EPA is continuing emergency removal actions at this site during the repackaging, transportation, and removal of flammable magnesium materials. Magnesium generators, who previously supplied Remacor with recyclable magnesium and magnesium alloys, are removing their materials from the site. Monitoring Wells have been installed to aide in accessing extent of contamination on site. Winters Performance Products, Inc. is currently making preparations to ship its product off site. MJ Metals of Bridgeport, CT, is coordinating with the EPA to be on site for drum identification and count. To date 16 generators have removed, or are in various stages of planning in order to remove, their material off site. EPA’s ERRS contractor Guardian continues to work on RAD and burn piles. EPA and PADEP officials continue to control access to site in addition to coordinating the activities of the various generators.
Personnel On-Scene:
10/13/07 START-1, ERRS-8, Security-1 (24 hr)
10/15/07 START-2, ERRS-8, MHF-2, Other-1, Security-1 (24 hr)
Weather:
10/13/07 Low of 40° F, high of 55° F. Clear to Mostly Cloudy, 0.00 inches of precipitation, Wind WSW 3-12 mph.
10/15/07 Low of 46° F, high of 53° F. Mostly Cloudy, 0.00 inches of precipitation, Wind W 4-10 mph.
10/13/07
START attended the morning safety meeting held by EPA’s ERRS contractor Guardian Environmental Services. ERRS continued filling drums with material from the RAD pile. ERRS used a sifter to separate fine material from bricks that were present. To date ERRS has packaged 108 drums of material. ERRS removed reacted lime from the reaction pit and moved it to the drying pit lime was added to the reaction pit and left to react until 10/15/07. ERRS also began to clean and reorganize a brick building previously used as a Operation Control room by Remacor. The building will be used as a break room for ERRS during inclement weather.
START assisted as needed, conducted written and photographic documentation, and monitored activities conducted on site. START demobilized for the weekend.
10/15/07
American Iron & Metal’s subcontractor MHF was on site to take one of their fork trucks to the Metcoa site where they will be removing material during the week of 10/15/07.
START attended the morning safety meeting held by EPA’s ERRS contractor Guardian Environmental Services. ERRS continued packaging soil from the RAD pile. ERRS packaged over 40 drums for the day using a table previously used by PRPs to repackage magnesium from super sacks to drums, each drum that ERRS packages is independently labeled for tracking purposes.
START mobilized to site assisted as needed, conducted written and photographic documentation, and monitored activities conducted on site.
American Iron & Metal (AIM) will not be shipping material to Von Roll America for 2 weeks starting on 10/14/07. Von Roll America will be down for outage replacing bricks in their furnace, it is a planned outage. AIM expects to resume shipping material to Magpro, Camden, TN
Intermet is making plans to resume shipping their product off site.
Winter Performance Products, Inc plans to start removing their material the first week of November 2007.
MJ Metals (generator) is making arrangements to start removing their product in November, 2007.
EPA will continue to coordinate with magnesium waste generators for the safe and appropriate removal of the material from the site. EPA will continue to coordinate with all local, state, and federal agencies.
On the south side of Building #9, non-vented drums have been segregated due to reactions occurring during heavy rainfall.
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