03-05-2007 Minutes

Meeting Minutes
CONTAMINATED SITES COMMITTEE
Meeting March 5, 2007, 6:30 pm, Municipal Building

Present: Deborah Roy Roberts, Peter Petrowich, Nora Craig, Suzanne McCarthy, Ken Gonzales, Jay Mounier. Kevin Kelton and Barbara Halpern also attended towards the end of the meeting.

Nora Craig reported that she had learned that the township has obtained property management database software produced by Mitchell Humphrey. So far, it is only being used for construction permits. It does not have optical indexing as part of it.

Ken Gonzales is a member of the Franklin Township Police Department and was representing Chief DiGiorgio. Ken advised that the Police Department will be designating an Emergency Management officer, who will be a Sergeant, but that appointment has not yet been made.

The resolution drafted by Suzanne for the Township Committee to adopt, authorizing the work of the Contaminated Sites Committee, was given to Frank Scavelli. It was not presented at the Committee meeting on February 27 and probably had not yet been reviewed by the solicitor. Hopefully it will be adopted at one of the meetings in March.

Deborah Roy Roberts and Peter Petrowich reported on their visit to DEP to see records on known contaminated sites. They examined and scanned records on three sites:

1. DAS Automotive-had five tanks removed in 1992 and had 5 monitoring wells installed on three separate occasions during 1993-2002. The NJDEP on 2/2007 has requested that DAS install two deep monitoring wells. Brickerhoff Environmental Services, who performed the remedial investigation for DAS, notified Franklin Twp. on 2/1/07 requesting permission to install the wells. On 2/12/07 an attorney hired by Brickerhoff notified two near by property owners on Pearl Street and Euclid Street, requesting access on their property to install the monitoring wells.

2. Pioneer Metals- files show last activity from DEP on 10/15/04 when a letter was sent to Pioneer giving them conditional approval based on an amended Remedial Investigation Work Plan report dated March 2004 and August 23, 2004, submitted by Malcolm Pirnie Engineering on behalf of Pioneer. The amended RIWP proposes additional soil/sediment samples, surface water sampling, redeveloping existing wells, installing and sampling of two additional wells. A field reconnaissance was to be conducted and Pioneer was to notify the DEP prior to field activities so that the DEP could be present. Malcolm Pirnie Engineering in their RIWP dated March 2004 to the DEP proposed a schedule of events starting May 2004 through July 2009.

3. Shaun Fuel- (Garoppo’s Texaco Service Station) records show potable well samplings done on 9/7/06 by MIG Environmental at a well on the Garoppo site and a well at Franklinville Pre-School Academy. The MIG report indicated above limits of MTBE for the daycare well. The most current document on file was a Notice of Violation dated 1/17/07 instructing Garoppos to conduct a remedial investigation 60 days from date of notice and submit the report within 90 days from the date of notice.

It was agreed that Deborah and Pete will write up the three cases they have examined in a form that can serve as a template for future reports. Deborah and Pete will also contact the Case Manager for each of these sites. Clearly, given the amount of material that is available and the time it will take to examine each case, there is a need for more people to work on this project.

Barbara Halpern reported that she had looked at the records involving the Riggins Gas Station because the County Health Department, where she works, had found a spill when investigating for a septic system application in 1990. There was floating petroleum in the groundwater at that time. As far as she knows, no remediation or further exploration of this problem was undertaken. The Riggins gas station is the site of an underground storage tank leak from when it was K and G Axel owned by Connenna. The contamination was found after it was sold to Riggins but before the new station was built. Riggins sued the former owners but Barbara did not know the outcome of that lawsuit.

The agreement with D.E.P. under the remedial action work plan was to remove soil that was contaminated which was done and to monitor the ground water yearly and if the contamination was reaching 2 years of Pegasus's well the consultant/owner was to come up with a new plan. Barbara is trying to get the case worker to issue a notice to Riggins because the owner of the facility has not sent a consultants report with monitoring well results to the D.E.P. since Feb 2004. Last correspondence she read was dated 1998 from D.E.P. said that the product was not degrading as had been the assertion of the consultant who wrote the original remedial action work plan accepted by D.E.P. in fact it was becoming more concentrated in the monitoring wells. D.E.P. had asked for a plan to be proposed to address this problem. Barbara is still trying to reach the case worker to find out if he has sent out a notice to the owner to get a current consultants report and testing to D.E.P. The case worker is Arthur Trenahan. Barbara indicated that she would try again and reach Mr. Trenahan this week.

The next meeting of the Committee will be on Monday, March 19, at the Community Center Room 2 at 6:30 p.m.

**Meeting Minutes**
CONTAMINATED SITES COMMITTEE Meeting March 5, 2007, 6:30 pm, Municipal Building Present: Deborah Roy Roberts, Peter Petrowich, Nora Craig, Suzanne McCarthy, Ken Gonzales, Jay Mounier. Kevin Kelton and Barbara Halpern also attended towards the end of the meeting. Nora Craig reported that she had learned that the township has obtained property management database software produced by Mitchell Humphrey. So far, it is only being used for construction permits. It does not have optical indexing as part of it. Ken Gonzales is a member of the Franklin Township Police Department and was representing Chief DiGiorgio. Ken advised that the Police Department will be designating an Emergency Management officer, who will be a Sergeant, but that appointment has not yet been made. The resolution drafted by Suzanne for the Township Committee to adopt, authorizing the work of the Contaminated Sites Committee, was given to Frank Scavelli. It was not presented at the Committee meeting on February 27 and probably had not yet been reviewed by the solicitor. Hopefully it will be adopted at one of the meetings in March. Deborah Roy Roberts and Peter Petrowich reported on their visit to DEP to see records on known contaminated sites. They examined and scanned records on three sites: 1. DAS Automotive-had five tanks removed in 1992 and had 5 monitoring wells installed on three separate occasions during 1993-2002. The NJDEP on 2/2007 has requested that DAS install two deep monitoring wells. Brickerhoff Environmental Services, who performed the remedial investigation for DAS, notified Franklin Twp. on 2/1/07 requesting permission to install the wells. On 2/12/07 an attorney hired by Brickerhoff notified two near by property owners on Pearl Street and Euclid Street, requesting access on their property to install the monitoring wells. 2. Pioneer Metals- files show last activity from DEP on 10/15/04 when a letter was sent to Pioneer giving them conditional approval based on an amended Remedial Investigation Work Plan report dated March 2004 and August 23, 2004, submitted by Malcolm Pirnie Engineering on behalf of Pioneer. The amended RIWP proposes additional soil/sediment samples, surface water sampling, redeveloping existing wells, installing and sampling of two additional wells. A field reconnaissance was to be conducted and Pioneer was to notify the DEP prior to field activities so that the DEP could be present. Malcolm Pirnie Engineering in their RIWP dated March 2004 to the DEP proposed a schedule of events starting May 2004 through July 2009. 3. Shaun Fuel- (Garoppo’s Texaco Service Station) records show potable well samplings done on 9/7/06 by MIG Environmental at a well on the Garoppo site and a well at Franklinville Pre-School Academy. The MIG report indicated above limits of MTBE for the daycare well. The most current document on file was a Notice of Violation dated 1/17/07 instructing Garoppos to conduct a remedial investigation 60 days from date of notice and submit the report within 90 days from the date of notice. It was agreed that Deborah and Pete will write up the three cases they have examined in a form that can serve as a template for future reports. Deborah and Pete will also contact the Case Manager for each of these sites. Clearly, given the amount of material that is available and the time it will take to examine each case, there is a need for more people to work on this project. Barbara Halpern reported that she had looked at the records involving the Riggins Gas Station because the County Health Department, where she works, had found a spill when investigating for a septic system application in 1990. There was floating petroleum in the groundwater at that time. As far as she knows, no remediation or further exploration of this problem was undertaken. The Riggins gas station is the site of an underground storage tank leak from when it was K and G Axel owned by Connenna. The contamination was found after it was sold to Riggins but before the new station was built. Riggins sued the former owners but Barbara did not know the outcome of that lawsuit. The agreement with D.E.P. under the remedial action work plan was to remove soil that was contaminated which was done and to monitor the ground water yearly and if the contamination was reaching 2 years of Pegasus's well the consultant/owner was to come up with a new plan. Barbara is trying to get the case worker to issue a notice to Riggins because the owner of the facility has not sent a consultants report with monitoring well results to the D.E.P. since Feb 2004. Last correspondence she read was dated 1998 from D.E.P. said that the product was not degrading as had been the assertion of the consultant who wrote the original remedial action work plan accepted by D.E.P. in fact it was becoming more concentrated in the monitoring wells. D.E.P. had asked for a plan to be proposed to address this problem. Barbara is still trying to reach the case worker to find out if he has sent out a notice to the owner to get a current consultants report and testing to D.E.P. The case worker is Arthur Trenahan. Barbara indicated that she would try again and reach Mr. Trenahan this week. The next meeting of the Committee will be on Monday, March 19, at the Community Center Room 2 at 6:30 p.m.

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