[Occupymendocino] Fwd: GP MILL SITE COVER-UP GOES DEEPER

[Ann Rennacker]

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From: Annemarie <aweibel at mcn.org>
Date: 3/6/17 6:49 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: Annemarie <aweibel at mcn.org>
Subject: GP MILL SITE COVER-UP GOES DEEPER

GP MILL SITE COVER-UP GOES DEEPER

3/2/17 Phone call with DTSC Tom Lanphar, Kimi Klein, of Berkeley and
Nathan Shumaker of Sacramento; Supervisor said she might be on the call
a few days ago but was not.

Nathan helpfully informed me that a way to have my concerns taken into
account was that I am able to vote for the FB city council. He also told
me the City of FB will be “monitoring” the project and has a
responsibility to monitor that the mitigations of the project are followed.

Toward the end of the call, Nathan finally mentioned they are working on
an ”implementation plan” which they will have ready by the summer just
before this toxics removal, scheduled for Aug. 15, 2017, to further
specify the methodology by which they were going to require for the
removal of the contaminated soils. I mentioned that EPA ordered agencies
to consider all the materials (soils and sediments and effluents) which
contain toxics such as dioxin are to be treated as contaminated
materials in their entirety. There is no plan so far for how they are
going to dry out the sediments and how they will deal with the effluent
which will be contaminated with contaminated soil particles.

I stated there is no accountability in the plan they have now, there is
conflict of interest in that the subcontractor, who is removing the
soils, of the contractor Arcadis, in charge of the project, who will be
also in charge of observing whatever mitigations they have concerning
wind speed, cleaning trucks, monitoring dust, monitoring air, covering
the soil piled up and left on the ground after excavation, etc. At the
same time the sub contractor is trying to get the trucks out by noon to
have them in Kettleman City in time, has daytime working hours
constraints, has a project length time restraint, this takes place on a
very windy site with very changeable winds, and this subcontractor is
also responsible for monitoring and stopping the work when the
conditions are present.

Meanwhile I looked up a few numbers:

Adults in industrialized world carry 2,000-6,000 pico grams per
kilograms of body weight (pg/kg/bw) or parts per trillion (ppt)
Moderately exposed workers 3,000-13,000 pg/kg/bw or ppt
Highly exposed workers 28,000-400,000 pg/kg/bw or ppt
The soils and sediments in Georgia Pacific Fort Bragg Mill Site burn
area, riparian area and ponds have a high dioxin concentration of 2,728
pico grams. In parts per trillion it is 2,728 ppt.

EPA maximum daily adult exposure of dioxin is 0.7 pg/kg/bw or 0.7 ppt or
about 40 pg per day and DTSC says dioxin levels in the soils and pond
sediments left after “remediation” will be at least 40-50 pg or ppt
depending on the location.

–Sue Miller, Fort Bragg

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