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Title: Proposed Expert Consultant Team for Koppers Superfund Site


1
Proposed Expert Consultant Team for Koppers
Superfund Site
  • by
  • Rick Hutton, P.E.
  • Water/Wastewater Supervising Engineer
  • Gainesville Regional Utilities

Gainesville City Commission Meeting October 25,
2004
2
Cabot/ Koppers Site
  • Superfund sites since 1983
  • Cabot Site
  • Pine tar/charcoal facility early 1900s thru 1967
  • Koppers Site
  • Wood treating operations since 1916
  • Contamination from creosote other wood treating
    compounds

3
Map
Murphree Water Treatment Plant
  • Map showing Cabot Carbon / Koppers site and
    Murphree - JEA

Main Street
NW 23rd Ave.
Cabot Carbon \ Koppers Superfund Site
4
Site Geology
5
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6
Status
  • Water Supply is Safe We Want to Keep it that
    Way
  • No contamination in GRU wells
  • Not an immediate threat
  • Appropriate Decisive action needed now to
    ensure long-term protection

7
Status (contd)
  • Site geology contamination complex
  • Final Remedy may be complex
  • Beazer proposal may include leaving significant
    amount of creosote in place
  • Beazer has expert team working for them
  • City needs high level expertise to protect its
    interests
  • Appropriate site cleanup
  • Water supply protected
  • Confidence in safety of water supply

8
Expert Consultant Team
  • World Renowned Experts in DNAPL/creosote field
  • Complimentary skills strengths
  • Reliance on more than one opinion
  • Business Case

9
Expert Consultant Team Tasks
  • Comprehensive review of site
  • Review Beazer EPA Approach
  • Recommendations for further Actions
  • Assist in ensuring EPA Beazer take appropriate
    actions

10
Summary
  • Water Supply is Safe We Want to Keep it that
    Way
  • Decisive appropriate action needed now to
    protect future
  • Team will assist City in ensuring appropriate
    decisive action taken
  • Estimated Cost of team 160,000
  • Estimated value of water supply Priceless

11
Murphree Capture Zone
Pumping Rate 60 Million Gallons per
Day (Current Pumping Rate 26 MGD)
  • Map of Site and delineation of capture zone

12
Murphree Capture Zone
  • Map of Site and delineation of capture zone

Early Warning Network Existing Future
13
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