EPA continues to provide 24-hour security and coordinate the activities of PRP generators who supplied Remacor, Inc. with secondary magnesium scrap including turnings, shavings, chips and other finely divided cuttings. In all, 29 generators have been identified and issued 104e letters. Several of the companies are in the process of voluntarily removing their materials from the Site under the oversight of EPA and PADEP who control access to the Site. The 45-acre property contains thousands of drums, sacks, boxes and other containers of this flammable solid, many of which are in poor storage conditions. Generators are using subcontractors to assist them with identifying, moving, re-packaging, and loading their materials for transportation to other facilities for proper storage, recycling, or disposal.
Other recent site activities have included sampling and field analysis of various materials on site by PADEP. Meridian continues to repackage magnesium solids that are staged in the DeOxSulf building. The OSC has been in communication with Pratt & Whitney on the removal of drums from the Remacor site.
Personnel On-Scene:
3/08/07 EPA-1, START-2, Meridian-4 Spartan-1, Other-1, Security-1 (24hr)
Weather:
3/08/07 Cold and overcast in the morning, temperature low 10 degrees F, high 32 degrees F, wind east at 8 mph, conditions clear.
START attended the morning safety meeting held by URS, Meridian’s subcontractor.
URS received a shipment of 37 empty magnesium totes to be used in repackaging of super sacks. URS continued to package Meridian’s material into drums and magnesium totes.
NIAPRO, a subcontractor for INTERMET, requested local emergency contact information for INTERMET's Work/Health and Safety Plan. EPA supplied the information to NIAPRO.
START conducted PRP oversight and provided written and photographic documentation.
Meridian anticipates loading two trucks on Friday March 9th.
OSC anticipates that Pratt & Whitney will mobilize to the site in the near future to remove approximately 1,200 to 1,700 drums of product from site.
The OSC anticipates that Pratt Whitney will develop a work plan/health and safety plan while arranging for the removal their product from site.
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