Activities
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WERC enters into consulting service contract
for TAG grant with
Cambridge Environmental.
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W.E.R.C. 1st
Annual Meeting
October 27, 2008
Wilmington United
Methodist Church
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Activities since October, 2007…
- October 1, 2007: Olin submitted the
Draft Focused Remedial Investigation Report (FRI).
- October 10, 2007: Olin/MACTEC provided
a briefing for all stakeholders.
- October 11, 2007: EPA/MassDEP/Olin
attended a WERC meeting.
- November 2, 2007: EPA issued comments
to Olin on the Draft Interim Response Steps Work Plan (IRSWP).
- 11/19/08 - Site Visit - reviewing data and locations of
significant areas with representatives of WERC, Cambridge
Environmental ( WERC's consultants), Olin, EPA, and Nobis ( EPA
consutants).
- November 13, 2007: EPA’s lab collected
split groundwater samples.
- November 14, 2007: EPA granted Olin a
30 day extension to respond to comments on the Draft IRSWP.
- December 12, 2007 W.E.R.C. incorporated with Secy of
State’s office
- December 17, 2007: EPA issued a letter
postponing Olin’s planned submittal of the Draft RI/FS Work Plan.
- December 31, 2007: Olin submitted a
response to comments on the IRSWP.
- January 2, 2008: Olin submitted
Semi-Annual Status Report No. 1.
- January 7, 2008:
EPA approved the $50k TAG grant for WERC.
- January 15, 2008: EPA issued
preliminary comments on the Draft FRI.
- January 15, 2008: EPA issued a
memorandum regarding Olin’s response to comments on the Draft IRSWP.
- January 17, 2008: EPA drafted a data
gap assessment summary table and met with Olin/MACTEC.
- January 25, 2008: EPA issued a press
release to local newspapers announcing the WERC grant.
- February/March 2008: Olin to submit Plant B
proposal. Anticipate issuing a conditional approval letter for the
Draft IRSWP, to result in a final IRSWP.
- February 2008: Receive Olin’s response to
preliminary comments on the Draft FRI.
- March 2008: EPA/Nobis to meet with
Olin/MACTEC to discuss Olin’s response to comments.
- May 15, 2008
Community update meeting at Middle
School—new website announced
- June 26, 2008
IRS designation as 501(c) (3) tax
exempt organization
- June 27, 2008 Olin submitted the
Second Semi-Annual Status Report
- July 7, 2008
Request for Proposals issued
- July 15, 2008 EPA met with Olin Key
issues discussed included:
- the DAPL pilot (schedule and truck verses rail design); Olin has
agreed to use trucks to off-load the recovered DAPL product from Jewel
Drive. This eliminates the need to construct a pipeline, re-build the
rail spur, and negotiate access with the railroad.
- the Plant B proposed pumping rate and monitoring changes and
target compounds to be sampled in the RI/FS.
- July 23, 2008
Opened
account at Reading Cooperative Bank
- July 31, 2008 EPA issued the PRPs
(Olin, Stepan, and American Biltrite) our first annual oversight
bill for about $330,000.
- Early August, 2008 EPA uploaded the
Focused RI Report (core documents only) on our web site. The Interim
Response Steps Work Plan to be added. The AOC is also on the web.
- August 12, 2008 Olin submitted a Final
Interim Response Steps Work Plan to EPA
- August 19, 2008
5 Proposals received
- Week of August 25: Olin mailed letters to 24 residential
property owners requesting access to sample their wells.
- September 2, 2008 Olin to submit the Design Report for the DAPL
Pilot
- September 8. 2008
Interviews of two top candidates,
verbal confirmation w/ Cambridge Environmental on 9/10/08
- October 13, 2008 .Olin submits RI/FS
Work Plan. This has been delayed since July mostly due to
discussions regarding individual compounds to be sampled. These
discussions have lead to a more comprehensive list. This will be a
very large multi-volume document and will distributed with at least
a 2 month review window.
- Olin plans to start sampling private wells
once they receive a few more approvals (so far, 5 of 24 have agreed
to allow sampling). All private wells should be done in a few
weeks. EPA's lab will collect split data for independent analysis
and Nobis will provide visual oversight of Olin.
- October 27, 2008
Draft
contract sent to TAG coordinator for review
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