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AlamedaReuseandRedevelopmentAuthority | 2011-11-02 | 3 | Response to Comments on Status Update for the ARRA Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority Meeting - November 2, 2011 Time Comment Marker Response Comments by Dale Smith, Alameda Point Restoration Advisory Board Community Co-Chair 33:49 The residential standards are for groundwater only, and they At Alameda Point, cleanup to residential standards means are not for soil. So the soil has high levels of lead, mercury, that the health risk and health hazard from both soil and cadmium, vanadium, and other toxic metals in the soil that is groundwater (combined) are health-protective for single- not being addressed. family residential land use; which is the most stringent land- use standard. This principle applies to both the CERCLA (Full Comment: The talk of residential standards, when I talk and Petroleum Programs. Accordingly, the concentrations of to community members, they seem to get confused because toxic metals in soil are explicitly considered by the Navy the residential standards are for groundwater only, and they and the environmental regulatory agencies in deciding are not for soil. So the soil has high levels of lead, mercury, whether soil remediation is needed to allow residential land cadmium, vanadium, and other toxic metals in the soil, and use and, if so, the type and extent of that remediation. that is not being addressed as far as we can tell.) 34:14 Slide 13 represents the CERCLA sites only. There are Contamination in soil and groundwater at Alameda Point is petroleum sites that move in and out of CERCLA. One addressed by either the CERCLA or Petroleum Program, month they'l be in, and the next month they'l be out. For whichever appears to be most appropriate. For example, a example, the plume under Kollmann Circle originally was in site with petroleum contamination is typically managed the petroleum site, got put in the CERCLA site. under the Petroleum Program, unless non-petroleum contamination also is present. Occasionally, management of (Full Comment: The graphs in the document, according to a particular site will transfer from one program to another the EPA representative, represent the CERCLA sites only, during the course of investigation and remedial decision and I don't know if you changed those or you basically used making. For example, a site may move to the CERCLA those graphs. You know the tall Yeah, so those are Program if contamination by a CERCLA substance is found CERCLA sites only, and there are petroleum sites that move at a Petroleum Program site. The goals for protection of in and out of CERCLA. They do a little hula dance. One human health and the environment are the same with both month they'll be in, and the next month they'll be out. So programs. there are sites that are still of concern, such as the plume under Kollmann Circle, which originally was in the petroleum site, but then because of problems in Bayport, it got put in the CERCLA site. So just bear that in mind. As I said, the soil is not being remediated.) 35:09 According to the presentation, "cleanup" means active This comment primarily applies to cleanup of groundwater Page 1 of 1 November 7, 2011 | AlamedaReuseandRedevelopmentAuthority/2011-11-02.pdf |