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Former Filled Oxbows - Reports

The following list of reports and documents has been selected to provide an overview of the environmental investigations and remedial actions conducted for the Oxbow Areas. Most of the available reports and documents were produced for General Electric by their environmental consultants. These reports are available for viewing at the project's public repositories including the Berkshire Athenaem Public Library in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Lyman Street Area and Former Filled Oxbow B
Former Filled Oxbows A and C
Newell Street Area I
Newell Street Area II
Former Filled Oxbows J and K
General

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Lyman Street Area and Former Filled Oxbow B

Former Filled Oxbows A and C

Newell Street Area I

Newell Street Area II

Letter (with attachments) from Gates (GE) to Fisher (USEPA), June 27, 2008, Re: Newell Street Area II Summary of May 2008 Inspection Activities (PDF) (67 pp., 3.17 MB)
Letter from Gates (GE) to Fisher (USEPA) and Steenstrup (MADEP), December 21, 2007, Re: Newell Street Area II Summary of 2007 Conditional Solution Inspection Activities (PDF) (8 pp., 139 KB)
Letter (with report) from Gates (GE) to Fisher (USEPA), November 7, 2007, Re: Newell Street Area II Summary of October 2007 Inspection Activities (PDF) (17 pp., 1.31 MB)
Letter from Gates (GE) to Young (MEOEA), October 2, 2007, Re: Newell Street Area II, Summary of September 2007 Inspection of the Natural Resource Restoration/Enhancement Area (PDF) (12 pp., 977 KB)
Letter from Gates (GE) to Young (MEOEA), August 3, 2007, Re: Newell Street Area II, Summary of June 2007 Inspection of the Natural Resource Restoration/Enhancement Area (PDF) (14 pp., 1.09 MB)
Letter from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), July 11, 2007, Re: Newell Street Area II, Summary of May 2007 Inspection Activities (PDF) (17 pp., 1.02 MB)
Letter from Gates (GE) to Young (MEOEA), June 5, 2007, Re: Newell Street Area II, Completion of Installation of Restoration Work Report (PDF) (12 pp., 2.16 MB)
Letter from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), January 19, 2007, Newell Street Area II Notification of Extension of Storage Limit (PDF) (4 pp., 286 KB)
Letter from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), January 3, 2007, Newell Street Area II Summary of November 2006 Inspection Activities (PDF) (15 pp., 425 KB)
Newell Street Area II Proposal for Engineered Barrier Modifications, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc., May 2006 (PDF) (44 pp., 5.58 MB)
EPA Response to GE Proposal for Additional Removal Activities (PDF) (2 pp., 75 KB)
GE Proposal for Additional Removal Activities (PDF) (5 pp., 390 KB)
Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), December 20, 2005, Newell Street Area II Subsurface Investigation Summary Report (PDF) (41 pp., 3.7 MB)
Subsurface Investigation Summary Report, 12/20/2005 (PDF) (44 pp., 4.7 MB)
Letter from Gates (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), November 22, 2005, Newell Street Area II Supplemental Information Package-Analytical Data for Proposed Topsoil Source (PDF) (5 pp., 459 KB)
EPA Response to GE Letter Regarding Proposal for Test Trenching Activities and Test Trenching Proposal with accompanying figures (PDF) (11 pp., 2 MB)
Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), October 31, 2005, Newell Street Area II Proposal for Test Trenching Activities (PDF) (8 pp., 1.8 MB)
Letter from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA) and Steenstrup (MDEP), October 25, 2005, Ambient Air Monitoring Data (PDF) (26 pp., 1.3 MB)
Letter from Czelusniak (WESTON) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), October 11, 2005, Air Monitoring Plan, GE Oversight-Newell Street Area II RAA (PDF) (36 pp., 1.78 MB)
Newell Street Area II: Geophysical Survey Proposal and Discussion (PDF) (2 pp., 90 KB)
Newell Street Area II - Proposal for Geophysical Survey at Parcel J9-23-8 (PDF) (8 pp., 387 KB)
Newell Street Area II PCB Air Monitoring Results, June 05 - March 06 (PDF) (11 pp., 53 KB)
Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), July 12, 2005, Conditional Approval of Supplemental Information Package for Newell Street Area II (PDF) (2 pp., 85 KB)
Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), June 24, 2005, Newell Street Area II Supplemental Information Package. (PDF) (71 pp., 4.7 MB)
Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), June 9, 2005, EPA's Approval in Part of GE's submittal Final RD/RA Work Plan Addendum for Newell Street II (PDF) (2 pp., 95 KB)
Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), May 25, 2005, Final Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan Addendum for Newell Street Area II (PDF) (14 pp., 1.1 MB)
EPA's approval of GE's Newell Street Area II proposed changes to the engineered barrier modifications (PDF) (2 pp., 49 KB)
Newell Street Area II Map (PDF) (1 p., 840 KB)
EPA's May 12, 2005 conditional approval of the Final Removal Design/ Removal Action Work Plan for Newell Street Area II (PDF) (2 pp., 123 KB)
The Final Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for Newell Street Street Area II, March 2005 (PDF) (154 pp., 7.8 MB)
November 4, 2004 conditional approval of the Conceptual Removal Design/ Removal Action Work Plan for Newell Street Area II (PDF) (3 pp., 137 KB)
Conceptual Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for Newell Street Area II, Table of Contents, July 2004 (PDF) (1 p., 40 KB)
Volumes I - V are internally linked from the table of contents. Combined file size is 19 mb - estimated download time: 45 minutes @ 56 kbs.
Letter from Nalipinski (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), March 16, 2004, Approval of GE's March 2, 2004 Submittal "Newell Street II Supplemental Sampling Proposal to Support Future Remedial Design/Remedial Action Activities" (PDF) (1 p., 120 KB)
Letter from Gates (GE) to Nalipinski (USEPA), March 2, 2004, Supplemental Sampling Proposal to Support Future Removal Design/Removal Action Activities for Newell Street Area II (PDF) (11 pp., 8.34 MB)
Letter from Olson (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), October 2, 2003, Conditional Approval of GE's August 2003 Newell Street Area II Supplemental Pre-Design Investigation Report (PDF) (1 p., 99 KB)
Letter from Silfer (GE) to Olson (USEPA), August 12, 2003, Supplemental Pre-Design Investigation Report for Newell Street Area II (PDF) (52 pp., 5.92 MB)
Letter from Olson (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), May 13, 2003, Conditional Approval of GE's May 5, 2003 Response to EPA's April 21, 2003 Conditional Approval Letter for the Pre-Design Soil Investigation Report for Newell Street Area II. (PDF) (1 p., 68 KB)
Letter from Silfer (GE) to Olson (USEPA), May 5, 2003, Response to EPA's April 21, 2003 Conditional Approval Letter for Pre-Design Investigation Report for Newell Street Area II (PDF) (10 pp., 1.93 MB)
Letter from Olson (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), April 21, 2003, Conditional Approval of GE's February 2003 Pre-Design Investigation Report for Newell Street Area II Removal Action (PDF) (3 pp., 237 KB)
Letter from Olson (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), August 21, 2002, Conditional Approval of GE's May 2002 Newell Street Area II Predesign Investigation Work Plan Addendum (PDF) (4 pp., 266 KB)
Letter from Silfer (GE) to Olson (USEPA), May 21, 2002, Newell Street Area II Pre-Design Investigation Work Plan Addendum (PDF) (54 pp., 9.97 MB)
Letter from Olson (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), April 18, 2002, Comments on GE's October 2001 Pre-Design Investigation Work Plan for the Newell Street Area II Removal Action (PDF) (3 pp., 264 KB)
Pre-Design Investigation Report for Newell Street Area II, Volumes 1 and 2, Blasland Bouck & Lee Inc. (Prepared for GE), February 2003
- Vol I Part 1 (PDF) (82 pp., 14.28 MB)
- Vol I Part 2 (PDF) (51 pp., 14.41 MB)
- Vol II Part 1 (PDF) (204 pp., 21.89 MB)
- Vol II Part 2 (PDF) (114 pp., 19.74 MB)
Pre-Design Investigation Work Plan for the Newell Street Area II Removal Action, Blasland Bouck & Lee, Inc. (Prepared for GE), October 2001
- Part 1 (PDF) (154 pp., 17.68 MB)
- Part 2 (PDF) (190 pp., 17.03 MB)
Letter from Silfer (GE) to Olson (USEPA), July 16, 2001, Lyman Street Area and Newell Street Area II Remediation of GE Parking Lot Areas. (PDF) (2 pp., 153 KB)
Letter from Tagliaferro (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), July 22, 1999, Status of Newell Street II Source Control Activities (PDF) (2 pp., 89 KB)
Geophysical Investigation, General Electric Newell Street Parking Lot Site, Geophysics GPR International, Inc. (Prepared for Blasland Bouck & Lee Inc), May 1996. (PDF) (34 pp., 4.52 MB)
MCP Interim Phase II Report for Newell Street Parking Lot Site and Current Assessment Summary for USEPA Area 5B, Blasland Bouck & Lee Inc. (Prepared for GE), March 1994, Volumes 1 - 4
- Vol 1 (PDF) (169 pp., 20.82 MB)
- Vol 2 (PDF) (62 pp., 8.66 MB)
- Vol 3 Part 1 (PDF) (230 pp., 20.4 MB)
- Vol 3 Part 2 (PDF) (395 pp., 21.43 MB)
- Vol 4 (PDF) (183 pp., 8.34 MB)

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