revised from the USCG to the Corps. The USCG remains the landowner. Curtis Dunkin
4/19/2012 Site Visit ADEC conducted a site visit to access the site in lieu of the site being transferred back to the Department of Defense for FUDS-eligible remediation. The Army Corps will be conducting groundwater monitorin in 2012 and a UVOST SI in 2012 to determine the nature and extent of contamination. Curtis Dunkin
3/28/2018 Cleanup Plan Approved ADEC submitted a conditional approval of the USCG's responses to comments, including both the revised redline and final versions of the USCG's Jewel Beach Storm Sewer Outfall Replacement Project Environmental Management Plan (EMP) which is scheduled to be implemented in 2018. While ADEC approved the final EMP, ADEC's conditional approval requires the USCG' project team to address additional comments in the project's final site plan prior to implementing the EMP in the field. The primary contaminated site concerns involve the former Aircraft Maintenance Building 28 which is a FUDS where VOCs, PCBs, metals, and POL contaminants were confirmed present above applicable cleanup levels as a result of prior investigations. The focused 2017 site investigation of the Jewel Beach outfall project area that was conducted by the USCG confirmed the presence of low-level concentrations of several of the site COCs within the length of the proposed project excavations. Curtis Dunkin
9/25/2018 Site Visit ADEC's project manager for the Kodiak Army Navy FUDS traveled to Kodiak, AK and participated in two days of annual planning meetings and site inspections with project delivery team representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers, USCG, and Environmental Protection Agency. Curtis Dunkin
12/6/2018 CERCLA RI Report Approved ADEC received revised documents for the final 2016 Phase II Remedial Investigation Report from the Army Corps of Engineers; including revised figures, narratives, and data tables. The revisions were applied to the previously finalized report by the Army Corps after it was determined that significant misreporting and inaccurate documentation had occurred in association with numerous Phase II RI sample data sets. The revisions to the Phase II Report are dated November 2016 and were reviewed and accepted by ADEC in association with its concurrent review of the draft 2018 Phase III RI Work Plan. Curtis Dunkin
1/2/2019 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other ADEC reviewed the draft 2018 Phase III Remedial Investigation and Risk Assessment Work Plans and submitted comments to the Army Corps of Engineers. Work is scheduled to occur in the spring of 2019. Curtis Dunkin
3/11/2019 CERCLA RI Plan Approved ADEC participated in two resolution meetings on February 26 and 28, 2019 with representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), EPA, and the USCG to resolve comments and conduct technical planning for the draft 2018-19 Phase III RI Work Plan and addendum documents to the 2018 Phase II Report and draft Phase III Work Plan. ADEC approved the Corps' additional and revised responses to comments and submitted approval to finalize the work plan. Curtis Dunkin
3/13/2019 Meeting or Teleconference Held ADEC participated in a project prioritization and technical planning meeting with stakeholder representatives from the USCG, USACE, EPA, and their respective contracted technical support teams for the ongoing development and implementation of the 2019 Kodiak FUDS projects. Curtis Dunkin
7/10/2019 Meeting or Teleconference Held ADEC traveled to Seattle, WA and participated in two days of technical planning and project status update and prioritization meetings with representatives from the US Coast Guard, US Environmental Protection Agency, and their respective contracted technical support. Curtis Dunkin
8/20/2019 Site Visit ADEC traveled to Kodiak, AK to participate in two days of annual project delivery team meetings and conduct site inspections with representatives from EPA, USACE, USCG, and their respective technical contract support. Curtis Dunkin
8/22/2019 Site Visit ADEC traveled to the USCG Base Station, Kodiak and participated in two full days (August 21-22, 2019) of site inspections and technical project team meetings with representatives from the EPA, USCG, and their respective contracted technical support. Curtis Dunkin
4/15/2020 Meeting or Teleconference Held ADEC participated in a technical planning and project prioritization meeting via web/teleconference with project delivery team representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers, US Environmental Protection Agency RCRA, and the US Coast Guard. Curtis Dunkin
8/12/2020 Meeting or Teleconference Held ADEC participated in an annual planning meeting with representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers, the US Coast Guard, and the Environmental Protection Agency for the purpose of providing respective status updates on the site action prioritization and project implementation schedules for all six Kodiak Army Navy Formerly Used Defense Sites. Curtis Dunkin
9/16/2020 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other ADEC reviewed the draft July 2020 Kodiak AvGas Hill 2019 Phase III Remedial Investigation Report and submitted comments to the Army Corps of Engineers. Curtis Dunkin
3/4/2021 Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other ADEC reviewed the responses to comments on the draft 2020 Phase III Remedial Investigation Report and Risk Assessment and submitted review determinations, additional comments, and request for resolution to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Curtis Dunkin
5/13/2021 CERCLA RI Report Approved ADEC reviewed the additional responses to comments and issued an acceptance letter and approval to the Army Corps of Engineers to finalize the draft 2020 Phase III Remedial Investigation Report. Curtis Dunkin
8/5/2021 Site Visit ADEC participated in annual project delivery team meetings for the Kodiak Army/Navy Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) at the USCG Base Kodiak with representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers, USCG, EPA, and their respective contracted technical support representatives, and conducted site visits and inspections of the active FUDS on Base Kodiak. Curtis Dunkin
9/13/2022 Meeting or Teleconference Held ADEC participated in two full days of annual project delivery team meetings with representatives from the USCG, EPA, and their respective contracted technical support staff. Curtis Dunkin
10/25/2022 Site Visit DEC participated in the project delivery team meetings and site visits on Kodiak with USACE, USCG and EPA on October 25 & 26, 2022. The USCG Navy Landfill/Red Lk. Site 2, USCG Airport Staging Area, USCG Kodiak Drury Gulch Site 18, USCG Site 09 Avgas Tank Farm, and USCG MA6 DOT Building A-711 were visited to assess current conditions, land use controls in place, and feasibility of additional characterization (when needed) given terrain. Melinda Brunner

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