The Radiator Shop Site is located on East Broad Avenue in Albany, Georgia, and owned by the City of Albany. It is a Hazardous Site Inventory (HSI) listed site and is regulated by the Georgia Hazardous Site Response Rules, Chapter 391-3-19. Fortis was selected to implement the Soil Remediation Plan prepared by another firm. Source removal activities consisted of removing lead and PCB contaminated soil above the Type 1 standards, which requires the soil lead concentrations to be below 75 mg/kg (target removal concentration). In addition to hazardous waste, other waste streams requiring management and disposal included rubber tires, construction debris, and non-hazardous lead contaminated soil.
Project activities included:
§ Mobilization and demobilization of equipment;
§ Preparation of an equipment lay-down area and a material stockpiling area;
§ Various surveys ;
§ Installation and maintenance of erosion controls;
§ Installation and maintenance of security fencing;
§ Clearing and grubbing activities;
§ Soil excavation;
§ Segregation of hazardous and non-hazardous soil;
§ Segregated stockpiling at a staging area;
§ Waste profiling (both hazardous and non-hazardous);
§ Loading waste into trucks for transport;
§ Waste disposal;
§ Confirmatory soil sampling of excavation area; and
§ Site restoration, including installing/compacting backfill material, raking and re-contouring disturbed areas, mulching and reseeding.
Fortis utilized their sister company, Tri-Con, to provide construction personnel for this work. Source removal activities were made difficult by the presence of numerous underground telecommunication and other utilities. Many of these utilities were quite old and could not be accurately located. As a result, many areas were excavated by hand to avoid damaging these utilities. Fortis and Tri-Con personnel worked closely with BellSouth and city officials to ensure that the communication lines were not compromised.
A total of approximately 575 cubic yards of hazardous lead and PCB-impacted soil was removed from the site and disposed in an approved hazardous waste landfill. A total of 3,040 cubic yards of non-hazardous lead-contaminated soil was disposed. All project activities were completed in a timely, safe manner.
