Namgis ESA Phase 1

‘Namgis First Nation Update of 2011 Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) Alert Bay I.R. No. 1 Alert Bay I.R. No. 1A Nimpkish I.R. No. 2 Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment Ches-la-Kee I.R. No. 3 Ar-Cee-Wy-Ee I.R. No. 4 Osaw-Las I.R. No. 5 Ksui-La-Das I.R. No. 6 Kuldekduma I.R. No. 7 Prepared for: ‘Namgis First Nation, Alert Bay, BC Prepared by: BC Ecosphere Management Ltd., Vancouver, BC April 30, 2017 ‘Namgis First Nation Phase I Environmental Site Assessment ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ACRONYMS & ABREVIATIONS APEC Area of Potential Environmental Concern AST Aboveground Storage Tank BCAWQGAW BC Approved Water Quality Guidelines BCWWQG British Columbia Working Water Quality Guidelines BCWWQG BC British Columbia BC MOE British Columbia Ministry of Environment CALA Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation CCME Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment CEAA Canadian Environmental Assessment Act CEPA Canadian Environmental Protection Act CEQG Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines CMHC Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation CSA Canadian Standards Association CSR Contaminated Sites Regulation CWS Canada Wide Standards EMA Environmental Management Act EPH Extractable petroleum hydrocarbons ESA Environmental Site Assessment FCSI Federal contaminated Sites Inventory F1 Fraction 1 (also F2, F3 and F4) HEPH Heavy Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons HWR Hazardous Waste Regulation INAC Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada LEPH Light Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons m Metres NCSCS National Classification System for Contaminated Sites NRCAN Natural Resources Canada PAH Polycyclic (or Polynuclear) aromatic hydrocarbons PCB Polychlorinated biphenyls PCOP Potential Contaminant of Concern COPC Contaminant of Potential Concern UST Underground Storage Tank TDGA Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act NFN ‘Namgis First Nation UTM Universal Transverse Mercator ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BC Ecosphere Management vi ‘Namgis First Nation Phase I Environmental Site Assessment ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Acknowledgements Acronyms & Abbreviations 1.0 INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1.2 Project Background ……………………………………………………………………………………… 1 1.3 Scope Of Work ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 1 1.3.1 Phase I ESA: Ches-la-Kee I.R. No. 3, Ar-Cee-Wy-Ee, I.R. No. 4, Osaw-Las I.R. No. 5, Ksui-La-Das I.R. No. 6 and Kuldekduma I.R. No. 7……………………………………………. 2 1.3.2 Update to 2011 Phase I ESA: Alert Bay I.R. No. 1, Alert Bay I.R. No. 1A and Nimpkish I.R. No. 2 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 2.0 SITE DESCRIPTION………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2.1 General Description ……………………………………………………………………………………… 4 2.2 Physical Setting ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 7 3.0 REGULATORY CONTEXT ………………………………………………………………………………… 11 4.0 RECORDS REVIEW 4.1 Historical Land Use……………………………………………………………………………………… 13 4.2 Village of Alert Bay Information……………….…………………………………………………… 14 4.3 Street Directory Search………………………………………………………………………………… 17 4.4 Historical Aerial Photograph Review……………………………………………………………… 17 4.5 Historic Land Title Search……………………………………………………………………………… 18 4.6 BC Ministry of Environment (MoE) Records…………………………………………………… 18 4.7 First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) Records…………………………………………….. 19 4.8 Environment Canada Records……………………………………………………………………….. 19 4.0 National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) ………………………………………………… 18 4.10 Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory (FCSI) ………………………………………………… 20 4.11 Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) Reports………………………………… 20 4.12 ‘Namgis First Nation Records…………………………………………………………………………. 34 4.13 Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN) ……………………………………………………………… 34 4.14 City Directories/Fire Insurance Maps………………………………...…………………………… 34 4.15 Site Services and Utilities………………………………………………………………………………. 34 4.16 Nature and History of Adjacent Land Use………………………………………………………. 35 5.0 INTERVIEW SUMMARY……………………………………………………………………………………. 37 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BC Ecosphere Management vii ‘Namgis First Nation Phase I Environmental Site Assessment ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6.0 SITE RECONNAISSANCE ……………………………………………………………………………………. 38 7.0 PHASE 1 ESA: CHES-LA-KEE I.R. NO. 3, AR-CEE-WY-EE I.R. NO. 4, OSAW-LAS I.R. NO. 5, KSUI-LA-DAS I.R. NO. 6 & KULDEKDUMA I.R. NO. 7 - SUMMARY OF AREAS OF POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS ………………………………………………… 42 8.0 UPDATED PHASE 1 ESA: ALERT BAY NO. 1, ALERT BAY I.R. NO. 1A AND NIMPKISH I.R. NO. 2 - SUMMARY OF FINDINGS .……….……………………………………… 42 8.1 Status Of 2011 Phase I ESA Areas Of Potential Environmental Concern (APEC)… 43 8.2 New (2017) Areas of Potential Environmental Concern …………………………………… 45 9.0 RECOMMENDATIONS……………………………………………………………………………………….. 49 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 Location of ‘Namgis First Nation Reserves Figure 2 ‘Namgis First Nation’s Cormorant Island Reserves Figure 3 ‘Namgis First Nation’s Nimpkish River Reserves Figure 4 Ksui-La-Das I.R. No. 6 and Kuldekduma I.R. No. 7 Figure 5 Summary of Phase I ESA Findings APECs Figure 6 Summary of Phase I ESA Findings AECs LIST OF APPENDICES Appendix A Climatic Data: Alert Bay Appendix B Water Wells Appendix C Aerial Photographs Appendix D Contaminated Site Registry Records Alert Bay Post 2011 Appendix E Report of BC Ministry of Environment’s Ecocat: The Ecological Reports Catalogue Appendix F National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) Appendix G: Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory (FCSI) Appendix H Photographs Appendix I Updated Phase I ESA (2011) Areas of Potential Environmental Concern (APECs) & Areas of Environmental Concern (AECs) Phase I ESA (2017) New Areas of Potential Environmental Concern Appendix J Kuterra Aquaculture Environmental Report Please note: Directions provided in this report reflect a “True North” rather than magnetic north. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BC Ecosphere Management viii ‘Namgis First Nation Phase I Environmental Site Assessment ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 ProJect Background BC Ecosphere Management Ltd. (BC Ecosphere) was retained by the ‘Namgis First Nation (NFN) and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada to (i) update the 2011 Phase I ESA completed by Stantec in 2011 for Alert Bay I.R. No. 1, Alert Bay I.R. No. 1A, Nimpkish I.R. No. 2, and (ii) conduct a Phase I ESA of Ches-la-Kee I.R. No. 3 Ar-Cee-Wy-Ee, I.R. No. 4, Osaw-Las I.R. No. 5, Ksui-La-Das I.R. No. 6 and Kuldekduma I.R. No. 7. The objective of the Phase 1 ESA was to establish the environmental condition of these Reserve lands and specifically to identify areas of potential or known contamination that may represent a risk or liability to ‘Namgis First Nation. This Phase I ESA does not include the 12-acre parcel of land set aside by INAC as a home for people from surrounding Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations. The general area and location of the ‘Namgis First Nation Reserves are presented in Figure 1. Under the FNLMA agreement process, Canada has undertaken to identify the environmental condition of NFN reserve lands. The first step in identifying if any contamination may be present on NFN lands is to conduct a Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment (Phase 1 ESA). The following report documents investigation methodologies and presents the results of an Update to a 2011 Phase 1 ESA for Alert Bay I.R. No. 1, Alert Bay I.R. No. 1A, Nimpkish I.R. No. 2 and a Phase I ESA for Ches-la- Kee I.R. No. 3 Ar-Cee-Wy-Ee, I.R. No. 4, Osaw-Las I.R. No. 5, Ksui-La-Das I.R. No. 6 and Kuldekduma I.R. No. 7. An open house to solicit potential environmental concerns was initially scheduled for January 20, 2017 but was re-scheduled and occurred on February 9, 2017. Site inspections on Nimpkish River Reserves was conducted on December 14 and 15, 2016 and Alert Bay I.R. No. 1, Alert Bay I.R. No. 1A and Nimpkish I.R. No. 2 on January 19 and 20, 2017. 1.2 Project Objective The objective of the Phase 1 ESA was to identify past and present land use that may have resulted in the contamination of ‘Namgis First Nation lands and which may require further investigation, remediation and/or risk management in accordance with applicable Federal contaminated sites management regimes. The object of the Updated Phase I ESA was to identify land uses that have occurred since 2011 that may have resulted in the contamination of ‘Namgis First Nation lands and which may require further investigation, remediation and/or risk management in accordance with applicable Federal contaminated sites management regimes. 1.3 Scope of Work The scope of work was based on a BC Ecosphere proposal dated October 10, 2016 in response to a request for proposal/statement of work received from INAC on behalf of ‘Namgis First Nation. Investigation methodologies used during the environmental assessment were generally based on guidance by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Phase 1 Environmental Site ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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