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U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Base 555
U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Base 555EPA ID: GA7170023694
Location: Albany, Dougherty County, GA
Congressional District: 02
NPL Status: Proposed: 07/14/89; Final 11/21/89
Project Manager
Documents:
- Site Profile
- 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 U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Base - Albany located in Dougherty County, Georgia
is an active military facility 3579 acres in total size. As a result of past
waste disposal practices at the facility, various compounds have been released
into the environment at the facility. These compounds include trichloroethylene,
lead, chromium, cadmium, and polychlorinated bi-phenyls. The facility currently
serves as a military logistics center, controlling the acquisition, storage,
maintenance, and distribution of combat and support material for the U.S. Marine
Corps. In the late 1980's, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division of
the Department of Natural Resources had the facility to install a groundwater
pump and treat system for the industrial wastewater treatment plant to contain
and remove groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene under the terms
of a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Permit. In July 1991, the Department
of the Navy, GEPD, and the USEPA entered into a Federal Facility Agreement
to establish a procedural and enforceable framework and schedule for conducting
the appropriate response actions in accordance with the provisions of CERCLA
and the NCP. The resulting Remedial Investigations conducted between 1992 and
2001 have revealed chromium, cadmium, lead, and polychlorinated bi-phenyl,
and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon contaminated soils and groundwater plumes
contaminated with perchloroethylene, trichloroethylene, dichloroethylene, and
carbon tetrachloride. The facility overlies the Ocalla limestone which serves
as an aquifer for southwest Georgia and north and central Florida.
Cleanup Progress: Actual Construction Underway
Since August 1992, U.S. MCLB has implemented 8 cleanup decisions, or Record of
Decisions (RODs) which were concurred upon by the USEPA and GEPD during the period
from 1997 to 2001. These RODs contain a number of different cleanup activities,
including 1) installation of a multi-layer cap and excavation and off-base disposal
of PCB-contaminated sediment in the bottom of a catch basin at Potential Source
of Contamination (PSC) 16; 2) excavation, stabilization, and off-base disposal
of chromium and lead-contaminated soil at PSC 17; 3) groundwater treatment in
OU1, 4) soil removal in OU5; 5) implementation of Land Use Controls in OUs 1,4,
and 5; and 6) completion of additional groundwater work for the entire site. In
2005, an Explanation of Significant Difference (ESD) was signed for OU6, Site-wide
Groundwater.
The clean-up activities required by RODs for OUs 1 – 5 have been completed. A
variety of smaller scale cleanup actions, or removals were conducted to remove
isolated contamination of soil and groundwater in OU1 and OU4 from 1995 to 2000. In
addition to these formal CERCLA actions, various actions have been taken under
the RCRA authority of the State of Georgia. These actions include excavation
and removal of the sludge drying beds at the MCLB Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Plant (IWTP).
Remedial actions required by the OU6 ROD and ESD are under way. Repair/replacement
of underground pipes, manholes, etc. was initiated in November of 2005 and the
majority of physical work was completed by May of 2006. The final Remedial
Action Completion Report for that effort has been completed and approved. One
round of Permanganate and Zero Valent Iron (ZVI) injections at groundwater plume
source areas were completed at the NPA area in July 2005 and for the DMA Area
in November 2005. Sampling for results was implemented as of January 2006
and continued quarterly for 1 year. The final results have been drafted
into a Remedial Action Completion Report, under review by EPA. Data from
the injection monitoring is being combined with data from monitored natural attenuation,
and a Remedy Effectiveness Report has been drafted and submitted to EPA for review
in September 2008. This Report will interpret the results and possibly
make further recommendations for additional source area treatment and monitoring. Additionally,
a Monitoring Optimization Plan is being developed by the Navy, which will identify
which wells across the entire Site need to be monitored over the near future. Installation
of an Evapo-Transpiration Cover was started in 2006 and continues. One
soils remedial action remains to be taken at PSC 4. This action is anticipated
to begin in September of 2008.
A Five Year Review was approved in March of 2006. The next Five Year Review
will be conducted in 2011, and every five years after that, for as long as wastes
which exceed acceptable exposure levels remains on-site.