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Title: Superfund record of decision (EPA region 2): Brookhaven National Laboratory, (USDOE) operable unit 4, Upton, NY, March 25, 1996

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:502672

This decision document presents the selected remedial action for Operable Unit (OU) IV of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) site in Upton, New York. Operable Unit IV includes the Central Steam Facility (CSF), the Reclamation Facility Building 650 Sump and Sump Outfall, leaking sewer lines, Recharge Basin HO, and associated environmental media. The purpose of this remedy is to address contamination associated with a 1977 oil/solvent spill and a fuel unloading area near BNL`s CSF and with the Reclamation Facility Building 650 Sump and Sump Outfall area. The OU IV remedy consists of a combination of treatment and institutional controls. The components of the selected remedy for contaminated groundwater, in combination with the engineering enhancement option, and for the chemically contaminated soils, are final response actions. The component of the selected remedy that addresses radiologically contaminated soil is considered an interim action.

Research Organization:
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Research Triangle Park, NC (United States). Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
OSTI ID:
502672
Report Number(s):
PB-96-963818/XAB; EPA/ROD/R-02-96/285; TRN: 71741043
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jun 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English