GE/Housatonic River Site in New England

Floodplain Properties - Reports

• All Floodplains Current Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach
• Phase 1 Floodplain Properties
• Phase 2 Floodplain Properties
• Phase 3 Floodplain Properties
• Phase 4 Floodplain Properties

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All Floodplains Current Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach

• Letter (with enclosure) from Tagliaferro (USEPA) to Gates (GE), August 27, 2008, Re: EPA Approval of, and Certificate of Completion for, General Electric's submittal entitled Final Completion Report for Removal Action for Housatonic River Floodplain - Current Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach, dated July, 2008 (1 pp., 203 KB)
• Letter from Steenstrup (MADEP) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), August 21, 2008, Re: Floodplain Residential Properties Adjacent to the 1 1/2 Mile Reach Housatonic River Approval of Final Completion Report for Removal Action for Housatonic River Floodplain Current Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach (1 pp., 250 KB)
• Letter (with report) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), July 30, 2008, Final Completion Report for Removal Action for Housatonic River Floodplain - Current Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach (PDF) (1359 pp., 393.33 MB)

Phase 1 Floodplain Properties

• Letter from Nalipinski (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), April 14, 2003, Comments on GE's February 2003 Pre-Design Investigation and PCB Soil Evaluation Report for Phase 1 Floodplain Properties Adjacent to the 1.5 Mile Reach of the Housatonic River (PDF) (2 pp., 62 KB)
• Pre-Design Investigation and PCB Soil Evaluation Report for Phase I Floodplain Properties Adjacent to the 1.5 Mile Reach of Housatonic River, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc. (Prepared for GE), February 2003 (PDF) (113 pp., 7.84 MB)
• Letter from Nalipinski (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), August 7, 2002, Conditional Approval of the Work Plan - Phase 1 Group 1A and 1B Floodplain Properties (PDF) (2 pp., 78 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Olson (USEPA), July 22, 2002, Work Plan Addendum - Phase 1 Group 1A and 1B Floodplain Properties (PDF) (11 pp., 1.32 MB)
• Letter from Nalipinski (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), July 8, 2002, Comments on GE's January 2002 Pre-Design Investigation Work Plan for Floodplain Properties Adjacent to the 1.5 Mile Reach of the Housatonic River (PDF) (4 pp., 207 KB)
• Pre-Design Investigation Work Plan for Floodplain Residential Properties Downstream of Confluence, Blasland Bouck & Lee Inc. (Prepared for GE), February 2002 (PDF) (108 pp., 10.18 MB)
• Pre-Design Investigation Work Plan for Floodplain Properties Adjacent to the 1-1/2 Mile Reach of the Housatonic River, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc. (Prepared for GE), January 2002 (PDF) (216 pp., 13.41 MB)

Phase 2 Floodplain Properties

• Letter (with attachments) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), June 20, 2008, Re: Floodplain Residential and Non-Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach of Housatonic River, Summary of May 2008 Inspection Activities for the Remediated Phase 2 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (18 pp., 778 KB)
• Letter (with report) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), November 21, 2007, Re: Summary of October 2007 Inspection Activities for the Remediated Phase 2 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (10 pp., 389 KB)
• Letter from Tagliaferro (USEPA) to Gates (GE), August 20, 2007, Re: Approval of GE's July 30, 2007,submittal titled Addendum to Supplemental Implementation Package for Selected Phase 2 Floodplain Properties Adjacent to the 1 1/2 Mile Reach of the Housatonic River (PDF) (2 pp., 26 KB)
• Letter from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), July 30, 2007, Re: Floodplain Residential and Non-Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach of Housatonic River, Addendum to Supplemental Information Package for Selected Phase 2 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (15 pp., 1.02 MB)
• Letter from Tagliaferro (USEPA) to Gates (GE), July 17, 2007, Re: Conditional Approval of General Electric's May 29, 2007 submittal titled Supplemental Implementation Package for Selected Phase 2 Floodplain Properties Adjacent to the 11/2 Mile Reach of the Housatonic River (PDF) (2 pp., 33 KB)
• Letter (with attachment) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), May 29, 2007, Re: Floodplain Residential and Non-Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach of Housatonic River Supplemental Information Package for Selected Phase 2 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (344 pp., 26.25 MB)
• Letter from Tagliaferro (USEPA) to Gates (GE), April 9, 2007, Re: Conditional Approval of General Electric's March 2007 submittal titled Revised Supplemental Soil Evaluation Report and Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan Addendum for Selected Phase 2 Floodplain Properties Adjacent to the 1 1/2 Mile Reach of Housatonic River (PDF) (2 pp., 32 KB)
• Letter (w/report) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), March 28, 2007, Re: Floodplain Residential and Non-Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach of Housatonic River, Revised Supplemental Soil Evaluation Report and Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan Addendum for Selected Phase 2 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (151 pp., 17.52 MB)
• Letter w/attachment from Tagliaferro (USEPA) to Gates (GE), March 8, 2007, Re: Conditional Approval of General Electric's December, 2006 submittal titled Supplemental Soil Evaluation Report and Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan Addendum for Selected Phase 2 Floodplain Properties Adjacaent to the 1 1/2 Mile Reach of the Housatonic River (PDF) (4 pp., 200 KB)
• Letter w/report from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), December 13, 2006, Supplemental Soil Evaluation Report and Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan Addendum for Selected Phase 2 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (141 pp., 15.18 MB)
• Letter from Nalipinski (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), March 9, 2004, Comments on GE's 14 January 2004 Pre-Design Investigation/Soil Evaluation Report and Conceptual Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for Phase 2 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (1 p., 42 KB)
• Pre-Design Investigation/Soil Evaluation Report and Conceptual Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for Phase 2 Floodplain Properties Adjacent to the 1 1/2-Mile Reach of the Housatonic River, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc. (Prepared for GE), January 2004 (PDF) (143 pp., 18.64 MB)
• Letter from Nalipinski (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), October 20, 2003, Conditional Approval of GE's July 1, 2003 Sampling Summary Letter Report for the Group 2, Floodplain Properties (PDF) (3 pp., 130 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Olson (USEPA), July 1, 2003, Sampling Summary Letter Report for Phase 2 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (43 pp., 3.21 MB)
• Letter from Nalipinski (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), April 24, 2003, Comments on GE's April 16, 2003 Response to EPA's April 9, 2003 Conditional Approval Letter for the Phase 2, Group 2 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (2 pp., 110 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Olson (USEPA), April 16, 2003, Response to EPA's April 9, 2003 Conditional Approval Letter for Phase 2, Group 2 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (6 pp., 1.41 MB)
• Letter from Nalipinski (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), April 9, 2003, Conditional Approval of GE's January 2002 "Pre-Design Investigation Work Plan for the Phase 2, Group 2 Floodplain Properties Adjacent to the 1.5 Mile Reach of the Housatonic River" (PDF) (3 pp., 148 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Olson (USEPA), March 11, 2003, Revised Table 4-3 from GE's January 2002 Pre-Design Investigation Work Plan and Proposed Schedule for Submission of Work Plan Addendum for Phase 2 Floodplain Properties. (PDF) (15 pp., 467 KB)

Phase 3 Floodplain Properties

• Letter (with attachments) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), July 1, 2008, Re: Floodplain Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach of Housatonic River, Summary of June 2008 Inspection Activities for the Phase 3 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (35 pp., 1.98 MB)
• Letter (with report) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), November 7, 2007, Re: Summary of October 2007 Inspection Activities for the Phase 3 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (28 pp., 1.47 MB)
• Summary of May 2007 Inspection Activities for the Phase 3 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (28 pp., 2.3 MB)
• Letter from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), January 3, 2007, Summary of November 2006 Inspection Activities for the Phase 3 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (32 pp., 577 KB)
• Letter from Gates (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), July 6, 2006, Summary of May 2006 Inspection Activities for the Phase 3 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (28 pp., 448 KB)
• Letter from Gates (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), February 6, 2006, Summary of December 2005 Inspection Activities for the Phase 3 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (27 pp., 2.19 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), August 19, 2005, EPA's Approval of GE's Supplemental Information Package for the Group 3C & 3D Floodplain Properties (PDF) (2 pp., 64 KB)
• Letter (with report) from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), August 16, 2005, Re: Floodplain Residential and Non-Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach of Houstonic River, Supplemental Information Package for the Group 3C and 3D Floodplain Properties (PDF) (88 pp., 3.32 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), July 20, 2005, EPA's Conditional Approval of GE's Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for the Group 3C and 3D Floodplain Properties (PDF) (2 pp., 90 KB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), June 16, 2005, EPA's Approval of GE's Supplemental Information Package for the Group 3A & 3B Floodplain Properties (PDF) (2 pp., 66 KB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), June 16, 2005, EPA's Approval of GE's Addendum to Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for the Group 3A and 3B Floodplain Properties (PDF) (2 pp., 98 KB)
• Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for the Group 3C and 3D Floodplain Properties, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc. (Prepared for GE), June 2005, Volumes 1 through 3
  • Volume 1 (PDF) (91 pp., 9.7 MB)
  • Volume 2 (PDF) (126 pp., 7.83 MB)
  • Volume 3 (PDF) (151 pp., 2.9 MB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), June 8, 2005, Addendum to Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for the Group 3A and 3B Floodplain Properties (PDF) (45 pp., 4.88 MB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), June 8, 2005, Supplemental Information Package for the Group 3A and 3B Floodplain Properties (PDF) (87 pp., 3.72 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), May 26, 2005, EPA's Conditional Approval of GE's Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for the Group 3A and 3B Floodplain Properties (PDF) (3 pp., 124 KB)
• Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for the Group 3A and 3B Floodplain Properties, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc. (Prepared for GE), April 2005, Volumes 1 through 3
  • Volume 1 (PDF) (153 pp., 7.94 MB)
  • Volume 2 (PDF) (192 pp., 7.51 MB)
  • Volume 3 (PDF) (196 pp., 3.57 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), March 29, 2005, EPA Approval of GE's Interim Pre-Design Investigation Report - Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Groups 3C and 3D (PDF) (2 pp., 49 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), March 10, 2005, Second Interim Pre-Design Investigation Report - Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Groups 3C and 3D (PDF) (128 pp., 6.68 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), March 9, 2005, Approval of GE's Second Interim Pre-Design Investigation Report - Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Groups 3A and 3B (PDF) (2 pp., 47 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), February 10, 2005, Second Interim Pre-Design Investigation Report - Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Groups 3A and 3B (PDF) (115 pp., 2.69 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), Nov. 3, 2004, Conditional Approval of GE's Interim Pre-Design Investigation Report and Addendum for Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Groups 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D (PDF) (2 pp., 76 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), October 21, 2004, Interim Pre-Design Investigation Report Addendum for Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Groups 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D (PDF) (55 pp., 13.02 MB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), August 13, 2004, Interim Pre-Design Investigation Report for Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Groups 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D. (PDF) (264 pp., 17.63 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), August 12, 2004, Floodplain Residential and Non-Residential Properties Adjacent to 1.5 Mile Reach of the Housatonic River, Proposal for Supplemental PCB Pre-Design Investigation, Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Groups 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D (PDF) (2 pp., 48 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), Proposal for Supplemental PCB Pre-Design Investigations - Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Groups 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D, August 2004 (PDF) (23 pp., 7.32 MB)
• Letter from Nalipinski (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), March 15, 2004, Conditional Approval of GE's Work Plan Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Group 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D, January 8, 2004 (PDF) (9 pp., 5.8 MB)
• Work Plan Addendum - Phase 3 Floodplain Properties, Groups 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc. (Prepared for GE), January 2004. (PDF) (41 pp., 6.61 MB)
• Site Investigation Report for the GE Residential Sampling Project, Torra Residence, 55 Lowden Street, 18 to 21 August 1998, Roy F. Weston, Inc. (Prepared for USACE and EPA), January 1999 (PDF) (265 pp., 17.94 MB)

Phase 4 Floodplain Properties

• Letter (with attachments) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), July 9, 2008, Re: Floodplain Residential and Non-Residential Properties Adjacent to 11/2 Mile Reach of Housatonic River; Revised Summary of May 2008 Inspection Activities for the Group 4C Floodplain Properties (PDF) (41 pp., 3.84 MB)
• Letter (w/report) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), June 12, 2008, Re: Floodplain Residential and Non-Residential Properties Adjacent to 1 1/2 Mile Reach of Housatonic River Summary of May 23008 Inspection Activities for the Group 4C Floodplain Properties (PDF) (42 pp., 3.88 MB)
• Letter (with report) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), November 21, 2007, Re: Summary of October 2007 Inspection Activities for the Phase 4 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (14 pp., 667 KB)
• Letter from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), July 11, 2007, Re: Summary of May 2007 Inspection Activities for the Phase 4 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (15 pp., 1.2 MB)
• Letter (with attached report) from Gates (GE) to Tagliaferro (USEPA), October 11, 2006, Summary of September 2006 Inspection Activities for the Phase 4 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (14 pp., 640 KB)
• Email transmittal from Gates (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), June 29, 2006, Re: Pre-excavation Vernal Pool Photos and Proposed Restoration Plan, Phase 4 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (12 pp., 3.36 MB)
• Letter from Gates (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), May 23, 2006, Wood Turtle Release Location Map (PDF) (2 pp., 81 KB)
• Letter From Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), May 18, 2006, EPA's Approval of GE’s Addendum to Supplemental Information Package for the Phase 4 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (2 pp., 51 KB)
• Letter (with report) from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), May 15, 2006, Floodplain Residential & Non-Residential Properties Adjacent to 1.5 Mile Reach of Housatonic River, Addendum to Supplemental Information Package for the Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, May 15, 2006 (PDF) (56 pp., 1.6 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), May 11, 2006, Conditional Approval of GE’s Supplemental Information Package for the Phase 4 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (4 pp., 200 KB)
• Supplemental Information Package for the Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc., April 14, 2006 (PDF) (133 pp., 34 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), February 23, 2006, EPA's Conditional Approval of GE's Addendum to Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for the Phase 4 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (2 pp., 86 KB)
• Letter from Gates (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), February 10, 2006, Addendum to Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for the Phase 4 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (21 pp., 1.5 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), January 24, 2006, EPA's Conditional Approval of GE's Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for the Phase 4 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (3 pp., 135 KB)
• Letter (with attached report) from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), August 26, 2005, Removal Design/Removal Action Work Plan for the Phase 4 Foodplain Properties
  • Vol I (PDF) (111 pp., 14.56 MB)
  • Vol II (PDF) (181 pp., 15.59 MB)
  • Vol III (PDF) (242 pp., 5.98 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), August 3, 2005, EPA's Approval of GE's Supplemental Pre-Design Investigation Report - Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, Group 4A, (PDF) (2 pp., 43 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), July 13, 2005, Supplemental Pre-Design Investigation Report - Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, Group 4A (PDF) (35 pp., 2.23 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), June 14, 2005, EPA's Conditional Approval of GE's Pre-Design Investigation Report for Phase 4 Floodplain Properties (PDF) (2 pp., 87 KB)
• Pre-Design Investigation Report for Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc. (Prepared for GE), April 2005, Volumes 1 through 3
  • Volume 1 (PDF) (301 pp., 18.09 MB)
  • Volume 2 (PDF) (193 pp., 13.01 MB)
  • Volume 3 (PDF) (197 pp., 12.98 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), January 13, 2005, Conditional Approval of GE's Work Plan Addendum-Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, Group 4B and 4C (PDF) (2 pp., 82 KB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), January 13, 2005, Conditional Approval of GE's Proposal for Non-PCB Pre-Design Investigations-Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, Group 4A-Parcel I7-1-101 (PDF) (2 pp., 89 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), Dec. 15, 2004, Work Plan Addendum - Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, Groups 4B and 4C (PDF) (24 pp., 4.7 MB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), Dec. 15, 2004, Proposal for Non-PCB Pre-Design Investigations - Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, Group 4A - Parcel I7-1-101 (PDF) (19 pp., 2.8 MB)
• Letter from Lovely (USEPA) to Silfer (GE), Dec. 3, 2004, Conditional Approval of GE's Work Plan Addendum-Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, Group 4A (PDF) (3 pp., 98 KB)
• Letter from Silfer (GE) to Lovely (USEPA), July 14, 2004, Work Plan Addendum - Phase 4 Floodplain Properties, Group 4A (PDF) (19 pp., 2.98 MB)

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