Dubose Oil Products Company

Dubose Oil Products Company
EPA ID: FLD000833368
Location: Cantonment, Escambia County, FL
Congressional District: 01
NPL Status: Proposed: 10/15/84; Final: 06/10/86; Delisted 10/1/2004
Project Manager
Site Repository:
University of W. Florida Main Library
11100 University Parkway
Pensacola FL 32514

Scott M. Martin, Remedial Project Manager
Martin.Scott@epa.gov
404-562-8916

Documents:

• Site Profile
• Administrative Record Index: OU1 (PDF, 10 pp., 431K), Deletion (PDF, 1 pp., 58K)
• Dubose Oil Products, Inc. Reuse Fact Sheet (PDF: 1 pp, 933K)
• Additional Site Documents including Five Year Reviews, Records of Decisions (ROD) and Explanation of Significant Differences (ESD).
• For documents not available on the website, please contact the Region 4 Freedom of Information Office (http://www.epa.gov/region4/foiapgs/submit.htm).

Site Background
The 20-acre Dubose Oil Products Company site is former oil recovery facility located in a rural residential area near Cantonment, Florida, about 10 miles north of Pensacola.  Approximately 2,400 people live within 3 miles.  The nearest residents live adjacent to the site.  Residents in the immediate area are provided with city water supplies, which are not threatened by contaminated groundwater.  The plant, which consisted of a process facility and three bermed ponds, operated from 1979 through 1981.  Natural springs on and around the site and surface runoff accumulate in a low-lying area north of the site to form the headwaters of Jacks Branch, a tributary of the Perdido River.
Waste materials handled on the site included waste oils, petroleum refining waste, wood-treatment process waste, spent solvents, spent pickle liquors, and various paint wastes.  Soil samples taken from the site indicated the presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and pentachlorophenol (PCP).  Groundwater contamination is limited to VOCs.

Cleanup Progress
The remedy implemented in accordance with the Record of Decision (ROD) included the:

--Installation of temporary construction facilities, stormwater management controls, and a wastewater treatment plant.
--Excavation and stockpiling of contaminated soil from the Silo Hot Spot.
--Erection of the biotreatment facility.
--Excavation of 38,854 tons of non-contaminated soil from the vault, confirmatory sampling, and placement in the ravine.
--Excavation and bioremediation of 19,705 tons of contaminated vault and hot spot soils, confirmatory sampling, and disposal in the ravine.  Two additional hot spots were discovered in the sediment of the leachate pond and the northern berm of the vault.  This material was also excavated and treated.
--Draining and backfilling three onsite ponds.
--Final grading of the ravine, former vault, and former pond areas, and seeding of the entire site.
--Construction of surface water runoff controls to accommodate seasonal precipitation, including inlets, terraces, culverts, and retention basins.

As of June 2003, during the collection of additional groundwater and surface water sampling, the surface water compliance point sample and the North Pond discharge compliance point sample were non-detect for all target compounds.  The maintenance inspection performed on June 6, 2003, verified that all of the berms were performing adequately and the drainage features were free of debris and functioning as intended.  EPA, with concurrence of FDEP, has determined that all appropriate actions at the Dubose Oil Producing Company Site have been completed, and no further remedial action is necessary.  Therefore, a Notice of Intent to Delete (NOID) the Dubose Oil Products Site was published in the Federal Register on August 4, 2004, (69 FR 47072), the final notice of deletion was published in the Federal Register on October 1, 2004, (69 FR 58839).

EPA approved the third five-year review of the site in September 2008.  The remedy at the Dubose Oil Products Company Site protects human health and the environment in the short term and the long term because all soil, ground water, and surface water cleanup standards identified in the record of decision have been met.

As a result of remedial action taken at this Site, there are no remaining hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants above levels that allow for unlimited use and unrestricted exposure.  The selected remedy places no restrictions on the potential use of land or other natural resources after performance standards have been met as they have been at this Site.  The protectiveness of the remedy at this Site does not rely on the placement of any land use or ground water restrictions by humans or the ecological population.  According to Section 1.2.4. of the June 2001 OSWER "Comprehensive Five-Year Review Guidance" provides that FYRs may be discontinued under these circumstances.  Therefore pursuant to the authority of  Section 1.2.4., notice is hereby given that FYRs for this Site will be discontinued.