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United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Additional site information
For more information, please
contact the site team members listed
below or look at the documents in
the information repository.
Steven Renninger
On-Scene Coordinator
EPA Region 5
26 W. Martin Luther King Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45268
513-569-7539
renninger.steven@epa.gov
Robert Paulson
Community Involvement
Coordinator
EPA Region 5 (SI-7J)
77 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
312-886-0272
paulson.robert@epa.gov
Region 5 toll-free: 800-621-8431,
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., weekdays
Sarah Gostomsky
Regional Air Pollution Control
Agency
117 S. Main St.
Dayton, OH 45422
937-225-5947
gostomsl@rapca.org
Jim Crawford
Ohio EPA
40 IE. Fifth St.
Dayton, OH 45402
937-285-6039
jim.crawford@epa.state.oh.us
Information Repository
Piqua Public Library
116 West High St.
Hazardous Material Removal
Proceeding at Hospital Site
Piqua Hospital Site
Piqua, Ohio
June 2009
Contractors under the oversight of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
and Ohio authorities are beginning the actual work to remove hazardous
chemicals and asbestos material from the site of the former Piqua Memorial
Medical Center. The cleanup project will last into July. Hazardous materials
will be disposed of off-site at an EPA-approved facility.
The removal work was only begun after careful preparations were made last
month to ensure the safety of residents and nearby schoolchildren. The site
was contained by construction of a decontamination unit, covering
stormwater drains, stabilizing debris piles, sealing broken windows and
marking off property boundaries with signs. Site security as well as perimeter
air monitoring were begun in early April. In mid-April property owner Dr.
Enrique De La Piedra of Florida signed an agreement with EPA to pay for
the cleanup.
Site background
The Piqua Hospital site is a former medical facility located at 624 Park Ave.
in Piqua, Ohio. The location is surrounded by homes and an elementary
school to the west plus a church to the southeast. The property contains
three buildings — the partially demolished Main Building, intact
Administration Building and the demolished Boiler Building.
Piqua Memorial Medical Center operated on the site from the 1920s until it
closed in 1996. In 2008 the current owner arranged for demolition activities
that were suddenly halted last December when the Regional Air Pollution
Control Agency (RAPCA) issued a stop work order due to illegal asbestos-
handling activities. The city of Piqua issued a nuisance order to the owner
FE6 6 2009
Hazardous material including chemical drums and asbestos-containing
debris is being removed from the site of the former Piqua Memorial
Medical Center.
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this February requiring environmental and safety issues to
be resolved before demolition could resume. In March.
Ohio EPA and the city asked for EPA assistance to clean
up abandoned hazardous waste and outdoor asbestos
debris piles.
Current activities
An EPA, Ohio EPA and RAPCA team completed a site
assessment in mid-March. The assessment included a
health and safety meeting, site inspection, air monitoring,
sample collection for waste chemicals and asbestos, and
hazard classification and analysis.
The Main Building was found to be partially demolished
with debris piles located on all sides. About 75 percent of
the Main Building windows were broken or missing. Many
doors were also missing or left open. Numerous small to
very large holes were noted in the exterior walls. The
penthouse located on the roof was found to be missing an
entire wall on the north side. The former Boiler House
was completely demolished with only the basement
remaining.
Numerous containers were sampled to determine whether
the contents would classify as hazardous waste. Sampling
confirmed the drums and containers held acids, caustics
and mercury, and the outdoor debris piles included
asbestos.
In April, federal, state and local officials met with
consultant Zeigler Environmental hired by the site owner
to discuss the upcoming cleanup work. EPA approved a
Phase I work plan to stabilize the asbestos-contaminated
debris piles located outside the Main Building and enclose
the penthouse area. In early April, officials held a media
briefing to inform the public of the current progress on the
project. The local newspaper, the Piqua Daily Call,
published an article about the briefing in its April 13 issue.
On the Web
About the site:
www.epa.gov/region5/sites/piquamemorial
More about asbestos:
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/asbestos
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