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Latest Developments
Implementing the Remedy (Cleanup) Plan
DEP is currently reviewing a preliminary Draft Conceptual Design Generic Remedial Action Plan submitted by Olin, the company responsible for cleaning up non-public (mostly residential) properties. This draft outlines how Olin plans to carry out the cleanup. Olin will submit a final draft to DEP in May. Among the topics covered will be:
- Truck routes during cleanup
- Pre-cautions used to limit dust, air quality monitoring procedures
- Specifications about how restoration will be done after waste has been removed
- A projected schedule covering activities from the DEP’s release of the final plan in October 2007 through spring of 2009
DEP is now reviewing the plan and will send comments to Olin. A final approved Design Generic Remedial Action Plan is expected by the end of August. Following approval, Olin will begin contacting individual property owners to develop a specific plan for how cleanup and restoration will occur on each individual property.
Olin to Investigate 22 Properties
In May 2008 Olin Corporation submitted a Work Plan for 22 properties. The purpose is to determine whether or not fill exists at these properties that would require remediation. Further study of these properties was required by DEP’s final Remedy Selection Plan. Properties are scattered throughout the project site on the following streets: Butler, Goodrich, Marlboro, Morse, Newhall, North Sheffield, Remington, Shepard and Winchester. Property owners were notified in 2006 and 2007 by letter that more testing may be needed when the draft and final Remedy Selection Plans were distributed.
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