| Action Date |
Action |
Description |
DEC Staff |
| 8/7/1990 |
Notice of Violation |
Request for corrective action received on 8/21/90 by Richard Birch's mother. States Richard Birch is the responsible party. |
Former Staff |
| 4/17/1991 |
Interim Removal Action Approved |
(Old R:Base Action Code = REM - Removal / Excavation). NW Enviroservices used sorbet pads to recover any pooled waste oil. Over packed waste oil drums on-site. Letter sent to Mr. Richard Birch by ADEC stating work and cost of securing the wastes to date. A total of 13 barrels were found. No PCBs detected in waste oil samples. Total halogens detected at 457 to 819 ppm. One drum contained diesel and another a soap. |
Former Staff |
| 7/1/1991 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = RAPR - Remedial Action Plan Review (CS)). DEC's contractor is scheduled to collect these drums and drums from other sites for disposal sometime in the near future. |
Former Staff |
| 7/25/1991 |
Site Ranked Using the AHRM |
Initial ranking. |
Former Staff |
| 1/1/1992 |
Site Added to Database |
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Former Staff |
| 5/4/1992 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = CORR - Correspondence (General)). Bid packages for the removal of the drums at this site were mailed to Burlington Environmental, Northwest Enviro Services and Alaska Pollution Control, Inc. |
Former Staff |
| 5/26/1992 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = MS - Monitoring/Sampling). Composite sample taken of two drums containing high halogens. |
Former Staff |
| 6/12/1992 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = CORR - Correspondence (General)). Second Bid Request sent to Northwest Enviroservice Inc., Alaska Pollution Control, and Burlington Environmental with additional information that will allow them to change any bid preparation already done as a result of first request sent out. |
Former Staff |
| 6/30/1992 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = RAU - Remedial Actions Underway (General)). Fourteen drums picked up for disposal by Alaska Pollution Control. |
Former Staff |
| 12/21/1992 |
Site Ranked Using the AHRM |
Site re-ranked. Recreation Area and Surface Water Exposure Index Values changed from site managers form. |
Former Staff |
| 6/1/1994 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = RECN - Site Reconnaissance (CS)). Site reconnaissance. |
Gary Folley |
| 6/15/1994 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = RARR - Remedial Action Report Review (CS)). Reviewed remedial action report. |
Gary Folley |
| 6/30/1994 |
Site Characterization Report Approved |
(Old R:Base Action Code = SA2R - Phase II SA Review (CS)). Reviewed phase 2 site assessment. |
Gary Folley |
| 1/17/2002 |
Site Number Identifier Changed |
Changed Workplan from 01 to 09 due to presence of halogens above cleanup levels. |
Former Staff |
| 4/14/2004 |
Update or Other Action |
File number assigned and entered into the Fileroom DB and CS DB. |
Alyce Hughey |
| 4/29/2004 |
Update or Other Action |
Joanne Rogers (KPB) called regarding the status of the site. KPB is looking to foreclose on the property. Advised that aprox. 12 drums were removed from the site, however, some contaminated soil associated with the drums leaking may remain. KPB staff will be coming over to review file. |
Don Fritz |
| 8/2/2004 |
Update or Other Action |
Sent a letter to the RP which responded to a verbal request from him to release the lien filed against his property by the department in 1993. RP wanted lien released, so that he could work with the Kenai Peninsula Borough who is foreclosing on his property due to his failure to pay past property taxes. The lien was filed due to spill response costs incurred by the department in responding to a release of waste oil. Teh letter told the RP that we would be willing to release the lien, but he needed to post a bond to conduct further assessment work needed at the site. |
Don Fritz |
| 8/3/2004 |
Update or Other Action |
Met with Joanne Rodgers (KPB) regarding property foreclosure. Joanne advised that Mr. Birch had until August 9th to pay back taxes. I provided her with a copy of our August 2nd letter. Obtained aerial view of related properties, it appears that the drums were stored on lot 2D, which Mr. Birch sold back in 1986. |
Don Fritz |
| 9/21/2005 |
GIS Position Updated |
Using Figure A18 from an ADEC Site Inventory Kenai Peninsula, from Harding Lawson Associates, dated December 1988, 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 |
| 2/27/2008 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
Initial ranking with ETM completed. |
Paul Horwath |
| 2/13/2012 |
Update or Other Action |
This site cannot be closed without assessment work and reporting performed by a qualified consultant, identifying the current soil contaminant concentrations. Since this site remains open in ADEC's contaminated sites program database, it is possible that assessment work could occur in association with a future land transaction. However property ownership has been transferred since 1991, and ADEC received no further soil sampling and assessment report. |
Paul Horwath |
| 6/30/2015 |
Update or Other Action |
Updated delayed workload priority factor added to workload prioritization tab of ADEC's database. No viable RP. Drums are gone. No assessment work was ever completed, other than that performed under emergency response by ADEC's spill response program back in the early 1990s. |
Paul Horwath |
| 10/23/2020 |
Update or Other Action |
Site status changed to non-qualifying. Review of the file indicates that although there was soil staining, the substance that made the staining is unknown. There was never any environmental samples completed, only analytical results from the drum contents. Drums contained various contents from water to petroleum to sludge, but it is unclear what drums leaked and which were in good condition. |
Kara Kusche |
