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Preliminary Assessment, East Street, Manuafactured Gas I LE 7012 I I I I I PRELIMINARY AS3ESSISITT I EAST STREET I MANUFACTURED GAS' PLANT SITE I I I I Wallace E. Hertel P. P.O. Box 4?5 I Lee, Mass. 01238 I I September 1986 I I I I PGE0003S~430 Executive Summary; I This report is a historic record of events at the Com- panys formerly owned manufacture gas plant on East Street, I Pittsfield and taken from the Company's records and public sources of information such as Registry of Deeds, library and Public Works Department's records and prepared at the request I of Company management. The Company's predecessor operated a gas manufacturing I and gas storage plant at this site from 1903 to the advent of natural gas to the Kew England area in 1953- The gas plant pro- I duced coal and oil tars that were either reused in the gas process or sold offsite. Accurate plant records show the end I use of tars produced and at the termination of manufacturing coal and oil gas these products had either been used under plant boilers or sold off site. In the production of manufactured gas I other residuals were produced such as iron oxide chips, heavy sludges and cinders. Most of these materials were deposited in I the area of the river Ox Bow. From manufactured gas production the quantities of these other waste products are estimated in I the report. In the late 1960's the Company decided to move its gas production plant (LP-Air Gas) to Commercial Street, Pittsfield I and the remainder of its operations to its present Headquarters Building and put the property up for sale. To prepare the land I for sale the Company demolished its gas manufacturing plant and gas storage facilities. In the demolition of these gas manufac- I turing facilities the majority of the waste sludges and tars re- maining in this equipment was hauled off site to the City of I Pittsfield's land fill. The location of remaining demolition wastes are shown in the report. In the mid 1960*s General Electric experienced an apparent I large release of waste transformer oils containing PCB's which leached southward across the railroad tracks and toward the I Housatonic River crossing the Companys plant site. This migration of waste oils apparently occurred in large quantities being driven I by ground water flow and the highly porous soils in the area. During the 1960*s General Electric extended a storm drain to the I river and blocked the west end of the "Ox-Bow" and started to fill in the old river bed with industrial wastes right onto Company I land on the other side of the old river bed. Both of the incidents I PGE00038431 resulted in the Company site receiving offsite wastes which co- mingled with manufactured gas wastes. In 19?0 and 1973 the Company sold the entire site to General Electric.After General Electric purchased the site it immediately started the installation of ground water enviorn- mental clean up equipment which eventually the entire plant site was dedicated to and still is to the present day. Interestingly General Electric purchased ^ or 5 more sites on Last Street and near the gas plant site for clean up of migrating transformer oils. General Electric's program and clean up effort on the site is apparently directed at ground water treatment. Since General Electric purchased the site they have never requested any infor- mation or assistance regarding manufactured gas wastes on the site. The only major communication General Electric had with the Company was in a meeting held in the early part of 1986 to inform the Company that the Massachusetts D.E.Q.E. had requested testing ground water phases at the site for manufactured gas wastes. Several months later General Electric forwarded these test results to the Company with no comments. The test results did indicate the presence of manufactured gas wastes in the ground water phase at the site. In retrospect it seems apparent that General Electric purchased the manufactured gas site and took on the task to clean up the ground water to maintain complete control and limit its liability of migrating waste oils containing PCB • s. The Company management could take the position that the manufactured gas wastes at the site are General Electric's problem. This is not so, as both state and federal regulations make both the present land owner and the original generator or transporter of the waste liable for any release of wastes. The thrust of recent pending federal legislation is to force more of the clean up costs if not all to owners, transporters and original generators. The bottom line is that Company management must decide either to proceed on a program to control its enviornmental liability as pertains to this site as suggested in the report summary, or take the position of not acting and the possibility of a "release" of hazardous manufactured waste at the site occurring which could expose the Company to heavy fines, jail sentences, legal costs, ligation from present owners and a poor public relations image. PGE00038432 I OABIZ OF COIJT~i;T3 I Chaoter 1 - Introduction 1.0 Purpose of :'eport 1-1 f 1.1 Methodology of Assessment 1-1 _ 1.2 Site 3ata Aquisitisn 1-1 Cha/^tsr 2 — Chronological History-' of vrrts • ?.0 Chror_olo~ical History of _vents £.t ~£3 ..ar.ufr.c- I I I Y.?.cs:Tt .•p,n'r 3-2 I ~'i— j"tora.~f: ?~.rccl 3-5 | 7.7 roseiiblo A~v~rG" ?0£3os"ior. 3-7 I ;•; I " I ^ "ther • Chary C 1 r 1 T 1 * , 1 "Jj^-T Jll' " ""-^ ~T\ ~ '^ro"^_- .'i - rm", i —--.'^^ ^ i i:; ™ii^--usf—— -^lolitior. 01" 'J-as Ilolrcr I'o. 1 • r. -I- L"" iori c:71 -?r?-S :Jtora~e rlol^cr^ I'o. ".5 "eniolitioii of Tar I PGE00038433 I I 5.6 Demolition of Tar Processing ""quipmsr-t 5.7 Demolition of Purifiers I 5.3 Demolition of Valve House -3 I 5.9 Underground. Plant Piling -3 5.10 Demolition of Gas .lanufacturins: ".qui^^cnt I 5.11 jurrriary of Demolition Deposits Chapter 6 - ?or)0:?rar>hic ?.nd Soil •"hg.r".ctrr_i-'rtlc?, I - - ar*u. f a c t ur s d 3- a s 3 i t ^ 6.1 original Topography of th« Lan/' I 6.-'. ..-. ~. Jonss Crradins and. Lanr" '::ch«m 6-1 I 6.3 Ghanneli-a.tion of the Housatonic ?.iv 6-1 i'illinf? of "0:;-3o"; " 6-2 I 6.5 Soil Characteristics £-2 6.6 6-3 I 7 ~ I 7.1 I.anufacturcd 3as :JitG3 I ?•' oits "'Iiaracteristics i 7-3 -ter^ry of ^isl: "an!:in~ 7-" ?.•'-;• 7-5 i 7.5 Potential ."aste ."lisVs 7-6 7.6 Tars and oludgs (I'.ui) 7-6 i 7.7 Spent '.-xit'c 7-7 i 7.3 A oh :;F.t->rial 7-7 7.9 Public Opinion 7-7 i Chapter 3 - Other Industrial ""3.51? at ^itc- i l-i-'^ration of Tr^nsforir.-^r '."ils 8.3 Chan-"r8 in Ground T9t?-r !Lsvr.Is i ii PGE00038434 I I Pa-te I 9.0 Sunr.ary "-1 I Lis_t of ".'^hlbits iv-v I i-s-tin-s ::-3t?s - ..-rch 1, 1-35 bet- I •:. .-o-;£-ro-~2.11i-r arr: I.. j»-.'cll o: 3cnC3T3."!. I';C"L|""V''^ "O"''""'.m'.,' -r-yir"! '.' ^- TT I I I I I I I I I I ill I PGE00038435 • LIST :•? EXHIBITS • Zxhibit ?a I Table .2-1; Su'freste.d Priority Rar.vin<r Scher.e • for Unsxplors^ Gas Plant Sites I- II Part of Plate 6, Atlas of Berkshire County Massachusetts, Prepare1 by Harnss £ T^raha"1. I "ngineers, 190^ 7- Ila Possible Adverse Possession Plar. ~- — • III "xoava.tion for fcu.r/'ation for R.H. Tresle looking .'est '•.- | IV Starting —alls for Generator anr Purifier BuiL-'ir.-s looking; fest at T. Gauther resic'-r.ee "- V Loo".:ir.-'s rest 2.71. tr-.sle ^ounr!atior. co:r."lete': I ir. f or e ~r curie". , ."alls or. Purifier House ur< v ntor;^, Gas Retort 3Ic^. cornpleter! to ?nrn story 2- VI Looking i'orth from South Side of "~ast Street- Gas ."ietort 21c~. and Purifier 31c!:2; reacljA for — roof " • VII Steel base plat? for I'o. 1 Gas Hol-'er be ins; installer. 2-? I VIII Coal Gas 7:5tort Benches 2-10 I T -^ . ;"'•'"• ~\ ™•? •"-! ^ 1 - ;s -f~ T.y 'Lr'3 S ~~ 1 O 0"* "'T "b1'" O "'"* ^ " ^ ^ ^ ^ ^~ * "• *^ " I XI Int-ri~r Bettor o^ Purifier?: -ith Ir-?:- "-ci-? I •' T T G ° ^" "-r Q T ^ '* Y* ".' »» ir ii - "•'.c 0 ' I "ots original Valve Mouse --III ~_levatcrr? to han-r'le e:'i:.e chins an: coal, I Paver7 yar'" outside Purifier House XIV I>•',-,' Valve House - Constructed in 192- -"/ I'.c-v _il Gas Generator Mouse (Slr.,^. on ri^ht) _ Conrror^ncr r'oon (center 31^-2;.) Jl'"1 Tater Gas • House later joilsr -loom (Bid..-;. Left Jlsar) • abouri "n ."sit Th pos-. -v nt a -hly." 1 n9 c e: VI Gil Gas Purifi-rs I 2.V I PGE00038436 LIST 0? EXHIBITS ( Cont'd) '-chibit ?s-ft XVII 310,000 gal. Steel 111 Gas Tan1: 2-19 XVIII "City of Pitt-fielc, Plan of Last Branch o-~ Housatonic River for floor; Control r'at^7 Ccto-ber 1933, revised April 23, 1?-Q" 5-1? I XIX Berkshire Gas Company — ounnary of Manufacture ' Gas "s Residuals Producer at "ast Street Plant Site, Fittsfiel'S Lass.
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