5. HAZARDOUS WASTE EMERGENCY RESPONSE, CERLCA ACTIONS, and LITIGATION SUPPORT:
Key Elements: Environmental emergency response coordination with local, state, and federal resources, and evaluation of environmental site assessments and remedial action alternatives.
EPA Emergency Responses, Idaho. From 1999 through early 2000, under the START contract for EPA Region 10, Ms. Robinson provided on-call support response to emergencies involving hazardous materials. She conducted sampling of unknown materials in drums that had been discovered at a construction site in Boise, and provided contaminant and cleanup monitoring both on site and in workers’ homes following a mercury spill near Rupert. She completed a materials inventory and material/soil sampling at an illegal dump site near Wilder, conducted sampling to support an EPA criminal investigation of buried drums near Weiser, and provided standby coverage for potential “Y2K” emergency events.
EPA Region 9/10 ARCS Program, Western United States. Under the Alternative Remedial Contracting Strategy program for EPA Regions 9 and 10, she:
- Reviewed and revised the QA program plan and sampling plans for groundwater remediation at the Modesto Groundwater Superfund site in California.
- Oversaw excavation, soil sampling, and sample field screening at the McCarthy’s Pacific Hide and Fur site in Pocatello, Idaho.
- Conducted oversight water sampling at the Talache mine tailing site near Atlanta, Idaho.
- Conducted heap leach pile soil and water sampling at the Comeback Mine near Idaho City, Idaho.
- On the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho, she monitored the removal of a leaking tank and tar at a former wood treating facility and assisted in the characterization, separation, packaging, and disposal of hazardous materials that had been stored in a compound near tribal headquarters.
- Conducted groundwater sampling at the Apple Street contamination site in Boise, Idaho, in 2000, returning to the site in 2003 to oversee abandonment of the monitoring wells.
- Was a member of the team that conducted Geoprobe subsurface soil and groundwater sampling and estuarine/wetlands sediment sampling at a former power station and mill/dump site adjacent to a marine sanctuary at Garibaldi, Oregon.
- Was a member of the interagency team (EPA and Bureau of Land Management) that conducted basin wide surface water and sediment sampling for a Phase I preliminary assessment/site inspection (PA/SI) in the historic mining area encompassed within the Jordan Creek drainage in Owyhee County, Idaho, and Malheur County, Oregon.
Forest Service Mine Site PA and PA/SIs, Idaho. For the Forest Service Intermountain Region (Region 4), Ms. Robinson managed the review of the PA/SI and supporting documentation and developed the scope of work for additional fieldwork at the South Maybe Canyon mine tailings site near Soda Springs. She also managed PAs for several phosphate mines in southeastern Idaho, including the North Maybe Canyon, Smokey Canyon, Mountain Fuel, Champ, and Wooley Valley mines.
Risk Assessment Review, Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Camp, Bridgeport, California. For the Forest Service, Region 4, Ms. Robinson managed the review and critique of an ecological and human health risk assessment prepared for the United States Navy. The work product included specific comments regarding deficiencies in the document, as well as an assessment of the relative importance/impact of identified errors and deficiencies.
Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup, Litigation Support for Cost Recovery, Utah and California. Ms. Robinson provided litigation support (agency file searches, determination of common industry practices, available cleanup methods, and costs during specific time periods) to Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, a law firm representing the insurance company for a hazardous waste site in northern Utah and for multiple town gas sites in California.
Key Elements: Environmental emergency response coordination with local, state, and federal resources, and evaluation of environmental site assessments and remedial action alternatives.
EPA Emergency Responses, Idaho. From 1999 through early 2000, under the START contract for EPA Region 10, Ms. Robinson provided on-call support response to emergencies involving hazardous materials. She conducted sampling of unknown materials in drums that had been discovered at a construction site in Boise, and provided contaminant and cleanup monitoring both on site and in workers’ homes following a mercury spill near Rupert. She completed a materials inventory and material/soil sampling at an illegal dump site near Wilder, conducted sampling to support an EPA criminal investigation of buried drums near Weiser, and provided standby coverage for potential “Y2K” emergency events.
EPA Region 9/10 ARCS Program, Western United States. Under the Alternative Remedial Contracting Strategy program for EPA Regions 9 and 10, she:
- Reviewed and revised the QA program plan and sampling plans for groundwater remediation at the Modesto Groundwater Superfund site in California.
- Oversaw excavation, soil sampling, and sample field screening at the McCarthy’s Pacific Hide and Fur site in Pocatello, Idaho.
- Conducted oversight water sampling at the Talache mine tailing site near Atlanta, Idaho.
- Conducted heap leach pile soil and water sampling at the Comeback Mine near Idaho City, Idaho.
- On the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho, she monitored the removal of a leaking tank and tar at a former wood treating facility and assisted in the characterization, separation, packaging, and disposal of hazardous materials that had been stored in a compound near tribal headquarters.
- Conducted groundwater sampling at the Apple Street contamination site in Boise, Idaho, in 2000, returning to the site in 2003 to oversee abandonment of the monitoring wells.
- Was a member of the team that conducted Geoprobe subsurface soil and groundwater sampling and estuarine/wetlands sediment sampling at a former power station and mill/dump site adjacent to a marine sanctuary at Garibaldi, Oregon.
- Was a member of the interagency team (EPA and Bureau of Land Management) that conducted basin wide surface water and sediment sampling for a Phase I preliminary assessment/site inspection (PA/SI) in the historic mining area encompassed within the Jordan Creek drainage in Owyhee County, Idaho, and Malheur County, Oregon.
Forest Service Mine Site PA and PA/SIs, Idaho. For the Forest Service Intermountain Region (Region 4), Ms. Robinson managed the review of the PA/SI and supporting documentation and developed the scope of work for additional fieldwork at the South Maybe Canyon mine tailings site near Soda Springs. She also managed PAs for several phosphate mines in southeastern Idaho, including the North Maybe Canyon, Smokey Canyon, Mountain Fuel, Champ, and Wooley Valley mines.
Risk Assessment Review, Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Camp, Bridgeport, California. For the Forest Service, Region 4, Ms. Robinson managed the review and critique of an ecological and human health risk assessment prepared for the United States Navy. The work product included specific comments regarding deficiencies in the document, as well as an assessment of the relative importance/impact of identified errors and deficiencies.
Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup, Litigation Support for Cost Recovery, Utah and California. Ms. Robinson provided litigation support (agency file searches, determination of common industry practices, available cleanup methods, and costs during specific time periods) to Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, a law firm representing the insurance company for a hazardous waste site in northern Utah and for multiple town gas sites in California.