APPENDIX E SAMPLE FACT SHEETS AND NEWSLETTERS Poulsbo, WA 98370-7570 N.E. Avenue 19917 7th Navel FacilitiesEngineeringCommand Northwest Activity, Engineering Field Commanding Officer Tasks & Objectives The following is a partial list of tasks and objectives completed to facilitate base closure on Adak: • 1994, Naval Air Facility Adak put on National Priority List of Superfund sites identified for long-term cleanup action by the U.S. Fact Sheet Environmental Protection Agency. Navel Air Facility Adak • 1996, A Restoration Advisory Board was established as a citizen-based group to review documents and provide input for cleanup issues on Adak. The RAB has held public, monthly meetings. • Studies were conducted on contaminated sites on Adak relative to chemical and petroleum contamination. • Many removal actions have been undertaken. November 1999 • Three landfills have been closed and approximately 375 underground storage and field-constructed tank sites have been closed or removed. Above ground storage tanks at buildings not scheduled for reuse have been Naval Air Facility Adak closed. Record of Decision • More than 170,000 gallons of fuel have been recovered from 15 sites. on Operable Unit A • Nearly 400 outdated monitoring wells were closed. Naval Air Facility Adak Record of Decision on Operable Unit A The United States Navy announced on October military base. The investigation and review of data The ROD represents remedial decisions on 14, 1999 the signing of a Record of Decision that related to the ROD was completed by three agencies approximately 200 sites on the island. The studies formalizes chemical pursuant to a Federal Facilities Agreement for closure and investigation and cleanup activities have cost and petroleum of the Adak military base: the United States Navy; the approximately $160 million to date. cleanup at the former United States Environmental Protection Agency The Navy signed the ROD because it believes Naval Air Facility on Region X; and the Alaska Department of the document provides a comprehensive framework Adak Island. Environmental Conservation. The agencies applied for protection of human health and the environment The Record of federal standards defined by the Comprehensive from chemical and petroleum contamination. It is also Decision (ROD) for Environmental Response Compensation and Liability a step toward fostering community and economic what is referred to as Act of 1980 (CERCLA) as the framework for the development on the island. "Operable Unit A" is a remediation decisions made on Adak. CERCLA is The final Record of Decision reflects significant road map to formalize sometimes referred to as the Superfund Law. Naval actions based on input from the citizen-based petroleum and Air Facility Adak was put on the National Priority List Restoration Advisory Board members and other chemical remediation in specific areas on the former of Superfund sites identified for long-term cleanup stakeholders. Examples of actions based on this action in 1994. input include: removing ordnance issues from the Record of Decision and establishing a separate OU-A Record of Decision Though the Navy is the first of these agencies to sign the ROD, the process leading to the decision has Operable Unit B to address remediation of The Record of Decision for OU-A formalizes been a cooperative effort between all three parties. unexploded ordnance and explosives; removing remediation procedures such as: The Navy holds responsibility for cleanup and closure, sediments with very low-levels of contamination from • Digging out, treating and disposing of while the EPA and ADEC have federal and state Sweeper Creek on Adak, and adding long-term contaminated surface soils and sediments; regulatory oversight. biological monitoring. • Covering solid waste sites; • Initiating institutional controls where exposure to hazardous substances may occur; Where to Get More Information • Monitoring groundwater for chemicals of concern; INFOLINE: 1-800-360-1561 • Monitoring aquatic life for exposure to PCBs; University of Alaska Anchorage, NAS Adak, Adak Island, Alaska, Administrative Record • Monitoring naturally-occurring, biological Library Reserve Room, Bob Reeves High School Engineering Field Activity NW breakdown of contaminants; 3211 Providence Dr. M-F, 8 am to 5 pm, 19917 Seventh Ave., NW • Removal of oil and other contaminants. M-F, 8 am to 5 pm, Contact: Librarian Contact: Lt. Commander Ted Posuniak Poulsbo, WA 98370 907-786-1871 907-592-8170 February 2000 Fact Sheet Naval Air Facility Adak Background on Free Phase Product Recovery Sites on Adak One of the primary tasks To follow is a brief history of Tanker Shed was installed in associated with clean up of the environmental mitigation and January 1998. The system con- Operable Unit A on Adak recovery work at these sites. sists of 10 skimmers that use Island is the recovery of free compressed air. These were phase petroleum from a installed in 16 recovery wells. To variety of locations. ACTIVE RECOVERY date, the wells have recovered SITES about 396 gallons of product, with There are five active recovery the amount of recovered product sites and two sites proposed for Tanker Shed steadily declining from a maxi- additional recovery of free phase (UST 42494) mum of 70 gallons in March 1998 product. to less than two gallons per The term "free phase product" History month since 1999. refers to raw petroleum that has The Tanker Shed on Adak was not been mixed with groundwa- built in the 1960s and used to ter. perform maintenance on tanker Yakutat Hangar, The Navy has proposed to transport trucks and for aircraft (UST T-2039-A) the Environmental Protection fueling. In 1985 an underground Agency and the Alaska storage tank was put in to collect History Department of Environmental oil generated during vehicle main- Building T-2039, the main Conservation that there be a tenance and to collect fluids from hangar at the Yakutat complex, transition from active pumping at an oil/water separator system. was built in the 1940s as an air- some sites on Adak to a period A sheen and petroleum hydro- plane hangar. A car repair garage of monitoring. carbon odor were observed when was also constructed at the site. The monitoring of sites the tank was removed in 1995. In the late 1970s the hangar was would be accompanied by natu- Though there is no record of a converted to an additional auto- ral attenuation –or a decrease spill or release associated with motive repair and hobby shop in of remaining petroleum over this underground storage tank, the late 1970s. Three under- time. the most likely source of the free ground storage tanks (USTs) To date, approximately phase product is from overfilling were installed there between $________ has been spent to the tank or from leaking pipes. 1979 and 1981 and an above address possible impacts from ground storage tank replaced one petroleum on Adak Island. There What has been done to clean of the underground tanks at an is no evidence of migration of up the site and protect the unknown later date. free phase product in the past 11 environment? Between 1993 and 1995, years of monitoring. A recovery system at the three underground tanks at this Where to Get More Information INFOLINE: 1-800-360-1561 University of Alaska Anchorage, NAS Adak, Adak Island, Alaska, Administrative Record Library Reserve Room, Bob Reeve High School Engineering Field Activity NW 3211 Providence Dr. M-F, 8 am to 5 pm, 19917 Seventh Ave., NW M-F, 8 am to 5 pm, Contact: Librarian Contact: Lt. Commander Ted Posuniak Poulsbo, WA 98370 907-786-1871 907-592-8170 Free product recovery sites on Adak. site were removed. In 1993 a Area South of Runway What has been done to clean hydrocarbon sheen was 18-36 up the site and protect the observed on the groundwater environment? entering one of the tank excava- History Approximately 20 wells were tions. The land that makes up the installed in this area. Petroleum Oily water was collected in the South Runway area has been was measured on top of the remaining two excavations in extensively changed since the groundwater in several wells. 1995. An investigation found the military first occupied Adak dur- For the past several years, source of the free phase product ing World War II. This area was skimming devices collected the to be underground leaks. part of a back-beach lagoon product entering these wells. prior to occupation and was rap- In mid-1998, an automated What has been done to clean idly converted to a military product recovery system was up the site and protect the airstrip, fuel-receipt and distribu- installed in the monitoring wells environment? tion center, and military housing where measurements of free The system used for petroleum area to support the War. product were the highest. recovery at Yakutat hangar was An abandoned fuel line near Although from September installed in February 1997. This the end of the Southeast corner 1998 to August 1999 the skim- system has recovered approxi- of Runway 18-36 was uncovered ming system was not in opera- mately 681 gallons of fuel. The in 1990 during the installation of tion, in September 1999 the quantity of free product recovered a new fuel line near the main active recovery system was put here has declined over time, from road. Free product was first back on line. a maximum of 260 gallons in observed in the excavated To date, 39 gallons of petro- March 1997, to typically less than trench and is belived to have leum have been recovered at a five gallons per month since come from the abandoned fuel rate of less than five gallons per September 1998. line. month. Power Plant No. 3 What has been done to clean in 1986 and 1987, respectively. (Solid Waste Management up the site and protect the Turnkey Housing Units were built Unit 17 – SWMU 17) environment? in 1972.