Lessons Learned from a Complex FUSRAP Site - Sylvania Corning FUSRAP Site - 12269
- United States Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City, Missouri, 64106 (United States)
Since its addition to the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) in 2005, the Sylvania Corning FUSRAP Site (the Site) in Hicksville, New York, has provided challenges and opportunities from which to gain lessons learned for conducting investigation work at a complex multi-contaminant FUSRAP Site. The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and its contractors conducted a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) Remedial Investigation (RI) and are currently in the Feasibility Study (FS) phase at the Site. This paper presents the planning, execution, and reporting lessons learned by USACE during the RI/FS. The Site, operated from 1952 to 1967 for the research, development, and fabrication of nuclear elements under the Atomic Energy Commission, and other government and commercial contracts. Previous investigations performed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and the current property owner have identified uranium, thorium, nickel, and chlorinated solvents, as Site contaminants [1]. The property owner is currently under two separate voluntary agreements with NYSDEC to investigate and remediate the Site. USACE's work at the site has been independent of this voluntary agreement and has moved on a parallel path with any work the property owner has completed. The project at the Site is complex because of the radiological and chemical concerns in both soils and groundwater, high hydraulically conductive soils, lack of a shallow aquiclude/aquitard, and a principal water table aquifer underlying the site. Contaminants are migrating from the Site and may potentially impact local drinking water supplies (municipal wells). During the RI/FS process the project team has encountered many issues and has thus developed many resolutions. The issues are organized into three categories: Planning and Contracting, Execution, and Reporting. Planning and Contracting lessons learned include: how to incorporate an overwhelming volume of historical data; how to manage a complex team of three prime contractors innovatively, and how to implement a project under an Award Fee task order. Execution lessons learned include: characterization of investigation derived wastes, and proper approach to radiological scanning of direct-push borings and soil cores. Reporting lessons learned include: coordinating multiple phase (iterative) reporting, large dataset presentation, and the National Priorities List (NPL) designation. The goal of this paper is to provide a resource for other project delivery teams that encounter similar situations on their projects to optimize cost savings, realization of efficiency, shorten schedules, or simply ensure higher quality deliverables. Each FUSRAP project is unique but there are many lessons we can apply to each site to gain efficiency and work more effectively. The Sylvania Corning FUSRAP site is a complex site with both soils and groundwater contamination, contamination to depths of 182 meters, and a highly politically charged environment of PRP involvement. Many of the lessons the project team has learned during the life of the project to date are being shared with others as well as being applied back to this project for future work. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, 1628 E. Southern Avenue, Suite 9-332, Tempe, AZ 85282 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22293550
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-14-WM-12269; TRN: US14V1206115074
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2012: Waste Management 2012 conference on improving the future in waste management, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 26 Feb - 1 Mar 2012; Other Information: Country of input: France; 1 ref.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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