NCD980602163_19780921_Warren County PCB Landfill_SERB C_Crime Control News Release re Brief on Test Removal of PCB-OCR

North Carolina Department of
-CRIME CONTROL
&PUBLIC SAFETY
Civil Prepazedness Civil Air Patrol state Highway Patrol news release National Guard Alcohol Law Enforcement Crone Control
BRIEF ON TEST REMOV AL OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCB)
ON NC-58 IN WARREN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
September 21, 1978
PURPOSE: To test effectiveness, safety and environmental effects of removing
and hauling PCB contaminated soil.
OPERATIONAL DATA: Beginning time --10:00 a.m.
Ending time --approxima t ely 3:00 p.m.
25-50 dump truck loads of contaminated soil (100-200 cubic yards t ~-]) ·
'· will be ·removed from a one-mile long strip of the shoulder of NC-58 ~n
i~arren County and hauled t o DOT maintenance yard, west of Warrenton, for
temporary storage . (Alternatives for permanent disposal are under study.)
EQUIPMENT: 1. The shoulder surface will be moistened by a hydro-seeder to prevent
excess dust.
TEMPORARY
STORAGE:
2. A motor grader will scrape the soil to a depth of three inches and
deposit it on the pavement.
3. Soil on the pavement will be conveyed into dump trucks by a force
feed front end loader .
4. A hydro-seeder will apply another water application to pavement
and shoulder to control dust.
5. A rotary broom wi ll brush the water solution and any soil on the
pavement onto th~ shoulder . (Signs marking low shoulders will be
installed until reshaping and reseeding occurs at a later date.)
The contaminated soil will be stored on the grounds of the maintenance
yard between four layers of polyethylene which will isolate it from
surrounding air and water until it is removed to a permanent disposal
site. The storage si te will be enclosed in a fence and marked with
a sign.
J. Phil Carlton, Secretary
Linda Irwin, Information Officer,[phone]
Box 27687, Raleigh, N.C. 27611
HEALTH EFFECTS PRECAUTIONS:
All participants and observers who will be in close proximity to
the scraping, lifting or dumping of the contaminated soil will wear air filtration
devices and protective clothing. ALL PERSONNEL ARE CLOTHED FOR MAXIMUM PROTECTION.
THE TEST WILL DETERMINE HOW MUCH OF THE PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT CAN BE REMOVED FOR
THE ACTUAL PCB CLEANUP. All persons wearing this protective clothing will shower
in a field shower supplied by _the U. S. Anny at the completion of the test as
an additional precaution.
Every person participating in the test has had a blood test to deter-
mine liver function and to establish existing levels of PCB.
Approximately 60 people will be equiped with protective clothing.
Air monitoring stations have been set up to record pre-operation
conditions and compare them with operational conditions at a variety of locations
and distances from the removal site, haul road and storage site. Air monitoring
is being handled by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Health Effects Research
Laboratoryand by the Department of Human Resources.
EPA indicates the results of the monitoring should be available
in four \-Jeeks. Dave Kelly will announce the resu.lts when they become available.
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PROJECT COORDINATOR
David Kelly,.Assistant Secretary for Public Safety, North Carolina Department
of Crime Control and Public Safety, [phone]
COOPERATING AGENCIES
North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety
Contact: Linda I ti'lin, 733-5027
North Carolina Department of Human Res1urces
Contact: June Milby, 733-4471
North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Corrmunity Development
Contact: Stuart George, 733-3115
North Carolina Department of Transportation
Contact: Cy K. Lynn, 733-3463
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: David Hopkins, 733-7015 (Temporary number)
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a .m.
9:30 a.m.
9:45 a.m.
10:00 a .m.
10:30 a.m.
PCB REMOVAL FIELD TEST
Thursday, September 21, 1978
SCHEDULE OF NEWS MEDIA PARTICIPATION
DOT Maintenance Facility off Secondary Road 1001, west of Warrenton.
(Maintenance yard is on a dead end road next to the Starlight Dance
Club No. 2.)
News media who have had blood tests will receive and put on protective
equipment and board a transporter truck for St. Stephens Baptist Church.
(June r-1i lby wi 11 be contact on the transporter truck.)
St. Stephens Baptist Church on NC-58, south of test area.
News media without blood tests arrive and prepare for briefing.
St. Stephens Baptist Church.
Briefing for all news media and interested persons by Dave Kelly,
Assistant Secretary for Public Safety, N. C. Department of Crime
Control and Public Safety.
St. Stephens Baptist Church.
News media who have had blood ~ests board the transporter truck
for on-site observation of tests from on board the truck.
' ' Media without blood tests may accompany Cy Lynn to view clean-up
equipment until 10:00 a.rn~~ then 300' distance must be maintained
around the test area.)
Field tests of the removal operatic~ begins.
News media without blood tests may accompany Stuart George to the
maintenance facility to view the unloading of contaminated soil
from a safe distance.
The route has been marked on the attached map.
DOT maintenance facility.
News media in transporter truck arrive to view the first load of
.contaminated _soil and to conclude coveraqe.
News media with blood tests will shower and put street clothes
back on. Electronic equipment will be guarded while in shower
and returned after dressed. Women will s~ower first; followed
by men.
NOTE: Attached maps are for your use in getting to and from sites. Routes for
getting to the temporary storage site from the test site while the testing
is underway is marked for those who are not with the blood tested group.
Please be on time. All ·sequences will begin as indicated.
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