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Do you need a Toxic Tort Lawyer in The Buckeye State? The EPA has designated Feed Materials Production Center (Usdoe) in Ohio as a Superfund site because of its amounts of toxic pollution and danger to the natural world. You can read the report for the site below.
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Below you can read the EPA report for the Feed Materials Production Center (Usdoe) Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has gotten sick due to toxic pollution in Feed Materials Production Center (Usdoe), 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 Ohio . Get started by 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, follow this link to let them know about the environmental toxic tort lawyers at Weitz & Luxenberg.
Feed Materials Production Center (Usdoe)
This site is a Federal Facility.
Site Responsibility:
This site is being addressed through federal actions.
NPL Listing History:
Proposed Date: 07/14/89
Final Date: 11/21/89
Threats and Contaminants
Some of the materials contained trace quantities of fission products (e.g. technetium-99) and transuranics (e.g. plutonium-239). As a result, the primary contaminants are radionuclides including uranium, thorium, and radium. Extensive contamination exists at the facility with over two thirds of the site containing uranium contaminated soil and a uranium groundwater plume 1.5 mile long and 1.8 mile wide exists onsite and offsite of the facility.Cleanup Progress
All five Records of Decision (RODs) were signed between 1994 and 1996 addressing all of the operable units at the site. Further, 27 of the 30 Removal Actions were completed between 1991 and 1999. However, failure of a pilot-scale vitrification plant to treat waste stored in three silos (Operable Unit 4) resulted in the need to amend the ROD for this operable unit (12/29/00). Currently, facilities are being constructed to remove the materials from the silos in 2004. The materials will be treated prior to shipment to an off site disposal facility and will be completed by 2006. To date the Silos project is 30% complete.
A railroad line and a waste/soil drying and loading facility to treat and ship waste materials from six waste pits to Envirocare of Utah has been completed with the first rail shipment occurring April 26, 1999. Waste from the pits is excavated, thermally dried, packaged in rail cars, and sent via rail for offsite disposal at Envirocare. To date, the project is 75% complete with more than 100 unit trains having shipped 650,000 tons of the projected 850,000 tons of waste in the pits. The project is projected to be completed by the end of calendar year 2004.
Six of the planned eight cells of the Onsite Disposal Facility (OSDF) have been completed. Cell 1 is full and has been capped; Cell 2 is full and capped; Cell 3 is 95% filled; Cell 4 is 25% filled; Cell 5 is 15% filled; and Cell 6 has the lower liner constructed and is receiving waste materials. Approximately 1,200,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and debris has been placed in the six cells. The OSDF is projected to be completed in 2006 and to hold approximately 2.5 million cubic yards of material.
The process of safe shutdown to remove contaminated materials from pipelines and other equipment from 130 buildings at the site was completed in March 1999. Also, 130 of the 223 total structures have been demolished, and the demolition materials are being placed in the OSDF. This project is 60% complete. Also, all nuclear materials previously stored onsite have been taken offsite as of May 2002.
Offsite groundwater contamination is being contained via an extraction system installed in 1991. An extensive network of extraction and injection wells were installed and began operation in August 1998 to expedite groundwater treatment and contaminant removal. Since that time, 7.5 billion gallons of groundwater have been pumped from the aquifer, removing 4,600 pounds of uranium. The groundwater is being treated to return the aquifer to drinking water standards.
Also, the Southern Waste Units, the largest source of groundwater contamination from the Fernald site, has been removed. Over 60% of the site area has been demonstrated to have attained final soil cleanup levels.
Based on DOE's baseline schedule developed in 2001, the cleanup is expected be completed by 2006 with a total cost of $4 billion. Expedited activities and cooperation between United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA), DOE and its contractor Flour Fernald have resulted in reducing cleanup costs by $2 billion. Much of the success of this project has been as a result of the cooperative relationships between Ohio EPA and U.S. EPA working together as joint regulators to push progress on this large DOE complex.
Contact
Remedial Project ManagerJim Saric
(312) 886-0992
saric.james@epa.gov
Community Involvement Coordinator
Susan Pastor
(312) 353-1325
pastor.susan@epa.gov
Gene Jablonowski
(312) 886-4591
jablonowski.gene@epa.gov
The Feed Materials Production Center, also known as the Fernald Environmental Management Project, is a 1,050-acre facility located in southwestern Ohio, approximately 19 miles northwest of downtown Cincinnati. The facility is located just north of the small rural town of Fernald, and has an estimated population of 14,600 residing within five miles of the site. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) constructed and operated the site from 1951 to 1991, producing high purity uranium metal in support of national defense programs. This was accomplished by chemically and physically purifying a variety of feed materials, converting uranium compounds into uranium metal, casting the metal into various shapes, and machining the castings to specified dimensions.
All five Records of Decision (RODs) were signed between 1994 and 1996 addressing all of the operable units at the site. Further, 27 of the 30 Removal Actions were completed between 1991 and 1999. However, failure of a pilot-scale vitrification plant to treat waste stored in three silos (Operable Unit 4) resulted in the need to amend the ROD for this operable unit (12/29/00). Currently, facilities are being constructed to remove the materials from the silos in 2004. The materials will be treated prior to shipment to an off site disposal facility and will be completed by 2006. To date the Silos project is 30% complete.
A railroad line and a waste/soil drying and loading facility to treat and ship waste materials from six waste pits to Envirocare of Utah has been completed with the first rail shipment occurring April 26, 1999. Waste from the pits is excavated, thermally dried, packaged in rail cars, and sent via rail for offsite disposal at Envirocare. To date, the project is 75% complete with more than 100 unit trains having shipped 650,000 tons of the projected 850,000 tons of waste in the pits. The project is projected to be completed by the end of calendar year 2004.
Six of the planned eight cells of the Onsite Disposal Facility (OSDF) have been completed. Cell 1 is full and has been capped; Cell 2 is full and capped; Cell 3 is 95% filled; Cell 4 is 25% filled; Cell 5 is 15% filled; and Cell 6 has the lower liner constructed and is receiving waste materials. Approximately 1,200,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and debris has been placed in the six cells. The OSDF is projected to be completed in 2006 and to hold approximately 2.5 million cubic yards of material.
The process of safe shutdown to remove contaminated materials from pipelines and other equipment from 130 buildings at the site was completed in March 1999. Also, 130 of the 223 total structures have been demolished, and the demolition materials are being placed in the OSDF. This project is 60% complete. Also, all nuclear materials previously stored onsite have been taken offsite as of May 2002.
Offsite groundwater contamination is being contained via an extraction system installed in 1991. An extensive network of extraction and injection wells were installed and began operation in August 1998 to expedite groundwater treatment and contaminant removal. Since that time, 7.5 billion gallons of groundwater have been pumped from the aquifer, removing 4,600 pounds of uranium. The groundwater is being treated to return the aquifer to drinking water standards.
Also, the Southern Waste Units, the largest source of groundwater contamination from the Fernald site, has been removed. Over 60% of the site area has been demonstrated to have attained final soil cleanup levels.
Based on DOE's baseline schedule developed in 2001, the cleanup is expected be completed by 2006 with a total cost of $4 billion. Expedited activities and cooperation between United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA), DOE and its contractor Flour Fernald have resulted in reducing cleanup costs by $2 billion. Much of the success of this project has been as a result of the cooperative relationships between Ohio EPA and U.S. EPA working together as joint regulators to push progress on this large DOE complex.
Community Involvement Coordinator
Susan Pastor
(312) 353-1325
pastor.susan@epa.gov
Gene Jablonowski
(312) 886-4591
jablonowski.gene@epa.gov
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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