Former Pelican Seafood Processing Facility

Site Narrative

• Requested by City of Pelican

The Pelican Seafood Processing Facility was constructed between 1938 and 1941 and operational by 1942. It operated until approximately 2008, when it was reportedly abandoned. In 2009, a significant disruption to the facilities water service occurred requiring the anhydrous ammonia that was used for the facilities refrigeration system to be consolidated into system receiver tanks. The community would like to revitalize the seafood processing plant so it can once again provide services and jobs to the community.

In FFY 2011, the city of Pelican was awarded a Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA) service to conduct a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment on the site. The Phase I identified several potential issues with the site including the stored anhydrous ammonia, PCB transformers, aboveground storage tanks, facility discharge pipes, peeling paints, potential asbestos containing materials, stored drums, and various other wastes. In SFY 2015 the city of Pelican was awarded a DBAC to draft an Environmental Management Plan including a Potentially Hazardous Materials inventory, a Hazardous Building Materials Survey of the crab plant building, soil assessment and remediation strategy plans, as well as rough order magnitude cost estimates for the proposed plans. The Hazardous Building Materials Survey report indicated that the crab plant contains asbestos containing materials, lead containing materials, possible PCB containing materials, mercury containing materials, and other potentially hazardous materials such as refrigerants, smoke alarms with radioactive components, and industrial and household chemicals.

Project Documents

Targeted Brownfields Assessment Phase 1 ESA 2011 (PDF)

Environmental Management Plan 2015