Copper Basin Mining District Documents
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North Potato Creek Watershed
Removal Action
- North Potato Creek Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis Fact Sheet, February 2003 (PDF, 1M)
- EPA Administrative Order on Consent (AOC)(PDF, 601K)
- Work Plan for Conducting an Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis (PDF, 451K)
- Sampling and Analysis Plan for Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis (PDF, 269K)
- Quality Assurance Project Plan for Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis (PDF, 978K)
Voluntary Oversight Assistance Program
Note: Site documents specific to this portion of the Copper Basin Mining District work, other than the implementing Commissioner's Order, will NOT be made available here. This work is being performed by Glenn Springs Holding, Inc., and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) has the lead oversight role. More information may be available on the Glenn Springs Holdings web site
. Final documents are also available at the site repository in Ducktown.
Davis Mill Creek Watershed
Removal Action
- Proposed Removal Action Fact Sheet, May 2003 (PDF, 668K)
- EPA Adminstrative Order on Consent (PDF, 702K)
- Work Plan for the Diversion of Belltown Creek and Gypsum Pond (PDF, 420K)
- Cantrell Flats WWTP Refurbishment/Evaluation Work Plan (PDF, 391K)
Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study
EPA finalized the Baseline Human Health Risk Asessment for the Ocoee River in May 2003. The four files available below present the results of this study in different levels of detail.
- Fact Sheet May 2003 (PDF, 98K)
- The Executive Summary and Conclusion sections of the report (PDF, 145K)
- Body of the Baseline Human Health Risk Asessment w/o Appendices (PDF, 3.7M)
- Appendices to the report (PDF, 7.8M)
EPA's investigation of the ecological effects of the Copper Basin on the Ocoee River is ongoing. More information about environmental conditions in Parksville Reservoir
is available through this link to TVA's web site.
The US Geoligical Survey, in parnership with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, has established two gauging/data collection stations on the Ocoee River upstream and downstream of the Copper Basin area. Real time data from these stations can be viewed on these USGS web pages:
Sitewide and Miscellaneous
- Map of the Copper Basin Mining District
- 1990 Agreement between Boliden Intertrade, EPA, and Tennessee (PDF, 1.4M)
- 1991 AOC between EPA and OXY Oil and Gas USA, Inc. (PDF, 1.7M)
- 1995 Amendment to the 1991 AOC between EPA and OXY Oil and Gas USA, Inc. (PDF, 396K)
- Memorandum of Understanding between Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, U.S. EPA and OXY USA, Inc. (PDF, 833K)
- Community Involvement Plan (PDF, 959K)
- ATSDR decision to prepare a Public Health Consultation (PDF, 27K)
- Basin Briefing, April 2001 (PDF, 472K)
- Basin Briefing, July 2001 (PDF, 106K)
- Basin Briefing, March 2002 (PDF, 147K)
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