AT&SF Albuquerque

Superfund 

AT&SF Albuquerque

Superfund 

Partial Deletion Open House

October 14, 2010

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Site Location

3300 Second Street, SW, in the South Valley area of the City of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County

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Property Bounda

 AT&SF Albuquerque Prope

Acres.

 Northern Property: 

 62-acre parcel outlined in  Tie Storage Area

 Southern Property:

 27-acre parcel outlined in  Process Treatment Area

 wood treatment area drip tracks wastewater reservoir wastewater discharge d

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History --

Operations

 former Atchison, Topeka and 

Santa Fe Railway Company (AT&SF) Tie Treating Plant 

 facility operated as a wood 

pressure treatment plant from March 1908 to January 1972 and primarily used creosote and oil mixtures 

 manufacture of pressure treated 

wood products, including railroad cross ties, bridge ties, switch ties, bridge timbers, road crossing materials, bridge piling materials, lumber, stock pen posts and fence posts. 

62-acre Parcel27-acre Parcel

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 62-Acre Tie Storage 

Area

 Green tie Storage Treated Tie Storage

History --Operations

62-acre Parcel27-acre Parcel

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History --Operations

 27-Acre Process 

Treatment Area

 wood treatment area  drip tracks wastewater reservoir wastewater discharge 

ditch

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Site 

Investigations

 Site Investigations –

Phases I through V conducted from 1987 through 1999 

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Early Cleanup Actions

 27-acre Plant treatment process area

 1990: Approximately 8,250 tons of creosote

debris removed

 1999: Approximately 6,012 tons of sludge a

residue excavated from the wastewater reser

 1999: Three recovery trenches were installe

wastewater reservoir to collect dense non-aqphase liquid (DNAPL) through a gravity fee

 2000: Five recovery pumps were installed in 

wells DNAPL from the Shallow and IntermeAquifers.

 62-acre Tie Storage Area

 1996: soil excavation on the 62-acre tie stora

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62-Acre 

Cleanu

North

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History – Site Remedy

 All Ongoing Cleanup Actions are ass

with the 27-acre Plant Treatment ProcArea

 Record of Decision: June 27, 2002

 Soil

 Excavation with In-situ solidification/ stabil Capping with Run-off/run-on management Offsite incineration for DNAPL soils

 Ground Water

 Extraction/treatment/injection DNAPL extraction and offsite incineration

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Third Party Characterizati

 GCC Premium 

Transloader, LC

 Soil and Groundwater 

Sampling

 No groundwater areas 

of concern identified based on groundwater data.

 Soil areas of concern 

were identified.

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CharacteSampling

Surface and Subs(SB) Soi

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Soil Excavation Areas

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Institutional Controls

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Final Site Plan

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Proposed Area for Partial Deletion

Northern 62-Acre Parcel

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Public Participation

 Notice is Published in the Federal Regis Public Comment Period of 30 days

 Web: www.regulations.gov.  Email: coltrain.katrina@epa.gov Fax: Attn: Katrina Higgins-Coltrain, 214-6 Mail: Katrina Higgins-Coltrain, Remedial 

Manager, U.S. EPA Region 6 (6SF-RL), Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75202- 2733. 

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Public Participation (continue EPA will review the comments submitted. EPA will prepare a Responsiveness Summa

address any significant public comments rec

 EPA will publish a final Notice of Partial Dele

the Federal Register. 

 The Notice of Partial Deletion will finalize the 

deletion process.

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Future Work 

 62-Acre Parcel 

Long-Term Operation and 

Maintenance 

Site InspectionsFive-Year Reviews 

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Community Participation

 Site documents can be found at:

 Albuquerque Public Library New Mexico Environment Department

 Web Resources

 NMED: www.nmenv.state.nm.us U.S. EPA Region 6: www.epa.gov/region6/superfu

 Contacts

 EPA: Katrina Higgins-Coltrain 214-665 NMED: Angelo Ortelli 505-827 EPA toll-free number 800-533 Charles Thomas, BNSF 817-740 Riaz Ahmed, TRC 713-244

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