Short-Term
Cleanup Efforts
To date EPA and NHDES have invest-
ed over $ 19 million in investigation
and interim cleanup work at the site,
including:
Tank/Drum Removal: Removal of
approximate!/ I. I million gallons of
waste oil, sludge and water; removal
of 800 drums and cleaning, disman-
tling, and removal of over 100 above
ground storage tanks.The effort was
completed in November 1997.
Floating Oil Removal: A 120 feet
long interceptor trench was installed
in 1997 to capture oil seeping into
Ketley Brook. Approximately 143 vac-
uum extraction welts were Installed
across the site to remove floating
oil from the groundwater table; the
system operated from 2000 until
2005 and recovered over 90,000 gal-
lons of oil. Operations ceased when
it no longer was removing significant
volumes of oil and the system was
dismantled in the summer of 2008.
Contact Information
Jim Brown
EPA Project Manager
bra w n. j i m @e pa.gov
(617)918-1308
Stacy Greendlinger
EPA Community
Involvement Coordinator
greendlinger.stacy@epa.gov
(617)918-1403
Richard Pease
NH Department of
Environmental Services
r i c h a rd, p ease @ d es. n h .go
(603)271-3649
New England, however, coordinates, directs
and reviews the work of the performing
parties and their representatives to assure
regulatory compliance. EPA New England
and NHDES, in partnership, are closely
overseeing the work being done at the
Beede site and are ensuring all appropri-
ate public and private interests are kept
informed and concerns are considered.
Since the signing of the Consent Decree,
the settling parties have been gathering
the information needed to design the
cleanup and in January 2008 assumed
NHDES' groundwater monitoring pro-
gram. All of these efforts have been per-
formed under EPA and NHDES oversight
Who Owns the Site?
To make it easier to perform the cleanup
and as part of the Consent Decree, in
December 2009, ownership of the two
parcels comprising the site was trans-
ferred from the Hampshire Realty Trust
and Sun Realty Trust to the current owner,
a limited liability corporation established
by the major settling parties, called " 11
Kelley and 42 Old County Road Proper-
ties, LLC"
More information can be found at the
site repository housed at the Plaistow
Library, 85 Main Street, or online at:
www.epa.gov/region I /superfund/
sites/beede
&EPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Beede Waste Oil
Super-fund Site Update
EPA Superfund Division
June 2009
Now that a settlement agreement has been reached, efforts are underway to gather more information,
prepare the engineering designs and implement the nearly $50 million cleanup of the Beede Site.
Waste
Superfund Site
Hampshire
&EPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
June 2009
What is the Beede Site
Cleanup Plan?
In 2004, after receiving public comment,
EPA selected a comprehensive cleanup
plan for the site. Specifically, the plan calls
for:
Groundwater extraction from the site,
treatment of the water, and discharge of
the water back into the water table on
the site;
Excavation and off-site disposal of con-
taminated sediment (approximately 1,000
cubic yards) from Kelley Brook;
* Excavation and off-site disposal of
contaminated soil from the soil piles and
contaminated soil at depths between 0
and 10 feet (about 80,000 cubic yards);
Treatment of approximately 70,000 cubic
yards of contaminated soil deeper than 10
feet through the use of soil vapor extrac-
tion technology;
Long-term monitoring of on-site and
off-site groundwater, surface water and
sediment to determine if cleanup stan-
dards have been met; and
Establishment of land use restrictions
(also called institutional controls) to
ensure future uses will not disturb any
(above) Parcel I (nearly 22 acres) beginning in
the /920s was the location of petroleum and
waste oil storagetkandling/recyding operations.
Parcel 1 (19 acres) was used largely for
commercial sand and gravel operations.
Visualize This
80,000 cubic yards of soil is ;
football fields each covered with around
6 feet of soil.
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Soil\&por Extraction or SVE removes
harmful chemicals, in the form of vapors,
from; the soil. Vapors are the gases that
form when chemicals evaporate. The
vapors are removed from the ground
by applying a vacuum to pull the vapors
out Extraction wells are drilled into the
soil and a vacuum is attached to the wells
and pulls the air and vapors through the
soil and up to the surface where they are
collected and disposed of safety. To speed
up the process, the soil or the air injected
into the ground may be heated, which
helps evaporate the chemicals fester.
(below) Site graundwater plumes
of the contaminants in the soil below
10 feet and to prohibit the use of the
site's groundwater as a drinking water
source until cleanup standards have been
achieved.
The nearly $50 million cleanup will result
in the property meeting EPA's residential
reuse standards, which are the Agency's
most stringent cleanup standards.
What is Currently
Happening at the Site?
Gathering Further Information
Before cleanup can begin, more informa-
tion needs to be gathered in order to
better design the cleanup. These efforts
began last summer and will continue until
the end of 2009 and primarily include:
* additional soil and sediment sampling to
help refine the area and depth of excava-
tion at depths between 0 and 10 feet;
* additional deep soil and groundwater
samples to help refine the area and depth
of soil vapor extraction treatment;
on-site and laboratory tests (e.g.,
groundwater pump tests and tests to
determine how porous the soil is) to
collect the necessary information for the
design of the soil vapor extraction and
groundwater extraction and treatment
systems; and
continued groundwater monitoring on
and off-site to evaluate the contaminant
plume and existing water supply wells.
In addition to these sampling efforts, an
evaluation of potential routes of vehicular
and pedestrian access to the site will also
be conducted, including evaluating exist-
ing access routes and constructing new
access routes from Parcel 2, including a
bridge over Kelley Brook
Ongoing Groundwater
Monitoring
The New Hampshire Department of
Environmental Services (NHDES) has
been routinely monitoring residential
wells in the vicinity of the Beede Site since
1991. The monitoring program currently
includes approximately 50 residential wells
which are monitored for the presence
of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
VOCs include many of the chemicals
found in petroleum products (such as
benzene, toluene and xylenes) and also
include chlorinated solvents (such as
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Up to 17 of those wells are sampled
every three months and every three years
samples are taken from about 50 water
supply wells.
The monitoring efforts to date have
shown that seven water supply wells are
currently impacted by site-related VOCs
and only three residential wells have
VOCs present above State standards. As
a result, all those served by these three
wells are currently receiving bottled water
or carbon filtration treatment to remove
or reduce the VOC contamination to safe
levels.
In 2008, the NHDES required the analy-
sis of a newly identified contaminant,
1,4-dioxane, at all hazardous waste sites
including the Beede Site. 1,4-dioxane is a
solvent stabilizer and is also found in many
consumer products including cosmetics,
shampoos and soap. In February 2009, it
was reported that 1,4-dioxane was de-
tected in groundwater at the Beede Site.
The collection of water samples from
nearby residential wells began immediately
to determine if 1,4-dioxane is present at
levels above the State's 3 parts per billion
standard. Since February, samples were
taken from 27 properties and the same
seven wells that have been impacted by
other VOCs from the site have also been
impacted by 1,4-dioxane. Of those seven,
three wells currently have 1,4-dioxane at
concentrations above the State's standard
of 3 parts per billion and those house-
holds are provided bottled water regularly.
Activated carbon was changed on all
Point-of-Entry (POE) treatment systems
and samples are now taken monthly to
monitor the performance of the POEs.
Monitoring for 1,4-dioxane and VOCs will
continue as part of the site's comprehen-
sive cleanup plan.
What Will Happen Next Year?
The information gathered in 2008 and
2009 will inform and refine the cleanup
designs. Engineering design work is sched-
uled to start in January 2010. A major
aspect of that design work will include
evaluating in detail any potential impacts
the required groundwater extraction
could have on nearby residential wells and,
if necessary, determining the corrective
actions that would be performed prior
to startup of the groundwater extraction
system. With the potential of having up
to seven wells extracting 100 to 200 gal-
lons per minute and then, after treatment,
returning that volume back into the site's
water table, clearly a full understanding is
needed to avoid unintended consequences
like disturbing area well outputs or caus-
ing contamination in residential wells
previously not impacted.
When Will the Cleanup Begin?
The comprehensive cleanup is expected
to start in 2011. Aside from the ground-
water component, the soil and sediment
cleanup is slated to conclude in 2013.
Will EPA Hold More
Public Meetings?
As the design work gets developed, EPA
and NHDES will hold more public meet-
ings to keep the community informed,
be available to answer questions, and get
public input
What Has Been Happening
in Recent Years?
A comprehensive legal settlement agree-
ment, also called a Consent Decree,
between the federal government, the state
of New Hampshire and 101 potentially
responsible parties was lodged with the
court in April 2007 and entered as a final
order by the New Hampshire Federal
District Court in July 2008. The Consent
Decree secures a commitment from the
settling parties to finance and conduct
a comprehensive clean up of the Beede
site worth an estimated $48 million. In
addition, the United States and the State
will recover over $ 17 million in past costs
and receive payment for up to about $9
million in future oversight costs.
In addition, between 2001 and 2004, EPA
New England completed four"cashout"
settlements with 1,199 parties who indi-
vidually contributed relatively small vol-
umes of waste to the site ("de minimis"
parties).These settlements raised over
$ 17.3 million for site-related costs.
Who is Doing the Work?
Under the Consent Decree, the settling
parties are required to implement the 2004
comprehensive cleanup plan. To do so, the
group has hired a project manager and an
environmental consulting company. EPA
Site Background
The nearly 41 -arce Beede site is
located in a residential Platstow, NH
neighborhood that is served entirely
by private drinking water supply
wells.The facility was in operation
from the 1920s through August 1994
as a waste oil storage and recycling
facility.The site is contaminated
primarily with waste oil that seeped
into the ground from a variety of
sources, including a former unlined
lagoon, underground storage tanks,
aboveground storage tanks, and
numerous drums located throughout
the property.The site was added
to EPA's National Priorities (Super-
fund) List in December 1996.The
principal threats to human health
and the environment are polychlo-
rinated biphenyls (PCBs) and lead in
the shallow soil,VOCs in the deep
soil, and VOCs in the groundwater.
Lower risks are posed by PCBs and
petroleum hydrocarbon compounds
(PAHs) in a relatively small amount
of Kelley Brook sediment and VOCs
and PAHs in Kelley Brook waters.
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