Arizona Superfund Site: Yuma Marine Corps Air Station
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Do you need a Toxic Tort Attorney in The Grand Cayon State? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated Yuma Marine Corps Air Station in Arizona as a Superfund site due to its levels of environmental toxins and threat to the environment. You can read the report for the site below.

Some Superfund sites are on the National Priority Site Lists. The National Priorities List ("NPL") is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under the federal Superfund program. Environmental Protection Agency regulations outline a formal process for assessing hazardous waste sites and placing them on the NPL. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the EPA in determining which sites warrant further investigation.

Sites are listed on the NPL upon completion of Hazard Ranking System (HRS) screening, public solicitation of comments about the proposed site, and after all comments have been addressed. EPA may delete a final NPL site if it determines that no further response is required to protect human health or the environment. Sites where a remediation was completed through the Superfund program are typically deleted from the NPL.

Living near Superfund Sites in Arizona may place you and your family at risk of developing a disease from proximity to the site and experiencing a loss of value for your property, but action is being taken to fight back: The EPA says,

[We have] set up a "Post Construction Completion" (or PCC) strategy to ensure that Superfund response actions provide for the long-term protection of human health and the environment. EPA's Post Construction Completion activities also involve optimizing remedies to increase effectiveness and/or reduce cost without sacrificing long-term protection of human health and the environment.

Below you can read the EPA report for the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has suffered due to exposure to a Superfund site Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, or if your property has lost value because of pollution, you are better off with a toxic tort attorney who knows the people of the State of Arizona . Take your first step filling out this simple form. There is no obligation, and your case will be evaluated within 24 hours. To refer a friend, neighbor, or loved one, click here to let them know about the environmental toxic tort attorneys at Weitz & Luxenberg.

Yuma Marine Corps Air Station

This site is a Federal Facility.

Updated: November 10, 2004

YUMA MAZINE CORPS AIR STATION
AZIZONA
EPA ID# AZ0971590062

EPA Region 9
City: 2 miles from Yuma
County: Yuma
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Site Responsibility:

This site is being addressed through Federal actions.

NPL LISTING HISTORY

Proposed Date:06/24/1988

Final Date:02/21/1990

Deleted Date:

For soil, the contaminant of concern is asbestos in the form of non-friable asbestos containing material (ACM). The ACM is scattered on top of and buried in the surface soil.

For groundwater, the contaminants of concern are chlorinated solvents (TCE, DCE and PCE). The main groundwater plume is approximately 1 mile long and 500 feet wide, and has reached the downgradient edge of the base. The maximum concentration of total solvents is approximately 500 parts per billion (ppb). All of the groundwater contamination has been detected downgradient of the old on-station drinking water well. However, the on-station drinking water well is no longer used and none of the groundwater is used elsewhere on the base. If left untreated, the plume could potentially impact private groundwater wells downgradient from the Station.

Groundwater (OU1): A remedy has not been selected for the groundwater at Yuma, although construction of a groundwater treatment system was completed as part of the Feasibility Study. A groundwater ROD is scheduled for early 1999. As part of a pilot study, the Navy, with oversight from EPA under the Federal Facility Agreement (FFA), operated a groundwater treatment system to contain the chlorinated solvent plume. The treatment system was designed to intercept the plume and prevent it from migrating further off the Station. The treatment system, an innovative in-well air stripping technology, ran from January to June 1997. The system was successful at diminishing VOC levels to below MCLs, but siltation problems developed and prevented sufficient pumping rates. The wells are being modified to work as vertical recirculation wells as part of the study. The design is to be incorporated into the final cleanup action for the groundwater. Monitored natural attenuation is also being contemplated as a portion of the groundwater remedy. Should the monitored natural attenuation or vertical recirculation prove ineffective, contingency plans would be implemented. Air sparging and soil vapor extraction would treat the source area of the plume and a pump and treat system (extraction and air stripping) would treat the rest of the plume. In addition, institutional controls, groundwater monitoring, and discharge to the storm drain will be parts of the remedy.

Soil (OU2): In 1991, the Navy/Marine Corps began investigating the landfill areas and soil sites. The remedial investigation was completed in 1995. A remedy for addressing soil contamination (asbestos containing materials) was selected in December, 1997. The ROD, which addresses a total of 18 sites, describes no action at 12 sites, institutional controls at three sites and removal of asbestos containing materials (ACM) at three sites.

In 2001, all of the sites were cleaned and removed from the facility except the large construction debris site, but the contractor made a sweep through the debtis and removed all visable ACM. The Base has placed a fence around the site.

The groundwater is being remediated by two treatment systems which have significantly lowered contaminant levels nearly to the MCLs. The main base system is an air-sparging/pump and treat system which attacks the main plume and the Leading Edge Plume Area system(LEPA) remediates contaminants which were beyond the main base system at the time of construction.

The Base has produced a 5-Year review which shows the remediations protective.

After adding this site to the NPL, the EPA performed preliminary investigations and determined that no immediate actions were required at the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station site while site studies and cleanup activities are being planned.

The public information repositories for the site are at the following locations:

MCAS Yuma has established two information repositories, one at the Yuma County Library at 350 South Third Avenue and one on-base at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station. The Official Administrative Record is compiled and maintained by the Navy at the Southwest Division Naval Facilities Engineering Command in San Diego.

The most complete collection of documents is the official EPA site file, maintained at the following location:

Superfund Records Center
Mail Stop SFD-7C
95 Hawthorne Street, Room 403
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 536-2000

Enter main lobby of 75 Hawthorne street, go to 4th floor of South Wing Annex.

EPA SITE MANAGER:

Martin Hausladen

ADDRESS:

PHONE NUMBER:

(415)744-2388

E-MAIL ADDRESS:

hausladen.martin@epamail.epa.gov

EPA COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COORDINATOR:

Viola K. Cooper

ADDRESS:

75 Hawthorne St. San Francisco, CA 94105

PHONE NUMBER:

415-744-2188 or 1-800-231-3075

E-MAIL ADDRESS:

cooper.viola@epa.gov

PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTER:

(415) 947-8701

E-MAIL ADDRESS:

r9.info@epamail.epa.gov

STATE CONTACT:

Nancy Lou Minkler, Arizona DEQ

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PHONE NUMBER:

(602)207-4187

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State Environmental Protection Agency

US Environmental Protection Agency

(800) 852-7550

(800) 424-8802

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AZ

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT:

02

EPA ORGANIZATION:

SFD-8-2

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