AFCEE IRP MONTHLY SUMMARY
For
MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY RESERVATION
December 2002
1.0 TREATMENT SYSTEMS
Ashumet Valley Axial System – Operations and
Maintenance
- The AVA treatment facility operated at an average flow rate of 1185
gallons per minute (gpm).
Chemical Spill-4 System – Operations and
Maintenance
- The CS-4 treatment facility operated at an average flow rate of 110
gpm.
Chemical Spill-10 In-Plume System – Operations and
Maintenance
- The CS-10 In-Plume treatment facility operated at an average flow
rate of 2757 gpm.
CS-10/ SD-5 Sandwich Road ETR System – Operations
and Maintenance
- The Sandwich Road treatment facility operated at an average flow
rate of 1104 gpm.
Coonamessett Wellhead Treatment System – Operations
and Maintenance
- The wellhead operated at an average flow rate of 595 gpm.
Fuel Spill-1 System – Operations and Maintenance
- Checked the remaining treatment facility equipment daily and work is
underway to dismantle the remaining equipment.
Fuel Spill-12 ETR System – Operations and
Maintenance
- The extraction, treatment and reinjection (ETR) system operated at
an average flow of 617 gpm.
Fuel Spill-28 Time Critical Treatment System/Coonamessett
Bog
- The FS-28 treatment system operated at an average flow rate of 693
gpm.
Fuel Spill-28 Treatment System Upgrade
- Continued construction upgrades to the FS-28 treatment building and
pump house.
Landfill-1 System - Operations and Maintenance
- The LF-1 treatment facility operated at an average flow rate of 698
gpm.
2.0 STUDIES AND INVESTIGATIONS
Ashumet and Johns Ponds Risk Management
- Preparing the Ashumet and Johns Ponds Risk Management Monitoring
Results – November 2002.
Bourne Upgradient Groundwater Monitoring
- Completed the December monthly sampling event.
- Submitted the Bourne Upgradient Groundwater Monitoring November
2002 Monthly Results.
Chemical Spill-4, Chemical Spill-20, Chemical
Spill-21, and Fuel Spill-29 Pre-Design Investigations and Wellfield
Design
- Completed interpretation of data from the CS-21 and FS-29 plumes.
- Conducted a public informational meeting in Hatchville to discuss
future construction activities in the area.
- Began interpretation of hydraulic data collected from the aquifer
test and began improvements to the groundwater model so it can
replicate observed aquifer response.
Chemical Spill-8 Coast Guard Abandoned Radio Cabinet
Area Site Investigation
- Excavated 20 yards of soil potentially impacted by polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCB).
- Completed post-excavation soil sampling.
Chemical Spill-10 Remedial Investigation/Feasibility
Study
- Updating the numerical groundwater model with the latest
trichloroethene (TCE) concentrations.
Chemical Spill-18 Engineering Evaluation/Cost
Analysis (EE/CA)
- Preparing the letter report on the results of the September 2002
soil sampling.
Chemical Spill-19 Remedial Investigation/Feasibility
Study
- Feasibility study is temporarily on hold pending completion of
comment resolution on the Draft Final Chemical Spill-19 Remedial
Investigation Report.
Chemical Spill-19 Supplemental Remedial Investigation
- Preparing a project note work plan documenting the proposed drilling
and sampling of an additional monitoring well cluster west of the
CS-19 site.
Chemical Spill-23 Investigation
- Began site restoration activities.
Eastern Briarwood and Western Aquafarm Feasibility
Study, Proposed Plan, and Record of Decision
Landfill-1 Feasibility Study
- Preparing the LF-1 Feasibility Study.
3.0 SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND ECOLOGICAL IMPACT MONITORING
Ashumet Valley SPEIM
- Preparing the Final Ashumet Valley Axial 2001 Annual System
Performance and Ecological Impact Monitoring Report.
Chemical Spill-10 SPEIM
- Completed the monthly direct impact monitoring for the CS-10
treatment system.
Submitted the Draft Combined Storm Drain-5 and
Chemical Spill-10 2002 Annual System Performance and Ecological Impact
Monitoring Report and presented recommendations and
conclusions and the first quarter results at a weekly technical update
meeting.
- Began site access approval process to complete a groundwater
screening boring near the eastern portion of the CS-10 In-Plume
southern infiltration trench.
Eastern Briarwood and Western Aquafarm Monitoring
Program
- Completed responses to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency comments
on the Eastern Briarwood and Western Aquafarm Groundwater Monitoring
Program Semiannual Letter Report – June 2002 Results.
Fuel Spill-1 SPEIM
- Submitted the Draft Fuel Spill-1 2002 Annual System Performance
and Ecological Impact Monitoring Report.
- Continued hourly temperature and dissolved oxygen measurements.
- Completed quarterly groundwater and surface water monitoring.
- Completed monthly water level monitoring of piezometers 36PZ44235
(vernal pool south of EW7), 36PZ4236 (wetland north of Grafton Pocknet
Road), and 36PZ4237 (wetland east of K1 bog).
Fuel Spill-12 SPEIM
- Presented the Fuel Spill-12 Third Quarter Data Transmittal at a
weekly technical update meeting.
- Completed the continuous and manual monitoring of water levels for
the FS-12 plant shutdown.
- Completed semiannual chemical monitoring of the FS-12 SPEIM network.
- Completed synoptic measurements of the FS-12 SPEIM peripheral
hydraulic network.
- Began deployment of diffusion samplers in four extraction wells.
Fuel Spill-28 SPEIM
- Completed the monthly groundwater elevation monitoring and
Coonamessett Water Supply Well monitoring.
- Continued hourly temperature and dissolved oxygen measurements.
- Submitted the Data Transmittal of Monthly Monitoring Analytical
Results Coonamessett Wellhead Treatment – November 2002.
Landfill-1 SPEIM
- Preparing the Draft Landfill-1 2002 Annual System Performance and
Ecological Impact Monitoring Report.
Storm Drain-5 SPEIM
- Completed the monthly direct impact monitoring for the SD-5
treatment systems.
- Submitted the Draft Combined Storm Drain-5 and Chemical Spill-10
2002 Annual System Performance and Ecological Impact Monitoring Report.
- Presented recommendations and conclusions from the Draft Combined
Storm Drain-5 and Chemical Spill-10 2002 Annual System Performance and
Ecological Impact Monitoring Report at a weekly technical update
meeting.
- Presented the first quarter results at a weekly technical update
meeting.
4.0 REMEDIAL ACTION
Fuel Spill-1 Remedial Action
- Provided support to the Army Corp of Engineers for property access.
- Continued contracting for materials and construction subcontracts.
5.0 SOURCE AREAS
Chemical Spill 4 (CS-4)
- Additional sample results showed no exceedences.
Chemical Spill 10 (CS-10)
- The CS-10 SVE system is operating normally.
Firefighter Training Area 1 (FTA-1)
- Completed transport and disposal of soils. Two loads were shipped
off-site for disposal.
- Conducted selective sampling at stockpile areas.
- Stumps and brush were chipped and they will be spread around the
site.
Firefighter Training Area 2 (FTA-2)
- The FTA-2 system is operating normally.
- Prepared a project note for the SD-5 zone and submitted for
regulatory review.
PFSA
- The PFSA system operated normally after a system belt replacement.
Priority 2 and 3 Study Areas
- Sample results for Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) showed no
exceedences.
6.0 PROGRAM PROJECTS
Operations and Maintenance Building
- Reviewed construction sign for the building site.
- Received a Notice to Proceed.
Well Abandonment Program
- Abandoned 150-155 wells to date.
- Preparing the Phase 2 Wells Abandonment Report.