P-674-2000*During the spring the homeowner noticed that their tank was empty and they assumed that the oil had been stolen. The following fall while digging in the yard to install a satelite dish, they noticed an oil odor coming out of the ground. I investigated and concluded that the oil had not been stolen, but had leaked from the tank and was in the ground under the house. I had an excavation company remove approximately 30 tons of soil, at which time I had reached the limits of the contamination. Site was referred to Technical Services for monitoring.
A-37-1998*Received a report from Jean Gallant of MDOT that a spill had occurred at the Montville MDOT garage. I responded to the site. MDOT personnel reported that someone had left the spigot on the lube oil tank open causing the tank to drain. The oil found it's way to the floor drain and some was discharged outside the building. DOT people had cleaned up the drain and the garage. I inspected the area where the floor drain discharges. No evidence of oil was found. We tried to find the end of the discharge pipe with a backhoe, with no success. I left instructions that if a sheen is seen in the discharge area that we should be called. The area where the drain discharges is closed to any flowing water except during high spring water. No further action is necessary at this site.
A-599-1998*Received a report from Mead that they were experiencing a release of Chlorine Dioxide. I responded to the site and reported to the Mead emergency operations center. I was given a detailed briefing on what had occurred and what they were doing to mitigate the situation.  At 12:09, a 12" x 16" section of Fiberglass piping at the inlet to the B-line ClO2 bleach tower pre-retention tube (commonly called the "J-tube") failed due to erosion filling a basement portion of the bleach plant. As a result approximately 10 air-dried bleached tons of pulp were released onto the bleach plant floor. The break was directly after a ClO2 injection point. Calculations showed approximately 270 lbs. of ClO2 were released with the pulp. The spill was mitigated by washing the pulp to the mill sewer. I concurred with this decision. Release of ClO2 and Chlorine gas was minimized by the continuation of the bleaching reaction of the ClO2 in the pulp and on other organic materials in the mill process sewer.

Very detailed descriptions of what happened and how it was corrected are covered in the attached report from Mead. No further work is necessary concerning this incident.
B-314-2001*B-0314-01
Veazie

Wednesday, June 6, 2001				1340

I received a phone call from Mr. Tony Redman (945-5627), of the Veazie Fire Department. Mr. Redman phoned to report a heating oil spill at Silvers Trailer Park on the Chase Road in Veazie.  The spill occurred at Mrs. Edna Durgan's home at Lot #13 when the heating oil line was struck by a lawn mower.  I was told that a Dead River heating oil technician was on scene.

The spill was cleaned up using sorbent pads on what little oil leaked onto the ground.  Dead River captured an additional 4 gallons of heating oil in a bucket and disposed of the sorbent pads.  Jackie, at Dead River, later phoned to report the oil spill and clean up.
B-86-2000*Dick Ramsey called from the Calais Dead River office to report that their home delivery truck had lost about five gallons of #2 oil in Calais at the Catherine Foster residence, 12 School Street.
A seal at the meter leaked when the p.t.o. was engaged and about 2.5 gallons fell on the paved drive and another 2.5 was caught in a bucket. The oil was cleaned up through the use of sorbent pads.
P-323-1994*Discharge was the result of a leaking copper supply line, discharging approximately 20 gallons of kerosene (K-1) onto the ground.  Most of the oil was collected using sorbent pads, because the ground was frozen.  No soil was removed.
A-151-1997*I originally went to this site after receiving a request from the Burnells to abandon some tanks in place.  These tanks were in front of their property known as Stubby's.  There were probably three tanks in the DOT right of way along Route One in front of Stubby's.  It was not appropriate to abandon these tanks in place.  These tanks were not registered, but the Department had been aware of their presence since 1986.  See A-206-86 and A-571-91.  We were unable to locate the enforcement file for the case.

Denise Fournier became involved.  The tanks were registered first in the Burnell's name and then DOT.  DOT did own the land although they felt that the tanks had been installed after DOT purchased the land and without DOTs knowledge.    Two of the tanks were easy to locate.  There was water in both and about 21" of product in the tank to the East.  Dale Doughty of DOT also had some soil borings drilled to help determine the extent of the problem.  He reported some saturated soil and possibly of free product.  The water table was at 3'.  Plans were made for DOT to remove the tanks, excavate petroleum-saturated soil, and remove free product.  The Department has a memorandum of understanding with DOT to clean sites along the road to Baseline 1 Standards.  The work has been delayed several times.  The tanks had not been removed at the end of 1998.

A-130-2000* International Paper reported a release of 75 gallons of hydraulic oil at the Flash dryer "A" side. This was the result of a broken shaft. Only one gallon of oil made it into the Mill's sewer system, the rest of the oil was contained and collected by Mill employees.
B-594-1997*10/16/97 23:43

The Southwest Harbor Police Department called to report a vehicle accident on Route 102 in Tremont involving some minor spillage.  The vehicle reportedly went off the road into a small stream.  Only a sheen and some antifreeze was noted.  None of it was stated to be recoverable.
B-445-1996*On 8/12/96, 1910 hours Bradley Kelso of Georgia Pacific called in a spill of creosote.  They had been digging in the area of their decant pond, which is near the old Baileyville dump, when they unearthed a drum of creosote.  The drum tipped over and the cover came off.  This allowed about .1 yds of the material to spill.  They excavated the spilled material and secured this along with the drum for eventual disposal by a haz mat contractor.  Since the spill was not on G.P. property and because they did not have a haz mat hauler available at that time, I advised them to secure the area until they could get their haz-mat hauler to the site.
A-315-1998*Received a call from the Dead River Auburn office that a customer of theirs had complained about some oil being spilled during a delivery. Leo Morrisett, maintenance supervisor went to investigate and did not know what the substance was. Joann of Dead River called and we arranged for me to meet Mr. Morrisett the next morning.

I went to the home of Muguett Chiloux on Narrows Pond with Mr. Morrisett. Mrs. Chiloux had recently added some fresh, clean gravel to her parking area. There was a black coating on parts of the gravel that had obviously flowed from a point source. The coating was very thin and there was a slight iridescence to parts that were still damp. Mrs. Chiloux still thought that Dead River had something to do with this black stuff. There is a wet area across the dirt road that has a lot of stagnent water in it. Eventually we found the spot where the bog is draining under the gravel road and surfacing in Mrs. Chiloux's new gravel parking area. This spread organic material from the bog on to her parking area and caused an organic sheen.

No further work is necessary on this case.
A-107-1998*     DEP received a report that a fuel leak had occurred in the cellar of this residence.  Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property.  It appeared that a minor spill had occurred at some time in the past; a light sheen was visible on standing water puddled on the dirt cellar floor.  There was negligible contamination of soil.  An inspection of the tank/line/furnace showed no obvious spill source; it is conceivable that a one-time spill associated with a filter change may have occurred here.
     The area is geologically sensitive (a dug well is located 20' from the AST) but contamination did not warrant remediation.  I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
P-64-1999*On 01/27/1999 I received a call from Fred Mayer reporting that there had been an oil release in his basement.  I went over to the site and determined that the copper line that ran behind the wood panelling around the room had leaked.  The oil had soaked into the wall to wall carpeting in the room and the line was inaccessible.  I hired SUN Environmental Services to take out the contaminated carpeting and to trim off the bottom couple of inches of panelling to access and clean up the copper line.  The job was completed on 01/28/99.  Mr. Mayer's home owners insurance (Allstate) paid for the clean-up and was going to replace the carpeting.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



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Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
March 9, 2000
B-439-2000*Mrs. James O'Connor called to report that a 275 AST in her basement had leaked as a result of a corrosion hole. Dead River Oil Company was on scene and was cleaning it up. She reported that the oil had stayed on the concrete and had not reached any drains. She said that it was remarkably odor free. I did not go to the site. No action necessary.
P-16-1999*On 1/13/99 I received a call through the Maine State Police from the Wells Police Department reporting a tractor trailer truck accident on Rt. 109 in Wells.  I responded immediately.  Upon arrival, I observed that the truck involved had spilled approximately 75 gallons of diesel fuel.  The Wells Fire Department had placed sorbent pads on the spilled material.  I picked up the spent pads and asked that the area be sanded.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
FEBRUARY 16, 1999
B-267-1997*The police reported that a car and motorcycle had tangled at the Machias/E. Machias town line resulting in an estimated loss of 5 gallons of gasoline.  The fire dept. was on scene and wanted direction.  As the weather was hot and dry I advised them to spread sand on it and allow it to evaporate; if they had any questions or problems, they were to contact me.  As I heard nothing further, I assume that it worked out alright.
A-560-2001*Bright green material found in Kennedy brook near the Augusta Sanitary District by district employee. Upstream investigation found no obvious source. Substance had the color of automotive anti-freeze. The Sanitary District employees attempted, with limited success, to pump the liquid from the stream into their treatment system. We had to let it go. It appeared that the stuff had stratified and was more concentrated near the bottom of the brook. Anti-freeze would mix thoroughly in a high energy stream such as this so it was still a mystery. I took a sample to The Lab and discovered that the specific gravity was 1.1 and pH 7.5, both could be consistent with a glycol/water mix. The sample did not seem to stratify in the jar. I went back and took a sample with a clear glass tube and the color was consistent top to bottom. The depth of the stream and green algae on the bottom gave the illusion of darker, more concentrated, liquid on the bottom. This was most likely a spill of a considerable amount of anti-freeze into the brook somewhere upstream. I returned on Saturday and found the water clear.
P-458-1997*On 8/19/97 I received a call from Dead River reporting a spill at a customer's apartment building in Lewiston.  The spill occurred as the result of a leaking seam in an above ground storage tank in the basement.  Dead River estimated the spill to be 5 gallons.  They cleaned up the spill with sorbent pads and speedy dry.  The spill only impacted the floor in the basement.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
AUGUST 22, 1997
B-350-2000*     On June 29, 2000 at 0330 we received a call from  Jay Beaudoin of Georgia-Pacific reporting a three hundred gallon hydraulic oil spill at the mill in Baileyville.  The leak occurred from a blown hose on a bailing press machine.  The oil leaked onto the floor and collection sump where workers pumped it out into their burner and finished the clean-up with sorbents which they burned in their biomass burner.  The system was designed to catch spills so no oil even entered their sewer system.
P-526-2001*I was contacted by the Saco Police reporting a drum of diesel fuel had fallen off the back of a pickup truck and broke open.  Discharged product leaked on the road and impacted a nearby residential lawn.  I hired Fleet to clean up the road with sorbents and dig up the contaminated soil from the lawn.  The responsible party was never found.

No further Response action is needed at this time.
B-151-2000*On 3/16/00, 1926 hours the S.P. dispatcher reported a diesel saddle tank release from a truck that had gone off the I-95 and came to rest on the cross-over just south of exit 42 in Etna.  In the process of going down into the median and coming to rest where the cross-over abuts I-95 going north the tractor managed to puncture its' left tank.  Etna Fire Department had responded with plug & dike as well as sorbent pads.  The plug & dike certainly slowed the rate of release, but it didn't keep it stopped.  Meanwhile, several bales of pads had been deployed, which absorbed most the release.  The ground was wet because of rain and snow so product penetration was delayed.  Also, the leak was over a paved area.  After the rig had been pulled onto the road and was on its' way to Dysarts for repair we bagged the oiled sorbents and put them in my truck to be transported to our waste stream.
B-460-2000*B-460-00
Hermon

Friday August 25, 2000				1040

I received a phone call from the Penobscot County Regional Dispatcher.  I was informed that there had been an oil leak and spill to Odlin Road to Dysarts.  The spillage was from a Thomas Dicenzo truck mounted crane.

On my way to Dysart's Truck Stop, I noticed a staining in the West bound lane on the Odlin Road in Hermon.  The staining crossed the intersection then went into Dysarts.  At Dysarts, was the large crane truck, owned by Thomas Dicenzo Inc.  I spoke with Hermon's Fire Chief and was informed that things were under control as far as he could estimate.

The spill area had been covered with speedi-dri and sorbent pads and speedi-dri was under the rear of the crane truck.  The crane driver was under the vehicle terminating the fittings to the rear steering hydraulic pump with plugs.  The Truck will be moved back to Dicenzo's for proper repairs.  About 30 gallons of hydraulic oil leaked from Dicenzo's  crane truck down the Odlin Road to Dysarts with an approximate 4.5 to 5 gallons on at Dysarts which was cleaned up using sorbent pads and speedi-dri.  Nearly 4 gallons of hydraulic oil was recovered using a bucket speedi-dri and sorbent pads. Thomas Dicenzo Inc will dispose of the sorbent material.  No action was taken on the hydraulic oil stain on the Odlin Road.
B-184-2000*B-184-00
Lake View Plantation

Monday April 3, 2000				1354

I received a phone call from Mr. Jarod Stanley (746-2244) of LURC.  Mr. Stanley phoned to report oil entering Scoodic Lake from a heating oil tank on the shore in Lake View Plantation.  I was given directions and met Mr. Stanley and Dave Tardiff in Lake View Plantation.

Once in Lake View Plantation, I followed Dave Tardiff, down a road, toward the shore and past a sign that said "Lots 6-8".  We arrived at a green track type home or camp that had typar on it.  Dave, Jarod, and I worked at padding up the oil on the water using sorbent pads.  About 12 Gallons of oil was cleaned up this way.  The sorbent pads were taken to DEP temporary storage in Bangor.  The nearly empty horizontal tank was propped up as to stop the leak and sorbents were put and left in place as a precaution.  The resident is apparently seasonal and was not contacted as the town office was not open at that time.
I-7-2000*This office received a fax spill report from Loring Fire Dept. on 1-25-00 regarding the spill of 5 gallons of fuel oil in the basement of Building 8702. A gauge on the boiler broke. All was cleaned off the concrete floor with sorbent pads.
B-285-2000*     On May 24, 2000 at 0940 we received a call from Chris Rafford of Bangor Hydro reporting a one pint spill of non PCB mineral oil.  A leaking bushing on a transformer on pole #1 on Smith Drive on Beals Island caused the spill.  Workers recovered the oil with sorbents and removed any contaminated debris and branches. No waters were threatened.
B-615-1997*D-TREE=N.
P-91-1999*On February 3, 1999 DEP was called by Bath Wastewater Treatment facility due to finding oil in their system. It was traced back to a rented apartment located in Hyde Park, 11 Bluff Rd. due to a oil return line leak.
Site visit showed both the feed and return lines to the heating system replaced.
Speaking with the owner, Di Patel, the system was serviced by Kaler Oil of West Bath who had resently been to the residence to fix the oil line due to a leaking fitting. The tank is a round 250 gallon tank, not your standard 275 sitting inside  a wooden building. The area is not a sensative area yet I stated that when the time came to upgrade the system soil from under the tank should be removed. How the oil got into the sewer system I do not know the treatment plant was able to handle the oil due to the amount of flow.
Will be talking to city of Bath on diagram of sewer lines in area.
At this point in time I see no further action.
P-195-1999*    At the request of Mr. Knowles (property owner) and former env. consultant Paul Turina I visited this site on Tuesday, 3/23/99, to check on reported historical contamination.
    The site is a marina, boating and retail business location that reportedly had petro. UST's abandoned by removal in 1987.  Relating to financing a Phase 2 env. assessment was done by EMG for Midland Commercial Funding (see attachments).  The assessment noted three (bare steel) UST's removed in 1987 though at this time I have not noted any 1987 removal notice for the location.  DEP Reg. 14872 lists a 500 gal. diesel, and two 500 gal. unknown substance UST's installed 10/1/69 (at 38 Lafeyette not 106 Lafeyette).  The EMG, 1999, assessment mentions a 10,000 gal. diesel, a 500 gal. gaso., and a 250 gal. K1 UST's.  Presently I am not aware of any active or out-of-service UST's regulated by the state of Maine onsite.
     The site is located downgrade of Lafeyette St. on the Royal River and I suspect the gw flow is toward the river.  The immediate area is commercial.  I am not aware of any drinking water wells within 2000' feet.  From the report and previous experience in the area the area is underlain by marine silts and clays with sand lenses.  Low levels of petro. were noted by lab analysis at the former K1 and gaso. locations with 330 ppm TPH (EPA 8051B, not DEP DRO method required?): below the BS-1 Clean-up Goal.  No petro. sheen or product was noted along the shore downgrade from the UST areas.   Turina states no problems with the 1987 removals.
     After the site visit and reviewing the EMG report the DEP requires no remediation or further resp. Div. actions at this time.  Petroleum contam. is recognized to exist onsite and should be properly managed if disturbed.

S Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
I-231-1998*Caribou Fire Dept reported gasoline pooling under a vehicle at the DHS building in Caribou. Registration on Vehicle is COM 361 775.

Most of the spilled product was evaporating rapidly as the source was a pin hole leak on the bottom of the gas tank.

When I arrived, I met the owner who had spread a bag of cat litter around.

This was swept up and placed with the regular trash for DHS as the debris had little or no odor of gas in it.

Case Closed
I-125-2001*A BROKEN HOSE CAUSED APPROX. 25 GALLONS OF HYDRAULIC OIL TO SPILL.  IT WAS IMMEDIATELY CLEANED UP WITH SAWDUST TO BE BURNED IN BOILER.
P-539-1999*27 July 1999, received compliant from subject regarding odor in the house after an oil leak discovered 17 July 1999.  Subject's oil tank, located in the basement,  developed a slow leak.  The spill was cleaned up by Dodge Oil, Gorham, and the tank replaced.  I inspected the spill location and observed a 3 meter x 3 meter oil stain on the concrete floor.  I estimated the amount spill to be minimal, perhaps less than a gallon.  A mild odor was present in the basement area housing the AST.  I did not observe oil in the sump located along the opposite foundation wall.  I advised subject of ways to remove the odor.

No further response action is warranted.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 4Aug99.
A-234-1999* C.N. Brown overfilled the AST at Highmoore Farms. The total spilled was reported as one pint. Highmoore Farms is located in Monmouth on the Norris Hill Rd.
B-624-1997*10/27/97 @ 0630

The State Police dispatcher (866-2121) phoned to report a tank truck rollover.  I was told to contact Mr. John Flanders (564-8444) of Barrett Paving Materials.  I phoned the number given me by the dispatcher.  The person answering the phone suggested that I might be able to reach Mr. Flanders on his cell phone at (557-4332).  I did not make contact with Mr. Flanders at this time.

While enroute I made contact with Mr. Flanders on this snowy morning.  Mr. Flanders indicated that the report tank truck rollover was in fact a Barrett Paving Service Truck that had a water tank on it.

When I arrived on the accident scene the truck had already been towed back to the Dover-Foxcroft area.  I met briefly with John Flanders at the accident scene.  John had cleaned the various oils (diesel, crankcase, and hydraulic) up off the water using sorbent pads.  The approximate 1/8 of a cubic yard of pads will be disposed of by Barrett Paving Materials Inc.
A-673-1998* This site was referred to Respose because of low levels of MTBE. Troy Smith, of the BRWM's Division of Technical Services, has spent a lot of time researching and sampling the water qualitity at this site.
 MTBE has been found in this well water since 1996. Mr. Smith has done an excellant job of documenting the history of the lab results.
      THE RESULTS
12/96 = 3   ppb
3/97  = 3.4 ppb
5/98  = 9.2 ppb
9/98  = 17  ppb
P-921-1999*1 December 1999, I met with a Maine resident at the SMRO who requested anonymity and advised DEP of underground storage tanks in the ground at the corner of Route 5 and the Hollis Road in Dayton.

DEP proceeded to work with the property owner on removal of the USTs.  The tanks were once affiliated with a service station that operated at this intersection in the 1930s.  In the 1970s, the station was torn down and the tanks remained.  In the late 1990s, Mr. Hill purchased the property and removal of the USTs was negotiated out of the sale of the property, according to Mr. Hill.

Mr. Hill contracted with ENPRO Services and the tanks were removed 20 January 2000.  Three USTs were removed.  A total of approximately 2, 175 gallons of gasoline water mixture was pumped from the tanks and disposed at ECC, Portland.  Approximately 8 cubic yards of soil/clay was removed and set aside.  The soil retained an olfactory presence of petroleum but was not obviously oil saturated.  Considering the limited quantity of contaminated soil, Mr. Hill transported the soil to a secure area on his property and spread the soil for aeration.

No further Response action anticipated.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 17Feb00.
B-594-1999*B-594-99
Baileyville

Thursday September 23, 1999			1350

Brad Kelso (427-4044), of Georgia-Pacific phoned to report an oil sheen and apparent leak of a Mobil lube oil product identified as Mobil 797.

Mr. Kelso reports that there is a sheen on the St. Croix River near the oil cooler heat exchanger at the mill's out fall discharge 002.  He is at a loss as to the cause of this spill.  The area has been boomed with sorbent boom.

He said that the oil cooler heat exchanger is enclosed and jammed with eel parts.  There is a screen / strainer that is 18" by 4" and it is full of eel parts.  The mill has been replacing oil coolers and will continue to do so.  See also Spill B-569-99.
P-836-1999*   In the morning of Tuesday 12/7/99, I was notified by Mr. Sylvestry that he noticed a petroleum-like sheen by the Rt. 125/9 bridge upriver of his plant.  I visited that afternoon and confirmed the sheen in a still spot just below the bridge on the upriver side.  Immediately upriver was the Worumbo Mill and Miller Hydro who I suspected where likely RP's.  A discharge out a storm pipe from Lisbon Fall's downtown area was also a possibility.
    I found no sheens or spills upriver, and did not locate anyone at the Hydro plant.  The sheen was not recoverable so I left it to naturally degrade and disperse.  There was no apparent continuing discharge.
    On Thus. 12/9/99, Stephen Flannery of DEP, Resp. received notice (late), from Ken Wells of Miller Hydro, that Miller Hydro suffered an approx. 5-gallon hyd. oil discharge on 12/7/99.  They reportedly had a blown seal on a trash rig.  Flannery passed the referral to me as this was likely the spill that I investigated.
    See attached for further information.


S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
B-503-1996*On September 11, 1996 at 1715 we received a call from Mark Willette of Dead River reporting a small leak from an outside tank at the Sunset Trailer Park in Milford.  Ms. Elizabeth Goom lives in the trailer at lot 10A.  Mr. Willette thought that a maximum of a couple gallons leaked through a loose fitting.  The trailer park is on town water.

I visited the site and found a 2' x 3' area of contaminated soil.  The contamination was only four or five inches deep.  I told Ms. Goom that smell would be her worst problem and excavation is the only way to solve that problem.

P-155-1999*On 3/1/99 I received a call through the Maine State Police from P. Gagnon & Sons reporting a small fuel oil spill at a client's residence.  The spill occurred when the transfer hose on a delivery truck was accidently dropped and the nozzle opened.  The oil spilled onto a gravel driveway.  Sorbent pads were used to clean up the spill.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
MARCH 2, 1999
B-161-1999*ACCORDING TO JOEL FROST AT SCOTT'S LAWN SERVICE, HIS EMPLOYEES TREATED TWO LAWNS AT 152 AND 153 DEWITT AVE ON FRIDAY, APRIL 9.  ON APRIL 10,  JANET CHRISTRUP NOTICED A SMALL PILE OF "ORANGE CRYSTALS" IN THE STREET IN FRONT OF 153, AND CALLED OUR 800 NUMBER.

I WENT TO DEWITT AVE. , SPIED THE CRYSTALS ON THE SECOND TRIP AROUND THE BLOCK AND CLEANED THEM UP.  THE LADY AT 152 DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HER LAWN HAD BEEN TREATED WITH, BUT SHE GAVE THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF SCOTT'S LAWN SERVICE.

I CALLED SCOTT'S AND SPOKE TO JOEL FROST; I TOLD HIM THAT HIS OUTFIT COULDN'T POST THE LITTLE WARNING SIGNS ON LAWNS THEY'VE TREATED, AND NOT EXPECT PEOPLE TO BE CONCERNED WHEN THEY LEAVE PILES OF THE CHEMICAL IN THE STREET. HE AGREED AND SAID THAT THE TREATMENT CREWS ARE SUPPLIED WITH GAS POWERED BLOWERS TO BLOW ANY SPILLED  CHEMICAL BACK ONTO THE LAWN.  HE PROMISED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE TREATMENT CREW.

HE FAXED ME A COPY OF THE MSDS, AND THE CHEMICAL TURNED OUT TO BE FERTILIZER WITH A PREEMERGENT HERBICIDE IN IT, PENDIMETHALIN.  I'D ALREADY SCRAPED UP THE RESIDUE BY THAT TIME, BUT I WARNED THAT THE COMPLAINANT HAD SAID SHE INTENDED TO COMPLAIN TO THE BOARD OF PESTICIDE CONTROL, ALLEGING THAT FRIDAY THE 9TH HAD BEEN TOO WINDY TO APPLY PESTICIDES OF ANY KIND.
B-388-1996*7/19/96 @ 2040

I was notified by the state police dispatcher (866-2121) that a Mr. David Bolstridge (738-5080) phoned to report a caustic soda spill, at the Lincoln Pulp and Paper.

I phoned Mr. Bolstridge.  According to him the mill had lost 1769 pounds or 283 gallons of sodium hydroxide over time.  The spill was from a formerly full 340 gallon large plastic tote bin.  The leak was discovered around 1900.  The spill was due to the fact that a valve was slightly open on the tote bin.  This allowed the sodium hydroxide to leak into the containment area.  Since the containment area also had an open valve, the sodium hydroxide found its way to the process sewer.  The valves were spotted and closed around 1900.  The cause appears to be human error, as 2 valves were open slightly.  The procedure at the mill needs to be looked into.  See attachments, note amounts may not agree with the original reported amounts.
P-199-1996*On 4/9/96 I received a call through the Maine State Police from Charles Barton of Foster Russell reporting a fuel oil spill at the Bridgton Highlands Country Club.  The spill occurred as the result of a loose fitting on the oil line.  I talked to Sheldon Chaiken and told him that the contaminated soil under the tank would have to be removed and disposed of properly.

On 4/25/96 Searles Excavation removed approximately 10 yds of contaminated soil under my supervision and disposed of it at Commercial Recycling.  No further action required.



______________________________________________
SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
P-501-1998*On 9/1/98 I received a call from Scott Dixon reporting contamination found at a tank removal in Lewiston.  Mr. Dixon had one headspace reading of 120 ppm.  That is just slightly over the notification level for Diesel fuel (100 ppm).  Since there was just one reading above the notification level and the tank was in excellent condition, no further investigation or clean up was necessary.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
OCTOBER 20, 1998
P-80-1999*On 02/01/1999 I received a call from Roger Lambert reporting that they had a 20' x 20' sheen at Berth #11.  He stated that the vessel had broken an "O" ring, creating a small leak, and then pumped approximately 3 gallons out of the bilge before they shut the pump down.  He said that they had contained the spill with boom and mopped it up with sorbent pads.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



______________________________
Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
March 9, 2000
A-353-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98.  See attached CMP report for more information.  No further action anticipated.
A-657-2000*   DEP received a report from a town code enforcement officer that he had heard that this residence had suffered an oil spill at the supply tank and had a contaminated well.  After discussion it was determined that the CEO (Lord) would visit the property to investigate.  He reported back that there was no evidence of spillage but that the well water smelled odd.  I contacted the homeowner (Mudie) who confirmed that he had odors associated with the well (drilled in 1999, 289' deep).  The well had been sampled for petroleum with negative results.  An offer was made to visit the home to observe the water and possibly resample.  I anticipate no further DEP involvement here unless new information is received.
P-8-1996*PRODUCT CLEANED UP TO BL STANDARDS BY WESTBROOK FIRE DEPARTMENT.  NO FURTHER DEP ACTION NECESSARY
A-370-1997*No site visit made.  Initially there was some difficulty in determining the source of this sheen.  Several options were investigated, by diverting the water to the sewer to look to see if the discharge stopped.  They finally concluded that it was the tank at the # 11 machine.  However the attached report from Mead indicates that there may be another source.
I-53-1999*While changing the AST at this residence for the Tank replacement program, Irving oil technicians found a large stain under the old system.

Dickison & London were hired to excavate the contaminated soil since the well is located about 15 feet from the old fuel storage system.

I revisited the site on 6/8/99 after Dickison & London Crews reported free oil in the excavation.

Soils are very clayey and the product appears not to have moved very much,  other than straight down.

Well will be put on Quarterly monitoring for one year, if clean for one year then sampling will stop.

Case Closed

B-320-2001*     On 6/4/01 I waived the thirty day waiting requirment for a UST removal at the Mill Mall on State Street in Ellsworth.  The contact person, Rod Grant, and I had agreed to this previously.  It was a five thousand-gallon UST that had been cathodically protected.  However, the tank stopped reading what it should so the owners had a choice of attempting a repair or removing the tank. The repair was going to cost $3000 so they decided to go with ASTs and remove the tank, which had only another six years of service anyway.  The cathode had worked for most of the time because the tank had only one small spot where rust was starting.  However, it probably would not have taken very long for that spot to go all the way through.  The UST was taken to Clean Harbors in Portland.
A-341-1997*     DEP received a report from an environmental consultant working at this UST removal that contaminated soils were encountered.  No holes were observed in the tank.  Given the non-sensitive nature of the area an action level of 700 ppm (headspace) was applied; no soil was found that exceeded this level.
     I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
B-9-2001*B-009-2001
01/07/2001 13:15

     Bill Dunbar, principal at the Sullivan Elementary School, called through the 1-800-number to report that vandals had broken the fitting to their outside 275 gallon fuel tank located behind the school.  Upwards of 200 gallons were estimated to have spilled.  Investigation shown that the oil spilled onto a paved surface.  It was found however that the fuel had been inadvertently spread around by a snow plow.  The area received about 10 inches of snow the previous evening covering the spill.  It was then spread by the plow along the edge of the paved yard.
     Clean Harbors arrived on site the following day for the clean up.  It was first thought that their vactor equipment could handle the quantity of contaminated snow.  As clean up proceeded it became obvious that there was much more oiled snow than was expected.  What further aggravated the problem was that the school's well was observed to be located only about 20 feet from the spill site.  A front end loader and roll off containers were then brought in to handle the large quantity of snow.  Altogether approximately 250 yards of oiled snow was removed for disposal.  A closer inspection of the area will be made in the spring to determine if further remedial action is necessary.
P-555-1999*On 08/09/99 I received a report of an oil spill at the Gregor residence on Conifer Cove Road in Raymond.  I contacted Mr. Gregor and he stated that they had received a delivery of oil from CN Brown that afternoon and that oil had leaked out of the truck and onto his driveway which was close to Panther Pond.  The Department had received the report of the spill earlier in the day from Diane Alexander of CN Brown.  At the time of the earlier report we were told by CN Brown that they were undertaking a clean up at the site.  But when I was contacted later by the homeowner he was concerned that they were not getting it cleaned up fast enough or to his satisfaction.

On 08/10/99 I went out to the site and found that there was still oil contaminated soils at the site and the clean up was not complete.  I contacted CN Brown and they said that they would hire Clean Harbors to finish the clean up.  They also explained that some piping on the truck had failed, causing the leak.  They also stated that they had just had the truck serviced and that possibly something had not been done properly.  They were still willing to undertake the cleanup and they would follow up with the company that serviced the truck.

On 08/11/99 Linda Doran of this office went out to check on the progress of the clean up after one of the homeowners complained.  She oversaw the completion of the clean up and at that time it was done to the Department's satisfaction.

No further Response action is necesssary at this time.



_____________________________
Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
June 15, 1999
B-8-2001*-008-2001
01/07/2001 13:07

     John Cunningham of the Bar Harbor Fire Department called through the 1-800 number to report a small #2 fuel spill at the residence of Terry Kelley on the Crooked Road.  It was stated that a driver for Walls Oil mistakenly delivered oil to a tank that had not been installed yet.  Approximately 10 gallons leaked onto a concrete garage floor before the problem was discovered.  The oil was subsequently cleaned up from the floor.  No resources of the State were believed to be affected.
A-273-1997*The anonymous caller reported that the owner continuously allowed oil to drip from equipment and he discarded oil containers that were not empty.  She reported a puddle of oil.  I visited the site  and observed a number of abandoned vehicles.  Scattered over the site were possibly 200 tires, an accumulation of junk and many batteries.  I did find some empty oil containers, an empty fuel tanker, and oil staining consistent with home auto repair.  The staining was limited to the garage area.  I did not see that any cleanup was warranted.  The site had been abandoned some time ago after the home burned.  When I visited most junk was difficult to see because the grass/weeds were high.  The junk is scattered.    The site is an eye sore.

No further action is anticipated although I have referred the site to Mike Parker, because of the number of tires.  The caller had previously reported the site to the local CEO.
A-6-1996*Baseline 1  A loader was refueling in the wood yard.  The operator left to go to the bathroom.  When he returned he discovered that the fuel shutoff on the dispenser had failed and he had overfilled the tank.  About 30 gallons were lost. Pads were used to pick up the product.  The contaminated snow was picked up and will be disposed of as contaminated water when it melts.
B-479-1999*After Striar's Mill and the chemicals in it were abandoned in 1996, and DEP paid to have all the chemicals removed in 1997, the Ayer's Island property was made available for redevelopment.  Trefoil Corp. took on the project, and their John Hackney started dealing with Nick Hodgkins to VRAP the site.

Discovered north of the mill was a site built steel tank that'd been moved out of the building years ago, and contained over 5500 gallons of #6 oil and water. Inasmuch as the DEP had paid to remove all the other chemicals and oils on site in 1997,and missed this one, I acceded to Hackney's request to pump this tank out as well.

Clean Harbors removed the oil-water mix in September.  I billed the cost to B-243-97.
P-246-2000*See attached report from CMP.
B-19-1997*On January 11, 1997 at 1015 we received a call from Webber Oil reporting a leaking outside kerosene tank at Ms. Rebecca Bubar's home on 296 Wiswell Road in Brewer.  I met Ms. Bubar who showed me the tank which leaked along an end weld.  Webber's last delivery was a fill up of 142 gallons on January 7.  I estimated that about 150 gallons leaked although the stained area on the snow and gravel seemed to indicate less.  Some of the fuel ran along the rock foundation and collected in puddles in the dirt floor basement.  We collected the product with sorbents and I advised Ms. Bubar to excavate the stained snow ice and any loose contaminated soil around the tank.  Ms. Bubar's drilled well is about thirty feet away.  I told her to contact me if she notices any problems with her well.

I visited the site on January 16 and found that the snow and ice was removal and a new horizontal tank was installed.  There wasn't any fuel in the crawlspace but the thaw and rain should push some product over the next couple days.
P-189-2001*I responded to a call from Mr. Montanese reporting that snow had compacted around their filter and caused it to leak.  He estimated that 50-60 gallons of kerosene had leaked out before it was fixed.  When I inspected the area around the tank I could find no sign of the oil other than a faint smell.  I gave Mrs. Montanese my card and told her to have her neighbors and family keep an eye out for the oil as the snow melts.  I also said that I wold stop by and check on it.  She said that they live in Florida and would probably not be back until June.  The house is right on Sebago Lake and they have a 200+ foot drilled well about 40 feet from the spill location.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



______________________________
Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
March 20, 2001
B-548-1998*On August 19, 1998 at 1630 we received a call from Fred Leigh of Bangor Hydro reporting a transformer leak on route 102 in the section of Bar Harbor known as Town Hill.  A car hit the pole and the unit lost about three gallons of transformer oil, half onto the pavement and half onto the roadside.

Since the transformer contained 250 PPM PCB's Bangor Hydro hired Clean Harbors who excavated the area plus a one foot buffer and cleaned the pavement according to federal regulations.
P-726-1997*On 12/12/97 I received a call from Paul Muse reporting a small oil spill that occurred at a clients residence.  The spill occurred when the tank truck delivering Kerosene to the residence experience a problem with the air eliminator on the truck causing the tank to pressurize and oil to spray out of the top of the truck.  The truck was covered with oil and oil spilled onto some ice in the area.  Emery Mills employees chipped up the ice and will melt it and recover the oil.  No further action required.



___________________________________________
SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
DECEMBER 16, 1997
P-246-1996*On 4/26/96 I received a call from Patricia Bright reporting gasoline surfacing in her yard in Freeport.  I responded immediately.  Upon arrival, I determined the "spill" to be Iron Bacteria and not gasoline.  The cause was likely either poor drainage in the area or a potentially malfunctioning septic system.  I advised her to have a septic professional check the system.  No further Department action required.



________________________________________________
SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
A-271-1997* On 8-4-97, Scott Reed reported that an oil sheen had been found on the Androscoggin River below outfall # 002. The water flow was diverted to the process sewer and the search for the leak began. At the same time a vac truck was used to collect and contain the oil sheen. The leak was found and repairs were made. After the outfall was diverted back to the river, another oil sheen was discovered. The same procedure was done and the repairs were made. The source of the leak was an oil cooler. The replacement cooler was defective, causing the second release. That defective cooler was replaced. No site visit and no further actions will be required.
B-535-1999*     On September 1, 1999 at 0900 we received a call from Fred Leigh of Bangor Hydro reporting a one half pint spill of <2 ppm of PCB transformer oil.  The leak occurred from a unit on route 15 opposite the North Orrington School.  Workers recovered one bag of contaminated grass and soil.
A-692-1999*     DEP received an after-hours report that a fuel delivery vehicle (owned by Twitchell Oil Co.) had been involved in an accident and spilled approx. 900 gallons of oil.  The second vehicle (a dump truck owned by Hargreaves) was determined to be at fault.  Oil flowed across the paved road and sorbed into soil at the shoulder.  Soil was excavated for disposal over the next two days.
     A single family residence (Hall/Hanrahan) is located adjacent to the spill site; the drilled well serving this household is located approx. 300' up-gradient of the spill.  Some spilled oil has flowed under the road pavement and is not practically recoverable, though is unlikely to affect the Hall/Hanrahan well.  I anticipate no further Response involvement here unless reports are received that this well has been impacted.
B-537-2000*B-537-2000
09/30/2000 10:00

     Jim Lavoie of the Old Town Fire Department called to report a spill situation at the Whim Station housing complex.  It was stated that at some point during the previous evening three radiators were vandalized on private vehicles spilling a few gallons onto the pavement.  I suggested that the anti-freeze be simply cleaned up with sorbent material and disposed of through their usual waste stream.
B-596-1999*On 09/24/99, Maurine Hicks contacted me about a mercury spill that she had on her couch.  The spill came from a broken thermometer.  From force of habit, she picked the mercury up with her vacuum cleaner.  She was concerned about any hazards that the incident may have caused.  I signed-out the Jerome and went to her home in Corinna.  The couch was below detection.  I checked the vacuum cleaner and the first test right out of the blower side gave a 0.1 ppm reading.  A second reading was .005.  A sample taken two meters from the machine, while it was running, was 000.  I suggested that she let the machine run for several hours outside of her house.  We had discussed the fact that the readings indicated the mercury in the machine was volatilizing, and that eventually the liquid mercury would dissipate to the atmosphere.

P-531-1996*Five gallon spill to pavement at C.N. Brown in Bridgton.  Fire Department responded and cleaned up spill with sorbent pads.  No further action.
A-32-1997*Received a call from Phil Hotham, Mead Corporation plant protection in Rumford that they had a spill. He reported that 450 gallons of hydraulic oil had been spilled from a broken line. All the oil went to the process sewer. There was no sheen reported on the Androscoggin River. No site visit was made and no further work is necessary on this spill.
B-95-1998*B-095-98
Mount Desert

Monday February 16, 1998			1525

I received a call from the state police dispatcher.  I was asked to contact Thomas Bowden (288-3971) of Bowden Oil, in Bar Harbor about a 300-gallon oil spill in the cellar of a funeral home.  I phoned the Bar Harbor Fire department (288-5554), after speaking to Thomas Bowden's answering machine.  I spoke with Paul Hamblin.  He said he would check at the funeral homes in Bar Harbor and get back to me.  When he called back he said that there was no problem at any of the funeral homes in Bar Harbor.

I looked up Funeral Homes, in the yellow pages and found Fernald Funeral Chapel (244-3183), on Route 102, in Mount Desert.  I spoke with Jim Fernald and got directions to the spill site.

When I arrived I spoke with Jim Fernald then we went under the funeral home in the crawl space where there were 2-275 gallon tanks and a small area of stained sand.  The line has been there since 1962 and is believed to have corroded.  There is only between 3 and 18 inches of sand in the crawlspace.  This is dependent on distance to ledge.  It appears that if 300 gallons of heating oil have leaked then it was over quite a period of time.  There was an odor in the crawl space, but not a strong odor.  I explained that he may do well to remove some of the sand, at least that which is contaminated.
He said he would most likely hire Doug Gott construction to do the job.  In all about 4 cubic yards of contaminated sand was removed.
A-337-1996*Dana Goodwin of Goodwin well drilling called to report a small spill at a work site on Webb Pond in Weld. He was down to 300' when he quit work for the day Thursday, 7/25. When he arrived Friday morning, he found that his mud pit had overflowed with water from the well. The mud went to the lake and is covering a part of the bottom. It was a bentonite slurry. No cleanup is necessary as trying to clean it up would only disperse the bentonite into the water again. No response was necessary.
A-268-2000*Received a call from Murry Oil reporting a small spill.  At a house owned by Barry Austin, an oil fired hot water heater malfunctioned.  The igniter on the oil burner failed when hot water was needed.  The auto shutoff failed also as the combustion chamber filled up with oil and started to leak out.  When the tenant went to check out the lack of hot water, he found the oil on the floor of the basement.  When I arrived, the old hot water heater had been disassembled and removed.  The oil flowed along the floor to a drain.  This drain led across the North Buckfield Road and into a marshy field.  The only oil I found was some little wisps of emulsified oil.  No free product was found.  The oil left on the floor of the basement had been cleaned up by Murry Oil.  Windows in the basement were opened for ventilation.  The tenants did not notice any oil odor in the upper floors of the house.  No further work is necessary at this site.
B-662-1999*On 10/17/99, 0817 hours Deputy Means, who dispatches for the Hancock Sheriff's Office reported a vehicle had gone into the fire pond in front of the municipal building in Trenton.  The vehicle had been there for five hours at the time of the call and there was no evidence of a spill.  I asked them to call me directly if the situation changed.
A-82-1997*Received a call from Renita Freeman of Maritime Energy about a spill at a customers place of business. While filling an above ground storage tank at State Sand and Gravel, the Maritime Energy driver overfilled the tank by approximately 10 gallons. As reported to me by Ms. Freeman, the driver started cleaning up the oil and two additional people were dispatched from the Rockland office to assist. The site was succesfully cleaned. A phone call to State Sand and Gravel confirmed that they were pleased with the cleanup. No site visit was made. No further work is necessary.
B-72-1997*On February 12, 1997 at 0930 we received a call from Mr. Emil Genest who is the Assistance Superintendent for SAD 22.  Mr. Genest said New England Heating had mistakenly filled a 275 gallon tank at the Leroy Smith School on Main St. and had spilled twenty to thirty gallons while transferring the product to the correct tank.  This transfer took place late the previous day and the New England Heating worker didn't notify the school of the spill.  When school began the teachers and pupils noticed a fuel oil smell in the classroom directly above the spill site.  Consequently, Mr. Genest said he closed the room and sent the class to another building.

I visited the site and met Mr. Genest and the school custodian.  They showed me the spill site which was in a storage room in the basement.  The spill likely occurred when oil drained from a hose onto the tank and floor.  There was some speedi dri on the floor but not enough for all the oil.  Dirt debris and cardboard boxes absorbed the remainder of the spilled fuel.  Maybe twenty gallons of oil actually spilled.

I called Marvin Lovely of New England Heating who came to the school with sorbents and two men.  Mr. Lovely said that the man who spilled the oil never told him of the spill and that if he had, New England Heating would have notified the school of the spill and cleaned it up.  The company crew used sorbents to collect any free oil and swept up the contaminated speedi dri and dirt.  I later talked to Assistant Superintendent Genest and he was satisfied with the clean up.
A-491-1999* A drain valve at the recovery boiler was not completely shut off and about one gallon of oil leaked/spilled onto the floor. IP cleaned up the spill themselves and no further action will be required.
B-821-1998*B-821-98 Nav. Sec. Grp. Act. - Winter Harbor


Jim Miller called to report that a small #2 spill had occurred in the boiler room of the base gymnasium. During boiler repair about 3-5 gallons of oil was allowed to leak onto the floor. Some made it to the floor drain, which has a trap. This trapped oil (est. to be .25 -.5 gallons) and water was pumped out. Sorbents were used to clean the floor. The floor drain goes to the wastewater treatment works and there was no sign of oil in the plant.
  See the attached report form for more exacting details.
  No further action anticipated.
A-18-1998*No site visit made.

I reported this to CMP and Janet Lagasse responded.  She placed pads to collect the oil.  The transformer had already been removed.

CMP reported the cleanup was completed 2/9/98.

No further action anticipated.
I-153-2000*A vehicle leaked a couple pints of gasoline.  Gas went into storm drain and was remove with sorbents.

Very little recovered.

Source must have been a vehicle that stopped at Richardson's Hardware.

Response case closed
B-163-1996*D-TREE = S.
B-556-2001*Bangor Hydro Electric Co. called to report that a transformer on Lee Street had leaked about 2 quarts of non-PCB oil from a failed switch seal onto the pavement. They cleaned it up with speedi-dri.
P-420-1999*   In late June 1999, I briefly visited this rural Windham residence in response to an anonymous citizen complaint regarding gaso. and waste oil spillage from onsite car repair.  The owner and resident is reported to be Mr. David Herring.  The area is residential on private drilled wells.  Arriving onsite I realized that I had been onsite with the town CEO in 1991 for a similar complaint (see P-438-91).   The property was posted for sale through Mark Stimson, 761-9400.
    No one was home at the time.  There was a fence out front with three or more cars around the yard that appeared out of service.  Since no resident was about I was reluctant to canvas the property too much.   In the front and near the driveway I noted no surface oil spills.  Groundwater likely flows east toward Collins Pond.  As this area is on drilled wells it would be particularly sensitive to petro. discharges and have a Stringent Clean-Up Goal.
     A copy of this report will be forwarded to Mr. Herring and the town for their record.  No further DEP, Response Div. actions are expected at this time.


S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
P-323-2000*Public works applied sand as berm and sorbent, then containerized materila in trash cans.  DEP/Cyr picked up and transported cans to CRS for disposal.  NO FURTHER ACTION REQUIRED.
B-589-1997*10/15/97 1340

I received a phone call from Harry Webber, of the Piscataquis County Emergency Management Agency.  Mr. Webber phoned to report an oil spill at a former residence that burned in a structure fire.

I met Mr. Webber and the Dover-Foxcroft Fire Chief at the Dover Fire Station.  From there we proceeded toward Dexter on Route 7.  We turned right at Maycomber's Corner onto the Shaw Road.  We turned left onto the Hapsis property. The fire chief showed me oil spilled sawdust that was on a muddy driveway.  The remains of Mr. Hapsis home was still smoldering. He apparently was a handyman and a collector of various items.

Most of the spilled was waste oil from engine crankcases.  There also was a saddle tank that contained some diesel oil.  Sorbent pads were used to pick up the oil and some of the contaminated sawdust and mud was spread thinly.  In all about .12 of a cubic yard of contaminated soil and sawdust was spread thinly on the property and about 1/2 bale (.06 yds) of sorbent pads were removed to the DEP temporary storage area in Bangor.
B-195-1998*On March 25, 1998 at 1615 we received a call from Sharon Fortin of S.D. Warren in Fairfield reporting a spill by one of their logging sub-contractors.  The spill occurred at 1230 on 3/25 on logging road 9900.3 in Brighton Plt.  A log loading crane burst a hydraulic hose and lost about twenty five gallons of oil.  Workers recovered about fifteen gallons with sorbents.  Any contaminated soil was spread in a thin layer on the road.  There are no open waters nearby.  S.D. Warren shipped the sorbents to PERC for incineration.
P-581-1999*   On Tues. 10/12/99 , I briefly visited this facility to check on a planned UST abandonment and to get the contact persons signature on the DEP abandonment notice.  On-site I met CTI Fred Anderson and crew from North American Env. Services (NAES), formerly Pollution Control Services.  NAES was installing a new #4 oil AST under Mechanical Services Inc. (MSI) to replace the #6  oil UST coming out.  Anderson explained that they would be removing the #6 oil UST on 10/19 after it had been cleaned out.  The 300 degree dble-wall StP-3 UST is registered as installed by CTI #107, Robert Dutton, of MSI in 12/91.  Anderson stated the interstitial space of the tank had been taking on water (evid. of a leak).
    On Tues. 12/19/99, I met onsite with Brian Donovan of Steel Tank Ins. Co., an owner of MSI, Beth DeHaas and Ted Scharf of DEP, OEU, site assessor Doug Hammon for St. Germain & Assoc., and with a NAES crew under former CTI Jeff Eaton.  While uncovering the UST we noted a 4"x8" corrosion hole on top under a containment sump where 2x4's had been placed under the sumps to keep them steady during the 1991 install.  Donovan explained that this was from a reaction with the wood-organic matter.  The tank was tied down with plastic-sleeve coated cables rather than the required flat straps.  The #6 oil is heated to 160 to 200 degrees, though Donovan stated that the StP-3 tank is only warranted to 150 degrees: the heat will break down the epoxy coating.
    We found the tank had been taking oil into the inter. space, a problem for a year per CTI Chris Wilson.  The steel tank bottom was corroded and pealing away revealing the inter. space full of black oil and dirt.  I have rarely noted a more corroded and integrity challenged tank.  Fortunately little soil & gw contamination.  No clean-up required by DEP.  See photos, and DEP, BRWM, OEU files for further information.  I am not aware of this problem having been reported earlier as required.

S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM
B-584-2001*
On 10/13/01, 1015 hours Dead River reported an AST anomaly at 46 Market Street in Bangor. The dispatcher said that their technician had mag patched the leak, which was coming from a very small corrosion hole on the bottom mid line of the tank.  The tech also thought that the 5'X5' stain on the dirt floor beneath the tank was mostly from an earlier release.  My observations supported his contention.  The stain was virtually odorless and there was evidence of product seepage from the fill and vent pipe threads.  I expect that bioremediation had been taking place for some time.

I talked with one of the tenants (Mildred Lizzot) and left my card so that she could call me if she was bothered by the spill.  I also spoke with Joe Quinn of JGQ Properties. He is familiar with the services that we provide.
P-904-2001*On Sunday 11/04/01 Mr. Peter Mitschele was removing asbestos insulation from the unit 2 boiler.  He thought being the owner/landlord allowed him to remove the material.  Upon doing so, the tenant called the PFD who arrived and asked Mr. Mistchele to stop the removal action and then contacted DEP.

DEP/Cyr arrived and spoke with Peter he had wetted the material, bagged it in double plastic bags and used an APR while completing the removal.  Mitschele explained he thought he could do the removal as he was the property owner, after having declined the offer for assistance from a tenant.  The boiler had failed (unit 2 with no heat) and the heating tech's asked for it to be removed prior to the install of the new unit.

John Bucci of the DEP asbestos unit was called and referred the case. He was given Peters number and stated he would call and inform him of his options for compliance.

No additional actions are planned for the response division, it has been referred to Asbestos.

P-53-2001* REPORT SUMMARY
    On Mon. 1/22/01 I visited this site to check on the clean-up of a reported small #2 oil discharge at the bulk plant on the same lot as this bulk plant.  While the adjacent Ripley & Fletcher oil bulk plant has seven large AST's, L M Longley & Sons has two AST's (which may be leased from Ripley & Fletcher Co.?).  The area is commercial, on city water & sewer though is over a mapped aquifer (see attached maps).  I have not noted any past DEP Resp. Spill Reports for this oil bulk plant.  Combined oil storage capacity for the two tanks appears to be approximately 25,000 gallons.
     The two tanks are enclosed by a short concrete berm that appears to have a soil bottom (see site map).  I noted that there was dark soil at the bottom of the berm that appears to be oiled stained.  Oil contamination was difficult to assess properly due to snow cover and the frozen ground.  The berm is close to the edge of the tanks and there is concern that a high pressure leak may go over the berm, and a large spill may soak thru the berm bottom and reach groundwater and storm drains that feed the Little Androscoggin River.  Check with US EPA as to the need and availability of an SPCC Plan.
      Further DEP actions pending clean-up of discharges.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP BRWM
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I-49-1997*On 5-14-97, Allen Michaud of Daigle Oil in Madawaska called this office to report there had been a spill of Kerosine at the residence of one of their customers at Dufours Trailer Park in Madawaska. They estimated at least 100 gallons had bee lost over the winter from a leaking filter on the 275 tank they had recently installed. I met with the trailer owners (Mr. and Mrs. Cyr) and a local contractor that day. It appeared the lost kerosine migrated beneath the trailer. A  concrete slab the trailer was on eliminated the possibility of any noticable odors in the house. Work was begun that day to try to recover product. About 125 yards of soil was removed from both sides of the trailer and from as far beneath as was possible without undermining the slab.
I-189-1999*On 12-20-99, Paul Barnes of the Loring Fire Dept. called to report that a spill had occured at building 8710. A furnace pump had malfunctioned and about 5 gallons was spilled onto the basement floor. All was removed by the fire dept. with sorbent pads.
P-281-2001*4.09.2001 responded to spill location.  Observed broken tank valve.  It is suspected that ice build-up around the bottom of the 275 gallon aboveground supply tank, located outside, ruptured valve.  ME DEP conducted spill clean up actions by removing oil impacted snow and ice.

Put property on QM well monitoring; due to a drilled well on site located downgrade of spill.

Spill referred to Technical Services.  No further Response action anticipated.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 9.20.2001
P-315-2000*24 May 2000, responded to spill location.  Upon arrival I observed that Fielding Oil representatives had a residential, one car garage cleaned out of oil impacted material (cardboard, papers and cord wood).  The night before, the home owner accidently drove his car too far into the garage striking the wood pile.  The wood fell onto the heating oil tank rupturing the copper supply line.  Over the course of the night an estimated that 25 gallons of #2 oil discharged to both the garage and out through seams in the sill.

I did not observe an impact to the soil outside the garage.  I observed a slight sheen with the rain run off, but nothing recoverable.  A lot of the oil was captured by absorbent materials in the garage.

Phone contact with Kevin O'neil of State Farm Insurance, advised me that the condo association insurance has coverage and that he is filing a claim for clean up costs.  No further contact has been received by DEP as of 11 Sep  2000, regarding this matter.

No further Response actions warranted.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 11 Sep 2000.
B-381-1996*7/19/96 @ 1038

Stacy Stoddard (827-4476) of Old Town Fuel and Building Supply phoned to report an oil spill in Glenburn near Pushaw Lake.  I was informed that the spill occurred when the front compartment equalization valve on a home delivery truck failed. This valve failure lead to a spill of 35 gallons of #2 heating oil onto a roadway to the edge of the Ron Ryan property.

When I arrived on scene, workers from Old Town Fuel had already spread a sorbent material on the surface of the gravel road where the oil had run.  We checked an area where the oil had pooled prior to soaking into the ground and decided to excavate that area.  We used spades to dig out about .8 of a cubic yard of contaminated soil.  The soil was taken by Old Town Fuel to be spread in the confines of their berm.  I was informed that the compartment equalization valve will be repaired or replaced.
P-45-2001*No narrative, please see attached materials.
B-339-1999*Bangor Hydroelectric Co. called to report that one of their service trucks leaked a pint or so of power steering fluid when a hose fitting cracked. This happened on property owned by the Greenrock Corp. just off Peabody Drive in Seal Harbor. The closest pole is #96/4. The collected debris was taken to Sawyer's Env. Recovery Facility.
I-8-1997*A spill was reported at the Progro Warehouse in Caribou.

About Thirty Gallons of "Kodicide LF" were spilled from a 110 gallon liquid tote.A valve broke on the bottom of the tote. Most likely hit by the forklift that moved the tote in the stroge area.

Spill was inside a contained area, designed for pesticide storage. The Caribou Fire Dept plugged the floor drains in the area outside the containment area.

Spill was cleaned up by Progro People. About 100.99 gallons of Kodicide and water were recovered and will be applied to farm fields in the spring for the chemicals intended use.

Case Closed
P-670-1997*    On 11/12/97 I received a phone complaint from a Standish resident regarding his 198 Harmon Hill Rd. neighbor, Mr. Arvilla Nason dumping oil, antifreeze, chemicals, burning tires, and exploding things.  He was concerned about his well.  The complainant also stated the neighbor may be violent and had attack dogs.
    At the town office I was told over the phone that the complainant wished to move but could not sell his house because of this neighbor and other ex-convicts living at the old farm next door.  The clerk further stated not to visit without a police escort.  The town CEO would not return my calls about doing a joint visit.  At this time no DEP visit has been performed and the spills are unsubstantiated.
B-380-2000*B-380-2000
07/17/2000 15:30

     The Maine State Police Dispatcher called to report a hazardous material incident involving caustic soda at Northern Maine Junction in Hermon.  It was stated that a railroad car was observed to be dripping a caustic solution onto the ballast stone below.  Investigation shown that the empty railroad car had taken on water through cracks in its dome from a recent rain event.  The water then picked up residual caustic between the two walls of the car and discharged it at the bottom of the car.  A container was then placed at the bottom of the car to catch the material.  It was estimated that only a few cups of caustic affected the ballast stone.  The caustic waste was then neutralized in place with a weak acid solution.  The incident occurred in an isolated area of the facility.  None of the States resources were affected from the spill.  It may be noted that the car was taken to it's owner (Holtra Chem Manufacturing of Orrington) for repairs.
A-515-1999*During the Department's site assessment of the former Edwards Mill property in Augusta in March 1998, an area of gasoline contaminated soil was identified and roughly delineated using an excavator. From the limited information available and the location of piping, foundations, and materials, the most likely scenario is that an AST existed in the area some time ago (1920s-1960s). The contamination source was probably piping leaks and overfills around a pump island. The contamination appeared to be very weathered, old gasoline.

On August 23, 1999, Nick Hodgkins oversaw removal of the contaminated soil. H.E. Sargent provided site foreman Scott Thibodeau and excavator operator Reggie Barnes.

The area of contamination was a lens-like area about 6-12 feet below ground surface. Clean soil above the contamination was stockpiled and used as backfill for the hole. On two of the four sides of the excavation, the post-excavation samples were non-detect using a PID and poly-bag headspace method. The other two sides had very low (20 ppm) concentrations of contaminants. The bottom of the excavation, which ranged from 12-18 feet below the ground surface, was a tight blue-gray clay which appeared to be the former river bottom (before filling began during the 1830s). The top 4-6 inches of this clay were removed. The clay below the top 4-6 inches had very low (20 ppm) levels of residual contamination.

No further action required.
A-640-2001*Driver for Litchfield Oil delivered 100 gallons of oil to a new tank that had not been connected to the heating system yet. The tank had no fill pipe, no whistle, no gage, no filter or fuel supply line and was laying directly on the ground. The oil just poured out the bottom connection into the ground. About three feet away was the tank that was in service with a fill pipe, whistle, gage, filter and fuel supply line. Some oil did find it's way under the trailer and was causing some odor issues. We excavated directly under the spill site and under the trailer a few feet down. Installed a plastic vapor barrier under the trailer 6" below grade and a slotted pipe with fan slightly below vapor barrier.
A-485-2001*A valve was not fully closed. No site visit made. No further action expected.
A-391-2000*Received a call from Monique Gagnon concerning a hydraulic oil spill at Mead Paper in Rumford.  The original report was for approximately 100 gallons spilled, with an unknown amount of that to the process sewer.  According to the detailed report sent to DEP dated July 14, 2000, the spill amount of 200 gallons was caused by startup problems on a new roller on the #10 paper machine.  According to Ms. Gagnon's calculations, of the 200 gallons of hydraulic oil that was added back into the machine,  only 79 gallons of it reached the process sewers.  There have been no reports of sheen on the Androscoggin River during that time.  No site visit was made and no further work is necessary on this project.  See the attached report from Mead for additional information.
P-42-2000*    On Sunday 1/23/00, the state police referred a complaint from Ms. Chris Rowe that she noted 55 gal. drums in a shack at an out-of-use gravel pit near her house.  Some drums were leaking.  I visited on Monday morn 1/24/00 and confirmed the 12 drums though leakage was minimal and confined to the cement floor (though snow covered the ground preventing complete inspection of the area.  The site is located next to #177 Rt. 196, NW of Graziano's Rest. and across from an outside flee market area (see map).  A Lisbon public water well was about 1000' SE of the site.  The site was formerly owned or operated by Cianbro Const.
     I contacted Ms. Ann Thayer of Dragon Products who advised me that the property was owned by Dragon, and that she would have the drums checked out, the shed secured, and the drums properly disposed of after the snow left.  The drums appeared to contain waste motor/machine oil.  Many were empty though several were full or partly full.
    See attached for further details.  No further Resp. Div. actions anticipated at this time.

S G  Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
A-56-2000*A pipe broke on the #1 paper machine, spilling about 40 gallons of hydraulic fluid. About 20 gallons was discharged to the process sewer.

No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services.
A-453-2000*Received a call from Roy Koster concerning a small spill. He reported that a transformer was weeping and there was a possible spill to the ditch.  A cleanup crew was dispatched and no sign of oil on the ground was found.  Apparently the transformer was weeping only and the oil did not get to the ground. No site visit was necessary and no further work is needed. See the attached report from Central Maine Power for additional details.
P-756-1999*On October 29, 1999 I received a call from Tom Schwarm of Acadia Environmental about a spill that had been reported the day before.  An Irving oil delivery truck was making a delivery to Chadbourne Lumber Mill on Route 26 in Bethel.  The vapor recovery system on the truck malfunctioned and about 35 gallons of oil got into the system and then spilled to the asphalt and hard pack ground.  Speedy dry was used to absorbed free oil.  No further action required nor anticipated.
B-162-2001*Ms. Massow called to report that her outside AST had lost about 200 gallons of kerosene. The settling snow and ice had caused the fitting between the tank and filter to break. Due to the early snow the ground is not frozen and there was no ponded oil to collect. She does not have an odor problem. The mobile home is on a hillside in a remote area of St. Albans on the Bubar Road. There is a drilled well about 50 feet away on about the same contour. The owner, Fran Fruchtenicht, reports that the well is about 200 feet deep and at least 20 feet of casing was used.  Ms. Mossow's father, Fred Massow was familiar with the area and did not know of any exposed bedrock in the area and believes that the soil is quite deep. Soils maps of the area show the soil to be deep rocky till with a high loam content and shallow depth (12-16") to the water table.
   While there is some risk to the well, I believe that attempting to excavate would cause more expense than replacing the well. As such, I have taken no action other than to alert Ms. Massow to watch out for oil in her water, odor in the trailer or oil coming to the surface.
P-685-1997*    On 12/2/97 I visited the Lemire residence in response to a 11/26/97 notification of the loss of over a 275 gal. tank-full of fuel at this Biddeford, suburban house.  The fuel was determined to have leaked over a several week period out of the copper fuel line running under the concrete basement floor.  There was a small oil stain on the floor by the line, otherwise there was no odor or other obvious problem noted resulting from the loss.  As of 2/98 there has been no evidence of sensitive receptors effected.  The old line has been replaced by a new line above the floor.
   After confirming with supervisor S. Eufemia and the Lemires, the Lemires chose to follow no clean-up actions at this time.  I had an AST Ins. Fund application sent to them, and I explained their options of investigation, possible liability if they sell the house, or no action if there are no sensitive receptors.  At this time no further actions are required though contamination is understood to remain on the property and should be properly managed if disturbed in the future.

S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM
B-354-2000*     On June 30, 2000 at 1615 we received a call from the Dead River Oil dispatcher in Brewer reporting a leaking copper feedline at 76 Sanford St. in Bangor.  An oil burnerman was performing a service check on the furnace when he noticed the leak in the line.  Less than one gallon spillled and he recovered this oil with sorbents.  He also replaced the line. The house has a cement floor and is on town water.
A-359-1999*No site visit made.  Frenchie called to report that the Rangeley Fire Department had been called to respond to this accident.  Apparently a log truck had rolled over in some 'S' curves above Smalls Falls.  Most of the fuel was confined to the pavement.  There are no wells nearby.  I arranged to collect the pads and some soil from Rangeley.  No further action is anticipated.
A-11-1999* I was onsite when these tanks were removed, because saturated soil and free product were expected.  All three tanks looked to be in excellent condition, but the middle tank did have two small holes.  Two tanks contained product and all three had some water.  Contamination levels were well within baseline one standards so no soil removal was needed.    Some material excavated for tank removal was disposed of because it could not be used as backfill in the excavation.  The surrounding soil consisted of sandy clay.

No further action is anticipated.
I-100-1999*On 6-23-99, Carl Soderberg of Soderberg Construction called to report that while digging a trench at the old Potato Service facility in Presque Isle, on old discharge line was uncovered and contained some of the old potato waste sludge. I visited the site with him that day and instructed him to remove the pipe (looked like a short section) and dispose of the sludge at a local landfill.
P-90-1997*Complaint of waste oil spillage.  I visited the site and confirmed that several gallons had been spilled.  Nobody was home during the time of the site visit and I contacted the owner of the property in writing.  I received a reply stating that the property had been sold to Carol and James Pike and was no longer owned by Diversified Properties.  Mr. Pike contacted me by telephone on 2/24/97 and verified that he would make arrangements to address the situation in the spring.

Mr. Pike contacted me in June 1997 and confirmed that the soil had been removed and would be disposed of properly.

No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter.





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Jon L. Woodard  OHMS 1
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
A-297-2000*This property had a new tank installed by the Pollution Prevention unit.  Tenant unsure but seemed to think that there was some staining when old tank was removed.  Found no evidence of a spill.  Sampled the well for DRO 4.1.25.  Analysis returned no DRO above the detection limit.  No further response action anticipated.
P-5-2000*  During the morn. of Thus. 1/6/00, while enroute to another site, I noted ongoing work in the UST area of this facility by Greenwood Construction Co. personnel.  As outlined in a Dec., 1999, UST registration ammendment, Greenwood was installing new electronic leak detection and new overspill containment (spill buckets).
   Two Greenwood workers were jackhammering concrete over the UST's.   Recently I had been advised by DEP's Ted Scharf that DEP rules were interpreted that a CTI was needed when uncovering buried equipment such as piping, however no supervising Maine CTI was onsite there at the time.  The problem lies in the potential to accidently damage buried items and potentially cause a discharge or safety issue.  [At MTA Mile 24S in 1999 a contractor accidently cut through active gaso. lines with a concrete saw causing a discharge.]  I advised the workers and Mark Greenwood that work would have to cease until his CTI [#354, C. Black] arrived.  Mr. Greenwood called Scharf who confirmed that work would need to stop until the installer arrived to supervise.
    At a March 2000, CTI meeting DEP's D. McLaughlin made a determination that a CTI would not be required in this circumstance.
    The site is the former Christy's Store #314 until purchased by Southland (7-Eleven) Corp. in 5/98.  The area is on city water and sewer.  Adjacent to the north is an Irving gas sta.  While the tank top was uncovered I noted no oder or obvious indication of a discharge.  see attached and DEP UST Reg. file #2441 for further info.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
B-29-2000*     On January 19, 2000 at 1430 we received a call from Ben Porter of Energy Systems of Pittsfield reporting a spill at one of their accounts in Detroit.  Mr. Eric Peavey of 8 Main St. was tossing firewood into his basement and threw a log onto his oil tank filter.  The filter line snapped off and started leaking fuel.  Mr. Peavey entered the basement and plugged the hole with his finger while his wife called the oil company which sent a couple of men.  They plugged the hole and pumped out the contents of the tank.  Unfortunately about twenty-five gallons leaked onto the cement floor.  The workers spread sorbents on the oil and recovered almost all the product.  However, a gallon or two might have entered the basement drain.
     I visited the site that afternoon and met Mr. Peavey who explained what happened.  I advised him to scrape up the remaining Speedi-Dri and any contaminated debris and spread another clean layer of Speedi-Dri.  The basement drain empties somewhere in the soil outside and not into any surface outfall.  Mr. Peavey has a dug well which is threatened.  Luckily, the amount which entered the drain is small but we will monitor the well.
P-235-1997*Overfill of residential AST.  Cleaned up by oil company with sorbent pads.  No site visit.  No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter.



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Jon L. Woodard  OHMS 1
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
B-6-2001*Paul Wintle started smelling fuel oil coming into the treatment plant just before Christmas of 2000, but he never could trace it back to its source.  After the New Year it got stronger, and on the 5th of January his crew opened up a manhole on Frost Ave. and documented fresh oil entering the sewer from Howard Patterson's house.

Patterson was notified and met us at his residence.  At first denying that he'd lost any oil, his opinion changed when a cover was raised over his basement sump and the sump was full of #2 oil.

The sump is close to the AST and the furnace feed line is buried in the concrete floor.  The building's perimeter drains enter the sump and the sump drains to the sanitary sewer.

I recovered what oil I could with sorbent pads, and left a bale with Howard, instructing him to tend the sump over the weekend.   On Monday, John Selleck and I installed a vapor recovery system in Patterson's basement to suck the fuel vapors out of the sump and exhaust them to the atmosphere.
B-441-1998*On July 7, 1998 we received a call from Mona Spear of Bangor Hydro reporting a one quart spill of transformer oil from a leaking transformer on the Colonels Road in Sebec.  Subsequent inspection of the transformer showed that it contained non-PCB mineral oil.  Workers excavated a 4' x 4' area of contaminated leaves, vegetation and soil.

Rec - file.
B-140-2000*      On March 13, 2000 at 1300 we received a call from Janet Dyer of Central Maine Power reporting a one quart spill of hydraulic oil at their substation at the Champion paper mill in Bucksport.  A hydraulic hose on a bucket truck burst and spilled the oil onto the snow.  Workers shovelled the contaminated snow into a drum and brought it back to their garage for disposal by a hazardous waste hauler.
B-468-2001*Curtis Barnes, driving for Rocky Beach Farms, apparently had never been to Winterport before, and therefore, not surprisingly, blew right by the entrance to Maine Terminals on Steamboat Ave.

Fire Chief Stan Bowen theorizes that when Barnes turned around, he scraped something hard with his saddle tank, opening a small hole.   Although Barnes got out and plugged the leak immediatly, by the time he got back to the terminal it was leaking again.  As the truck came to a halt the plug failed, losing an estimated 20 gallons of diesel.

The Fire Dept. responded, and Dysart's was summoned to fix the leaking tank.  When Dysart's found out that the tank was leaking fuel they dispatched their spill truck to deal with the spilled oil.

Examining the area the next day, I could see no sign of fuel spillage in the yard, although there was some sign of oil still on Main St.  Dysart's and the Fire Dept. did an excellent job of cleaning up the lost fuel.
A-244-1999* This complainant reported that somebody was burying waste in a hole near her property.  She was concerned for her well about 500' away.  I visited the site and observed a small amount of junk that had been pushed into a hole when some land had been cleared.  The total amount was probably less than 2 small barrels.  Some was very old.  There were 6 - 8 quart and gallon containers that had contained oil or solvents.  There was one battery.  There was a slight sheen on the water, but no free product.  I determined that while this material shouldn't have been disposed of here, it wasn't an ongoing problem and was very minor.  No remediation is needed.  I stopped at the home that appeared to be on the property in question, but there wasn't anybody home.  I also contacted Charlie Christian, the CEO.  No further action is anticipated.
B-283-2000*B-283-2000
05/23/2000 09:00

     An anonymous complainant called to report sloppy operations and oil spillage at Raymond's garage on Route 152 in Hartland.  Very little information was given.  An investigation of the described area shown no spillage.  It is believed that the complaint was founded in other than environmental concerns.
A-604-1999*John was at the home for an asbestos inspection.  The tenant at the home reported that his AST had been leaking for some time.  I visited the site and observed a tank in poor condition, with an unprotected buried line.  The end of the tank was wet with fuel, but there were no drips on the tank, and no fuel odor.  I placed a couple of pads on the floor, but there was no free product.  I concluded no cleanup was required.

I was unable to locate a phone number for Mr. Hanson, so wrote a letter to advise him of the need to upgrade the tank to prevent a future spill that could require cleanup.

No further action is anticipated.
P-269-1987*
	Response to gasoline discharge offsite @ DiRenzo & Sons Const. Co.  property in Westbrook.  A consumptive-use, motor gasoline UST facility abandoned.  Dense residential and commercial area, on city water & sewer service.  See attached narrative and UST reg. file for further details.
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A-262-1996*Boise had a piping failure which led to the loss of 150 gallons of slimicide.  It went to the sewer.
A-282-2000*The spill occurred when a hose blew on a roller. No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services.
P-579-1992*
	Source of long term gasoline discharge reaching soil and storm drains under building.  Gasoline vapors impacting residences.  Removal and remediation of gasoline UST under garage area of building (inside).
P-376-1999*On June 13, 1999 I was contacted by Janice Corr.  Ms. Corr recently moved into a newly remodeled home in Shapleigh and had been experiencing a chemical odor and taste in her water which comes from a point driven well beneath the home.  Ms. Corr had had the water sampled and analyzed at Demers Laboratory.  It was found to have a chemical called propanal (propionaldehyde).

 I re-sampled the well water directly from the well and found the same substance in approximately the same concentration.  Brad Hahn - DEP geologist and I investigated the site. No sure source was found, however its possible that the well became contaminated when the basement had flooded earlier this spring.  Water had entered the basement through the chimney and drained out through the hole in the concrete that is the well access.   We recommended that Ms. Corr install a filter on her well until the chemical flushes through.
P-883-1990*
UST facility inspection
I-93-2001*While trying to avoid a moose an empty cement truck flipped over on the interstate.

Michael Elwell was hired to remove the contaminated soil in the median.

Case closed.
B-391-1996*7/22/96 @ 1548

Fred Leigh, of Bangor Hydro Electric phoned to update me on a spill that was not reported earlier.  In speaking with Fred I found out that he did report this spill to the 800 number on Saturday July 20 around 1345.  This report was not forwarded to me.

Fred said that wind blew over a pole with its attached transformer at Husson College.  This happened sometime around 1100 on Saturday, July 20.  The spill scene is at the College President's residence on and near his driveway.  The spill covered an area about 30 by 6 feet. This material was lab tested to contain < 2 ppm concentration of PCB's.  Clean up included three 1/2 filled 85 gallon drums and one 55 gallon drum.  This spill debris was disposed of at Sawyer Environemental in Hampden.  Attachments.
B-199-1997*Mr. Akeley called to report that he had learned that six days previously an outside contractor, O'Brien and Gere, Inc., had spilled about 200 gallons of PCB sludge, 180-200 ppm, while vacuuming out of one container into another.  When the receiving sludge box was over filled the hose filled with sludge and when the vacuum was shut off the overlaiden hose separated dumping about 200 gallons onto the pavement.  The workers acted immediately to contain the spill but about (their own estimate) 3 gallons went down the drain to the mill process sewer.  Mr. Akeley estimates that about 2 grams of pure PCB went to the sewer.  The remaining sludge was cleaned up and shipped out as hazardous waste to either Clean Harbors, Mass. or Model City N.Y.
P-407-1998*   On 9/1/98 I met with Freeport Schools Maint. Director, James Mitchell.  Mr. Mitchell showed me the location of the 6000 gal. bare steel UST that he reported removed in late August, 1998.  Mitchell also reported that Les Wilson & Sons removed the UST and no problems or oil contamination was encountered.
   A new double wall steel AST, behind a fence and with auto leak alarm, was installed by Mechanical Services, Inc.  No further Resp. Div. actions are anticipated.

S Brezinski
DEP, BRWM
A-677-2001*Overfill to ground at the Irving gas station on Atlantic Highway in Waldoboro.  Customer was in attentive and had a defective tank.  The spill was reported as diesel but corrected by Irving to gasoline.  The entire spill was contained and cleaned up by the Waldoboro Fire Department and Irving.
P-504-2000*3 July 2000, DEP investigated spill site and advised that a logging truck, pulling out of a work site onto the road way, ruptured a saddle tank.  Also advised by Gary Dyer, Fire Chief, Otisfield, that the truck driver used sand along the road to cover the spill area.

Upon DEP inspection of the site, I observed remaining residual amout of fuel on the road and in the gravel adjacent the paved portion.  The spill did not threaten a near by  drinking water well.  Dyer advised that DOT was to inspect the site.

I contacted Sherwood Trucking and spoke to Robert Sherwood, who advised that he deplyoed speedy dry at time of spill and that he  will put down additional sorbent and clean up the remainder of the paroduct.  I advised Sherwood of State reporting requirements. He agreed.

No further action anticipated.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 15Aug00.
P-143-2000*A seasonal home in Brunswick had suffered from frozen water pipes.  The freeze caused the well pump to keep trying to fill the toilet.  Thousands of gallons of water were pumped continuously - filled up the basement, which in turn caused two manifolded 275-gallon oil tanks to float.  Both tanks were near full and both emptied nearly their entire contents.
When I recieved notification, I found about 8 inches of water across the basement floor with about 5 inches of oil on top of the water.  I called Fleet Environmental to remove the liquid from the basement.  Fleet then removed oiled debris and steam cleaned the basement walls and floor.

I also referred the spill to Tech. Services due to the close proximity of the well.  The well was tested and came up negative for oil.  The owner of the home applied to the insurance fund for coverage.  No further action by Response Services anticipated.
I-46-1998*Tank of cinder blocks 2"x4" large area of saturation and oil around filter.  Disposed contaminated with kerosene at the Presque Isle Landfill
B-22-1997*Katherine Ellis rents a small house from Robert O'Brian.  Upon her return from a weekend trip on Monday morning, Ms. Ellis smelled kerosene, and noticed that the snow behind the house was colored pink.  She summoned J.D. Thomas Co.

Thomas personnel replaced the tank and put down 2 bags of speedy dry. Because the ground was frozen and snow covered, the oil didn't penetrate into the ground, and the snow impeded its' movement downhill.  Once the speedy dry was put down, it soaked up a lot of the oil.

I instructed Mr. O'Brien to shovel up the speedy dry, and sorb up any liquid oil with the sorbents I provided him. Sorbent pads and speedy dry, I told him, could be disposed in the municipal garbage stream.
I-60-1998*RUSS SMITH FAXED IN A SMALL SPILL REPORT OF 79 OZ OF OIL WAS SPILLED AT THE SUBSTATION, RECLOSER FELL OVER DUE TO A QUICK SNOW MELT
B-410-1997*On 7/30/97 Garrett Keegan of CES called to report that they were getting PID headspace readings of 300 ppm at the tank excavation they were working on at the Bangor House.  He said that all of the soil that had been taken from the excavation, which was about 700 yds, was taken to the railroad property-which now belongs to the city.  He also indicated that 95% of that soil gave readings in the 4-5 ppm range.  The 300 ppm readings were at the north west corner, which was also close to the building's foundation to get any closer.  Considering that the most stringent classification for the area would be intermediate and that the 300 reading is marginally more than the notification level I said that it was okay to leave it.
A-18-1999*A gasket in a transmitter line to the 0.5% sulfur #6 oil storage tank (285,000 gallon capacity) developed a slow leak overnight. By the time the leak was discovered the next morning, about 200 gallons was in the moat surrounding the tank. Clean Harbors was hired to vacuum the oil.

During a subsequent shutdown in June, it was discovered the bad gasket was not the sole source of the spill discovered in January. When insulation was pulled off the tank, workers found the tank had corroded at the level of the bottom valve, probably because water had not been drained on a regular basis. Oil was leaking at the rate of about one drip per minute.

In July, the contents of the tank was transferred to rail cars so the tank could be repaired. Repairs were completed in September; contaminated soil was removed in October.

No further action required.
P-120-1998*On March, 18 1998 I received a call from Cianbro.  They had called to report a spill that had just occurred.  A vibro hammer had blew a hydrualic line spilling about ten gallons of hydraulic oil onto the deck of a barge.  The oil ran off the barge into Casco Bay.  Cianbro workers immediately boomed off the spill with sorbent booms and pads.  Nearly all oil recovered from water.  No further action at this time.
A-264-1998*     DEP received an after-hours report that a stolen vehicle had been driven into the Megunticook River.  No sheen was observed and DEP assistance was not requested, but the local authorities felt that some fuel was probably lost and that DEP should be notified.
     I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
B-619-1997*On 10/24/97, 0935 hours Chuck Martin of Webber Oil in Brewer reported an AST anomaly at 3 Caprie Street in Brewer.  The tank had developed a small corrosion hole and had leaked possibly 150 gallons over a period of time before the residents became aware of the situation.  The product went directly into a sump.  The sump did not contain water at the time because of the dryness of the season.  Webber personnel were able to bail three gallons of pure product (no water) out of the sump.  This suggests that the oil saturated the soil in the sump and most likely the surrounding soil which was under the cement floor.  The tank was located in the garage and the structure was new and in good shape.  All of this probably explains why the leak went undetected for so long.

Webber personnel indicated that they would continue to bail and sorb the sump.  I expect that as the ground water table comes back up they will be able to recover more product.  Meanwhile, the release has been stopped and the product at large is not causing a problem.
P-205-1999*    On 3/24/99, Ted Scharf of DEP, BRWM, OEU, notified DEP Response of free product noted in a facility monitoring well (MW) during a DEP facility inspection.  The facility was formerly known as Kimbal's Mobil while owned by Ballard Oil.  In 1989 the facility had replacement tanks installed.  No severe contamination was encountered (see P428-89).  The gas station is located in a mixed residential/commercial area and is on city water.  My contacts with Lampron Energy was Dennis Dillon (Manager) and Ted Libby.
     I visited the site on 3/25/99, 4/2/99, and in 5/99 and confirmed approx. 1/8" of dark diesel or #2 fuel in the well.  The monit. well was close to the diesel line, a suspected source.  There was no surficial staining on the asphalt paving indicating a surface spill, and no facility spill log indicating another possible source.
     Working with Eric Hamlin of DEP OEU we gave Lampron's options of testing and/or taking the diesel line out of service (see DEP letters of 4/6/99 and OEU files).  The gaso. product lines were due for upgrading by Simard & Sons in May 1999, so we hoped to coordinate all the work.  Lampron's and Simard agreed to several days notice to allow DEP to visit.
     On 5/9/99 I was contacted by Elwin Scott of Simard's stating the tanks were uncovered and they were in need of an okay to dewater.  No notice had been given as requested.  Onsite @ 1300 I advised CTI Mike Simard that they may dewater to a rear field but not to the street and nearby brook (prohibited by DEP BRWM and BLWQ).  GW was high and soils tight.  On 5/21 a sheen on gw was noted entering the excavation, coming from the diesel disp. direction.  On 5/25 we dug a shallow test pit between the diesel line and the MW and no oil saturated soils were obvious.  The line  was tested tight by Tanknology on 5/28/99.  No further Resp. Div. actions at this time.  See UST Reg. files and attached for further info.

S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM
B-534-1996*On 8/9/96 I attended the removal of a 10K, #2 heating oil tank at the Central Middle School in Corinth.  The tank was sound and there was no evidence of a product release.  The hole was dry at a depth of 8 feet.  The soil was fairly fine, sandy loam that was dark brown in color.  C & C Contractors was the removal contractor and Chris Gaudet of Petroleum Equipment Service was the licensed tank installer-even though the product was not a class one liquid.
P-809-1989*
	Investigation of gasoline vapors entering apartment building through sewer lines.  Likely coming from leaking UST at Town Taxi Co. and/or Cumberland farms GULF several blocks away.  See also report P-414-87 of Ed Antz.

S G Brezinski
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B-447-2001*      On August 9, 2001 at 2000 we received a call from the Bucksport Fire Dept. reporting a one gallon diesel spill on route 15 in Bucksport.  The oil was spilled on the road between the mill entrance and the railroad tracks.  Firefighters spread Speedi-Dri on the fuel.  None of the oil reached any drainage ditch and its source is a mystery.
B-10-1997*  E COMPLAINANT CLAIMS THAT THE AST AT THE HOUSE TWO DOORS SOUTH OF HIM HAS LEAKED FOR YEARS AND THAT THE OIL HAS SATURATED THE GROUND, RUNS INTO A TRIBUTARY TO SWAN LAKE AND, ULTIMATELY, TO THE LAKE ITSELF.  THE HOUSE IN QUESTION IS OWNED BY DICK TAYLOR OF POB 353, CHINA RD.,CHINA 04926 AND CURRENTLY LEASED TO LAURA BOHAN AND JIM ROGERS.

ACCORDING TO LAURA BOHAN, WHEN THEY MOVED INTO THE HOUSE IN NOVEMBER OF 1996, THE BASEMENT WAS FULL OF JUNK; AFTER MANY HOURS OF LABOR, ROGERS GOT IT CLEANED OUT ENOUGH TO DISCOVER THAT THE HOUSE'S OIL TANK WAS LEAKING.  BY THE TIME OF OUR VISIT, THE TANK HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM THE BASEMENT, REVEALING AN OIL STAINED FLOOR. I OBTAINED AND HAD ANALYZED A WELL WATER SAMPLE, AND THAT CAME BACK NEGATIVE.

A WALK THROUGH THE WOODS DOWN TO THE LAKE SHOWED NO SIGN OF OIL SHOWING UP.  A WATER SAMPLE OBTAINED 1/14/97 AT THE DONNA BOWEN RESIDENCE NEXT DOOR LIKEWISE SHOWED NO OIL CONTAMINATION.

MR. BRYANT INSISTS THAT OIL WILL APPEAR IN THE SPRINGTIME, SO I ASKED HIM TO CALL ME WHEN THE OIL IS VISIBLE. AS OF JUNE 6, I'VE RECEIVED NO SUCH CALL.  CASE CLOSED.
A-396-2000*An overfill occurred and was cleaned up by the Fire Department. No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services.
I-128-1997*I was called at home to respond to a vehicle accident at a small bogan next to the Big Brook Bridge on the Pinkham Road. The pickup truck was in the water with oil & gas in the water.

When I arrived, the vehicle was being removed by the wrecker service. The bogan is completely contained and no oil products were dischared to Big Brook. Boom and pads were placed in the bogan to collect as much oil as possible.

Frank & I returned on 9/2/97 to collect the boom and attempt to recover more oil while using a canoe. We had very little success.

No obvious environmental impact is noticed in the bogan area from fuel & oil from the truck.

Case Closed
I-134-1999*The complaintant was walking her dogs, when she noticed a puddle of oil on the ground next to the gas station.

When I investigated, I found old oil in a swale area with two areas of dead vegetation about 2 feet in diameter each. This swale is off the Daigle Oil Property according to the Asst. Manager, April Doane.

The source appears to be runoff from the diesel pump area. Some speedi dri is on the ground next to the pumps. Many stains of recent spills are visible around the diesel pumps island; a few around the gasoline pumps, but not as bad as the diesel pump area.

When I asked to see  the spill log for the site, it took the Asst. Manager about 15 minutes to located log book.  The last entry was in January 1999.

The site registration was not posted on site. No information was available on site as to what the Facility Registration number was.


An Initial Clean-up Actions Agreement was issued and contained the following requirements to be done before 9/15/99:
1. Remove all contaminated soil & dispose of at landfill ( PI or TriCommunity)
2. Post Facility Registration
3. Maintain Spill Logs Daily

Case closed
I-181-1997*On Thanksgiving day, an Irving Oil Co Technician responded to a no heat report from Bonnie Hewitt who is a tenant in a 3 apartment building on 12 Russ Street. The tank was found empty and a puddle of oil was on the floor.

Tank had been filled on 11/26/97 and was now completely empty. A corrosion pin hole on the end opposite the filter, in the bottom center had drained the tank.

The Irving Tech cleaned up all the free product with sorbent pads & speedi dri.

The site was determined to be an Intermediate Clean-up due to a strong odor after the free product was removed.

On 11/28/97, all the wooden partitions that were contaminated with oil were removed and a poly wall was installed to control the vapors. A radon fan was installed to ensure negative pressure in the spill area. Even with the fan the first floor apatrments still have an odor.

On 12/1/97, A section of the floor was excavated with jackhammers. An area about 5 feet square was removed.

Under the concrete floor was a 2-3 inch layer of crushed stone and another floor. This was the source of the odor.
The oil had spread into the crushed stone and had gotten under the original floor through numerous cracks.

9 holes were drilled in the floor to determine if the oil was trapped between them. Using a PID all the holes were less than 500 ppm, and most were less than 50 ppm. This indicates that the oil didn't move very far in the crushed stone between the two floors.

The excavation was continued under the original floor and ledge was encountered directly under the original floor and it is contaminated with oil.

Since the odor was coming from out of the ledge (about 500 ppm PID), I decided the the only solution was to pour another floor over the entire cellar.
Poly was laid down, fine gravel over that and then the new floor.
After the floor was in place, the odor was not detectable with a PID or my nose.

Case closed.
A-66-2000*Received a call from Scott Reed of Mead Paper reporting a chlorine dioxide leak.  He reported that a line to paper machine R-15, carrying a dilute solution of chlorine dioxide, froze and broke allowing the solution to escape onto the roof of a building.  This approximately started during the night and continued into the mourning.  A chlorine dioxide odor was noticed in the building. The building was evacuated and a search was started to find the problem.  The problem was found eventually, and the pipe fixed. The residual liquid was washed down to the process sewer.  Total amount of chlorine dioxide release is estimated to be 26 pounds.  This is based on the total estimated amount of chlorine dioxide was released to the atmosphere instead of reacting to organic matter in the sewer when the residual liquid was washed down.  No site visit is needed and no further work is needed on this incident.  See the attached report from Mead for additional information.
A-129-1997*Marsh sheen only.  No further action anticipated.
P-343-1998*On 8/9/99 returned to site to resample well water. Present analysis indicates 1 PPB benzene. The Orcotts stated they were experiencing gastrointestinal problems before the filters were put on and now they have not experienced any problems due to the water. I will be contacting the Health & Environmental testing lab to have a Test B kit sent to them. This test will check the water for metals and bacteria.
I-4-1999*11.99 gallons of crankcase oil from trailer truck leaked over 3 miles of road after drain plug fell out.  2.99 gallons of oil was recovered with sobents.
P-175-2001*Mr. Nicholson's tank developed a slow leak due to the weight of snow on the filter.  The leak was found quickly and repaired by the oil company.  An estimated 10 gallons spilled from the tank. I shoveled out all the oil impacted snow I could find.  No further action anticipated.  I suggested that Mr. Nicholson apply to the Insurance Fund in case the spill should prove to be more extensive once the snow melts and the ground thaws.
P-123-1987*REPORT SUMMARY
	Abandonment by removal of six 1000-gal. motor fuels UST's by A L Doggett under waiver of 10-day notification from DEP's Edgar Antz.  No DEP visit at the time.  According to CTI Bosse: no contamination found.  Removal was prior to Maine requirements for a CMR 691 UST Closure Assessment and implementation of the Hydrocarbon Spill Decision Tree.
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A-37-1996*This homeowner complained of petroleum taste/odor in their water. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited on 1/22/96.
Odors were possibly present, though very slight.  Lab analysis this date was non-detect for petroleum.  Examination of the cellar revealed a likely explaination:  the AST is located in the cellar, which shows exposed bedrock.  The drilled well is located 20' outside the cellar wall.  The cellar floods periodically, occasionally immersing the AST to half its depth.  Flood waters exit the cellar in the vicinity of the water line.  I believe that oil from minor leaks and spills at the tank and filter probably are carried to the well during flood events.
The property owner will relocate the tank.  No remediation is warranted because lab analysis was non-detect, but I recommended that the owner make application to the oil insurance fund in the event that the well is impacted at some later date.
B-576-1996*Brad Meyers, owner of a recently acquired water front home in Blue Hill, called to report discovering fuel oil in his water.  It was said that contamination levels were rather high at about 1000 ppb or 1 ppm.  It was also stated that the well had recently undergone hydrofracturing to attain a better yield.  It was also stated that two 1000 gallon fuel tanks were removed from the property back in 1994.  I had attended the removal (see B-613-94).

Remembering the investigation and reviewing the report, no contamination was found within the tank excavation.  Bedrock is rather close however making groundwater susceptible to small amounts of contamination.  A line leak in or near the foundation wall is also a possibility.  Past activities at an adjacent golf course may also be a factor.  In any event, a filter was installed at the residence.  Technical services staff will be investigating remedial options.  Until their investigation is complete, the case will be treated as a mystery.
A-105-2000*The Collins (623-2265) received 100 gallons of kerosene on 2/25/00. The tank was empty the next day. Snow and ice had fallen off the roof, breaking the line at the filter. The tank was installed in January 1999 by Major Appliance (Ken Martin, 622-5859). The filter was not protected as required by Oil & Solid Fuel Board rules. O&SFB was notified, and took enforcement action.

No oil was evident in either the Collin's basement or in Peggy Cameron's basement next door (622-1916). There was a very slight smell of kerosene around the tank. The oil may have reached the perimeter drain and been carried to the combined sewer. Dale Glidden at Augusta Sanitary District was notified, but said that heavy rains over the past two days would have safely diluted the oil had it reached the sewer.

About a week after the spill, oil was found in the sump in the basement as it emptied from the perimeter drains. An oil/water separator and fan were installed. When product recovery slowed, the sump was filled with pads to collect the small amount of incoming product and the oil/water separator was removed. The homeowner will contact DEP if additional free product is found.

No further action required by Response Services.
I-50-2001*David Duarte of Rhode Island and Dead River Co. was pumping fuel when he left it unattended and nozzle fell partially out of fill hole and failed to stop automatically when vehicle tank filled up.  Speedy dry was used and was shoveled up with some snow.  Put in plastic bags.
P-364-1997*Contamination was discovered during a site assessment of a property to be developed in downtown Portland.  It was believed that the site had historically been utilized as at least one gas station.  I visited the site during the excavation, when a total of 5 underground storage tanks were discovered at various sites on the property.  The tanks were removed under the direction of CTI Gordon Pott of Clean Harbors, Inc.  The site is considered Baseline-2 on the Department's Hydrocarbon Spill Decision Tree and all soil contaminated at greater than 1000 ppm was required to be excavated.  There was, however the need to excavate a much larger amount of soil to be removed for the project, and as such, soil with any oil contamination was disposed of at ARC in Eliot, ME.  A site assessment outlining the clean-up procedures was received from SW Cole.

No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter.




__________________________
Jon L Woodard  OHMS 1
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
B-670-1996*D-TREE=B1.
A-508-1999*Low levels of Pentachlorophenol and other chlorinated phenols were found in the well water at Hunt Company. The levels exceeded the MCLs for these compounds. This monitoring was done as a result of a previous spill on the property. See A-380-97 for details. The site was referred to Uncontrolled Sites for followup.
A-131-1998* Mead Paper, security, reported a Cl O2 release. A six foot section of 6 inch vent line failed. This occurred on the softwood bleach tower.
 Rob Stalford, of Mead Paper, could not determine the quantity of Cl released. See attached letter for further information. No site visit was made.
A-489-1998* The Waterville Fire Dept. called to report a small gasoline spill.  This occurred at Elm Plaza on 9-5-98 and the Fire Dept. responded and cleaned up the spilled gasoline.  No site visit was made and no further action is required.
I-210-1998*On 10-30-98, this office received a call from a resident of Easton who had noticed a large number of dead fish in the recreation pond behind the town office that morning. She had been walking her dog about 5:00 A.M. when she noticed them. Her call was received here at about 4:30 P.M. An investigation that evening revealed about 75-100 dead suckers along the edge of the pond. No other species except suckers were seen. Dave Basely of IF&W was contacted that night. His opinion was that it was not a natural kill as D.O. and rapid temperature differences would not be a consideration for this time of year.

No dead fish were seen at the inlet to the pond about two miles upstream.

On 11-2-98, the Town Manager of Easton was contacted and stated that on 10-29-98 the fire department had drawn water through their hydrant on the pond to test the equipment. As water was being circulated, fish were seen being drawn through the system and sprayed back into the pond. She stated this had happened once before during the same type of exercise. Apparently the hydrant  intake is in a deep hole where larger suckers tend to lay. This was most likely the cause.

The town has received a letter from IF&W urging them to appropriately screen their hydrant to prevent this from happening again.
A-579-1998*h An anonymous caller reported that every time Mr. Rideout pulled out of his driveway, with his pickup truck, he would lose 0.5 gallons of gasoline through the opening where the gas cap should have been. Mr. Theodore Rideout's residence is on Route 218, near the Cookson Rd.
 I made a site visit later that day. There was no one home at that time. A quick look around the property revealed a lot of junk, such as metal debris, autos etc. Several hours later while returning from another site I stopped in, however, there was no one home this time either.
 The anonymous person called again, on or about 7-27-99, and reported that there was oil and automotive batteries scattered about the property. I made a site visit on 8-4-99 and spoke with Mr. Rideout. I also walked around the property and did not find any evidence of oil spilling or dumping. I found only one automotive battery. However, there is a lot of junk, such as metal debris and wood, covering the property.
 No further action will be required.
B-815-1998*     On December 24,1998 at 1445 we received a call from Fred Leigh of Bangor Hydro reporting a one gallon mineral oil leak from a transformer on route 15 in Deer Isle.  A tree limb hit the unit which was located on pole 87 and burned a hole which leaked a gallon of <50ppm PCB mineral oil.  Workers excavated a 5' X 5' area around the base of the pole.  There are no wells in the area.
A-193-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98.  See attached CMP report for more information.  No further action anticipated.
B-304-1997*D-TREE=I.
B-585-1999*B-585-99
Dexter

Friday September 17, 1999			1535

Bob Whittier paged me to report that a Dexter Municipal had phoned to report a sunken boat, in Lake Wassookeag, in Dexter.

I returned the call & explained that he should notify Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.  I also said that when they were ready to raise the boat to call.  The small outboard motorboat had been underwater for about 2 days and was reported to be causing a periodic sheen that would dissipate rapidly.  This type of boat usually has a gasoline-oil mix either in an attached tank or a remote tank if left on board.  I asked them to contact me when they were ready to retrieve the boat.  I would be there in event of a potential small oil or gasoline spill.  There was no further contact from the Dexter municipal official.
P-5-1999*On January 7, 1999 I received a call from Mark Richardson, owner of Marks Five Corners Gas Station.  They had suffered a spill of approximately thirty gallons.  I responded to the call.  On site I noted that the pumps had all been shut down. I inspected the failed gasket which caused gasoline to spill from the pump while a customer was pumping gas.  Some gas spilled to the asphalt lot and evaporated, however most went into the ground under the pump.  While I was onsite CN Brown arrived to repair the pump.  All pumps will be inspected by CN Brown prior to starting up.  The area is non-sensitive, no clean up will be attempted on the gas which went into the ground, at this time.
A-305-2000*A caller reported oil spilled from the back of a blue pickup truck as it turned the corner. The spiller made an effort to clean up the spill, but did not appear to have any equipment. Since no DEP staff were available, I contact Lincoln County Dispatch. They reported a small amount of oil on the road, and re-graded.

No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services.
A-299-2001*A loose fitting near the burner in the basement allowed a small amount of oil to leak to the natural rock basement floor. Webber Energy cleaned up the oil with sorbent materials. The area is served by public water. There were no odors in the living space and only a slight odor in the basement. A discharge fan was installed in the basement as a precaution against vapor problems. No further action is expected.
B-714-1998*B-714-98 Tillson Hardware -Dexter


I received an anonymous call that said it appeared that Tillson Hardware was cleaning rental equipment such as cement mixers near a storm drain to the Sebasticook River. What made this relevant to my bureau was the additional statement that it appeared that a jug of muriatic acid was being used to clean the equipment. I contacted Clarrisa Trasko, with the water bureau, and we visited the scene on 11/6.
   We contacted the manager and learned that they were cleaning equipment adjacent to the drain. However, what was thought to be acid, was a concrete release agent whose MSDS indicated that it was not hazardous. The equipment was all brand new and oil and grease being washed from the equipment would be minimal.
   However Ms. Trasko required that they move their washing station to a location on a small piece of lawn so that the dirt and chemicals would be filtered out prior to the wash water entering the stream.
   No action required from me.
B-26-2000*B-026-00
Baileyville

Friday January 14, 2000				0501

The state police dispatcher asked me to make contact with the Washington County Sheriff's Office (255-4422).  Someone with the Baileyville Fire Department contacted the Sheriff's Office.  I was informed that a supply line had ruptured on an outside heating oil tank at The Irving Big Stop.

Ice was reported to have broken off the supply line on the outside 275-gallon tank.   The ensuing spill was to the frozen dirt and asphalt surface of the parking lot.

When I spoke with Keith Gillis of the Baileyville Fire Department, I was informed that.  The filter on the outside tank had been leaking  and a bucket was placed under the filter.  Over time the bucket filled with water and some oil.  The water froze and in so doing pushed the oil filter up and broke off the tanks pipe.

The oil was cleaned up using sorbent pads and about 20 bags of speedi-dri.  The Irving Oil Corporation disposed of the spill debris.
P-261-1996*   On 5/7/96 S. Brezinski made a late evening response to a basement oil discharge of a Biddeford apartment building.  The spill was related to arson of the building where the vandal broke the fuel line off and then set the building on fire. Fortunately the oil failed to ignite.
   Brezinski and Biddeford Fire Dept. laid sorbents on the compact dirt floor though much of the oil apparently escaped to the city sewer via a basement sump drain.  DEP hired SUN Env. to return on 5/8/96 to pick up and dispose of oily sorbents.  At the time a burnt structure odor masked any oil odors in the basement though Mr. Tryhan later contacted me to say he wished to remove some soil in the future.  Tryhan, as of 9/96 has not communicated further regarding further clean-up or soil disposal though.  Further Response Div. action possible regarding remaining contaminated media.
B-689-1996*Dennis Preston, Park Ranger at Cobscook Bay State Park, called to report discovering an oil sheen near the Reversing Falls in Pembroke.  I explained to Mr. Preston that these situations are usually temporary occurrence; usually from a lobster boat.  I asked him however to keep an eye on it just in case it had an unusual source persistent source.  The sheen dissipated however.
B-659-2000*B-659-00
Searsport

Tuesday December 12, 2000			0725

I was contacted by the state police dispatcher that there had been a 3,000-gallon spill of oil at the C.H. Sprague terminal in Searsport.  I was asked to contact Duane Seekins (548-2531).

I spoke with Mr. Seekins.  According to him, the terminal was involved in shift change when they noticed the gauging, it indicated that they should have switched the oil flow to another tank at an earlier time.  This resulted in the spillage of about 3,000 gallons of #6 (bunker C) heating oil.

When I arrived I was told that the tank overfill from the Tanker "Berthea" to Bunker Tank #2 was contained within the bermed area.  I visited the area with Duane Seekins and Mike Mitchell of the USCG MSD.  The coast guard was notified to cover all bases in event any product escaped the berm.

Clean Harbors had been notified and was in the process of getting Vacuum Trucks to Searsport.  If the product can be removed soon there may be less reason for excavation.  Much of the #6 oil is becoming a solid skim on the water in the berm.

A temporary containment location was set up on a paved area that was covered with a polyethylene tarp.  The contaminated soil would be removed from the bermed area and stockpiled, and covered until its final disposal has been negotiated.

Adverse weather moved in as did frost and freezing conditions.  Clean up has been shut down.  The contaminated soil will go to Thibodeau in the late winter or spring of 2001, when excavation and clean up can continue.  About 100 cubic yards of contaminated soil & sand have been removed from inside the berm.  This material is on a tarp and covered with a tarp.  Clean up will resume when weather permits.  Mr. Duane Seekins will contact me when that happens.
P-41-2001*Slippery roads caused a pickup truck to collide with a van carrying commercial janitorial supplies.  Several gallon containers of glass cleaner broke open and leaked out when rescue workers were extracting the driver from the van.  The van was also carrying containers of toilet bowl cleaner (containig chlorine bleach) but they did not leak.  All of the leaking containers were separated, bagged, and placed back in the van so the State Police could weigh the van for their reconstruction.  Both the van and the pickup leaked a small amount of motor oil and antifreeze.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



_____________________________
Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
January 22, 2001
B-33-1997*Fred Leigh, Environmental Analyst for Bangor Hydro Electric, called to report a spill of dielectric oil from a transformer at American Concrete on Stillwater Avenue in Veazie.  Mr. Leigh stated that a piece of American Concrete equipment accidently caught an electrical line pulling down a pole with a transformer.  The transformer hit the ground and ruptured spilling about 30 gallons of non-pcb oil.  Approximately 2 yards of soil and about a bale of sorbents were generated in the process.  The material was later disposed of by Sawyer Environmental in Hampden.
A-362-2000*Tank reported to show signs of leakage through the tank replacement project. The old tank is gone and the new tank is in place. I was not able to find any sign of leakage anywhere in the area of the old tank.
P-486-1997*UST REMOVAL
Contractor: Simard & Sons.  CTI: Mike Simard
Consultant: Field Services, Inc.  John Gordon on site.

Tanks were removed on 9/8/97 and contamination encountered.  Site is stringent on MDEP Hydrocarbon Decision Tree and a clean-up level of 100 ppm was set (within physical confines of site).  867.18 tons of contaminated soil were removed on 9/8, 9/9, & 9/15 and disposed of at Commercial Recycling.  Groundwater was encountered and 8925 gallons were pumped from hole on 9/12, immediately prior to setting of new tanks.  Field Services was retained to sample all drinking water wells within 300 ft. of the site.

One well (Doris Higgins) was found to be contaminated and was placed on a filter.  The site has been refered to the Division of Technical Services and no further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter.



______________________
Jon L Woodard  OHMS 1
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
P-50-2000*See attached report from FPL.
A-251-1996* An anonymous caller reported a long thin line of oil that had been spilled onto the camp rd. that is east of Lake George in Canaan.
 I called the CEO and Road Commissioner and asked if they could check this complaint out and get back to me with more information. The Road Commissioner checked the situation out and called me back. She stated that it looked like an automobile lost engine oil or transmission fluid and left a mark down the middle of the road for quite a distance. She shovelled some of the worst of it into a bag. When I questioned her if I was needed on site she said no. The small quantity of oily soil was placed into the municipal waste stream. No further action required.
B-314-2000*On 6/8/00, 0910 hours Roger Tracey Reported that there had been an oil spill at the Green Acres Mobile Home Park in front of lot 43.  Pelky Oil had made a delivery in that area a couple days earlier but it seemed that the spill happened sometime after Pelky's delivery.  When Pelky Oil made their delivery it was not raining.  The way the product spread out on the asphalt surface indicated that the product landed on a wet surface and covered an area 30 feet by 8 feet.  If the asphalt had been dry at the time of the spill there would have been more penetration of product into the asphalt.  Also, if the spill had taken place at the time of the Pelky delivery someone would have reported it sooner.  Whether someone had an accident with a similar product (like diesel*) or someone was trying to sabotage Pelky Oil remains a mystery.  * Note: there was no free product so the presence or absence of color could not be evaluated.  There was no recoverable product at the time of my investigation.
P-79-1996*On 1/25 Nathan Thompson received a report of a 200 gallon spill of heating oil at the Hooper residence in East Waterboro from Dave Ellis at E. R. Warren.  I responded to the spill on 2/1/96.  The entire tank of oil had been lost when ice fell off the roof of the mobile home onto the tank snapping of the oil valve.  Mr. Hooper indicated that the entire area was bedrock and his home sat on a slab.  His well was drilled and was located upgradient of the spill.  No oil was recoverable.  No further action required.



______________________________________________
SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
P-30-2000*Overfill to 275 gal. AST in the basement of the Patch home in Hollis.  Approximatly 5 gallons spilled most of the oil come out of the vent pipe to the ground outside the home.  Dixon Bros. cleaned up the oil with sorbent, speedy dry and be removing a small amount of dirt from beneath the vent line.  No further action.
A-417-2000*Major John Branscom called to report a car was leaking gasoline in the parking lot of the National Guard Armory.  I called back and was told he was on the way to the spill.  I met him on site.  The car had been towed away already. It was obvious there had been a gasoline leak.  Guard personnel cleaned up the spill with sorbents and speedy dry.  There was a storm drain nearby which was impacted.  Measurements of the storm drain with an explosimeter showed no measurable amounts of gasoline.  No further work is necessary on this spill.
P-89-1994*
Retail motor fuels UST facility.  Single-wall UST's.  Installed in 1984.
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B-105-2001*B-105-01
Shirley

Wednesday March 14, 2001			0850

I received a phone call from Mr. Tracy Lord (695-2817), of the Maine DOT in Shirley.  Mr. Tracy phoned to report a 40-gallon diesel fuel spill.  The spill occurred when the person fueling the DOT truck left the fueling area.  The nozzle came out and did not shut off.

About 40-gallons of diesel fuel was spilled to the paved area.  The spill was contained and cleaned up using sand as a sorbent material.  The sand (less than 1 cubic yard), will be covered with polyethylene sheeting.  The sand, which is and will remain on pavement, will be spread thinly on pavement when weather permits, most likely late April or May.
P-469-1997*1 September 1997 I received a call from David Sait inquiring as to the MDEP status concerning a liquid oxygen leak in Gorham. Not receiving any report, I contacted State Police in Augusta who had no information of such an incident. Contacting Gorham dispatch, I was informed that a liquid oxygen incident was on-going at the facility location; and that the incident was reported to Gorham by an employee of Swan Foods, located next door to the facility location. Sait instructed me to respond to the incident.

Upon arrival I observed that the incident had concluded. I briefly spoke to the Gorham Fire Chief who informed me that the liquid oxygen tank vented.

2 September 1997, I contacted Bill Fischer, Cryogenic Specialist, Freeman's Supply Inc., Portland. Fischer responded to the incident. Fischer informed me that the 900 gallon vertical tank vented as pressure in the tank increased due to lack of use. Apparently, low levels of a cryogentic material in a tank will heat up, creating a greater expansion ratio of the product in the tank, thus triggering the pressure relief valve. In other words, the pressure relief valve was doing its job.

I also spoke with Kevin Stuart of Hill'Loma, who informed me that the liquid oxygen is used in the fabrication shop for cutting operations and is used with acetylene. Hill'loma is a tool manufacturer.

No further action is anticipated.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO (23Dec97).
B-229-1999*B-229-99
St. Albans

Wednesday May 12, 1999				1235

I received a phone call from Mr. Phillip Larochelle (9384340), the proprietor of a horse-boarding stable.  Mr. Larochelle was in the process of installing a fence line to contain the horses when outside the stable, when one of his postholes smelled of turpentine like substance.  I got directions and proceeded to the Stable and Barn on the Mason Corner Road.

When I arrived I was informed that Mr. Larochelle and his wife had recently purchased the property.  He was concerned that there may be gasoline contamination in the ground.  The smell in the posthole did resemble a very old varnish like gasoline smell.  But there was no product or sheen.  The hole was a very short distance (about 6 feet), from a very large manure pile.  I explained that there could be any number of items in the ground and he may smell a leachate consisting of buried and decomposing materials.  Yet it was my concern that there may have been an underground tank in the area.  I informed Mr. Larochelle that I would return in the morning with a metal detector and see what we could find.  In the mean time I asked Mr. Larochelle to check with the town hall to see if they could find out any information on a possible underground tank on the property.

Thursday May 13, 1999				0840
When I returned.  The Larochelle's and I went to work with the metal detector and shovels.  We found a number of treasures including pieces of buried barbed wire, horse shoes, old tools, axe heads and black smith tools.  We, however did not find an underground tank, and noted that there were even fewer odors in the posthole.

Their drinking water well is about 115 feet from the fence hole location.  I suggested that it might be a very good Idea to get a baseline test on the well.  At this point the Larochelle's did not seem too concerned.
A-202-1996*see attached
B-591-1996*D-TREE=N.
I-169-2000*150.99 gallons of heating oil leaked from a 275 tank onto a gravel floor of a basement in Sherman Mills.  A vacuum truck was used to pick up contaminated soil and free product.  3 wells are at risk and the owners will be placed on well monitoring.

Soils are a very course gravel, spilled product did a text book move, contaminated soil was coned shaped to the water table with free product at the water table. Initial recovery well had about 2 feet of water. About 50 gallons of free product was recovered in the first week using sorbant pads. Pads were placed in bottom of the well, then removed and wrung out.

Free product was recovered from the well placed in the basement near the spill. Water was pumped through two oil water separators prior to being discharged.

Site was turned over to Tech services on 1/11/01.

Response case closed.
B-449-1997* Somecontamination was discovered in the soil around the tank at the Sears warehouse on Doane St. I was notified after hours on 8/13/97, and advised Schuchert, the site assessor, to set the contaminated soil aside, so I could look at it the next day.

The tank was gone by the time I arrived the next morning; according to Schuchert, Sear's policy is to take the contaminated soil to asphalt batchers in New Hampshire.
B-573-1999*
On 9/15/99, 0915 hours Paul Birkel, who is a consulting engineer working on the Lincoln Treatment Plant project reported that they had encountered contaminated soil while trenching across a bulk plant property owned by Whitney Energy.  The project had obtained an easement to cross Whitney Energy's property.  The facility is clearly a non-attainment zone, so the clean up level is base line one.  There was no free product and no saturated soil.  The excavated soil gave bag head space readings of less than 100 ppm.  Samples taken at depth (around 8 feet) averaged 1000 ppm.  One of their questions was, " could they put the dirt back in the trench?".  The answer to this was that they could.  The question of worker safety came up.  I pointed out that it was a matter of individual sensitivity and that they could use forty-hour trained personnel with respirators or they could vent the trench before putting staff in the trench to fit pipe.  They had forty-hour trained workers on site and most of the work was by machine and above ground.

A-307-2001*   DEP received a report that oil was spilled at this residential AST when it slipped off it's supporting blocks.  Oil sorbed into soil near the tank; excavation was prompt.  The area is rural/residential with several individual wells within 1000'.  The dug well serving the subject property is 150' from the spill site and is marginally at-risk.
A-467-1999*DEP received an after-hours report that a small amount of oil was spilled when a tree fell on a pole carrying a transformer.  According to CMP staff all visible signs of oil were cleaned up (see CMP report).
B-564-1997*The statutory life of the tank buried at Russ Wooley's house expired in 1997.  I waived the 30 day notice requirement, and the tank was removed on 10/3/97.  There was no contamination encountered.
A-411-1998*   A release of anhydrous ammonia forced the evacuation of the Maine State Retirement System building and sent 33 workers to the hospital. The release occurred when an employee changed a cylinder of anhydrous ammonia used in a machine used to develop microfilm and allegedly removed the packing nut in error. The employee closed the valve on the cylinder before leaving the building. The fire alarm was activated in order to speed evacuation.
   The release occurred in a small room off an open office area on the lower level. DEP response staff made the initial entry in Level A, with backup and medical support by the Augusta Fire Department (Fire Chief Larry Bradley was incident commander). Upon entering the building, response staff confirmed the valve was closed, found the valve packing nut had been removed, and attempted to open a roof vent. The vent could not be opened due to the narrow access combined with bulky Level A clothing. A second entry was made to check ammonia levels and ensure all employees had been evacuated. Once it was determined the building was safe for occupation, employees were allowed into the building for a short time to retrieve personal items. Since there was still a strong odor of ammonia in the file room, the plan was to ventilate the space once all employees had again left the building. Activation of the fire alarm had turned off the air conditioning, which slowed ventilation. Once the fire alarm was turned off and mechanical ventilation resumed, the air cleared very quickly making additional ventilation of the file room unnecessary.
   Additional air samples were taken July 31 at the request of Kay Evans, MSRS Executive Director.  All were non-detect.
   The half-mask respirator used by MSRS staff had cartridges which were installed on 6/28/96. The mask was sealed in a bag which Mary James and Bill Wallace signed, and returned to Kay Evans. The incident is being investigated by Adrien Polky of the Bureau of Labor Standards (624-6400).
A-512-1998*This complaint alleged a number of concerns.  Included was an oil spill to the basement, gas and oil spills outside near a snowmobile, asbestos improperly disposed of or stored and planned burning violations, as well as hazardous materials in the house.  I visited and observed a large quantity of old paint containers.  Some had rusted and spilled, forming a solid mass on the basement floor.  Many labels were difficult to read, but I determined that the containers not immediately familiar contained old US Government surplus paint.  I advised the occupants that some paint could still be used and that those that were too old could be disposed of as solid waste or as household quantifies of paint.  There was no evidence of oil in the basement or outside.

I referred the asbestos concerns to the asbestos unit.  Ed Antz visited the property and found no asbestos.  The burning concerns were referred to the local fire chief.

No further action is anticipated.
A-466-1998*     DEP received an after-hours report that this facility had suffered a sulfuric acid spill.  Reportedly, all spilled product went to the plant sewer (see I.P. report, attached).
A-113-1999* On 2-24, an employee of Guilford Transportation noticed oil along the shore of the Kennebec River. The river was frozen and it appears that oil was leaching into the few open areas along the shore. Most of the oil was located next to outfall #1, which is the second outfall starting at the northerly property line. This #1 outfall is connected to the oil water separator and is licensed by the DEP. It is also the same outfall involved with a spill last winter.
 When I arrived crews were busy trying to pump the product off the water. The pump was not working therefore, I suggested that they use pads to clean up the oil. The oil was dark brown in color and had the smell of diesel fuel.
 Cleanup continued all afternoon and into the next day. I checked on the site again on 2-26, and the clean up was sufficient. I called the Waterville railroad shop on 3-2, and the crew member that I spoke with told me that the river look real good that morning.
 Guilford Transportation needs to do something with the drain system at this entire location.
I-41-1996*Mr. Paradis Car died at the North Street intersection with Route # 1.

Mr. Paradis pushed his car across Rt #1 into the parking lot of Dr. Graves. Mr. Paradis could not stop the car, it rolled across the parking lot, down a steep bank and into the Presque Isle stream.

A minor sheen was noticed coming out of the engine compartment.

Car was removed by Gil's Service around 0710.

Case closed.
B-559-1999*BEING SO RICH YOU CAN AFFORD YOUR OWN AIRLINER DOESN'T MEAN THAT FUEL CAN'T BE SPILLED FROM IT. ON 9/9/1999 THE FUELLING CREW AT BIA OVERFILLED A PRIVATE 727 BYABOUT 40 GALLONS.  ALL THE FUEL WAS RECOVERED FROM THE TARMAC USING THEIR "SUPER SOPPER"
P-855-1999*A tractor trailer overturned on Route 117, in Denmark.  I spoke with the Denmark fire chief who said that one of the saddle tanks had leaked a couple of gallons but that it was stopped now.  He also stated that Foster Russell oil had just arrived on site and would pump out the saddle tanks prior to the truck being righted.  The Fire Chief stated no DEP assistance was required.  No further action.
A-403-1999*No site visit made.  See attached for additional details.  No further action is anticipated.
A-567-1999*When Mr. Pratt's tank corroded the oil ran across the concrete floor and out a basement drain.  The drain emptied into a trench to a farm pond on his property. (Even in dry weather, water constantly enters the Pratt basement and leaves by the drain.)  When I arrived there was very little oil in the basement and the tank was empty.  Mr. Pratt wanted to clean the basement himself.  Oil covered the pond with a thin layer of oil.  I used boom and pads to collect the oil.  The water table was low and I don't think any oil had left the pond.   The following day, Bart and I went back to see if we could remove more oil.  A heavy sheen was all that remained on the pond.   A sheen was still coming from the ditch.  We placed boom at the end of the ditch and at the outlet to the pond as a precaution.  PID levels were 20 to 50 ppm in the basement and about 15 ppm in the kitchen upstairs.  It rained 4" to 5" over the following two days as a result of Hurricane Floyd.  I returned the Monday after.  Little additional oil had been collected in the boom we placed, so I removed all boom and pads remaining on site.  Mr. Pratt had a little more cleaning to do in the basement, but PID levels were 0 ppm in the basement and upstairs.

Because the oil moved quickly away from the home and well, and because the pond cleanup was so successful, the site will not be referred to Technical Services.   No further action is anticipated.
P-152-2000*No response required.  See attached letter from Regional Waste systems, Inc.
B-554-1999*     On September 9, 1999 at 1545 we received a call from the dispatcher at Dead River Oil reporting a leak in a basement tank at the Shirley Warren home at 242 Essex St. in Bangor.  Ms. Warren had smelled oil and notified Dead River.  I arrived on site and met the oil burnerman who had patched the tank and spread sorbents on the concrete beneath the tank and on the dirt floor.  Most of the less than gallon that leaked stayed on the concrete pad beneath the tank.  No oil reached any drain, the area is on town water and Dead River replaced the tank.
A-332-1998*Farmington Fire Department reported a fatal truck accident on Route 2. A pickup truck went over the center line and crashed into the driver's side of a 2 1/2 ton stake body truck, ripping off the saddle tank. The accident was near a bridge over a small stream. Farmington Fire had deployed sorbent boom across the stream. There was a sheen on the stream coming from the fuel that spilled into the dirt on the shoulder. The roadway was sanded and the sand was picked up and put on the town winter sand pile. There was also a sheen coming from up stream of the road crossing. No source was found for that discharge. No further work is necessary on this site.
B-635-1999*B-635-99
Old Town

Thursday October 7, 1999				1330

I received a phone call message from Mary Johnson of the Portland DEP office.
According to the Message Patricia Niles (827-3819), of Old town, reported that there is an oil spill at her outside heating oil tank.

I phoned Patricia Niles.  She gave me directions to her residence at 840 South Main Street.  That address is the Sunrise Trailer Park, she lives at lot # 53, which is also #53 Karen Circle.

When I arrived at the Niles residence I spoke to her.  She said that Malenfant Oil (827-4003), her  oil company, would not deliver oil to her tank as there is a leak.  I went out to the tank and noted that the steel nipple that is attached to the tank and the oil filter is loose and weeping a small quantity of oil.  There is also oil on the outside top surface of the tank.

I explained to Patricia Niles that It would be a good Idea to place a pan under the nipple to catch dripping oil.  This oil could be put back into the tank until a proper repair is made.

I explained that money might be available through the Maine State Housing Authority's Fix Me Loan.  She can get more information by calling 1-800-452-4668.  I also recommended she contact the local Penquis CAP Agency (973-3546).

It appears that the oil staining on the tank is from when Patricia adds oil from a container to the oil tank.  The short heating oil fill pipe is loose and there is a concrete block nearby.  I advised her that all that is needed once the leak is fixed is to clean up the contaminated leaf litter and remove a small amount of contaminated oil.  I asked her to be careful when adding small amounts of oil to her tank, and keep an eye on the pan until a repair can be made.
A-319-1999*No site visit made.  See attached for additional details.  No further action is anticipated.
B-181-1999*B-181-99
Veazie

Tuesday April 20,1999				1030

I received a phone call from Ellen Ruben of the Portland DEP office.  I was asked to contact Greg Ireland (947-8917) of H. E. Sargent.  H. E. Sargent is one of the sub contractors on the Penobscot Power Project at Graham Station in Veazie.

Mr. Ireland explained that on Saturday April 17th H.B. Fleming (another sub contractor on the project), was involved in driving sheet piles into the ground at the generator platform, when the remote hydraulic pump, that operated the hydraulic pile driver device developed a leak.  Hydraulic oil leaked also in the area of the excavation near the generator platform.  During a site visit with Greg Ireland, it was decided that they would remove the contamination using an excavator and would truck it to Sawyer Environmental in Hampden.  I contacted Betty Robinson, at Sawyers, to arrange for the soil to be taken there.  The soil arrived via a H.E. Sargent truck under authorization number 35546A.
A-342-1997*     DEP received a complaint from a resident of Fayette that an oily sheen is evident on stormwater that runs off the subject property (Bowen) every time it rains.  The property contains a vehicle maintenance garage and a modest automotive junkyard; according to the town code enforcement officer (Rourke) Mr. Bowen has a current conditional junkyard permit.  Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property on 5/8/98 following a heavy rain; a sheen/oil emulsion was present on stormwater in a roadside drainage ditch in front of the property.  Mr. Bowen was present and consented to an inspection of his facility.  Numerous minor spills of waste oil resulting from poor yard practices and sloppy handling were observed.  Several drums and pails containing what Mr. Bowen identified as waste lubricating oil were stored in various locations across the yard.  Mr. Bowen claims to burn this during the winter using a drip-feed attached to his woodstove.  A 3 cu. yd. (approx.) pile of oil-saturated soil was discovered in one of his dump trucks; Mr. Bowen claimed this soil was excavated after a vehicle backed over a pail of waste oil a few days earlier.  He planned to dump it in a gravel pit; I asked him to stockpile the soil under cover pending laboratory analysis.  He agreed to do this.  I advised Mr. Bowen of State "spill" reporting requirements and that greater attention should be made to prevent spillage and to store waste oil responsibly.
     When lab analysis was complete I left messages asking Mr. Bowen to contact me regarding final disposition of the soil; he did not respond.  I sent letters (dated 7/22 and 8/5; the latter was sent "certified" and was signed for by Mr. Bowen) asking him to contact me; he did not.  I visited the property on 8/12; no one was present.  On 9/9/98 I referred the matter to Oil Enforcement, requesting they encourage Mr. Bowen to contact me.  I have had no dealings with this case since.
I-108-1996*On 9-25-96, Bub Saunders called this office to report that while conducting a site assessment for S.W. Cole at O'Clairs Service Station in Ashland, contamination was observed beneath the piping. Evidently the piping had leaked at one time. About 20 yards of contaminated soil was removed (removal to bedrock). Soil was landspread. Site was classified as BL1.
B-705-1999*On 11/3/99 Vaughn Thibodeau inquired about getting documentation for a couple of UST removals that had been arranged by Webber Oil.  He indicated that he had discussed this with our Bob Randall, who was on vacation at the time.  We agreed on the following day, 11/4/99.  The UST (a 1000 gallon unit) had been pumped out years ago.  It was badly pitted, but there was no evidence of oil in the ground under the tank bed.  This UST had not been registered so we filled out the registration form along with the wavered 30-day notice.
A-500-1998*A hose fitting failed on a roll on a paper machine. About 250 gallons was lost to a moat system. 50 gallons went to the sewer. The rest was recovered.
B-641-2001*Bill Mackowski is the proprietor of Dawn 'til Done Farm and uses a number of greenhouses in which to start his seedlings.  Those greenhouses are heated by oil, starting in February or March.  Prudent farmer that he is, Mackowski had the tanks filled with oil on 11/10 to take advantage of the lower price common in the fall.

On 11/13, Mackowski reported that one of the tanks was empty. The tank valve, closed to keep the oil in the tank 'til needed, proved faulty.  Oil had leaked out of the furnace in greenhouse #4, and soaked the dirt floor, and the area in front of the greenhouse.

On 11/14 Milke Thornton of Milford was on site to dig out the contamination.   An estimated 200 cubic yards were removed and disposed of at the Pine Tree Landfill in Hampden.  (177.16 TONS BY SCALE SLIPS)

Once the greenhouse operation gets going in 2002, the well will be sampled and placed on seasonal monitoring to make sure it's not contaminated.

A well sampling on the 22nd of February revealed no oil contamination.   see report
I-20-2001*On 2/24/01, received call from state police reporting a spill at 13 Vesta Drive, Caribou.  Went to spill site, Irving Oil employee on site.  Irving Oil employee informed me that safety value on furnace had malfunctioned pumping product onto tile covered concrete basement floor.  Irving Oil employee had already removed tile and cleaned up product.  I installed a fan, supplied by homeowner, in basement window to vent fumes.  Spoke with homeowner regarding fan and fumes.  Returned home.
P-703-2000*16 November 2000, responded to compliant received 15 November 2000.  Demenny complained of an odor in the house and skin and eye irritation.  Demenny advised me of containers she found in the basement labeled AQUAPEL (Alkylketene dimer).  A product search located a MSDS report of this product and it is believed to be a masonry sealer or coating.

Upon inspection of the containers it was determined that they could be opened and revealed that no product was present in the containers.  Someone had used the containers to store odds and ends, no chemicals or liquids.  I inspected the remainder of the house and detected a smell in the master bedroom but could not identify a source or cause for the odor.  It was later determined that decaying rodent matter was the source of the odor and an exterminator hired to address the problem.

No further response action warranted.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, Nov2000.
B-367-1998*Please see attached narrative.
P-417-2001*No narrative, please see attachments.
B-807-1999*     On December 21, 1999 at 0845 we received a call from the Penobscot Sheriff's Dept. reporting a spill at mile 157 in the northbound lane of I-95.  The Etna Fire Dept. responded to a car with a blown engine and spread sorbents on less than a gallon of motor oil.  No oil left the asphalt and they didn't get the vehicle operator's name.
P-82-2001*Gray dispatch called to report that a tractor trailer truck had slashed its saddle tank open on a light pole while turning around in a parking lot in Gray Center.  At the time of the call we were experiencing a blizzard so it took me an hour and a half to drive from Portland to Gray.  When I arrived the firemen had layed boom down on the pavement around a pile of diesel soaked snow.  I contacted the owner of the mall (Kieth Harriman 657-2669) and informed him of the incident.  I then contacted Terry Wilkinson (657-3555) who plows the lot and informed him that we were leaving a pile of snow that he should not plow.  I added a second ring of absorbent boom around the pile and left it like that for the night.  In the morning I contacted Clean Harbors to clean up the area.  I also spoke with Joe at Perry Transport and he asked to have the invoice sent directly to him.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



______________________________
Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
March 1, 2001
I-189-1997*Three USTs pulled. Contamination was found under the pump island and the tank field.

This site is a STRINGENT clean up area. The well on the property is classified as a Public Water Supply and is already contaminated with MTBE.

The area under the tanks was contaminated to bedrock.

Some soil was stock piled and more will be removed in the spring.

Contaminated soil will be landspread on the Sherman Lumber Co property in the spring of 1998.

Fessenden Geo-Environmental Services will conduct the remediation work.

J.J. Millgate well is contaminated and filtered.

12/2/99 J.J. Millgate has been sold to Kimberky Lane who will operated the Store as Lane's Station Stop, P.O. Box 237, Sherman Station, 04777  Phone - H-365-4332  W-365-7080.

Case Closed
A-12-1999*     DEP received a report that gasoline was spilled as a result of a vehicle fire at this residence.  It appeared that most of the fuel had been incinerated, but that a small amount may have been washed into surrounding snow by responding firefighters.  No recovery was feasible.
     The neighborhood is residential and dependent on private wells for water.  There are two drilled wells within 300' of the spill site but these are probably not likely to be impacted by this event.  I anticipate no further DEP involvement here unless complaints are received concerning odors in the water.
A-722-2000*   DEP received a report that an oil release had occurred in the cellar of this business sometime over the preceding weekend.  It transpired that cold temperatures had frozen/ruptured water piping on an upper floor, flooding the cella to a depth of 5".  Several gallons (estimated) of oil floated out of the submerged burner. Officials at the Augusta POTW agreed to accept this (2500 gallons) of oily water "as is".  After pumping, the smeared walls and floor were washed and a ventilation fan placed.  No odors were detectable one week later.
P-312-1999*On 5/17/99 I received a call from Downeast Energy reporting a spill in Lewiston.  The spill occurred when one of their delivery trucks clipped the corner of a building on Lisbon St. causing a diesel fuel spill from the truck.  It was reported that 30 gallons of diesel fuel had spilled.  Downeast hired Acadia Environmental to supervise the excavation of approximately 20 yards of contaminated soil from the spill.  No further action required.



_____________________________________________
SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
MAY 24, 1999
A-359-1997*     DEP received a report that contaminated soil was encountered during this UST removal.  According to the on-site assessor (Severin) a 1/4" hole was observed in the #2 oil tank, but that contamination was "minimal".  30 yards of soil was transported to Hatch Hill for disposal.
     I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
A-149-1998*Received a report from Gerry Mirabile of Central Maine Power that there had been a small oil spill at Mason Station. While maintaining a lube oil cooler, a vent was accidently broken off spilling some lube oil onto a paved surface. Approximately 10 gallons was spilled. CMP personnel cleaned up the spill with sorbents and kitty litter. They generated two barrels of waste which were taken care of by their pre-existing waste management program.
P-622-1997*While doing routine service on the furnace at the Robert Foster residence, a Union Oil Company technician discovered a leaking 275 gallon AST.  The technician was able to stop the leak and estimated the loss at approximately 50 gallons.  The basement has a dirt floor and the site is considered "stringent" on the Department's Hydrocarbon Spill Decision Tree.  As such, I hired Sun Environmental Services to remove the contaminated soil.  The soil was very sandy, and as much as possible (without causing structural undermining) was vactored out.  Contamination was left behind, however the Foster well is a driven point, 40ft. deep and should not be threatened.  Strong vapors were present in the house, and the case was referred to the Division of Technical Services to monitor and/or suppress the vapors.

No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter.



______________________
Jon L Woodard  OHMS 1
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
I-127-1998*Contamination with dry cleaning solvents was reported by DOT when they conducted boring's prior to reconstructing RT #1 in Presque Isle.

On 6/16/98, DEP conducted geoprobes on the City Dry Cleaners property to determine if this was the source of the contamination found. It appears to be the source.

Remediation will take place on site by using biopiles, a blower system, and discharging the effluent through carbon drums.

Daryle Sponberg is the DOT engineer on site.

Uncontrolled Sites Division conducted a geoprobe survey and determined the location of the contaminates in the ground, these were removed in two phases.

 The first removal action was conducted in 1998 and included all soils in the right of way that we could reasonably remove.

The second phase excavated the material left in the yard of the City Dry Cleaners, which was completed on 10/26/99 (approximately 290 cu yds of material).

The material biopiled in 1998 was free of all solvents using a PID. All reading by headspace were less that 9 ppm, most samples were 0. The material was used as backfill after we removed the other contaminated soils.

All material identified as greater than 50 ppm was targeted for removal.  See attached map for concentrations of material left in the ground.

Case closed.

P-370-2001*   This is the former Tripp's bulk plant and gas station of Ballard Oil Co.  Later owned and operated by former Maine CTI Stephen Hartford.  The gas station and store was noted to be out-of-service in May 2001, and over the summer of 2001.  On 10/2/01, I noted it still closed.  The three gasoline UST fill pipes were padlocked as required.  No surface discharges were evident.  The facility was listed as For Sale through Century 21 @ 324-4866.
    See DEP UST Reg. file #6408, and DEP reports P-73-78, P-92-92, P-555-98, et al, for further site information.

S G Brezinski, Div. of Response Services
Maine DEP, BRWM
B-685-1996*Dale Daggett of American Concrete Industries, Inc. in Veazie called to request a waiver to remove two large #2 fuel tanks at their facility on Stillwater Avenue.  It was assumed that enforcement action was looming if the tanks were not removed as soon as possible.  The waiver was granted and the removal attended.

Both a 15k and 10k tank were removed from a sandy fill by means of a crane.  Groundwater at the bottom of this large excavation shown no signs of contamination.  No contamination was observed or detected within the bottom soil.  Both tanks appeared free of corrosion and holes. No futher action is expected at this site.
A-663-1998*     DEP received a report on 12/1 that oil was visible at a storm-water outfall at the edge of Penobscot Bay, Belfast.  The caller claimed to have first noticed the oil two days previously (Sunday).  Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the outfall; at that time , the tide was low but a small pocket of trapped heating (dyed) oil was evident on storm-water behind the outfall grating.  I visited the Belfast public works yard to view a map of the storm-water system; one of the employees there mentioned that the Belfast Fire Department had responded to an oil spill in the downtown area on the weekend.  Chief Richards subsequently confirmed that his team had been called on Monday to an oil spill of unknown origin in the parking lot of the Post Office.  He believed the actual spill had occurred over the weekend.  Oil had flowed to a nearby storm-drain; Fire Department personnel had flushed it through the system with detergent and copious amounts of water.
     The City provided a man to assist me as I searched for oil in various catch basins; no recoverable product was located.  Four businesses in a block adjacent to the impacted storm line were found to have detectable oil odors.  Two of these (W.C. Ladd and Landmark) had vapors exceeding 10 PID units on upper floors.  Both also claimed to have first noticed oil odors a week or two previously, suggesting that the weekend spill may not have been the sole source of the odors (although no one disputed that the problems worsened during the weekend).  I placed fans/ducts in both cellars (vapors were obviously penetrating the stone cellar walls backing onto Beaver street) on Wednesday; vapor levels dropped dramatically thereafter.
     At the time of this writing the weekend spiller has not been identified.  I anticipate that any significant oil spill impacting the Belfast storm-water system at any time in the future will have the potential to affect the atmosphere within the older downtown buildings.
B-777-1999*On 12/08/99, 1846 hours Richard Poulin, who resides at 31 Lincoln Street in Dexter, which is a rental property belonging to Alison Thurlow, contacted me about an AST discharge that was happening in the basement of 31 Lincoln.  He said that he had lost over 300 gallons of heating oil over the preceding two months.  I observed that the basement floor had several inches of water on it and that the water had some oil on it.  I estimated that the amount of product on the water was possibly 2-3 gallons.  Richard  mentioned that some oil had been pumped out onto the lawn by the sump pump, but there was little if any oil in the sump out fall. The bottom of the tank had three small corrosion holes that were dripping a drop or so every 2-3 minutes.  The tank was about one eighth full at the time.  I put pads under the tank and I padded up the oil that was on the water, which was about two gallons.  Richard said that he had stopped oil deliveries.  I talked with Bill Murphy (code enforcement for Dexter) and he indicated that the building had been condemned and that the current resident  (Richard Poulin) had been served and eviction notice.  There was apparently some disagreement between Richard and Alison.  Alison definitely wanted to sell the property in the condition that it was in and as of 12/27/99 I learned from Trundy Realty in Newport that there was a buyer and that the buyer was aware of the AST problem and was prepared to deal with it.  I asked that my name and number be given to the new owner so that I could be of assistance with any clean up, such as dealing with odor problems
P-690-1989*
Investigation of oily sheen in river adjacent to UST area.  See separate narrative and addendum's.
A-200-1997*Dave Sait called to say that MEMA had reported to him that BLS had been called about an acid spill at the subject paper mill that had injured some workers. Had it been reported to us? It had not, so I called Tom Griffin at the mill. He said that there had been a spill, but since they have a contingency plan it's covered by that. I turned it over to Andy Slusarski, who visited the site. See attached letter resulting from that.
P-399-1988*
Brief inspection of new UST facility.  Observed new field coated single-wall steel product piping being installed.
P-293-1996*DIXON BROS. OVERFILLED A 275 GALLON RESIDENTIAL OIL TANK.  APPROX. 1 GALLON OF OIL CAME OUT THE VENT AND SPILLED IN YARD. DIXON BROS PERSONNEL REMOVED AFFECTED SOIL AND TOOK TO COMMERICAL PAVING. ON APRIL 9, 1996, THE SAME SPILL OCCURRED AT THIS RESIDENCE (SEE P201-96) I REQUESTED FROM DIXON BROS.TO TAKE STEPS TO INSURE THIS DOES NOT  HAPPEN AGAIN. NO FURTHER ACTON.
A-420-1996*     DEP received a report that two gallons of water-based stain (identified as WTS-1919) had been spilled sometime over the weekend at this facility (see Bass incident report, attached). Spilled product was reportedly sorbed and disposed of by Bass personnel.
     No site visit was conducted by DEP staff.  I do not anticipate further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
B-205-1996*4/24/96 @ 1010

I received a message from Bob Randall that the Old Town Fire Department responded to a complaint of fuel odors in a building on the evening of Tuesday April 23.  The blue House on the corner of Jefferson and Lincoln Streets had an odor of fuel oil in the basement.  The fuel oil odor was entering the house through the storm water sewer.

The sewer itself was checked by Jim Lavoie and Old Town Fire personnel.  No visible petroleum product or sheen was found.  The heating system in the building with the odor (blue house) checked out.  The odors decreased while the fire department was on scene. No source or sheen was ever found.
P-163-1998*On April 20, 1998 I received a call from the state police about a tractor-trailer accident at exit 10 on the turnpike.  I was currently at another spill and had just called Clean Harbors to this spill.  I called Clean Harbors back and rerouted them to the truck accident.  I joined Clean Harbors on site about 45 minutes later.  One tank on the truck had blown completely open and spilled most of it's fuel, this was cleaned up with sorbent pads and a vac truck.  Approximatley twenty gallons remained in the ruptured tank, this was pumped out with a hand pump.  The trucks other saddle tank was in good condition.  No further action anticipated.
P-451-1999*While construction crews were tearing down a bridge on Granite Street in Yarmouth an excavator broke a hydraulic line spilling 7 to 10 gallons of hydraulic oil onto the construction site and also spraying it onto the adjacent yard (Cyr residence at 504 Granite).  Scott Cyr called to inform the DEP of the spill.  The spill was cleaned up with sorbent pads.  No further action anticipated at this time.
P-728-1999*On 10/8/99 I received a call from Michael Shaughnessy of Windham reporting an oil spill at a property he owned in South Windham.  The heating oil spill occurred due to a leaking copper fuel line.  The spill occurred in the dirt floor basement of the building.

I visited the site on 10/12 and observed oil staining on the dirt floor.  I made arrangements to have Fleet Environmental Services excavate the spill with a vactor.  Myself and Fleet returned to the site on 10/14 and cleaned up the spill.  The majority of the spillage was recovered, but a small amount of contaminated soil was left behind because it was too close to support structures in the building to remove safely.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
DECEMBER 13, 1999
A-58-1999*The gear case of a Maine Army National Guard dump truck came out through the rear differential, causing the spill.  The dump truck was being used in the construction of a new parking lot on the AMHI grounds.  A 600 foot trail of oil stretched in a semi-circle from just past the VRA building, around the AMHI access road, and back to the state warehouse.  John Branscom and I used speedi dry to clean up the spill.  The gear case was drained before the truck was towed away for repair.

No further action required.
A-583-2001*An AST at a private residence was moved to a new location and reconnected by a licensed heating contractor.  The fitting at the house entrance failed and over a period of two weeks spilled approximately 100 gallons of #2 fuel oil into the ground.  The site was excavated with 18 yards of material removed to Commercial Paving for processing.  A water sample was taken for DRO, none were found.  The well is situated 40 meters from the spill site and is a drilled well. The case was discussed with Tech Services and not recommended for referral or quarterly monitoring.  A. Maurais & Son, Inc. has taken full responsibility for the spill and clean up.
A-243-2000*     DEP received an after-hours report that a transformer had lost all oil via a hole in the bottom.  CMP staff excavated soil for disposal.
P-40-2001*On 01/19/01 at approximately 11:00 pm a vibration monitor shut down pumping at the Lincoln Street Exxon Mobil Pipeline pumping station.  The vibration from the pumps caused a nipple to come loose and fall off of a cleaning pipe.  Approximately 500 gallons of diesel fuel sprayed out before the alarms shut down the pumps.  All of the fuel was contained within the diked area.  Clean Harbors was called and recovered approximately 475 gallons of product using vacuum trucks, sorbent materials, and by removing contaminated snow.  Some residual product may be present in the stone but because the ground was covered with snow and frozen this residual is probably minimal.  I met with Mike Dicenso (Exxon Mobil), Paul Gaudreau (Clean Harbors), and Mark Fisher (Sevenell-Gallen) on 01/22/01 and toured the site.  Mr. Dicenso stated that they were planning to upgrade their pumps in the near future in order to reduce the vibration.  He also stated the in the mean time they would try to reduce the number of nipples used near the pumps.  Mr. Dicenso stated that he would keep and eye out for any recoverable residual when the ground thaws.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



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Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
January 22, 2001
A-378-1998*The May '98 report from DHS indicated possible MTBE contamination of the well at Gibb's Trailer Park.  A water sample taken 3/17/97 was 2.8 ppb; a sample taken 2/23/98 was 2.2 ppb.  A sample taken 7/16/98 was 3.8 ppb.

The well is next to a dirt area where vehicles are sometimes parked, which is the likely cause of the contamination.  I suggested to Mr. Gibbs that he avoid parking vehicles near the well.

This case will be referred to Tech Services.  No further action necessary by Response.
P-614-2001*05.06.2001 received report of spill.  No initial DEP response.  Sheryl Bernard visited the site the next day and obtained the attached photos.

No further Response action anticipated.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 09.18.2001
P-29-2000*On January 3, 2000, I received an call from Christopher Robichaud, of Greenpoint Credit, stating that his company had just foreclosed on a trailer at Bay Bridge Estates and suspected that the oil tank (AST) had been leaking.  I meet with Mr. Robichaud who showed me the area in question.  It was obvious from the stain on the ground that the tank had been leaking, but for how long or how much was unknown, which complicated matters.  I informed Mr. Robichaud that, at the least, removal of soil would be necessary.

Arrangements were made to start soil removal on January 14, 2000 with a local contractor.  During the removal of soil, we encountered groundwater with free phase oil, at which point it was decided to construct a recovery well and collect as much oil as possible from the surface of the water.  Clean Harbors was contacted for a vacuum truck to remove water and oil during an after the construction of the recovery well.  200 gallons of oily water was removed.  After we constructed and developed the recovery well, I placed sorbent pads in the well to passively collected oil.

Over the following week and half, I returned to the site several times to change pads and on January 25, 2000, returned with a vacuum truck and removed 320 gallons of oily water.  The well was pumped empty several times and allowed to recharge with little or no oil observed.  Considering the lack of oil observed and the amount of water removed, I decided to monitor the site and collected oil passively with pads.  I periodically stopped by the site and changed pads if needed, until July 2000.  During my last few visits, I observed no oil on the pads and determined that the majority of oil had been collected.

Taking in consideration the lack of oil in the recover well and the distance to the well supplying the trailer park (over 1000 feet), I determined that no further work was necessary.
I-83-1999*While conducting tank inspections Mr. Bossie found a problem with the interstitial space alarm and water in the interstitial space.

Alarm sensor was repaired and the surface water entry point was sealed and will be monitored more closely by staff at Housing Authority.

Case Closed
A-491-1996*Received a call from Terry Brackett of McGee Oil that a customer of their's had a leak. I responded to the home of Mona Dennis in Randolph. She had a new tank put in but the old line leaked where it went into the house. McGee Oil had already replaced the line by time I arrived. The site is a stringent site as her well is within 300'. However, it is on the other side of the house. I arranged to have the soil excavated. I returned on 11/14/96 and started excavating. We soon ran out of the contamination. We scraped the soil from the frost wall and checked in the crawl space. No product made it to the crawl space side of the frost wall. A total of 3.4 tons of soil was transported to Dragon Products in Thomaston for disposal. No further work is required.
B-523-1997*On September 20, 1997 I was at the site of a 500 gallon #2 home heating oil tank removal at 145 Randolph Drive in Bangor.  Ms. Sally Day owns the tank.  I saw no signs nor contamination in the soil.  The area is on town water.
B-468-2000*B-468-2000
08/29/2000  12:30

     David Richardson, concerned resident on the East Blue Hill Road in Surry, called to request that his well water be sampled for arsenic.  It was stated that his neighbor's water shown very high levels of arsenic.  I was told that they could not use the water for any purpose.
     The Richardson well was sampled and shown 34 times the acceptable level for the contaminant.  Not usually dealing with arsenic investigations the case was given to Paul Blood of the Technical Services staff.  It is believed that the source is geologic.  Personnel in the Drinking Water Program were also made aware of the situation.
B-330-1998*B-330-98
Ellsworth

Thursday May 5, 1998				1123

I received a phone call from Doris Ginn, the Ellsworth Harbor Master.  Mrs. Ginn phoned to report that a pick up truck, while in the process of launching a boat, at the Municipal boat launch slid into the Union River.  She said that there was no visible gasoline or oil sheen noticed.

The truck, in the water for about an hour, was removed at 1100.  A wrecker was used to pull the truck back on to dry land.
P-744-1996*Overfill of UST.  Cleaned up by Berwick Fire Department.  No site visit made or further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary.




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Jon L Wooard  OHMS 1
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
A-207-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98.  See attached CMP report for more information.  No further action anticipated.
B-673-1996*Mrs. Smith had been smelling an oil odor in her basement for awhile when she ran out of oil on Dec. 9. She called her burnerman, Mr. Bowden, who discovered the tank to be empty because of a leaking valve. He estimated 50 gallons lost to the fill under the basement slab.

Because ledge is shallow at this site, there is groundwater coming into the basement all the time and Mrs. Smith has a trench system tied into a sump pump to eject the water outside.  On the day of my visit, a small amount of oil had been pumped outside, but it shouldn't present a problem. The remainder of the oil was migrating into the sump, so I left Mrs. Smith with a bale of sorbent pads with which to retrieve the oil.
A-604-2001*Spiller reports the "Scully" connection on the tank in the church has a "weak whistle" which will now be changed.  The result was a one gallon over fill which was cleaned up by Barry Hill Fuel.  The tank is located in the basement of the Baptist Church in Peru, Maine.
P-308-1997*7Jun97, responded to facility address to assist in assessment of referenced chemicals involved in structure fire. Upon arrival I observed that the facility was totally burned out down to the foundation. I observed several damaged 55 gallon drums; one large storage tank; a dip tank; numerous small containers, and; an out side home heating oil supply tank. The contents of the containers could not be determined, as access to the containers was restricted by fallen structure. I did not observe any labeling on any visible container. An outdoor propane tank was removed from site by a local supplier. I contacted Jenifer Mills, State Fire Marshals Office. Arrangements were made to meet on site at approx. 0730, 8Jun97. 8Jun97, arrived on site and continued to assess chemical hazards and identified an adjacent drilled well. Carol Simpson, 1258 Littlefield Rd., Wells, ME (646-7151), neighbor concerned of drinking water well contaminants.
18Jun97, on site to assist in debris removal and assess additional waste concerns. Sampled both the drilled well and dug well and conducted EPA analytical Method 8260. Results attached. 19Jun97, on site to assist in debris removal and assess remaining waste issues. pH test completed on remaining caustic pellet drum, indicated caustic hazardous waste. Ulm informed me that the drum would be removed to a facility for re-use, and was done so in July 1997. 23July97, after review of samples received from Katahdin Analytical, the wells were resampled and analyized by Maine Environmental Laboratory. The results are attached and indicate non detect on all constituents.  Response Services will request that the re-sampling not be charged to the subject. Constituents in the first drinking water testing lead me and Brad Hahn of Tech. Services, to believe that there may be a potential health problem. We do not feel that the subject should be charged for the re-testing.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO (20Nov97)
B-227-1997*Backing into the Pratt farm to deliver a load of grain, the New England Feed driver backed over a large stone in the driveway.  The stone was up-ended, and tore a gash in the passenger side saddle tank.  An estimated 100 gallons was spilled.

The fire dept. was summoned , as was the County  EMA director.  Sorbent pads were deployed, and the spill was under control when I arrived.   In all, 4 bales of sorbent pads and a bale of sorbent boom were used.

A crew from Farrin Brothers and Smith was in the process of setting up crew trailer on Mr. Pratt's land, prior to fixing the State road.  I engaged them to bring an excavator on site, and in short order, the oil contaminated driveway was loaded onto a dump truck and on its way to Sawyer's.
I-62-1997*While investigating an animal complaint, Sargent Currier identified a lot of dead grass around the fuel tank.

When I investigated, soil sampling with a jar head space technique, indicated the soil was well below the intermediate cleanup level.

The spills appear to be from overfills by the homeowner who filled the tank with 5 gal cans.

case closed
A-636-1999* On 10-20-99, Robert Perry reported a release of sodium hydroxide at the Mead Paper Mill in Rumford.  About 650 gallons of this material overflowed from a storage tank onto the floor.  The material then entered the Mill's sewer system. See attached letter from Mead. No further action will be required from Response Services.  This report will be forwarded to Enforcement because the telephone report from Mead occurred 12 hours after the event.
P-164-1997*Spill of 1/10th of a gallon of oil on driveway.  (see attached C.N. Brown Report).  Checked site on 3/27/97.  Clean up sufficient.  No further action.
A-518-1996*Received a call from Advance A1 Cleaning Services that they were at a house that had suffered a leak. I responded to the site in Fairfield on 224 Ridge Road. Houle Plumbing & Heating and Advance A1 Cleaning were already present. The house is owned by Roy Gilman. Mrs. Gilman was present. I went to the basement and saw oil over a large part of the floor. Cleanup was being done. One of the tanks had split along the seam, allowing about 50 gallons to leak out. The Gilman's had a total capacity of 1100 gallons, 4- 275 gallon tanks. The cleaning contractor was doing a good job. I instructed them to wash the concrete floor and to ventilate the basement. Subsequent phone calls to Mr. Gilman found the work done and no odor problem in the main part of the house. No further work is necessary at this site.
P-303-1996*On 5/20/96 I received a call from Alan Lyscars reporting contamination discovered at a tank removal at a DOT facility in South Paris.  The diesel contamination resulted from a piping leak.  On 5/21/96 I visited the site.  120 yards of soil was excavated and stockpiled on site.  The excavation was in an aquifer and we ran out of reach with the excavator and PID readings on the soil were still rising.  We removed what contamination we could reach and will procede with a hydrogeologic investigation to determine amount and extent of remianing contamination. Soil stockpiled on site will be disposed at a future date.  At this time, the site has been referred to Brad Hahn of Technical Services for further action.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
P-652-1998*See narrative and attachments.
B-272-1998*On 4/28/98, 1040 hours David Dostie, who is the code enforcement officer for Mariaville, reported that there was a truck with pesticide or herbicide that was leaking.  He said that the truck had plastic containers on board that were labled "Velpar".  He went on to say that the truck had a large tank at the front of it's cargo body and it was this tank that was leaking.  At the time David had discovered the leak there was no one around the unit.  He had established from the plate number that the truck belonged to Merrill's Blueberry Farm. David volunteered to go back to see if any personnel had returned to the vehicle.  Meanwhile, Tom Maleck tried to contact Brett Johnston, whom he knew to be a licensed applicator for Merrill's Blueberry.  At the same time I contacted the Board of Pesticide Control.  David got back to me saying that Merrill personnel said the leaking substance was water.  Shortly after that, Bob Tomlins (Pesticide Control) contacted me.  I ran the scenario by him and he indicated that the forward tank would contain water.  He went on to say that they invariably overfill the water tanks so they were apt to leak.  I passed this assurance back to David.
P-101-1986*
July 2005 SUMMARY by SGB based on 1986 records.

	April, 1986, abandonment by removal of four 10,000-gal. gasoline and a 2000-gal. UST.  DEP's Ed Antz describes three UST's as "leakers".  {UST sizes may not be correct.} Contamination reported by MDOT on property they acquired for a Route 1 bridge project over the Saco River. Approx. 60-yds of contaminated soil sent to Sawyer's landfill.  I have found no UST registration for this 1986 location.

	No further action required at the time.  This abandonment & remediation prior to Maine rules for a CMR 691 UST closure assessment and Maine DT guidelines for remediation.  Oil contamination may remain onsite and shall be properly managed if disturbed or made accessible.
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A-251-1997*Received a call from Don Robbins of EnviroInvestigaions and Remediation that he was at a site in Skowhegan that was contaminated. I went to Cumberland Farms #1845 on Madison Avenue in Skowhegan. Three underground tanks had been removed by the time I arrived and piping upgrades were underway. Dennis Davis was the certified tank installer and Don Robbins was the certified geologist doing the Appendix P site assessment.

Readings taken by Don with a PID calibrated to Department set points showed that there had been a large release of product to the environment at this site. The site was classified as a stringent site for cleanup based on the Department's decision tree. This area of Skowhegan is known to be underlain by a sand and gravel aquifer. I referred the site to Technical Services and Senior Geologist Cheryl Fontaine was assigned. My recommendation to her was that a hydrogeological investigation was needed and that soil venting should be looked at as a cleanup method. Only soil removal for installation of new equipment was authorized by me. Soil venting would be a much more economical way of dealing with this site. No further work by Response Services is necessary, but Technical Services will be doing additional work.
A-213-1996*REFERRED BY SANDI JONES AS THE RESULT OF A WATER ANALYSIS DONE BY A POTENTIAL RENTER OF THE PROPERTY, THERE TURNS OUT TO BE FOUR UST'S ABANDONED ON THE NEXT DOOR PROPERTY (AL'S BODY & FENDER) SEE SPILL A-291-96.  AT THIS POINT (1/3/97) THEY'VE ALL BEEN REMOVED, BUT SEEM TO BE UNCONNECTED TO THIS CONTAMINATED WELL.  FILTERS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED, AND THE CASE HAS BEEN TURNED OVER TO ALEX PUGH.
A-496-1999*No site visit made.  See attached for additional details.  No further action is anticipated.
A-309-1998*DEP received a report that several gallons of concrete additive had been spilled to a concrete floor at this industrial property.  The MSDS showed a mixture consisting primarily of salts (see attached).  Spilled material was sorbed by the spiller and disposed of.
A-115-2001*A 275 gallon AST in a trailer park belonging to Carl Brock leaked due to snow load on the nipple between tank and filter.  Kip's Home Services brought an excavator and removed in excess of 100 yards of soil.  The park is served by a well approx. 150 feet away.  A sample was obtained, non detect for DRO.  There was some soil beneath the trailer which could not be removed without undermining the unit.  Working with Tech Services staff, we installed crushed rock and two verticle recovery wells in an attempt to recover oil/groundwater mix.  Additional construction details are provided in the attached e-mail. These units were not successful, and were later filled in.  The site was referred for quarterly monitoring, and to Human Services as it is considered public water supply.
P-645-1998*On 12/13/98 I received a call from the Standish fire department reporting that there had been a motor vehicle accident at the corner of Route 35 and Dow Road.  Some gasoline had leaked out through the fill when the cars had struck.  I cleaned it up with sorbent pads and watched it while they loaded the vehicle onto the flat bed tow truck.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



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Ann Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
March 8, 2000
A-535-1996*     This incident involved a "burp" of lube oil during a paper machine shut-down.  Reportedly, about one-half gallon of product was lost to the plant sewer (see I.P. report, attached).
     No site visit was conducted by DEP personnel as a result of this incident.
A-116-2000* The driver of a Dysarts Truck stopped at the Gardiner toll booth to inspect the contents of his tractor trailer rig. He noticed a liquid dripping out of the box. He called the Fire Dept. for assistance. There were several totes of acid and other containers of hazardous materials.
 When I arrived on scene the State Police, Gardiner F.D. and Clean Harbors were there. MEMA arrived shortly thereafter. It was originally thought the material dripping out was acid, however Clean Harbors checked the liquid with litmus paper and determined that it was not hazardous. There was also a great deal of time spent obtaining information on the other compounds. In conclusion, they were able to determine that the material was in all likelihood wash water. No further action will be required.
B-796-1999*Icy road conditions caused a tractor trailer to jacknife and rupture a saddle tank which spewed its contents over about 1/4 mile of I-95.

I was on my way to Auguata when I heard a State Police Trooper call for DEP at the accident scene. I came across the accident about 10 minutes later.

Most of the oil was spread over about 1/4 mile of the interstate and was not recoverable. The small puddle under the truck was recovered with sorbents. Sorbents were used to recover the oil as it dripped out of the tank. I used about 10 pads to cleanup the free product.

I applied a temporary patch and then driver had the State Police Officers permission to drive the truck to Bangor for repairs.

No further action required.
P-870-1999*On 12/22/1999 I received a call through the Maine State Police from Chief Frank Berkamos of the Waterboro Fire Dept.  He was reporting a 50 gallon spill of # 4 oil at Massabesic High School in Waterboro.  The spill occurred when a control unit on the school's boiler failed causing oil to flow into the boiler room and under a garage door leading outside onto pavement.  The fire department was using sorbent materials to contain the spill.  I instructed the fire department to tell the school department to hire a cleanup contractor to clean up the spill.

Pollution Control Services was hired by the school and responded to clean up the spill.  On 12/23, Steve Flannery inspected the site to check on the clean up progress.  The spill was being cleaned up satisfactorily and I issued a virgin letter for disposal of speedy dry from the spill.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
FEBRUARY 23, 2000
P-124-2000*On 2/29/00 I received a call from Ron Dionne of Downeast Energy reporting an oil spill at a client's residence in South Casco.  I responded immediately.  Upon arrival, I observed an oil stain underneath a rusting above ground storage tank in a basement.  The floor in the basement was mostly dirt.  The tank was located in the corner of the basement making excavation of the area impossible without great risk to the granite block foundation.  The home is occupied only seasonally, and was not occupied at this time.

The house is served by a single dug well located approximately 30 ft. downgradient from the house.  I believe the well to be significantly at risk from the spill.  Prevention of any possible well contamination is not likely given that the source of the oil cannot be removed.

Later that afternoon, I spoke with the homeowner and explained my concern for the well.  The well will be monitored seasonally and further action is pending the results of the well sampling.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
JUNE 16, 2000
B-672-1998*On 10/15/98 at 0830 we received a call from Mark Daigle of the Medway Fire Department reporting a one to two gallon spill of diesel fuel from the Irving station on Route 157 near the I-95 exit.  Mr. Daigle said that the spill occurred when the pump shut off failed.  Workers recovered the oil with sorbents.
A-94-2000* The garage at Mr. Orff's residence burned. The local Fire Chief reported the situation to DEP. He was concerned about the several cases of motor oil that were located in the garage.  I made a site visit on 2-22 and again on 3-9-00. I was not able to speak with the owner, as he was never at home. I also contacted a staff person in the Land and Water bureau about the home owners potential plans to bury the burned material, which included wood and metal.
P-660-1998*30 December 1998, Alan Johnson of Pioneer Plastics, contacted the DEP to report that Irving Oil experienced a spill at the Pioneer facility in Auburn.

Johnson advised that: a hose failure occurred during product transfer operations, from totes within a box truck to a storage tank in the facility; 70 gallons spilled into a secondary containment device fixed within the truck, and; that 15 gallons of that escaped through a secondary containment drain and onto the ground.

Possible unattended transfer operations, but not confirmed.

Irving has failed to report the spill as the responsible party.  Matter referred to Oil Enforcement Unit.

No further response or clean-up action required.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, (5Jan99)
A-530-1997*A corrosion leak occurred in the basement tank.  It was discovered almost immediately.  The oil flowed into a sump and a crack in the basement floor.  Colby & Gale estimated that less than 40 gallons was lost.  They recovered 25 gallons immediately by bailing the sump.  Adeline's son recovered more oil on pads over subsequent days. The well was in bedrock about 300 feet from the house.  The site was referred to Tech Services for investigation under the floor.
P-518-2001*The discharge was the result of a malfunctioning automatic pump shut-off and lack of attention by the car owner.  The gasoline overfilled the car's tank discharging onto the concrete pad and continued to travel across the pavement onto Westbrook Street, almost making its way into a storm drain.  The gasoline was collected using sorbent pads and speedy-dry.  Due to heavy fog and poor vapor dispersion, the area was monitored with an explosion meter until the cleanup was completed.  The reading during this time ranged between 0 and 2% LEL.  Upon completion of the cleanup, no explosive vapors were detected.

No further action required.
B-516-1999*     On August 24, 1999 at 1500 we received a call from Lucia Allen of Maritime & Northeast Pipeline reporting a one quart spill of gasoline in Township 35 MD.  Workers overfilled a pump and spilled the product onto the ground.  The gas evaporated but they excavated three cubic feet anyways.  No waters were threatened.
I-29-1997*This spill occured when a chipper unit became disconnected from the truck towing it.

The fuel spilled was from the fuel tank as the unit came to a stop.

DOT spread sand on the area, but no effort was made to recover the sand due to the distance the spill covered.

Case closed
B-488-1998*On 7/26/98, 0845 hours Cimtya Paschoaloti reported a 50 gallon spill of hydraulic oil in the woodroom at Georgia Pacific Corporation in Baileyville.  The release came from a ruptured hydraulic line.  The spill was recovered with sawdust and fed to their biomass boiler.
I-72-2000*FRASER reported A "V-Brite" Fire. "V-Brite is a water reactive chemical.
When water was used to attack the fire, Sulfur Dioxode was released.


Case closed
A-34-1996*The monitor heater at Mr. Chutes home would not work. He checked the oil in the tank and found it empty.  On 1/20/96 he had 260 gallons of oil delivered.  He still could not get the monitor to come on.  He checked the fitting at the AST and found that it had broken off the tank.  Snow and ice had fallen or had been shoveled off the roof.  The weight of the snow and ice broke the copper line from the AST.  The spilled kerosene flowed under the addition, that is connected to the trailer.  This addition has a dirt crawl space. The trailer park, G & G Trailer Park, is owned by Tim Garety 946-7140.  I asked Mr. Chute to remove the wood debris and cardboard from the crawl space to eliminate any source of oil vapors.
  The trailer park is served by public water, which is at least 0.5 mile upgradient on the west side of Main St.
 No soil removal occurred because the spill location was under a large addition to the house trailer.
A-395-1997*The seal on the submersible pump in George Lord's well failed, contaminating the well with lubricating oil from the pump.  Mr. Lord replaced the pump.  About two weeks later he noticed oil in his drinking water and in the toilet tank, and notified the DEP.  Glen Wall and Mary James removed the free product from the well, and pulled the new pump.  Frank Gehrling washed out the well twice.  Mr. Lord re-installed the pump, and has not reported any more problems.

The old pump was manufactured by Century Electric Motor Co., Gettysburg, OH 45328, 513/447-2221, Model #S413222, between 1978 and 1980.  The company has been sold several times.  I spoke with Bob Scheer of MagnaTech (800/325-7344) who said no records on the pump were available, but he thought the oil in the pump was probably mineral oil.  I had the oil tested for PCBs, and the results were negative.
B-516-1998*Pat Audet came into the office on August 4, the attached letter in hand, saying he'd sent it to Augusta, and never gotten a response. The letter is self-explanatory;  since Audet was insistent that something be done, I followed him to the site and used a metal detector to determine if there are tanks abandoned on site.

There appears to be some metal in the ground, but I got no responses consistent with a tank buried underground.
A-352-1999*We received a complaint about trash and cigarette butts being throw out the window onto the river bank. The mill's management agreed to discuss the problem with the workers in the area.
B-515-1996*Mr. Akeley called to report that a gear reduction unit had leaked some lube oil onto the structure at the East Millinocket mill's dam filter water intake.   A small portion made its way to the West Branch of the Penobscot and created a small sheen.  Such sheens are generally unrecoverable. As soon as it was noticed the discharge was stopped.
A-4-2001* Mr. Burnham was siphoning kerosene from his outside tank into a five gallon container. He went into his garage and forgot that the siphon hose was in the AST. A few minutes later he went over to the tank and pulled the hose out of the AST stopping the flow of oil into the overflowing container. In his excited state he also knocked over the five gallon container. This action resulted in the spillage of about 15 gallons of kerosene.
 The spill was reported by J & S Oil Company on 1-3-01. I made a site visit later that day. I spoke with Mrs. Elizabeth Burnham and discussed clean up options.
 Later that same day Bart Newhouse and I shovelled contaminated snow and ice into five large drums. These drums were brought back to the DEP warehouse for disposal.
 The well that serves this home is located about 300 feet away. I do not expect any fuel oil to impact the ground water at this location. No further action will be required.
B-756-1999*On 11/27/99, 1250 hours Joe Brown of Webber Oil Company reported that they were responding to a broken filter nipple at 1769 Exeter Road in Exeter.  They estimated the release was fifty gallons; however, investigation revealed that the release was much smaller than that.  It had been raining hard all night, which may have spread he spill over a large area.  Even so, there had not been a fifty- gallon spill there.  The owner had contacted Webber because her furnace was running poorly and not producing much heat.  The Webber technician, who was on site when I arrived, thought that the cracked nipple was allowing air into the fuel line.  There was a slight odor in the soil immediately under the filter and there was a slight sheen on the down grade side of the drive- way.  However, the prospects of recovering a significant amount of product were not promising.  There was a clay layer about a foot from grade and it did not contain product.

The line and filter were not up to code because they were not protected.  The Webber technician had advised Patty of this.  I gave Patty my card and asked her to call me if the spill started to cause an odor problem.  That part of Exeter is on town water.

A-142-2000*Waterville Fire Department called to report a spill of gasoline on the interstate.  They were at the scene of an accident on I-95 by exit 34 northbound.  They cleaned up the spill with sorbents. No further work is necessary.
A-37-2000*While dumping a load of metal, a weight shift caused the tractor/trailer to roll over. A piece of metal punctured the fuel tank. Oakland Fire Department responded. The fuel was collected with sorbent pads and contained in a drip pan.

No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services.
P-554-1997*The tanks had been previously filled with sand, but did not fit the requirments of an abandonment in place and were removed.  The soil that was within the tank was disposed of as contaminated soil at Commercial Recycling Systems.
former retail gas station and AST fuel oil bulk plant.  See also P-356-97 and P-947-2006.

No further action required.
B-404-1997*On 7/25/97,2234 hours Petty Officer Young of USCG Bucksport reported that a fourteen by thirty foot pontoon drilling rig barge, that belonged to Maine Test Borings, had capsized in the Winterport region of the Penobscot River.  He said that there was a 15 gallon fuel tank on board.  I contacted Don Wiswell of Maine Test Borings via his cellular.  Don was enroute and said he would report back to me as soon as he arrived.  Don called back at 2300 hours. He said the mast was on the ground and that they were righting the barge with a come along.  He said that there was no evidence of spilled oil.
A-138-1998*This spill was reported when I visited the island for A-87-98 and A-88-98.  It was reported that oil had dripped from the truck.  I did not see a drip on 3/23/98 or 4/8/98.  Luke Church(the operator for the electric company) reports that some other individual used the truck and did not properly close the valve.  Bedrock was only 2 or 3 inches deep.  Mr. Church removed the stained soil.

No further work is anticipated.
B-258-2001*Tony Civiello called from the East Millinocket Waste Water Treatment Plant. They had begun receiving fuel oil in the plant's wastewater. They had tracked the spill to the basement 3 = Main Street. This is a two family apartment building owned by Helen Federico. Her son, Dominic Federico, acts for her. Mr. Civiello and his supervisor, Frank Stratton, had obtained oil sorbent boom from the Great Northern paper mill and installed these in the treatment plant.
   I met Mr. Civiello, Mr. Stratton and Mr. Federico at the spill site. Mr. Federico had spread speedi-dri on the concrete floor. Due to the spring high water table there was little chance of the oil getting under the floor. In fact in appears that much of the oil went to the floor drain. The spill occurred due to a broken firematic valve. The outside fill and vent pipes had been pushed into the house a few inches causing the tank to move the same amount. As the feed line had been cast in the concrete floor, the filter was pulled down toward the floor and the valve cracked. It appears that some vehicle had gotten close enough to the building wall (it faces the park lot) to strike the pipes, forcing them into the cellar. Mr. Federico suspected the plow truck. The apartment fed by the tank had been vacant all winter and Mr. Federico said there should have been less than 50 gallons in the tank. They had delivered a 100 gallons to the tank the day before as a new tenant was moving in. While we don't know when the accident occurred, I'd guess that the first 50 gallons had been spilled prior to the 100 delivered the day before.
   In any case the environment and public health were not threatened. No further action anticipated.
A-153-1999*No site visit made.  The fire department reported that a ferris chloride line was ruptured during a fire at the treatment plant.   The pump on the line was not operational at the time of the fire, so only the contents of the line had been lost.  At the time this was estimated to be 10 to 60 gallons.  This material went into a basement sump pit with water used during the fire.  Fire Department personnel were reportedly neutralizing the material with lime.  The plan was to allow the mixture to go to the treatment process once the plant was back in operation.  I approved the plan.  The following morning I reported the incident to the DEP treatment plant inspectors.  Dave Coffin followed up.

Dave learned from the treatment plant that the line had not ruptured, but only bent by the heat of the fire.  There was only a minor drip and this was contained with a pail.

No further action is anticipated.
I-51-1998*Chad Bourgoin, environmental tech. faxed in a spill report dealing with chlorine gas. area was vented, cause was a bad valve on cylinder.  Spill was located with the Loring Commerce Center Utility System. The facility is located along the little Madawaska River and accessed via the Madawaska Rd. in Caribou
A-555-1996*Received a call from John Cronin of International Paper that they had a small oil spill. While repairing the dryers on the #2 paper machine, the lube oil line was not isolated properly. It leaked at a slow rate while the repairs were made. It was not until three hours later that the leak was discovered. All the lube oil went to the mill treatment plant. No sheen was reported on the river. See the attached report from International Paper for additional information. No response was required, no additional work is necessary for this spill.
B-43-2001*On 02/10/01, 1940 hours Eric Clapp of BHE reported a transformer spill on Tannery Road in Mariaville.  The unit was impacted by severe weather, which caused it to discharge four gallons of oil over a 20' X 30' area.  Because their crews were busy with power outages they hired Clean Harbors to recover the spill.  They collected five drums of material the first night and the eventual total was 19 drums of oiled snow and debris.  The oil was less than 50 ppm PCBs.


I-129-1998*On 6-26-98, Ronald Fournier called to report there had been a spill of hydraulic oil from one of his cranes at a woods operation in T11 R9 (Ingalls Brook Road). A hose had broken. All was on the road and I instucted him to remove the soil from the road with a skidder blade and stock pile the soil until he had enough to make a trip to the local approved landfill.
B-57-2001*
     This office received a call at 1135 on 2/20/01 from the Lincoln Fire Department reporting an oil spill.  It was stated that a saddle tank, on a T Raymond Forest Products (Lee) truck, had fallen off on Main Street around 0530 this morning.  An estimated 30 gallons of diesel sprayed in a thin layer along 60 feet of hot top.  Sand was applied to the area to adsorb most of the oil.  There were no drains or State waters involved in the incident.

     By the time I arrived on site, there was nothing left to recover.

REC:  File report.
A-421-1998*Received a call from Steve Groves of International Paper's environmental department. He called to report a small hydraulic oil spill from a broken hose. The spill went to the process sewer. No site visit was made and no further action is needed on this incident.

Received written report from Steve Groves of International Paper on 9/3/98. His written report suggests that is was the cleanup effert from the broken hydraulic hose that caused the discharge to the process sewer. See the attached report for details.
A-561-1998*     DEP received an after-hours report that floodwaters (rain had been falling for several days) in a residential cellar had upset a container of paint thinner.  Approximately 1/2 gallon was spilled onto the rising water when the cellar sump pump failed.  No recovery was feasible; to avoid further damage to furnace and electrical outlets I recommended immediate replacement of the pump.  Water and thinner was pumped to the drainage system (the area is served by municipal water and sewer).  The next day the homeowner reported no residual odors.
     I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
B-201-1997*5/1/97 15:30

Mike Whitmore, former employee fo Irving Tanning in Hartland, called to report that during his stay paints and other chemicals were dumped down the floor drains.  The conversation quickly switched from his environmental concern to his workman's comp case.  Since there appeared to be a different motive to the complaint the facility was not visited.  Secondly, the allegations are almost impossible to prove.  Thirdly, the Department has an ongoing monitoring program for their discharges.
A-492-1999* On 8-10-99 the USCG reported a release of diesel fuel into Rockland Harbor. This spill was the result of an overfill of the fuel tanks aboard the vessel "Betty Lyn II"  The Coast Guard estimated that about 2 gallons was spilled.  No further action will be required.
B-17-1997*Petty Office Young of the US Coast Guard in Southwest Harbor called to report a diesel sheen in the harbor off Clark Point.  I was informed that a vessel was summoned to inspect the area and pehaps find the source.

As with all other previous sheens in the harbor, no source was discovered.  It is assumed that the sheens are related to substantical boat activity in the harbor.
P-275-1997*A mixture of Pendimethalin and Confront (see attached MSDS's) was discharged onto asphalt.  Sorbents and a soap and water solution were used to collected the mixture.  Although, the discharge happened in proximity to the ocean only the asphalt was impacked.  The area was checked on the following week with no obvious signs of adverse effects.

No further action required.
P-474-1996*   On 8/2/96 DEP received an anonymous complaint regarding out-of-service, non-compliant bare steel, motor fuel UST's at this Raymond, Maine, convenience store.   I confirmed this and refered the issue to Diana McLaughlin of DEP OEU.  The facility was owned by Phoenix North of New Hampshire, formerly Johnson Products Co.   Raymond is on private well water.

Update of 12/9/98

   Dept. registration records indicate that the two old bare steel UST's were abandoned on 5/5/97 and a new UST installed by CTI #316 under a new facility name of ROBERTO's.  The new property owners are Mary & Henry Poole of Raymond.  The new operator is R. & C. Gedney.  I am not aware of any DEP visit during the abandonment or reports of contamination.

See the required CMR 691 UST abandonment assessment, DEP UST Registration #2200, and OEU files for further details.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM

B-323-2000*According to Betty Lou Whitten, her father, Richard Fox, owned and operated Fox's Garage in Lowell for close to 50 years.  She remembers, circa 1955, that the underground storage tanks at the garage were dug up and replaced with new ones.  The dug well on the property became contaminated with gasoline at that time;  a newer well drilled on the other side of the house also became gasoline contaminated.

The new  tanks were ultimately removed in 1987, before a site assessment was needed, and before a licensed tank installer was required to be on site during removal. According to the Whitten's, there was no indication of any soil contamination in the tank hole, and though the hole was left open for 2 weeks, no one from the DEP showed up.  That's not too surprising, inasmuch as the removal occurred on a Saturday, and no contamination was reported.

By the Spring of 2000, the garage and Fox's house had been turned over to Mrs. Whitten, and Fox was in a nursing home.  The Whitten's rented Fox's house and drilled a new well; unfortunately they had it drilled in the contamination plume, and it was contaminated.

By the fourth week of June, I had charcoal filters installed to protect the tenant's health.  In July Jim Lavoie geoprobed the site and Paul Blood selected a drill site for a new well, which was drilled in September.  Initial analysis showed that it too was contaminated, but the contamination was traced to the black tape the driller used preparing to pump test the well.  In late November, the new well was connected to the residence.
I-73-1999*ON 4/23/99 A SPILL AT THE CORNER OF 2ND ST. AND ACADEMY WAS REPORTED BY THE PI FIRE DEPARTMENT.  A STREET SWEEPER OWNED BY FRED MCGILLAN AND COMPANY BLEW A HYDRAULIC LINE CAUSING ABOUT A 5 GALLON SPILL.  THE SPILL WAS CONTAINED BY THE OPERATOR AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT APPLIED SPEEDI DRI.  WHEN THE SWEEPER WAS REPAIRED, IT WAS USED TO RECOVER THE SPILL PRODUCT AND SPEEDI DRI.  THE CONTAMINATED MATERIAL WAS DISPOSED OF AT THE TRI COMMUNITY LANDFILL.  CASE CLOSED
P-56-1994*
SUMMARY
	2/8/94: Notification of gasoline impacted soils found during installation of a new 6000-gal. gasoline UST (T-11) at this retail, motor-fuels UST facility.   About 450 tons of gasoline contaminated soils (removed to facilitate new UST installation) recycled at CRS.  [Gasoline contamination historical form two or more previous discharges.  See also P-534-1989, P-397-1990, et al.]
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B-404-1996*A small spill of gasoline occurred at Whitney's bulk plant due to a weeping valve. The driver, having loaded his truck, has to tighten and lock two valves before he leaves the facility.  On this occasion, the driver swears he did that, but that obviously is incorrect; one valve was unlocked andweeping.

When the problem was discovered, it was corrected; the liquid was absorbed with sorbents and the soil was shovelled up and put inside the dike.
P-267-1996*On May 8, Arundel fire dept called to report a ten gallon overfill of diesel fuel to a tractor-trailer that they had cleaned up at the Big Apple Station in Arundel.  Spill was contained to pavement.  No further action.
I-15-2001*On 2-20-01, MPG called to report that an overfill had occurred during a delivery at one of their customer's house in Washburn. About 5 gallons was spilled inside and outside. I had them shovel up the dirty dirt outside, and clean the tank and floor inside with Simple Green. This took care of the problem.
P-676-2000*On 11/3/00 I received a call through the Maine State Police from Tim Heutz of Heutz Oil reporting a spill at a client's residence in Auburn.  At the time of the call, the spill had been secured and I made arrangements to visit the site the following Monday morning.

On 11/6/00 I meet with Heutz Oil at the spill site.  I observed stained soil near the outside oil tank to the residence.  The soil could not practically be removed due to the presence of very shallow bedrock in the immediate area.  There was a slight odor of oil in the residence.  There are no public or private drinking water supplies at risk from this spill.  The only two issues appeared to be the odor in the home and the likelihood that the oil could impact nearby Taylor Pond.  I made a decision that I would monitor the pond on a periodic basis to check for recoverable oil.  I would also monitor odor levels in the home to see if ventilation would be appropriate.

I visited the home again on 11/17/00.  No odor was evident in the home at that time.  No evidence of oil was observed in the pond.  I will continue to visit the pond starting in the spring of 2001 to check for oil.



__________________________________________________
SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
DECEMBER 13, 2000
P-96-1996*On 2/7/96 I received an anonymous complaint that an oil tank had been run over during the demolition of the Rowley Inn in North Waterford that had recently burned.  The caller indicated that the spill could impact the Crooked River.  I responded immediately.  When I arrived on site, the demolition crew was at lunch but I could see the oil tank and inspected it.  It did appear to contain some heating oil, however I did not observe any active leaks.  Some oil appeared to have been spilled when the tank was moved from its original location, however it was an insignificant amount.  I notified the Town Code Enforcement Officer David Brown of my findngs and also left messages with the Portland Water District.  When I returned to the office, I made contact with Fergus O'reilly who was the primary contractor doing the demolition and asked him to make sure that the tank and its contents were appropriately disposed of.  He assured me that we would do so and indicated that Clean Harbors would probably do the work.  No further action required.



_________________________________________________
SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
B-269-1999*     On May 30, 1999 at 1845 we received a call from Cintya Paschoaloti of Georgia-Pacific  reporting a twenty-five gallon hydraulic oil spill from a blown hose at a washer inside their mill.  Most of the oil was absorbed by sorbents on the mill floor but a couple gallons did enter a drain that is connected to the mill's treatment plant.
B-11-1999*
B-011-99

On 1/9/99, 0320 hours the Irving Oil dispatcher reported a twenty-gallon heating oil spill at PERC in Orrington.  The dispatcher indicated that the release came from the vapor return line on the tank truck.  Irving personnel said that the release was caused by valve failure.  They recovered most of the product with pads and speedy dry.
P-226-1993*
10 to 20-gal. @ surface spill @ pump island due to dispenser & customer error.  See attached narrative for further details.
B-472-2001*A customer self-serving his vehicle at the Brewer Irving over filled it by an estimated 5 gallons.  He claimed that the automatic shutoff failed.

Store personnel summoned the Brewer fire Dept., who put down speedy dry to recover the liquid.
P-813-1996*For details on discharge, see attached report.  No further action required.
B-299-1999*
Tina Bodkin of Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline Company called to report that a piece of machinery involved in the construction of an interstate pipeline spilled an estimated 1/2 quarts of engine oil when an oil filter was knocked off by tree roots. The couple of shovels of contaminated dirt were stored in a barrel for later collection.
B-420-2000*Mr. Gill Merchant called from Bangor International Airport to report a two gallon spill of Jet-A onto the pavement. They fueled up a Lear jet at the general aviation ramp and after the plane sat for awhile about 2 gallons of fuel leaked out of the vents as the fuel expanded. This was cleaned up with sorbent pads.
B-97-2000*As often happens when two ASTs are manifolded together, the ones at the Kenduskeag School "burped back" as it was being filled. The whistle didn't stop, but the fill became air bound and could not handle all the oil being put into it.  C. N. Brown's Dianne Alexander said their driver reported 1/2 gallon of oil spilled. It was recovered with sorbents.
B-714-1999*B-714-99
Bangor

Friday November 5, 1999   			1030


I received a phone call from Arnie Fessenden, of Fessenden Geo-Environmental Services.  Arnie was involved with a site assessment at the Bangor Odlin Road Irving also called Interstate Irving.  He phoned to report finding contaminated soil when Thibodeau Construction was excavating to put in an oil/water separator near the garage.

When I arrived I set clean up levels to 500 PPM which is an intermediate level set at this location by Bob Whittier on July 30, 1999 (see B-463-99).  Contaminated soil in the area of the excavation for the oil/water separator was removed by and taken to Thibodeau Construction in.  A total of 50 cubic yards of contaminated soil was taken to Thibodeau Construction in Prospect.  It is highly likely that high levels of gasoline contaminated soil exist under the service station building itself.
B-114-2000*     On March 1, 2000 we received a fax from the National Response Center reporting a spill of lubricating oil from a pump on the Irving Eskimo.  The vessel was docked at the Irving pier in Searsport.  I contacted Irving and found that a pump seal failed and allowed lube oil from the pump to enter the seawater cooling system for the pump.  This water is discharged back into the ocean.  The pump was shut down after the sheen was noticed.  The amount spilled was less than a quart and quickly dissipated.  The Coast Guard checked the area that morning and found no sign of oil.
P-82-2000*On 02/11/00 at approximately 1230 hr. Dorrie Parr of USEPA Region 1 reported a collision of a tug and barge in the Piscataqua River/Portsmouth Harbor off Newcastle, NH.  The reported vessel was a barge carrying gasoline and headed for one of the Sprague terminals in Newington.  I contacted the Coast Guard to ascertain more information, however the only information they had was what they, too had received from EPA.  I contacted NHDES and was told that the tug had struck the barge and put an 8-10" crack in the hull.  An unknown amount of product had leaked out and caused a sheen.  The crew had transfered the product to other tanks to minimize the leakage.  The barge was no longer leaking and was anchored in Pepperell Cove (Kittery, ME) awaiting USCG approval to continue to the terminal.  The Coast Guard contacted me and informed me that the vessel would be underway @ 1615 hr, arriving @ Sprague/Avery Rd. @ 1700hr.  Ann Hemenway & I met the vessel at the terminal.   Gary Williams, USCG, and Jim Collins of Spraque Energy met us on site.  Gary Williams confirmed that the damage was limited to an 18" "seperation" of a seam where the tug had hit it.  The soundings indicated a total difference of 20 bbl of product.  Product had been transfered to 4 tanks and there was an approximate 100 bbl capacity in the transfer line.  It was therefore impossible to determine the amount discharged.  The USCG surveyed the entire area upstream and downstream on 2/12 and did not observe any product, sheen of trace thereof.  No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter.

_____________________
Jon L Woodard  OHMS 3
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
B-768-1999*B-768-99
Brewer

Wednesday December 1, 1999			1500

I received a phone call from the Brewer Fire Chief.  He reported a complaint about a construction contractor that was putting in a foundation and was reported to be using anti-freeze.  The complaint was unclear as to how they were using anti-freeze.  I told the fire chief I would meet him at the construction site.

I arrived at the construction site and spoke with the foreman or owner of Cassidy Construction.  I told him of the complaint.  It seems that possibly due to the green tint of the standing water on clay that a neighbor reported the construction company was using anti-freeze on the water.  The owner/foreman chuckled as the green colored water had ice forming on it.  I said you have got the wrong mix ratio.  The fire chief arrived to the non-spill and soon left.  Clearly there was no anti-freeze used.  If the construction outfit had a problem with the standing water in the excavation they would have de-watered it using a pump.
P-99-1999*On February 5, 1999 I received a call from Dan Richardson of Davis Oil.  Dan called to report a spill from one of their oil delivery trucks.  A Davis Oil truck had filled a residential oil tank at 161 Beechridge Rd. in York.  The hose had began leaking at the truck during the delivery.  The leak stopped when the pumping stopped.  When the driver got back to the truck and noticed the spilled oil, he immediatly began to put sorbents on and then called the spill in.  The truck was parked on the side of the road and therefore most of the oil went onto the paved road surface and the gravel shoulder.  Sorbents and speedy dry were used to clean the spill.  No further action.
A-451-1998*Low levels of contamination were found near all three tanks.  Two of the tanks had small holes.  PID readings were all within baseline 2 standards.  The only soil removed was to allow for new tank installation.  No further action is anticipated.


A-120-2000* Bob's Cash Fuel called this office to report what they thought was a 50 gallon spill of kerosene. This occurred at house trailer owned by Michelle Lavie. The property is located along Route 150 in the town of Cornville.
 The outside AST settled into the ground and cracked the nipple. This resulted in a release of oil. Some of this oil flowed under the house trailer and created a vapor problem. I had the two employees from Bob's Cash Fuel crawl under the trailer to collect free product with sorbent pads and also remove other contaminated debries. I installed a large fan to exhaust the oil vapors from the crawl space under the trailer. There is a well on site, however it is located uphill.
 Overall cleanup was a success and no further action will be required.
I-58-2001*On 5-5-01, received a call from Bob Dunphy of Island Falls reporting oil sheen on Pleasent Pond. Met with him that day and traced source back to a camp owned by Roger Nightingale of Bangor. Apparently sometime over the winter the oil tank in the crawlspace below camp shifted and broke nipple on the end of tank. About 250 gallons estimated lost. Contractor removed contaminated material below camp and containment boom placed in front of camp to stop spread into lake.
B-153-2000*
On 3/18/00, 1700 hours Fred Bryant, who is a selectman for Dixmont, reported that someone had left three, fifteen gallon containers that were filled with an unknown liquid.  He gave directions to the spot, which was on Cotrell Road in Dixmont.  I went to the location and discovered that the containers were indeed full and that I could not lift them.  I contacted Clean Harbors and gave them directions to the site.  The containers had a corrosive label and the original contents of the containers was a product called "Surge".  Fred thought that the product was used to clean milk harvesting equipment.
P-63-1996*Routine UST replaced by MTA of commercially operated heating oil UST's.  Site of previous, significant discharges.  No remedial work required for this project.  See charlie Myers (774-5155) engineer for MTA for further information.
B-155-1999*     On April 6,1999 at 1100 we received a call from Wayne LeVasseur of Pelky Oil reporting a kerosene spill at the home of Ms. Janet Brown on route 221 in Hudson.  Mr. LeVasseur said the outside tank tipped over and broke off the filter and feed-line.  The tank was still half full and he was preparing to pump off the remaining oil.
     I arrived on site and found Pelky Oil pumping about 140 gallons of fuel from the tank.  The tank was last filled on March 15.  Based on Ms. Brown's fuel usage and the size of the spilled area Mr. LeVasseur and I estimated that between twenty-five and thirty gallons spilled.  Ms. Brown owns a hundred acres so we found an area behind her house suitable for land-spreading.  She and her husband excavated less than a yard of contaminated soil and spread it on the agreed site.
I-19-1996*On 2-20-96, Russel Smith of MPS called to report that a plow had hit a pole at their Parkhurst Siding facility spilling the contents of the transformer. About 50 gallons spilled onto the snow. The contaminated snow was picked up and placed in containers to be melted and the oil separated from the water. Case closed.
A-340-1996*Received a call from Skip Kenney, code enforcement officer for the town of Warren. He reported that a neighbor of Frank's Market in Warren complained about a diesel fuel spill. I responded and met Mr. Kenney at the site. Apparently a customer's of Frank's Market over filled his truck with diesel fuel. The dispenser is card operated and the spill occurred after hours on Friday, 7/26. We were not notified about the spill until Monday, 7/29. There is a drinking water well within 100' of the site, therefore the site is considered stringent on the Department's "D-tree".  Mr. Giustra was instructed to excavate the contaminated gravel that was impacted by the spill. The concrete pad for the diesel dispenser is very small and does not protect the gravel pad. Mr. Giustra elected to hand excavate the gravel. This site has been the subject of a previous major cleanup, see A-217-94 for additional information. The water well on neighbor's property was never impacted during the earlier spill.  No further work is needed concerning this spill.
A-488-1996*See attached.  No site visit made.  No further action anticipated.
P-343-1996*On Tuesday, 6/11/96, I made a routine UST removal visit and noted the UST's apparently removed and the gas station closed down.  No new facility installation had gone in and the excavations filled to grade.  See also earlier spill report P-494-95.  No further Response Division action anticipated at present.  See CMR 691 Assessment of Acadia Env.
A-278-1996*     An estimated 175 gallons of heating oil was lost when stored boxes fell against the oil tank in the cellar of this residence.  The filter was sheared off.  Oil sorbed into the dirt cellar floor.  DEP was notified after odors were noticed, and excavation of contaminated soil was begun.  Approximately 8 cu. yds. of soil was hand-excavated from the cellar.  This operation took several days, during which time the elderly Mrs. Adams was lodged in a nearby nursing home due to concerns about petroleum vapors in the house.
     The case was referred to the Division of Technical Services due to the environmental sensitivity of the site; Geologist Alex Pugh was assigned to the case.  At the time of this writing it appears that the Adams well (drilled, approximately 20' laterally from the spill site) is showing evidence of low concentrations of fresh petroleum contamination.
     I do not anticipate further involvement by Response Services as a result of this incident.
B-265-1997*On May 29, 1997 at 1545 we received a call from Petty Officer Young of the US Coast Guard in Bucksport reporting a spill in Lunt Harbor on Long Island in Frenchboro.  Mr. Young said that at 1300 they received a call from the cpatain of the ferry "Henry Lee" that the lobster boat "Barbara Correy" had just pumped her bilge while in Lunt Harobr which is near the vilage of Frenchboro.

The Coast Guard talked to the "Barbara Correy's" captain, Mr. Randy Sawyer and told him of the law prohibiting oil discharge.  Mr. Sawyer said the bilge was accidently switched to automatic which caused the discharge.  The spill caused a sheen in the harbor which was too thin to recover with sorbents but dissipated with the wind and current.  Mr. Sawyer said that he would use sorbent pads in his bilge in the future.
B-264-2000*On 5/16/00, 1640 hours Dave Simmons, who is a game warden in the Gouldsboro area reported that a drum with some unknown liquid had been left at an abandoned lot.  The area where the drum had been left had been used to dispose of other unwanted trash, such as lobster traps and household appliances that had outlived their usefulness.  The drum had about six inches of liquid and the headspace gave an explosimeter reading of 45% LEL and a PID reading of 3000ppm.  The bag head -space for the liquid was also 3000ppm.  The liquid had a distinct odor of acetone and it was mostly water. A
density reading of .96 and the absence of an attraction for polypropylene evidenced this.  From the density the percentage of acetone was calculated to be 11%, assuming that the only constituents were acetone and water.

Dave had expressed an interest in finding out who had left the drum.  He indicated that he had some leads already. Naturally, I was interested in having a source of reimbursement.  I cordoned of the drum and pasted a Haz-Waste lable on it and proceeded back to the office with my sample.  I was sharing our findings with Dave on 5/23/00 and he said that as of 5/22/00 the drum had been removed.  He thought that MDEP had taken it.  Having learned that wasn't the case, he said that he would be on the lookout for the drum elsewhere.

It should be noted that the sample contains sediment that might be fiberglass from a boat building/repair operation.  This might offer more specific evidence as to the source.
I-68-1999*On 5-25-99, this office recieved a fax from Maple Grove Trucking indicating they had a spill of hydraulic oil at the Dave Moore farm in Smyrna. A Trailer dump tipped over due to high winds and lost about 5-10 gallons of hydraulic oil. All was picked up by removing soil and taking it to Tri Community Landfill.
B-790-1998*An anonymous complaint was received here alleging that Norman Facemeyer must be dumping waste lubricants and fuels from the derelict cars that he hauls onto his trailer lot on the Coboro Rd.

Investigating that afternoon,  I found the property, but encountered neither Facemeyer or his son, who lives in a camper there.  There was a man tearing apart a house trailer;  I explained to him what I was doing there, and he said it was none of his business if I looked around or not.

There was no sign of intentional dumping, but I noted a little leakage around Facemeyer's feedline from his AST.  I left my card in his door, asking that he call so that we could discuss the spill.

He did call, that night, and left a message on the office machine that records ship movements.  He was irate, according to the secretary who transcribed the message, attached.  He left no phone number, and no further effort to contact him has been attempted.
P-316-1998*On 07/09/98 I received a call from Roland Sirois.  He was concerned about an oil like sheen that he had seen on the stream and standing water in his yard.  I went out to the Sirois residence and examined the sheen and determined that it was a naturally occurring, organic sheen.  No further action is required at this time.



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Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
July 9, 1998
B-438-1996*WHEN JAMES RIVER PERSONNEL TRIED IN AUGUST TO START THEIR RAW WATER CHLORINATION SYSTEM, THEY DISCOVERED THAT THE SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE TANK WAS EMPTY.  THE REASON FOR THAT WAS THAT AN IMPROPER GASKET HAD BEEN USED ON THE TANK'S LEVEL HOSE; THE GASKET DETERIORATED AND ALL THE CHEMICAL LEAKED OUT, EITHER EVAPORATING OR RUNNING INTO THE MILL SEWER.  SEE THE ATTACHED LETTER FROM ALAN BOYNTON.
B-461-1997*Mrs. Kim Barnes called to report that her well had changed color just recently.  She was concerned that it was caused by recent earth work by her neighbor, Cliff Leteure.  The well is just 3 years old, drilled by Sam Dunham of E. Corinth, and has been "super" until the neighbor started digging on Sunday and on Monday the water turned orange.  She was concerned that something buried (she said that the neighbor had a lot of junk around and some of it was now missing, the implication was that it was buried) that caused the change.  This well is on the west edge of the Bennoch Rd. esker.  I went to the scene and met Mrs. Barnes and her husband, Terrance.  The PID did not react to anything when a jar headspace was performed.  The red pigment was already settling out in the toilet tank.  I'm satisfied that the color was the result of iron not a hazardous material.  However it may have been the result of the up hill neighbor's digging.  In fact a few years before I had seen the same thing occur at the Winifred Roberts residence in LaGrange.  This well was a few miles further up the road and also on the west side of the Bennoch Rd. esker.  The digging was done to bury a water line and their water turned brown and murky but not from hazardous materials.

In any case I suggested that they contact the state drinking water program for further assistance.
B-442-2001*     On 08/08/01, 1745 hours our on call person took a complaint from Robert Kane of Veazie.  Robert was passing on a complaint from James Grant, who is an inmate at Charleston Correctional.  James had alleged that Charleston Management had told him to dump paint thinner and turpintine in back of the greenhouse at the Charleston Facility.  On 08/13/01 Tom Maleck and I visited the facility.  A cadre of the facilities' management personnel took us to the greenhouse.  The green house had been used as a place to spray lacquer on tables and other wooden articles that they manufacture.  This part of the operation had been suspended for several months. They are in the process of building another spraying station.  There was no evidence of solvent dumping on the premises.
P-504-1996*UST removal.

Contractor:  AL Doggett

Soil removed as necessary to install new U.S.T.


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Jon Woodard, OHMS I
Division Response Services
Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management
I-100-1998*On 4-28-98, this office received a call from Anthony Dow concerning a contaminated well on his property in Washburn. He had noticed an odor in the water for several months and had the water tested for petroleum recently. The analysis had come back positive at about 40 ppb for gasoline. I hired County Environmental to investigate because there are several possible sources. I also placed the Dows on QM and had a carbon filter installed.
P-769-2000*Mrs. Estaver called DEP looking for assistance in water testing, believeing her well water was tainted.  Based on statements provided by Mrs. Estaver the water was tested for volatile compounds and DHS drinking water criteria.  No volatile compounds were found however several natural conditions were found (and noted as risk levels).

No reimbursement for the testing will be sought from Mrs. Estaver as DEP/Cyr believes her concerns were valid and the potential for contamination was possible.  No regulated substances were detected therefore no further action is warranted by DEP at this time.  Mrs. Estaver has been furnished with the lab results and recommendations for public assistance were made for the drinking water criteria which reported positive results.
A-340-1998* Francis Mooody called this Dept. to notify us that she had found several jars of mercury in the basement of her home. Scott Cyr and I made a site visit on 7-1-98. In addition to the mercury, we found Sevin and DDT. All of these compounds were brought back to the DEP. At a later date this material was picked up by a waste disposal company.
 8-26, the mercury was picked up by S.O.S.  On 9-17-98 the pesticides were collected by Phillips Services.
B-607-2000*B-607-2000
11/13/2000 07:55

     Dead River Oil in Brewer called to report a spill at their Maple Street bulk plant that resulted from an overfill.  It was stated that approximately 40 gallons of #2 fuel spilled into the concrete diked area.  The contained oil was subsequently cleaned up with a pump and sorbent material.  None of the oil reportedly escaped to the environment.
A-237-1997*     DEP received a report that approximately 1/2 gallon of oil had been forced out the vent pipe following a residential AST overfill.  According to the spiller (C N Brown) no product reached soil; sorbents were used to recover spilled material.  The property owner (Jameson) confirmed that the event was minor and that no over-pressurization damage was evident at the tank.
     I do not anticipate further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
B-183-2001*B-183-2001
04/09/2001 09:00

     Scott Smith of Hall & Smith Energy in Jackman called to report a small #2 fuel Spill at a camp at Sky Lodge off of Route 201 in Jackman.  It was Stated that approximately 30 gallons leaked from the outside tank when the weight of the snow broke the filter.  No action was taken since the well to the cabin was stated to be about 300 feet away.  Fumes were also not an issue
A-54-1998*Received a report from Chuck Kraske about a #6 oil spill. A reported 100 gallons of fuel oil was released from a #6 oil fuel heater. The spill all went to the process sewer. No contact was made with International Paper concerning the spill. Receipt of the report raised the final estimate to 1000 gallons of oil spilled. All the oil went to the treatment plant and was caught in the clarifiers. According to the report International Paper never heard back from DEP about the spill. No site visit was made. No further work is necessary on this spill. See the attached report from International Paper for additional details.
A-314-2001*At the Bisesti residence there is a 330 gallon AST which is used to store gasoline for the Bisesti's business vehicles. The AST was filled with gasoline on April 18th and none had been removed from the tank since. An employee of Bob's cash fuel (the same company which provides their gasoline) mistakenly attempted to fill the tank with #2 fuel oil. The driver thought it was strange that there was no whistle, he also thought it was strange that gasoline was spraying out of the vent located directly above his head. He stopped pumping after adding only thirty-one gallons to the already full tank. Residence placed on quarterly monitoring. No further response action expected.
A-103-1998*This spill was discovered during a delivery.  The driver observed a drip from the tank, and immediately pumped the fuel from the tank to prevent further loss.  He did not believe that much fuel had been loss as the tank was as full as expected.  However, the tenant indicated that he had noticed the fuel smell for about a week prior to the discovery.  The soil directly under the tank was not frozen.  Kip Cline was hired to remove contaminated soil.  We found clean crushed stone and piping for drainage about 1' below the tank.  The remainder of the fill in this area was clean sand.  Bedrock was between 1' and 3' deep in this area.  On the deepest part of the bedrock we observed a till with surface water and a sheen.  This sloped toward the home.  Because of the shallow bedrock and loose soil very little soil was removed.  There was some odor in the crawl space.  The crawl space consisted of bedrock highs and areas filled with crushed stone.  Odor was stronger under the stone, but the stone was not wet.  It is possible that some water with fuel passed under the footer which was poured on the bedrock.  I feel that the odor should improve quickly and the crawl space windows were left open.   The drilled well is about 50' away is believed to be 80' deep.

This site has been referred to Technical services.

A-541-2000*     DEP received a report that a minor spill of hydraulic oil had occurred at this facility and had been completely recovered.
A-720-2000*Doug Whittier of Northern Hydro called to report a spill of hydraulic oil from a power rake they were using to clean debris from the grates of the dam.  The power rake broke a hydraulic hose, releasing a small quantity of oil, estimated at less than 1 gallon, to the Kennebec River.  There was no way to recover the oil as the flowing water immediately dispersed it down river.  The hose was repaired and the rake was put back in service.  I did not conduct a site visit, and no further action can be conducted by the Response Division.
A-486-1996* Mike Lewis found a small amount of oil in the sump, associated with the UST, at the NYNEX building in Wilton. They tested the lines the next day and found that the suction line was leaking somewhere. The suction and return lines are sleeved inside a pvc conduit. The conduit empties into the liquid tight sump at the top of the tank. An environmental (Lex Con) firm from NH will make the nessesary repairs.
 The piping was repaired on 11/13/96 by Michael Simard. The new piping is 3/4 inch Enviroflex inside secondary Enviroflex. No further action is required, no site visit wwas made.
B-374-1996*
A pinhole leak in Champion's #6 oil pipeline was reported here by Wendy Porter on 7/17; at the time of the report, no oil was reported to have reached the river.  That changed by early evening, with low tide, when a sheen was noticed on the river adjacent to the 6 oil pipe chase. Sorbent boom was deployed by the Mill's team, with PROPAC deploying containment boom that same night.

On 7/18 an interception trench was dug parallel to the river, to intercept the oil discharge; that course of action proved ineffective, so eventually, after pressure washing the riverbank day after day, part of the riverbank riprap was removed, to allow the oil to flow into the boomed area for recovery.  See the attached spill report from Champion's Wendy Porter.
A-238-1996*Received a call form Scott Canonico of International Paper reporting a small #6 oil spill. The spill was contained before it reached the mill's wastewater treatment plant. Spill was caused by a leaking flange. No response was necessary.
P-613-1996*  This report covers the removal and replacement of three bare steel gasoline UST's at this retail motor fuels facility.  Owned by Cumberland Farms, it was replaced under a CFG crew under CTI Dennis Davis.  Moderate levels of gasoline spillage was noted in the old tank area.  Working out to a Baseline-2 Goal, no clean-up was required by Maine DEP.  The new UST's were moved to a new area of the property and no contaminated media is understood to have been removed from the site.
  See the attached notes and assessment of Hull & Assoc. for further information.
B-108-1998*Grant's Dairy leases their long-haul tractors from Ryder Truck Leasing.  For a reason known only to the driver, one of these trucks was left idling in the Dairy's parking lot during the weekend of Feb. 20-23.  Sometime during that time the fuel filter housing cracked, and an estimated 40 gallons of diesel was lost onto the parking lot surface. The leak continued until the truck ran out of fuel.

The leak was discovered on Monday morning and reported here by Dana Peterson. Upon my arrival on the site,he and another worker had the fuel well contained and were soaking it up with speedy dry. A small amount of oil had gotten into a storm drain, but that was retrieved with a sorbent boom.
I-162-2001*On 12-4-01, a warden with the Maine Forest service called to report that while traveling down Rt. 1 in Hodgdon, he noticed a fire burning in the parking area of Hodgdon Potato Co. He asked the owner about it.  Apparently, while cutting open an old 275 gallon tank what he thought was water spilled out.  However, it turned out to be fuel oil. He decided that burning it was the quickest way to clean it up. The warden just wanted to make us aware of the situation. I spoke with the owner.
P-97-1997*SEE ATTACHED
A-124-1999*  The DEP received a call from Anthony Corsac about his oil tank that was leaking at a fitting. Mr. Corsac's home is located on the Weeks Corner Rd. in Pittsfield. The tank was located on the north end of his trailer.  A frost heave had nearly tipped the tank over causing the fitting to leak. Webber Energy was called twice and they made an emergency repair to stop the leak. Shortly after I arrived Webber Energy called Mr. Corsac and told him that they would be over later that day to put in a temporary tank.
  A small area was discolored with the leaking oil.  The dirt was collected in a pail and thrown into the municipal trash.  No further action is required.
P-762-1999*    During the week of 11/1/99 I visited this retail motor fuels UST facility checking on removal and reinstallation of suction product piping.  CTI George Erskine performed the work.  This facility & area has been the subject of DEP spill reports in 1989 and more recently by Stephen Flannery of DEP.  Mr. Flannery was investigating gasoline contamination to a nearby residential drinking water well.
     Bedrock is known to be within 10' of the surface.  On 11/2/99 I noted fresh smelling gasoline contamination in soil directly under the two dispensers at the island.  Erskine stated that this was from accidental spillage while he was disconnecting the piping and dispenser.  I noted no other spillage in the piping trench.  Flannery later had Erskine remove the small amount of gaso. smelling soil.
    See attached, files of Stephen Flannery, and UST Reg. file #10192 for further information.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
B-674-1997*Paul Farrington, concerned citizen in Medway, called to report that his neighbor, Steven Kimball, was in the process of crushing vehicles and was concerned that oil was being spilled.  No oil was observed by Mr. Farrington however.

The next day Mr. Kimball's property was investigated before an upcoming snow event.  Mr. Kimball stated that his wife was making him get rid of the junk around the yard which included several old vehicles.  No evidence of spillage was found however.
B-348-1998*A security guard at Fort James noticed that as Kennebec Rental dragged their portable generator up Congress ST., diesel fuel spilled out of the tank and onto the street.  The mill's response team cleaned it up.  See the attached report from Alan Boynton.
B-22-1996*Decision Tree Cleanup Goal:  N
A-447-1998*     DEP received a report from a homeowner (Ouellette) that an oil company (Heutz) had overfilled his cellar AST two days previously.  He did not feel the oil company was handling the situation properly.  Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property and met Mr. Ouellette and Mr. Heutz.  The tank appeared undamaged by the incident; there was no audible vent alarm at the time of the overfill.  It was apparent where oil had seeped past piping joints onto the concrete cellar floor; this had been sorbed by Heutz staff.  Mr. Heutz agreed to remove/replace a section of framed wall that had absorbed some oil and to wash the concrete floor with detergent and water; it is my understanding that these were accomplished as of 8/18.  Heutz also agreed to dispose of any other stored materials that had absorbed oil.
     Mr. Ouellette felt that oil odors had permeated parts of the living space upstairs, and wanted Heutz to clean the carpeting.  I could detect no oil odors in the carpets or in the living space upstairs, and so did not "officially" request Heutz to do any work upstairs.  Liquid product spilled as a result of this incident was confined to the cellar area.
     I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
P-153-1997*On 3/18/97 I received a call through the Maine State Police from the Portland Fire Dept. reporting an unknkown amount of fuel oil spilled at the YWCA in Portland.  I responded immediately.  Upon arrival I observed that a fitting on the oil burning furnace had become loose allowing what I estimate to be 100 gallons of #4 fuel to spill.  The spill covered a large area of the basement floor and had also entered floor drains in the area that led to a sump.  The fire dept. had unplugged the sump when they arrived and indiated that it was running when they did so.  The fire dept. had called the sewer dept. to check their system to see how much oil had entered the system.  It appeared as though only a small amount had.

The YWCA hired Clean Harbors who vacuumed the oil out of the sump and used sorbent material to clean up the oil on the floor.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
A-673-2001*   DEP received a report that two abandoned drums were located on a woods road in a remote area.  A small amount of leakage was noted, but the drums were essentially intact.  It was apparent that other litter had been dumped on this property (map R13, lot 5) previously, and it is assumed that these drums were discards unrelated to property ownership.  A contractor (EPI) was hired to characterize and dispose of the contents of the drums.
A-406-1999*No site visit made.  See attached for additional details.  The CMP report mailed to DEP on July 29, 1999 reports 130 ppb of PCBs.  This information was forwarded to Scott Cyr on August 5, 1999.
B-188-2000*On 4/5/00, 1130 hour this office received an anonymous notification of a leaking oil drum at the old fire station in Woodville.  The location was given as being on Route 116, across the road from a sand pile.  /several attempts to raise someone at the town office in Woodville failed.  I made the trip up route 116 and located the facility, which was very abandoned at the time, and notice that there was a 55 gallon drum in front of the building that had discharged a few gallons of waste oil.  The release had come from a 5/8th inch, horizontal gash that was half way up the drum.  The gash was in the middle of a large indentation.  Possibly some one had run into the drum with a plow (or something), when it may have been covered with snow.  It was hard to say how long the place had been abandoned, but at some point in modern time someone had used the place to change internal combustion engine oil.

I wanted to pump the oil into a sound drum, which I had in my truck, but my Gorman Rup fittings would not fit into either drum.  I screwed a boiler plug into the gash, which wasn't leaking at the time.  The plug was to stop further spillage in the event the product expanded with an increase in temperature.  The situation was not critical because there was very little penetration of product, the area is very remote and high surficial ground water would protect the bed rock aquifer.

I happened to call the Woodville Town Office at a time when they were having a selectman's meeting.  The gentleman answering the phone said that they had sold the fire station to Bill Stanley, who I was never able to contact.  I was able to talk to Fern Stanley, who was not directly related to Bill.  However, she was well enough connected to tell me that Bill had turned the property over to Jim Stanley.  I was never able to contact Jim either.  I did discuss the situation with Fern.  She indicated that George Stanley had a shop with a waste oil burner in Medway and that George would be in a position to take the oil. I asked Fern if she would have Jim contact me so that we could come up with an inexpensive disposition of the oil. When I hadn't heard for some time, I contacted Fern again and she said that Jim had taken care of it. On 8/15/00 I revisited the site, prepared to contain the oil and transport it, and I found that the drum had indeed been removed. There was grass and weeds growing in the area that had been stained by the waste oil.
B-614-1999*JEFF THOMPSON ACQUIRED THE FORMER SPRINGFIEL COASTAL (SUNOCO) AT AUCTION, PLANNING TO OPEN A HARDWARE AND FEED STORE. HE HAD NO USE FOR THE 3 USTs INSTALLED THERE IN 1988, SO HE HAD THEM TAKEN OUT.

A SMALL AMOUT OF SOIL WAS CONTAMINATED BY GASOLINE FROM THE NEW PIPING, AND THAT WAS EXCAVATED AND LANDFARMED WITH COMPOST NEARBY.
B-437-2001*Ken Fritz called from Pine Tree Waste Management to report that one of their garbage trucks had a hydraulic line leak and spilled oil on Narramissic Drive in Orland. They estimated that it was less than 2 gallons. All of the oil stayed on pavement but it was along side Narramissic Stream. Because of the proximity to the water I went to the scene. I found every thing was as describe. They were in the final stages of clean up. I'd say the clean up was very good. They had used a couple bags of speed-dri that was disposed of at their landfill in Hampden.

B-70-2000*B-070-00
Baileyville (Woodland)

Wednesday February 9, 2000			0806

Brad Kelso (427-4044) of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation phoned to report an 80-gallon hydraulic oil spill.  The spill occurred around 2100 on Tuesday when a worker using a steam jenny snagged the valve on a 550-gallon hydraulic oil tote with the hose of his steam cleaner.  He shortly thereafter noticed the open valve and closed it.  The hydraulic oil was contained in the oil storage area due to a berm located in the room.

This oil was cleaned up using a small pump.  The oil was pumped into a waste oil tote that will be picked up by Clean Harbors.  I explained to Mr. Kelso that they should be more prompt in reporting oil spills.  I clarified the fact that the oil leaking, seeping, dripping, or spraying  from its original container constitutes a spill and should be reported promptly.
P-345-1997*  On the evening of 6/17/97 I recieved a complaint form a South Portland resident near Danforth Cove, So. Ptld., that there was an unexplained, and unusually strong fuel oil oder in the outside air.  The USCG, MSO investigated that evening.  The next morning they informed me that nothing was found.  That evening, after a second complaint, I found that MSO had confirmed the oder but did not confirm a source.  On the evening of 6/18/97 I met PO Radcliff of the MSO in Cape Elizabeth to continue the search for the source.  Since Tuesday evening, MSO and Cape E. Fire Dept. had been investigating oil odors in the Pine Cove areas, Mitchal, Preble and Newbury St. areas.  To be so extensive a problem we figured that there may have been a large discharge to the sewer or storm drains; possibly from a UST, AST, or purposefull discharge.
   Off Trundy Point on 6/17 a large sheen was reported that may be asociated with the odors: a spill to the storm drains ending in the Bay.  No problems were reported at neither the So. Portland nor the Cape E. treatment plants. With Wed.(6/18/97) night's heavy rains the odor disappeared and has not returned as of 6/30/97.
SGB
B-458-1997*D-TREE=N.
P-413-1996*  On Saturday, 6/29/96, S. Brezinski received a complaint thru the State Police regarding the delay, by US Customs of an old fishing vessel laiden with old tires, and bound for the Dominican Republic.  I undertsand that DEP Solid Waste had advised the vessel be delayed until the disposal of the tires could be settled.  I refered Mr. Dawson, and his rep., Chris Rice, to Supervisor David Sait.  No further Resp. Div. action anticipated.  See also Randy McMullen of DEP Solid Waste.
  This report codes Spill Type C as best fitting for incident (non-oil).
I-5-1996*Inventory problem on aboveground tanks.
B-221-1996*5/1/96 @ 0700 I had previously (April 30) been working with Jim Kelley, of Dead River, about a waiver for the removal of a 550 gallon unregistered heating oil tank that is located at Main Street in Milbridge.  According to Mr. Kelley the tank was recently discovered during an underground upgrade at the Milbridge Exxon.  Mr. Kelley requested a waiver for its removal.  I said I could waive the removal on May 1.

The tank removal was proceeding.  This underground tank is located outside the back door of the service station.  The excavation contractor, R.H. Jordan found contamination around the fill pipe of the tank.  This soil showed a reading of 553 ppm on the Photo-ionization detector.  About 1.5 cubic yards of contaminated soil was removed from on top of the tank.  This area was cleaned up to readings in the excavation of 20.7 and 9.5 ppm in the excavation.

The 1.5 cubic yards of sand & rock back fill and native soil that was clay to silty clay that had been segregated was to be placed and spread thinly on top of the filled in tank excavation.
A-200-1999*     DEP received a report that this residential AST had been vandalized, resulting in the loss of 100 gallons of fuel.  Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property.  Oil had percolated into soil and debris that made up the fill upon which this mobile home is located.  Contaminated soil was excavated, although some oil is believed to have found its way into root casings in the woods at the edge of the lot; complete recovery was not feasible.
     The area is rural/residental.  The subject property utilizes a shallow (dug) well for water, although the homeowner claims not to drink this water.  The well is located 80' from the spill site and may be considered at risk.  The nearest neighbor is within 300' but is not likely to be affected by this event.
A-591-2000*Received a call from Kelly McGray from Maritime Energy in Liberty.  She reported that they had overfilled the tank at the residence of Duane Vigue.  She stated that it was only about 2 quarts and that they had cleaned it up already.  I spoke to Mr. Vigue. He confirmed that the overfill was small and was satisfied with the cleanup they did.  He does have a water well, but he estimated that it was over 600' from the site of the spill.  No site visit is necessary and no further work is indicated.
A-618-1998*The Kingfield Fire Department uses lube oil to prime and preserve the pumps in their trucks. A house fire occurred on the Tufts Pond Road near one of the town's wells. The lube oil was pumped onto the ground. The Kingfield Water District dug up the soil. It was taken to Norridgewock.
B-309-2001*Energy Systems of Maine called to report that a customer, Yolanda Jette, had lost an estimated 75 gallons of #1 fuel. It seems that her son had damaged the firematic valve while mowing her lawn a few days previous. There was no free product to recover. I called Mrs. Jette and made arrangements to visit.
   The flat AST was located behind her mobile home. There was an 8' diameter stain under and around her tank. She was not having odor problems inside her home. Her water is supplied from her son's well some 150' away. The area is quite flat and had been cultivated farmland in the past. Soils maps at the office indicate deep soils.
   As there was no odor problem, the well is some distance away over flat and deep ground, and excavation would probably cause damage to the unsupported trailer, I decided that no action was necessary.
A-110-1997* A truck owned by Decoster Egg Farm slipped off the road and spilled at least five gallons of diesel fuel. This accident occurred on Route 27 in the Township of Chain of Ponds. I spoke with Bruce, an employee of Decoster Egg and he was on his way to the scene to assist in the clean up and retrieving the truck.
A-302-1998*Received a call from Bill Carver, certified tank installer that there had been an overfill at the yard of U.L. Ilvonen, a contractor in Owls Head. He was there directing the cleanup and asked me to come out the next morning. I visited the site the next day. Bill and Mr. Ilvonen had completed the cleanup. Mr. Ilvonen's company does excavating so the proper equipment was already on site. Apparently one of his wheelers suffered an overfill while fueling. I convinced Mr. Ilvonen that it would be in his best interests (read, less expensive) if he would take the contaminated soil to Dragon for processing. He saw my reasoning in the end and the contaminated soil was taken to Dragon Cement for processing. No further action is needed on this site concerning this spill.
B-782-1999*On 12/12/99, 0125 hours Wayne Newman of BHE reported a hydraulic oil release on the Old Colebath Road in Exeter.  A hose in the hydraulic system of boom truck #113 ruptured and lost five gallons of hydraulic oil.  The spill landed on a gravel road that had snow and leaves on it.  BHE personal deployed pads and picked them up along with the oiled snow and leaves.  The clean-up generated .6 yd3 of pads, debris and snow, which went to SERF.

B-13-2000*See attached narrative since the text will not fit into HOSS.
B-102-1997*At 0900 on March 3, 1997 we received a call from Asst. Manager Andrew Duprey of the Irving Big Stop on Route 2 in Newport reporting a fifteen gallon diesel spill.  I contacted Mr. Duprey who said the spill occurred at 0600 that morning when the automatic shut off for the nozzle failed and fifteen gallons overflowed from a truck's saddle tank before the attendant shut off the pump.  Workers recovered the product with speedi dri.  No waters were threatened.
B-551-1996*On 10/3/96, 1430 hours, Dave Tonninie of Holtra Chemical called to report a 70 gallon diesel spill.  A truck on their scale rack hit a steel plate in such a way that it flipped up and punctured the saddle tank.  This caused a release of 70 gallons of product.  The release went to the pit below the scale.  There is a drain at the bottom to the pit, which they plugged as soon as they could.  He said that some sheen had appeared at their weir as a result of the small amount that had gone down the pit drain and that they had this contained with boom.  They had used all the sorbent that they had on hand.  I offered to bring more sorbent but Dave said that  Coastal Environmental was on their way as we were speaking.
P-689-2000*Mr tracy had access to equipment to excavate the contaminated soils and did so.  The soil was stock piled and a virgin materials letter written however the final disposition of the material is unclear.

The spill area was small however the close proximity to Sebago lake (within 20 ft) lead to the removal action.  The stockpile is well away from the lake on a level area beyond the house, and yard.  It is covered and protected from erossion.

the excavation was filled and graded no other work is planned for this site based on information received to date.


B-641-1998*
B-641-98

On 9/30/98, 1030 hours Fred Leigh of Bangor Hydro-Electric Company reported that they had a leaking transformer on Mason Bay Road in Jonesport.  Their crew had patched the unit and removed a third of a drum of impacted soil from the base of the pole.  They also sampled the oil for a PCB analysis, which came back 55 ppm PCB.  Meanwhile they monitored the unit with the expectation that they would be able to replace the unit in a couple of weeks.  The Unit was a regulating type of transformer, which they were unable to replace immediately.  This was not a problem because the leak had been fixed.  On 12/11/98 BHE removed another two drums of soil to establish the required one foot buffer zone.  All of the removed soil was taken by Clean Harbors for disposal.
A-214-1997*Received a call from Bill Carver concerning an underground tank removal in Union. He was at Barker's Garage on Route's 17 & 131 and had found some contamination at above reportable levels. Arnie Fessenden of Fessenden Geo-Environmental Services was on site doing the Appendix P site assessment.

When I arrived, I found that one of the two tanks to be removed had been, and they were working on the other one. Total Waste Management was cleaning the tanks above ground on site. I noticed that they were using a vac trailer to degas the tanks. I informed them this was not an acceptable method of purging tanks. They knew it, but this was the the equipment that was assigned to do the job. I allowed them to continue as I wanted the tanks off site as there was no way to secure them until the correct equipment arrived from Total Waste. A phone call to their corporate office informed them that this was not an acceptable method of degassing an underground tank. I also informed them that next time I would stop the job and refer this case and the new case to UST enforcement.

The tanks being removed were between two operating tanks, an undergound tank and an aboveground tank. Any removal of contamination was going to be minimal due to structural limitations. Arnie Fessenden reported that there were some readings up to 1500 ppm bag headspace. The site was classified as an intermediate site according to the Department's decision tree. This is due to the proximity of drinking water wells in the area. No wells were currently sampled as the site across the street had extensive sampling done the previous year. Any spillage at this site was historical and probably largely due to overfills. Seven cubic yards of contaminated soil was transported to Dragon for treatment and disposal. No further work is necessary at this site.
B-135-2000*On 3/3/00 this office took a drum investigation that originated from Basil Burnette, who lives on Clark Road in Plymouth.  The property in question seems to be used as storage for heavy equipment and assorted junk.  The issue that we were looking at was a dozen drums that had been there for about five and a half years.  I located the property at the west end of Clark Road and all I found for drums was a couple of empty steel drums.  I contacted Basil and described the property that I had visited.  I also indicated that the only containers that I found were two empty steel drums.  He said that I had found the right place and further indicated that the drums that he had been concerned about were blue, plastic drums.  We mutually concluded that drums in question had been removed and were no longer a threat to the area.

A-728-1998*     DEP received a report that a minor oil spill had occurred at this facility as a result of repair operations (see Guilford incident report).  Oil was collected using sorbents, with no product reportedly reaching the Kennebec River.
I-141-1996*On 12/12/96, Fred Corey called and reported an odor problem at the Mic Mac Education Building. Since this was the site of a previous spill on 9/1/96, I immediately responded. Problem was not related to previuos spill.

The odor was from free oil laying on top of the poly vapor barrier installed for the pervious spill. Oil was leaking a little faster than a weep at the furnace and at the tank.
The piping had a kinked line at the furnace and about 4 joints were leaking at the furnace and at the tank, two valves were leaking.

At the Tank:
The fireamatic valve was leaking at the connecting joints, also on this tank was a shutoff valve similar to a water shut off valve. The valve stem leaked on this valve.

MPG was called to repair the line.

The Mic Macs did their own clean-up.
I-87-1999*On 4-30-99, Dennis from Dead River called to report that while changing an AST for a customer, the filter on the tank was found to be leaking. A small amount had dripped onto some boards and insulation which were in the shed that held the tank. All contaminated material was removed and taken to Tri Community Landfill.
A-372-1998* The CEO for the town of Canton called our enforcement unit and told them that Mr. Farrar was using bare steel underground tanks at his service station. Harold Evans then referred this case to me. The site is located on Route 108, look for the sign "Don't look Eythel". Several months after receiving this I made a site visit on 7-10-98.
 I stopped at the Town Office and they gave me a photocopy of the tax map and the correct mailing address for Mr. Farrar. His property is located on Map R2 Lot 12.
 I next stopped at the site and found that the vent pipes were still in place, the dispensers were also still on the pump island. It appears that the area where the tanks might be located did not have an asphalt covering. I did not find any fill pipes.
 My suggestion to Harold Evans is to bring a metal detector to the site and try to find any tanks. Also he will check the tank file and talk with the owner.
A-42-2000*No site visit made.  The hose ruptured and spilled oil to the street.  The Fire Department responded and cleaned.  No further action is anticipated.
P-239-2000*The 45' fishing vessel "Appledore J" grounded on the Junk of Pork rock sometime in the early morning hours of May 2, 2000.  The 3 member crew was airlifted from the vessel, with the vessel being left abandoned on the rock.  The captain of the vessel stated that the fuel tanks were empty, but there were 2 55 gallon drums with fuel (diesel) that they had been using.  Clean Casco Bay put together a crew to go out the the vessel which was about 4 1/2 miles offshore.  A representative of the Coast Guard and I also went along out to the grounded vessel.  We arrived at the scene at high tide, because of safety issues we could not get close enough to the vessel to try and salvage the drums or to even flay the vessel at that time.  The following day the boat owner's insurance company sent a salvage team out to the vessel and although they were not able to save the vessel they did recover the 2 drums of fuel.  Little or no spillage of oil occurred.  No further action.
A-24-2001* The nozzle at the dispeser did not shut off causing one to three gallons of gasoline to spill onto the pavement. This spill ocurred at the CN Brown Big Apple store on East Front St. in Skowhegan. The local Fire Dept. responded. No further action required.
A-38-1999*     DEP received a report that hydraulic oil had been spilled on two recent occasions from a ski-trail grooming vehicle ("cat") at this park.  According to Scott Ramsey (D.O.C.) this machine is new and was experiencing problem leaks; spilled material was dripped over several miles of snow-covered trails within the park.  No wells are believed to be "at risk" from this event and recovery is impractical.
B-546-1997*On September 29, 1997 at 1330 we received a call from Dennis Gingles of International Paper reporting a three to five gallon spill of hydraulic oil from a skidder in Oxbow Township.  G.M.D. Logging of Kingfield had the spill which occurred on a skid road.  Workers excavated about one half yard of contaminated soil and spread it on a log landing area.  No waters were threatened.
I-116-1999*While inspecting a complaint concerning a malfunctioning septic system, The Eagle lake Code Enforcement Officer (Gerry Raymond), identified a 500 gal gasoline tank within 100 feet of the lake. He requested the DEP check the system for leaks, because he thought the system was a potential problem.

When I investigated on 8/2/99, I didn't find any leakage, but this system is similar to many others around the lake.

This tank is not in complaince with the "Office of the State Fire Marshal Rules and Regulations for Flammable and Combustible Liquids".

The 500 gallon  tank has an emergency vent, a hand pump in the tank with enough hose to reach the lake.

The information was turned over to Steve Dodge of the Fire Marshals Office on 8/3/99
A-357-1998*Received a call from Mead plant security that there had been a small release of chlorine dioxide. The spill occurred in the bleach plant where some brown stock had spilled releasing a small amount of unreacted chlorine dioxide. The brown stock was washed to the process sewer, an approved method of dealing with this problem. No further work is needed and no site visit was made.
A-266-1996*     DEP received a report that oil from an unknown source had been spilled along Route 137 in Knox.  Based on conversation with D.O.T. and Sheriffs' Dept. staff it was concluded that the spill amounted to a thin stain along the pavement.  No recovery was feasible or necessary; no suspect vehicle was identified.
     No site visit was conducted by DEP personnel as a result of this incident.
I-66-2001*hydraulic fluid leaked from excavator parked on stone/dirt driveway.  Excavator belonged to Trombley Construction.  Removal and disposal of contaminated soils was done by Trombley Construction.
P-127-1999*    On Friday, 2/19/99, Ms. Wallace notified DEP that she had just discovered an AST leak outside next to her greenhouse.  I met her onsite that early afternoon.
    She and her husband keep a 500 gal. #2 oil AST for farm use.  About December 1998, Ms. Wallace guesses that her husband hit the fuel line with a snow plow.  What we observed several months later was patches of sheen, emulsified oil, and blobs of red oil encased in ice across her large field (see site sketch).  Drainage for the filed flowed SE toward and under Schellenbarger Rd.   I gave pads to Ms. Wallace so she could assist in clean-up though there was very little recoverable oil on the Wallace's property.  The field is not used for food crops.
    I followed the drainage to a brook, and then down the brook several hundred feet but found no collection of oil.  It appears that the majority of oil seeped into the ground and ran out with the frequent meltings since December.  I do not believe at this time that the up-gradient dug well is seriously threatened.



S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
B-518-1996* 9/19/96 @ 1440

I received a phone call from a Mr. Steve Polygot (745-6397), of New England Telephone Company.  Mr. Polygot reported that New England Telephone Company line truck #42815511 blew a hydraulic hose and spilled about 2 gallons of hydraulic oil on the pavement, road shoulder and ditch in front of 130 Allen Street in Bangor.  This section of Allen Street is located between 14 and 15th Streets.

When I arrived on scene a spill kit was already in place.  About .28 of a cubic yards (1,55 gallon drum) of contaminated soil and sorbents was generated as a result of this clean up.  The clean up was nearly complete except for the small amount of oil that had gone into the pavement.  The spill debris was disposed of at Sawyer Environemental in Hampden, by Clean Harbors of Maine.
P-594-2000*Asphalt truck caught fire at FR Carroll facility.  Several thousand gallons were released as truck and product burned.  Some product entered storm water run-off drain and washed to gravel area.  Remaining product and/or sand to be added to current pile of asphalt to be recycled.  No further action necessary in this matter.



_____________________
Jon L Woodard  OHMS 3
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
P-233-2001*On 3/30/01 I received a call from Dana Haley of Jesse E Lyman Inc reporting a 150 gallon spill of Kerosene at a client's residence in Fryeburg.  The spill occurred when the weight of ice and snow broke the fuel line from the above ground storage tank located outside.  The spill apeared to be seeping through the cinder block foundation into the basement.  I spoke to the homeowner and advised her to apply to the insurance fund.  I then made arrangements with Acadia Environmental to respond the spill on 4/2 to supervise a clean up.  See attached report from Acadia for more information.  No further action required.



_____________________________________________
SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
JUNE 18, 2001
P-563-1996*Vandals had tipped over a 55 gal drum containing #2 fuel oil spilling approximately 5 gallons of oil on the ground.  I met with Clyde Chapman of the Westbrook Fire Dept. on-site to discuss the situation.  We both concured that the oil that had spilled was not an issue, taking in consideration the location, but there were five abandoned 55 gallons drums and an old 275 AST on-site that still contained oil.  None of them were leaking, but there was the potential of them being tipped over.  They also posed a possible fire hazard.  Mr. Chapman stated that he would contact the owner of the property and suggest that the drums and tank be removed from the property (see attached letter).  No further action required.
B-387-1997*7/19/97 1438

Duncan Stewart of Lee called to report that F & J Salvage on Route 46 in Holden had a sloppy operation that involved oil spillage.  Asking Mr. Stewart to elaborate further he explained to me that he bought a used engine from them that was faulty and they wouldn't take it back.  A true environmental concern.  The next time the Department is in the immediate area it may be looked into.  It may be noted that any oil Mr. Stewart observed would probably be the typical minor "non significant" staining associated with these salvage yards.
A-145-1996*Routine tank removal with no spill noted.  See appendix P site assesment for additional details.  No further action anticipated.
A-29-1996*No site visit made.  See attached for additional details.  No further action anticipated.
A-90-1999*
No site visit made.  Mr. Jarvis noticed that his tank was leaking after refueling.  The fire department responded and cleaned the area with speedy dry.  The spill was contained on a paved surface.  No further action is anticipated.
P-367-2000*A tractor-trailer unit traveling south on the Maine Turnpike blew a tire.  Flying rubber from the tire snapped the fuel line.  The truck traveled approximatley 1/2 mile before coming to a stop.  When I arrived on site the truck and the turnpike crew were already gone.  The turnpike crew had covered all the spilled fuel with sand.  Nearly all spilled fuel landed on the road and shoulder with a small amount running into the grass where the truck stopped.
I found no free oil to recover and the spill onto the grass was not sufficient enough to warrent a clean up.  No further action necessary.
P-900-2001*On 11/2/01 I received a call from Ann Jenkins of Jenkins fuel reporting an overfill spill at a clients residence in Eliot.  Jenkins removed a small amount of contaminated soil from the spill area and took it to Aggregate Recycling for disposal.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
NOVEMBER 8, 2001



I-96-2001*While towing a potato harvester the tractor broke a hydraulic hose on Rt #163 in Mapleton.

Spill was covered with speedi dry.

Contaminated material was recovered by the farmer's crew.

Spill was not reported until the following day by a passerby. Mr. Buck stated he didn't know who to call, but he did have the spill contained and cleaned up.

Case closed
A-487-1999*Received a call from Adam Doran of Central Maine Power concerning a small oil spill in Winthrop. He reported that a hydraulic hose on a bucket truck failed spraying oil onto truck. Although originally reported as having reached the ground, the final report states that none of the oil reached the ground. The truck was cleaned with sorbents and a power cleaner. No site visit was made and no further action is necessary.
A-720-1999*Received a call from the Waterville Fire Department that the Cumberland Farms on College Avenue had suffered a gas leak from the pumps of an estimated 25 gallons.  I went to the site.  When I arrived, it was obvious that 25 gallons was too large an estimate.  I called the fire department from the site and they confirmed that 25 gallons was too large an estimate.  I asked the manager of the Cumberland Farms and she said that a hose ruptured spraying gasoline. The customer immediately turned the pump off and only one gallon had registered on the pump.  The cleanup was with sorbents and speedy dry.  No further work is needed on this site.
I-142-1999*On 9-20-99, an automobile driver reported a slippery substance in the road on Main St. in Presque Isle. I investigated and found a trail of hydraulic fluid extending from Chapman Street to Main and down Roberts Avenue. It extended to a tractor owned by Duncan Staples. Apparently a hose had broken and all the hydraulic fluid was lost. The local fire dept. was notified and placed speedy dry on the slick. The city also spread sand to absorb the oil.
P-492-2000*Kens Monitor Service of Yarmouth, installed an incorrect filter in an above ground kerosene tank in the basement of the Hersey Resident.  The filter did not allow for a tight seal and leaked a small amount of oil.  Mr. Hersey replaced the filter which stopped the leak and notified Ken's Monitor service.  Approximately two weeks later, there were a couple of drops of oil found floating on the water in the basement sump (the sump is directly below the oil tank filter).  Clean Harbors was called to clean up the oil.

On August 11, 2000 Clean Harbors and I were on site.  The spill was cleaned up with one sorbent pad.  No futher action required.
B-116-1997*On 3/10/97, 1230 hours Gerald Jarriott of Eastern Maine Electric Compnay reported that a transformer belonging to them had been shot in it's bottom and it lost of its oil.  The unit was new so the oil was non PCB.  All 26 gallons of oil were spilled in the snow beneath the unit.  Gerald went to the site, which was three miles off Route 1 on Grand Falls Road in Baileyville, on two occasions and recovered six drums of stained snow.  When the snow melted he sorbed about 25 gallons of oil with sorbent pads.  This generated about a third of a drum of soaked pads.  The pads were taken by TCI.  TCI is a waste disposal company that specializes in power utilities.  The New England Public Power Association has arranged to have TCI service a variety of power utilities in the area.
I-85-1996*Received a call at 1615 at P.I. office from P.I. Fire Dept. that oil was spilled on Davis/Main Street. Arrived at site at 1635 and met Ken Bradley of PIFD. Found a stain about 150 ft. long and about 2 feet wide down Davis St. and a bigger stain at Main St. intersection which was tracked onto Main. The PIFD had sorbed up the free waste oil and had covered the stain with speedy dri. They were having the road sweeper come to pick up the speedy dri.  No further action was necessary.

Anonymous source said oil was spilled by Gary Bonville.
P-252-1998*6 June 1998, responded to Bosal Foam and met with complainant, subject, and York Co. Sheriffs Dept.

Subject was removing material for Bosal Foam while conducting landscaping along the perimeter of the mill. I made contact with DEP solid waste program staff who advised that the material was regulated. However, there was segregation protocol being conducted by the subject and no liquids were being transported.

I advised both parties that this matter will be referred to solid waste program staff. Its my understanding that Barb Schwendtner, DEP, SMRO, conducted a site visit. No further information available.

No further Response action.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 31Dec98.

I-187-2000*Due to human error, 4.99 gals. of gasoline was spilled.  It was immediately cleaned up.  Reg. # is 13658.
B-772-1999*Early on the morning of 12/6, Kenny Fitz of Sawyer Environmental picked up a dumpster in the vicinity of Summer and Main Sts in Bangor, and loaded the contents into his compactor truck.  Shortly thereafter, Fitz noticed that his load seemed to be smouldering, so he drove the whole shootin' match to the Bangor Fire Dept's Central Station, and asked them to put it out.   More accustomed to going to fires than having the fire delivered TO them, the quick thinking Lieutenant nonetheless suggested that  Fitz  take the load back across the street, and dump it on the vacant railroad land adjacent to the river.  The FD doused the load with water, and recovered a 5 gallon can labelled ND-44, an industrial drain cleaner.  No information has come to light as to the origin of the chemical.
I-58-2000*On 6-5-00, Cheryl St. Peter of County Environmental called to report that while conducting a site assesment on a tank removal at A.E. Chapman and Sons in Fort Fairfield, some contaminated soil was encountered. The 2 1000 gallon tanks were removed and inspected. Most likely the piping was the source, as the tanks had no evidence of corrosion. About 57 cubic yards of soil was removed to meet the Baseline 2 cleanup goal.
B-253-2001*On 5/02/01, 1700 hours Mona Spear of BHE reported a one pint release of non-PCB oil onto pavement at the Church of God at 2 Orchard Street in E. Millinocket.  The unit had overheated and sprayed oil onto a 5 foot diameter area on the pavement.  BHE personnel deployed and recovered a bag of speedy dry, which was taken to SERF.

P-917-2001*MW Sewall experienced a valve failure while filling an AST at Kate's Wharf in Sebasco.  Less than 5 gallons of marine diesel  was spilled and was cleaned up immediately. No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter.
B-494-2000*B-494-2000
09/11/2000 11:10

     Mona Spear, Environmental Compliance Specialist for Bangor Hydro Electric, called to report a small dielectric oil spill at the Gaelic Square elderly housing facility off of Main Street in Jonesport.  It was stated that approximately 3 gallons of oil leaked from a corrosion hole on their ground based transformer.  Approximately one drum of oily debris was generated in the clean up.  It may be noted that the oil was considered "non-PCB".
P-274-2001*On 04/05/2001 Joseph Chisari called to report that he had found 3 - 5 gallon hydraulic oil buckets on his property.  He stated that two of the buckets had only oil residue in them and the third had around a gallon of black oil in it.  The buckets were found on the lot across the street from Dr. Chisari's home which he also owns.  Apparently the lot was illegally logged by Robert Sawyer who Dr. Chisari is currently involved in litigation with.  Dr. Chisari's drinking water well is quite a distance from the location where the buckets were found and is unlikely to be affected.  The area that was logged has been leveled and covered so there is no evidence of any oil being spilled.  Dr. Chisari has contacted Forestry about this issue.  No further Response action is required at this time.



______________________________
Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
April 5, 2001
B-336-2001*      On June 14, 2001 at 1000 we received a call from the Brewer Fire Dept. reporting a fire and gasoline spill at the dock of the old Gulf Oil terminal behind Dead River Oil on South Main St. in Brewer.  Irving Oil owns the property and the abandoned pipeline.
      I met Lt. Tinkham of the fire dept. and Dennis of Pinkham & Pinkham Welding who was dismantling the old pipeline.  Pinkham had drained about thirty gallons into a drip-pan on the dock when a spark ignited the fumes.  Lt. Tinkham believed that the spark was caused by the pipeline slipping off a jack and hitting the metal drip-pan although static electricity caused by the drained gasoline was also a possibility.
      Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire with foam and the only spillage occurred when the foam splashed some gas into the river.  I checked the river by boat and found only a couple one foot sections of silver sheen.  Pinkham pumped out the drip-pan before they did any cutting of the old pipeline.
P-516-1998*4 June 1998, conducted site visit and observed impacted area approximately 6.25 meters from the residential drinking water well.

The spill was the result of a broken line on the delivery truck.  As the delivery was being made at the back of the house, oil sprayed over a 5 meter x 8 meter area of the lawn from a broken line at the truck that was located at the front of the house.  The delivery person was out of view of the delivery truck and breached hose during the fuel transfer.

The Willy's made several complaints concerning Save on Fuels lack of attention in this matter. Also, the ME DEP did not give land spreading authorization and advised that the oil impacted soil go to a licensed facility.

No further response action anticipated. Due to the limited amount of soil involved; the indifferent attitude toward DEP and the damaged party, and; amount of time gone by, Response Services recommends no further action and no enforcement referral.

Nathan Thompson, 18Nov98
P-639-2000*   In Nov. 2000, DEP was contacted by Maine CG Gary Bucklin of S W Cole Eng. (SWC) regarding disposal of oil contam. soil found during new-construction at this shopping plaza.  Apparently the contamination is associated with the removal of gaso,. diesel & w.o. UST's in 1989 at the Plaza's J & B Discount, an old gas station site.  In 1989 the contractor and prop. owner did not report any discharges as required.  This soil was excavated for a new entrance and retention pond and was not a state required clean-up at the time.  According to the SWC assessment the contaminated soil was discovered by them in June of 2000 during test borings.  DEP had no opportunity to be onsite during the soil excavation.  Picerne Mgmt. were the property owners in 1989 and are at present.  As I had been onsite in 1989, Jon Woodard assigned the investigation to me.   The area is urban commercial and residential, on city water and sewer.  As it is not a non-attainment zone, the area works out to an Intermediate Clean-Up Goal (see attached DT).   SWC worked up an example DEP Decision Tree to BS-1.
   Mr. Bucklin put me in touch with the contractor,  Mr. Delibero @ 401-952-1157, to arrange soil disposal to ARC.   On 10/25 I visited the site and noted four or more piles of soil under poly stored at the E side of the shopping center.  The soil looked like it had been there several months.  I noted no indication the soil was saturated with free product or heavily contaminated with oil.  Under a DEP Virgin Letter, ARC notified DEP that they received 155.58 tons.
    I understand that no GW Ins. Fund coverage is eligible due to the 1989 age of the spill/removal, there were no UST's at the time of the discharge's 6/00 discovery, and the clean-up was not required by the state.  See any attachments and DEP UST reg. file #16322 for further details.

S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM
B-166-2000*Melissa Stein called from Irving Oil Corp. to report that they had discovered an old oil spill at their heating division office, 30 Industrial Park Road, Brewer. They had discovered that a 330-gallon AST had been damaged by a snowplow sometime this winter and leaked an unknown amount of 15W-30 motor oil. The tank was something that they had acquired sometime in the past with the purchase of various properties and it had been stored outside for some time. They did not know how much oil had been in it to begin with.
   In any case, they hired Vaughn Thibodeau and Sons to excavate the contaminated soil and also disposed of it through their licensed facility (batch plant). About 9 cubic yards of soil were removed. While I considered the cleanup satisfactory we had to leave a small amount of this virgin lube oil behind as some had found its way into the gravel backfill around a high voltage underground electrical conduit. This is an industrial area serviced by town water. I believe that no further action is necessary.
B-82-1997*D-TREE=N.
B-456-1999*     On July 29, 1999 at 0900 we received a call from the Machias Fire Dept. reporting a four to six gallon spill of transmission oil from a Cyr bus in the parking lot for the Machias Motor Inn.  No oil reached any catch basins and workers covered the oil with Speedi Dri.  A crew from Cyr Bus Line arrived later and recovered the sorbents.
B-549-2001*     On 10/02/01, 1325 hours BHE reported a one-gallon, non-PCB transformer oil spill near Fire Roads 5 & 6 on Route 1A in Holden. The pole that supported the transformer had been damaged by blasting in the area.  The spill landed on a gravel-surfaced road.  BHE recovered the oil along with .1 yd3 of gravel.
B-414-2001*     On 7/23/01, 0730 hours Scott Wild reported a 35 gallon release of thermal oil at GP's OSB Plant.  Hot thermal oil is circulated through the presses that are used in the OSB process.  One of the circulation pumps malfunctioned and needed to be replaced.  In order to do this the system has to be shut down and the oil drained from it.  A bypass valve involved in this process failed and a 35 gallon release ensued.  The oil was absorbed with sawdust and taken to their biomass boiler.
B-291-1996*On 6/3/96, 1225 hours a call was passed on to this office that had been initiated by Katie Foss.  Katie said that there had been an oil spill near her drive way and that she had first noticed it before Memorial Day.  She thought that her oil dealer could have had a spill last winter and that it was just showing up.  She said that the fire chief had looked at it and said that it was heating oil.  I was able to contact Katie on the morning of 6/4 and I decided that I should look at the situation.  I observed some fine silt in the driveway.  This had been washed in from the sand that had collected on the paved shoulder of the road.  She seemed to think that the slimy silt was oil.  It wasn't.  Also, the lawn was showing some stress in areas where she said the liquid (which would have to have been over 99.9% water) had been.  I sampled five spots for bag head space readings (including one control from an unaffected area).  The highest reading was 26.4 ppm and this happened to be the furthest from the source, which I assumed to be the road side.  I allowed that possibly there had been an oil spill that impacted the sand on that was on the side of the road and that the oil may have adhered to the fines and been transported to the Foss property by rain run-off.  (There is a filling station about a 100' up grade from the property). The site was not a typical oil spill.  Had there been a significant spill, the grass would have been impacted to a much higher degree.  Also, I believe that the head space reading would've been at least ten times higher-even for an old spill.  I asked Katie to give me a call in a coule of weeks if the grass still looked stressed.  I indicated that if it was oil stressed we would fix the problem.  I pointed out that she definitely had a surface water flow problem that she would have to deal with.  Otherwise, the problem will reoccur everytime they have a heavy rain storm.
B-380-1998*B-380-98
Solon

Thursday June 11, 1998				0938

I received a phone call from Mr. Chris Bishop (643-2766), an employee of the town of Solon.  Mr. Bishop phoned to report that an E.J. Carrier logging tractor-trailer had rolled over in Solon near the Blinking light on Route 201A.

When I arrived, in Solon, I saw the tractor trailer on the side of Route 201A.  I met Jeannot Carrier, the owner and Somerset County Sheriff's Deputy Sgt. Wilfred Hines.  Sgt. Hines would be involved in traffic control and Mr. Carrier was operating a backhoe to move and clean out the chips from the overturned trailer and ditch area.

After the wood chips were removed, Goodine's Truck Service (474-9471) wreckers
righted the tractor and trailer unit.  I directed clean up of a small amount of diesel fuel using a few pads and wood chips and excavating a small amount of soil on the side of Route 201A.  The spill debris was set to be taken to Pike Industries (formerly Tilcon), in Fairfield, by Carrier Inc. Logging.
A-333-1998*While enroute to a spill in the Farmington Falls area, Mary James called to ask me to look into a spill on Route 4 in the Fairbanks section of Farmington. It was reported that a MDOT wheeler broke a cross over line upon leaving the maintenance camp on Route 4 and spilled a trail of diesel fuel out Route 4 towards downtown Farmington. As I was traveling to the maintenance camp I saw a stain on the road for about two miles. There was sand on the majority of the stain. When I arrived at the maintenance camp, I spoke to the foreman. He said that they spread sand on the spill and swept up most of it. He reported that the dump truck broke a valve on the cross over line when it left the yard. No further work is needed on this site.
A-631-2000*See attached narrative text.
A-139-1999*The driver reported that this was a minor spill and nothing had reached the ground.  He used pads to clean the tank.  However, the home owner later noticed oil on the cat.  Further investigation found some contaminated snow, which was removed.   I visited the site the following week and feel that the cleanup was complete.   No further action is anticipated.
P-191-2000*Resident spilled 5 gal can of kerosene in a storage shed, it spread to the ground and pooled water.  It was raining and there was a pool of standing water by the shed.  All visual traces of kerosene were removed.  Upon visual inspection the next day no sheen was observed and no further action is required.  The homeowner is satisfied with the clean up conducted.
B-536-2001*     On September 28, 2001 at 1500 we received a call from Dead River Oil reporting a one pint spill of #2 oil from a leaking fitting in the basement tank of John Perry at 113 Great Moose Drive in Hartland.  A Dead River serviceman fixed the leak and recovered the oil with Speedi Dri.  Mr. Perry has a cement floor basement and no oil reached any drain.
B-346-2000*B-346-2000
06/28/2000 08:45


     An anonymous complainant called this office to state that personnel from Walmart in Ellsworth were dumping photo lab wastes down the drain.  It was stated that the department store's photo waste recycling machine had broke over the weekend allowing the silver contaminated waste to build up.  The complainant reportedly witnessed the workers dumping over 30 gallons down a janitorial room's floor drain.
     A later on site investigation with Hazardous Waste Enforcement staff indicated that the material was in fact improperly disposed of.  Certain Walmart personnel admitted to the situation.  A lab sample from the store's lift station shown traces of silver contamination at .21 parts per million. Enforcement action is pending.  It may be noted that none of the silver was recoverable.

P-693-2001*Please see attached CMP report.
A-119-2000* An anonymous caller reported an oil stain which was on the shoulder of the Knapp Rd. The caller claims that a tractor trailer truck parks there on weekends. The road is at such a slope that diesel drips out of the fill cap. I investigated and found a stain about the size of two pie plates. I scooped up the stained soil and returned to the office. No further action is required.
P-456-1998*On October 3, 1998 I received a call from the Lewiston Fire Dept. about an oil spill in the basement of a residence at 143 Montello St.  I responded.  When I arrived on site Lewiston Fire Dept. was on scene,  as well as representives of the Lewiston\Auburn Wastewater treatment Plant, an oil burner technician and the new owners of the home.  Apparently there had been an ongoing leak from the underground copper fuel line to the furnace.  The line had been changed and the leak stopped prior to the new homeowners buying the home.  A minimum of 70 gallons of oil had spilled under the floor and was now seeping up through cracks in the floor and filling up the basements sump.  The new owners were alerted to the problem by the odor coming from the basement.  I cleaned the oil out of the sump, and covered up the cracked areas with speedy dry to try and lessen the odors in the house.  Following that first evening, I contacted the previous owners and had them apply to the Insurance Fund.  I kept cleaning oil out of the sump, and made arrangements with Peter Eremita (DEP - Tech. Services) to do air sampling and the vent the sump to the outside of the home.  I then hired a consultant to investigate the severity of the oil spill under the floor.  Ultimatley the floor was removed, there was gallons of free oil found trapped in a cobble lined perimeter train.  This was all vactored out as well as all other impacted soil found under the floor, the floor was then replaced.  No further action is anticipated following one final air sampling round.
P-539-2001*
  In the evening of Mon. 7/9/01, I responded to a report of a discharge from a construction company vehicle in this rural, residential area of South Freeport.  I met onsite with Freeport Fire Dept. (FFD), a rep. of H. C. Crooker, and Mr. Bob Provencher (a homeowner adjacent to the spill site).  A Crooker tank-truck of water had parked at the side of Arnold Rd., and with the truck at a slight lean, fuel drained from the recently filled left saddle tank down to the right full saddle tank and overflowed out the cap.  The truck was a water-tank truck used for paving work on Arnold Rd.   Oil stains were noted on both sides of Arnold Rd.  We had the truck moved to a secure location, covered the spill locations with poly sheet, and made plans for Crooker to return the next day to excavate oily soil for offsite disposal.  The Provencher's drilled well was aprox. 100' away from the spill site.  [See the site sketch for further information.]
   At 0800 on Tues. 7/10/01, I met a Crooker crew under John Bishop and Safety Director Bill Frattini, and Mr. Provencher.  Approx. 6 yards of soil was excavated by Crooker from the N side of the road and two yds from the S side.  I monitored the soil with a MSA Passport PID (10.6 ev lamp) for a stringent clean-up goal and achieved less than 10 ppm ambient & 70 ppm bag-headspace values at the excavation bottoms.  Soils on the roadside were fine and medium sands.  No groundwater, bedrock or free product were encountered in the max. three foot depth.  Based on previous experience and observations it appears that approximately 10 gallons were lost, and the diesel contam. remained shallow and we removed the bulk of it before it reached groundwater.  Mr. Provencher stated that bedrock was shallow in this area.
   At this time I believe the site is clean to state satisfaction and no further DEP Response Div. action is expected at this time.  See any attachments for further details.  At their request, a copy of this report will be sent to Freeport Fire Dept., Mr. Provencher, and to H. C. Crooker Inc.  The Provencher's well has been put on the state QM program at the expense of H C Crooker Co., see the attached letter for details.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM, Div. of Response Services
B-299-2000*B-299-00
Corinth

Wednesday May 31, 2000                                                                  1825

The state police dispatcher phoned and asked me to make contact with the Penobscot Count Sheriff's Dispatcher (945-4636).  According to the sheriff's dispatcher there was a traffic accident in East Corinth where 100 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled and was on fire.

I was later to find out when I reached the accident scene that the automobile driven by a teenage girl had caught fire and was put out.  The truck had the capacity to spill nearly 100 Gallons if the tank was full.  About 15 gallons total of diesel was spilled or sprayed on the roadway on Route 15.  When a Tom Davis Farms (of Kenduskeag), manure truck collided with a small white automobile that was at least three fourths into the oncoming traffic lane.

The manure truck driver nearly went off the road in an effort to avoid collision.  The impact of the small car tore open the saddle tank, that was nearly empty, and sprayed diesel onto the roadway.  I suggested that the roadway be sanded in the interests of public safety.  There was about 2 gallons of diesel that made it to the shoulder of the road.  This material was shoveled up and spread very thinly in the area.  The vehicles were removed by a wrecker from T&W Garage (368-5804), of Newport.
A-594-1998* Mr. Balter called this office to inform us that he had a small quantity of mercury. He wanted to have this mercury included in the mercury pickup. I told him that he had missed the pickup. I informed Mr. Balter that the DEP could collect it, but he would have to pay for the disposal. He then went on about being a taxpayer....He then wanted to speak to my supervisor, and then he wanted to speak to Mary James's supervisor. I called Mr. Balter in December 1998 and told him that we could collect the mercury and use state funds to pay for the disposal. He offered to bring the mercury to our office. He never stopped by to drop off the mercury. No further action required.
P-922-1990*
SUMMARY
	1990-1993 DEP investigation into reports of unreported surface prohibited-discharges of motor oil from the bus engines to land.  Dense, urban, commercial and residential use area served by municipal water & sewer.  Referred to DEP oil enforcement unit for actions to discourage further leaks and promote prompt reporting.  See report narrative and attachments, and P-402-1996, for further details.
B-645-1996*D-TREE=I.
B-236-1997*The Mahlon Salley family had just moved back into their newly remodeled home, when a small oil leak was noted at the filter between the twin 275 gallon oil tanks, which are manifolded together. When Mike Salley tried to tighten the fitting to stop the leak, it broke, spewing oil onto the light he was using to illuminate the job, and igniting the oil.  The fire department was summoned, and did a good job of stopping the fire.
The Fire Chief reported the spill, and I hired Clean Harbors to do the clean up, after informing Mr. Salley of his cleanup options.

Clean Harbors' crew of 3 worked from mid-afternoon 'til at least dark sucking up the oil with a drum vacuum. Other contaminated debris was bagged.
B-603-1997*10/17/97 11:59

The Bucksport Fire Department dispatcher called to report an oil spill at the Quick & Clean Auto Service on Main Street.  It was stated that a tank had developed a leak spilling its contents.  No other details were given.

Investigation shown that the 275 gallon waste oil tank developed a crack in the seam about half way up the tank.  It was estimated that about 40 gallons were released onto the concrete floor.  No drains were evident.  Clean Harbors was already on site at my arrival cleaning up the oil with sorbents and speedi dri.  No resources were believed to be affected from this spill.
P-313-1999*    In the early afternoon of Tues. 5/4/99, the DEP was notified of a 300 gallon discharge of JP-8 fuel at this US Naval air station.  S. Brezinski of DEP, Response Div. arrived onsite shortly and met with John and, John Zegra, Don Rickle, et al. of BNAS.  It was explained to me that a French built German air force aircraft was fueling at the runway apron when it suffered a fuel overfill.  I understand that a sensor on the aircraft was bad and the fuel exited a fuel tank vent as it was being pumped in.  The Germans had only one person fueling and because of rain the spilling fuel was not easy to notice.
     As had happened with earlier and similar discharges (P-27-94, etc.), the fuel ran to a nearby storm drain and went to the bases' retention pond referred to as the Beaver Pond next to the Galley, Building 201 (see site map). I observed successive rows of containment and sorbent boom across the pond and BNAS personnel assessing the spill.  Clear oil was coming out the pipe.   A Clean Harbors crew was enroute when I arrived.  Heavy rain was flushing the oil still in the long storm drain to the pond.  A BNAS response crew was also at the runway spill.  A muskrat seen did not appear to be oiled.
      On 4/5/99 I returned in the morning and met with Ray Asselyn of BNAS.  I noted the discharge in the pond cleaned to Department satisfaction.  Asselyn initially wished to send their sorbent wastes to the Brunswick Landfill though this was not acceptable and it was taken by Clean Harbors.
     On 5/4 we discussed spill prevention and BNAS said they would review their fueling procedures.  An oil/water separator is not practical because of the large water flow thru the drain system.

S Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM
A-188-2000* On 3-31-00, a tractor trailer truck owned by E.J. Carrier crashed into the rear end of several cars. This occurred on Route 27 next to the Sandy River. The saddle tanks leaked fuel and was contained in ruts in the soft dirt. I called for support staff, Bart Newhouse, to bring 55 gallon drums and sorbent pads to the site. Bart and I pumped the diesel into the drums and waited for the truck to be lifted upright. No further action will be required.
B-255-1998*A week or so before 4/10/98 Denny Phillips, who works for the National Guard, requested a waiver from the 30 day waiting period for the fuel UST at the Newport Armory. I visited the site on 4/10/98.  There was a NG crew there and the tank was being cleaned.  However, Denny was not there and it soon became apparent that the tank was not coming out that day.  They had a lot of problems with a cement pipe run.  Although I never did see the tank come out, I did see the ground water at both ends of it.  There was not a suggestion of product on it.  The last day I visited the site I gave the waiver to Ralphy Barrows, who works for BPI.  They were still trying to sever the pipe run with a jack hammer.
B-376-1996*Sprague Energy called to report that they had discovered a leak in a pipeline that feeds the rail car loading rack from their tank farm.  They had charged the line to load cars when #6 oil began to bubble up from the ground.  There was an estimated 40 gallons of oil on the ground.  They had shut off the line and were in the process of digging to determine where the leak was and how bad it might be.  I went to the scene.

There I met Duane Seekins, Sprague Terminal Manager, who had a crew and backhoe on scene and were beginning to dig.  At about 2 feet down the pipe was located and a couple of small corrosion holes (roughly 1/8" or so) were located and repaired.  Luckily the oil flowed right to the top and didn't follow the pipe or sink down into the ground further.  About an estimated 50 cubic yards of soil were removed and stockpiled inside the tank farm dike for later removal.  Mr. Seekins expected to transport it to Sawyer's Environmental landfill at a later date.
B-327-2001*Ruby Clark called to report that she had found a pair of 5-gallon containers in the ditch along side of Savery Road in Searsport. She had first seen them this early spring and had called the town office to report them. As they were still there she called this department. She said that one seemed to hold used oil and the other was marked as paint thinner. After gaining directions I went to the site and found the two five gallon metal containers. One was marked as a corrosive parts cleaner and the other as paint thinner. The parts cleaner had an open top lid and was empty of liquid or significant amount solids. The thinner pail held about one gallon of water the other contained a little bit of waste oil. I inspected the ditch for signs of contamination and found none. I'm not surprised, as the spring rains would have washed the parts cleaner away. I am surprised to find only a little tainted water in the thinner can. I used one sorbent pad to collect the oil and left the container in the sun to evaporate the water. The empty containers were deposited in the common trash.
B-15-1997*On January 8, 1997 at 1730 I received a call via the 800 number from Mr. Henry Tyler of Maine Energy concerning an oil spill at the home of Ms. Janet Baizile of Fire Road 14C in Lucerne.  The location had a hundred foot long remote feedline that ran downslope to the home which is located on the shore of Phillips Lake.  Ms. Baizile had two 275 gallon tanks manfolded together in the basement.  Unfortunately, the tank gauge was broken and registered near empty so she ordered four hundred gallons of fuel.  The driver had delivered about one hundred when the tank whistle stopped.  He alertly shut off the delivery but the product in the long remote feedline drained into the tank.  This overfilled the tank and the excess fuel came out the vent.

I visited the site and met Mr. Tyler and Mr. Court of Maine Energy.  Their workers had recovered some product from the basement with sorbents.  The basement had some pools of water which prevented much of the product that flowed into the basement from penetrating the ground.  I advised them to excavate as much contaminated soil and leaves from around the vent pipe as possible and check the remaining sorbents in the basement after a melt or rain.

Ms. Baizile has a 280' drilled well about thirty feet sharply upslope of the spill site.  However, the fact that the spilled fuel flowed in the opposite direction into the basement makes me believe that the chances of well contamination are slight.  Also the amount spilled was small and most of that was recovered. Check after a thaw or rain.
P-926-1999*   While in the area I visited this site just after the time of the projected 2/9/99 day of removal.  I noted the UST's still in the ground.  A L Doggett later advised me over the phone that at the time there were no firm days to remove any of the 4 or 5 Portland Fire station facilities.  Later in the summer I visited and noted the UST's at this Stevens Ave. facility gone.
    DEP Reg. file #7992 showed that A L Dogget reportedly abandoned the facility on 4/5/99.  Three UST's (a extra 2000 gal. gaso. UST) was abandoned rather than the two listed on the removal notice.  The tanks are listed as installed in 1970, no installer is listed.  The abandonment exceeded the 10/1/98 deadline for abandonment of non-conforming municipal UST facilities, so I understand the GW Clean-Up Ins. Fund would not have applied.  No problems with the removal were reported.  The area is on city water and sewer.  See any attachments, CMR 691 UST Removal Assessment, and UST reg. file for further information.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
A-470-1998*A pulp ruck rolled when it was turning onto Alderwood Rd. from Route 202. The truck was setup for a hydraulic system. The tank was not sealed and the product ran out of the vented cap. About half of the tank drained out onto the ground. We placed pads on the exposed areas. When the truck was lifted, the rest of the area was covered with pads.
A-588-1999*Received a call from Peter Cooper of North Haven concerning a leak at a house he looks after.  He reported that the house owned by David Schlegel had suffered an oil spill. The line leading from the oil tank to the burner had developed a leak.  He shut the oil flow off at the tank and arranged for the line to be repaired.  Since the house was unoccupied and cold for the winter, I instructed Mr. Cooper to open as many basement windows as possible to keep oil vapors from migrating upstairs.

Two days later, Hope Sage, a resident on the island, called to report there was product in a drainage ditch.  I went to the island and saw that there was free product in the drainage stream. Mrs. Schlegel had called the town and had them put sorbent pads into the drainage stream. The stream eventually runs into a storm drain, which empties into the harbor. No sheen in the harbor had been reported.

Eventually the oil was traced to Mr. Schlegel's house.  A town storm culvert runs past his basement and the oil from the previously reported spill found its way into the storm culvert.  This was good news in one respect as there was a conduit for the oil to come out of the basement.  Between this trip and another trip the next day, at least two bails of sorbent pads were used.  A contractor was hired to put some plastic and sand over the dirt floor parts of the Schlegel basement to avoid oil odors in the house.  Mr. Cooper reports no comments from the Schlegel's concerning any oil odors.  No further work is necessary on this spill.
P-149-1997*Trash compaction truck owned by Enviropac backed into light pole (at Windham Post Office dumpster) and broke hydraulic line, spilling approximately 80 gallons of hydraulic oil.  Spill was discovered by Post Office personel following morning.  Environpac contacted by Post Office when spill had not been cleaned up on 3/18.  Environpac made arrangements to have spill cleaned up.  I contacted Enviropac and was assured that site would be cleaned up.  Non reporting was due to lack of knowledge by Enviropac personel (had reported it to Windham police only).
Clean-up was conducted by Sun Environmental.  John Dunlap met with Sun Environmental on site and the site was sufficiently remediated.



____________________
Jon L Woodard  OHMS 1
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
P-705-2000*This is a problem set up, tank and fill on the interior while vent is on the outside.  Therefore causing a delay in reaction time leading to minor spill of kerosene to the rear of the garage thru the vent whistle.  The soilis were excavated and removed DE replaced it with clean fill and would return in spring to verify satisfaction with homeowners.

This was a minor release and easily remediated.  No additional work is planned at this time.
P-832-1994*Discharge was the result of a traffic accident involving a dump truck and bus.  The fuel tank on the dump truck was damaged discharging approximately 30 gallons of diesel fuel onto the ground.  Sand was use to contain and remove the diesel fuel from the roadway.  The contaminated soil was spread on the access road to Try Berwick Sand & Gravel's Pit.
P-106-1996*1 GALLON GAS TO SEWER. LEAKED FROM SNOW PLOWER PARKED OVER FLOOR DRAIN.  SOUTH PORTLAND FIRE DEPT. AND SEWER DISTRICT NOTIFIED, NO ACTION TAKEN.
P-286-1996*Marsh sheen discovered.  no further action required.
B-592-1999*Mike Dexter, maintenance director for S.A.D.#4, called to report that a bus driver had spilled about 25 gallons of diesel onto pavement and gravel. The driver left the nozzle unattended to fill out paper work and the nozzle fell clear of the bus. The dispenser read 37 gallons and he felt about 10 made it into the bus. He had laid down pads and a cellulose absorbent. It was contained and under control. He had more sorbents if needed. He asked if the gravel should be dug up (the school is supplied with town water and he knows of no wells nearby). I felt that the very recent rains would have occupied most of the hard packed gravel's pore space and very little diesel would be absorbed. As such I told him that it would be all right to leave the gravel in place. If later circumstances should require the removal (odor complaints, etc.) he should contact me before removing and disposing of the gravel. He was wringing the diesel from the pads and would dispose of the recovered oil by placing it in his waste oil drum. The wrung out pads would then be placed in the town trash.
A-606-1998*No site visit made.  This spill occurred after a delivery when the driver failed to replace the cap on the vapor recovery piping.  Some liquid was in the pipe and this spilled when the truck moved.  Less than a gallon was lost.  The fire department responded and reported that there were no wells in the area.  No further action is anticipated.
B-3-2000*     On 1/3/2000, the National Response Center (Washington, DC) notified this office that Daniel Snowdeal's fishing vessel (Basin Beauty, ME6343T) had sunk at its mooring in Eastport (Cobscook Bay) on 12/12/99.  The cause of the sinking was unknown.  An estimate two gallons of bilge oil was released from the vessel when it went down, which resulted in a minor sheen in the area for a short duration.  Due to the late notification, there was nothing that could be recovered at this point.

REC:  File Report.
P-351-1998*On 6/15/98 I received a call from Bath Iron Works reporting a spill of waste paint and solvent.  The spill occurred when an employee was moving a 5 gallon pail of the material with an unsecured lid into a hazardous waste storage area.  Wind blew open a door and knocked over the pail spilling it's entire contents.  The spilled material was cleaned up with sorbent products.  No further action required.



___________________________________________
SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
JULY 31, 1998
B-380-1996*On July 18, 1996 at 1500 we received a call from Mona Spear of Bangor Hydro Electric reporting a two quart hydraulic oil spill from one of their line trucks.  The spill occurred at Pole 9 on Rt 1 in Milbridge.  Workers recovered the oil with sorbents. There are no wells or storm drains nearby.
A-159-1998* This tank could not be found at the time of A-528-97.  It was reported to be a 550 waste oil tank that had been out of service for some time.  The tank was found to be about 5000 gallons and was removed.  The tank did not appear to have leaked, but had taken on some water.  Contaminated soil was found, but it is believed that this is due to earlier spills at the other tanks.  Remediation will be addressed when the tanks remaining on site are removed.
A-668-2000* Mrs. Lois Merchant smelled oil near her outside AST. When she investigated the odor she found oil dripping from the bottom off the tank. She called Jim's Burner Service and they responded. Jim's Burner Service installed a new tank. I arrived early the next day and spoke with Mrs. Merchant. Jim's Burner Service had excavated some soil from under the tank area. I removed this soil and placed it into the general waste stream.
 No other action required.
A-151-2001*I responded to the Kramer residence and found the outdoor 275 gallon AST had leaked its contents to the ground.  The tank was located under the eave of the roof, and it appeared that snow and ice had cracked the nipple between the filter and tank.   Fortunately the Kramers had wood heat back up, and the vapors were not ojectionable inside.  I hired Kip's Home Services to move the tank and excavate contaminated soils.  We removed over 100 yards.  The Kramers have a water well approx. 100 feet from the spill.  I sampled the well, and found DRO near the detection limit. The site was referred to Tech services for longer monitoring.  We filled the hole with clean fill and returned in the spring to landscape.  The Kramers converted to Propane.
I-130-1998*A van carrying 15 people rolled over on the Musquacook turn on the Rocky Brook Road.

Two people were killed the rest were hospitalized.

About 3 gallons of gasoline leaked out of the fuel tank onto the road surface. Great Northern Paper Co. crews shovelled up three pails of gas contaminated soil.

Case closed.
B-393-1998*B-393-98
Orono (University of Maine)

Thursday June 6, 1998				1420

I received a phone call from Mr. Tom Spitz, Chemical Hygiene Officer, for the University of Maine.  Mr. Spitz called to report a hazardous chemical spill of 1 gallon of a material composed of 75% acetone, 20% isopropyl alcohol and 5% Methanol.

This material was spilled when the glass container was mishandled or dropped in the chemical cabinet.  The spill was cleaned up using the spill kit.  The kit was taken to the University's hazardous chemical storage area to await the next scheduled pick up.
A-733-1999*I received this spill from another responder.  I went out to take a look at the site.  There had been a traffic accident where a RPS delivery truck had been run into by car, causing the diesel tank to leak.  I found the site of the accident and there was evidence of fuel spillage.  Another responder, Mary James arranged for the excavation of the contaminated soil.  A nearby home had a well and it tested negative for petroleum.  No further work is necessary on this spill.
A-90-2001*   DEP received a report that disel oil was spilled at this construction site when a diesel welder fell off a lift.  Spilled oil was collected off the frozen ground using sorbents.
A-652-1998*     DEP received a report from an oil company (Wadleighs) that this facility had just been requested to respond to a gasoline spill at this facility.  According to Wadleighs staff the spill involved about ten gallons and was confined to pavement.  It was not known what caused the spill.  Spilled product was recovered and disposed of in the Wadleighs waste stream.
     I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
A-731-2001*Bowie Brothers Well Drilling was installing a new well at a new single family home construction site when the ground below the drill rig gave way tipping the drill truck over.  The drill tower came to rest against the telephone wires running along Stage Road.  20 gallons of Dextron was discharged from the main hydraulic supply tank to the ground.  The Pittston Fire Department and Bowie Brothers personnel used sorbent pads to collect the majority of the spilled oil, however some excavation was undertaken to remove the remainder.  Upon inspection by DEP after the clean up only small oil stains remained on the ground.  A new well is to be drilled in a different location.  This property reportedly has about 100' of overburden.
B-532-1996*Phillip Johnson had put up his Hancock Marine Service property as bond in his drug trafficing trial.  He lost the trial, and as is law the DEA was seizing the property.  Tina Moore called prior to the U.S. Marshal's seizing the property, and asked if we'd do an informal site assessment on the property, so the government would have an idea what it'd cost to clean-up the property prior to their auctioning it off.  According to her, the DEP had done this before at a property in Sanford.  I acceded.

Because of lack of qualified responders in this office,and not knowing what we'd be getting into, I solicited help from Carl Allen in Presque Isle, Mary Corr in Augusta and Mike Hange at the Ellsworth Fire Dept. (see the site safety plan, attached.)

On the 26th of September we met Deputy Marshal Bob Hoke at the site.  A quick look around revealed no reason for us to have an environmental concern.  According to a conversation I later had with the owner's wife, there never was any bottom blasting, fiberglassing, painting or fuelling done at the site.  It was strictly a hauling and storage operation, with the occasional small engine repaired.  Case closed.
P-257-1991*
Removal and replacement of retail, motor fuels UST facility.  Remediation through source reduction.  Abandonment was prior to Sept. 1991 requirement for CMR 691 UST closure assessments.  Lampron Enterprises, along with this and other UST facilities, sold in mid-1990 to become Lampron Energy.

See separate narrative and attachments for further detail.

S G Brezinski
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I-2-1997*Daigle Oil Company reported to have filled a 275 with 375 gallons of heating oil.  On transit to the spill, I was contacted that the meter reading was in error and that there was no spill.
P-860-1990*
UST abandonment & clean-up with historical contamination.  See also report P-88-83.
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A-439-1998*     DEP received a report that a large thermometer had broken at this facility, spilling metallic mercury to an office floor.  Jon Andrews (DEP) investigated.  Several milliliters of mercury was scattered over a section of tiled floor in an equipment room.  All visible material was collected using DEP collection kits.
     I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
A-192-1999*     DEP received a report that several gallons of kerosene was spilled at this property about four weeks previously.  A large home is under construction here; the construction contractor (McReady) had been using the partially-installed ASTs (in the cellar) to feed space heaters.  When a worker failed to close a valve on the tank oil spilled to the concrete cellar floor; some was collected in sand, some was lost to a weep hole drilled in the floor.  Oil apparently migrated to a sump located 20' from the weep hole where a sump-pump was in operation; some oil odors were evident in soil at the sump outfall, but this appeared to be negligible.
     Depth to bedrock under the house is reported shallow.  The property slopes steeply to the Damariscotta River below; a drilled well is located 150' upgradient of the spill and is probably not at risk by this minor incident.  The sump has been utilized as a recovery well with marginal success.
     I do not intend to pursue further remediation as a result of this incident given the minor nature of the event and the improbability of recovery of significant amounts of product.
A-472-1999*DEP received an after-hours report that 25 gallons of #6 oil was spilled when a valve failed on a tank truck.  The vehicle owner (Bouchard) removed contaminated soil to a parking area in Hampden under the approval of Tom Malleck (Bangor DEP).
A-32-2001*I recevied a referral of a spill on Vinalhaven Island from the Portland Regional Office.  I contacted Clarence at Vinalhaven FD and learned that they had responded to a spill at the home of Nancy Dickey.  An outdoor AST had a cracked nipple caused by a dog on a run which had fouled on the tank filter.  The dog had yanked his chain so hard it cracked the nipple on the tank, resulting in the leak.  Ms. Dickey discovered the leak, and had her neighbor call the FD.  The FD pumped the remaining oil out of the tank, and placed sorbents down.  I responded to the site the following day 1/19/01 and shoveled up pink snow, ice, dirt into an 85 gallon overpack.  Residence is served by town water.  Ms. Dickey lives alone, and has no phone.  The home was very run down, and the tank in poor condition on non-comforming wooden cribbing.  Refer the case to the CAP agency to arrange for a replacment tank on a proper footing.
A-122-1997*FMC had a spill of 60 gallon 35 % hydrogen peroxide from a tote.  They sorbed it up on cellulose.  The material was put into 10 drums.  Since hydrogen peroxide is a strong oxidizing agent it began to react with the organic cellulose in the drums and the drums began to heat up.  FMC called the Hazardous Waste Enforcement group to get permission to treat the material in thier waste water treatment facility.  I was called to discuss the properties of the material.  There is a serious reactive hazard present.  I directed them to dispose of the material in the treatment plant.  The Rockland FD was called to supervise the operation and to provide fire protection.  The materials were successfully fed into the treatment system.
P-992-2001*Spill of hydraulic oil from bucket loader.  Included with monthly report of small discharges at PNSY.
B-396-2000*B-396-2000
07/26/2000  08:00

     Dead River Oil of Brewer called to report a small #2 fuel oil spill at the residence of Joe Benoit at 868 State street in Bangor.  It was stated that approximately 20 gallons leaked from the basement tank from a corrosion hole.  All of the oil which was contained on the floor was cleaned up with sorbent material.  No drains were involved.
P-170-1998*On 4/23/98 I attended a tank removal for which I had given a waiver for.  The tank was removed without event and no contamination was observed.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
APRIL 24, 1998
B-81-2000*
     This office received a call at 1025 on 2/17/00 from Annaleis Hafford (Fort James Corporation; Old Town) reporting a hazardous chemical spill.  She stated that approximately 663 gallons (3017 lbs.) of ferric sulfate (pH <1.0) leaked from a half inch crack on a suction hose between the storage tank and the feed system at their Wastewater Treatment Facility.  The leak started sometime this morning and was discovered at 0950 through inventory loss.  The leak has been stopped.  All of the material was contained on the ground, on snow and ice.  It is easy to see, because it is orange.  Philips Services Corporation (Bangor; #945-9800) was en route to pump up the material and will be assisted by mill personnel.  Product recovered will be processed through their treatment plant.  The chemical is used as part of the regular treatment process, so the spilled material will not hurt their system.  There were no drains or State waters involved in the incident.

REC:  File report.
A-434-1996*Don Robbins of Hull & Associates called to report contamination was found at the Cumberland Farms in Gardiner during a piping upgrade. I visited the site on October 2 to confer with Don about cleanup. The site is considered to be a baseline 2 site on the Department's decision tree. The action level was set at 1000 ppm bag headspace. Don reported that he excavated all soil to below the action level. See the Appendix P site assessment for further information.

During the blowdown of the product pipes, a small spill of gasoline was made to the asphalt pavement. Rick Hazel, certified tank installer, cleaned it up. The cause of the spill was the out of state crew working on this and other Cumberland Farm projects did not follow Maine specified work practices as instructed to by Rick Hazel.  No further work is necessary at this site.
P-129-2000*On 2/29/2000 I received a call from Charles Mull of the Brunswick Chamber of Commerce.  Mr. Mull reported oil contamination found during an environmental site assessment being conducted at the Chamber's property in Brunswick.  The assessment was being conducted in anticipation of a property transfer.  I requested that I be sent a copy of the assessment report when it was avialable, and that I would render an opinion on the site after I've read the report.

On 4/4 I received the report.  I was not able to read it until several weeks later.  At that time, I discovered several pages were missing.  I contacted the Chamber and requested the missing pages which I in turn received on 5/5.

On 6/16 I read both the Phase I and Phase II report prepared by EnviroInvestigations and Remediation.  Based upon the information in the report, I determined the site to meet the Baseline-1 cleanup standard.  Since there was no evidence that free phase product had been discovered, I did not require any further investigation or remediation.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
JUNE 16, 2000
B-567-2001*On 10/09/01,2145 hours Dory Para passed on a complaint that she had received from Bob Peters, who lives in Rochester, MA, 508-763-4638.  Bob had seen a gray, gel-like substance near a drain outfall in the Piscataquis River. It was not far from the water treatment plant.  He said that it covered a circular area that was 50 feet in diameter.  It turned out that the substance was floculated material that is generated by the town's water treatment facility.  It is not supposed to get into the river.  Bob Whittier and Tanya Hovell went to the scene because he had looked at an identical complaint with Jim Sohns a couple of years ago.  Jim issued a notice of violation at that time.
A-680-1999*A minor overfill occurred. It was discovered during an inspection by Tanks Enforcement and was reported to Response. I inspected and found a small stain on pavement. No further action is required.
B-262-2000*     On May 15, 2000 at 0845 we received a call from Dave Russell of 145 Forest Ave. in Bangor reporting oil along his back property line facing property that fronts on Palm St.  The Palm Street land is owned by John and Margaret McGill.  The McGills currenty rent the property but Mrs. McGill's father was a former owner and resident of the property.
     I met Mr. Russell at the site and he showed me four shallow holes that he dug and I noticed a petroleum smell in the soil in three of the holes.  A stockade fence runs along the property line but we saw an old outside 275 gallon tank adjacent to a garage on the Palm Street property.  The tank and back of the garage were also right along the property line.  The tank used to supply Ms. McGill's father's garage workshop.
     I checked the Palm Street property and found that the tank was empty but had a copper feedline that ran from the tank into the garage.  There was a thick patch of ten to thirty foot maples around the tank.  I didn't find any oil smell on the property except beneath the feedline to the garage.  This was only about three feet in length.
     Mr. Russell said there was standing water along his side of the property line earlier in the spring as April and May were rainy.  I believe there was an old leak in the feedline and some of this oil surfaced with the heavy rain.  Mr. Russell and I later met with Margaret McGill and contractor Wes Donnellan (844-7411) and we discussed the tank's removal and excavation of contaminated soil.  Mr. Donnellan removed the fence and tank and found a hole in the copper feedline.  We excavated the area on Wednesday, June 7 and removed about three yards of contaminated soil.  Six PID readings at the excavation bottom were between 207 and 350 which are below the standard for a Baseline 2 clean-up.  Rain delayed loaming until the next week and Ms. McGill provided the replacement plants for Mr. Russell.
P-470-2000*
REPORT SUMMARY
   In July of 2000, I gave waivers to PNSY of 30-day notice period for UST facility abandonments by removal, at the request of Mr. Fennow of Coastal Env. Corp. who was performing the UST removal assessments and working with the excavator and clean-up crews.  Bill Lott was the primary contact with PNSY & US Navy.  Tanks abandoned include: #27-1, a 25,000 gal. concrete gaso. UST by Bldg. 40 and filled-in-place; 200 gal. K1 oil tanks #23-1 and #24-1; 3000 gal. 2 oil tanks #25-1 & #26-1 filled in place and within Bldg. 76; a 500 gallon 2 oil tank #31-1 outside Bldg. 161 (@ South Gate); tank #32-1, a 500 gal. gasoline tank by Bldg. 26; and a 1000 gal. gasoline tank by Bldg. M-4.  All tanks had been long out-of-service and reportedly recently discovered during an historical search.  The abandonment of the gaso. tanks were overseen by Maine CTI Fred Anderson.
   I was onsite various days of the week of 8/7/00 checking on the removals and issuing approval for abandoning tanks 25-1, 26-1 and 27-1 in-place.  Tank 27-1 was a large round concrete gaso. tank at least 68 years old but in good condition.  Its size and construction prevented an easy removal.  Tank #31-1 was reported to have a corrosion hole and 3 drums of oil soil were excavated for offsite disposal.  The tank(s) suspected to be at Berth 3 in the CIA area were reported by Fennow to be no longer there.

CONCLUSION
   The shipyard has long been industrial with many past oil discharges.  The Maine Decision Tree for oil discharge clean-ups works out to a baseline-1 [BS-1] Clean-Up Goal (for oil spills).  See the attached DT for details.
   In Jan. 2001, I received and reviewed the assessment.  Overall the report was good but coordination with the UST's noted in the report and those listed on the removal notices is confusing. Tank #72-19 appears to be a regulated UST and may need registration and abandonment.  If Tank #154-03 and others were abandoned-in-place they need to be registered as such.  Many tanks in Maine that underwent building expansion were often just covered over and NOT removed as listed in the report (i.e. Tanks 92-01, 92-05, 92-08, etc.) and may be found later.

S G Brezinski,
Division of Response Services
Maine DEP, BRWM

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P-205-2001*27 February 2001, meet with Carr and inspected supply tank at entered location at his request.  The supply was buried half way in the ground under the house in a craw space.  I determined that the tank be classified as an underground tank.  Carr received removal notice and tank registration documents from myself and was to proceed with the removal and installation of a new AST system under his community tank replacement program.

Referred to Oil Enforcement for notice to pending registration
Nathan Thompson, 22 March 2001.
A-558-2001* On 8-14-2001, Phillip Anderson, owner of the Drawing Room Gallery, called this office to report a gasoline spill which had occurred on his paved driveway in the town of Saint George. The spill occurred two days earlier when a customer parked on his paved driveway. This driveway has a steep slope and gasoline leaked from the vehicles fuel tank. I am not sure if the tank had a hole in it or just what the problem was.
 In any event, the asphalt on the driveway had softened quite a bit and I shoveled most of this into a pile and Mr. Anderson told me he would bring it to the local transfer facility. The well for the property is nearby, however the risk to it is remote, given that fact that most of the gas stayed in or on the pavement. I also gave Mr. Anderson Kip Cline's name and number to called to patch the driveway.
No further information is available.
A-685-2001* On 10-23-2001, the Jay Middle School reported a release of what they thought was a hazardous material. The material that was released is a combination of two chemicals that are used in boiler systems and associated hot water heating pipes. The concentrations of these chemicals render them non hazardous. The chemicals are sodium hydroxide and sodium nitrate.
 This boiler water leaked from an overhead pipe into a classroom. It appears that this pipe run has thinner walls than standard schedule 40 pipe. The carpets were cleaned using standard janitorial procedures.
A-112-2001*Received a call from Randy Murray of Murray Oil concerning a spill at a customers house. I went to the house of Mrs. Dunn in Turner.  Her tank had suffered a failure from snow sliding off the roof. Mrs. Dunn was complaining of oil odors in her house. There definitely were odors present in the house. I suggested that she leave the house while the cleanup was ongoing. Family members agreed (actually insisted on) that she move in with them for the duration of the cleanup.  The house was post and beam construction with a small crawl space under the house. Unfortunately that is where all the oil went.  Oil was found from the tank to the other side of the house in the crawl space. Environmental Projects (EPI) was hired to clean up the oil in the crawl space.

Initial work consisted of padding up what oil could be picked up and removing oil contaminated snow. The bulk of the work mainly consisted of removing the contaminated soil  from under the crawl space by hand. The crawl space was considered a confined space as there actually was only crawling room in there and only one access point. EPI eventually manufactured another access point through the cement block frost wall.  Mrs. Dunn's well was mildly impacted and she was put on quarterly monitoring by geologist Cheryl Fontaine. No further work by Response is indicated. The case was referred to Technical Services for further monitoring and work.

P-799-1999*During expansion of the pump islands at this facility, it was found that the tank's spill buckets had holes in them.  Apparently the lids didn't seal well so water was getting into the spill buckets and freezing.  In order to allow deliveries, the delivery driver would chip the ice out of the spill bucket with a metal bar.  This process put multiple holes in the buckets.  There was also an issue with the overfill protection on the tanks.  Apparently they did not work well and often the tanks were overfilled putting oil into the perforated spill buckets.  The spill buckets were replaced and no soil was removed.  John Engel was hired to assess the situation by Lamprons.  Brad Hahn came out to the site to assess the danger to the well.  He determined that the only well at risk was the well for the facility.  He recommended that the facility regularly check the water quality.

No further Response action is needed at this time.
A-467-2001*I was called out to the home of Laurie Fitzpatrick in New Harbor. It was reported that her above ground tank had developed a leak in the bottom of the tank. The spill was to her basement. Colby and Gale, who reported the spill had already done some cleanup when I arrived. The basement had a concrete floor which was in good condition and contained all the oil. I changed out the pads and installed a fan to ventilate the basement. Oil vapors in the basement were an issue and were becoming and issue on the main floor. The fan was installed on the floor of the basement and discharged out a basement window. Once this was done, the vapor problem on the main floor was resolved.  Additional visits were made to continue cleaning the floor, dispose of debris and check on the vapor issue. After removal and disposal of the debris and washing the concrete floor, ventilation was no longer necessary.
A sample of their well was taken about a month after the spill and no oil was found in the water.

No further work is necessary on this spill.
P-830-1990*
REPORT UPDATE OF 2/26/04, by SGB

Incident of a 3000-gallon overfill of #6 oil day-tank out vent pipe due to human error.  Product flowed to sidewalk, to street and into storm drain to Mousam River.  Reported to DEP by Sanford Fire Dept.  Dense residential, commercial and industrial area near downtown Sanford, on city water & sewer.

This AST discharge later traced to five unregistered 20,000 gal. #6 oil UST's, which fed to the 500-gal. AST day tank.  See separate narrative, DEP UST Reg. #16682,  and P-375-90 and P-292-93 for further details.

See attached letters, notes and other documents for further information.  Case taken to consent agreement for recovery of $77,000 in DEP discharge expenses.

P-534-2000*The basement at 217 Read Street flooded because of a water main leak.  The basement had one area where low level radioactive iodine was stored.  DHS came down and tested the area, and determined no release occurred.  The basement also had an electrical room where there was some abandoned electrical equipment.  There were two old electrical switches that contained PCB oil (98-390ppm Arochlor 1260).  These switches leaked when the room flooded.  The room itself was decontaminated, but the concern was with the area just outside the room and whether or not it had become contaminated as the water level dropped.  I stopped a Servicemaster cleaning crew from working in that area and had the owner hire Clean Harbors to clean it and confirm the cleaning with swipe samples.  The cleaning was determined to be complete to Maine's standards, but EPA had other expectations.  See attached correspondence for more details.  Hazardous Waste Enforcement was also involved in this case.

No further Response action is needed at this time.
P-434-1991*
REPORT UPDATE OF OCT. 2004

	Discharge to Kennebec River from gasoline AST and dispenser on the dock, attributed to vandalism.  Response by Maine DEP, Bath Fire Dept., USCG MSO, and Clean Harbors.  Most of discharge evaporated and lost to strong tidal currents.  See separate narrative for further details.
P-65-1989*
	Commercial heating oil UST abandonment-by-removal @ Tom & Jerry's Carwash, which was a separate building on the Gibbs/Mobil gas station property.  Corrosion holes noted in the bare steel 2000-gal tank.

	Retail motor fuels UST facility in dense, urban commercial and residential area.  This building was later razed and the entire facility was later replaced by Mobil, with a new C-store and car wash building.  Residual oil contamination understood to remain onsite and shall be properly managed if disturbed or made accessible or if new conditions warrant further remediation.  See separate narrative for further information.  See also P-634-92, for further site info.
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P-479-1989*
SUMMARY & REPORT UPDATE of 3/21/05, by SGB
	Facility inspection of commercial, consumptive-use motor fuels UST facility while investigating gasoline UST discharge at the adjacent Scott's Garage (see P-60-89).  Other than small surface staining on the asphalt pavement, no significant problems.  The facility owner, Frank Scott is brother to the owner of Scott's Garage, Jack Scott.  The area is sensitive, being on private wells and septic.
	DEP UST Reg. 7938 indicates the bare-steel gasoline and off-road diesel fuel facility was abandoned-by-removal in 1996.  I noted no spill report record of problems/discharges reported to DEP during the 1996 abandonment.  See the required CMR 691 UST closure assessment for further information on the abandonment.

S G B
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P-595-1992*
SUMMARY
	Routine tank removal site visit.  No evidence of remaining UST's found, reported to be removed in 1991.  The four aviation-gasoline UST abandonment appears to have taken place prior to the CMR 691 requirement for a UST Closure assessment.  No contamination [evidence of a discharge] was reported at the time.  No known DEP observation or check on the tank closure.
	Of concern is a replacement 3000-gal. capacity aviation gasoline AST near the waters edge.  In April 2006 the facility was observed to have not changed noticeably (see photos).  A federal and state SPCC plan may be required.
P-162-1994*On March 18, 1994, at 19:30 hours, the Ogunquit Fire Department contacted the Department regarding oil (sheen) on the Josias River in the Perkin's Cove area and were not sure of its origin.  They stated that they had placed sorbent boom in the river and were in the process of locating the source.  I told them I would assist them, in locating the source, the following day in daylight.  Later on that night, the Ogunquit Fire Department contacted me again stating that they had found the source at Osvaldo R. Coolidge's residence 131 Shore Road, Ogunquit, ME, just past the Josias River on the left if heading towards York.  The fire department stated that they had the spill under control, but needed assists the following day.  They Also stated that the owner of the property was in Italy for the winter and they would have to make arrangements with the caretaker to open the house on the following day.

On March 19, 1994, I met with the Ogunquit Fire Department at the Coolidge's residence and observed two - horizontal, 275 gallon  home heating oil tanks connected together with one of them having holes in the bottom.  The tanks were located in a dirt section of the basement that had several inches of water in it and some type of sump.  The fire department had contained most of the oil in the basement with a dirt berm, and closed the valve between the two tanks, so that, the leaking tank did not siphon the other tank empty.  Both tanks were in poor shape.  They also placed down some sorbent pads in the basement to collect the oil, and some sorbent boom it the river to collect oil that was seeping from a banking.  Somehow the oil was making its way from the basement to the river.

Lord and Brooks Plumbing and Heating was contacted to empty the remaining oil from the two tanks.  In addition, I hired Seacoast Ocean Service to pump oil and contaminated water from the basement and to assist me with the remainder of the clean-up.  Oil soaked sorbent boom was removed from the river and replaced with larger sorbent boom which was left in place to collect any oil that seeped from the banking.  After all the water and oil were pumped from the basement, sorbents were rolled over the entire dirt section of the basement to collect any oil that was left in the soil and resurfaced when the water returned.

The Code Enforcement Officer (CEO) for the Town of Ogunquit also stopped by the site, because there was concern about a well that was located in the basement (well was located on opposite side of the house where the floor was concrete) and no one was sure if it supplied the house or Mr. Coolidge's restaurant (The Cove Garden).  There were also questions about the septic system.  The CEO was unsure about the well and the septic system, but would be speaking to Mr. Coolidge or his caretaker Norman West.

Before I left the site that day, I spoke with Mr. West and told him if there were any further problems to call me.

I returned to the site several times to see if there was any more oil seeping from the banking, and to check on the sorbents in the basement.  There was still a slight sheen seeping from the banking, but not any free product, and on a couple of occasions I removed oil soaked sorbents from the basement.

On May 9, 1994, I returned to the site and observed no oil seeping from the side of the banking and decided to remove the sorbent boom in the river.  I also had the opportunity to speak with Mr. Coolidge and asked him about the well.  He stated that the well was for his own house and that he was having it testing for oil.  I told him that it was his option to remove or to leave the sorbents left in the basement and that I could make arrangements for him if he wanted them removed.

P-550-1997*
	Routine retail, motor fuels UST removal and clean-up.  No further DEP Response Div. action expected at this time.  Residual gasoline contamination shall be properly managed.  See the attached narrative, supporting documents and the CMR 691 UST closure assessment for further details.
	Facility ownership & operation of Christy's changed to Southland Corp. / 7-Eleven in late 1990's.
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P-251-1994*
	Facility inspection during excavation for new vapor recovery equipment for gasoline facility.  See attached records and text.
A-114-1996*  An anonymous caller reported that the tank compartments on a home delivery truck were being washed out and then dumped into a ditch.  A snowstorm occurred the following day therefore, no site visit until a later date.  Site visit on 5-2-96 did not find any evidence of an oil discharge.  I spoke directly with an employee and also the owner, via telephone, and both men confirmed that they do not dump or wash out oil from the truck.  I found a floor drain in the shop.  I also found the end of the drain pipe in the adjacent field.  There was no evidence of an oil discharge.  However, I did find what appears to be an unregistered tank on the property.  The property owner is Dick Barnes.  Matt is the owner of Best Price Fuel and is just leasing this location.  I will forward this information to our Enforcement Unit.
B-676-1999*On 10/26/99, 0930 hours the S.P. passed on a citizen complaint from Mark Nisbett, who lives next to Queen City Mobile Park.  Mark was concerned about the legality of a UST removal that was taking place at lot 53 in Queen City.  He said that there was liquid in the tank that was being dumped into the hole and that the hole was being back filled.   He also indicated that there was an odor of fuel oil.  I contacted Mike Longo, who is the maintenance foreman for Grant Trailer Sales.  Mike said that they had just removed a tank at that lot because it had just been vacated.  He also said that he had one more UST to go at Queen City and that would be it.  Mike and I had agreed to after the fact notifications because of the nature of the UST removals at the mobile home park.  Namely, the UST were all located under the unites, which means that the best time to remove the USTs is when the lot has been vacated.  Mike said that some liquid had escaped from the tank, but that it had been pumped out years ago and that the liquid was water.  He also said that the tank had been difficult to control because the pipes had been removed from it.


The water on top of the removal excavation was free of product as indicated by a PID test.  However, the previous tenants may have spilled some oil when they emptied and detached the AST that had been attached to their mobile home.  I was not able to locate the site of this possible source of odor.  As of 10/28/99 there was not a trace of odor at the site.  This suggests that maybe the odor had been left by the diesel powered equipment that had recently left the area.

Regarding removal notification the plan is to amend the initial removal report when the last one has been removed.
P-367-1987*
	Estimated 100-gallon gasoline release @ Mobil gas station on Rt. 1.  Retail motor fuels UST facility.  [No exact site address recorded by St. Germain.]
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A-23-2001*On 12/28/2000 Downeast Energy serviced the Thornton furnace. The Thornon's then left for vacation. On 12/29/2000 Downeast filled the 275 gal. AST with #2 heating oil. The Thornton's returned from vacation on 1/14/2001 to find their basement full of oil and water from frozen pipes. The technician neglected to inform the Thornton's that their un-sleeved oil line under the slab needed to be replaced and their very antiquated filter housing was of a variety prone to leakage. Glen Wall responded and assisted with the initial cleanup. After plumbing repairs were made the oil filter was removed, the oil line was replaced, oil was delivered, and the furnace was restarted. The old underground oil line was blown out and pressurized to 40 psig which it held for 10 minutes and was therefore ruled out as a leak point. It appears that the filter housing was poorly reassembled during service and allowed the entire tank of oil to escape while the home was unoccupied. The carpeting, interior walls, and personal belongings that were oil contaminated were removed and the floor cleaned. The area is served by public water. No further response action is anticipated.
A-363-2001*   DEP received a complaint from a homeowner that her former husband had abandoned two drums of waste liquids from his auto repair business behind the garage at her residence (the husband now resides elsewhere; the former wife owns the subject property).  Over several seasons rainwater had displaced some of this material, staining surrounding soils.  After consultation with Department management it was determined that the former husband would be held liable for remediation.  When contacted, he denied any knowledge or responsibility for this material.  The drummed liquid was determined (by analysis) to be waste oil; these drums and saturated soil was removed/disposed of by a contractor.
   The area is rural/residential and utilizes private wells for water.  Samples taken at the subject well showed no DRO contamination as of 8/2001.  I do not anticipate further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
P-393-2001*No narrative, see attached.
P-391-2001*   On Mon. 5/14/01, I responded to a report of a collision involving several autos and a dump truck from Foglio's Const. Co.  A passing car hit the dump truck head on causing the truck to go off the road.  The truck's saddle tank flew off ahead of the truck as noted in Photo 1, and emptied into the ground.  The well most threatened belonged to Mr. Jack Holt's house, SE of the accident.  Onsite I met with Mr. Foglio, Aflred fire Dept., police, and Mr. & Ms. Holt.  Foglio agreed to return the next morning to remediate the discharge.  The area is rural residential and commercial.  The accident/spill site is on Rt. 111, just west of the intersections with Clark and Blueberry Rds.  Though Foglio did not cause the accident, as the spilled oil was theirs, Foglio was considered the responsible party for the oil-spill clean-up.
   On Tues. 5/15/01, I oversaw Fogio's excavation of about 18.86 tons of contaminated fine sand.  I noted no groundwater to the 4' depth excavated to.  Using a DEP Passport PID, a 100 ppm Clean-Up Action Level was followed.  See the site sketches and field notes for further details.  Foglio filled, regraded, and landscaped the site afterwards.
   At this time I believe there is little threat remaining to nearby water wells considering the promptness the discharge was remediated.  No further DEP actions are reuired at this time.  See attachements for further information.  No state expenses incurred at this time.

S G Brezinski, Division Of Response Services
DEP, BRWM
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B-264-1997*On May 29, 1997 at 1340 we received a call from Mike Whitney of Whitney Energy in Lincoln reporting a six gallon #2 fuel oil spill.  The product spilled from a leaking basement tank at the Village Wash Tub on West Broadway Street in Lincoln.  The tank had a small corrosion hole in its bottom which Whitney Energy workers noticed late the previous afternoon while on a service call.  They patched the hole and recovered about five gallons of product from the cement floor.  No oil reached any basement drain.
B-143-1997*3/30/97 0920

The State police dispatcher (866-2121) phoned to report an 8 gallon diesel fuel spill at James River Mill in Old Town.  I contacted Amy Herrick of the Old Town Mill (827-7711, ext. 309)

According to Ms. Herrick, the operator of a tugger which was operating in the mill yard on the Springfield Terminal's railroad tracks when he noticed a diesel spill form the area of the fuel filter.  The gasket on the filter had blown at about 0800 this morning the leak ended around 0815.  8 gallons of diesel were spilled into the railroad rock ballast beneath the tugger.  A bucket was place under the leaking filter gasket area.  About 2 gallons of diesel fuel was collected using the bucket..
I-92-1996*On 8-21-96, this office was notified that contamination was seen in a tank excavation at the Carpentry building at N. Maine Technical College. A decision tree completed on site indicated a BL-2 goal. No soil was removed as none met the definition of saturated.
B-150-2001*Melanie Dresser called from Intown Maintenance and Management Services to report an oil spill at 71 Pine St. in Orono. They manage the building but the renters are responsible for their oil. A tenant ran out of fuel and attempted to bleed the fuel line after a delivery was made. The bleeder screw was not secured and an estimated 10 gallons leaked onto the cellar floor.
   The management firm used sorbent pads to collect the oil. The clean up material will be disposed through the normal trash and be burned at the Penobscot Energy Recovery Facility.
   Ms. Dresser reported that none of the oil reached a drain and it remained in the cellar.
P-889-1999*    On Wed. 12/29/99, Scott Leighton of DEP requested Response Div. assistance with closure of a small surface spill clean-up at this commercial Auburn property.  (See Scott Leighton's 9/2/99 DEP report for background information.)   Notice was last minute as Clean Harbors (CHI) did not give the five-days notice as requested.  CHI performed a clean-up that day though Leighton and I delayed inspection and closer till after the new year holiday.
    On Tues. 1/3/00 I met Leighton and Mr. Berube and observed in the back of the property, a 4' X 4' wide by 1' deep excavation with four unmarked black ring-top drums (reportedly full of the contaminated soil).  Soils noted were sandy though this was possibly not the native soil type.  The reported black waste-oil stained soil was removed and waiting on analysis thru Clean Harbors before disposal.  A soil sample I field analyzed by PID headspace method was at 5 ppm, indicating a satisfactory remediation awaiting waste disposal.  Often waste oil spillage can be cleaned till the visual staining is gone though as this is an auto-body repair center the presence of volatile solvents and flammable fuels in the used oil are common.  Before leaving I marked the drums.
     No further Resp. Div. actions are expected at this time.  See DEP files of Scott Leighton for further information.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
A-588-1996*See attached.  No site visit made.  No further action anticipated.
B-646-2001*See attached narrative:
P-84-1997*10 February 1997, Steven Flannery and I responded to a mystery drum complaint on the Boundry Rd. in Standish. We recovered the drum with the assistance of Standish Fire personnel.

This drum and several other "mystery drums" were gathered from both the Portland and Augusta field offices and transported and disposed as one shipment.

No further action required.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO (19Sep97).
A-276-1998* The United States Coast Guard spilled about ten gallons of diesel into Boothbay Harbor. This occurred at the Coast Guard Station at McKnown Point. No site visit was made. The Coast Guard cleaned up what they could, themselves.
P-408-1996*7/1/96  I was contacted by USCG regarding a vessel containing 246,000bbl of oil which was adrift in the Piscataqua river in the vicinity of Eliot.  I tried several times unsuccessfully  to contact the USCG on the number given to the state police.  I requested that the dispatcher contact a marine patrol officer in the region to see if he/she could ascertain what was going on.  A marine patrol officer checked the site and relayed back to me that the "barge" had been retrieved and there was no sign of spillage.  At approximately 0600 on 07/02 I learned via television news reports that the vessel has spilled fuel when it broke away from the dock at the Public Service of New Hampshire Terminal and there was a hole in it's hull.  Supervisor On Call, Steve Eufemia contacted me after seeing the report and I informed him of the information I received.  We both dispatched to Public Service of New Hampshire Termial where the Incident Command had already been established.  A unified effort by USCG, NHDES, MEDEP, and other state and federal agencies was undertaken over the next several weeks.  The majority of the impact was to NH waters, however fisheries in both states were closed for a period of time.  Documentation of actions taken is attached.


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Jon L Woodard  OHMS 1
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
B-527-2000*B-527-2000
09/26/2000 18:20

     A call came through on the 1-800 number stating that a vehicle was involved in an accident about a mile off the end of Route 9 in Baileyville.  It was stated that Baileyville fire personnel had already cleaned up a 3-5 gallon spill of gasoline.  No resources of the State were reportedly affected.
A-584-2000*   DEP received a notification from EPA that 155 gallons of 50% caustic solution (pH 13-14) was spilled at this facility.  This quantity was later amended to 1000 gallons (see Mead incident report).  All spilled material went to the plant sewer with no recovery.
P-79-1999*On 01/31/1999 I received a call from the Lebanon Fire Department reporting that a snowmobile had gone through the ice and into about 6 feet of water.  They said that the owner told them there was approximately 1 gallon of gasoline in the tank.  They said there was no obvious spillage.  I asked them to call me back if any gas was spilled during recovery of the snowmobile.  I did not hear back from them.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



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Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
March 9, 2000
P-692-1996*On the afternoon of Nov. 1, 1996 I received a call from a heating contractor about a 275 gallon kerosene AST in Old Orchard Beach.  The contractor  - Brian McClellan of Jolina Heating stated that he had been called to check on a tank at Davenport Condo's.  The condominiums had been vacated following a flood the week before.  Mr. McClellan found that the tank had tipped over with the rains and was still laying on it's side with appr. 100 gallons of oil still in it.  I responded to the call I found the tank on it's side.  There was currently no oil leaking from the tank, however there was alot of pressure on the vent, fill and gauge at the top of the tank.  I presume that a quantity of oil spilled when the tank floated but it had all washed away.  I called Nate Thompson -DEP to bring a pump and assist with securing the tank.  We pumped off appr. 90 gallons of oil that will be recycled.  We checked the integrity of the tank, it appeared to be in good condition.  No further action.
P-681-1989*
Report Update of 1/30/03.

	Year 1989 retail, motor fuels UST facility abandonment-by-removal, and facility replacement.  On UST abandoned in place.  One mystery UST reported to have been found and investigated by DEP's John Gordon but no information supplied as to potential contamination.

	DEP attendance during the 1989 removal could only be sporadic and this time period was before the 1991 state requirement for UST closure assessments, so it is possible that low to moderate levels of petroleum contamination could have been missed.  According to DEP's Gordon Fuller, a VRAP investigation by Shevenell-Gallen Co. in 2002-2003 found weathered gasoline.  See original report narrative, and the files of DEP VRAP and DEP UST Reg. #12866 for further information.

S G Brezinski
B-570-2001*     On 10/10/01,1500 hours Jim Miller of NSGA reported a quarter of a gallon diesel spill.  The van mounted supply tank for their generator had been overfilled and product dripped out of the fill pipe.  It landed on about a square foot of >" pea stone.  The product/area ratio prohibited any migration so no clean up was required.
A-323-2000*Received a report from Central Maine Power concerning a failed transformer at the Winslow Substation.  Cause was unknown, leaked onto the gravel and concrete pad. Pad was washed twice and speedi-dry was applied and oily gravel was removed. An adsorbent blanket was placed down until transformer could be changed out the following week. A PCB sample was also taken, results showed 35 PPM. The transformer was pumped and removed the following week. No site visit was made.
A-656-2000*Mr. Dolak called in a report of a visible sheen on Belgrade Lake near his home. When I arrived the sheen had mostly disappeared and what little was left appeared to be iron bacteria or something similar. No odor was detected. No further action is expected.
I-102-1994*VOC'S IN GROUND WATER BEHIND CARIBOU OFFICE PARK - SEE SPILL #I-194-91
Four potential sources identified.
A-353-1999*An overfill of a 2000 gallon tank occurred. It all landed in the diked area. The product was pumped off and the dike was cleaned out.
B-631-1996*Mr. Coggins called to report that while working in the store room the pipe between the oil tank and the filter was broken and he esitmated that about ten gallons or less was lost to the floor.  None of the oil reached a drain and stayed on the concrete floor.  He cleaned up the spill with some speedi dri and sorbent pads.  He stated that he would burn this in his stove if it was acceptable and I agreed.  I did not attend this spill.
A-173-1999*Received a call from the Jay Fire Department that they had responded to an oil spill at a residence.  I responded to the residence of Sandra James on Rt.133.  An oil line to tanks at the back of her house had leaked.  She has an older mobile home and the oil was under her trailer.  There was one good thing in that there had been a thaw and there was a lot of standing water on which the oil was floating.  The Jay Fire Department had done a good job of sorbing up the oil with the sorbents they had on hand.  I supplied more sorbents and also called for a vacuum truck from Seacoast Ocean Services.  There was a door in the skirting giving access to under the trailer.  There was a lot of oily water on site and I had the vacuum truck pump as much as they could get at.

There is a well on the property located in the front yard.  It is only 25' from the spill site.  I tested the well on the day of the spill and put Ms. Jones on quarterly monitoring.  None of the water tests have found any oil in her well.  Unless subsequent quarterly monitoring tests show some impact on her well from oil, no further action is needed on this site.
P-495-2000*SUMMARY
	On Tues. 8/10/00, a worker notified DEP of a leak from a gaso. product filter under Disp. #3, and of about 3-cm of gaso. atop water in the RU tank sump at this gas station.  On 8/11/00 DEP's Ms. Doran passed the case to me to investigate and I talked to DEP's Ted Sharf as well.  On 8/11, Brenda Beaulieu of Fill-It-Up-Please left a voice-mail to DEP's Beth DeHaas notifying her of the discharge and that Portland Pump Co. had fixed the leaking dispenser.
	On Tues. 8/15/00 I met mgr. John B. onsite.  Peastone under disp. #3 was smelling of gaso.  It is unknown as to how long and how much gaso. had been leaking. There was no containment sumps under the dispensers.   Water was still in the sub. pump sump over T-7, the RU tank.  The seal where the product-piping exits the sump did not appear to be tight and is likely the source of gw in the sump.  A water-tight plastic sump lid was previously on to keep surface water out.  Water in sumps was also noted in 1997 inspection.

UST FACILITY INFO. & DISCHARGE ASSESSMENT
    The facility presently consists of three dbl-wall FRP UST's [a RU, a split PU/Diesel, and a #2 oil] registered as installed in 5/94 by Maine CTI #274.  Old UST's were removed in 12/93 and with a substantial clean-up by source-reduction under DEP's John Gordon (P-694-92).  In 1992, J B Plunkett Assoc. mistakenly determined the site as having an Intermediate-Clean-Up Goal.  I noted no Decision Tree in Gordon's 1992 report.  In 2000, I worked the site out to a BS-2 Clean-Up Goal.  The area is on city water & sewer, is largely commercial, and is underlain by silt-clay deposits.

CONCLUSION
    Rather than leave a voice-mail to Augusta's UST Enf. Unit, Ms. Beaulieu should, within two hours, have called DEP Response Div. regarding the discharge, who are available 24 hrs/day for response.  The sump should be monitored weekly for further product leakage. See DEP UST Reg file #3373 and attached for further site info.  Further DEP action possible.  A copy of this report and spill notification information will be sent to Ms. Beaulieu.

S G Brezinski,
Maine DEP, BRWM
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B-547-1998*DANIEL DUFF CONTRACTED WITH DAVID CURTIS TO LOG A PIECE OF PROPERTY IN THE ASHVILLE SECTION OF GOULDSBORO; DIANE BROWN, THE NEAREST NEIGHBOR, DIDN'T LIKE IT ONE BIT, AND FILED NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS WITH THE LAND BUREAU.

ON AUGUST 15, MS. BROWN NOTICED THAT HYDRAULIC OIL WAS LEAKING OUT OF CURTIS' PULP LOADER, AND NOTIFIED THE DEP.  I VISITED THE AREA ON THE 15TH AND TALKED WITH THE DUFFS.  ON THE 16TH, I REVISITED, AND EXPLAINED TO DAVE CURTIS WHAT HE HAD TO DO TO CLEAN UP THE SPILL.  HE WAS COOPERATIVE AND CLAIMED THAT WHEN HE'D LEFT ON 8/14, THE LOADER WASN'T LEAKING.

ON 8/17, DIANE BROWN CALLED AGAIN, TO SAY THAT CURTIS HADN'T CLEANED UP THE CONTAMINATED SOIL;  I REINVESTIGATED, AND FOUND THE COMPLAINT TO BE VALID.  THAT NIGHT I CALLED CURTIS AND SHAMED HIM INTO DOING A BETTER CLEAN-UP.

ON AUGUST 26, I CALLED MRS. DUFF IN RESPONSE TO HER LETTER OF COMPLAINT, (ATTACHED)  AND EXPLAINED THAT SO FAR, THE COMPLAINTS HAD BEEN VALID.  I FURTHER TOLD HER THAT I'D CONTINUE TO RESPOND TO COMPLAINTS THERE 'TIL OIL SPILLS DIDN'T OCCUR THERE OR THE COMPLAINTS BECAME FRIVOLOUS.

IN LATE NOVEMBER, JOHN CULLEN RECEIVED ANOTHER LETTER WITH PHOTOS, ALLEGING MORE OIL SPILLAGE AT THE SITE.  INVESTIGATING, I FOUND THE COMPLAINT GROUNDLESS.
P-51-1994*Oil sheen discovered on the water by Clark's Island Embayment building #193.  The source and/or cause of the sheen was undetermined.  Boom was placed out as a precaution.  For further details, see attached report.
B-415-2001*      On July 23, 2001 at 1040 we received a call from Kevin Austin of the Guilford lot of the Maine Dept. of Transportation.  He said that one of their backhoes blew a hydraulic hose and lost six to seven gallons of hydraulic oil onto the dirt parking lot.  Workers recovered almost all the oil with sorbents.
I-104-1998*On 5-20-98, this office received a call from Kirk St. Peter, a tank installer reporting that while excavating to install tanks at a new store in Caribou, gasoline contaminated soil was encountered. The site of the store was the County Quik Stop on Rt. 1, the site of the old Spinneys Paint store. I went to the site that day. Contamination had been found at about the middle of the excavation and extended from about 2' bg. to bedrock at about 12' bg. The location on the site was off the South east corner of the building. About 50 yards were removed and taken to the landfill that day. The following day a landspreading site was located for the remaining soil to be removed. County Environmental was hired to perform a site assessment and monitor cleanup, as there are three public drinking water supplies within 1000' of the site. The source was determined to be most likely a gasoline tank at the car dealership on that property before the paint store (no registration information for this tank).
A-340-2000* Edi Rainey called this office asking for advice on how to dispose of several containers of paint and other waste located at her deceased father's garage. This garage is located in China on route 3, just west of the Hanson Rd.
 I arrived on site to assist her in identifying the waste products. Some of the material was suitable for disposal at the China Transfer Station. The rest qualified as hazardous waste. I informed her that the town of Lewiston has an annual Haz. Waste Colection day and perhaps she should contact them. I provided her with the appropriate phone numbers.
 I spoke with Mrs. Rainey after the collection day and she informed me that all of the haz. material had been taken to the pickup. No further action needed.
P-881-2001*On 10/24/01 Jon Woodard received a call from Paul Doyle reporting a heating oil spill at his residence from a leaky fitting on his above ground tank.  Jon explained the insurance fund to the homeowner and subsequently assigned the case to me.  Arrangements were made with Environmental Projects (EPI) to visit the spill that day to evaluate the necessary clean up.  The clean up was eventually scheduled for 10/29.

On 10/29 I met on site with EPI.  Approximately 3 tons of contaminated soil was removed with a vactor.  No further action anticipated.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
NOVEMBER 8, 2001
A-77-1999*About 20 gallons spilled when a hose broke on a lube line in the Wood Yard's #1 relaim pit. Most was cleaned up. About 2-4 gallons went to the process sewer. The hose was replaced.

No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services.
P-872-1990*
Report Update, Feb. 2004 by SGB

	UST abandonment by removal visit.  Facility removal delayed due to bankruptcy of facility owner: Howard Saturley and Satco Inc.  New AST facility installed to replace UST's expected to be removed (see site map).  UST facility was due to have been abandoned in 1989.  Sensitive geologic area.  See P-761-91, P-373-2000 and P-125-2004 for further information.

	Facility later known as R & S Variety under Ray & Susan Littlefield, and then Ray's Minimart GULF station under Ray Littlefield.

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P-73-1998*   After initial notification thru the homeowners oil company (Don Rich Oil), I visited the site on the morning of Thursday, 2/19/98.  I noted the horizontal AST, right below the roof eave, covered in snow, and with the line disconnected.  The tank reportedly lost 200 gal. of K1 to the ground the previous evening, after snow/ice slid off the roof and broke the line off (see photos).  This incident also happened in 1993 which was investigated by Jon Woodard (P-144-93, attached).

   Mr. Wickham stated that this was maybe the third time this has happened.  There was a cover over the tank/line until recently but it got removed.

   I noted no recoverable oil and Wickham stated he had no odor problem in his basement.  The oil appears to have soaked into the ground and is likely flowing down the steep slope to Collins Pond atop the gw.  Snow and ice cover prevented a more complete search for sheen, etc.  Immediate excavation is not feasible because of the close building foundation and forested hillside that would have to be addressed.   This case will be referred to DEP Tech Services for further actions as they deem appropriate, as was done with P-144-93.

   A protective structure over the tank would have prevented this discharge.


S G Brezinski, DEP, BRWM
P-742-2001*DEP Cyr received a call 9/18/01 about 1830 from state police dispatch "a citizen complaint about asbestos removal in the neighborhood".  Cyr arrived at 28 Hanover Street and found Gary Wagner, he stated yes it was asbestos shingling and that he was the homeowner.  He was refacing the porch side of the home and wanted to remove the shingle prior to siding the wall.  He was planning to wet & double bag the material and transport it to the local Household Hazardous Waste collection day.

Cyr contacted Edgar Antz of the Asbestos Enforcement unit to verify the proper conditions which would allow Mr. Wagner to continue.  Antz offered to visit the site and deliver information to Wagner on the 19th.

No further involvment is anticipated by the response division.
P-407-1999*See attached report from CMP.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
JUNE 24, 1999
B-647-2000*On 12/05/00, 1105 hours Phil Dawson (dispatcher for Howland Fire) reported a 35-gallon diesel spill at the 95ER restaurant.  The school bus driver was fueling the bus and left the operation unattended.  Meanwhile the nozzle fellout of the fill pipe and spilled about 35 gallons to the asphalt surface.  The spill had covered and area of about 80 square yards and there were puddles in a couple of areas.  The store manager came out and helped recover the pads as well as squeeze liquid product from them.  The product that was inaccessible to the pad (because it was affiliated with the asphalt) was treated with sand.  The sand was used to keep the product from penetrating the asphalt and to keep it from getting oil onto parking lot traffic.


B-12-1999*B-012-99

On 1/9/99, 1105 hours Harry Webber (Fire Chief for Dover-Foxcroft) contacted me about a two-gallon caustic solution spill that had taken place at the Dover-Foxcroft Water District.  The solution is metered into their system with a diaphragm pump and the diaphragm developed hole, which allowed the caustic solution to squirt out.  Most of the release landed inside the berm and was flushed to their lagoon, which was designed to handle such spills.  However, about a cup of the solution landed outside the berm and got flushed to a hole in the cement floor. The hole dead-ends in the sand under the slab.  Harry was concerned about that and he pointed out that the only way to recover it would be to remove a portion of the cement slab.  I indicated that that small amount under the slab would do no harm.  I discussed the situation with Steve Crocker, who is operational superintendent, and he plans on changing the pluming so that future spills outside the berm can be easily treated on site.
P-265-1996*

 	 Mr. Hardy reported noting black oil seeping out of the river bank, while he fished there on 5/6/96 and reported it the DEP.

 	 I explained to Mr. Hardy that this is a long term discharge clean-up project by DEP, Uncontrolled Sites Division (a.k.a DRIR)  back in the late 1980's & early 1990's (P-551-90).  I understand the UST (an old RR tank car) began leaking about 1950 and at this time this mill is closed and redeveloped into a business building.
	DSIR became involved with the mill and initiated a large oil recovery project relating to a #6 oil spill.  Response Svcs. who normally became involved in UST work was not notified of the problem and I believe no spill report has been written by Response Div. on this incident before this.  I later discussed Mr. Hardy's call with Hank Aho of DEP Uncontrolled Sites Div.  Uncontrolled Sites will schedule a site visit soon.
 	 I understand that approx. 8000 gallons of #6 oil discharged from the old UST and approximately 6000 gal. has been recovered.  See records of DSIR and attached E. C. Jordan Co. environmental assessment for details.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
A-428-1998*A sheen on the harbor was reported. The harbormaster was unable to trace it to any vessel. It dissipated on the out going tide.
B-435-1996*D-TREE=I.
P-392-1997*23 July 1997, I issued a Virgin Product Letter for the disposal of contaminated soil discovered during piping removal operations. This soil was not required to be removed, under a DEP clean up action requirement. I issued a Clean Up Action Agreement to be signed and returned to the DEP.  To date this document has not been received, see copy attached.

No further action by Response Services is anticipated.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO (4 September 1997)
A-437-1997*No site visit made.

This was a  pinhole leak in the tank.  Dead River cleaned from the concrete floor.  No oil left the basement.

No further action is anticipated.
A-53-1998*Received a call from Diane Alexander about an overfill at the Big Apple in Wilton. A transporter overfilled an underground storage tank while making a delivery. C.N. Brown personnel cleaned it up using sorbents. The area where the spill occurred is paved. No site visit was needed and no further work is necessary.
A-438-1997*No site visit made. No further action anticipated.
B-360-1997*On 7/10/97, 0836 hours Jeff Murdy of Webber Tank in Bucksport reported that they had run into contaminated soil while working on their drainage system.  He indicated that the contaminant seemed to be gas.  The amount of impacted soil was estimated to be 6-10 yards.  He went on to say that they had ongoing, on site, contaminated soil remediation at Webber Tank.  Inasmuch as Webber Tank is a bulk storage plant it is quite fitting that they have on site remediation.

Facility Registration Number:  326
B-745-1998*
B-745-98

On 11/19/98 I logged the DHS/MTBE referral to an analysis that had been done on a well that belonged to Fred and Gail McDougal in Jackman.  On 11/25/98 I sampled the water and the sample went to Binax/NEL on 11/30/98.  The result came back <2ppb, which is below the detection limit.  This is not surprising inasmuch as the DHS test was 1 ppb.  There was a gravel surface driveway within 20 feet of the well.  It was a drilled well.
I-53-2001*Symaltaneous arm cylinder broke spraying 20 gallons of oil on the floor.  It was cleaned up with fines and sent to boiler.
B-323-1996*D-TREE = I.
A-384-1997*Livermore Falls Fire Department called about a vehicle accident involving a car and a pulp truck.  The car lost the contents of its gas tank, about 16 gallons.  The Fire Department responded and put down some sorbent pads, and used "autosorb" to clean up the remainder.  Frank Gehrling inspected the site on his way back to Augusta from another site, and reported the nearest well was about 140' away, that the hot top was soft, and some soil needed to be excavated.  DOT was available to assist with excavation the next day, so arrangements were made with David Ames (Dixfield office, 562-4228).  Glen Wall oversaw the soil removal.
A-297-1998*Received a complaint of waste oil dumping and unsafe storage of waste oil. Craig Brackett a former employee complained that Mobil Lube was handling their waste oil badly. He also alleged that a tanker in the back of the property had internal water freeze breaking a valve and allowing the tanker to drain down the embankment.

I went to the site on 6/24/1998 and spoke to Dana Strout, manager of the Mobil Lube. He showed me around the place and pointed out all the oil handling equipment he has. He stated that the Mobil Lube or the car wash attached to it burn all the waste oil that they collect. They have two waste oil fired boilers and a waste oil hot air furnace. I only found minor spillage. The only interesting thing found was an ancient MC306 tank trailer parked in the back of the building. No dike is around it and only minor evidence of spillage was found. Mr. Strout claims they handle 30,000 gallons of lube oil a year. The facility was fairly clean considering the amount of waste oil they handle.

The fact that they are using a non road worthy trailer for storage will be referred to the Fire Marshals office. No further work by Response is indicated.
A-321-1997*We received a complaint about black smoke and a burnt plastic odor from the incinerator at the Thayer unit.  It was referred to the Air Bureau for followup.
P-330-1994*Discharge was the result of oil expanding out the aboveground storage tank through the vent onto the ground.  Approximately 1 gallon of diesel fuel was discharge onto the ground which was collected using speedy-dry.
P-694-1996*On Oct. 25, 1996 I received a call from Sun Environmental.  They called to report contamination found at a tank pull in South Portland.  The release was most likely due to corrosion holes found in tank.  The highest contamination found was 20 ppm by jar headspace method.  This site is Baseline I by DEP decision tree, therefore no clean up was required.  No further action at this time.
B-709-1999*   Orono Fire Department called to report that they were attending a spill at Swett's Mobil station at 2 Main Street. The gasoline was spilled to the pavement when they attempted to fill the gas tank of a customer who had just had the car's gas tank replaced. It turned out that the fill pipe had not been connected to the new tank and the 2.3 gallons of gas from the nozzle missed the tank and spilled to the ground. The fire dept. used speedi-dri to control the spill and, as the weather forecast is for no rain, I suggested that the speedi-dri be left to air dry. None of the gas left the pavement.
A-173-1997*Received a call from Butch Furrough of G.R. Adams and Company, the tank installer, concerning the discovery of contaminated soil at tank installation they were doing. The site was the Irving Mainway on Western Avenue in Augusta. I later spoke with Scott Burrill of Acadia Environmental, the geologist doing the Appendix P site assessment. We agreed that it was a Baseline 2 site and I set the action level at 1000 ppm using the "bag headspace method" in Chapter 691 appendix Q. With DEP approved setpoints, no soil above the action level was detected, therefore no remediation was required. I did not visit the site during the assessment, but did stop by at a later date. No further work is necessary at this site.
A-71-1996*see attached
P-849-1999*Gary Bucklin of SW Cole reported that his company was doing a site assessment on the Coca Cola Bottling plant in Lewiston due to a property transfer.  I had been there in September, 1992 to oversee an underground tank removal.  The site was determined to be baseline at that time and approximately 10 cubic yards of soil was removed (see P-652-92).  I visited the site on 6/14/99 during the test pit procedures and contamination was discovered, as expected, where the 1992 excavation had stopped at the edge of the pavement.  The headspace analysis revealed levels of 5500ppm, which are within the clean-up level set in 1992 and no clean-up was required.

No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary on this site.



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Jon L Woodard  OHMS 3
Division of Response Services
Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management
P-365-1996*On 6/21/96, Stephen Brezinski and Ann Hemenway checked out a reported out-of-service motor fuels UST facility.  The site looks to be an old service station with a sign "The Pines" on the building.  A residence is to the left.  Two vent pipes were noted between the buildings; one pipe a 1" and a second a two-inch vent.  No evidence of fill pipes were noted.  No discharges evident.

The area is on wells and therefore a sensitive area.  No further Response Division action likely at this time.
A-529-2000*This is a combination of two related events. An initial leak of five gallons, a repair, and when placing the machine back on line a secondary loss of thirty five gallons from an impropery installed o-ring during repair. All of the oil was recovered before reaching the process sewer. No site visit by DEP.
P-68-1997*On 2/3/97 Mary Corr received a call from Robert Fortin through the Rumford Fire Dept. reporting oil in a brook in Hanover.  Mary relayed the information to me.  Chief Bovin from the Rumford Fire Dept. responded to the site and placed sorbent boom in the brook.  I responded to the site the next day and determined the source of the spill to be 48 Howard Pond Rd.  Robert Fortin is the caretaker of the house and allowed me access to the basement.  I was able to determine that the copper line for the oil tank ran under the floor and was likely to be leaking.  The caretaker figured that roughly 1/4 tank of oil was missing.  The caretaker made arrangements for the oil line to be replaced.  I removed the oiled sorbent that had been placed in the brook the evening before and left a supply of sorbent pads and boom for the caretaker who was to pad oil out of the brook on an as needed basis.  I estimate that it will take several months for the oil to stop leaching into the brook.  I will make regular visits to the site to ensure that the oil is being removed as needed.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
P-507-2000*  In August 2000 I noted this facility going in and passed it routinely in normal travels.  The area prior to this development was an open field and I am not aware of any previous discharges or oil storage facilities on this property.  Across Rt. 1 is the Yarmouth Clippermart of M W Sewall Oil Co. which suffered a large prohibited discharge in 1999 [see P-178-99].  Adjoining this facility to the N is a new VIP Auto Parts store.  The area within 1000' is understood at present to be on municipal water & sewer.  Behind the property to the NW is Estabrook Farms.
   On 8/29/00, I met CTI Winslow and observed the two new tanks installed in the excavation and buried halfway, with hold-down straps.  No piping or islands were installed while the canopy and building were under construction.  I noted no gw in the shallow excavation.  The tanks are two 20,000 gal. composite dbl-wall UST's, T-2 being a spilt 10,000/10,000 diesel and gaso. storage tank.
    On 10/31/00, I met again with CTI Winslow and observed the installed flexible & FRP piping and the sumps [see photos].  About this time of the month I found that DEP Augusta office's Ted Scharf visited the new install also.
   During my visits I observed no obvious installation problems or evidence of prohibited discharges.  See any attachements and DEP UST Reg. file #20339 for further info.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
P-100-2001*12 Feb 2001, responded to incident. Observed oil impacted snow around AST at rear of house.  Advised that snow off roof, broke filter/copper feed line.

Conducted limited hydrogeological investigation to delineate spill area.  Removed impacted soils during recovery well installation.  Installed recovery wells and pumped free phase product over a period of several weeks.  Observed sheen remaining in wells. No sensitive receptors located at this site and clean up completed.  Restored grounds to original conditions.

No futher Response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, 19Feb01.
A-213-2000* J. Johnson reported that he had detected gasoline in two monitoring wells at this Dead River gas station. The gasoline was detected by using a bailer during an annual UST  inspection. A layer of product less than 1/8 of an inch was found. Many months later I made a site visit and reviewed the monitoring well log book for this station. Quite often employess have detected, mostly an odor, gasoline in monitoring well 4. I checked wells 6, 5, and 4 and notice a sheen in well #4. This area is served by town water and no other receptors are at risk. It appears to me that there is a very small problem at this site therefore, no further action will be required.
A-377-1996*     DEP received an anonymous report that this facility routinely poured waste paints and solvents onto the ground behind the shop and ignites them.  Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property on 9/12/96.  I observed no evidence of this, although an open drum is used for incineration of some waste products.  The facility contracts with Safety Kleen for waste liquids collection.
     I do not anticipate further DEP involvement as a result of this incident.
B-366-1999*B-366-99
Solon

Wednesday June 30, 1999			1540

Mr. Roy Koster (626-9574), of Central Maine Power Company phoned to report a transformer failure and leak in Solon.  A 10 KVA Kuhlman transformer failed and released 3 gallons of mineral oil from a cracked primary bushing.  The oil spilled onto the soil and grass beneath pole # 49 on Iron Bound Pond Road West.

A Central Maine Power Company crew cleaned up the spill.  Oily brush, soil, and grass (consisting of one drum of soil and one bag of brush), was removed to CMP's temporary storage area and will be sent to Crossroads in Norridgewock.  The transformer was replaced.
I-36-1999*On 3-19-99, Dave Page called this office to report there had been a small spill of oil at the residence of a customer on the Carson Road in Woodland. While removing the nozzel from the fill pipe a small amount leaked onto the building. The delivery driver wiped the oil off with a sorbent cloth.
A-580-1999*While making a delivery, a C.N. Brown employee knocked the fuel nozzle against the truck bumper causing fuel to spray onto the ground. Cleanup was by C.N. Brown employees who removed gravel from an area about 2 feet by 4 feet.

Merlon Gibbs, owner of the trailer park, was satisfied with the cleanup. The well for the trailer park is well away from the site of the spill and should not be affected.

No site visit was made. No further action required by Response Services.
A-266-2000*Received an anonymous complaint about a James Harwood (?) in Sidney.  With the directions I was given, a house was not found at the indicated location.  The complainant never called back.  No further work is necessary on this spill.
P-735-1999*On November 22, 1999 I was notified by CMP of a leaking transformer at the DMV/DEP building at 312 Canco Road.  Janet stated that crews were enroute to check out the transformer.  Janet called me back and reported that it was just water leaking from the transformer, but that the transformer would be inspected and repaired.  See attached CMP report.  No further action.
P-179-1998*On 4/27/98 at 1545 Scott Austin, BR&WM, Licensing Unit, called to relay a report that he had received from Lorry (no last name given) in reference to improper disposal of bio-medical waste materials at 1600 Congress Street, Portland.  The subject facility is a building that is occupied by several health services providers.  Lorry indicated that several items of waste were on the ground near a dumpster including a blood vial with a patient's name on it.
Nathan Thompson and I responded and inspected the area around the dumpster.  We located the vial which was a vacuum type container used for drawing blood.  The vial was intact and there were no indications that it had ever contained fluids. We also found a lidded plastic container with several graduations on the side as well as a small glass container with a sealed top which appeared to be configured to facilitate the filling of syringes. Neither of the other two containers contained any fluids at the time of this investigation. We collected and packaged the three items and returned them to the Portland Office for storage pending disposal.
I reported our findings to Austin who confirmed our assumption that the items did not meet the definition of bio-medical waste.  Austin indicated that we could dispose of the items in the regular trash.  Austin also indicated that he would schedule inspections at the health services providers occupying this building to assure that they are in compliance with the Biomedical Waste Management Rules.




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Steven J. Eufemia
OHMS III
A-50-2000*     DEP received a report that hydraulic oil had spilled at this facility.  Spill reportedly was confined to secondary containment and recovered.  See also A-51-00.
A-193-2000* Strong Chevrolet called this office to report a minor oil spill at their business in Damariscotta. Two drums of waste oil had been stored out back and forgotten. Water had entered these two drums and forced the waste oil onto the ground and parking lot.
 Clean Harbors was hired by Strong Chev to clean up the spilled oil and pump out the drums. No further action will be required.
P-558-1990*
	This report covers the 1990, DEP inspection and investigation of the commercial fuel oil UST and gasoline AST bulk plant.  leaking fittings at the gasoline AST's were  discovered with unreported discharges to the soil below.  At the time the quantity discharged was not determined and it was thought that eventual remediation would come with the future AST facility upgrade.  Mr. Knightly was ordered to repair the leaking product fitting.  See the attached narrative and other attachments for further information.
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B-298-1998*
On 5/6/98, 1650 hours Jay Beaudinn reported a one gallon six oil spill in the vicinity of their fuel pump building.  They were emptying a fuel line by transporting the fuel from the line to a drum with buckets.  Some of the fuel got slopped onto the ground.  The fuel was recovered along with a five gallon bucket full of gravel.  The contaminated soil was remedied by feeding to their power boiler.  The oil will burn and the gravel will come out as ash.
P-821-1999*    At 1444 hrs. on Sat. 11/4/99 I responded to a report of an oil sheen and odor on the Kennebec River off Commercial St. in Bath.  On the way I advised NRC.  Arriving at the Kennebec Tavern & Marina I met Frank (marina manager) and a Bath PD officer.  There was a significant amount of red oil (marine diesel/#2 oil) coalescing against the dock and a large sheen flowing out fast with the tide.  Frank said they first noticed the spillage about 1300 hrs.   In the PD boat, Frank and I followed sheen and blobs of red oil upriver a mile as far as the ship ATLANTIC FROST, a freezer/processing ship tied up at Stinson Canning.  I notified Jon Woodard of DEP, requested Clean Harbors and USCG MSO to respond.    While waiting for USCG and CHI, Frank and I padded oil by an upriver barge and at the marina's floating docks.  Two PO's from MSO arrived at 1645 and I requested they inspect the M/V ATLANTIC FROST.  The ship has been tied up to Stinson Canning for about a year.   The vessel was considered the most likely spill source.
     A DEP inspection of Stinson Canning on Sun. 12/5 found no indication of a red oil spill, though there was a #6 oil spill into their AST dyke (P-841-99). Chief Eng. Moore told me that the ATLANTIC FROST had not had any spills.  On 12/10 I talked to Roger Webber of Stinson who said he would look into any spills at their facility.  On 12/29 USCG supplied lab data linking the oil spill to the M/V Atlantic Frost, possibly from an onboard fuel transfer.
    When the tide turned on the evening of 11/4/99, and on the following days, the oil was flushed up and down the river.  Less free oil was recoverable at the docks each time the tide turned due to dispersion, evaporation, and weathering to an oil mousse.  I noted no other recoverable collections of oil at other spots along the river.  I noted no other PRP's.  State response costs will be recovered from the Stinson and the vessel.  See attached for further information.

Stephen Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM
A-467-1998*     DEP received a report that petroleum contaminated soil was encountered during excavations at this recently closed bulk terminal.  Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property on 9/9/98.  An environmental consultant (Baldwin) contracted by the property owner was on-scene and agreed to screen soil.  Material showing in excess of 500 ppm (field headspace) was removed for rendering into asphalt.
     I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident unless future use of the property requires further excavation; such material would likely not be suitable as "inert" fill.
B-338-1996*On 6/27/96, 1150 hours Robert Olesky of Bangor International Airport called to report a 20 gallon spill of Jet A on one of their fueling ramps.  They had recovered the product with 2 bags of MOP, which is fluffy particulate form of polypropylene sorbent.  The used sorbent was contained in half of a 55 gallon drum.  Clean Harbors handles BIA's waste stream.
P-644-1990*
Abandonment-by-removal and new installation of retail, motor fuels UST facility, prior to implementation of CMR 691 UST Closure Assessments and the Maine Hydrocarbon Decision Tree.  Oil contamination confirmed.  See also attached 1990 narrative and attachments.
P-129-1996*Gagnon oil peddlar truck broke a valve when going over a frost heave in the road.  When truck stopped to make delivery approximately 5 gallons of oil spilled to the road.  Oil was cleaned up by gagnon personnel. No further action.
B-666-1997*On November 19, 1997 at 1200 we received a call from Pebbles Cloutier of C.N. Brown in Brewer reporting a diesel spill at the Butler Ozone Plant in Otis.  The plant is a water purification facility for the city of Bangor.  C.N. Brown was delivering diesel fuel to an inside generator when a malfunctioning tank level indicator stuck at 80%.  Therefore the whistle alarm, which was set to sound at 90%, never sounded and when the tank began to overfill the pressure relief valve opened and between five and ten gallons of diesel fuel sprayed onto the cement floor.  Workers recovered this fuel with sorbents.
B-475-2000*     On August 31, 2000 at 1300 we received a call from Jeff Brown of Enpro Environmental Services reporting contaminated soil found during excavation of a water line from a new well at the Verizon Central Office in Northeast Harbor.  The building is a switching station that had an old fuel oil tank which was removed in 1988.  There was no well at the site at that time.
     Enpro dug four test pits on the site on Sept. 1 and PID results found two pits which contained Diesel Range Organics of 46 ppm and 82 ppm.  The DEP decision tree keyed the site to a stringent clean-up standard.  Consequently, Enpro began excavating the site on September 11.  I was at the site Sept. 11 through Sept. 14. Just shy of 210 tons of material was excavated and trucked to Dragon Cement in Thomaston for disposal in their manufacturing process.  Enpro's mobile lab analyzed the excavation and confirmed that the remaining soil met the clean-up standard.  An analysis of the new well showed 100 ppb of a petroleum constituent which was not found in the soil analysis.  This material is a common sign of drill bit lubricants found in the drilling rig.  They quickly flush out once the well is used.
     The Enpro site assessment for the location is on file with other assessments.
A-320-1999*Received an anonymous complaint about an underground tank in Union. The complainant alleged that an underground tank was being used in an unknown manner and possible may not have been cleaned. I went to the farm of Mr. Robert Doucette and he showed me some things he was doing to improve the place using old railroad ties. He stated that he was getting advice from the USDA Soil and Water Conservation Service. He pointed out some things that he had done at their directions. We then came to the tank. It was a 6000-gallon STPI-3 underground storage tank. It only had 300-degree secondary containment so it is not legal to install in Maine. Mr. Doucette stated that he received the tank from Harold Warren Construction. They also supplied him with written proof of it having been cleaned by Clean Harbors. A clean, steel underground storage tank if it is not intended for use as an underground storage tank is treated as scrap steel and is unregulated. I informed Mr. Doucette about this. He stated that he would probably like to cut one end and turn it on end as an enclosure for his hogs. No spill occurred and no further action by Response is necessary.  The complaint was probably from the neighbor across the street as he has a brand new house and probably doesn't like the idea of keeping hogs across from his new house.
B-152-1997*On April 4, 1997 at 2300 we received a call from Jason Lovejoy of the Mount Desert Police reporting an oil spill at their town garage.  The garage is also the filling station for all the town's vehicles.  Mr. Lovejoy said he was filling his police car when he went inside the garage and when he came back out he found that the nozzle shut off malfunctioned and spilled about forty five gallons of gasoline on the tarred parking area.  Sand on the lot absorbed most of the fuel and a fireman and Mr. Lovejoy spread more sand to absorb the remaining product before it flowed off the tar.  The gasoline then evaporated in a short time.  I told Mr. Lovejoy to never leave a hose unattended in the future.  No state waters were threatened.
B-55-1998*Late on the evening of Jan. 24, Robert Croul returned home to discover that his above ground storage tank had developed a corrosion hole in the bottom and, over the course of less than eight hours, released an estimated 125 gallons of fuel oil onto his basement floor.

Dead River personnel responded that night, but never made it to his residence, both vehicles going off the icy roads in different locations. They did provide him with sorbent pads.

On January 25, I recovered the oiled sorbents from Mr. Croul, and made arrangements for Clean Harbors to start the clean up the following day. During the course of that week, Clean Harbors transferred his firewood outside, and segregated the oil soaked firewood from the clean stuff. The oil-soaked cellar floor was washed, and the top 1/2'' of the oiled floor in the tank room was ground off.

On January 30, Clean Harbors sealed off the tank room from the living space with poly sheeting, and Robt. Sypitkowski and I installed a vent fan to vent the oil and paint fumes to the atmosphere

On Feb. 2 & 3, Clean Harbors sealed the cellar floor with epoxy paint. Also on Feb. 2, Lynch Const. removed 3 cubic yards of oil contaminated soil from around the house's perimeter drain.( It was originally thought that most of the spilled oil had exited the cellar through a wall drain, but that proved not to be the case.)

On February 13, Sypitkowski obtained a 4 hour composite sample of the atmosphere inside the living space. (results attached)  No analyte showed levels high enough to prompt any further action.
B-49-1998*Sometime before 1/21/98 I was talking casually with Dr. Mazze.  During the course of our conversation Rick indicated that he had been smelling propane in his apartment building at 44 Penobscot Street.  He said that he had complained to the vendor and the vendor responded by saying that the odor was due to an insignificant leak.  I told him that I would come over and determine whether or not they had an explosion hazard.  On 1/21/98 I visited the site with a Minie Guard Explosimeter.  (I had determined that the Photon would not detect propane. This meant that the investigation would lack sensitivity).  At the time of my visit there was no odor and the explosimeter didn't move off zero.  A few days later I mentioned my zero finding to Rick.  He said that he hadn't noticed it lately either.
A-634-2001*Received a call from Mike Simard of Simard and Sons concerning a small leak at the Dresden Fire Station. While replacing the pump at the station, they found contamination under the pump and dug out the soil. They reported that high PID reading was 213 ppm bag headspace. The soil was stockpiled with other contaminated soil for disposal at Commercial Paving. No further work is necessary on this site.


P-399-1998*On 08/25/98 George Brewer called to report that some gas cans overturned in a violent thunderstorm last night had leaked onto his lawn within 100 feet of his well.  I arrived on site a 1400 and met Mr. Brewer there.  His shed containing two small gas cans and a couple mowers was picked up and rolled across the lawn ending up on its roof.  The contents of the gas cans had leaked out and percolated through the roof of the shed taking some asphalt off the roof shingles and depositing it on the lawn.  There was nothing more than a sheen on the puddle by the shed when I was there.  I gave Mr. Brewer a couple of sorbent pads in case he found anything recoverable.  Mr. Brewer words for Katahdin Analytical and said that if he was concerned about his well water he could get an analysis done himself.  No further response action is necessary at this time.



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Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
September 23, 1998
B-315-1999*According to Julie White, an RST driver making a delivery of #6 oil to a GP bulk tank spilled an estimated 50 gallons inside the dike and onto the asphalt adjacent.  The cause, she said, was that the tanker's valves were slightly open when the driver took off his evertite cap, prior to connecting the discharge hose.  This is more than mechanical failure, because there are two valves on a system like this: a gate valve and an internal valve up inside the body of the tanker.  To spill 50 gallons, both of those valves would've had to be open in transit.

White said Mill personnel picked up the oil with hogfuel and sorbents, then burned the waste in the hogfuel boiler.
P-797-1999*Environmental Consultant - John Tewhey reported a spill from an aboveground gas tank at the home of Bruce Skillings.  The leak occurred due to a small corrosion hole.  Mr. Skillings had been actively using the tank and estimated about 10 gallons had spilled, he was first alerted to the spill when his water started tasting bad.

Clean Harbors emptied and removed the tank and Chase excavation removed about 5 yards of soil.  John Tewhey investigated the excavation and determined it to be clean below 10 ppm by field screening (see attached Tewhey report).  I checked the open excavation two days later and made the same determination.  The Skilling well is approximately 30' from the spill and was contaminated with MTBE at around 200ppb.

The Skillings have had carbon filters installed on their well water and have been signed up for the ME-DEP quarterly monitoring problem.  I have referred this site to DEP Tech. Services for further water monitoring. NFA.
A-512-1999*Received a call from Mary Jane Low asking about some chemicals at her house.  She said that she had what seemed to be a small lab in a storage building and did not know what to do.  I went out to the site to inspect it.  There were some chemicals on shelves in a shed attached to the house.  The jars were all in good shape and were in a secure area.  No spillage had occurred.  I suggested that she contact a clean contractor to do a lab pack.  I also suggested she contact the town to ask them if they had a contract with someone. Also I suggested that she contact the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments and see when there next pick up in Lewiston would be.  I said that she would have to pay, but that might be the least expensive way for her to dispose of the product.  Since there was no sign of spillage, I left it in Ms. Low's hands as to how she wanted to dispose of the material.  No additional work by Response Services is anticipated.
I-148-2000*A truck accident caused 10-15 gallons of diesel fuel to be lost.  Sorbent pads were put down, and loosened gravel was placed into 20 gallon drum and took to Irving Pinkham mill.  Accident happened on Pinkham Road 33 miles T9R8.

Response Case Closed
I-36-2000*On 4-18-00, this office received a complaint of an oil sheen on a tributary to the Presque Isle stream. It was noticed at the confluence in Riverside Park. The sheen was traced back to a B&A rail-yard before it became no longer discernible. A meeting was set up with B&A to arrange for test pits in that area. A week later the sheen was again noticed and much stronger this time, it was traced back to a pipe coming out of the bank at the Haines Manufacturing Company. The pipe was drained and assumed to be coming from an old foundation there. Refer to spill # I-44-00.
P-804-2001*On October 1, 2001, DEP received a call from Mr. Dick Clark on Long Island that the external AST at 932 Island Ave was leaking slowly.  He had placed temporary collection containers beneath it and was making arrangements to replace the tank.  The owners have left the island for the season.

DEP Cyr & Flannery met with Clark on the morning of the 2nd and inspected the tank/situation.  Mr. Clark's plan was to pump off the tank into a new tank located adjacently to allow for clean up beneath the leaking tank.  Cyr would make arrangements with a clean up contractor to visit and assess the clean up needs.

EPI of Yarmouth was contacted at the request of Clark.  Cyr and J. Joyce (EPI) visited the site on 10/4.  Unable to locate Clark, Cyr and Joyce docked the boat at the neighbor's pier and walked next door.  Mr. John allowed us to access the Flower tank through his yard, with only mild concerns for the leak.

Upon arriving at the tank, Clark had in fact pumped and removed the oil, and the tank was positioned on its end, allowing a clear view of the soils beneath the tank.  Cyr and Joyce inspected the stained area and decided it was small enough to excavate by hand.  The soil was lightly stained to a depth of six inches and was very dry loam, with a thick cluster of roots from the surrounding trees.  The soil was shoveled into two (2) trash containers and transported to the DEP garage.  It was then transported to CRS with other stockpile soils.

No additional DEP work is planned based on information and actions taken to date.  Although if the neighbor or Clark have concerns additional actions will follow.
A-240-1998*Received a call from Bob Neff of the Manufactured Housing Board that a trailer park that he inspects had some water samples come back with some contamination. I went to the trailer park and met Kenneth Chapman, the owners son. He showed me around and pointed out the two wells that the development uses. Both were reported contaminated by Mr. Neff. I sampled the wells, one of which came back over the 25 ppb action level. I resampled the well and confirmed that there was contamination at a level to be concerned about in the one well. Water Treatment, Inc. was contacted to install filters on the one well. Confirming samples showed the filters were working.

The site is an old trailer park with the lots scattered around. Two wells supply the park. However, town water is already in the street and supplies one trailer. The source is probably bad housekeeping. Cars are parked near the impacted well and there are a number of gasoline powered toys and tools. There is no definite source that can be noted as the source of the contamination. The site is to be referred to Technical Services with the recommendation that they hook the trailer park up to town water. No further work is necessary on this site by Response Services.
B-56-1997*On October 11, 1996, the Eastland Woolen Mill of Corinna closed its doors for good, due to bankruptcy.  The holders of the mortgage at that time were the Finance Authority of Maine (FAME) and an outfit in New York known as Finnova.  Finnova subsequently sold their interest to Industrial Assets, a California company, who liquidated everthing, auctioning off what they could, and selling the rest as scrap.

Two longtime Eastland employees, Bob Gudroe and John Gilbert (RFD 1 box 4200 Corinna) were concerned about the possible environmental ramifications of abandoning the chemicals the mill used, and contacted Larry Brown of Uncontrolled Sites at DEP Augusta. He coordinated the initial meetings and site visits that eventually led to the recovery of the waste and virgin chemicals detailed in the attached list dated 3/31/97. Not included on that list are 900 gallons of Hampene 100, 3 drums of waste dye powders and a wide variety of laboratory chemicals.

Bids for disposal of the chemicals deemed waste were solicited from Seacoast Ocean Services, Clean Harbors and Total Waste Management, attached.  SOS won the bid, and disposed of the chemicals and volumes at the places identified on the attached hazardous waste manifests.

An attempt was made to market the virgin chemicals through the Maine Materials Exchange (M2X) but that was only partly sucessful.  I was able to market the acetic acid and small quantities of other chemicals to Carleton Woolen Mills of Winthrop, but as of this writing (6/5/97) it looks like we may have to dispose of some virgin chemical ( Hampene, Carolid, Scourite, caustic soda beads) as waste.

8/12/97  Carleton Woolen Mills took all the Scourite soap, just under 2500 gallons.  The remainder of the chemical waste was put out to bid, and Clean Harbors won it.  On July 25 & 28, 20 drums of clean material for which I could find no home, were disposed as waste. Also disposed were 5800 gallons of washwater, 1007 gallons of virgin sulfuric
A-378-1999* Peter Bouldoc of CMP called this office to report a one gallon spill at their maintenance lot in Skowhegan. No other information is available.
P-482-2000*   On Wed. 8/9/00, I was reached by Mr. Lewis, a service sta. maintenance tech. reporting a 5-10 gal. overfill at this active retail, motor fuels  AST facility he was working at.  The facility was owned by the Jolly Gardner co. of Auburn but may be for sale.   On 8/9/00 I met onsite with Mr. Lewis, and with Chris Wilson of Les Wilson & Sons.  The present AST facility consists of three 4000 gal., steel AST's within a concrete berm and partially roofed.  Steel product piping runs aboveground (see photos & site sketch) to the single island.  A short run of steel piping by the island was buried but was uncovered by Lewis.  I understand the facility was being upgraded prior to selling it.
    The area has a Stringent Clean-Up Goal based on nearby water well(s).  The area is rural comm. & residential, one mile N of the intersection with Rt. 93.  Minor amounts of diesel and gasoline spillage may remain.  The bulk of the spillage was to be landfarmed thin as per my instructions to Mr. Lewis and this will mitigate any serious threat to the store well.
    Onsite on 8/9/00 I noted a diesel stain on the soil next to the berm from a delivery overfill by Bickford Transportation (see photo).  Clean Harbors Env. Svcs. was reportedly there earlier to remove free product in the berm (I am not aware of this spill being properly reported to the state when it happened in violation of state law).  Lewis and Wilson were maintaining the dispensers and lines and would be installing new, proper, AST emergency vents.   A copy of this report will be sent to the facility owner and Bickford with advisement to properly report and clean-up spills.

S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM
P-249-2000*After being evicted from her rented trailer home, a woman reported an oil spill from the copper line of her outside 275 gallon kerosene AST.  She stated that the leak had occurred a month or two prior to the reporting date.  I inspected the tank and line, and found no evidence of spillage, and no ongoing leak.  No further action anticipated at this time.
P-21-1996*10 JAN 96, WHILE RESPONDING TO A SEPERATE INCIDENT ON THE MAINE TURN PIKE, I CAME ACROSS THE J & D GASOLINE TANKERS TRUCK AT MILE 32 S. IN SCARBOROUGH. MYSELF AND JOHN WOODARD SUPERVISED THE PRODUCT TRANSFER OPERATIONS CONDUCTED BY CLEAN HARBORS OF MAINE.

NO FUTHER ACTION.  NATHAN THOMPSON, SMRO
A-65-2000*A power pole was broken in an auto accident. The transformer fell into the road, spilling oil onto the snow. See attached for additional details.

No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services.
A-548-1996*MARK WARREN OF HAROLD WARREN CONST CALLED FROM A TANK REMOVAL AT THE HONG KONG ISLE RESTAURANT, THAT HE HAD ENCOUNTERED SOME CONTAMINATED SOIL. I WENT TO THE SITE AND FOUND THAT THERE WAS A HOLE IN THE TANK, AND SOME CONTAMINATION. THE TANK WAS IN DENSE CLAY, AND ON A BASELINE 1 SITE, SO I REQUIRED NO SOIL REMOVAL.
B-533-1998*B-533- 98
Rockwood

Wednesday August 12, 1998			0850

I received a phone call from Jeanie (695-3721), of the Maine Forest Service in Greenville.  She phoned to pass on a report of an oil sheen near the Rockwood Docks, on Moosehead Lake, in Rockwood.  The Sheen was reported as being about 30 feet across and extending from Mount Kineo to the Rockwood Docks.

I phoned Ken Langlains (534-9001).  Ken said that earlier this morning he smelled something like diesel or heating oil and saw a sheen that was about 20 to 30 feet wide and about 500 feet in length.  He said that the sheen extended toward Birch Point and that there was a strong North wind.  I asked Ken to check and see if the sheen is still around and please phone back.

Ken checked and phoned me back at 0930.  He informed me that the sheen had dissipated and he could no longer see or smell it.  File closed.
A-522-1996*     DEP received a report from a property owner (Hopkins) reporting that he had encountered what he believed to be petroleum contaminated soils during excavations (installation of a leach field and placement of a water line) several months previously.  Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property on 11/21/96.
     According to Mr. Hopkins the property had been used residentially at some time in the past.  He also had heard rumors that some sort of oil storage tanks had been located on the property (several large concrete fopundations that are still present may support these rumors).  The lot (1/2 acre) is bounded on the east by the Passagassawakea River (tidal) and on the west by tracks believed owned by the Belfast & Moosehead Railroad (it is unclear how far the RR right-of-way might extend onto Mr. Hopkins' property). Mr. Hopkins claims that many trees on the property appear "stressed" during the summer (this was not evident during my early winter visit).  We dug several shallow test pits in the areas identified by Mr. Hopkins; two of these ended 3' below grade.  At no time did I observe evidence of petroleum contamination.
     The municipal water supply line currently ends at the property adjacent to Mr. Hopkins (approx. 300' away).  Mr. Hopkins had drilled a well (200' deep, 90' of casing) in 1992 with the intention of residing here. Water sampled at this well shows no petroleum contamination.  The municipal water line ends at the adjacent property (approx. 300' away).
     I observed no evidence of the contamination alleged by Mr. Hopkins during this 11/21/96 site visit.  I do not anticipate further DEP involvement at this property unless new evidence of contamination is presented.
B-536-2000*B-536-2000
09/29/2000  18:49

     Tom Williams of Dead River Oil in Brewer called to report a small spill of #2 fuel at a residence on 40 Fenton Way in Bangor.  It was stated that approximately 5 gallons spilled from a loose fitting on the basement above ground tank.  The spill was then cleaned up with sorbent material.  No drains were said to have been affected.
P-661-2001*On 8/27/01 I received a call from Sargent Frank Porier of the Maine State Police reporting a potential live bomb found in Sebago Lake near Frye Island.  The State Police Bomb Squad was planning on detonating the bomb in place the following day and wondered if there were any environmental concerns that needed to be addressed.  I told him I thought the only potential impact would be a fish kill from the explosion.  I offered him any assistance we could provide.  He asked if we could help them and the game wardens provide a security zone around the area while they mitigated the hazard.  I told him we could.

I met with Sargent Porier and several members of the Maine State Police along with game wardens the following morning.  We traveled by boat to the area where the bomb was located and provided the security that they requested.  The bomb was detonated using a shape charge.  It turned out to be a "practice bomb" and was determined to be not a live bomb.  No fish kill was observed.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
AUGUST 29, 2001
A-313-1997*Crowe Rope had a spill of butyl acetate while they were sorting materials which had been left by the previous owners.  They did not report the spill.  The lab techs were overcome by the fumes and transported.  The spill was cleaned up.  The debris was placed outside because of the odours.  Clean Harbors was scheduled to collect a pallet full of material and this was to go with it.  It was stored in a poor location near the employee's break area.  I arranged for it to be overpacked and secured inside.  Clean Harbors collected the material the next week.
B-387-2001*      On July 7, 2001 at 0845 we received a call from Ken Eaton of Eaton's boat yard in Castine reporting a twenty gallon spill of diesel fuel from the previous evening.  The owner of the private cruiser "Pole Star" was re-fueling the vessel at the dock and wasn't concentrating on his job and overfilled the vessel and spilled about twenty gallons of diesel fuel.  I talked to Petty Officer Mitchell of the Coast Guard who was on site investigating the spill and he said dock workers recovered between ten and fifteen gallons of fuel with sorbents.  Some of the oil stayed on the dock and some was trapped between the boat and the dock which aided in the oil's recovery.
      Mr. Eaton had lobsters stored nearby and someone  mistakenly pulled the crates from the water but through a slight oil sheen.  I informed Mr. Eaton about the third party damage claim procedure.  However, Mr. Eaton cooked a few of the lobsters and after he ate them he didn't believe they had any oily taste.
P-272-1996*On 5/8/96 I received a call from John Ferland reporting a spill from their vessel the Casco Bay Responder.  The spill occurred when some fuel piping leaked into the bilge and was pumped overboard.  Most of the spill dispersed without clean up.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
A-670-2000*The U.S. Coast Guard called asking if we could checkout the vessel Kennebeck or Stillwater (they were unsure of the actual name), because there was a report that the vessel had been abandoned and was possibly leaking fluids.  I responded to the complaint and found nothing of concern.  The vessel looked as if it were in good shape, tied-up to a couple of pilings.  There was mention that the individual that owned the landing wanted the vessel removed, which might account for the report that the vessel was a problem.

I later spoke with the Damariscotta Harbor Master, Paul Bryant (563-3398), who stated that the last known owner of the vessel was Randy Dunnigan of Alna, and that the Camden National Bank (563-8222)  held the loan on the vessel.  He also stated that the vessel had been in the present location for some time, but had disappeared for a while and returned with a new paint job.  He was unsure what the vessel contained, or for that matter, if there were any problems with it, just that Mr. Dunnigan had financal problems, and that the bank did not what to assume responsibility for the vessel.

The vessel was removed at a later date.  No further action required for Response.
P-95-1997*SEE ATTACHED
B-340-1996*On 6/29/96, 0820 hours Eric Kennedy of Champion International Corp. called to report that there was an oil sheen on the river in their log pond area.  This area has on several occasions collected sheens from sources that have never been traced.  He thought that it was a light product like heating oil. Also, he felt that it had been around for awhile, because it had collected dirt and had a brownish color, and that it was not getting bigger-an important consideration.  Eric said that they had been excavating one of the lines that went from the dock to the bulk plant. He offered this as a plausible explanation.  However, it was not definitely traceable to any source at the time of the report.
A-213-1999* On April 15, 1999, the Boothbay Harbor Fire Dept. reported a gasoline spill at St. Andrews Village. St. Andrews Village is/will be a retirement community.  Ledgewood Inc. is the general contractor at this constuction site and they are also the responsible party.
 The spill happened when a 55 gallon drum fell over. This drum had just been filled w/ gasoline and it was resting on a wooden pallet. The soft mud allowed the pallet to sink and then the drum fell over.  The Boothbay Harbor Fire Dept. responded. They used sorbent pads to contain and recover the spilled gas. There was also several bales of hay near the spill site that absorbed some gas, this was later burned by Ledgewood. The spill occurred near the portable trailers and there was standing water in and under the trailers. Clean Harbors was hired to pump this water. Lou Turmelle (of Ledgewood, Inc.) assisted me in collecting all of the sorbent pads.  Clean Harbors arrived after my departure to collect the bags of pads and pump the water. The next day the contaminated soil was excavated and transported to C.P., by Bridge Corp. A total of 36 tons of soil was removed.
 There are two wells slightly upgradient of the spill site. The first is a dug well at Ethael Mae Fissionette, the second is a drilled well at Joni & Paul Sherman's home.  Both of these homes are located on the McCobb Rd.
 Public water will soon be located on McCobb Rd.  Therefore, a solution to any well contamination will soon be available, if needed.
 Alex Pugh and I made a site visit on 5-25-99 and collected a water sample from the Sherman's residence. Lab analysis found low levels (4.6 ug/l) of MTBE. Alex or I will resample this at a later date.

A-481-1999*Petty Officer Jim Kaminski of the Bucksport Marine Safety Office called to report a sheen. He reported that there was a sheen in Rockland Harbor from the State Ferry Terminal to Prock Marine. He had the Rockland station investigate. They reported that it was breaking up. No responsible party was identified. No site visit was made and no further work is necessary  on this spill.
P-547-1996*On September 3, 1996 I was contacted by Tom Schwarm of Acadia Environmental concerning contaminated soil found during a construction project at an old gas station.  Downeast Energy was building a new gas station at the site of the old Jeff's Exxon at 484 Center Street in Auburn.  During the construction previously documented contaminated soil in the SE corner of the site (see spill report #P-311-88) needed to be removed. I issued a virgin letter for the soil to be taken to Commercial Paving. I also discussed the site at lenght with Mr. Schwarm because of concerns I had about "uncontaminted" soils that also needed to be moved off site.  An apropriate fill site was found at Maine Metal Recycling on Washington Ave. in Auburn.  I approved the site and issued a clean up agreement.

There were also two tanks removed from the site.  These tanks were in good condition with no indications of spillage.  No further action.
A-82-1996*Sandy Moody, an employee at DEP spoke to me directly that her trailer had a petroleum odor in it. I went to her trailer on 2/21/96. There was no petroleum odor in her trailer but there was one outside by the tank. I called her and she said that her son had witnessed a minor overfill of the above ground 275 gallon tank. McGee Oil was the supplier. I looked again and found some oil by the tank and sorbed it up with pads. The oil was in the cinder blocks that were supporting the tank. The frozen ground had not allowed the oil to escape from the spaces in the cinder blocks.  No further work is necessary.
A-195-1997*Received a report from Janet Lagasse of CMP that there had been a trafic accident and that a pole with a transformer on it was damaged. About 10-15 gallons was released and cleaned up by CMP. No site visit was made and no additional work is necessary.
P-649-1996*On 10/22/96 I received a call through the Maine State Police from the Raymond Fire Dept. reporting a basement full of oil on Aquilla Lane.  I responded immediately.  When I arrived I observed the basement.  There was approximately 1 foot of liquid in the basement.  Although the liquid had a very reddish color to it and appeared to be fuel oil, it was not.  The liquid had a solvent like smell to it.  I suggested to the property caretaker that he have Clean Harbors sample the water and dispose of it properly.

The subsequent analysis did not show the water to be hazardous waste, but due to the location of the home (adjacent to Long Lake) I did not feel it appropriate to discharge the water near the lake.  Clean Harbors removed the water as a non hazardous wastewater.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
A-490-2000* A mystery oil sheen appeared in Boothbay Harbor. Petty officer Paul Triolo investigated and could not find the source. No other action taken.
P-680-1999*See attached report from CMP.
P-414-1987*
Investigation by DEP's Ed Antz into mystery vapor problem in residential building.  Lomng term chronic problem, later believed to be associated with UST leaks @ Town taxi Co. on Brackett St.  See also P-809-89.
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P-504-2001*No narrative.  Please see attachments.
A-283-2001*   DEP received a report that a minor overfill had occurred at this residential AST and had been completely recovered.
P-176-1992*
	 UST investigation of municipal, consumptive-use motor fuels UST facility.  Failed tank testing issue.  See attached narrative and test results,
I-42-2000*On 5-4-00, the Main Street MPG service station called to report they had gasoline in one of the piping sumps. They thought there may be a line leak.
P-177-2000*   Notified by Contractor on 3/31/00, the discharge occurred when a building contractor accidentally cut a copper fuel line with a saw while cutting up the old wooden floor (fuel line hung from floor joists underneath).  Fuel was siphoned out of the tank onto debris and water pooled in the old basement.  The basement tank and line was not known about when the building reconstruction began.
    Clean Harbors was on-site with a vacuum truck to recover free product and oily debris (see photos).  After clean-up of the oil and removal of the old AST facility, the basement was to be filled in with clean fill and a concrete slab floor poured over.
   No state expenses incurred and no product is believed to have escaped the structure's basement.  The RP is identified as PM Construction and its subcontractors, who hired Clean Harbors to respond.  As the RP did not own the AST facility I understand that they are not eligible to apply to the AST Clean-Up Ins. Fund.  See attached and UST file Reg. #1254 for further info on this spill and the location.  A UST near the spill site, in the rear of the building, was abandoned-in-place in 1997 but no evidence of a discharge is known to be associated with this UST.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
B-228-1996*On 05/06/96, 1030 hrs Jim Miller of the U.S. Navy Base in Winter Harbor called to report that they had had a waste oil spill.  Someone had left a container of waste oil outside and uncovered.  Consequently, when it rained the container overflowed causing a spill.  Jim estimated the volume at less than 2 gallons.  He said that he had scraped up the area.  The clean up generated two five gallon containers of soil.  Since the spill product was most likely held out onto the surface, I expect that the ten gallons of soil contained all of the spill.
I-94-2000*A hydraulic hose burst causing 2 gallons of hydraulic oil to spill.  A grader was used to spread over a 7 mile gravel road.
B-391-2001*Imagine Krystle Carter's surprise when she discovered that what she hoped was an earthquake was, in fact, her house trailer falling off its blocks. Imagine her further consternation when she discovered that the impact of the trailer on the oil storage tank  severed the furnace feed line.  About 40 gallons was lost.

The lot is mostly clay, and because of that, the oil didn't migrate very far.  I hired Alan Seavey to dig it up on 7/11.  The volume of soil amounted to 20 yards, and that was spread in Perry to weather.
P-366-2000*Received a call from the Topsham Fire Dept. regarding the vandalism of the property at 307 Cathance Road, where the copper supply line and other piping to the "new" boiler had been cut.  Approximately 25 gallons of fuel had been discharged onto the basement floor and made its way into a floor drain and eventually to a drainage ditch in a field next to the property.  By the time I arrived, the Fire Dept. had placed sorbents in both the basement and the field to collect free product.  In addition, I spoke with Jerry & Heather Lass (prospective owners) and ascertained that they where in the process of buying the property and were having problems with the previous/present owner (it was unclear whom actually owned the property at this time), and speculated that the previous/present owner was the culprit of the vandalism, but had no proof.  There was a well on-site, but it was a far distance up-gradient of the discharge.  The only concern was the vapors in the building, which required the removal of the crushed stone, basement floor.  Arrangements were made with Fleet Environmental Services to remove and replace the basement floor, which commenced on 6/21/00 & 7/14/00.  Most of the oil had been contained within the stone, because of the underlying clay except for the small amount that had made it into the floor drain, which was collected using sorbent pads.

No further action required.
A-405-1996*see attached and site assessment in tank file # 9299
A-413-1999*A hose broke on a drill, spilling a small amount of hydraulic fluid.

No site visit made; no further action required by Response Services.
P-415-1999*See attached report from CMP.
A-134-2000*A bucket truck blew a hydraulic hose. It was padded up. No site visit made. See attached report from CMP for more information.
I-27-1997*On 3-25-97, Donna Easler of Presque Isle called this office to report that her oil tank was empty and they had just had a delivery of 100 gallons the week before. From the average usage of a trailer and the fact there was no fuel left, about 100 gallons was estimated to have been lost. I hired Soderberg Construction that day to excavate all contaminated soil. I also placed the Easler's on quarterly monitoring.
I-92-2000*On 7/11/00, Irving Forest products reported a hydraulic spill as the result of a ruptered hose on a crane. All was picked up by using sawdust. The saw dust was then burned in their boiler on site.
B-258-2000*     On May 11, 2000 at 1400 we received a call from Petty Officer Grunwalt of the U.S. Coast Guard in Bucksport reporting a slight sheen from a sunken vessel in Jonesport Harbor.  The vessel was the 38' dragger "Compensation" owned by Milton Merchant.  A Coast Guard vessel was on site monitoring the vessel's salvage and said a slight sheen of bilge oil was present.  The boat had fifty gallons of diesel on board but the fuel was not leaking.
I-59-1997*The Madawaska Hazmat Team reported a leak from a Rail Car carrying alum.

Car # is NATX 16311 and the car was placarded UN # 3264.

When I arrived on site, the hazmat team was well on the way to emptying the car with pumps.

The suspected problem was a faulty lining in the rail car.

The car was moved while it was leaking from the siding to the dumping point, inside the Fraser Paper property. A large spot was left on siding and a trail from the original site to the dumping point was very visible.

Inside Fraser the leak was captured but the floor drains which discharge to the sewer system.


The B&A hired J.T. Langille to determine if any of the material on the tracks had to be removed . The J.T. Langille report indicated the product had been neutralized and no further work was needed.

General Alum holds the company that recently relined the railcar responsible, General Electric Corp.


Case Closed
B-68-1999*Bangor Hydro called to report that a 667volt regulator had leaked about 2 quarts of non-PCB mineral oil. This regulator was in their storage area at Graham Station. They padded up the free oil and then jack hammered up the frozen soil beneath it. The debris went to Sawyer's landfill.
A-569-1996* This basement became flooded and Mr. Morrisette thought that the water in the basement had oil on it. The local F.D. would not pump out the water until the oil had been removed and requested that someone from DEP look at the situation. I responded and had Mr. Morrisette turn off the electrical power. I then put on hip boots and waded through the water in the basement. There was no oil in the basement and I gave them permission to pump out the water in the basement.
P-460-1999*Spill while digging pipeline trench.  See attached Maritimes and Northeast pipeline spill report.
P-37-2000*On 01/16/2000 I received a call from Warden Patrick Egan reporting that a snowmobile had gone through the ice on Highland Lake.  The owner, Dana Pickerell, stated that he had been riding for a while before it went through so there was little fuel in it.  He also stated that it was a brand new 2000 model year sled so he would be retreiving it from the lake as soon as possible.  The Warden stated that there was a small sheen in the water where it had gone through but no other evidence of a discharge.  I told them to call back when they were removing it if there was any further release.  The following day I received a call from a neighbor on the lake who stated she saw several men out on the ice working on a snowmobile, I told her that I knew about the incident and that they were in the process of retreiving the sled.  I never heard back from Mr. Pickerell or the Warden.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



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Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
March 3, 2000
A-641-1999* On 10-23 Mead Paper reported an oil spill at their facility. About 40 gallons of hydraulic oil leaked from a hole in a suction line at the No. 15 Paper Machine.  All of the oil leaked into the sewer system and then into waste treatment plant. No site visit was made and no further action will be required.
I-167-2001*A broken hose caused 25 gallons of hydraulic oil to spill.  It was cleaned up with sorbent pads and taken to Sullivan's garage waste oil burner.
A-457-1999*As part of ongoing routine sampling of the Tenants Harbor area, Cheryl Fontaine received a request to sample at the home of Mark Ausplund. The Ausplunds complained of an odor in their water. Sample results from a water sample taken 4/28/99 were positive for MTBE at 23 ppb. A resample confirmed the results at 20 ppb.

This home is remotely located from any neighboring homes. A survey of the area revealed no apparent cause, but of note is the proximity of the homeowner's Saab parked with its tail-pipe up against the well casing.

No site visit made; no further action required by Response Services.
P-757-1999*On 10/28/99, I received a call from Jaimee Zick of CEA.  She wanted information for a report on an incident at 89 Cumberland Street in Westbrook that occurred on September 30, 1999.  I looked through the records but couldn't find any evidence of the incident having been reported.  I then called Clean Harbors and spoke to Ray, he stated that it had been a small spill onto a paved parking lot that occurred when a tractor trailer truck backed into a guardrail and punctured its saddle tank.  Clean Harbors was called by AMI Leasing and they cleaned up the spill with speedi dry.

On 11/01/99, I received a summary report from CEA which stated that the spill was reported to the DEP and it was above the "reportable quantity of 10 gallons".  I called Jaimee Zick and explained to her there is no "reportable quantity" for surface spills of this sort and that I had been unable to find any evidence of the spill being reported.  She stated that she would revise the report and send out a new copy to me, but I never received it.

No further response actions is necessary at this time.



_____________________________
Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
November 1, 1999
I-202-1998*On 10-8-98, Dave Page of Irving Oil Co. in Caribou called this office to report that a spill had been discovered at a customers residence during a routine maintenance visit. Apparently the tank in the basement had a small corrosion hole on the bottom causing it to drip occasionally. There was no way to tell how much had been lost but the technicians on-site were able to remove a small amount of oily dirt from beneath the tank and clean it up. I visited the site later in the day and confirmed the completeness of cleanup. The tank was replaced.
B-174-2000*     On March 29, 2000 at 1430 we received a call from Wally Tapley of Dead River Oil in Millinocket reporting a five gallon #2 oil spill at the home of Ms. Cynthia MacLeod at 54 Elm street in East Millinocket.  Ms. MacLeod smelled fuel in the morning and notified Dead River Oil.  A technician found a leaking copper feedline where the line exits from the cement floor.  He stopped the leak and recovered the fuel with sorbents.  The basement has a cement floor and the area is on town water.
A-516-2000* On 9-18-2000, a tractor trailer truck had an accident on the bridge on Route 4 in the town of Livermore Falls. The Fire Dept. reported the accident, responded and cleaned up the small amount of diesel and motor oil.  The Fire Department reported no petroleum products entered the river. No site visit was made.  No further action will be required.

B-474-1997*On 8/25/Millard Cole of Cummings Construction requested a waiver of the thirty day waiting requirement for a tank removal at the residence of Harold Wyner in Machiasport.  We came up with a mutually acceptable date of 8/29/97.  The removal went well and there was no evidence of a release.  Soil taken from the bottom of the tank was odor free.  It didn't even smell like dirt.  It was sandy till.  No water came into the hole.  The tank had superficial rust but no pitting.  This removal and the one reported in B-473-97 were within a hundred yards of each other.
B-311-2001*     On May 31, 2001 at 0930 we received a call from Fred Leigh of Bangor Hydro reporting a hydraulic spill from a blown hose on a truck in Garland.  About six gallons leaked onto a gravel driveway at Paul Grodin's home on route 94 which is three poles south of the village store.  Mr. Leigh said workers recovered the oil with sorbents and excavated two drums of gravel.  There is a drilled well about thirty feet away.  I visited the site that afternoon and found a satisfactory clean-up and due to the clean-up and small spill size the well is in no danger of contamination.

I-160-1999*A spill at the unmanned fuel station in Portage, was reported to the Ashland DOC office.

Spill was a small diesel spill about 15 feet from the pumps. It appears someone was filling a nurse tank in the back of a pickup and overfilled it. BUT that is only a guess. the actual cause is unknown.

DOC responded with a backhoe and about 3 inches of the gravel driveway was scraped up. Spill did not penetrate into the gravel deeper than 2 inches.

case closed
A-67-1999*     DEP received a report from the managers of this cash-fuel operation that persons unknown had spilled an estimated three gallons of oil sometime during the night.  They claim to have recovered spilled product using sorbent pads, and that no evidence of oil remained (no penetration of soils underlying the unpaved loading rack).
P-750-1996*Car hit pole downing transformer.  Most oil recovered from road side and pumped from storm drain.  See attached CMP report.
A-219-1999*See attached narrative for additional information.
I-84-2000*On 8-18-00, Tony Delucca of Aroostook Water Care called this office to report that he had been contacted by County Bulk Foods in Monticello to install a carbon filter because of petroleum contamination. He wanted this dept. to be involved before he took any action. I met with Barbara Redman that day at CBF and could smell some type of oil in the water. The well had been out of service for several years before they took over the property. It had been a service garage and part of an uncontrolled sites investigation (Stevens Junk Yard). I took a sample and confirmed the contamination. A filter was installed and the uncontrolled sites division notified.
A-476-1997*Received a call from a person reporting an oil spill who wished to remain anonymous. He spoke to me about his neighbor, Dan Gray that has a continuous leak from his car. The complaintant was afraid that it was going to spread on to his property and endanger his children. The site was in Augusta and I inspected it. There was an oil stain on Mr. Gray's driveway. It was only two feet in width. Obviously Mr. Gray has a problem with a leaking oil pan, but that is all. I informed the complaintant that there was no danger of this spreading onto his property and no risk to his children as they play in their own yard. No further work is needed on this site.
B-557-2000*According to Laura Hunt of GP, an estimated 100 gallons of hydraulic oil was spilled at GP's Oriented Strand Board mill on the 10th.  Cause was a leaking hydraulic oil return line.  The leak wasn't noticed right away because being on the return side, the saws didn't stop running right away;  also, the leak was against a wall and the oil ran down behind some junk piled there and was temporarily concealed.

Because the leak was indoors, all the oil was contained and cleaned up, she said.  I pointed out that they seemed to be having a lot of these types of spills at that facility lately, and that maybe they needed a more intense PM regime.  She agreed and we eventually said goodbye.  Later that month the company shut down that facility for good, which is probably why maintenance had lapsed there of late.
P-215-2001*03.23.2001 responded to spill location and observed a discharge from an above ground supply tank located in the back yard of the property.  Dead River Co. replaced a broken tank valve that cracked due to ice and snow build up around the bottom of the tank.

DEP contracted to clean up the spill.  Clean up consisted of oil impacted ice and snow removal.  A backhoe machine used in the clean up effort damaged the adjacent driveway. The DEP will replace a portion of the driveway, see attached DEP Permission Form.

No further Response action anticipated.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 09.18.2001
P-949-2001*UPON ROUTINE INSPECTION, OIL BURNER TECHNICIAN NOTICED LEAK IN AST.  PER ORDER OF DEP, TANK WAS PUMPED OFF AND TEMPORARY SETUP ENACTED.  DEP PERSONELL REMOVED APPROX 2 YDS OF CONTAMINATED SOIL AND DISPOSED OF IT AT CRS.  HOLE TO BE BACKFILLED BY TECHNICIAN WHEN HE REPLACES OLD TANK AND BRINGS SITE UP TO CODE.
B-185-1996*D-TREE = N (No Contamination).
P-485-1996*  At the request of Mr. Tate, Superintendent, I visited this facility to check on a potential abandon-in-place of a 4000 gal. #2 oil UST for the crematory.  I explained to Mr. Tate that filling in place for trees was not routine and that DEP would make a decision on seeing the top of the UST uncovered and seeing that the 20 ft. trees would indeed be threatened with falling over (the trees do not actually lie under, but adjacent to the tank and possibly not in a grave situation).
  Tate ended by explaining the UST still had several thousand gallons of fuel and he will waite till next spring, 1997, in order to use the fuel and then remove the tank.  Further DEP action is possible for a potential check on abandoning the tank in place next spring.
P-37-1996*On 1/18/96 I received a call through the Maine State Police from Mark Gagnon reporting an AST leak at the Coffin residence in Berwick.  Approximately 125 gallons of Kerosene had been spilled when ice fell off the roof of the home and broke the valve of the tank.  Gagnon had placed sorbent material down and was making arrangements for repair of the tank.  I responded the next day.  I picked up soiled sorbent pads and discussed a potential excavation with John Coffin.  During this visit I observed that he had a dug well that would be at risk from this spill.  I also suggested he contact his insurance company to see if they would cover the spill.  On 1/25/96 I received word from his insurance company that they would cover the spill and would make arrangements for the cleanup.  Please see attached reports from Fugro East, Inc. regarding further cleanup conducted.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
A-217-2000*Received a call from Adam Doran of Central Maine Power Company that there was a transformer leaking in Jay.  He reported that a transformer had over heated and started leaking.  It leaked about 1 gallon of Non-PCB oil.  They wiped down some surfaces and shoveled up the contaminated sand.  No site visit was made and no further work is needed on this spill.
P-42-2001*On 01/19/01 a truck parked overnight at the Auburn Irving Mainway leaked about 30 gallons of diesel out of a cracked crossover.  The spill was noticed by Irving employees on 01/20/01 and was cleaned up with sorbent materials.  The spill was contained to the paved area and did not enter any storm drains.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



_____________________________
Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
January 22, 2001
I-178-1997*On 11-5-97, this office received a fax from J.M. Huber indicating a spill had occurred inside their plant on 10-28-97. Due to a loose fitting on a hydraulic hose on an auto strapper about 11 gallons spilled. All was cleaned up using spedydry.
B-254-1999*B-254-99
Old Town

Friday May 21, 1999				0825

Paul Richards, of the Old Town Fire Department, phoned to report a hydraulic oil spill at the Old Town Transfer Station.  The transfer station is located off the Gillman Falls Road.  Paul indicated that he and other fire fighters were involved in the oil spill clean up.

When I arrived I noted a large paved area with hydraulic oil spilled near and under a dumpster.  Paul Richards and I continued to wipe the surface of thick hydraulic oil using sorbent pads.  When we got what we could in that area, speedi-dri was put down on the oil and pavement.  This spill generated two 55-gallon drums off spill debris.  The debris consisted of sorbent pads used speedi-dri and some sandy soil.  The drums were taken to Sawyer Environmental in Hampden.
B-499-1996*D-TREE=I.
A-461-1999*Mr. Tucker stopped by DEP to report his neighbor was dumping oil and rain was washing this very near his mother's well.  I visited the site and found an oil stain on a paved drive.  There were a number of empty oil cans and an empty pan that had contained the used oil.  This building is both a business and a residence.  Employees at the site told me Mr. Hazlet was responsible and had had problems with his car.  He is an employee at the site and resides in an apartment there.  I was told they would insist that he clean all traces of oil.  I thought this would be the end as it looked like a one-time occurrence.  I had been told that the pan had spilled accidentally.  I reported this to Mr. Tucker and he told me I had missed the dumping spot.  He told me the dumping was next to a woodpile at the edge of the drive.  I contacted the building owner, Berry McCormick 948-2731, and went back to look at the area indicated by Mr. Tucker.  There is some surface staining at that spot, and it looked like something black had run from the pile and across the lawn at some time in the past.  There was no oil odor and the soil didn't feel oily.  The oil stain I had observed previously had been completely cleaned.  I spoke with the site manager and Mr. Hazlet and advised them of the need to protect the groundwater for their well as well and the neighbors.  I didn't feel I could require more.   No further action is anticipated.
I-166-1999*Investigation of reported propane rail car leak. Reported leak turned out negative.
P-389-1998*On 8/17/98 I received a call through the Maine State Police from Neil Clark reporting a fuel oil leak at his summer residence in Poland.  I responded the next day.  Upon arrival I observed that the tank was "weeping" very slightly.  Very little oil had actually leaked at the time.  I advised the homeowner to have the oil tank emptied and replaced ASAP.  He indicated that the tank would be replaced the next day.  The home was served by a driven point located approximately 10 feet from the tank.  I did not feel that there was risk of contamination of the well due to this spill event.  I did however provide information to Mr. Clark on where he could get his water tested and told him to call me if he had any problems.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
AUGUST 19, 1998
A-699-1999* Mr. David McCaskill called this office on a Monday morning to report an oil spill that he had found Saturday morning. He was boating in the ocean in the town of Friendship when he paddled through what he described as waste motor oil. I could not make it to the site on Monday however I checked into it on Tuesday.  I found the correct boat launch, but there was no oil to be found. Case closed.
A-180-1997*The caller reported that hay had been used to hide oil at this intersection.  They gave the last name of the RP as Youland.  I found a wet area which had been stabalized to prevent errosion.  There was a heavy marsh sheen, but no oil.  I concluded that this was what had been reported.  No further action is anticipated.
A-247-2000*Discharge was the result of an overfill during delivery.  C. N. Brown collected the oil with sorbent pads and removed gravel under the vent.  They were unable to check the tank, because no one was home.  They did leave a note for the homeowner to contact them, so they could check out the tank.

No further action required at this time.
B-686-2000*On 12/23/00, 1610 hours Rixhard Horton, who is with the Blue Hill Fire Department, reported a one gallon gasoline spill that had resulted from an automotive accident.  The vehicle landed on its' side and a small amount of product escaped from the fill tube.  The release was about a gallon and it landed on the snow-covered surface of the road.  There were no houses, nor water bodies around so we agreed that nature would take care of the spill.
A-169-1999*A spill occurred while filling the AST at an apartment building owned by Carl & Catherine Walton (P.O. Box 644, Farmington).  The operator lost the contents of a hose, about 10-12 gallons.  The spill was to a gravel parking lot adjacent to the apartment building.  Sorbent pads were used to collect the product; contaminated sand/gravel was removed by the spiller.

On April 1, I visited the site and asked Eddie's Oil Co. to remove more soil because there was a stained area that smelled strongly of fuel oil.  I stopped by on April 14 to confirm the work had been completed.

No further action required.
B-723-1999*Ed Watson owns a spring west of Reuben's Market, and according to Harold Evans of our Augusta office, who took the complaint, intends to finance his retirement from the revenue generated selling springwater.   Mr. Watson is justifiably concerned about the proximity of the gasoline pumps and USTs at Reuben's Market and alleges that sloppy practices by the gas buying clientel there threaten his spring and livelihood.

Investigating on 11/15, I could find no sign of spillage on the surface  or under the pumps. The system is up to code and the cashier at the Market keeps an eye on activity at the pumps. Hatch keeps sorbents on hand, and is aware now, of his obligation to log and report spills.

It seems inevitable that eventually a spill at Reuben's will impact Watson's spring, but as of now, Hatch is complying with our regulations.
B-115-1997*Dead River Co. called to report that they had a service man at an apartment house in Orrington to a repair a leaky tank.  They said that this was a dripping tank and a leaky line that had been on going for a week or so.  There was no free product.  On 3/10/97 I met Mr. Ouellette at the house and we entered the basement where the tank had leaked.  They had placed a patch on the bottom of the tank in question and then found that the line may have leaked also.  This is a very old house with a dirt floor and field stone walls.  It is estimated that there was between 30-50 gallons lost.  This was up against the rock wall and it appears that the oil sank into the wall line.  This residence is served by public water.  Since there is no fear of drinking water contamination I only required that the odor be addressed, as I fear that any excavation at the foot of the cellar wall would jeopardize the building's soundness.  Mr. Ouellette said that his company would do a surface clean up and take care of the odor.  I left my card with the tenant, Ms. Ayers, asking that she call me if any problems arise.
B-523-1996*On 9/20/96, I attended a tank removal at Grossman's Lumber (Facility currently abandoned), which is at 470 Odlin Rd.  It was a 1k heating oil UST.  The bottom of the tank was down about 7.5 feet.  There was water in the hole and there was no evidence of discharge.  The tank had been buried in blue marine clay.  It was badly corroded in places and there was a hole (almost 1/4" D) near one of the end plates half ways up from the bottom.  Possibly the hole was opened up by the back hoe.  In any event, the tank wasn't very sound in this particular spot.  No one at the site knew if the tank had been in service at the time Grossmans moved away or not.  Perhaps a mute consideration in as much as there was no evidence of a discharge.  The highest PID head space was 7.5 ppm.

GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. was on site representing Grossmans.  C&C Contractors was the tank remover.  They also had a licenced tank installer on site in the person of Chris Gaudet.
I-73-2000*While conducting a site assessment to determine the source of a contaminated well (1,100 ppm DRO), fuel oil contamination was identified in a former fuel tank area. The owner has placed a filter on their water supply at their expense.

Land-spreading property was identified and the property owner's consultant directed the cleanup to the stringent cleanup standards.

Case closed.
P-209-1997*There was a report that large amounts of hazardous materials were being stored and later used for composting.  The caller stated that the materials were Amylofax 2200 and polyethylene.  Amylofax 2200 turned out to be corn meal with calcium carbonate and the polyethylene was actully the material use in the construction of the large bags that contained the Amylofax 2200.  No further action required.
A-127-1998*The Gardiner CEO reported a large sheen coming out of the storm drain outfall.  A large amount of melting was occuring and the flow was high.  Many of the runoff streams on the connecting streets had minor sheens.  Bailey Auto had just washed out their bays and were washing cars and allowing the water to run into a catch basin.  There were many potential sources for this non point source pollution.
B-121-2000*     On March 2, 2000 at 1030 we received a call from Mike Mitchell of the Bucksport Coast Guard station reporting a 20' X 25' sheen outside the Eastport breakwater.  The sheen looked like bilge oil and was dissipating due to wind and tide.  No cleanup was feasible.
P-385-1997*On 7/17/97 I received a call from Ron Wilson reporting contamination found during a tank installation in Portland.  I responded immediately.  Les Wilson & Sons was installing a new tank in an excavation that had not previously contained an underground storage tank.  There was strong fuel oil odor in the excavation.  Dick Foss of Schlotterbeck and Foss explained to me that they had suffered a fuel oil discharge approximately 10 years ago that involved a free product recovery.  Ron Wilson inquired about getting DEP Insurance Fund money to cover the clean-up.  The site was determined to be a baseline-1 and no soil exceeding the clean up standard was present.  The soil needed to be removed to facilitate installation of the new tank.  I told Mr. Wilson and Mr. Foss that due to the fact there had been a previous dishcarge, and no tank existed in the excavation that I would not pay for anything out of the fund up front but that they were welcome to file a claim if they chose to do so and gave them Diana McLaughlin's name and number to contact for an application.  I gave them a virgin letter for the disposal of the soil at Commercial Recycling.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
AUGUST 6, 1997
A-91-1998*Received a call from Clive Barker of Franklin County EMA that he was at an oil spill in Industry. A slide of ice from the roof had come off and landed on the oil tank breaking the filter. We spoke about what his crew was doing and what help he needed from me (none). I told him I would go up on a later date. I went up on 4/10/1998 to sample the well and inspect the cleanup. I met Mrs. Schuler and she showed me what had happened. Because of the nature of where the oil landed, cleanup was relatively easy. Most of the oil went onto a paved surface. The water sample I took was nondetect. No further work is necessary on this site.
P-315-2001*4.15.2001 made phone contact with Omera who advised of an oil spill along railroad bed near Coil Street. Omera described a patch of oil stained soil.  I advised Omera that the spill was prohibited but that there was no practical clean up for such an area along tracks.  Also that the spill date could not be determined and that aeration will occur limiting the impact of the spill.  It is suspected that the spill was from a locomotive, but not confirmed.

This event occurred along with several other high impact spills this week.  This was a low priority incident and no DEP response was made.

Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 08.28.2001


B-529-2000*Kevin Jensen, Eastern Fine Paper, called to report a spill of about one gallon of toluene. It seems that state hazardous waste inspectors were touring his facility and while at the toluene bulk storage tank took notice of a salvage drum nearby. Concern with the possibility that the drum might contain some hazardous liquid the inspector tipped the drum. Much to everyone's surprise the rainwater on top of the drum turned out to be toluene! About a gallon spilled to the concrete pad and was cleaned up by a few sorbent pads that will eventually be disposed of through a hazardous waste hauler.
   Subsequent investigation found that the toluene delivery driver was emptying his slop bucket into this emergency drum instead of walking across the yard and using the proper drum in the hazardous waste storage unit.
P-4-1999*On January 4th, 1999 I received a call from the State Police about a tractor-trailer that had gone off the road and lost one of it's saddle tanks just before the York toll Plaza on Southbound 95 (Maine Turnpike).  I responded immediately.  On site I found that the tank had blown all it's fuel up on to a small hillside beside the highway.  Some had run back down into a roadside drainage ditch, that had flowing water.  I also found lube oil in the drainage ditch.  I cleaned up the small stream in the drainage ditch, and left sorbent boom in the stream to catch any further oil the may drain off.  I returned the following day and collected the boom.  No further action anticipated.
B-695-1997*On December 2, 1997 at 1100 we received a call from Mr. Richard Fish, the Hudson Code Enforcement Officer, reporting slight gasoline contamination of three wells in Hudson.  All three wells are adjacent to B&S Salvage and are part of six wells that have an annual analysis as part of a license requirement by the town.  The gasoline levels ranged from 5 PPB to 8.8 PPB while MTBE levels were between 6 PPB and 12 PPB.  All these levels are significantly below the state drinking water action level of 50 PPB.

I made arrangements with the three contaminated well owners to re-sample the wells to confirm the results.  Before I visited the site I talked to Gordon Fuller of  the uncontrolled sites unit in Augusta who said the B&S Salvage site was on their list for sampling and if I could also take samples for heavy metals and other pollutants.  His unit would take care of the billing for the sample analysis.  Paul Blood of the BRO and myself visited the site and collected samples on 12/8 and I gave them to Gordon Fuller in Augusta on 12/9.  These sample results were negative for gasoline at a detection limit of 10 PPB while the MTBE results ranged from 9.7 PPB to 17.2 PPB.

Since this is not a case of emergency response to a spill and the site was on the uncontrolled sites investigative list, the uncontrolled sites unit in Augusta has taken over the site investigation.
P-70-2001*Tom Cummings of Dustroy Transport was filling his saddle tanks while checking his load and the automatic shutoff did not function and around 40 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled onto the ground.  That night I called Fleet to assist in the cleanup.  The following day we returned to find that a lot of the contaminated area had been plowed and the diesel contamination had been spread to several snowbanks along the edges of the facility.  We continued to clean up the paved surfaces and arranged to have the snowbank loaded into a rolloff can.  The snowbank also turned out to contain contamination from a prior spill at the same pump.  A final day was spent cleaning up the contamination.  The bills for the cleanup were initially sent to the truck driver who's insurance company refused to pay.  After guidance from my Supervisor, I sent the bills to Kevin Moore at CN Brown because the spill is actually considered to be the facility's fault.  No further Response action is necessary at this time.



______________________________
Ann E. Hemenway
Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I
November 6, 2001
B-19-1996*Capt. Webb of the Orono Fire Department called to report a #2 spill at the residence of Joe Bowen in the Forest Avenue Trailer Park.  It was stated that ice fell off of the roof breaking the outside tank's filter spilling about 100 gallons beneath the tank and about a foot of fresh snow.

Investigation of the area shown that it was "non-sensitive" being served by a public water supply.  There was the possibility of a fume problem however.  The area was covered with a tarp until it could be excavated in the spring.

On June 14 Lynch Construction removed the contamination beneath the tank.  Approximately 20 yards of material were taken to a previously approved site in Brewer for treatment.  It is believed that the majority of oil was removed from the area.
A-277-1996*     DEP received a complaint from an abutting property owner that locomotives of the Maine Coast Railroad routinely discharge oil at the Wiscasset yard.  The caller also alleged haphazard spraying of herbicides along the track (this matter was referred to Pesticides Control).
     Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the area on 6/25/96.  I observed areas of heavily stained gravel along the track, although it is my understanding that the tracks are used by companies other Maine Coast RR.  I observed fresh spillage (aproximately one quart of lube oil) that spilled from a Maine Coast engine into the sand/gravel rail bed; this engine moved away before the actual cause of the spill could be observed.  I do not feel that remediation here is warranted given the non-sensitive nature of the site, but feel that Maine Coast RR should be requested to maintain their equipment in a manner that prevents continued spillage.
     It is my understanding that this office (Augusta Response) has dealt with MCRR previously on this same issue.  I could find no documentation of this at the time of this writing.
A-170-1996*see attached
I-69-1997*I-69-97
Amity, Aroostook, ME
6/10/97

Recieved complaint at 1418 that there was an oily sheen on Greenleaf Brook in Amity and that the complainant
suspected loggers upstream had spilled oil.  Inspected the site at 1730 and found a slick of plant pollen had blown
up on the shore of small impoundment near bridge.  Investigated upstream and downstream.  No evidence of oil
spilled anywhere.  Case closed.
A-657-1999*A spill in Rockland was transferred to me. Kalloch Fuel of Rockland had called to report a small spill at a customer's house. Elizabeth Carleton had reported an odor of fuel and Kalloch Fuel sent a technician to look into the matter. He found the inside AST to be slowly leaking from a hole in the bottom of the tank. Kalloch Fuel replaced the tank and called DEP to report the spill. I went to Mrs. Carleton's house to investigate. It was apparent that only a very small amount of oil had leaked out. I arranged for Kip's Home Services to excavate the small amount of contaminated soil. This was done to prevent any possible oil vapor problem in the house. No further work is needed.
I-82-1998*PETER GREENIER, FOREMAN, FAXED IN SPILL REPORT, 5 GAL OF AUTOMATIC TRANS FLUID, FROM A BROKEN HOSE, CLEANED UP WITH SORBANT PADS AND DISPOSED AT LANDFILL
P-106-1990*
	Failed SIA investigation.  Retail motor fuels UST facility.  See attached records for further information.
B-5-2001*Dead River Company called to report that they had found a leaking filter gasket at 187 Exchange Street in Bangor. The #2 fuel leaked into the cellar sump which from the piping discharges into the town sewer system. Due to the dry winter conditions they believed that the sump pump had not come on in awhile and suspected that the spilled fuel was all still in the sump. They estimated that there was about 2 gallons which they recovered with sorbent pads.
   I contacted the treatment plant but they had not noticed any fresh fuel oil in their system. No further action anticipated.
I-73-2001*A complaintant stated that 500 to 600 gallons of waste paint had been dumped onto the bark pile and this mixture was to be burned in the mills boiler. The complaintant also stated that another 800 gal. was to be dumped on 6/6/01. (I found no evidence of this additional volume).

I meet Kathy Hoppe on site since she is familiar with the site. We went to the steam plant bark pile where complaintant stated the drums had been dumped and found them still laying over on their sides with a large amount of colored bark on the ground.

We then made contact with Ralph Dwyer, who presented an e-mail explaining to Jim Gramlich what Irving was going to do with this waste paint.

The Waste Paint came from a painting contractor who painted the entire facility last year. The contractor left many smaller containers of brush cleanings and left over paints. Ralph had his crews consolidate these materials into 8 open top 55 gal. drums.

I stopped the burning and explained we may have a problem with Hazardous Waste issues concerning the material.

The procedure that was to follow was to dump the liquids onto a 4 foot thick pile of bark & wood waste, then burn it in the boiler.

The material was piled up and covered with poly. Sampling is being done for parameters requested by Lou Pizzuti in Solid Waste unit and Mary Corr in Haz. Waste unit.

Sampling will be done by S.W. Cole.

Response case closed.
B-679-1997*Tewhey Associates was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railroad to do site assessments at its former switchyards in Eastern Maine.  Soil contamination was discovered at the site in Danforth, at the AST bulk plant being operated by Colby Noyes, dba CINCO Fuel, POB 101 Danforth.  The actual leasee from CPR was Dana Gray, also of Danforth.

Also discovered at the site was an abandoned underground storage tank, 1920's vintage, with the pump mounted right on top of the tank.  According to Rich Fortin of Tewhey, there is considerable contamination of the site as a whole, and the on-going site assessment work will document that for cleanup in 1998. The UST itself was removed on 12/09/97, by Clean Harbors.  About 375 gallons of water and gasoline were recovered from the tank, which appeared to be sound. The soil around the tank exhibited some contamination, either from overfills of the tank, operations at the bulk plant ASTs or piping, or both.

The CPR is not eligible for Insurance Fund cleanup money, so they will probably explore the VRAP program before starting cleanup in 1998.
A-351-1996*The Russells bought a house from the Duchanes.  The Duchanes had operated a car repair shop on the property and had been fairly sloppy.  They had agreed to clean up the site prior to vacating.  This was not done.  A pile of old tires and some buckets of waste oil and paint solvent were left.  I inspected and advised the Russells and the Duchane's real estate agent on simple methods of disposal.  The real estate agent arranged to have the site cleaned.


The above narrative written by Bill Wallace needs correcting.  Duchanes should be spelled Ducharme. The property was bought by them from Robert and Murielle Norton. Mr. Norton ran a transmission repair shop from the four bay garage on the property.  Tim Dunham (Jerry Douglas Realty 729-7927) called on 6/14/2002 and asked for assistance in correcting the report. I also spoke to Paula Ducharme, owner of the property at the time of the original report. She reported that Mr. Norton cleaned up tires and drums of transmission oil. I went to the property on 6/14/2002 and found no drums or junked tires. I went into the four bay garage and found no drums or other containers of oil.  No other investigation was done beyond a visual inspection of the area.

Frank Gehrling, OHMS II
6/14/2002
A-475-1996* Vandals broke into the camp owned by David and Carol Clement. They disconnected and then stole the oil burner from the furnace. They also disconnected the oil line. The outside AST then drained its entire contents onto the ground under the camp.  Nearly all of this oil reached Worthley Pond. The pond is about 25 feet from the camp.
 A resident on the far shore noticed the odor of oil late in the day of 10-23. He reported this to the Peru F.D., but it was to dark to locate anything. This same resident called Peru F.D. the next day. The F.D responded and found a heavy sheen on the west shore. The F.D. then notified this office. By the time I arrived the F.D. had found the source of the leak on the east shore. In the meantime the F.D. had placed 500 feet of sorbent boom along the west shore. I determined that the oil layer was too thin to recover and that course of action should be too let the sun and wind evaporate and dilute the oil sheen.
 Back at the spill site we dug an interceptor trench and placed pads into it. In addition, we placed sorbent boom into the lake to capture any sheen that may leach from the shore area.
 I checked on the trench several times and changed the pads. On 11-8 I removed the sorbent boom on the west shore.
 A contractor, Noyes sand and gravel, remove one or two cubic yds of soil from under the camp. The area is very shallow to bedrock. In all likelihood the oil seeped through the small amount of soil and then into the lake.
 I will check the trench through out the winter and spring, weather permiting.
A-200-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98.  See attached CMP report for more information.  No further action anticipated.
I-105-1999*On 7-1-99, Carl Soderberg reported the presence of waste oil in a trench a McCain foods in Presque Isle. His company was excavating trenches to install water lines to existing wells at the old Potato Service facility. The trench had been open for two weeks and there had not been any evidence of oil before then. It had rained the day before and there was now about 1.5 feet of water in the trench with floating oil on both ends of the trench. There did not seem to be a likely source as the water level had dropped since the rain and there was no apparent soil staining. Oil wa padded off the top, and water pumped from the trench to see if more oil would enter. None did, so it was concluded that the oil in the trench had been deliberatly dumped there.
B-235-2001*     On 4/26/01 1300 hours Carl Akeley of Great Northern Paper reported a ten-gallon spill of boral solution.  It had resulted from an over fill of the mixing tank.  Boral is a mixture of NaBH4 and NaOH.  Its' hazard is high pH.  The spill was neutralized with sulfamic acid and put into the process sewer.
I-59-1998*AL PIETKA, SAFETY DIRECTOR, FAXED IN A SPILL REPORT ON 2/12/98. SPILL INVOLVED A PUNCTURE TO A DRUM, SPILL INVOLVED 50 GALS OF HYDRAULIC OIL AND WASTE OIL. SPILL HAPPENED ON EAST SIDE OF CUTTING BLDG- FORWARD OF SAW DUST PILE.
P-136-1998*A sheen was observed within the boom at first light, and suspected of being soot from the vessel T/V Alma, but all precautions were taken in case there was an actual problem with the vessel or terminal.  When I arrived, it was apparent that the sheen was the result of soot that had been emmitted from the vessel, and was confirmed by the U.S. Coast Guard inspector on-site who observed the same material on the fantail of the vessel.

Taking in consideration the difficulty of collecting this material and the actual environmental damage that it might cause, the decision was made to do nothing.

No further action required.
A-272-1996*Frontier Oil had a tanker refurbished and this was its first road trip.  The driver discovered a pinhole leak on his first stop.  He applied a patch and returned to the bulk plant.  The tanker was pumped off and sent for repair. A small amount product landed in the driveway and a trail of drips led to the driveway.  The trail of drips did not leave indicating that the patch was sucessful.
B-503-2001*      On September 11, 2001 at 0745 we received a call from Dave Wright of Dysart's Service reporting a fifty gallon diesel leak from a saddle tank of a truck owned by Frank's Trucking of Canaan.  The truck broke a fuel connection when it hit a very big hole on Maine Mack property adjacent to Dysart's.  The diesel fuel leaked while the truck drove across the lot to Dysart's.
      I arrived on site and met Dave Wright and the driver of the truck.  A crew was recovering the fuel from the pavement with Speedi-Dri.  The hole was full of water and a foot or more deep.  No waters or drains were threatened.  Bangor Volvo is buying the property and hired Dysart's to fill in the hole.  There is no contact person for Maine Mack in the area as the building is vacant.
A-530-2000*Received a call from the Maine Department of Transportation that they had found some areas of oil spillage on state owned tracks operated by the Maine Coast Railroad.  I went down to investigate.  The area is by downtown Wiscasset just north of Route 1.  I inspected the area and found a lot of staining.  Apparently there have been some leaks of lube oil from locomotives or passenger cars on this site.  Even though the staining was extensive, I did not see any free product.  There would be little or no environmental benefit from removing stained ballast.  No further action is necessary on this incident.
B-179-1997*4/23/97 1210

I received a phone call from Jim Tibbits (989-7070), of Eastern Fine Paper.  Mr. Tibbits phoned to report a leak of 200 gallons of a 15% sodium hypochlorite solution.  The sodium hypochlorite entered the secondary containment area on the second level of the filter plant when a stainless steel bolt on a discharge piping flange failed.  Due to cracks and seams in the concrete containment area about 20 to 30 gallons of sodium hypochlorite made its way to the soil beyond the outside wall of the building.

I had been on scene only a short time, speaking with Mr. Tibbits, and looking at the spill when Laidlaw Environmental showed up to initiate clean up.  The secondary containment area was pumped out and the contaminated soil was excavated and removed by Laidlaw Environmental Services.  Nearly 100% of spilled material was recovered in some form, except the material that got into the various cracks in containment and the building structure itself.  See attachment.
A-350-1999*Bill Wallace received a call from Mr. Ken Pride concerning an oil spill in his basement. Bill turned the case over to me and I visited Mr. Pride at his residence. He showed me the tank. There was a small hole under the tank, probably caused by corrosion. The burner technician had put a magnetic patch on it, but the tank was all but empty by then. Mr. Pride had spread some cat litter on the floor to sorb the oil. He first assumed that from visual evidence that only a few gallons had spilled. His oil company did a usage analysis and suggested that the spill could possibly been as much as 200 gallons. If it was that much, all the oil ran into an old drain system over a number of days. Mr. Pride had stated smelling oil 4-5 days ago. The site is an old residential neighborhood with unknown drainage systems. There are no wells and no other environmentally sensitive receptors. No cleanup except for the immediate basement area is required.
B-83-2001*     On March 4, 2001 at 0015 we received a call from the Old Town Fire Dept. reporting a diesel fuel spill from a saddle tank of a tractor trailer by the weigh station on I-95 south.  The truck hit an Old Town police cruiser which had pulled over a vehicle.  According to people on scene most of the fuel spilled onto the highway and DOT was spreading sand on the area.
     I visited the site that morning and found that the truck was still there and wouldn't be removed for at least one more day.  The oil covered a 200 foot stretch of road and a DOT crew and myself estimated that at least forty gallons leaked onto the road.  I dug two holes in the snow around the truck and only the hole adjacent to the saddle tank had a faint diesel smell in the snow at the hole bottom.  Most of the fuel spilled onto the road and was absorbed by the DOT sand.
P-205-2000*17 April 2000, responded to residential spill location and observed that an oil spill occurred in the basement impacting the concrete (around furnace), soil, sump in basement, and soil in backyard.
Clean-up operations over the next several weeks consisted of the following: a) furnace removal and reinstall b) concrete removal and re-pour, approximately one half of basement floor area, c) soil removal from basement and back lawn where oil discharged from sump pump, d) installation of perforated conduit around foundation perimeter and spill area to control any re-occurring vapor emission.
Other actions taken included painting the concrete floor to a uniform finish; locate and clean sump pump drain pipe and install extension; backfill backyard area and seed (area settled and bare spots remain - DEP to correct with additional backfill and seed).
The spill was the result of a corroded underground oil feed line from the above ground storage tank.  The spill developed over a several month period.  It is suspected that a rise in groundwater contributed to the spreading of oil under the foundation and subsequent migration to the sump.
A portion, approximately 25% of the subjects driveway area was impacted with heavy truck traffic and container storage during the clean-up.  DEP to contribute 25% toward re-paving of driveway.  DEP damaged a throw rug during clean up activities.
No further action pending completion of additional backfill and re-seeding.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 1SEP00.
P-78-2000*   Mr. Kilbey notified DEP on 2/7/00 that a well driller hired by his contractor had suffered a discharge of hydraulic oil at his new residential property about 1/7/00, a month earlier.  Mr. Kilbey explained that the oil discharged right over the new well for the new house, but failed to clean it up thoroughly.    DEP records indicated that the spill had not been reported as required.
    During a site visit I noted a rural residential area, not far from the Windham Public Works facility, on private wells and septic.  The new house was near completion, located on a hill above Hall Rd. (see site map).  Because of snow cover I could not locate the well.
    On contacting Mr. Bissen of Affordable Drilling he explained that the well is not threatened as it is 100' deep with 80' of casing.  I advised him about proper spill reporting.  Mr. Bissen claims he excavated and removed to offsite any remaining contaminated soil on 2/15/00.  Mr. Kilbey called me on 2/17 and stated he would check the clean-up and contact me if it appeared uncomplete.  As of the end of March I have not heard back from Kilbey or Bissen.   No further DEP, Resp. Div. actions are expected at this time.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
I-72-1999*ANONYMOUS COMPLAINT RECEIVED THAT GENE HEDMAN PROPERTY HAD SEVERAL VIOLATIONS WHICH INCLUDED STREAM ALTERATION, WETLAND FILLING, OIL SPILL, JUNKYARD, SOLID WASTE/DEMO DEBRIS DISPOSAL, BURNING TIRES, GRAVEL PIT, AND SPILLAGE FROM GASOLINE, DIESEL STORAGE TANKS.  WHEN INVESTIGATED FOUND DRIPS AND DROPS FROM EQUIPMENT OVER THE WINTER.  MR. HEDMAN WILL CLEAN UP.  CASE CLOSED
I-165-1998*A hydraulic line broke while a crew was cleaning manholes in Van Buren.

Broken line was not noticed, and about 450 feet of road was contaminated where the oil ran down hill until it reached another manhole which collected 3 or 4 gallons of free product.

Spill was cleaned up with pads, speedi dri, sawdust and sand.

Free product was removed from the catch basin with pads.  Speedi dri & sand were used to collect the oil on the hot top.

Case Closed.
P-694-2001*Please see attached CMP report.
P-602-2001*On 8/2/01 I received a call from the Gorham Fire Dept. reporting a truck accident and diesel fuel spillage at the intersection of Longfellow and Lowell Rds in Gorham.  I responded immediately.  Upon arrival, I observed that the spillage was hydraulic oil and not diesel fuel.  Sorbent pads were placed on the hydraulic oil spill and I waited on scene while the truck was uprighted.  After the truck was removed, I removed the oily sorbent pads.  No further action required.



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SHERYL J. M. BERNARD
OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II
AUGUST 7, 2001
A-9-2001*Received a call from Tim Murry at Dead River concerning a small spill at a customer's house.  Tim called to report that Dead River had overfilled a tank at 182 Water Street in Augusta.  The building is owned by William Skedgell.   The tank was full when Dead River went to fill it.  They delivered 11 gallons prior to the oil coming out the vent pipe.  Cleanup was with sorbents.  No additional work is necessary on this spill.
B-567-1996*10/12/96 @ 1642

The State Police dispatcher (866-2121) phoned to report a spill in Newport, that had been reported by Mr. Charles Erickson (368-2533), Newport's Fire Chief.

I spoke with Chief Erickson.  According to him a 100 gallon storage tank was leaking diesel fuel and apparently fell off or was pushed off a logging truck on Route 7 in Newport near Buds Shop N Save and Hartley's Chrysler Plymouth.  A probable 30 to 35 gallon of diesel fuel was spilled on the roadway.

The spill was noticed around 1600.  The Fire Department used some sorbent pads and Newport Public Works sanded the roadway with about 4 cubic yards of sand.  The sand was left in place to allow for traffic safety and keep the road from being partially eaten away.  Chief Erickson was trying to trace the diesel tank.  He indicated it was a Deltra $ 110 S 001169.
B-625-1998*A few days before 9/25/98 Chet Childs of Lubec contacted me about removing USTs at his mothers property in Eastport.  His mother's residence had been a service station for a while forty or so years ago and the tanks had been pumped and abandoned for a long time.  The place was built back in the 20's for the CCC personnel that were building nearby dam.  Chet and I discussed the requirements, which included the presence of a tank installer and a site assessment.  Chet managed to pull the whole thing together and the removal took place on 9/25/98.

On site were Todd McPherson of SW Cole, Charles Curtis Construction and David Porter - a tank installer from JD Thomas.  The two tanks were in excellent shape and the hole was without odor.  The PID readings ranged from 9 to 20 ppm, which are readings that one might expect from loamy soil.  The soil was loamy and below the tank excavation was wet marine clay.  The tanks were taken by Curtis Construction.
P-568-1996*Coast Guard reported Unknown substance on the water at the mouth of the Presumpscot, heading into Casco Bay.  I responded to the call.  I saw the substance at the river forming into a line (windrow) about 1/4 mile long and heading  out to sea.  There was no sheen or odor associated with the substance.  Upon closer examination of the substance from a sample provided to me by the CG, it was found to be well combusted soot.  P.O. Betts and I checked any likely sources of the soot in the area, but found nothing.  The soot was nearly all washed out with the late afternoon ebb tide and did not reappear with the next incoming tide.  No further action at this time.
B-275-1999*     On June 1, 1999 at 1030 we received a call from Linda Haagen reporting a lube oil spill from a sump pump that recirculates water in a small pond on her property.  I visited the site and found that the pond  was indeed small, about ten feet by ten feet with a  rubber bottom.  The pump is used to recirculate water in the pond.  There was only a thin silver sheen on the  water and Ms. Haagen said that a neighbor picked up most of the oil with newspapers.
B-769-1999*     On December 2, 1999 at 1730 we received a call from Harold Cliff of Cliff Oil reporting a #2 oil spill on Hudson St. in Bangor.  A delivery truck stopped on the hill at 8 Hudson St. and about a gallon of fuel came out a loose dome cover on the truck.  The product flowed onto the street where the driver recovered the oil with sorbents.  Mr. Cliff said the truck was new but the driver must not have securely tightened the cover.  No oil reached any storm drain.  I checked the site the next morning and found that clean-up was satisfactory.
P-788-1995*
	Investigation and documentation of 1995 notification of unreported long-term gasoline-vapor intrusion into the BNAS Family Services building from historical gasoline discharges at the neighboring Exchange gas station [see p-81-1981 & P-675-1995].
	See the records of BNAS Environmental Division and DEP Technical Services Division for information on resolution and site clearance.  See also the separate 1995 report narrative and attachments.

SG Brezinski
A-56-2001*New installation of outside AST by homeowner. Delivery driver noticed a small leak at the filter while filling tank for the first time, stoped delivery and shut valve on the tank to stop the leak. Homeowner replaced the fiter and I collected a few cups of pink snow. No further action is expected.
I-96-1999*On 6-17-99, this office received a call from Don Cote of LURC, of a hydraulic oil spill in the gravel pit owned by Rick Dumont of Van Buren. An old excavator that had been there for a long time had leaked onto the ground. I called Mr. Dumont and asked him to remove the soil and repair the excavator.
I-190-1999*On 12-21-99, Dave Fraser of Daigle Oil called this office to report a spill that had occurred at the residence of Eugene Seiders in Bridgewater. The previous week, a Daigle employee had placed new fuel lines from the tank to burners and had forgotten to tighten one of the flare nuts. When Mr. Seiders returned home that day he found fuel spraying from the nut and tightened it. He reported this to Daigle on 12-21. I met with Daigle and Mr. Seiders at the residence. Because of the small quantity spilled, the only precaution taken was to place the Seiders on QM and recheck the area in spring to see if any additional cleanup was necessary.
A-196-2000*IP had a spill of hydraulic oil from a hose drip. It was padded up. No site visit made. See attached report from IP for more information.
A-60-1999*A pipe joint failed on a line feeding fuel oil to the furnaces supplying heat to the #4 paper machine.  The spill was entirely to the moat.  See attached report from IP.

No site visit made; no further action required.
A-402-1996*Received a junkyard complaint from an anonymous caller. After speaking with her she stated that the junkyard was in Belfast. She complained about leaking oil from junked cars. I told her I needed details as to where the junkyard was and more specifics as to what she saw. She said that she would call me back with the additional information. She never did. No response was made.
B-606-1998*On September 15, 1998 at 1615 we received a call from Lou Derosier of Lincoln Pulp and Paper reporting a slight sheen leaching from the retaining wall bordering the brook that runs by the mill.  This is a recurring problem from an old leak at their plant.  Workers installed a sorbent boom around the area of leaching.  I talked to Mr. Derosier the next morning and he said the sheen had disappeared during the previous evening.
B-193-1997*On 4/28/97, 2158 hours I was made aware of a truck rollover at mile marker 240 on I-95 in the south bound lane.  The vehilce was on its left side so they did not know what had happened to the left saddle tank.  The dispatcher went on to say that any spillage would go directly into Salmon Stream.  I said that I would investigate and the dispatcher advised me to driver carefully because the slush had become very heavy.  I must say that the traveling conditions were about as bad as I've seen in terms of poor visibility and the tendency to hydroplane.  When I arrived the tractor had just been righted and it was apparent that the saddle tank had not been damaged.
B-444-1998*On July 7, 1998 at 2115 we received a call from Beverly Irving of St. Albans reporting a possible oil spill on land near their home.  She described it as rusty rainbow colored water and staining on the ground.  I told her that it sounded like marsh sheen, not oil, but I would check it the next day.

I visited the site as scheduled and met Mr. & Mrs. Irving who showed me the area.  The site was a logging road, the material in question was definitely marsh sheen which results from the decomposition of organic material.
I-55-1996*On 6-13-96, Joe Fister called this office to report that there was oil seeping from the ground into a ditch and getting to a brook near a cutting operation on the South Oakfield road near Skitacook Lake. Upon investigation, I found that there was no oil but only an organic sheen associated with the breakdown of wood fiber. Case closed.
P-258-1997*On or about 13May97, I began working with Rust Environmental to establish a cleanup goal for remediation activities to be conducted at the facility location. Prior to demolition of the existing building and soil removal, contaminated soils were discovered during a subsurface investigation and the facility's service lifts were identified to be the source of contamination (this subsurface investigation and demolition project is not associated with UST removal operation in DEC. 1993).

The MDEP set an alternate Baseline-2 cleanup standard, as outlined in a letter to Chrysler dated 14May97 (attached). The clean up standards were relaxed to saturation testing of the worst remaining residual hot spots upon knowledge of the contaminant to be a vigin motor oil.

After the projects completion the MDEP received a site assessment outlining the contamination discovered and disposed. The MDEP reviewed the document and issued a no further action letter (attached)

No further action by Response Services is anticipated.

Nathan Thompson, SMRO (30July97).
A-70-1996*Ryan Annis of the tanks enforcement unit requested that this well location be placed on quarterly monitoring due to the proximity of this well to the UST on site.  Response was asked to provide a spill number to take this sample (see attached).  Upon review of the sample information, Bob Stratton of the tanks enforcement unit removed this well from quarterly monitoring.

Case closed pending removal of the UST.
A-636-1998*     DEP confirmed the presence of MTBE at this residential well in concentrations below the current action level.  The case has been referred to Tech Services for resolution.
B-387-1996*In July of 1991, during the removal of 5 other USTs, Striar's became aware of a hitherto unknown tank, 10000 gallons in size, abandoned in the ground, and previously holding #6 oil.  The tank was partially encased in concrete, so I allowed Striars, at that time, to abandon it in place.  I neglected to tell them that a site assessment was required.

In June of 1996, the DEP notified Striars that they were in violation, by not having removed the tank. (Since the Dept. had no site assessment on file, the tank could not have been removed.)

Acheron did an after the fact site assessment, and a small amount of contamination was discovered after the tank was unearthed again.  The oil in the ground was so old it resembled asphalt, and was of no environmental threat.  Most of that oil I allowed to stay in the ground, and what soil had already been lifted out, 5 cubic yards, was spread on top of the backfilled hole.
A-262-1998*     DEP received a report that an oily sheen was visible on surface seepage at a seasonal property in Liberty.  Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the site and determined that the sheen was a naturally occurring organic scale sheen.
A-42-2001*Received a call from Karin Swanson concerning a spill at a building she owns in Damariscotta.  She told me about a small spill that was caused by Colby and Gale, a local oil company.  There was no spill logged and no report was made to the State Police.  I called Colby and Gale and spoke to Mitch who confirmed that there had been a spill and that they had cleaned it up. The spill was caused by human error. When Colby and Gale were replacing the furnace, they waited until the next day to remove the old tank.  The feed line to the old tank had been detached and the automatic delivery ticket was printed and the driver delivered oil to the house at the old tank.  Luckily, a tenant noticed the odor and discovered the oil leak at the detached end of the boiler feed line.  Colby and Gale responded to the spill and cleaned it up. What they forgot to do was call the Department about the spill. Ms. Swanson called DEP to confirm it had been reported.

I went to the site and inspected the basement where the spill occurred with Ms. Swanson and Mitch from Colby and Gale. Using a PID I could not detect any petroleum vapor in the air. Also, no petroleum was found in the shallow soil.  No additional work is necessary on this spill.
P-72-2000*A hydraulic line on truck broke spraying oil onto pavement and truck.  CMP cleaned up with speedy dry and sorbents.  No further action.
B-408-1999*Stacy Beyer of the Land Bureau had given Robert Whittier of my office a complaint from Wayne Beckwith of Greenville that he was concerned about some strange colored stuff breaking out at the shoreline of Moosehead Lake at the edge of his house lot on Lakeview Street. While Mr. Whittier made arrangements to investigate it the next day. Due to a more pressing oil spill the next morning, he asked me to check out the Greenville complaint and I agreed.
   That morning I met Mr. Beckwith and Sharon Libby-Jones, a concerned neighbor and ex-state representative. Mr. Beckwith showed me the spot he was concerned with and related that there had been a tenement house on the lot before he bought it and there had been a great deal of trash dumped down the bank. He had cleaned up the dump before landscaping. He did mention finding batteries among the trash and that a boat yard had been sited there. It later developed that the boat yard was a bit further down the shore near Ms. Libby-Jones home. The site of concern was a flat mucky area at lake level of roughly 100 square feet. The orange and "oil sheen like" colors were obvious the result of organic scale sheen. I explained the cause of the colors to him and Ms. Libby-Jones. He still seemed disappointed that it was not caused by some sort of hazardous waste but Ms. Libby-Jones seemed satisfied.
   He began to ask questions about how he could cover up this unsightly spot and I explained that he should start by contacting the local code enforcement officer as I was not trained in land use regulation. He replied that he had talked with Val Whittier of the D.E.P's Land Bureau and I suggested that he recontact her for what he can and can't do to the shore line.
   I expect no further action at this sight.
P-448-1996*On July 29, 1996 I attended a removal of a partially underground waste oil tank at the Yarmouth Recycling Facility.  The tank was in good condition however there was some surface contamination due to historical overfills.  Approximately four yards of material was removed from the hole and spread out at the site for remediation.  The soil was analyzed and found to be non hazardous.  On August 22, 1996 I checked the spread soils with 691 field screening techniques and found the results to be less than 5 ppm .  I gave the recycling center permission to use the soils on site.  No further action.
A-233-1998*John Sims, a certified tank installer called Beth Dehaas to report a small leak found during the annual system inspection.  He had tightened some fittings and reinspected a few days later.  He reported that the leak was continuing.  He wasn't willing to undertake more work as this was out of his regular work area.  I visited the site a few days later.  The sump was wet, but no fuel had collected.  It was unclear how much gas was entering, or how.  We decided to watch the system closely for a time.  I visited again June 1, 1998.  Mr. Frost reported that Portland Pump had visited the week before and tightened more fittings.  On June 1, the sump was dry.  Two days later he again had some fuel in the sump.  Beth Dehaas and Ted Scharf visited the site.  They report that two fittings under the pump as well as the one in the sump are weeping, but at such a low rate that fuel is unlikely to be lost to the environment.  Mr. Frost was advised to have the system repaired as needed.

No further action is anticipated.
P-186-1998*   Ms. Shumadine notified the DEP on the afternoon of 5/5/98 that Kleen Oil Co. had mistakenly delivered fuel oil to their house that afternoon and that the driver had spilled oil on the gravel driveway.  The residence is part of a duplex in a dense residential area near the intersection with Brighton Ave. (see attached map).  The area is on city sewer and water.  The spill was related to the delivery truck and not with the basement AST delivered to.
   That afternoon at 1830 hrs., I met Mr. Shumadine onsite, noted a strong oil odor when getting out of my vehicle, and confirmed an area of oil contaminated soil and a large sheen on a rain puddle.
   Earlier that afternoon I called and talked to Kathy Hebert, VP with Kleen Oil, who said her driver didn't spill any oil but did wipe some oil up and didn't know how it got there?!  On Wed. 5/6/98 I met Ms. Hebert onsite and agreed to have her crew excavate the oily soil.  I issued her a virgin soil disposal letter, and briefed her on spill reporting requirements, advising her that this spill should have been reported.
   A week later I visited and found the oily soil removed to Dept. satisfaction (see Com. Paving Processing Info.).   No further resp. Div. actions are expected at present, see attached for further details.  Further reporting problems with Kleen Oil may wish to be referred in the future.


S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
B-322-1999*
On 6/15/99 Cathy Curtis (one of our secretarial staff , MDEP, BRO)  told me that her grandmother, Calley Parker, had a fuel oil leak sometime in May and that she was concerned about her well.  I contacted Calley and arranged a site visit, which took place on 6/25/99.   At the time of my visit there was no sign of a spill, but Calley had noticed an odor while the AST had been leaking through a corrosion hole in its' bottom.  The AST had recently been replaced.  The well, which was a deep, bed-rock well, was about ten feet from where the spill had taken place.  The surficial ground water was not far below the surface of the gravel floor of the basement.  The level was controlled with a sump pump and they had been having plenty of rain, according to Calley.  I reasoned that the situation favored the well and an analysis came back clean.

There was no sign of oil at the sump pumps' effluent either.  I expect that the volume of the release had been small and that the product did not have an opportunity to penetrate.


B-268-2000*Wilbur Saunders, F.G.S, Inc., called to report gasoline contamination at a UST removal in Argyle on Rt. 116. I went to the site. Since there were private wells nearby I required a clean up level of Stringent. This required the removal of about 16 c.y. of soil. This soil was taken to the Vaughan Thibodeau and Sons asphalt batch plant in Prospect for disposal.

Site assessment by: F.G.S.Inc., Bangor, Me  947-3184
Contractor: Andy LeClair Const., RR#2 Box 301, Old Town, Me. 04468 394-3410
A-384-2000*In response to a complaint about power fluctuations, CMP staff observed oil leaking from a bushing on a transformer. A small amount of oil was on the ground at the base of the pole. CMP removed the soil. See attached report from CMP.

No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services.
I-26-1996*On 3-19-96, Joan Walsh called this office to report that there were some drums behind her house that had been there for several years and she was now concerned about what may be in them.  Because the area she was in was part of the old Air Force Base she thought they may contain a hazardous substance. I met with her that day and found all the drums to be severely rusted and containing only water. Case closed.
P-604-2000*   While investigating a UST/AST discharge at Easy Rent All Co. on Fri. 10/6/00, I was advised to check out the neighboring Enterprise Foundry business for UST's.  Enterprise Foundry comprises four buildings, on either side of South Ave.  The area is mixed commercial, residential & industrial; about 1000' upgradiant of the Androscoggin River.  Though there are no drinking water wells in the area, a large discharge would threaten the river or sewer system.
    I drove around the parking lot and noted no fill or vent pipes, or recent excavations indicating UST present or recently removed.
    A file search at the office showed a 1993 removal notice for a 2000 gal. bare steel gas. UST, supposedly removed in the autumn of 1993; under CTI Tony Couture and Dube Gravel Co.   Also registered is a 15,000 gal. #2 oil UST.  I noted no DEP spill reports for the facility.
    No further DEP Resp. Div. actions are intended at this time.  See any attachments and  DEP UST Reg. file #737 for further details.

S G Brezinski
Maine DEP, BRWM
P-16-1996*HOSE ON PUMP HAD POPPED OFF.  APPEARED TO BE WEAK HOSE CLAMP.  FIRE DEPT. HAD PLACED SAND DOWN ON OIL BY THE TIME WE HAD ARRIVED. CONTAMINATED SAND AND SNOW WERE REMOVED AND DISPOSED OF.  ADDITIONAL SAND WAS PLACED ON ROAD TO ABSORB REMAINING OIL AND TO BECOME INCORPORATED INTO ASPHALT.  NO FURTHER ACTION REQUIRED.
I-185-1997*On 12-9-97, Bill Sylvester of IP called to report there had been a spill of gasoline at their Clayton Lake camp. Apparently, due to an overfill of an aboveground tank, about 30 gallons was lost through the vent. All contaminated snow was shoveled up by one of their front end loaders and placed in a secured bermed area. The gas in the snow was then ignited and most of the gas was burned off.
P-121-1998*18Feb98 Bridgton FD advised of a waste oil discharge from entered location, reported to them by a water district employee on 17Feb98. Subject employees working on a 1,000 gallon and 275 gallon aboveground supply tanks failed to secure a feed line or broke the feed line in some manner, that allowed waste oil to discharge through a floor drain directly into Willett Brook. I met with Dan McDonald, facility owner, and advised him of oil spill and UIC prohibitions. McDonald advised that he would seal the drain and notify me when completed. Response Services did not received notification of the completion of this task.

After the snow melt, I visited this site and observed many problems including: ASTs filled w. product laying on their side; approximately (31) 55 gallon drums haphazardly stored with no appropriate lables; an AST housed behind the facility displaying evidence of a leak; and several other house keeping issues related to regulated wastes.  I also observed a sheen in the adjacent brook. I located the source along the bank and I determined the source to be an underground pipe associated with the previous floor drain discharge.  I met w. Dan McDonald in Bridgton, and he agreed to met me on site and discuss clean up requirements.

2 June 1998, Bridgton FD contacted DEP for status report of this site. He reports sheen on water.

8 June 1998, I arrived on site and observed that all the drums and other unsightly wastes had been removed. A local contractor and I dug up the underground pipes and the pipes were disposed with other construction debris by the contractor. Soil removal was not justified due to the sensitive location, being part of the stream geology. I decided that the sheen would dissipate with the removal of the source contamination (oil impacted piping).

No further response action anticipated.
Nathan Thompson, SMRO (5Aug98).









B-521-1998*I was assigned a complaint that originally arrived at the Solid Waste Division. Karen Knutti had received an anonymous phone call complaining that Mr. Pedersen was dumping waste oil from 55 gal. drums on to the ground at a junkyard he owns in Addison. Since I only received this info in a note I could not ask for details such as where in the junk or when. I did learn that this junkyard seems to receive lots of complaints.
  On 8/14/98 I went to the site in Addison and,while no one responded to my knock, walked about the junkyard. I could find no evidence of intentional dumping of oil. There were a couple of oil stains about 3 or 4 feet in diameter in the front yard. These were simply small amounts of heavy oil that had leaked from automotive parts and were environmentally inconsequential. No further action anticipated.
P-374-1989*
Investigation of pumping gasoline and water from gasoline UST's to ground.  Secondary concern over past dumping of septic waste to ground from his commercial trucks.
A-398-1998*An anonymous caller complained about various transgressions concerning logging on Ms. Finlayson's property. Among his complaints were stream crossing violations which resulted in lube oil from a skidder being trapped in the brush in the stream. Upon further discussion it became apparent that the DOC Ranger did not want the area to be disturbed prior to the AG viewing the scene. The oil was trapped and could be removed easily with the brush after the other agencies were done. The stream was cleaned up.
A-324-1999*Received a call from Brad Taylor of Frontier Oil that there had been a small spill. While delivering to a customer's of theirs in Oakland, the driver managed to spill the contents of the hose onto the ground while rolling the hose in. He cleaned it up using sorbent pads. I went to the site to inspect and found a sheen on some puddles but little else. No further work is necessary on this spill.
B-356-1999*     On June 28, 1999 at 0815 we received a call from Mr. Len Healey of Edmunds reporting oil in a small brook that flows by his home.  I discribed the characteristics of marsh sheen to Mr. Healey but he didn't think the oil was marsh sheen.  I arrived on site during the late morning and found that the "oil" was marsh sheen.
P-437-1997*On 8/12/97 I received a call from the Portland Fire Dept. reporting a spill of perchloroethylene from a drycleaning machine at Lillianna's Drycleaners on Congress Street in Portland.  The Fire Department is located right across the street and was on the scene in minutes.  The Fire Dept. recovered most of the spilled product with sorbent pads.  Up to five gallons may have gotten away to a nearby storm drain.  No further action at this time.
A-524-1996*Ted Haskell called to report evidence of a leak at the Chelsea School. The sump alarm had sounded and he was called in to investigate and repair as necessary. He found about 1.5 gallons of product in the sump. He cleaned the sump and repaired a loose joint. No other problems were found. No site visit by Response was necessary. No further work is required at this site.
B-385-1996*
Mrs. Malmstrom is in a dispute with the city over a vacant lot, which she owns, adjacent to her residence on Woodview Dr.  In 1991, she says, she returned home to find city equipment on her property, having excavated the vacant lot to facilitate storm water drainage from Essex St. Since that time the lot, wet before, has only been much wetter, since some of the lot is below the culvert level.

On 7/17, while ditching by hand to drain the lot faster, Mrs. Malmstrom noticed an oily substance on the water, and reported it to this office.  The substance was identified as hydraulic oil, and had been dumped into one of the catch basins on Essex St.  Prior to that time, Mrs. Malmstrom had been unaware that Essex St. stormwater drained onto her property. (see sketch)

Sorbent pads and boom were used to recover the oil.
B-545-2000*     On October 3, 2000 at 1145 we received a call from Jay Beaudoin of Georgia-Pacific in Baileyville reporting a one gallon or less spill of lube oil at their hydro facility on the St. Croix River.  A worker was filling an oil reservoir on a pump when the oil surged out of the unit.  Most of the gallon that spilled was recovered in a bucket under the pump but a small amount went onto the floor.  A small amount of this entered a drain to the river causing