In addition, the owners of an abutting property
expressed a disinterest in discussing access. Ad-
ditional considerations include the need to move
a septic leach field and construction of either
roadway enhancement or installation of a traffic
light on Route 125. The estimated cost range is
$355,000 to $470,000, which does not include
roadway enhancements, real estate transactions, or
a temporary traffic light.

NEXT STEPS

The Beede Performing Group, under the super-
vision of EPA and NHDES, will develop a 30%

Design for Access Routes D and A1. As part
of its plan to maintain contact with the local
community and town, EPA will hold informa-
tional meetings and/or issue newsletters as
information becomes available. It is expected
that the fuil design work wiil be completed in
2011. The construction schedule will be deter-
mined as part of the completed design. Some
cleanup could begin in 2011, but the bulk of
the cleanup is expected to start in 2012 and
last approximately four years (trucking of con-
taminated soil and clean fill is only one part of
the effort and is expected to take about 9 to
18 months). The groundwater treatment will

continue until cleanup standards are meet
which is estimated to take 15 years after
the on-site source of groundwater contami-
nation has been treated.

More information can be found at the site
information repository at the Plaistow Pub-
lic Library, 85 Main Street, and the EPA
Records Center, 5 Post Office Sq., Boston
or on-line at www.epa.region 1/superfund/
sites/beede.

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U.S. EPA I HAZARDOUS WASTE PROGRAM AT EPA NEW ENGLAND

THE SUPERFUND PROGRAM protects human health
and the environment by investigating and cleaning up often-abandoned
hazardous waste sites and engaging communities throughout the process.
Many of these sites are complex and need long-term cleanup actions.
Those responsible for contamination are held liable for cleanup costs.
EPA strives to return previously contaminated land and groundwater
to productive use.

Beede Waste Oil Site Plaistow, nh

Cleaning Up New England	SITE UPDATE

SITE DESCRIPTION:

Part of the $50 million cleanup of the Beede Waste Oil Superfund Site is going to require trucking approximately
78,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and sediment to an off-site facility, and bringing in clean fill. Before the
cleanup can get started, a temporary truck route and design details for the cleanup must be determined. Al-
though the parties performing the Beede cleanup are required to provide information on possible access
routes, EPA, in consultation with NH Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) makes the final selection
of an appropriate access route for truck traffic. To help inform its decision, EPA consulted with site neighbors,
Plaistow Town officials, the NHDES, the NH Department of Transportation, and T.Y. Lin International Con-
sultants (traffic experts hired by EPA), as well as the written evaluation of all possible site access routes pro-
vided by the Beede Performing Group, the parties responsible for the cleanup, as part of its court agreement.

Soil removal is required by EPA's cleanup decision for the
site. During the period of greatest truck activity (during
removal of contaminated soil), the numbers of trucks
entering and leaving the site could vary from approximately
30 to 43 trucks per day and take 9 to 18 months to com-
plete (estimates take into account avoiding school bus
operations). The longer the trucking duration, the fewer
number of trucks will be used per day. EPA recognizes
that all access routes present some level of inconvenience
or impact to local residents and infrastructure during the
estimated 9 to 18 months of trucking. But the 40-acre
Beede Site cannot be cleaned up without vehicular access.
Potential risks to human health and the environment, and
to local drinking water wells, cannot be adequately ad-
dressed unless contaminated soil is removed.

In June 2010, EPA held an informational meeting at which
it described seven potential access routes under consid-
eration. After careful study, EPA believes that all of the
potential access routes necessary to perform the Beede

cleanup could be made safe for truck traffic. However, of
all the potential routes, EPA has selected Access Route
D as the preferred option. Access Route A1 has been
chosen as the backup option for further evaluation if it is
discovered that Access Route D cannot be implemented.
Use of these two points of access will be further evaluated
as part of the Preliminary Cleanup Design Report (often
referred to as the 30% Design Report).

WHAT IS "3 0% DESIGN"?

A design report transforms a plan from broad
concepts (e.g., digging and hauling contaminated
soil) to one with detailed logistics (e.g., exactly
where and how much soil, how many trucks,
during which hours, any road improvements, a
traffic safety management plan addressing avoid-
ing school bus traffic, signage, flaggers, police de-
tails, etc.). Thirty percent is the amount of detail
where a project has enough specifics to be fur-
ther discussed with the public and local officials.

KEY CONTACTS:

JIM BROWN

U.S. EPA Remedial
Project Manager
(617) 918-1308
brown ,ji m@epa.gov

STACY GREENDLINGER

U.S. EPA Community
Involvement Coordinator
(617) 918-1403
greendlinger.stacy@epa.gov

RICHARD PEASE

NH DES Project Manager
(603) 271-3649
richard.pease@des.nh.gov

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WHAT ABOUT THE REUSE PLAN?

In 2003, EPA provided the Town of Plaistow
with a $100,000 Superfund Redevelopment
Initiative Grant. These grants enable munici-
palities to hire consultants to assist in a vision-
ing process about a Superfund site's potential
reuse and help inform EPA about the site's
reasonable anticipated future reuse. Selection
of proper cleanup levels for a Superfund site is
complex, and it is helpful for EPA to gather as
much information as it can about likely future
use of a site as part of that process. The Beede
Site is located in a residential area, but Plaist-
ow's reuse efforts helped EPA to affirm that
the reasonable anticipated future reuse of the
Beede Waste Oil site will most likely remain
residential and that residential cleanup stan-
dards are appropriate for Beede. The details of
that potential future reuse as envisioned in the
Town's report, EPA expects, would be of ben-
efit to a future redeveloper. At this time the
property is zoned as residential by the Town
and owned by the Beede Performing Group.

SELECTED TEMPORARY ACCESS
ROUTE

Access Route D involves creating a temporary access
point onto Main Street (Route 121 A), at the inter-
section with Danville Road, from which trucks will
travel to Route 125. The geometry of this temporary
route easily creates a standard four-way intersection
that can be safely handled by either flaggers and/or
police details, or through the construction of a tem-
porary or permanent traffic light (such design details
will be evaluated further as part of the 30% Design
Report). This intersection can also be designed to en-
sure a safe truck turning radius and will not require
roadway improvements because the road is already
built to accommodate truck and other heavy vehicle
traffic. The trucks exiting the site will have good
sight distance in either direction without having to
relocate utility poles, trim trees, or construct other
roadway improvements.

Infrastructure considerations for this route needing
further study in the design stage include whether
or not it makes sense to use a left-turn signal at the
intersection of Main Street and Route 125 to alle-
viate congestion and to enhance safety, and/or to
construct a temporary traffic signal at Danville Road
and Main Street, or if flaggers and/or police details
provide sufficient control and safety. This route may
require the demolition of one house and the estab-
lishment of access across another property. During
the 30% design phase, this option's current estimat-
ed cost of $305,000 to $375,000 will be refined to
account for recommended design elements such as
the possible lease or purchase of property for access.

THE $50 MILLION BEEDE
WASTE OIL SUPERFUND
SITE CLEANUP INVOLVES:

•	Excavation and off-site disposal of con-
taminated shallow soil, sediment from
Kelley Brook, and soil piles (approximate-
ly 78,000 cubic yards);

•	Treatment of contaminated deep soil
using soil vapor extraction technology;

•	Groundwater extraction and treatment;

•	Land use restrictions; and,

•	Long-term monitoring of groundwater,
surface water, and sediment.

BACK-UP ACCESS ROUTE A1

If during the 30% design effort it is determined that
Access Route D can't be implemented, Access Route
A1 will be the preferred alternative. With this route,
trucks would turn left onto Kelley Road and then left
again onto Main Street before heading to Route 125.
It is important to note that the exact A1 driveway
location has not yet been confirmed and it will be
determined more exactly during the 30% design ef-
fort. The exact driveway entrance could be located
anywhere between the Main Street side of the exist-
ing building along Kelley Road and the location shown
on the potential access routes map.

Design work for evaluation of this access route also
will include evaluation of whether or not it makes
sense to install a temporary traffic light at the in-
tersection of Kelley Road, Main Street and Culver
Street, as well as the potential benefits of installing
a left-turn signal at Main Street and Route 125, or if
flaggers and/or police details provide sufficient con-
trol and safety. An existing estimated cost range for
Access Route A1 is $217,000 to $287,000, however
the actual costs will be refined during design work to
include recommended design elements.

ELIMINATED ROUTES

Route A2 is the site's existing entrance and was
eliminated because of the dip and bend in the road
which limits the trucks' line of sight exiting the site,
the road condition, as well as the number of Kelley
Road residents that trucks would pass on this rela-
tively narrow residential road. Although these issues
could be addressed through planning; in comparison
to Access Routes D and A1, more measures would
need to be taken to do so. The estimated cost range
of $140,000 to $210,000 does not take into account
pavement improvements, a potential light at Kelley
Road and Main Street, measures to address the lim-
ited line of sight, nor the addition of a potential left-
turn signal at Main Street and Route 125.

Route B involves the building of a bridge over Kelley
Brook and its wetlands and floodplain to Old County
Road. Although this route would have trucks passing
a low number of residential properties en-route to
Route 125, it does not comply with state and federal
laws and regulations regarding wetlands and flood-
plains. As noted by the state's expert, the quality of
wetlands in the area of Old County Road is of high
value. The Federal Wetlands Executive Order, the
Federal Floodplains Executive Order and the Federal
Clean Water Act, in addition to New Hampshire
standards for avoidance and minimization of impacts

to wetlands, prohibit destruction of wetlands and
floodplains where there is a practicable alternative to
such activity. Because there are other practicable ac-
cess routes for the Beede Site, Access Route B can't
be selected.

In addition to the federal and state wetland and
floodplain laws and regulations, EPA was made aware
of additional considerations such as the existing lim-
ited line of sight, road conditions not designed for
heavy trucks, the possible need for a left turn and
acceleration lanes, and a culvert not rated for truck
loads. Construction of a bridge is the one route that
would likely have a permanent impact.

The estimated cost for a permanent bridge is
$1,500,000 which does not include the costs asso-
ciated with the possible left-turn and acceleration
lanes or the costs associated with police details and/
or flaggers on Old County Road.

Routes C1a, C1b, C2, which would direct trucks
directly onto Route 125, were eliminated because
the NH Department of Transportation regards these
options as the least desirable and critically, use of ac-
cess roads C1a and C1b would impact floodplains, and
federal and state laws prohibit impact to a floodplain if
practicable alternatives exist, which they do for Beede.

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