I-63-2001*On 5-22-01, Greg Smith called to report that there had been about 100 gallons of hydraulic oil lost in their machine shop over the previous night. Apparently an employee had left a valve slightly open inadvertently. Most of it had gone to their floor drain which daylighted to a ditch in front of the building. I met with Mr. Smith that morning. They had cleaned the cement floor with speedy dry. I asked them to excavate the surface layer of soil in the ditch and go back towards the building as far as necessary to retrieve the oil. That was done that day, and about 20 yards of contaminated soil was taken to Tri-Community Landfill. A-457-1996*A customer had a leaking gas tank on his vehicle. After he filled it, it ran out near the pumps. The vehicle left a puddle of gasoline near the pumps. Mr. Libby washed down the parking lot. A 20 foot long puddle of water and product formed along the side of the road. Mr Libby stated that he felt that it had been cleaned up and had entered it into his spill log. I told him that this was not an acceptable cleanup method and sorbents or floor dry should be used. He said that spreading floor dry on his parking lot would make a mess when everyone drives through it and tracks it into the store. My reply was that you needed to sweep it up and close your pumps during the cleanup. This was not received favorably. His concern was flammablity around the pumps and he felt that evaporation was a suitable remedial method. I called the Fairfield FD. They found a puddle of gasoline. Pads and sand were used to cleanup. B-246-1997*May 20, 1997 15:30 I received a phone call from Captain Eric Johns (990-7407), of the Maine Air National Guard, 101st Air Refueling Wing. Captain Johns phoned to report that a 2000 pound fuel dump occurred on a scheduled training mission on take off at the Air Natioanl Guard Base in Bangor. During take off from runway 33 at about 1335 on Monday May 19 the right engine fire indicator light came on. At about 200 feet above ground level (AGL) fuel dumping commenced and lasted until 3000 feet above mean seal level (MSL). The area covered during this flight and dumping of some 290 gallons of JP8 was from about 1/2 mile to 2 miles from the end of runway 33 over rural Hermon. There has been no complaints of oil odor, or spillage from the Hermon area, or coating of automobiles. Most likely the JP-8 volatilized in the atmosphere over rural Hermon without notice. No evidence of oil spillage was found on on the ground. A-195-1996*Kalloch Fuels had an overfill due to the driver going to reset the truck meter. The tank was almost full before the delivery and it overfilled while the nozzle was unattended. The driver padded some product up, but did not report it to Kalloch. The homeowner reported it to Kalloch. The product had run down the side of the house around a poured cement foundation. The soil was excavated and taken to Dragon. The area was filled the next day. No further action is required. I-105-1997*Vehicle accident, cleaned up with sand. B-121-1997*On March 13, 1997 at 1030 we received a call from Diane Alexander of C.N. Brown Oil reporting a oil spill from one of their trucks at the home of James Haiko at 49 Highland Avenue in Dexter. The scully connection on the truck's hose cracked and spilled about one half gallon of #2 fuel. The driver absorbed some of the product with sorbents and excavated about a bucket of contaminated snow. No wells are in the area. I-100-1996*On 9-6-96, Lavercie Gamblin of Washburn reported that her well was contaminated with what she thought was oil from her outside storage tank. I sampled the well that day, and now awaiting results of water analysis. In the mean time, Mrs. Gamblin is bringing in water from another source. P-371-1998*24 July 1998, I spoke with MacIntosh, who informed me that he observed the red bag out by the Congress St. curb, and placed the bag near a dumpster behind facility location. He only then realized that the bag was marked biological hazard. I investigated the compliant and determined that the bag did not contain biological waste. I contacted Mercy Hospital and spoke to Dr. Becker. Becker accepted the waste and contacted me later to confirm that no medical waste was present. No further response action anticipated. This matter referred to Scott Austin, Augusta Office. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (5Aug98). B-195-1999* On April 26,1999 at 1450 we received a call from Janet Dyer of Central Maine Power in Augusta reporting a weeping transformer on the East Center Pond Rd. in Sangerville. Workers noticed the weeping around a seal and took the unit out of service. The PCB level on the 1998 transformer was stamped <2 ppm. The workers also excavated about a drum of soil, debris and vegetation. A-535-1998* Response Services received a referral from another DEP unit (Compliance) regarding spillage of petroleum products at this property. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property and advised the excavation of soil contaminated with gasoline due to sloppy handling at a storage tank; I further advised replacing that tank with a system that would prevent future spillage. I observed minor spillage at an out-of-service heating oil AST on a near-shore island. I did not feel that soil removal was necessary but the caretaker agreed to have the tank removed. No wells are near enough to be considered threatened by either situation. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of these incident. P-251-1994* Facility inspection during excavation for new vapor recovery equipment for gasoline facility. See attached records and text. I-111-2001*leak developed at pipe fitting near tank filter. product followed line through the protective covering and spilled onto dirt floor. floor consisted of heavy clay soils; therefore, infiltration of product was minimal. contaminated soils removed by responder and homeowner. removed approx. .5 cu/yds of soil, covered area with plastic and had homeowner open all basement windows and install small fan in a window to ventilate basement. recommended to homeowner to have protective cover on line replaced because it contained product. I-101-2000*On 9-18-00, Dave Fraser of Daigle Oil called to report that they had a spill at their bulk plant in Oakfield. Apparently a cap blew off one of the discharge pipes. They hired a contractor from Oakfield to excavate contaminated material and transport to Tri Community Landfill in Fort Fairfield. A-633-2000*Received a call from State Police dispatch that there had been an accident on Route 17. I responded to the site. A trailer dump owned by H.O. Bouchard had jackknifed into a ditch and had rolled onto its side. The trailer was carrying ?" crushed stone. No diesel fuel was spilled. However when they attempted to right the tractor, the reservoir for the hydraulic system was punctured allowing about 20 gallons of hydraulic oil to be leaked onto a temporary large puddle formed by the dumped crushed stone. I collected some of the oil. H.O. Bouchard hired Clean Harbors to clean up the rest. Most of the cleanup was done with sorbents. Some of the contaminated ground was shoveled into buckets for disposal. No further work is necessary on this spill. P-125-2000*19 February 2000, DEP responded to spill location. I observed a discharge from a 275 home heating oil tank. Sorbent pads were deployed and the tank secured from further discharge. Clean up consisted of the removal of oil impacted snow and ice. No further action anticipated. Drinking water well on site, but not at risk. Nathan Thompson, SMRO. A-238-1997*This spill occurred during heavy rain. Apparently rain entering the uncapped fill pipe floated fuel from the tank. The fuel then ran across the paved parking area and then down an embankment to the river. It was not discovered until the following day by a visitor to the site. The fire department responded and spread some speedy dry. The manager of the shop said he understood there were no tanks left on the property. The CEO noticed the open fill and called to report the spill and tank. I visited the site and measured 42" of water and 18" of fuel. I plugged the fill with a wooden plug. The grandson of the owner met me on site. I explained the need to register and remove the tank. I do not expect to find much if any contamination near the tank. The product in the tank would indicate it is not leaking. The tank was removed August 21, 1997. The excavation had been backfilled prior to my arrival. Tim from TNT construction indicated that the tank was in good condition and there was 5" of pavement. The pavement would have prevented the spilled fuel from soaking into the soil. No further action is anticipated. A-305-1996* This 2,000 gallon UST was discovered at the Cottrell School in Monmouth. The tank was not registered and had been out of service for a long time. This tank had 44 inches of oil and water in it. The tank was removed on 7/12/96. There were at least two corrosion induced holes in the bottom of the tank. The soil under the tank was only slightly contaminated. PID readings of 95, 595 and 16 were detected by Glen Wall of the DEP. No cleanup will be required. Baseline site. A new UST had been installed a few days earlier. In addition, a 10,000 gallon UST was removed, this tank was registered. B-120-2000*B-120-00 Long Pond Twp Thursday March 2, 2000 0928 The state police dispatcher phoned to report a tractor trailer rollover in Jackman on Route 15. The truck is believed to be leaking diesel fuel in or near a stream. Tom Varney and I proceeded to Jackman. When we arrived we were in Long Pond Township on Route 15 near an unnamed brook that empties into Long Pond. There was a Ferreira Trucking, logging tractor-trailer east bound off Route 15. That went off the road during the snowy morning. This truck was contract-logging vehicle of the H.O. Bouchard Company. The clean up included digging in snow on the embankment and using sorbent pads and sorbent booms to boom off the unnamed stream. About 7 bags of sorbents and snow was removed from the spill scene and taken to DEP's temporary storage area in Bangor. The site was visited periodically, and both Tom Varney and I changed pads. In the late spring when the snow had melted and Ice was out I visited the site and cleaned up the remaining sorbent pads and sorbent boom. A-158-2001*Maritime Energy reported a discharge of 10 gallons at the residence of Louise Kelley. Upon disconnecting the peddle truck hose from the fill pipe, the contents discharged to the ground. It is unclear why the hose lost its prime. Maritime cleaned up the site with sorbents and hand digging. The homeowner was satisfied with the cleanup. No site visit was made. P-665-2000* While assisting DEP VRAP and Tech Services with the clean-up and disposal of oil contaminated soil at the neighboring Nissen Bakery site, I observed this AST problem. The outside 275 gal. AST is associated with a mobile home. I noted one leg missing from the tank and it being held up with wood supports. Underneath the filter was soil smelling of heating oil. The tenant told me the home belongs to Norman Sanford who lives in the ranch house next door. Both this trailer and the next one get their water from Sanford's drilled well. Mr. Sanford was not home at the time of my 10/31/00 visit. I noted a near full can of gasoline sitting on the lawn about 5' from the well. Mr. Sanford's well is reportEdly contaminated with low levels of oil, which may be self-contaminated. I referred this to DEP Tech Services & VRAP as they have managed clean-up in this area since the beginning of the year. I understand that Mr. Sanford will be contacted regarding these problems above. This discharge was not reported as required. No further Resp. Div. actions are expected at this time. SGB P-325-2000*I was contacted by the Woolwich Fire Department reporting that a minivan had driven into Nequasset Stream. I responded to find the vehicle removed from the stream and sorbent boom deployed by the fire department (see attached letter). I deployed some hard boom and returned the next day to check on it. The following day the hard boom had collected some oil so I called Clean Harbors to recover it with a vacuum truck. Nequasset Stream empties into Nequasset Lake which is the source of drinking water for Woolwich. No further Response action is needed at this time. B-71-2000*Melissa Stein called from Irving Oil to report that a 30-50 gallon spill of #1 had occurred at their bulk plant on Maple St. in Brewer. A non-Irving tank truck driver was preparing to make a delivery to their bulk plant and, when he removed the cap from the tanker's discharge pipe, oil flowed out as the valve was in the open position. The oil landed on the paved lot and was collected with speedi-dri by Irving personnel. B-731-1999*Dan Mahar of Mahar Energy, Inc. called to report that a customer, Nancy Doughty, 11 Northern Ave., Hampden had suffered a small #2 fuel leak when the line to her furnace developed a pinhole. He estimated that about five gallons was on the concrete floor and about 1/2 gallon had reached a floor drain. He examined the drain and saw that the oil had not reached the level of the sump discharge. He cleaned both floor and drain. B-27-2000*B-027-00 Greenville Saturday January 17, 2000 0010 The state police dispatcher phoned and asked me to make contact with Robert Noyes (527-2069), of C.N. Brown in Norway, Maine, or Mike Drinkwater (695-2261), of the Greenville Fire Department concerning a gasoline spill at the Greenville Big Apple. According to Chief Mike Drinkwater the 15-gallon premium gasoline spill has been contained and will be soaked up. The fire department will use sorbent pads and speedi-dri to clean up this spill on pavement. This spill occurred when C.N. Brown tanker truck driver, George Colby, failed to properly connect the deliver drop hose to the fill pipe on the underground premium gasoline tank. (The driver did not lock the cam lock ears on the delivery hose to the fill pipe). According to Robert Noyes, of C.N. Brown the driver lost about 15 gallons of gasoline around 1100 to 1132. He said he received a page at 1132PM. The spill debris consisting of nearly 1 bale of pads and speedi-dri was disposed of by the Greenville Fire Department. P-364-1999*On June 6, 1999 York County Sheriffs dept. reported a vehicle in Northeast Pond leaking fuel. They requested DEP assistance. When I arrived on site the vehicle was out of the water. I saw no oil or gas on the water at this time. The fire dept. had put a sorbent boom across an outlet of the pond. I retreived the boom two days later at which time I saw no evidence of oil on the water. No further action. A-345-1997* DEP received an after-hours report that 1 - 1.5 lbs. of metallic mercury was spilled at this facility during demolition operations (see Otis report, attached). According to Otis staff the spilled material was contained on an impermeable surface; Clean Harbors was contracted for removal. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. B-95-1997*Ice cracked the filter nipple at the above ground storage tank at the Charlene Phibrick residence in Monson. Fortunately, the delivery driver noticed the break and reported it to his superiors; only an estimated 3 gallons was lost. The spilled oil was recovered with sorbents. P-205-1996*On March 28, 1996 I responded to a spill at the Dead River, Gould Road bulk facility. Sometime during the night an unknown quantity of heating oil was spilled at the loading rack of a 1,000,000 gallon #2 oil tank. The spill was discovered in the morning when one of the drivers noted a stain and and a small pool of standing oil. Dead River employees cleaned up the spill with sorbent pads and by digging up the affected soil. The stain showed the path of oil going to a surface drainage stream. I checked the stream in a couple of different locations and found no signs of any oil. I asked that Dead River follow up on the cause of the spill to ensure that there is not a reoccurrence of this type. No further action. B-472-1997*9/2/97 @ 1030 A waiver was granted to Dale Champman of C&C Contractors to remove a 500 gallon waste oil tank at Bangor Tire on Market Street. Bub Saunders of Fessenden Geo-Environmental was on site for the assessment. Only a small amount of stained soil was observed around the fill pipe. The remainder of the excavation was clean. It may be noted that the area is served by a public water supply and is considered "non sensitive". No further action is necessary. B-295-2001*Dead River Oil Co. called to report that an oil spill had occurred at the U.S. Customs building on the Border Road in Orient. They reported that a basement 275 had corroded through. The basement floor was concrete with a sump pump. They were estimating a loss of 180 gallons. I went to the scene. There I met Mark Bosse of Dead River Company. They had collected some oil out of the sump with pads, but a lot had been pumped into the septic tank. On 5/22/2001 Clean Harbors Inc. pumped the oil off the top of the septage, recovering an estimated 140 gallons. I do not anticipate that any further actions will be necessary. B-566-1996*On the morning of 10/16/96 Chris Gaudet of Petroleum Equipment Service called for a waiver of the 30 day waiting period for a 3k UST that they had encountered at Dysarts Service in Hermon. I had other things that I had to attend but we arranged to have the hole left open and the tank left on site until I could check it out that afternoon. The tank was a 3000 gallon #2 heating oil tank. Dysarts had forgotten about the tank until they were breaking ground in order to expand the restaurant aspect of this facility. The hole was about 7 feet deep into a fairly tight glacial till. It was dry at the bottom and there was no evidence of a product release. The tank was sound. B-606-1996*See attached narrative P-371-1999* 5-gal. spill while fueling auto due to faulty nozzle. . B-628-1997*After it'd sat vacant for years, Brooks Pharmacy expressed an interest in the Grant's Dairy building in Bangor. Hoffman Engineering was hired to do a site assessment on the property, and immediately spied a fill pipe to a here-to- fore unknown tank; an exploration hole broken into the tank revealed it to have held #6 oil. It's currently full of groundwater with a little #6 oil on top; no one knows how big it is. Plans at this writing are to break into the top of the tank, pump out the water and fill it in place. Benjie Grant is exploring his options through the V-RAP program; there can be little doubt that the tank will be filled in place. P-455-2001*The dog broke the connection between the two AST's. Causing the copper line to mist oil to the ground surface, the odor was detected by the owner who applied sawdust to the ground and buckets to capture some oil. Later called Gray public safety who in turn called State Police dispatch for DEP assistance. The original assessment on Sunday was the discharge could be easily cleaned up with a small back hoe and truck. Mr. Guana had used Hunnewell Excavation, local contractor, whom was called and services coordinated for the next day. The clean up was complicated slightly when one of the AST's became unbalanced and fell into the excavation releasing a small amount of oil in the hole. The tank was quickly righted and the oil removed. B-545-1996*On October 2, 1996 I was at the Penobscot Valve Co. located in Target Industrial Circle for the removal of a 1,000 gallon #2 heating oil tank. Webber Oil did the removal and I found no sign of a leak in the area nor soil contamination. The area is zoned as industrial park and is on town water. P-442-2001* This is the former facility of the John Philopoulis Assoc. of Massachusetts, located in the NW corner of the Falmouth Shopping Ctr. near Exit 10 of Route 95. It is now owned and operated by Lampron Energy Co. On 6/4/01, I visited this site for DEP's Ann Hemenway to check on a notice of water entering the UR gaso. UST at a high rate, >5.5 inches. The tank was taken out of service. This is one of four 8000 gal. UST's installed in 1989 and was manifolded to a second UST. The water was pumped out. See P-120-89 and P-791-96 for further site history. CTI Bill Carver had found an unplugged leak detector return-port on top of an unused submersible pump. The pump was unused because the tank was manifolded to the next RU tank (in 1996) which had its own submersible pump to draw off both tanks. With the open port atop the pump-housing the high gw was leaking into the pump and tank, which set off the leak alarm. As noted in P-791-96, former CTI Jeff Eaton of Pollution Control Svcs. (now Guerin & Assoc. Co.) had installed new piping and its understood that is when the two tanks were manifolded. The old pump was left in-place rather than pulling it out and capping the tank bung. If the CTI had screwed in the plug into the return port, then water would not have entered the UST causing its downtime. No product is believed to have been released to the environment during this occasion. I observed no sheen or product in Carver's excavation over the UST or in the monitoring well. Gw and soil are understood to be contaminated by low levels of discharges and any soil or water disturbed should be properly managed. No further DEP actions are expected at this time. See attached for further information. S G Brezinski, Div. of Response Services DEP, BRWM B-244-1996*Ms. Spear reported that the bushing on a transformer located on the Richardson Rd. leaked a couple pints of non-PCB oil onto the sand below. Crewmen dug up the contaminated soil. See attached BHE report. 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. A-424-1997* Dwighty Doughty called this office to report a small spill of petroleum naptha. This material spilled inside a delivery truck. About 0.5 gallons of this material leaked onto the pavement. Safety-Kleen responded and cleaned up the spilled material. No site visit was made, no further action will be required. B-691-1998*On 10/26/98, 0920 hours a complaint from Dave Wheeler regarding Rasco's junk yard was passed to this office from our Portland Regional Office. At issue was a lift bed truck that had leaked a small amount of hydraulic oil onto the ground at the road side edge of the recycling facility. The spill was less than a quart and it had landed on a puddle of water, which caused it to take up an area of 1.5 square yards. The Wheeler's were concerned about the overall operation of the facility so I asked the attendant to show me around. The yard was underlain by clay as indicated by a lot of wet areas. I saw no evidence of spills and the attendant said that the waste oil went to a waste oil burner. I was unable to prove this (the building on site had burned down a year or so ago) but there was no evidence of illegal disposal. I talked with the Wheeler's and assured them that the facility did not pose a risk to the bed rock acquifer. Also, we discussed the procedure to follow in the event that they thought their well was contaminated. They were still not happy with the road side stain so I asked the attendant to ask Dave to remove the stained soil. B-216-1997*D-TREE=N. A-190-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98. See attached CMP report for more information. No further action anticipated. B-288-2001*B-288-2001 05/11/2001 10:00 Iver McLeod, Project Manager for the Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management in Augusta, called to report that a residential drinking water well in Machiasport reached the action level for MTBE at 35 ppm. The testing in the area was conducted as a long term investigation of the former Bucks Harbor Air Force site. It did not appear however that the MTBE was associated with the site. An investigation of the residence shown that their well was in close proximity to a couple old gas cans and a wrecked vehicle. A subsequent analysis of the water shown a level of 34 ppm. I explained to Erica Davis, resident at the property, the importance of not spilling even small quantities of gasoline. The case was then referred to Technical Services staff for possible follow up investigation. A-71-2001* On the morning of 2-7-01 Mrs. Zimmerman had run out of fuel oil. She had arrived home the night before. Her son in law had used a snow blower and accidentally broke the copper line and fittings from the outside AST. The tank had recently been filled. It was now empty. This site is located on 17 Olivia Ave which is in the Dawn-Via Trailer Park located off the Town Farm Rd. in Oakland. Before my arrival the tank had been repaired. The spilled kerosene had not penetrated the frozen ground. However, the ground under the trailer was not frozen. Bart Newhouse, of DEP, used a snow-blower to remove the top three feet of snow. The oil contaminated snow was about three inches thick directly on top of the ground. I then hired Environmental Projects to shovel the snow into drums. In addition, they removed about six tons of soil from under the trailer. I collected soil samples from under the trailer when we determined that no more soil could practically be removed without moving the house trailer. The results are included in this report. Pat Seward of our Technical Services Division has been assigned this case. I collected water samples from the two wells that serve this trailer park on 8-27-01. A-290-1997* DEP received a report that an oil leak had occurred at this facility. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property on 8/11/97. Two small (1/8") holes were visible in one of several 330-gallon ASTs located in the furnace room. An estimated 30 gallons of oil had flowed under the wall and into the floor sandwich (flooring consists of a wooden overlay of a concrete slab). The air conditioning system circulated vapors throughout the building, causing irritation to some of the tenants (the building is rented as office space to two State agencies and one business). The area is environmentally non-sensitive, but air quality within the building became an issue. Arrangements were made to remove the leaking AST and to reconfigure the air conditioner intake. PID readings of interior office spaces showed no detectable petroleum vapors, although odors were obvious initially throughout the building. These odors diminished dramatically once the air conditioning was sorted out. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. P-212-2001*On 3/26/01 I received a call from Tim Rines of T & H Auto & Truck Repair reporting a 125 gallon spill of Kerosene at his business and home in South Paris. The spill occurred when the weight of ice and snow broke the fuel line from the above ground storage tank located outside the business. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I observe little evidence of the spillage. It appeared as though most of the oil had seeped directly into the soil under and around the tank. One drinking water well owned by Tim's son was potentially at risk. I advised him to apply to the insurance fund, placed Tim's son on the quarterly monitoring program, and made arrangements with Engel Environmental to supervise a clean up at the site on 3/27. See attached report from Engel Environmental for further information. Further site work may be needed pending quarterly monitoring results. _____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II MAY 15, 2001 P-188-1998*On May 7, 1998 I was contacted by Downeast Energy in Kennebunk about an overfill that occurred while filling a residential tank at 12 East Ave in Kennebunkport. Approximately one gallon of oil came out the vent pipe of the tank and ran to the ground outside of the Chase residence. Downeast Energy promptly cleaned up the spill with sorbent pads and a biosolve. No further action. B-324-2001* On June 6, 2001 at 1540 we received a call from Capt. Vaughan of the Orono Fire Dept. reporting a one half gallon gasoline spill from a senior citizens complex called Longfellow Heights on Elm Street. A resident's automobile's tank leaked about one half gallon of gasoline from a hole near the tank's top. Firefighters recovered the spilled oil with sorbents. P-740-2000*Five to ten gallon overfill while filling an oil truck at the Downeast Energy Bulk Facility in Brunswick. The oil spilled to gravel. Downeast personel cleaned up free product with sorbent material and hired Ray Labbe Inc. to remove the impacted gravel. The gravel will be spread out in one of the diked berms on site. No further action. A-226-1998* DEP received a report that a vehicle had driven away from a dispensing pump at this facility with the nozzle still in the filler neck. An estimated 20 gallons of fuel was spilled onto the gravel lot; it was raining at the time of the spill. Initial reports indicated that the spill was completely cleaned up; it later transpired that some fuel had sorbed into soil. Since the facility well (drilled) is located within 50' of the spill, contaminated soils were excavated for disposal. The well was sampled for analysis during 10/98; no petroleum contamination was detected. B-281-1999* On June 2, 1999 at 1500 we received a call from Tina Bodkins of Maritime & Northeast Pipeline reporting a five gallon diesel spill outside their pipe facility on the Stud Mill Road in Princeton. She believed thieves tried to steal fuel from one of the vehicles and were likely surprised by someone and spilled the fuel on the road. Workers excavated about .3 of a yard of contaminated soil. A-502-1998*No site visit made. See attached for additional details. No further action anticipated. B-621-1998*B-621-98 Stockton Springs Monday September 21, 1998 1545 I received a phone call from Brett Beno, an Irving Oil heating technician. Mr. Beno phoned to report a 3-gallon, number 2 heating oil spill in the basement, at the Ronald Johnson residence, in Stockton Springs. Mr. Beno was in the process of installing a new fill pipe on the basement tank when the tank's legs collapsed. This tank anomaly caused the release of 3 gallons of heating oil to the concrete basement floor. There was no floor drain near the oil and the oil was cleaned up using sorbent materials including a few pads and some speedi-dri. P-600-2001*Discharge was the result of a corroded copper supply line that ran underneath the basement floor from the aboveground storage tank to the furnace. The total amount of #2 fuel oil spilled is unknown as it could not be determined how much oil was in the tank when it was found empty nor how long the line had been leaking. DEP responded and did not observe any free product or staining on the concrete. Considering that no one knew how much was lost and there were no odor issues in the dwelling, the only concern was the residential well. On August 20, 2001, DEP sampled the well and it tested negative for Diesel Range Organics. The residence was placed on quarterly monitoring and referred to the Technical Services Division, please refer to their files for additional information. No further Response Services action is anticipated at this time. P-159-2000*Discharge resulted from broken hose on bucket truck. The oil was collected with sorbent pads, in addition to being removed within the snow and soil. No response required. No further action required. A-184-1996* V.A. TOGUS was expanding the boiler plant, (BLDG #238), to accommodate the new larger boilers and found a small amount of oil in the excavation. It appears that this oil was leaching from under the corner stone/concrete foundation. There are no known leaks in this area and I believe that it may be an historic problem. In any event, the oil floating on the surface was recovered with pads and the water was pumped to the oil/water separator. The soil, 27 yards, was transported to another location on the property, the asbestos dump. This soil was only slightly contaminated with petroleum and was spread over this open area. The officials at TOGUS assurred me that the DEP knew about this asbestos dump. There were several granite post marking the edges of the dump site. In conclusion, no further remediation will be required. A-309-2000* The DEP received a report from Central Maine Power concerning a broken hydraulic line from one of their bucket trucks. The Skowhegan Fire Department was called to the scene and applied speedi-dry to soak up the 2 gallons that had leaked on the road. No site visit was made. I-28-2000*On 4-4-00, Bernice Randolph called to report that there was an unknown substance on her lawn. I went there the following day and found there was an area of dead grass in the yard that was in a very wet area. Some blackish organic material was also seen there. I asked her to wait until spring high water was over and the area to dry. It must have been organic as she has not called back. A-2-1999* Motor oil and antifreeze were released when the engine block blew apart. The fire department cleaned the area with speedy dry. No further action is anticipated. A-476-1998*No site visit made. Waterville Fire responded and washed the product from the road. No further action is anticipated. A-603-1999*No site visit made. See attached for additional details. No further action is anticipaed. A-371-2001*Homeowner discovered that the bottom of their outside AST had begun to leak due to corrosion. They connected a shop-vac to the fill pipe and stopped the leak while Dead River responded. The tank was patched and about 250 gallons were pumped out. A backhoe was brought in to remove contaminated soil. Only a few yards of contamination were found and were land spread in the homeowner's field downgrade on the property. Homeowner agreed to aerate the soil monthly with a roto-tiller. No vapor problems detected or expected. The well is a dug well 200' away and slightly upgrade and not considered at risk. No further action anticipated. A-589-1996*Received a report from Madison Paper that they had a white water discharge to the Kennebec River. White water is a 5% clay water mixture. The spill was for 5 hours at a rate of 25 gpm. No site visit was made. A memo was sent to Water Bureau as it was an excursion of their discharge license. No further work by Response is needed. P-239-1998*On June 1, 1998 David Goulet contacted the Dept. to report an oil spill from a tank at a neighboring property. He stated that at 300 Bennet road in New Gloucester a tank was laying on it's side and had a stain around it. I visited the site and found the tank in question. There was a small stain at the end of the vent pipe. I contacted the owners who stated that vandals had tipped over the tank. The following weekend the owners dug up the affected soil and will be treating it at their company yard in Poland Springs. No further action. B-144-1998*Occupancy of Russell Garnett's camp is sporadic throughout the winter, and whoever broke in and stole his Monitor heater knew that. The thieves cut the feed line to the heater, and although the tank was in a locked garage, and the tank valve closed, it didn't seat properly, and an estimated 125 gallons of #1 fuel oil leaked onto and through the living room floor, soaking the stringers and soil underneath as well as the soil directly outside. Oil outside the dwelling was eventually conducted to the lake by the building's perimeter drain. On March 3, Mr. Garnett and I emplaced sorbent boom along the shoreline to recover some of the oil. Sorbent pads were used to recover an estimated 20 gallons of oil that had blown down the lake. On March 6, Clean Harbors started excavating the contaminated soil in front of and under the camp, using a VACTOR. That work was completed on the 9th, and hay put down for erosion control on the 10th. As of this writing, 3/12/98, the Washington S.O. hasn't apprehended the miscreants. P-222-1996*16Apr96, upon arrival I was informed by Barry Woodworth of Tyree Environmental, that HNU headspace sampling indicated a level (approx. 1,000 ppm) above the DEP notification level; soils at the surface of the UST excavation were not oil impacted, and; that the USTs removed were in good shape w. no holes observed and asphalt coating intact. 17Apr96, on site to complete Initial Clean-Up Action Agreement, Options Agreement, and DEP Decision Tree; which indicated a Baseline 1 clean-up goal. The clean-up agreement called for a limited subsurface investigation that was received 16May96. This plan was reviewed and accepted by Brad Hahn of DEP Technical Services, and accepted. 17May96, I issued a DEP Virgin Letter to facilitate the removal of 113.4 tons of soil. The DEP did not require the disposal of this soil; the tank owner decided to dispose of the soil and the DEP issued the disposal letter to faciliate their request. No new tanks were being installed at this site. 12Jul96, I issued a letter to Getty informing them of the 45 day time limit to dispose of stock piled oil contaminated soil. The soil was disposed 23Jul96. The 691 Site Assessment was reviewed by DEP Technical Services, that included Tyree's sub-surface investigation. It was determined by DEP that no further clean-up was required (see attached notification dated 3Sep96) Of further note: the DEP did not require the presence of a tractor trailer vacuum unit on this site. The DEP agreed that a vac truck would be sufficent to perform the task. It was Tyree's decision and authorization to facilatate such a unit for dewatering operations. No futher action by Response Servc. is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO P-393-1997*On July 24, 1997 I was contacted by Mike Pedersen of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Mike called to report a small spill at the yard. He reported that an excavator accidently punctured an old out of service underground fuel line releasing approximatly one gallon of #6 oil. The oil went almost directly into the storm drain that the contractor was working on and was discharged to the Piscataqua River. The oil was contained in the river and cleaned up with sorbents. No action to be taken at this time. P-675-1997*On November 25, 1997 I was contacted by the USCG about a fishing vessel spilling oil at Vessel Services in Portland Harbor. I immediatley responded to the call. The vessel in question was the trawler "Jessica Ann" and was docked at the Portland Fish Pier. An unattended transfer of bunker fuel (diesel) was being made from starboard to port the portside tank became full as the starboard tank emptied causing the vessel to keel over. The Coast Guard came on scene at appr. 1800 and found oil pouring out of the vent pipe on the port side, the vessel was just starting to take on water. They commissioned a tugboat from Portland Tug to put a line on the ship to keep it from going over. I hired Clean Harbors to transfer fuel back over to the Starboard tank to keep the ship level. Clean Harbors completed transfer operations at approximatley 2200. The following morning I searched around the bay but saw no signs of the oil that had been spilled the night before. The department will seek reimbursement from the vessels owner for expences. No further action. P-417-2000*On 7/14/00 I received a call from the Gorham Fire Department reporting a gasoline spill at the Gorham Common Texaco Station on Rt. 25 in Gorham. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I learned that a customer had overfilled a boat with gasoline spilling 24 gallons of gasoline. The fire dept. had placed sorbent pads and speedy dry on the spill to contain it. The station manager, Ron Meserve, hire North American Environmental to clean up the spill. One drum of sand and speedy dry was taken to Commercial Recycling for disposal. No further action required. __________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II JULY 14, 2000 P-508-1999*On 7/20/99 Ann Hemenway received a call from Chief Robertson of the Falmouth Fire Department reporting a leaking drum of Sodium Hydroxide in a tractor-trailer on Route 1 in Cumberland. Ann and I responded immediately. Upon arrival, we learned that a 55-gallon plastic drum of Sodium Hydroxide had become unsecured in the trailer unit and had sustained damage while loose in the trailer. The driver of the truck noticed something leaking from the truck and stopped to investigate. He observed the leaking drum and repositioned it so it would not leak any further. While doing so, he sustained chemical burns and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. We observed that the drum was not leaking and that the wooden floor of the trailer was covered with the chemical. Also, a small amount appeared to have leaked onto the pavement and road shoulder. Chief Robertson had notified the Windham/Gorham/Westbrook hazmat team, and they were en route. I made an action plan for the incident. I would enter the trailer in Level B protection accompanied by the hazmat team and the appropriate backup. We would use poly to cover the floor of the trailer and attempt to patch the drum. The drum would then be overpacked for disposal. In the absence of a representative from the trucking company, I hired Fleet Environmental to respond to the spill to handle disposal issues and final clean up of the spill. When the hazmat team arrived, I informed them of the response objectives as I saw them. We also constructed a decontamination area and conducted a tailgate safety briefing before entering the trailer. Continued, not in HOSS A-156-1998*Received a report from International Paper that they had a leak in the acid sewer. The leak was in the collection tank, which is after the mill's primary clarifier, and where the acid sewer is added to the rest of the mill sewer. The entire mill process sewer passes through this collection tank. The first attempt at control was to excavate by the tank and pump the material to the sluiceway. This was successful and stopped any possible overland flow from occurring. Response Services was involved with a wastewater problem in that it is part of the Elementary Neutralization treatment system. There is also a possibility for the unit to contain low pH material that would be considered hazardous waste. A meeting with Steve Groves, Manager of Environment, Hygiene and Safety for International Paper was held on April 13. An agreement was reached on how International Paper would contain the spill and investigate any repairs that need to be made. The situation is that the mill would have to do a cold shutdown in order to inspect and repair the collection box. There was a major shutdown scheduled for April 27. We agreed that the situation was stable enough that any repairs could wait until then. The problem was a hole in the concrete floor of the collection tank that had been eroded away by the flow from the incoming acid sewer. Plans were submitted to me for approval for fixing the problem. Detailed plans and schedules are included in the attached paperwork. Approval to use the repaired collection box was made at 20:30 on April 29, 1998. Additionally, a minimal geologic investigation was performed after the mill went back on line to see if the low pH waste had spread. According to the report, it did not. No further work is necessary for this incident. P-166-1996*On 3/14/96 I received a call from the Biddeford Fire Dept. reporting a cleaner or thinner spill at Allbrand Vacuum in Biddeford. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I observed that the material spilled was old fuel oil and not hazardous material. The spill had occured when the valve corroded off the above ground tank that the oil was being stored in. The fire dept. had plugged the leaking tank. The spill had covered a small area of the garage floor and had flowed out of the building and collected in puddles in the driveway of the facility. Allbrand Vacuum hired Clean Harbors to pump the remaining fuel in the tank and clean up the spill. No further action required. __________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II P-231-1998* In the evening of 5/22/98, Mapes Oil Co. reported a basement AST discharge at this location. On the morning of Saturday, 5/23/98, I responded and met with Mr. Ouellette of Mapes Oil who had done some intial clean-up/response work the night before. That morning I noted a strong fuel oil oder in the basement, free oil still in the sumps (see site sketch), and much speedy-dry still down. After evaluation I picked up oily speedy dry, laid down new sorbents and called the owner at her primary residence in Mass. The discharge occurred when the furnace pump malfunctioned on about 5/18/98, pumping about 50 gallons of oil onto the floor rather than burning it, with a fill-up last on 3/16 of 165.5 gallons, A good percentage of the oil spread out atop the gw under the concrete floor, endangering the well but not being recoverable without source reduction (soil removal) or in-situ treatment. I returned in late May with P. Eremita, picked up sorbents and evaluated further actions. Ms. Griffin was sent an AST Fund application, chose option 1 on the Options Agreement, and was signed up for QM. The main concerns of the DEP were the drilled well 55 feet to the south, and odors in the house. After collectable product was recovered, Serve Pro was contracted by DEP to clean and deodorize, and the case was passed to Eremita of DEP Tech Services. No further clean-up actions were felt necessary. As of 12/98 no oil contam. has been detected in the well water. This report will be addendumed as needed; further Resp. Div. actions possible though unlikely at this point. S Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-117-2001* On 3/17/01, 0950 hours Randy Stone of Webber Oil reported a twenty gallon release of diesel at their Washington Junction tank farm in Ellsworth. A valve on a dispenser failed to shut off. The spill landed on asphalt and snow. Webber personnel recovered as much oiled snow and debris as they could and stored it to be properly disposed of. 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. B-738-1998*B-738-98 Bucksport Monday November 16, 1998 1125 I received a phone call from David Simonsen (469-0566), of Orland. Mr. Simonsen is the proprietor of the Harriman Cove Trailer Park in Bucksport. Due to the non-payment of rent it was necessary to evict one Mr. Raymond Taylor who lived in unit # 11. Prior to Mr. Taylor's leaving he filled the horizontally mounted 275-gallon heating oil tank with water. This caused a small amount of heating oil to run out of the open bung. When I arrived I spoke with Mr. Simonsen and soon began to pump the water out of the heating oil tank. The water was pumped through an array of sorbent pads and was so clean there was no sheen on the water. This water was introduced into the septic system. Sorbent pads were used to clean up some of the various oil the former occupant left in large open containers. There was only a skim of the oil on the surface. Also pads were used to recover what little oil that there was left in the tank. The used sorbent pads were taken to the temporary sorbent area in Bangor. A-399-1999*The line under the trailer was leaking where the line rested on exposed metal under the trailer. I felt it was a corrosion hole, but the owners felt it was related to a lightning strike the previous day. The tank was still about 3/4 full and hadn't been filled in years. Some oil was on the pad and some had seeped off into soil at the rear of the trailer. We estimate that very little was loss. I feel that soil excavation was complete and the site will not be referred to Technical Services. No further action is anticipated. B-166-1999*B-166-99 Dover-Foxcroft (South Dover) Saturday March 13, 1999 0418 The state police dispatcher phoned and asked me to make contact with Mr. Harry Webber (943-2115) of the Piscataquis County LEPC about an automobile accident on Route 15 in South Dover. According to Mr. Webber, an automobile driven by Richard Martin slipped near a sharp turn some 5 miles South of Dover Foxcroft, in South Dover. He said that about 5 gallons of gasoline leaked from his gasoline tank. The Dover-Foxcroft Fire Department, using sorbent pads, recovered almost 3 gallons of gasoline. The pads were disposed of by the Dover-Foxcroft Fire Department. Peter Arno, of the Bangor Police Department, reported this spill to Harry Webber. A-88-2000* DEP received a report that an overfill had occurred at this residence. Oil sprayed out the vent pipe into snow; A small amount of oil weeped past a loose joint on piping in the cellar. The homeowner (Gilley) was bothered by odors drafting up from the cellar. Spilled oil was easily collected in this event. During the course of wiping down the tank, a small hole was created by dislodging scale and rust on the bottom of the tank (this tank is 30+ years old). Arrangements were made with KVCAP to provide a new tank to Ms. Gilley. A-141-2001* The outside tank at Patty's Place developed a leak, from a broken nipple/fitting, and discharged fuel oil. An unknown amount of kerosene, less than 100 gallons, was spilled. Dead River reported the leak and assisted in the cleanup. When I arrived they had collected a lot of product using sorbent pads. Patty's Place is a restaurant that is owned by Sonny and Patty Soule. The outside tank had been filled on 1/22/01, and it serves a monitor heater. Kent Reed, (pg.264-0064), a local contractor, was hired to excavate the contaminated soil and transport it to Commercial Paving. Patty's Place is a restaurant located on Route 27 in Wiscasset and is owned by Sonny Soule. This place is next to the Irving Station. A telephone call to Dead River found the following delivery information, 1-22-01 delivered 100 gallons, tank full. 3-15-01, tank/fitting leak. 3-19-01, delivered 100 gallons, tank full. B-676-2000* On December 18, 2000 at 1330 we received a call from Mona Spear reporting a two gallon spill of non PCB mineral oil in Marshfield. The spill occurred on the Ridge Rd. when lightning damaged a recloser between two poles and sprayed the oil onto the ground. Workers excavated any contaminated debris and soil. No waters were threatened. 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. A-212-1997*The town CEO, Greg Gilcrest, did the site assessment for the tank removal. He called to report that no contamination was found in the tank excavation, but a small amount was noted under the dispenser. When I visited the site I found that the tank was corroded, but in good condition with no holes. The surrounding soil was reported to be fill, but some heavier silt was observed along the edges of the excavation. It is possible that this is more typical of the native material. The CEO did not have a PID to screen soil, so I took three samples under the tank and two under the dispenser. One of the samples under the dispenser was 85 ppm. The rest were 0 ppm. No remediation was needed. No further action is anticipated. A-350-2000* DEP received a report that hydraulic oil was spilled from a blown line at a commercial vehicle. The truck owner contracted Clean Harbors to remove contaminated soil. A-508-2001*I received a report of a three vehicle accident on Route 4 just south of the DOT Div. 7 maintenance garage in North Jay. A tractor trailer hauling a load of birch logs was cut off by a van. The truck jack-knifed and flipped spilling its load of logs to the roadway. There were injuries to the vehicle drivers, however, fortunately no fatalities. A 100 gallon saddle tank on the truck was ripped open and discharged its contents. According to the owner, Gerard Poulin, the tank was less than 1/2 full. The other fuel tank of the truck was intact and 1/4 to 1/3 full upon checking. The spilled diesel sprayed onto the shoulder into a thicket of alders and other woody plants down a steep embankment. Some limited recovery with sorbents was attempted by the Jay Fire Dept on scene. SP unit 843 on scene checked the color of the fuel to determine if off road diesel was being used. He impounded the truck for a full evaluation. Atwood Towing hauled the vehicle. Neither of the other vehicles was on scene upon my arrival. It was unclear if these vehicles lost fluids. I returned to the site the following morning to investigate. No private wells are known to exist in the area. Public water serves area. Due to the steep embankment, high speed of the roadway, and lack of groundwater resources at risk, removal of contaminated soils was not warranted in this case. DOT maintenance Highway Crew supervisor Paul Gingras met with me and indicated he would lime and mulch the affected roadside. No further action is anticipated by Response Services. A-292-1998* Free product was found in Manning's well. There are several wells nearby. See attached word document. 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.] . P-530-2000*See separate narrative and any attachements. A-433-1998* DEP received a report that "foam" was evident on storm-water along a section of paved road. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the site. The substance in question appeared as a light froth along a recently paved surface approximately 600' long. A heavy rain was falling following a long dry spell; the froth seemed to result as passing vehicles agitated the wet road surface. The froth was washing into soil at the road shoulder. While the source of the foam is unknown it appeared minor in nature and did not appear to present a threat to health or environment. I do not anticipate further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. I-145-1999*On 9-20-99, Larry Clark of the Presque Isle Industrial Council reported that while excavation for a new handicap ramp in front of the Work Opportunity Training Center was in progress, an old fuel oil tank was encountered. The tank was empty and dry, and no soil contamination was seen. I met with him on site and confirmed this. He was to register the tank. I-79-2001*Driver fell asleep at wheel. Drove off bridge, vehicle landed upside down in Machias River. Placed sorbents to recover product during removal of vehicle from water. A-158-1998* DEP received a report that an oil spill had occurred at this residential AST due to a leaking filter. According to the property owner (Weaver) the filter had recently been serviced and he notice a slow leak (he collected est. 3 teaspoons in a drip-pan over a 24-hour period). Oil company staff repaired the leak and removed a small amount of oily soil. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-564-2000*Received a call from Winthrop dispatch that there had been an acid spill at Winthrop High School. I responded to the site. Along the way Winthrop dispatch informed me that there was one injury and put me in communication with the ambulance. They informed me that the burns on the victim were fairly severe which gave me an indication as to the severity of the situation I was going towards. I arrived at the school and found that Winthrop Fire had arrived and had evacuated the cafeteria. I met with the Fire Chief and Mr. David Raymond, head of maintenance for the schools. Mr. Raymond supplied an MSDS for the product "Zoom". The product is an acid drain cleaner made with sulfuric acid. There was a quart bottle of Zoom on an overhead shelf in a storage closet off of the cafeteria. A maintenance worker apparently knocked the bottle over. The cap was probably not secured and it splashed over the worker as it came down. Her cries for help were heard and the school nurse escorted her to the locker rooms where she was able to wash the product off of herself. The Zoom was strong enough and sticky enough to still cause some burns. Luckily, no product was reported to be on her face. The falling bottle also impacted other items in the closet. I instructed the school to take all the soda bottles and dispose of them instead of trying to salvage the soda. The Zoom on the floor was sorbed onto wood shavings. The closet was then washed down with a hose. The items in the closet, the worker's cloths and the shavings were disposed of at Waste Management in Norridgewock. Mr. Raymond said that the school would start an inspection of all closets and other potential areas that hazardous materials may be stored. Apparently a long time janitor had retired and this was not the first time some material was not where it should have been. No further work is necessary on this spill. P-49-2000* On 12/10/00 I was phoned by Ms. Nancy Shapleigh who inquired as to an env. clearance for her late-husband's commercial property in Eliot. She was intending to sell the property (to William Shapleigh Const., also an RP for site) and had a Phase-2 done by Shevenell-Gallen & Assoc. (SGA) in 12/99. She stated minor diesel contam. was noted and would send me a report copy. I visited the prop. on 1/20/00, a residential and commercial with the site and surrounding houses on well water (Stringent Clean-Up Goal). Based on topography gw flow likely carries contam. to the NW away from the residential properties. The site has been a const. firm since the 1950's. CG John Engell did a gaso. UST removal assessment under Greenwood Const. in 10/98. At present there are three active AST's (waste oil and diesel), one former AST and two former UST's. The SGA report arrived on 2/24/00. Reportable PID and lab analysis values were noted with TP-3 (floor drain discharge) and the former diesel AST. Lab analysis indicated more severe contamination with levels up to: 2.47 ppm DRO in gw and 3290 ppm DRO in soil (TP-3); and 296 ppm DRO in gw and 2140 ppm in soil (TP-4). Soils encountered were sands underlain by clay/silt (See SGA report for further details). No well water analysis at present. This historical contam. does not appear to have been reported as required. On 3/24/00 I met Mrs. Shapleigh onsite. She agreed to close the floor drain and submit a well-water sample. As of 5/31/00 I have recieved no analysis or further information. This may indicate no further desire for DEP clearance or a problem found. The site is not clean to Dept. satisfaction (Stringent Goal) at present. With confirmation the nearby well(s) are un-contaminated, downgrading to Intermediate Goal is likely. Further DEP actions possible at this time. See attachements and UST reg. file #13606 for further details. S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM A-300-1997*Received a report from Dead River that they had spilt some fuel at a customer's house. I responded to the residence of David & Valerie Parent at 39 Pleasantdale Avenue in Waterville. While delivering fuel, Dead River's hose split, causing fuel oil to be sprayed on the grounds and the house. A very rough estimate of 5 gallons spilt was made. Dead River immediately took responsiblity for the spill and offered to clean the house with my direction. Mrs.Parent had small children in the house and the odor of fuel oil was apparent. She stated that she was concerned about the health effects of breathing the oil. I advised her the effects were minimal, but she should not stay in the house if she was uncomfortable. She chose to leave with the children. Eventually Dead River replaced some siding and gave them a new asphalt driveway (which was negotiated between Dead River and the Parent's). No further action is needed at this site. P-778-1999*9 Nov 1999, responded to spill location. A tractor trailer, tanker unit, leaked fuel oil from the vapor recovery system upon delivery of the product to storage tanks. Dennis O'Brien of DR advised later that the driver was unfamiliar with the new tanker trailer and did not apply the proper off-loading procedures. Spilled product was quickly confined and storm drains secured. An undetermined amount of fuel oil entered one of the storm drains. Sorbent pads were used in the basin to recover any remaining product. No further Response action. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 15FEB00. P-595-1999*On 10/20/99 DEP responded to an AST spill at Six J's Restaurant 48 Cottage St. Sanford. According to the lessee of the property the 275 gallon tank had less than a quarter of a tank left. Cause of loss was due to corrosion of tank bottom. Owner of property is Armand Proulx, 9 Boyd St. Sanford. Sanford Fire Dept was on scene and put sorbent pads in low area driveway. Fleet Env. Services was called for clean-up with removal of sorbents along with cleaning of driveway where oil mixed with fryer grease spreading over the drive. Tank was removed by Mapes Oil Company. I mentioned to lessee that I would be sending in a request for an AST fund application and that the responsibility of $500.00 for the deductable for the fund coverage and any replacement work for the tank is the owners responsibility. With the removal of oiled pads and replacement of the tank, I see no further action at this time. P-309-1996*On 5/22/96 Nathan Thompson issued a 30 day waiver for a tank discovered during a construction project at Yummies Candy Store in Kittery. The tank was to be pumped and removed on 5/23/96. On 5/23/96 Steve Eufemia received a call from L W Morgridge & Son reporting contamination found at the removal. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I observed a hole the size of my fist in the steel 1000 gallon tank. Some sludge from the tank bottom had spilled into the excavation. The sludge and surrounding contamination was excavated and trucked to ARC in Eliot for disposal. No further action required. _____________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II A-363-1998* The storage tank was overfilled during a liquid transfer from the transport truck. They were using air to unload the product and the air pressure caused the storage tank to overfill. The ammonium hydroxide then spilled into a diked area. Sappi estimated that 1,050 gallons spilled from the storage tank. The spilled material was then pumped slowly into the Waste Treatment Plant to be used for its original purpose, which is to provide a nutrient base for the organisms in the treatment plant. B-314-1999*According to Mona Spear, the severe lightening and wind storm of 6/07 caused a tree to lean onto a transmission wire, which in turn loosened a bushing on a transformer enough to make the bushing weep oil. The problem was discovered and repaired 6/12. Less than a gallon of oil was lost, and about a bag of contaminated soil and debris generated in the cleanup. See the BHECo report attached. B-442-1996* FOREST RANGER COURTNEY HAMMOND, OF THE D.O.C. JONESBORO OFFICE,(434-2621) ROUTINELY CHECKS WOODS ROADS IN HIS PATROL AREA, LOOKING FOR ARSONISTS AND FRESH LITTER. ON AUGUST 14, HE DISCOVERED SOME NEW GARBAGE DUMPED ON A DEAD END ROAD OFF OF RT. 86 IN MARION. THE LAND BELONGS TO CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL. HAMMOND STARTED SORTING THROUGH THE GARBAGE, HOPING TO FIND A NAME; INSTEAD, HE ENCOUNTERED USED NEEDLES. HE STOPPED HIS SEARCH AND CONTACTED CHAMPION'S HEAD FORESTER, WHO, IN TURN, CALLED US. DARRYL LUCE AND I MET HAMMOND AND RANGER DON HICKS AT THE SITE, ABOUT 1630 THAT DAY. SORTING THROUGH THE BAGS OF GARBAGE, WE RECOVERED 17 USED NEEDLES, 2 DISPOSABLE NEEDLE BAGS, 2 EMPTY VIALS OF NOVOLIN 70/30(A TYPE OF INSULIN) AND A SMALL PACKAGE FROM THE LUBEC APOTHECARY BEARING THE NAME OF DAVID RICE. THE RANGERS LEFT THE SITE TO GIVE A LITTERING SUMMONS TO DAVID RICE; WE TOOK OUR EVIDENCE AND RETURNED TO BANGOR. THE CASE WILL BE TURNED OVER TO SCOTT AUSTIN TO PROSECUTE RICE FOR ILLEGAL DISPOSAL OF MEDICAL WASTE. ON SEPT. 9, I LEARNED FROM COURTENEY HAMMOND THAT HE HADN'T GIVEN RICE A SUMMONS. RICE, IT TURNS OUT, HAD BEEN HOSPITALIZED MOST OF JULY, AND COULDN'T HAVE DUMPED ANY GARBAGE IN THE WOODS. RICE ACTUALLY LIVES IN TRESCOTT TWP., WHERE THE STATE PAYS FOR ROADSIDE PICK-UP OF GARBAGE, SO THERE'D BE NO REAL INCENTIVE FOR HIM TO DUMP IT IN THE WOODS. INCREDIBLE AS IT SEEMS, HAMMOND IS LEANING TOWARDS THE THEORY THAT SOMEONE SWIPED RICE'S GARBAGE AND EVENTUALLY DUMPED IT IN MARION. THERE SEEMS TO BE NO OTHER CREDIBLE EXPLANATION. B-704-1997*On 12/5/97, 0915 hours Rick Kircher, who represents the Forest Division of Mead Publishing Paper, reported a diesel spill from a log truck that had rolled onto it's side into a ditch. The truck was owned and operated by United Timber Corp., who responded immmediately with a spill kit. Although there was no water in the ditch, there was enough frost to keep the product from penetrating. Because of this they were able to recover the product that had accumulated in a puddle. They deployed a second batch of sorbent pads after the liquid product had been recovered. Also, they collected the snow that had become soaked with fuel. United Timber Corp. have a biomass fueled boiler in Dixfield, ME where they are permitted to dispose of oiled sorbent. B-204-2000*B-204-00 Dover-Foxcroft Thursday April 13, 2000 1307 I received a complaint for investigation from Ms. Karine Downs (564-7839), of the Doore Road, in Dover-Foxcroft. According to Ms. Downs her neighbor has a junkyard with old vehicles that is located next to their pasture and their well. The junk is located between his garage and her house. The location is at the end of the Doore Road on the left side. When I arrived I saw a poorly kept yard with derelict cars and assorted metal parts and parts of trucks. It appeared that Mr. Chambers used his garage to do some repair work. Mr. Chambers told me that Connie Sands (564-3318) had contacted him and asked him to clean up his yard and around the garage. He told me that someone was going to come by shortly to pick up the remains of a pick up truck. The rest of the debris would be cleaned up on the weekend or by Monday. I saw Karine Downs while I was there and told her that the code enforcement officer had ordered a clean up that would soon be underway. There was no evidence that the Karine well was at risk. Mr. Chambers stored waste oil in 55-gallon drums in his garage and said a friend uses it in a waste oil heater. P-305-1997* SUMMARY On Wed. 6/4/97 I did a brief facility inspection of this out-of-service facility at the request of Scharf and DeHaas of the DEP OEU. Apparently the parent company had gone bankrupt (Johnson Products, now Phoenix North Co.) and responsibility may be falling on the property owners (Leatherbee & Co., 1330 Boylston St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02167). The facility was replaced in 1988 when four bare steel UST's were replaced by three CP tanks (see p-341-97). Contam. was found though clean-up incomplete at the time. FACILITY LOCATION The facility is located in a commercial area of Westbrook on the Portland City line and is part of the Bradlees Shopping plaza. The area is on city water & sewer. I found only about 1" to 1.5" inches of liquid in the three tanks and no evidence of UST leakage. There was a small waste oil like spill in the rear. The dispensers were not able to be accessed. See the attached maps and notes for further information. Further actions are possible with any pending UST removal. S G Brezinski, DEP BRWM, Response Svcs. Div. . Report update of May 2004 I-110-2000*On 09/20/00, Janet Langille contacted this office to discuss a Phase II site assessment done at Linnahans Credit Now in Presque Isle. The assessment showed an area of contamination in the location of an old tank field when the property was a service station. PID readings on the soils showed them to be within cleanup criteria except two small areas. I explained the VRAP process to them and also explained to be eligible, the areas would need to be remedied. The inquiry was part of a real estate sale. The property has not sold and is no longer for sale. B-423-1998*B-423-98 Guse Residence - Orland Diane Alexander, C.N.Brown Oil Co., called to report that one of their home delivery truck had overfilled an oil tank (reported as weak whistle) at the Claire Guse residence in Orland. The estimated amount was less than one quart. The oil was wiped up with sorbents, which will be collected and eventually disposed of through Seacoast Ocean Services. P-872-1999*On 12/27/99 DEP staff working on a train derailment in Hinckley were informed that operations would be suspended as the recovery crew had to respond to a derailment on the Guilford mainline in Gray. I contacted the State Police and they informed me that they new nothing about it. I contacted the Gray FD and was told that they had heard about it after the fact and had been to the site. Sheryl Bernard & I visited the site and met with Walter Zaccadelli of Guilford Trans. He informed us that 17 cars had been involved: 2 chlorine, 1 #6 oil, & 2 caustic, all "empty". 1 full starch & 4 full clay hoppers, 1 full tank of clay slurry, & 6 empty box cars. Only the clay & starch cars had leaked. These were not hazardous, however they were on the edge of a steep embankment to the Royal River. Mr. Zaccadelli informed me that the starch and clay would not be removed right away as it was not hazardous and the RR needed to open the mainline as soon as possible. I informed him that he should be sure that erosion control measures were implemented to ensure the Royal River was not impacted. Mr. Zaccadelli informed me that the 5 cars containing oil/hazardous materials did leave the tracks, however since none leaked and all were considered empty and they remained on the RR R.O.W. he did not feel that the RR had an obligation to report the incident to the DEP or Dept. of Public Safety. I questioned the fact that the "threat" of release did not need to be reported and contacted Guilford's Executive Director of Safety & Training, John M. Law, who informed me that if there was no discharge and the train did not leave the RR R.O.W. they were under no obligation to the state or the local Fire Dept. (even though traffic was stopped on Depot St.). I returned that evening and on 12/28(am) and observed clean up operations. No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter. Jon Woodard OHMS3 Div. of Response Services BR&WM P-181-2000*Observation of the accident scene were made however no recoverable product was collected. A very light sheen was the most predominate contamination observed. No remedial actions were applied, and no further actions are required at this time. B-211-1996*D-TREE = BL1. B-804-1998*What's the best way for a man to remind himself that he'd removed the spare gas tank from his Ford pick-up ? Hopefully not by trying to fill it with gasoline, but that 's exactly what happened to a customer suffering from brain atrophy at the self-service pumps at the C&K Country Market. It's unknown who the subject was, but he stopped filling the non-existant tank when gasoline started running around his shoes. Perhaps that's why people are encouraged not to smoke while pumping gas. The Hermon Fire Dept. was called and they spread speedy dry to soak up the spill. C&K Market claims to have no idea who the spiller was, and they maintain no spill log. B-67-1997*Ron McKusick, concerned Dexter resident, called to report the observation of a white gaseous vapor off the Airport Road. While enroute to a clean up in Corinna, the area was thoroughly checked. Nothing of importance was discovered. Given the cold still conditions that morning, in conjunction with a temperature inversion, any wood smoke or diesel exhaust would appear significant. A-171-2000*The driver, Mark, overfilled an AST with gasoline. Product sprayed onto the ground inside and outside the containment area. Contaminated soil was removed and the product in the containment area was allowed to evaporate. The property owner is Ray White, RR 1, Box 7230, Augusta, ME 04330, 622-2622. The store's drilled well is on the opposite side of the store from the tanks. No further action required by Response Services. P-547-1998* On 11/2/98 I was referred this investigation to confirm the presense of 1 ppb MTBE in this residential well. This residence was part of the statewide study of 1000 wells for MTBE contamination. One ppb detection for MTBE is just at the detection level and may not be a reliable reading. On 11/13/98 I met Ms. Chase onsite and re-sampled her well from her kitchen tap. In Dec., 1998 Maine Env. lab notified me that 2 ppb had been confirmed, but was still below the 35 ppb state action level. On 12/23/98 I contacted Ms. Chase and notified her of the results. She was very concerned as she cared for pre-schoolers. I advised her to contact Andy Smith, DHS Toxicologist, and Brad Hahn, DEP Geologist, for questions on health matters and further actions. This single family residence is off busy Rt. 103 near the Kittery line in an area of other single family homes. There were no UST's or other obvious gasoline sources noted within 100 ft. On 12/23/98 I sent her a copy of the lab results, referred this case to Hahn for evaluation and signed her up for QM thru DHS, with her approval. S Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-157-2000*While excavating a trench for a new storm drain line near the former LLRW storage building, workers noticed a strong petroleum odor. This trench is far enough south of the former generator shed (see A-323-94 & A-573-99) that the spill is believed to be from a different source. Soil was excavated on 3/27/00. Field screening was performed with a PID and a Dexsil Petroflag kit. Lab analysis indicates the contamination is most likely diesel fuel, probably from a leaking truck. See attached report from Stone & Webster for Maine Yankee. No further action required by Response Services. B-317-1996*D-TREE = S. P-687-1997* UST non-conforming product piping issue. Retail motor fuels UST facility. No Response Div. site visit at this time. See attached for details. No further information on expected piping replacement. P-427-2000*The discharge was the result of McAleney Oil Co. mistakenly filling the forward slop tank instead of the fuel tank resulting in the fuel making its way into the bilge, and eventually being pumped overboard by the automatic bilge pump. Fleet Environmental Service was hired by the oil company to recover the oil that was pumped overboard and to clean the bilge of the Fishhawk. For further details, see attachments from the U.S. Coast Guard. No further action required. P-435-1997*On 8/5/97 Donald Simard the Code Enforcement Officer for the City of Biddeford called and reported that he was investigating a reddish deposit on Fortunes Rock Beach which had been brought to his attention by beachgoers. He described the material and requested that the Department assist with the identification of the substance(s). Steve Flannery and I responded and met Simard at the site. Based upon my observations I concluded that the material was a sand deposit consisting of minerals having a reddish hue. Flannery indicated that he was familiar with this beach and recalled seeing the colored sand when he visited this area in the past. I collected a sample for closer inspection. Upon returning to the office I inspected that materials under a microscope. I saw nothing that would indicate the material was anything other than mineral. I subsequently discussed the investigation with various individuals, including Steve Dixon, a geologist with the Maine Geological Survey, all of whom indicated that it was not unusual to find sand of this color on Maine beachs. Several of the people I spoke to referred to the material as "garnet sand" and indicated the red color was imparted by garnet fragments being present in large percentage within the sand matrix. No Further action is recommended. _____________________ Steven Eufemia OHMS III A-333-2000*A hydraulic hose blew on a carry deck (crane) in the maintenance yard. Cianbro staff cleaned up the spill. No site visit made; no further action by Response Services. See attached report from Cianbro. P-259-2000*State police reported a gasoline spill from a pick up truck that had rolled over on Gloucester Hill Road. The pick up had rolled over sometime during the night and had been abandoned by the driver. The police reported that there was a small spot where it appeared some gas had leaked from the vehicle and that the tow truck operator had collected a small amount of gas while removing the truck from the road side. I went to the site and recovered the gas collected by the tow truck operator. I also found the spot where some gas had leaked into the ground, this I shoveled from the ground and spread on the road shoulder to allow evaporation (it was a warm, dry sunny day). I found no wells or surface water bodies in the area, therefore no further clean up is recommended. A-143-2000* CMP reported a release of one pint of oil. This occurred when a hose ruptured on a bucket truck. The oil sprayed onto Mr. Hanson's automobile and onto the ground. A crew from CMP cleaned up the spill, no further action will be required. B-412-1998*According to Leon Sockbeson, 50 gallons of fuel oil was spilled at Robert Newall's residence when would-be thieves tried to gain access to a rear window of Newall's house by climbing on the fuel filter of the oil tank. That, of course, caused the nipple to crack, and the tank emptied itself onto the ground. Sockbeson notified me, and the contamination was dug out that afternoon. This is not, apparently, the first such incident at this residence. According to local lore, there was a similar incident two or three years ago, that never got reported. P-795-1999*In the early morning of Nov. 17, 1999 The cableship "Coastal Connector" spilled 800 gallons of diesel fuel onto the deck and into the ocean. The spill was due to inattention during product transfer to a day tank. At the time of the spill the vessel was approximately 25 nautical miles of the coast of Cape Elizabeth. Seas were at 8 to 10 feet and "gale" warnings were issued. Due to the heavy seas and high winds it was late afternoon before the vessel clean up contractor, ECM Hudson was able to respond - by that time however the oil had been dispersed and not even a sheen remained. No signs of the oil are expected on the Maine coast. No further action. P-170-1996*Non-reported discharge of fuel-oil from truck to roadside and into brook. Possibly from Don's Heating Service, of Standish. No RP confirmed though. Visit by DEP and Bill Perry of Portland Water District. Most of oil into pavement; no further sheen noted in brook. P-518-2000*Rob Bartlett of Cyro Industries called to let me know that they had cleaned up a spill of 4 ounces of hydraulic oil at their facility. No Response visit was necessary. _____________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I August 21, 2000 B-14-2001* On January 11, 2001 at 1415 we received a call from Austin Ellis reporting an oil spill at a rental property owned by his mother. He said he was at the property in early December when he noticed an oil stain on the ground outside the building that houses the oil tank. I contacted John Chauvin, Ms. Ellis's son-in-law, who said Ms. Ellis has a harrassment order against her son. Mr. Chauvin said that Mr. Ellis was upset that Ms. Ellis willed the property to her daughter and not to Mr. Ellis who is her son. Mr. Chauvin said there was no spill and I was welcome to check the property. I visited the site on January 16 and met Mr. Chauvin. I checked the soil around the tank and outside the building and found no sign of spillage. 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. P-994-2001*Included with monthly report of small spills at PNSY. A-509-1999*Harjula Heating noticed some contaminated soil from an old overfill when they were replacing the tank. A trivial amount of soil was dug up and taken to the transfer station. The stained tank was removed. The well could not be sampled due to a pump failure on 8/16. A sample was collected on 9/2/99 and taken to the lab. No product was detected. No further action is required. A-35-1997* The AST located in the basement of 28 Halifax St. leaked a small amount of oil onto the dirt floor. This was reported to the DEP several days after the spill by the new tenant Mrs. Maleck. I responded and found a slight odor problem but, the PID did not detect any VOC's. I asked the owner's sister, Jill Vangorden, (the owner is out of state) to do the following. Remove some more soil and crushed rock from the basement. replace the copper line. replace the temporary cap/insert with a threaded plug. I also spoke with the furnaceman, Lew Duvall, and asked him to do the same things. No further action is likely at this location. A-401-1998* C.N Brown reported a release of less than one gallon of fuel oil at a residence in Vassalboro. The oil spilled onto the concrete floor and was cleaned up by C.N. Brown employees. I do not have any information on who the homeowner is, no site visit was made. B-212-2001*B-0212-01 Blue Hill Wednesday April 18, 2001 1448 The Blue Hill Fire Department dispatcher phoned to report a rolled over vehicle due to the snowstorm. Snow was coming down and leaving roadways very slushy in Washington and Hancock Counties. The vehicle, a Ford Bronco, rolled over on Route 15, across from Duffy Plumbing. The Blue Hill Fire Department was on scene. I told the dispatcher that I would be en route, but added that when I encountered the slush on the roads going would be slow. About the time I arrived in Blue Hill I received a page from the state police dispatcher. I could not use the cell phone so I went to the Fire Department to place the call. It was there, they told me they had the situation well in hand and had put down sorbent pads. I explained that If at all possible I would try to pick up the pads in a day or two. On Friday morning I picked up the sorbent pads and took them to the DEP temporary storage building in Bangor. P-16-1998*Pump to oil fired boiler froze up during power outage due to storm. When power was restored, product was pumped onto floor and ran out door into driveway. Clean Harbors was contracted by spillor and cleaned up spilled product. No site visit was made by DEP and no further action is necessary in this matter. ______________________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 1 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management P-285-2000* In the evening of Sunday 5/21/00 Ogunquit Fire Dept. (OFD) Dispatch notified DEP, thru the state police, of a large sheen on Perkin's Cove. I arrived onsite and met with Fire Chief Howe, Fire Lt. Bassard, and Hennesey of USCG, MSFO, et al. The fire dept. had laid out about 340' (38 sections) of sorbent boom and five bails of pads though as the sheen had very much dissipated or evaporated there was almost nothing recovered. The spill appears to have occured after an Isuzu brand oil filter and a container of red marine diesel had been dumped in a trash barrel on the pier next to the Harbormaster's shack. During Sunday afternoon's rain, oil seeped out and ran into the water. It is possible that some of the sheen may have been from a boat. During my visit most of the sheen had dissipated. Two strings of sorbent boom had been stretched across the cove mouth and 5 bags of sorbents used by the OFD. Many of the cove's boats ran on diesel though only two were known to have Isuzu engines. Hennesey and I checked 4 - 5 boats and identified F/V OUTERLIMITS as having changed its filter on Fri. 5/18/00. The owner, Mr. Mike Parenteau adamantly denied being the source of the sheen and that the jug with free product was not his, though admitted to having thrown his old filter into the barrel. The USCG and DEP agreed that there was not enough evidence to narrow down an RP and seek reimbursement for the OFD's sorbents. Most all of the sorbents appeared not to have any oil on them and were wet with water only. I advised OFD to dry them out for re-use. OFD requested they be replaced by DEP though Woodard and I agreed that reuse would be most practical. S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM. A-519-1998*This spill happened when a car pulled in front of a tractor-trailer. The truck lost the contents of one saddle tank. The oil flowed a short distance to a culvert under the road. Oil was contained in the culvert, which was lower in the middle than the ends. I returned the following day and pumped a quantity of oil from the culvert. I also installed oil collection points at both ends of the culvert. More oil was recovered after heavy rains. Some contamination remains in soil on the road shoulder and possibly under the road if some oil escaped from the culvert. The culvert is in poor shape. There is a tight clay layer under the gravel road base. The area is served by public water. No further action is anticipated. A-330-1997* According to this property owner (Plourde) he installed a 2000-gallon #2 oil UST in the mid-1970s to heat a large poultry barn. A line leak occurred and immediately impacted the drilled well (100' deep, located about 40' from the UST) that served the barn and the Plourde residence. Free product appeared in this well, so Mr. Plourde abandonned it and drilled a new well (210' deep, located about 125' from the UST site; Mr. Plourde claims this well has never shown evidence of contamination). This UST remained in service until its' removal on 8/31/97. At that time Mr. Plourde notified DEP about the earlier spill. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the site on 9/4/97. The removed UST appeared sound, and no contaminated soil was observed in the excavation. A baled sample from the abandonned well showed 65 ppb DRO. The case was referred for Tech Services attention. I anticipate no further Response involvement as a result of this incident. I-138-1996*On 12-9-96, this office received a call from the Maine State Police regarding a spill of about 20 gallons of gasoline in their maintenance garage. Apparently, the gas tank on one of their vehicles that was being worked on was punctured. The gas went onto the floor and down the hydraulic cylinder hole. The fire department responded and cleaned the floor with sorbent pads. The gas in the cylinder hole could not be recovered feasibly. The well was placed on quarterly monitoring. A-616-1998*See attached narrative and letter from H.O. Bouchard for detailed information. B-91-1996*Bob Marquis Oil Co. called to report that an oil line to an outside 275 oil tank had broken at the Roy residence in Greenbush. He estimated that about 65 gallons, later reduced to about 20 gallons, had been lost. I went to the scene and met Mr. Roy who was in the process of cleaning up the spill. As this was in the middle of February the house trailer was surrounded with snow and ice and, even though the tank was at the end of the trailer, ice had built up around the fuel line. The earth under the tank then heaved through frost action but the ice sheet that the line was froze into did not move as much and the soft copper line became crimped. The crimp then developed a leak. Fortunately only a tiny amount (less than 2 sq. ft) made it under the trailer. The majority worked its way into the unheated dirt floor work shop Mr. Roy had built behind the trailer. I assisted him by giving him 2 bales of sorbent pads and an empty open topped drum. He used up the pads and filled the drum with oil saturated snow. I later collected these items and disposed of the pads through the Auburn incinerator. The oil recovered from the wrung out pads and in the drum was sent to our waste oil heater. After cleaning the snow water it was disposed of at the Bangor Waste Treatment Facility. The trailer is in Sweet Fern Trailer Park and has public water. The public well is over 1000 feet away. Mr. Roy did a very good job of cleaning up the oil and I expect no problems. A-148-2001*Received a report from Ms. Casey Devine that their above ground tank had leaked while shoveling snow from around the tank. I went to the site. Mr. Devine had been busy shoveling up the contaminated snow into garbage cans. I assisted in this and supplied some drums. I did get Fleet Environmental to send a vactor to the site to remove more of the contaminated snow and vac out the drums. After a few days, more contaminated snow was put into the drums. Eventually the contaminated snow melted and Clean Harbors was sent to pump out the drums. Almost all the oil was in the snow, except for some runoff that ran under the crawl space. A fan was used to ventilate the crawl space. No further work is necessary on this spill. P-366-1999*7 June 1999, responded to spill location. Several gallon of gasoline spilled from a compressor motor attached to a fertilizer truck that rolled over. Diesel fuel, less than a gallon, discharged from one of the trucks saddle tanks. In addition, approximately 25 gallons of an inert seed mixture escaped from the truck. Trained staff from Lucus cleaned up the spill and transported it to a licensed facility. No further action warranted. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 3Sep99. A-257-1998*See attached narrative. I-132-1999*Staging broke. Man pulled 5 gal. pail of HCl down. Solution was 20% and that was diluted. Hydrochloric Acid. 10/24/06 Received request from Kara Walker, OHMS, Augusta to complete this spill report and promote to next level for final review processing. Reviewed spill file and completed info missing in fields related to site name, location and primary product spilled, etc. Promoted spill to draft review level for final review and processing. 12/07/06 After reviewing file, could not find any mention of any clean up required. Must not have been any big issue. A-248-1996* The United States Coast Guard reported an oil sheen on the Atlantic Ocean. They do not know where this sheen originated from. The sheen was located 1/4 mile offshore from South Thomaston. No further information is available, no site visit was made. B-229-1996*D-TREE = S. P-160-1998*On April 18 I responded to a call of a fuel spill from a residential 275 gallon oil tank. A loose fitting on the copper feed line had spilled oil to the crawl space beneath the home at the Stokes residence at 130 Chicoine Ave. The Oil Company had been out the night before and soaked up what free product they could with sorbent pads, and had fixed the leak. Under the home where the oil had spilled I noted standing water with a sheen and stained soil. I placed sorbent pads on the water and made arrangements for a vac truck to come out and remove the oiled soil and the affected surface water. On April 29 I had Clean Harbors on site with a Vactor to remove oil contaminated soil and water from beneath the house. No further action anticipated at this time. B-115-2000*B-115-00 Bangor Wednesday March 1, 2000 1240 I received a phone call from Mr. Allen Glazier. Mr. Glazier phoned to report that there was an oil spill at a property located at 121 Maple Street. The spill was a heating oil spill of about 2 gallons. The stained area on the floor was about 6 by 8 feet in area. This area was dry. During a site visit I met Rabbi Rob Brettler and a Dead River heating technician named Rick. Rick was involved with cleaning the stained area of concrete basement floor that was black in appearance. This indicated that at least some of this spill is quite old. The pipe joint on the fill pipe may have been leaking a small amount each time oil was put into the tank. Over time it accumulated about 2 gallons of oil on the floor. The oil has soaked up dirt and dust and was virtually dry. I recommended that speedi-dri or cat litter be put down and worked into the oil then swept up. This procedure should be repeated for best results. The leaking pipe section was removed and Dead River installed a new section. A-123-1998* A tractor trailer rig,(minus the trailer), crashed on I-95. The Sidney F.D. responded and contained the spilled diesel and motor oil. I arrived later and finished cleaning up the mess with sorbent pads. The accident occurred at mile 111 southbound, I-95. No further action will be needed. B-514-2000*B-514-2000 09/21/2000 09:30 An anonymous complainant called to report observing several pails and drums on a property owned by Gerard Goodwin on Goodwin Lane in Franklin. The caller appeared to indicate that the containers were in poor shape and were abandoned. An investigation of the property shown only sound containers with little leakage at Mr. Goodwin's business. The basis for the complaint remains a mystery. No other action was taken. A-632-1998*DEP received notification that random analysis had detected a gasoline additive (MTBE) at miniscule concentrations (1.4 ppm) at this residential well. Attempts to contact the property owner by phone (reported disconnected) and mail (no response received) in order to conduct a confirmatory sample were unsuccessful. Given the initial low reported concentration of MTBE and the non-responsive behavior of the homeowner, I do not intend to pursue further action here. A-325-1998*The caller alleged that used filters were improperly handled, and that drums of oil were allowed to cause a sheen to reach the river. The caller did not know if the drums were open or closed. When I visited the site, the first reaction of the owner was to ask me to leave immediately. After a time he did show me through one work bay and the middle of the property. The site consists of 3 or 4 work buildings and the owner's home. The center of the site is paved and the work bay I saw has a concrete floor. The area I saw was generally clean. The filters are drained and then disposed of in the trash containers. Used oil is reported to be burned in an onsite waste oil furnace. The area around the trash containers was not oil stained. There was one oil stain where the trash hauler truck leaks, but speedy dri had been used on this. The home is between the work area and the river. There is no sign of stress to the lawn. I would have liked to visit more of the site, and particurlarly the area behind the buildings toward Fairfield. However, based on what I did see, there is no evidence that this is a site where oil spills go uncleaned. No further action is anticipated at this time. P-147-1999*On February 27, 1999 I responded to a call of a spill of chemicals at St. Joseph's College in Standish. A chemistry professor had been moving chemicals between two buildings on a cart and the cart had tipped over. The majority of the spilled product ran to a storm drain about 15' away. The storm drain ran under a road and discharged to the surface in a small wetland which is adjacent to Sebago Lake. Portland Water District personnel were on site as well as Standish Fire. I called Seacoast Ocean Services to clean up the chemicals. Seacoast removed all the water from the storm drain, power washed the sidewalk and street were the spill occurred and vaced out all the sediment from the storm drain. Upon removing the sediment from the storm drain we found the the discharge pipe was filled to the top with frozen sediment, however as a soil sample was taken at the outlet and analyzed for chromium and mercury. The results of the samples indicated that none of the spilled chemicals remained in the soils. No further clean up required. I-180-1999*On 10/20/99, Irving Woodlands faxed a spill report form to this office regarding the spill of about 2 gallons of deisel fuel onto a woods road in TC R 2, close to Monticello. The fuel line on a truck had broken. The dirt from the road was scraped up and spread on an acceptable area for drying. 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 . B-306-2000*B-306-2000 06/02/2000 15:30 Fred Leigh, Environmental Compliance Specialist for Bangor Hydro Electric, called to report a spill if dielectric oil from a transformer at the Kagan Lown Building on Gilman Falls Avenue in Old Town. It was stated that approximately one pint of fluid leaked from a ground based transformer when it overheated. The oil affected both the slab and a small area of ground. One bag of speedi dri and contaminated grass was generated in the clean up. It may be noted that the dielectric oil was considered "non-PCB". No further action was taken. A-787-1999*They reported that they spilled about a cup at the home of Lester White. Their driver cleaned it up. I set up appointments to visit the site as I was working on another site in the area. Both visits could not be made due to no one home. No further work is needed on this case. P-630-1996*On 10/10/96 I received a report from the Maine State Police that a tractor trailer truck had gone off the road and landed in the Presumpscott River. Myself and Jon Woodard responded immediately. Upon arrival we observed an RST truck partially submerged in the mouth of the River. Both fuel tanks of the truck were submerged. A large sheen was visible in the area and a strong odor of diesel fuel noted. Soon after our arrival, the USCG arrived. The fuel spread rapidly into a very thin sheen that was not recoverable. We remained on site while the truck was removed from the river to ensure no further spillage occurred. No further action required. ____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II P-664-1994*Response to estimated 50-gallon discharge of fuel oil from exterior AST at Anthony's Foodstop. Located across from Downeast Energy Roger Young Oil Co. A-349-1997*Contamination was found during removal of one of the #2 fuel oil tanks at the Augusta State Police barracks. Jon Andrews and Mary James visited the site, and met with Jim Carmichael (Woodard & Curran) and Dennis Giustra (Maine Environmental). The barracks surrounded the leaking tank on three sides, which would normally indicate a stringent cleanup goal. However, since the vapor potential in the building was minimal, a baseline-2 cleanup goal was established. P-809-2001*During an inspection of a sand pit, Mark Stebbins of the Maine DEP (BLWQ) observed diesel contamination in the Tierney Pit, Standish, due to overfill of equipment. The soil was removed and disposed of at Commercial Recycling in Scarborough. No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter. B-518-1997*On September 18, 1997 at 1930 we received a call from Capt. Rich Palmer of the Bangor Fire Dept. reporting an unattended brush and debris fire at 408 Finson Rd. He said a burn permit was issued to Mr. Paul Pray to burn brush but no one was at the scene and other debris from his trailer park, including fifty-five gallon drums, were in the fire. There was no obvious sign of oil in the drums but a small pond was near the burn area. I visited the site the next morning and found the fire still smoking. There were three empty drums in the burn area and none of them had any identifying labels. I tested the pond water and found a neutral ph of 6 to 7. There was no sign of any oil spillage in the burn area. If there was any oil in the drums, it burned in the fire. I met the forest ranger while on site and I told him that he could tell Mr. Pray to cover the burn. 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. A-171-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98. See attached CMP report for more information. No further action anticipated. B-453-2000* On August 21, 2000 at 1330 we received a call from Michael Doucette, the Big Apple Store manager, reporting a one to two gallon spill of gasoline at their store at 51 Wall St. in Dexter. A vehicle owned by Jennifer Hall started leaking gas from its tank after it was filled up. Workers recovered the gas with sorbents and plugged the tank which was later pumped out by the local fire department. B-60-1996*Mr. Boyington called to report that while doing maintenance on the sodium chloreate delivery system about 400 gallons was spilled on to concrete floor where it then flowed to the process sewer. That which was left was hosed to the process sewer. No injuries or impact to the environment. See attached report from James River Co. B-106-1996*Mr. Teolis called to report that they had a technician at the above address. They had been called to the rental property to fix the cause of oil on the cellar floor. A loose fitting had caused a small spill of less than one gallon of oil. The oil was confined to one corner of the basement and none had entered any drain. They were in the process of collecting the oil with speedi dri which would be swept up and collected. I did not attend this spill. P-470-1997*25 April 1997, responded to facility address to investigate the presence of a UST. I probed the ground and located the storage tank. I did not feel the tank met the requirements of an abandonment in place. I verified that the tank contained product, and determined the capacity to be approximately 500 gallons. 26 August 1997, Waite informed me that the UST had been removed and that no contamination occurred and that the tank was in excellent shape. No further action by Response Services is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (3 September 1997). I-37-1999*On 3-31-99, Ira Dodge of MPG called this office to report there had bee a spill at the diesel pump at the Parsons St. MPG. The nozzel had not turned off during a fillup. All was lost onto the pavement and was cleaned up by the service station staff. No further action was seen as necessary. I-83-1997* 6 UST's were removed from this site and a found a large amount of contaminated soil surrounding the tanks. The source of the contamination was mostly from a hole in tank #3. Site assessment was conducted by County Environmental. See their report on facility Reg #6120 for more detailed information. Response case closed. B-717-1998*Dave Leland's wife actually smelled their wellwater go bad as she was taking a shower; shortly after that their well pump quit altogether. It may have been struck by lightening; for whatever reason, the pump's rubber seal broke and liberated mineral oil into the well. Leland put chlorox into the well, and finally called here when the Chlorox did no good. On 11/06/98, Paul Richard and I visited the site and recovered what oil we could off the top of the water column. Later that afternoon, I learned from the manufacturer that the lube oil in the pump contained no PCB. Paul Richard re-visited the site 11/9 and recovered a little more oil. He advised Mrs. Leland that there were no PCBs involved and advised her to soap the well with Dawn detergent. A-531-1997* On 11-21-97 Webber Energy reported an oil spill at the Vassalboro Post Office. The Post Office is located at Getchell's Corner. The morning mail carrier smelled fuel oil and called Neil Labrecque, the Post Master. Neil then went to the Post Office and found oil leaking from the outside AST. It appears that internal corrosion caused the release. The building is owned by Judith Landry of Wilton, ME. The U.S. Postal Service has taken responsibility to clean up the site. The P.O. called Clean Harbors to dig out the contaminated soil. About 15 tons of soil was removed. Because the excavation was next to the foundation wall and under the footing, we decided to install a recovery well. A 16 inch plastic culvert was installed. I have checked on this well several times and a small amount of free product has been recovered. The site has been referred to Tech. Services and John Beane is the staff person. There is a dug well about 40 feet from the spill site and it is shared with another residence. Owner of property: Judith Landry, P. O. Box 480, Wilton, Maine, 04294 (207) 645-2656. B-726-1997*On December 18, 1997 at 1510 we received a call from Mr. Lloyd Hodgkins of Dead River Oil in Ellsworth reporting a small oil spill on the Bucksport Rd. in Ellsworth. The driver had just finished a delivery to Mr. Ed Weirich and was rolling in the hose when the nozzle stuck in the truck's rear compartment door and sprayed .9 of a gallon onto the driver and truck compartment. The driver recovered as much product as possible with sorbents. B-301-1997*6/17/97 14:42 Josh Katz of the Department of Transportation Office of Environmental Services called to report a situation involving a bridge project in Concord Township on Little Houston Brook. Mr. Katz stated that the bridge, constructed with creosoted soaked timbers, was creating both an environmental and aesthetic problem. I was also informed that a dug well, owned by Carolyn Corrigan and located adjacent to the brook, became contaminated. DOT since drilled the Corrigans a new well. Investigation, done in conjunction with Land and Water Bureau staff, shown that there was on ongoing, "significant" discharge to the Brook. Oil soaked substrate was observed on rocks and substrate within the confines of the brook. A heavy creosote odor was also noted. Observations were conveyed to David Sait; Division Director for Response Services in Augusta. The bridge has since been temporarily draped with oil sorbent material to trap the creosote. A permanent solution to this problem is pending. P-689-1997* Abandonment by removal of retail, motor-fuels UST facility. Gasoline discharge confirmed. Contaminated soil transported to ARC for recycling. See UST closure assessment for details. B-568-1997*Mr. Saunders called to report that they had discovered some contaminated soil around the fill pipe of a gas tank being removed at a gas station in Millinocket. He reported that the site was on town water and that the store building had no basement. If it was acceptable, he wanted to set the contaminated soil aside and, if no further contamination was found, to spread the soil out on top of the filled excavation. I agreed to this. His further testing showed no further contamination. For further details see the Appendix P site assessment report from Fessenden Geo-Envirnonmental Services located in the tank registration file. 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. B-293-1999*Because of a fire a the hogfuel unloading area, Brian Kelso estimates 50 gallons of hydraulic oil was lost to the asphalt. The spilled oil was retrieved with sorbents and loose hogfuel, which were then burned in the hogfuel boiler. P-348-1999* On Tues. 6/1/99 I visited this retail, motor fuels UST facility to investigate mystery UST vent pipes. I noted two old vent pipes on the west wall of the building and three mystery pipes in the rear of the property that were not part of any active UST system. An old facility [T-1 thru T-5] had been abandoned in 12/87 by CTI Greg Pollard of A L Doggett Co. After researching and a second visit with Beth DeHaas it appeared at the time that two of the four motor fuel vents were left up and one UST was missed. There is a new, active conforming facility: T-6 thru T-10. I noted no prior DEP spill reports. DEP Reg. file #4126 showed that William Anderson was the operator from 1988 and purchased the facility in 1995. In Sept. 1996 C N Brown Oil Co. (CNB) became site owner and operator. According to Kevin Moore of CNB, they were given assurance that all UST's were removed by the former owner. CNB had L C Tanks remove the two gaso. vents off the building in early June, finding them to dead-end in the parking lot. On Mon. 7/19/99, I met L C Tanks on-site to check on the piping in the rear. One old vent pipe dead ended underground (from the old waste oil UST, T-5?). A vent and a fill behind the #2 oil AST revealed an out-of-service, 500 gal. bare steel, #2 oil UST (T-11). A removal notice was filled out on-site for updating the DEP registration. I noted oil contaminated soils from overfills of the AST that went several feet into the ground. Contam. levels were below the BS-2 Clean-Up Goal so no remediation was requested or performed. I noted no gw, saturated soils or free product. See attachments and other DEP files for further information. No further DEP, Resp. Div. actions expected at this time. A L Doggett Co. should be advised again to remove all old piping as required. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-183-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98. See attached CMP report for more information. No further action anticipated. P-501-1997*30 October 1997, I responded to facility location at the request of the home owner. We walked upgrade on the Royal Road to a neighbors house located on the same side as Oliver's place. There I observed a recently back filled trench that had been dug from a new, drilled well casing to the road side ditch. The trench appeared to have been dug to discharge the well drilling residuals to the ditch on the Royal Road. I observed a clay like material in the trench water and followed it to Oliver's, DEP permitted, home-made pond. The cloudy water appeared impacted by the material discharged from the area of well drilling. I referred this matter to the Land and Water Bureau, as well as the Commissioner's office, because Oliver has an additional issue related to the pond; in that a recently installed culvert, that was installed by the town, at the outlet to the pond altered the DEP permit. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (4DEC97). A-280-2000*A spill of hydraulic fluid was discovered at the waterfront on the railroad tracks. Staff from the Wiscasset Fire Department and Public Works used 50 lbs. of Speedi Dry to collect the oil. No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services. B-18-2001*B-018-2001 01/16/2001 11:00 Dead River Oil in Brewer called to report a small #2 fuel spill at 38 Edgewood Drive in Brewer. It was stated that approximately 2-3 gallons leaked from a failed air eliminator on their delivery truck. The spill was then cleaned up from the paved driveway surface. No resources of the State were reportedly affected. P-648-1996*On 10/22/96 I received a call through the Maine State Police from Eric Kliem reporting a fuel oil spill in his basement due to severe flooding. I responded to the site on 10/23/96. Upon arrival, I observed that approximately 75 gallons of oil had spilled from the tank when the basement flooded. Gorham Fire Dept. had responded and plugged the hole in the tank and there was product remaining in the tank. I hired Sun Environmental to remove the remaining oil from the damaged tank and remove oil saturated spill debris from the basement. 2.44 tons of debris was removed. No further action required. ______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II B-688-1998*On 10/24/98, 1222 hours Jackie of Dead River reported a two gallon heating oil release at one of their customers. Dead River had worked on the AST at the residence of Steve Norris (30 Oak Hill Road) and the line was left with a bad flair. They estimated the spill volume at 2-3 gallons. They fixed the flair joint and deployed 25 # of speedy dry to the spill area. The oiled sorbent went to Clean Harbors. B-257-1999* On 5/22/99, 1800 hours Greg Bosch reported a five gallon release of foam from their process sewer. This was caused by a higher than usual concentration of black liquor in the sewer, which in turn was caused by an overflow from the flash tank on their # 1 digester. The foam came up through a manhole cover and landed on soil. The clean up produced .2 cubic yards of soil, which was taken to their knot pad. The knot pad is where the knots from the pulp cooking process go. This material would be alkaline but most likely it would have a pH of less than 12 because of the dilution that occurs in the pulp washing process. P-927-1999*Loose fitting on AST line caused spill to floor of building and ground. Cleaned up by CN Brown. No site visit made. No further action by the Division of Response Services necessary in this matter. ___________________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS III Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management B-553-1998*On August 20, 1998 at 1530 we received a call from Jeff Gordon of the Bangor Housing Authority reporting a small #2 fuel oil leak at the apartment of Ms. Robin Oja at 219 Griffin Road in Bangor. Mr. Gordon said that a cracked nipple in Ms. Oja's basement tank leaked about three gallons of fuel onto the concrete floor. Workers recovered about two gallons of product while one gallon flowed into a basement drain which is connected to the sewer plant. I notified the plant who said that they would have no problem treating the oil. P-90-1998*On the evening of February 27, 1998 I was contacted by Dave Patterson. Mr. Patterson had called to report a red substance in the snow along the shoulder of the road he lived on. I investigated the next morning and found a smashed pint container of potassium permanganate. There was a small amount of the powdery substance still in the container and some of the substance had spilled out onto the shoulder. It appears the container fell or was thrown from a passing vehicle. Potassium Permanganate is used in water treatment as both a dye and a rust inhibator. The powder was dissolving into the melting snow rapidly and was unrecoverable. No further action. I-42-1999*On 4-3-99, the state police called to report that the caretaker of the Limestone Trailer Park reported fuel oil backing up into the toilet of the Dupery trailer on lot#47 at the trailer park. I met with Mr. Hafford at the trailer and obseved about 5 gallons in a bucket the residents said they had bailed from their flush. We then checked the 10,000 gallon septic tank for the park. There was about an inch of oil on top of one section(5000) of the tank. After going over the system, the source was most likely from the Dupery's trailer although it would be difficult to prove. Their's was the last trailer on the line and there was nothing in any of the trailers above them. We thought that possibly Mr. Dupery had emptied the fuel tank of his diesel truck and tried to flush it down their toilet. It probably backed up in their trap and overflowed the toilet. The entire septic tank was pumped that day and the contents disposed of at the Caribou Wastewater Facility. A-422-1998*Received a call from Port Clyde Coop that there had been a small spill of diesel fuel. They report that a customers truck had leaked a small amount of diesel fuel. They cleaned it up with speedy dry. No site visit was made. No further work is necessary. P-586-2000* In the evening of Wed. 9/27/00, the Westbrook Fire Dept. notified DEP thru the state police, of an estimated 20 gal. spill of transformer oil. No DEP response was requested as CMP was enroute to clean up the spill. The following morning I visited and confirmed a clean-up of the spilled oil to DEP satisfaction. The spill site is located just E of the Engineered Products Inc., near the entrance to Les Wilson & Son's Co. Spillage appeared mostly on pavement. No spillage is believed to have reached surface or ground water. The FD reported 20 gallons spilled while CMP reported later only <1 gallon spilled. From the stain on the pavement I estimate a quantity somewhere in between. On Thus. 9/29/00 I spoke with Roy Koster of CMP as to why, as RP, CMP did not report the spill the evening before as required. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-603-2000* DEP received an after-hours report that a commercial vehicle had overturned in a remote location. Public safety officials on-scene reported loss of motor oil and coolant but no loss of fuel. The vehicle load (cranberries) was lost. Spilled oil was confined to pavement and sorbed by local fire officials. P-169-2000*A surface spill of diesel occurred on the north side of Straw Road. It is not known when the spill occurred, however it appeared from the state of dead vegitation and the absence of any free phase oil that it was at least one week prior to notification. The area was on the right of way of the road (town property) so Gorham public works excavated about 7 yards of the most heavily impacted soils. I had the soil disposed of at Commercial Paving. During the excavation I found that the oil appeared to have stayed on the surface and did not go more that 2-3 inches into soil. The path of the dead grass led to a drainage culvert and then ended - there was no oil or sheen in the water flowing into and through the culvert. Gorham public works will be adding loam and seed to the excavated area. No further action anticipated. B-520-1996*D-TREE=I. A-176-1996*A sink hole caused two houses to fall into a ravine off of the Samoset Road. The oil tanks also fell in to the hole and were buried underneath the debris. The contents of the tanks from two properties were lost. The product was trapped in building debris. Since the bank was not stable it was not safe to recover the product. None reached the harbor. The Fire Department eventually burned the debris. B-395-1999*Lucia Allen of the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline called to report that a hydraulic line broke on a piece of heavy equipment being used to install a natural gas pipeline in Frankfort. They estimate that about 5 quarts had spilled. This contaminated soil was excavated and will be collected for eventual disposal at Sawyer's landfill. I-56-1997*A tractor trailer was squeezed off the road in the fog. 2 gallons of oil was lost from the engine that controls the refer unit. 10 pads were used to clenup the spill. Case Closed A-610-2000*An internal engine failure caused the crankcase lube oil sump level to rise to the point that leakage around the crank shaft seal allowed a mixture of coolant, lube oil, and diesel fuel to escape. The overflow device was not of sufficient volume to contain the leakage and the mixture was spilled to the ground. A small amount of oil reached a drainage ditch near the rail and was captured with sorbent materials. The coast guard national response center was notified. Most of the leakage was collected in drums and transferred to a vacuum truck along with the contents of the engine sump and transported to the railroad's Waterville facility for treatment in their oil/water separator system. See attached reports. No further response action is epected. P-51-1985* Dug well replaced in response to gasoline discharge. See also P-1031-05 and P-797-89. See 1985 narrative and other attachments of Fred Brann. . P-717-1997*The tank developed a leak discharging the contents of the tank approximately 200 gallons of kerosene onto the ground. The tank was located next to the building approximately 50' away from the well (drilled 170') for the property. I responded to the discharge the following day and only observed a small stain on the ground with no recoverable oil present. I informed Mr. Sargent that his well was at jeopardy of becoming contaminated, and that the only option for removal of the oil would be excavation of the soil. In addition, I also informed him of the AST insurance fund. Mr. Sargent informed me that he was not interested in removing any soil, because he knew the area to be predominantly clay and did not feel his well was at jeopardy. I informed him to contact me if he noticed any differences in his drinking water and if he saw any oil breaking-out anywhere on his property. No further action required at this time. P-127-2000*Overfill while filling 275 gallon AST. Oil came out through ventpipe (to outside) most oil spilled to asphalt, a small amount on ground. Dead River cleaned up with sorbent pads. No further action. P-724-1999*On October 8, 1999 I received a call from Rosemary Baker of William Swett Oil Co. She was calling on behalf of one of their customers who's tank was currently leaking from a corrosion hole. I visited the site that afternoon, the tank was patched and the oil company was just beginning to pump out the tank. Over the weekend the owner dug out the impacted soil from beneath the tank and on the following Monday I checked the site prior to having a new tank installed. The dirt that the owner removed was taken to Aggregate Recycling Corp. No further action is anticipated. A-61-1999*I received an anonymous complaint concerning brush burned by the Town of Morrill earlier in the week. The complainant said oil used to start the fire was spilled all through town, and tires were thrown on the fire. The caller refused to give his name. I spoke with town officials Mr. & Mrs. Roger Roberts (342-5241) on 1/28/99. Mrs. Roberts knew about the oil spill through town, and said it started at the corner of Route 131 and Poors Mill Road. Someone spread sand on the oil. Roger Roberts, the First Selectman, knew about the brush fire but did not believe the town was involved. He suggested I contact one of the Fire Wardens to find out who obtained the burn permit. I spoke with Fire Warden Brian Simmons (342-4114) on 1/29/99. He had issued a burn permit to Keith Thompson (342-5279), the Morrill Road Commissioner. The fire was rather large, and several complaints were received from concerned members of the community. Mr. Simmons did not visit the site of the burn (a local gravel pit) but suggested I speak with Jethro Pease, the Fire Chief. I spoke with Jethro Pease (342-5910) on 1/29/99. He heard there was a drum at the scene of the fire, and that tires had been burned. On 2/1/99, Bill Butler (Solid Waste) and I visited Morrill. The oil stain on the road was visible and ran from Poors Mill Road into the gravel pit, but there was nothing collectible. The gravel pit is on Warren Road (unmarked) off Weymouth Road, and is the property of Franklin "Bud" Warren. We were accompanied to the site by Albert Jackson, Morrill Tax Collector. Mr. Warren met us at the pit. While there was no evidence of a drum or tires at the scene, there were several solid waste issues which Bill will address in writing to the town. We met with Mr. Roberts at his home after visiting the gravel pit to discuss the issues. No further action required by Response Services. 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. A-749-1999*About a cup of oil spilled when the driver failed to connect the delivery hose to the fill pipe properly. The spill was to pavement. No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services. B-305-1997*On 6/19/97, 1500 hours Scott Kimball of Hamel Fuels requested an abandonment in place permit for a 1000 gallon diesel UST that was under their building. A few years agao they expanded their facility and built right over the tank. They have a straight into the tank pipe inside the building. This might allow them to pump cement slurry into the tank until it comes out the vent pipe. Otherwise they will have to cut through their floor, which would be a very dusty process. On 6/23/97 I investigated and found that the situation was as described. I wrote the permit for the in place abandonment. P-258-1999*Leaking transformer in Oxford. See attached CMP spill report. P-336-1997*On 6/16/97 I received a call from Celestia Lebrun through Bill Wallace of Response Services in Augusta reporting that her neighbor had dumped an unknown substance in her back yard from his boat. She reported that the incident had taken place two days previous. She further indicated that she had reported the discharge to the Lewiston Fire Dept. and that they had responded. I spoke with Capatin Gaudreau of the Fire Dept. to learn what his observations were the day of the spill. He indicated that the abutting neighbor had started the bilge pump in his boat that was being stored in his yard and pumped the contents into the back yard of Ms. Lebrun. Captain Gaudreau indicated that the contents appeared to be mostly water but there was some small amount of oil as well. The oil was so sparse that it was not recoverable. I responded to the site that morning to see if anything further needed to be done. The soils impacted by the discharge contained no detectable traces of oil. No further action required. _____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II B-792-1998*Ms.Alexander called to report that a delivery truck driver spilled about a quart of diesel when he accidently opened the nozzle while removing it from the truck's hose reel. He used Speedi-dri to soak it up. The sorbent is returned to their shop. P-93-2001*A fuel line on a cherry picker froze, cracked, and leaked about 3/4 of a gallon of diesel onto the ground before it was noticed and cleaned up. No further Response action is necessary at this time. ______________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I February 13, 2001 B-261-2001*I received a visit from Jim Beyer, Bureau of Land & Water Quality. He had been contacted by a person who had a list of complaints, one of which being oil intentionally dumped or spilled on Penobscot Street in Orono some unknown time in the past. I went to the site that day. I did find what I thought was a petroleum product in some of the dirt on the shoulder of the gravel road. However, the amount was very small; nothing that required action. It appeared that it had been there for some time. The section of gravel road does not have houses or business fronting it and there was no obvious source that might have produced the oil. No further action was taken. A-500-2001*Received a call from John Cronin of International Paper reporting a small oil spill. He reported that 5 gallons of lube oil was spilled in the power plant. A torn boot on an actuator rod caused the leak. The spill was to concrete and was immediately cleaned up by power plant personnel. No site visit was made and no further work is needed. See the attached spill report from International Paper for further information. P-393-2001*No narrative, see attached. P-787-2001*Observed a spill at the far end of the trailer parking area. Mr. Rearick identified the liquid as transmission fluid and promised to have the contaminated soils removed. There was also an oily sheen on a puddle on the concrete pad around the pump island. By 9/17/2001, transmission fluid and associated contaminated soils had been removed. B-309-2000* This office received a call at 1320 on 6/5/00 from Mona Spear (Bangor Hydro-Electric Company) reporting an oil spill. She stated that a fisherman had discovered an old telephone pole on a wood road off Route 179 in Waltham that had been cut down years ago (prior to BHE's ownership) and still had the transformer attached. Apparently, a bushing broke off when the transformer hit the ground, which allowed some of the oil to leak out onto the ground in a wooded area. There was a 1 x 1 foot stain near the unit. The oil field tested less than 50 ppm PCB's and a lab test later confirmed it at 28 ppm. The pole was #5/148. There were no drains or State waters involved in the incident. The transformer has been removed. Directions to the wood road, near pole #3/20 on Route 179, were provided. It was indicated that "REA" owned that system prior to BHE. REC: File report. P-626-1998*On 12/10/98 I was called to the scene of an accident on Lake Shore Drive in Auburn. A pickup truck driven by Ivan Wallingford had lost traction and ended up in Lake Auburn. The Fire Department had boomed the area. The truck's tanks did not leak but there was a sheen in the water, probably just oil that washed off the engine. The truck was pulled from the lake and I mopped up what I could of the sheen with sorbent pads. The Fire Department took their sorbent boom back to dry out and reuse. No further response action is necessary at this time. ______________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I February 2, 1999 A-271-1996*I reviewed a site assessment for the historic rifle ranges at the Mount Appatite Training area. The site assement demonstrated that the historic berms did not contain leachable lead in the bullet pockets. Lead had leached from the berms during the period of active use prior to the 1950's. It was below the current standard for residential lead contents in soil. The active baffled range did contain leachable lead in the bullet pockets. A cover to prevent water from accessing the lead was designed. This should prevent leaching from the active berm. 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-604-1997*10/18/97 1517 A call came through on the 1-800 number concerning a small #2 fuel spill at the residence of Susan Gallagher at 175 Main Street in Orono. Approximately 25 gallons had leaked onto the concrete floor from a small corrosion hole. All the oil was contained on the floor and subsequently cleaned up by Old Town Fuel. No drains were involved. I later made recommendations to Susan on how to reduce the odor problems. A-717-1998*This spill happened when a visitor vandalized the tank. When I arrived I collected two drums of contaminated snow. About 56 yards of sand were excavated. Most soil contaminated above stringent standards was excavated, but due to the frozen ground and a buried electrical line some contamination remains close to the trailer. No further action is anticipated. A-407-2001*A forklift punctured a waste hydraulic oil container. I.P. staff handled cleanup with sorbent pads. No site visit made. No further action expected. I-107-2001*A broken fuel line caused 3-4 gallons of diesel oil to be spilled. It was excavated and spread in pit. A-49-1998* DEP received a report that several gallons of gasoline leaked from a private vehicle at this school. The Turner Fire Department responded and collected spilled product from pavement. The school well is located 4-500' away and is not considered threatened. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. B-402-1996*Reggie Nevells called, concerned about some foam he'd seen on a small brook in Surry. He was afraid the brook was impacted by the Surry/Blue Hill transfer station or that someone had dumped something into the water. The foam was 5 feet high the previous day, he said. The foam, as I suspected, proved to be the natural by-product of beaver activity upstream. The beavers had backed water up into the woods, of course, by plugging the culvert. The water had been cooled by recent heavy precipitation, and as it plunged over and through the dam, the organics in it foamed rather nicely, thank you. (pictures) 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. A-428-2000*A small amount of oil was spilled from a transformer. CMP staff cleaned it up. See attached CMP report. No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services. A-588-1996*See attached. No site visit made. No further action anticipated. A-129-1996*Mary Corr received a report of a spill in Fairfield from Dead River. Since I was going in that direction I stopped by to inspect the site. Dead River had installed a new fuel pump on the burner at the house of Barbara Pellotte. The pump failed and leaked about 4 gallons. The oil stayed on the cement slab the furnace was installed on. Dead River cleaned up the oil and replaced the pump. No futher action is necessary at this site. A-168-1996* DEP received a report on 4/16/96 that a spill had occurred at this residence when the cellar AST was overfilled approximately two months earlier. The homeowners returned from out-of-state and discovered the spill on about 3/28. They tried to work with the oil company involved (AFC) but became disillusioned and alled DEP on 4/16. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the site on 4/17. It appears that several gallons of fuel may have spilled onto the concrete cellar floor, with none escaping the cellar. AFC had collected some oil using pads. I recommended replacement of some oil-saturated wood and further cleaning of the concrete floor to alleviate odors/vapors. I do not anticipate further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-248-1998* DEP received a report that a commercial vehicle had been observed leaking diesel fuel along a paved road. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the site on 5/15. It was evident that a vehicle had trailed fuel to a parking area behind an automobile dealership, where puddled fuel had been sorbed in sawdust. The spill was confined to pavement. It transpired that a vehicle carrier (Powers) had ruptured the top of one saddletank the previous evening while enroute to Brewer. His vehicle had mechanical problems which pressurized the tank to the point of failure; the vehicle was in the process of being repaired. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. B-464-2001*Please see attached narrative. B-546-1999*Bill Griffeth's family noticed that the rocks in front of their camp were coated with a green slime at low tide; fearing a chemical spill, they took a sample in a spaghetti jar, and called the DEP. Arriving there that afternoon, I told the Griffiths I thought it was algae and explained the cause was too warm water. Two days later, Dr. Whiting of this office looked at a slide I'd made of the stuff and confirmed my suspicion. I called Griffeth and told him. B-173-1998*B-173-98 B.H.E.Co. - Machiasport Bangor Hydro reported that a line truck blew a hydraulic line while working on a private line off Rt. 92. The spot was in one pole from their pole #145. The est. 3 quarts was collected with speedi-dri. See attached B.H.E.Co. report for more details. B-216-1999*B-216-99 Brewer Friday May 5, 1999 1001 Mr. Mark Weisser (989-1759, x33) phoned to report a one quart spill of a water soluble, mineral oil based metal working, coolant/lubricant. The Blasocut is combined with water (6% lubricating coolant and 94% water). The nearly 32 ounces of the lubricating oil and water solution was cleaned up off pavement using sorbent materials. The waste that was generated was disposed of through the existing solid waste stream, as arranged by Mark Weisser. The spill occurred when the water and coolant overflowed the 40 yard chip dumpster containment area. The pump had been previously shut off because of maintenance on the plumbing, and was not turned back on. Brewer Automotive may install a warning light that is on when power to the pump is off. B-646-2001*See attached narrative: P-680-1996*APPROXAMITLY 1 GALLON OF KEROSENE HAD LEAKED FROM THE FILTER OF THE FUEL TANK AT 44 RYE FIELD DRIVE AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO 6 MCKEE DRIVE BY THE HEAVY RAINS. THERE WERE A FEW OILED LEAVES AND A SMALL AREA OF OILED GRASS. TAKING IN CONSIDERATION THE LOCATION AND AMOUNT OF OIL, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT NO REMEDIAL ACTION WAS NECESSARY. NO FURTHER ACTION REQUIRED. P-280-1998*On June 24, 1998 Nancy Perreault called with concerns about a sheen running by her house that was coming down from Redline Garage on Clarks Wood Road in Lyman. I investigated the complaint. I went to the site of the garage, and found the sheen of concern, it appeared to be biological in nature and was actually found above the garage as well as below it in the drainage ditch along side the road. I also noticed while driving in the same rust colored sheen in many areas where there was standing water. I did however inspect the yard of the garage (there was no one present so I could not get inside). I found no evidence of any spills in the garage yard, nor did I locate any drains that may have come from inside the building. I believe this sheen is biological and no further action is recommended. P-63-2000*A car accident on route 11 in Lewiston knocked down an electrical pole with a 5KVA transformer. The transformer broke open spilling it's contents. The transformer was not tagged, therefore CMP did a very thorough clean up. Upon analysis it was found that the oil contained 181ppm PCB. CMP went back to the site to insure complete clean up. No further action. A-149-1996*Don Morgan reported finding # 2 oil in his sump even though he does not use oil for heat. I padded up some of the oil which was floating on the sump and determined that it was odorless except for a faint burned insulation smell. He had a sump pump fail and had replaced it prior to finding product. These pumps use mineral oil as a heat transfer medium. The broken pump was less than 2 years old and therefore probably did not contain any PCBs. We arranged to discharge the sump through pads until it was clean. He will also clean the sump with detergent. No further action is required. A-383-1996*See attached and site assessment in tanks file # 1637 P-117-2000*Someone spilled approximately 3 gal. of waste oil at the transfer station. The fire dept. collected the waste oil with sorbent pads. No response required. No further action required. P-650-1996*The tank was over pressurized due to a wrong attachment causing a seam failure. The Sanford Fire Dept. had patched the leak by the time I arrived. Dead River had removed all the oil from the tank and was in the process of moving the tank to access the soil to be removed. A small amount of oil had made its way under the trailer that was later removed. There were no petroleum vapors detected in the trailer. Dead River removed all saturated soils. No further action required. B-356-1997*Driving past Smith's Country Market on 7/8/97, I noticed that there appeared to be some spillage of product around the diesel AST. I talked with Mrs. Smith, and told her that the contamination would have to be cleaned up, not only because that's the law, but , more importantly, the Smith's well was only 20 feet away; the store's well was 30' away. Fred Smith called on 7/9, saying he was trying to arrange for cleanup on 7/10. He had a backhoe lined up, and had arranged for disposal, all he needed now was an electrician to unhook the power. All the variables came together, and the cleanup happened on 7/10. Thirty six yards of contaminated soil was sent to Thibodeau Construction in Prospect to be made into asphalt. A-280-1997* Mrs. Grant called this office looking for help in solving a problem. It seems that some unknown, invisible, chemical was effecting the living space of an apartment. The apartment building is owned by Mr. Bahre, however he was out of town and Mrs. Grant was taking care of the property. The air inside the first floor apt. caused everyones eyes to sting and water. The Fire Dept. had been there for several hours and did not find the problem. They also had the same reaction, stinging eyes. I arrived and also experienced the same problem. I donned my SCBA and searched the apartment for traces of some chemical. Nothing could be found so, I ventilated the apartment and left. The next morning Bill Wallace and I visited the site. Wallace detected chlorine odors immediately. Together we searched the house. I then noticed something in the trash, in the bathroom. I picked up the trash up and found the problem. A toilet tank tablet had been thrown into the trash and was reacting with the wet toilet paper, emitting chlorine gas. Case solved, no further involvment by DEP will be needed. B-18-1996*Kenneth Shae of Ellsworth called to request a waiver to remove a 1000 gallon fuel oil tank at his residence on the Old Bangor Road. The waiver was granted and the removal was attended. The tank was easily removed from a sandy fill material. Inspection of the tank shown that it was still in fairly good condition. No contamination was observed or dected anywhere within the excavation. Case Closed. 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. P-405-1999*On June 21, 1999, DEP received a call from Seacoast Ocean Services concerning the removing of contaminated soil from a truck fire at the Yarmouth Service Center which took place on 5/31/99. DEP was not contacted until Seacoast needed a letter for soil removal. Unknown quantity at this time (see attached soil letter). On 6/22/99 I spoke with Rick Wood, Midstate Adjustment, who stated he was not aware that the DEP should be contacted concerning such incidents. He stated that from now on he would contact us when involved with future incidents (see attached fire report). Removal of soil completed on 6/25/99. I see no further action required. P-694-2000*Well was contaminated by gear oil from old style pump malfunction. Product was removed from well, casing scrubbed and water pumped through carbon drum. Test on oil came back negative for PCB. Returned to site in May, 2001 to check well. No product present. Sample taken to test for presence of dissolved phase oil. Site referred to Brad Hahn of the Division of Technical Services. ______________________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 3 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management I-151-1996*A DOT truck broke a hydraulic line, but didn't notice it until the unit was at the Sherman DOT facility. The road had a fine coating of oil over about two miles. DOT crews sanded anything they tough would be slippery Spilled product could not be recovered. Caes Closed 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. P-292-2000*16 March 2000, responded to spill location, reported 15 March 2000. Upon arrival I inspected the dirt floor basement. I observed a new 275 gallon AST installation and an oil stained ground approximately 3 meters by 5 meters in diameter. The fuel oil odor was mild and I believe the 25-30 gallons that was reported spilled was too high of an estimate. I estimate a 1 to 3 gallon spill. I dug several small (10mm in depth) test pits with in the impacted area and did not detect where the oil migrated to that depth. I spoke with H. Hewison about a clean up, but it was decided that not much would be gained and that the well ventilated basement would assist in aerating the impacted soil. Hewison acknowledged the spill but did not feel that there was a problem and decided to take no action. The drinking water well is not located in a position to be at risk. No further response action is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 18May00 A-588-1998* David Allwine of the consulting firm, Jacques Whitford Company Inc. called this office to report the release of fuel oil. The release occurred in the town of Vinalhaven, at the poundkeeper's house. This house is owned by Vinalhaven Lobster Company and is located on Lanes Island. The property which includes a house, lobster pound and other equipment and the wholesale lobster business is being sold. The current owner is Suzanne Brown. I made a site visit on 10/26/98 and collect two water samples, (GRO & DRO) from the poundkeeper's house. These were analyzed by the HETL and no petroleum compounds were detected. There are two wells at the poundkeeper's house, however only one is active at this time. There are also two AST's at the house. One is located outside the other in the basement. The tank in the basement is active and it had a drip leak at a fitting. Both tank locations had a small amount of contaminated soil under them. I requested that the soil be removed and this was done a few days later. No further action will be required. Suzanne Brown- new address: 12 Bray Street, Glouster MA 01930 B-665-1999*On 10/19/99, 0917 hours Lucia Allen of Maratimes & Northeast Pipe Line reported a half pint spill of lube oil at their compressor station on Track Road in Baileyville. It resulted from a small overfill and it landed on packed soil. The clean up produced less than a cubic foot of soil and a small amount of sorbent. This material went to the companies' waste stream. B-832-1999* On December 31, 1999 at 0815 we received a call from Tim Dysart of Dysart's Truck Stop reporting a twenty gallon spill of diesel fuel in their parking area. A Superliner Transport truck lost the fuel from its vent. The truck's engine ran the whole night but was only drawing from one saddle tank but the return line ran to both tanks so the diesel in the undrawn tank filled up the tank and came out the vent. The spill was on pavement and workers recovered the fuel with sorbents. P-88-2000*During removal of solids from the storm drains, Clean Harbors encountered petroleum contamination. The storm drains were located adjacent to the loading racks where there is an occasional small spill and/or drips from the piping. No further action required. P-759-1999*The discharge occurred when a hydraulic hose broke on a dump truck while dumping soil in the yard of Mr. Hanscome. All visible signs of oil were removed by the Dept. of Transportation. No further action required. B-684-1999* On October 27, 1999 we received a call from Janet Dyer of Central Maine Power reporting a three gallon leak of <5ppm PCB mineral oil from a transformer on route 7 in Palmyra. The spill occurred outside the old Popeye's restaurant at the I-95/route 7 interchange. A backhoe was digging in the area and caught a wire that was attatched to a telephone pole causing the transformer to fall to the ground and spill the product. Workers excavated less than one yard of contaminated soil. B-236-1996*The Dave Warren Co. is running a cutting operation on a piece of land adjacent to Acadia Nat'l Park in Winter Harbor; during the operation, their forester, Mike Benjamin discovered a 55 gallon drum, abandoned on one of the site's skidder trails. He passed the info along to the DEP, and on May 9 I went to inspect the drum. The drum was extremely old and turned out to be about 1/3 full of water. B-657-1996*A motor vehicle accident on the Monroe Rd. in Hampden caused a pole mounted transformer to crash to the ground, spilling 3 or 4 gallons of transformer oil. The non-PCB oil was cleaned up by the Hydro crew. See the attached report from BHECo. B-412-2001* On 7/19/01, 2130 hours Washington County Sheriff's Department reported a 20 gallon motor oil spill at Baileyville Irving. The report indicated that a motor vehicle had collided with a rack of motor oil cans and caused them to spill. The Baileyville Fire Department had responded and the spill had been cleaned up with pads and speedy dry. I expect that the clean up materials went to Irvings waste stream. The news paper account was considerably more dramatic than the report I received. The vehicle, while traveling at high speed, went through the stop sign at the intersection of Routes 9 and 1, became airborne at one point, took out a diesel dispenser and came to rest on its' roof against the side of the building. This account mentioned a diesel spill clean up, which is not included in this report (B-412-01) because it was not included in the original report. Possibly the reporter thought the motor oil was diesel fuel. A-298-1999*A bushing leak occurred in a turbine shaft. About 30 gallons was lost. 10 gallons was recovered. The rest went to the sewer. P-639-2001* On 8/17 and 8/20/01, I responded to an 8/15/01, report of a mystery UST uncovered by Brunswick Public Works while installing a new sidewalk at the corner of Maine and Cleveland Streets. The area is urban downtown, residential & commercial. On 8/17, I noted the tank had vapor within the explosive range and informed Mr. Claus of Brunswick Public Works (BPWD) of the need for a Maine CTI and proper purging/inerting. It was unknown as to how old the UST was, perhaps >50 years old and form a former gas station or auto dealership. On 8/20/01 I met BPWD, Ray Labbe Const. crew, and United Oil Recovery (a.k.a. UOR) crew onsite to abandon the tank. I found that UOR had no Maine CTI to abandon a gaso. (Flammable) UST so Labbe Const. hired a Simard & Sons CTI, fortunately working nearby. The CMR 691 UST Closure Assessment was done by Mr. Gill of Environmental Management Inc. UOR checked the opposite end of the UST than I did and noted 0% LEL while the suction stub end still held gasoline vapors. The 700 to 1000 gallon riveted steel tank had no holes noted. There was no indication of a discharge, the tank hauled off for cleaning & disposal, and the excavation filled in. No further DEP actions are expected at this time. See attached and DEP UST Reg. file #20517 for further information. S G Brezinski Div. of Response Services, Maine DEP, BRWM S Brezinski, Div. of Response Svcs. Maine DEP, BRWM P-489-1998* Mr. DeFosse contacted DEP on 10/16/98 regarding a recent unusual taste and/or odor to his well water. On 10/19 I met with him and his wife at their rural residential Windham house. The houses on the street are all new, being less than several years old and built in a former meadow, and are on drilled wells. DeFosse was unaware of any oil spills around his house. The DeFosse house uses propane rather than heating oil. I noted little strange odor or taste myself but concluded the water had a bitter metalic taste, unlike petroleum contamination. There was no sheen on the tap water. No oil spillage was visually evident outside. As there was no evidence of petro. contamination I referred them to DHS if they wished to test the water themselves. I later discussed this with DEP CG John Beane and we agreed that the water appeared to be suffering from seasonally higher acidity which is corroding the copper in the household pipes, leading to the bitter taste. About 400' away at the Meyer residence Steve Flannery of DEP cleaned up a 175 gal. surface spill the previous year though we feel that this spill likely could not effect the DeFosses because of distance and location. Further DEP Resp. Div. actions unlikely. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-153-1996*As often happens at a truck stop like Terry's, a spill of diesel occurred there on the morning of March 20. A driver, filling his saddle tanks, failed to notice that the fill nozzle had fallen out of the tank. Before he could get to it, an estimated 20 gallons of fuel had been pumped onto the pavement. Speedy dry was used to recover it. P-503-1998* Mr. Plouffe (attorney for Susse Chalet) contacted DEP on 10/19/98 reporting that Gagne Const. had encountered diesel oil smelling soils while excavating a new sewer trench on their property (see site sketch). In the morn. of 10/20/98 I met onsite with Mr. Plouffe, Joe Gagne and manager Ann Wellington, et al. I noted mild oil smelling soils, but no free product or oil saturated soils. No gw was visible in the shallow trench. Working through the DT, I determined a BS-2 Clean-Up Guideline, which the soil's contam. levels fell below. Therefore no clean-up was required by the state. Options were to leave the soil onsite and return it to the excavation following the new sewer lines' instalation. I was told that they would return the soil to the excavation. Possible contamination sources include: 1. The adjacent Paul's Auto Sales, a former AMOCO gas station. The owners stated that Les Wilson & Son's had removed the UST's 10-12 years ago. 2. The adjacent former Mobil Corp. gas station. These UST's were abandoned in 1997 by Clean Harbors, Inc. (see P-733-97). 3. The city of Portland owned the property up to 1971. The oil contam. may have been brought in as fill by the city, or by the contractors when the motel was built. The oil spill could also have happened during motel construction. Overall, no clean-up is required by the state at this time as no receptors are known to be effected. Oil contam. is understood to remain onsite and should be properly managed if disturbed. No GW or AST Ins. Fund application is expected and no clean-up expenses approved for coverage. No DEP expenses were incurred. The full extent of the discharge is not known at this time. See attachements for other details. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM 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.. B-586-1998*Mr. Reed called to report that a loader had lost about five gallons of hydraulic oil from a broken hose at the maintenance shop on the Gilpen Road. They used a half of a bale of pads to sop it up. The pads will be taken to Ellsworth D.O.T. shop to join other oil soaked rags and be disposed of in a routine pick up. A-228-1997* Rhonda @ work 582-3470 Vonda mother's, Linda Marsh 582-5785 Mr. Cromwell called this office on 6-30-97 to report that his well water smelled like gasoline. He explained where he lived in East Pittston and I decided that I would collect a water sample myself. This may be a continuation of the old case involving ground water contamination at the East Pittston Store. Lab results detected late peaks between fuel oil and motor oil. During the site visit on 7-11, with Pat Seaward, we found a thin layer of clear sweet smelling oil floating on the water inside the drilled well. The static water level is about 6 feet below grade. It appears that the submersible pump has leaked oil. Arrangements were made to have Bowie Well Drilling, 582-2628, remove and replace the pump at the homeowners expense. The pump was removed and it was severely corroded. We, Frank, Mary and I, used a surfactant soap and cleansed the well twice. We also used a chimney brush to scrub the first ten feet of the well casing. The well at the Cromwell and a neighboor, Preble, have shown an envelope extending from the fuel oil range to the motor oil range. There are two upgradient wells, they have not been sampled. Pat Seaward would like to have the 4 wells sampled at some point. This resampling is/will be the last task for Response Services. The area is wooded with mature white pines. This may or may not be the peak that the HETL has detected. Please see attached lab results. P-430-2000*Mr. Dyment was caught in a storm coming off Sebago lake. His boat partially sunk at the boat launch before he successfully hauled it out. Before the boat sank, Mr. Dyment removed the fuel cell and placed it into his pick up truck to avoid discharging gasoline directly to Sebago lake. The fuel cell was transported to his residence in Portland where he contacted the DEP for disposal assistance. The fuel/water mixture was transferred to a drum and brought to ECC in South Portland for disposal. No further actions are required. 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. I-54-1999*DARRIN ST. PIERRE REPORTED A PROBLEM WITH AN AST SYSTEM IN LIMESTONE. PEOPLE'S HERITAGE BANK HAD HIRED MR. ST. PIERRE TO REPAIR THE PLUMBING AND HEATING SYSTEM ON A HOUSE THEY HAD A BUYER FOR. A NEW AST AND FURNACE WAS INSTALLED AND WHEN THE OLD AST WAS REMOVED, THE CONTAMINATION ON THE FILTER END WAS IDENTIFIED. THE CONTAMINATED MATERIAL WAS REMOVED BY MR. ST. PETER'S CREW AND DISPOSED OF AT THE TRI COMMUNITY LANDFILL. THE PROPERTY HAS AN ABANDONED WELL LOCATED ABOUT 15 FEET FROM THE SPILL AREA. NO OIL WAS VISIBLE IN THE WATER. MR. ST. PIERRE WAS ADVISED TO CONTACT A WELL DRILLER TO PROPERLY ABANDON THE WELL. CASE CLOSED. B-588-2000*On 11/01/00 I checked out the location of a UST at a house owned by Elmer Berg, who lives in Hadley, MA. Elmer and I had discussed the UST earlier. The out come of this was that I would locate the UST with a metal detector and that I would write an "in place' permit if it appeared that the tank was parallel to and close to the delicate, field stone foundation of the house. The UST was a 500- gallon unit and it seemed to be right on the foundation. Since that part of Monson is on public water and there was a definite possibility that removal would do considerable damage to the house, I wrote the "in place" permit. On 11/21/00 I witnessed the UST being filled with a very fluid cement slurry. Jim French filled out the contractors' card and I mailed it to Augusta. I had also provided Elmer with the forms to register the tank and to notify us that he was planning on abandoning it. Prior to the actual abandonment Jim had been in contact with me. When he first exposed the tank and cut a hole in it, he discovered that there was ten inches of water in it. He said that there was no product nor sheen on the water, but that he would have Chase & Kimble pump it out. Chase & Kimble had fueled and serviced the dwelling for years. They also had installed the AST system, which has been in use for a while. Elemer told me that when the AST was installed he was told by a representative of Chase & Kimble that he didn't need to do anything with the abandoned UST. Consequently, they cut the fill and vent pipes off below grade and left it. The cut off pipes were most likely responsible for the water that had gotten into the tank. In any event, Chase & Kimble took the water to the Webber facility at 700 Main Street in Bangor. A-358-1997* DEP received a report that 40 gallons of hydraulic oil had spilled to the sewer at this facility. IP staff appear to be of the opinion that the sewer serves as secondary containment, and that recovery is not necessary as "treatment" within the sewer will occur. I am unaware of any such understanding by the Department; the issue has been raised previously (refer A-515-95, similarly A-297-96). No recovery was attempted. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. B-64-1997*D-TREE=S. B-214-1996*Training his dog behind the SEDOMOCHA school, one of the town's police officers noticed two drums in the woods, apparently dumped there intentionally. He reported it to the fire chief, who reported it to me. In May I stopped in Dover on my way back from Greenville, but couldn't find the drums. On July 10, I called the P.D. and talked to the officer, getting better directions, and then went there, with D. Luce. The drums were both open, about 1/2 full. Taking samples, we had the material analyzed for asbestos, that being the only thing we could think of resembling the material. Results came back negative, and the opinions of two geologists in this office are that the stuff is sand. It's unknown why the school would have drum quantities of white sand. A-125-2001*Overfill of tank in basement. Tank had no whistle and pressure caused oil to leak from around gauge gasket. No oil to floor. Homeowner will upgrade tank with whistle and new gauge. No site visit made, no further actiomn expected. A-24-1996*1 pint of solvent (D-6861) spill inside cabinet. G.H. Bass cleaned up spill. P-649-1989* Piping leak @ retail, motor fuels UST facility. New piping installed. A-99-2001*Spill to acid sewer. See attached report. No site visit made. No further action expected. P-322-1996*SEE ATTACHED PNSY REPORT. NO ACTION BY RESPONSE SERVICES NECESSARY. I-144-1998*A flatbed truck was carrying two dump trucks. In the body of one of the dump trucks was a 5000 gal water tank. Flatbed trucks and water tank were 15'8" high, the I-95 underpass on Rt #1 is only 14'8" high. When the water tank hit the underpass, the force of the impact destroyed the dump truck under the tank. The oil spilled was from the engine of the dump truck that was crushed. Lanes could not supply equipment in a timely manner, so in order to expedite the clean-up (Rt #1 was closed at the I-95 interchange). I contracted with Dickison & London to clean-up the spill and dispose of any contaminated soils. Case closed. B-119-2001*B-119-2001 03/19/2001 14:06 Steve Pelkey of Pelkey Oil called to report an old overfill incident at 8 State Street in Bangor. It was stated approximately 5 gallons were spilled approximately one month ago. Brenda Beadnell, a resident at the property, had been complaining that it had not been cleaned up properly. Before leaving to investigate I made it clear to Mr. Pelkey that these situations needed to be reported in a timely manner for the benefit of both of us. Investigation of the area shown no evidence of oil, however, the resident was not around at the time. No further action was taken. P-232-2000*Discharge resulted from overfilling a plane. The oil was collected with speedy-dry. No response required. No further action required. B-320-1999*Somerset Sheriff office called the 800 emergency number to report that a tractor-trailer rig had gone off Rt. 201 at Honeywell Corner. The deputy on scene, Wayne Kline, was reporting that the truck was losing fuel. The county dispatcher could not say how much or how bad. I went to the scene. On my arrival I saw a truck owned by R.B.L. Incorporated on its roof on the edge of Wayman Reservoir. The lower most saddle tank had been dripping fuel out the fill cap and Deputy Kline had placed some pads below the drip. In addition it was pointed out that the right fender well of the upside down truck was filled with motor oil. While I padded up the gallon or so of motor oil in the fender, the wrecker company on scene removed the undamaged saddle tanks (the driver had filled up a few minutes earlier). I checked the tanks as they lay in the pickup truck bed and saw that they were still full. Thus the drip from the cap had been very small. I'd guess about a gallon of diesel was lost. After the saddle tanks had been removed I left. In all less than a dozen pads were used. No further clean up was necessary. I will add that about 10 cubic yards of softwood chips had been lost into the lake and I gave this information to our Water Bureau. A-511-2000* A concerned citizen called this office to report an oil spill at the residence next door. The caller could smell fuel oil. I made a site visit and found a very small amount of kerosene that had spilled onto the grass. The unknown homeowner at this location had disconnected the outside AST and dragged it over the lawn and put it into a pickup truck. I found a small amount of oil on the grass and an oil stain on the pavement. I drove around the area looking for a pickup with a 275 gallon tank in the truck bed, however it could not be found. The location of this incident is route 226 near the east entrance to Togus Vet. Hospital. No further action will be required. P-708-1997*UST Removal. Waste Oil contamination. Cleaned up to Department's satisfaction. 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-265-2001*B-265-2001 05/03/2001 15:30 Merle Pringle, concerned camp owner on Brackett Lake in Weston, called to report observing an oil sheen out on the lake. When I arrived to investigate I found no evidence of sheen. Mr. Pringle noticed it however the day before. I explained to Mr. Pringle that the since the ice was in the process of "going out" it may have unlocked some oil that had been released during the winter. It may also be noted that several camps exist on the far side of the lake. It was hoped at the time that if someone had an AST problem that we would hear about in the short future. No one was heard from however. P-201-2001*On 3/21/01 I received a call from Ron Dionne of Downeast Energy reporting a spill at Grandstand Collectibles in Windham. I responded immediately. Downeast had been called to fill the outside above ground storage tank (AST) because it was empty. When the driver began filling the tank, she observed oil leaking out of the firematic valve. She stopped the transfer immediatey. 16 gallons had been pumped to the tank. Approximately 5 gallons spilled before the leaked was contained. The spilled oil had been soaked up by snow in the area. Downeast removed two 5 gallon pails of snow. No further action required. ______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II MARCH 27, 2001 P-85-2001* In the late evening of Fri. 2/9/01, I was notified by Mr. Holmes of Downeast Energy of an approx. 35 gal. release of K1 from the outside AST of Peter Cole. I met Holmes and the Coles onsite. Ice had fallen off the roof beaking off the oil line. Free oil pooled in the crawl space under the floor next to the tank. Venting the space to control vapors entering the house was difficult as the water pipes could freeze. The first clean-up contractor called could not make it so I had to call and wait for Fleet to mobilize. The free oil was pumped up and pads laid down early Sat. morn. Fleet returned on Mon. 2/12/01, padded up more oil and installed a sump for free product collection. I returned on 2/13 and 2/15 and noted less free oil. DEP's Eremita had first been to the site on Wed. 2/14/01 to check on needs for a venting system to keep vapors out of the house. DEP geologist was notified regarding the threatened well. On 2/21/01 I had Fleet remove oily soil from under the AST under the direction of DEP's Don White. Excavation was limited to about 4 tons on oily contaminated soil as they did not wish to get too close to the concrete block foundation. The house is in rural residential area on a driven point well located about 20' from the spill. There are houses on either side about 100' away (see map). The site is also a commercial dog kennel. Fire Marshal was notified regarding an AST Ins. Fund application to the Coles (see attached). Initial well testing for GRO is ND. The Coles are on QM for their well water (see attached). This case will be forwarded to DEP Geologist & Engineers for further evaluation and long term clean-up actions. Remaining discharge will need treatment-in-place. I have given the Coles information regarding protecting their AST facility in the future. See the attached and Tech Svcs. records for further information. S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM A-270-2000*An anonymous call about alleged dumping of acetone and other hazardous wastes at the former site of Standard Waterproofing, Inc. in China was received from a former Standard Waterproofing employee. The caller alleged that about three years ago, 5-gallon buckets of waste were buried in a hole dug in the back of a field across Neck Road from the facility. The caller did not know the exact location of the dumping, and was not willing to visit the site with DEP staff. Standard Waterproofing performs masonry restoration, acid washing, caulking, and other foundation repairs. No site visit made by Response Services. The case was referred to Enforcement (Cherrie Plummer) for additional investigation. P-667-1997*18Oct97, USCG reported a sunken fishing vessel at spill location. I was informed that a sheen was on the water and could not be recovered. USCG informed me on 19Oct97 that they were federalizing the case and that the vessel will be salvaged. No further information available and no further Response Services action is anticipated. Nathan Thompson (24Nov97) 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-450-1998*Received a call from the State Police that there was a sodium hypochlorite spill at Madison Paper. I got in touch with Dan Mallett, environmental manager and he explained the situation to me. Their 2000 gallon sodium hypochlorite tank developed an unknown leak. The solution emptied into the diked secondary containment. Some of the liquid leaked past the secondary containment and out the building. The largest portion went to the municipal sewer. Clean Harbors was called to send a small team and a vacuum truck. The situation was stabilized and the event switched from an evaluation and containment mode to a cleanup mode. After waiting many hours Clean Harbors showed up. They monitored the area and found very low to no evidence of chlorine gas. The dike area was vacuumed and the rest of the area was washed with the wash water being vacuumed up. Inspection of the tank showed that the feed hose fitting to the tank broke allowing the tank contents to escape. The leak around the dike was along the areas where existing concrete walls were used as part of the dike. Normal concrete construction does not key the wall with the floor, normal dike construction does. See the attached letter and report from Madison Paper Industries for additional information. No further work is needed on this site. B-319-1997*On 6/16 this office received a request to abondon USTs in place at Mayo Regional Hopsital in Dover-Foxcroft. On 6/24 I went to the site to investigate. I wrote an in place permit on the basis of "inaccessible to heavy equipment". There were two 15K USTs that were under a concrete pad extended 20-25 feet into the driveway. The driveway is the entrance to the emergency treatment center, so blocking this for the better part of a day is out of the question. Also, the hospital's air intake is close to the UST site and the removal operation would adversely affect the air quality inside that building. P-34-1990* DEP response to sulfuric acid release and vapors in sewer lines from sludge treatment. See separate narrative for further details. . 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. A-386-1997*No site visit made. No further action anticipated. B-208-1999*B-208-99 Lincoln Monday May 3, 1999 1500 Clyde Lewis (800-339-2512), of Morrison Chevrolet and Lincoln Chevrolet Oldsmobile phoned to report that they had a motor oil leak at their new bulk Motor storage in the service area of the Lincoln garage. About 100 gallons of virgin motor oil leaked or was sprayed (under pressure) sometime after the dealership closed on Saturday or Sunday. The motor oil covered the garage floor, filled the lift pits, and some ran outside on the pavement and ground. The problem was traced to an apparent hose or fitting failure. R.H. Foster cleaned up the spill sometime prior to its being reported. I explained to Mr. Lewis that I would be visiting the cleaned up area to assess the problem and determine if additional clean up would be necessary. Tuesday May 4, 1999 0910 I arrived at Lincoln Chevrolet Oldsmobile, in Lincoln. I met with Mr. Lewis. He showed me around the garage area. An approximate 100 gallons of motor leaked from an overhead hose reel onto the floor and into 2 lift pits. R.H. Foster had previously pumped the pits out. There was some staining of soil outside near a pipe that ran from the inside. The oil and water staining was on hard pan soil and indicated a soil penetration of less than 1 inch in an area about 18 inches wide by 5 feet long. There was no sheen in this area and the decision was made not to excavate, as later water flowing over this area would cause some soil to erode and move in the direction of a nearby stream. I-97-1997*On 8-1-97, Ron Knight of the Me. DOT called this office to report that while excavating along Rt. 1 in Westfield for road construction, they encountered two old fuel tanks in their right of way. I hired JT Langille to perform a site assesment and Ed Pelletier and Sons to do the removal of the tanks. On 8-5-97, the tanks were removed and about 30 yards of contaminated soil was removed. The closest well downgradient was also sampled. The tanks were gasoline and were probably from a station that was on this corner years ago. The water sample results will dictate if any further work is required. 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 P-453-2000* Retail, motor fuels, UST facility investigation. See reports P-405-89 and P-218-96 for further information. P-503-2000*Dead River reported that a customer had a leaking AST in their dirt basement. The Dead River crew would be on site the next day (April 6) to replace the tank. I met the crew the next day on site. The tank was located in a low (5ft') basement with a dirt floor. The vapors were not strong, and there did not appear to be widespread contamination. The technician stated that the soil was very dark in one spot at a depth of 1-1 1/2 ft. The technicians removed some contaminated soil and debris before installing a new tank. The owner was not home and I left a card and instructions (with the DR technician) to contact me should there be any odor problems. I contacted the owners a short time later and was told that there were no lingering odors of fuel oil in the home. 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-632-1998*The City of Bangor had contracted with Lane Construction to do some paving around the city and at day's end on Sept. 22, the paving crew found itself with a couple extra yards of asphalt; they therefore decided to use it paving a gravel right- of- way the city owns just off of Union St. That done, the next logical step is to wash down the paver with fuel oil, to remove the caked on asphalt. Logic did not extend to making an actual effort to catch the fuel oil as it ran off the paver, and it was allowed to soak into the gravel on the approach to William Beardsley's house. The boys hadn't counted on it raining immediatly; soon as it did, the oil ran down Beardsley's driveway toward his well. Upset, he called his son in Wells, who called me; I investigated that night, and called Lane immediately, explaining how the DEP has been trying to discourage this type of activity for 25 years. Next morning, I met with Lane's Scott Leach at the site, who was understandibly contrite and cooperative. He agreed to dig up the contaminated soil, and dispose of it in Lane's asphalt batch plant. I-177-1997*On 11-20-97, Dave St. Peter called to report there had been a tractor vandalized at the university over the weekend and about 30 gallons of deisel fuel was lost as the result. I instructed him to excavate the effected soil (as this had been done in the dirt driveway of the maintainance building ) and spread it out on suitable university owned ground. B-513-1999*Lucia Allen called from the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline Company to report a one quart spill of hydraulic oil on the Studmill Road in T35 MD. The crew was repairing a piece of equipment and the oil spilled onto the ground. About a cubic foot of dirt was dug up for disposal. 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. A-238-2001*CMP reported a small amount of compressor oil lost to the ground at their Maine Yankee yard. The compressor provides air to operate breakers on the 345kV line. The compressor condensate drain valve drains to a concrete underground sump. The sump was removed and a fair amount of oil was discovered on the water in the sump and in the soil surrounding the sump. It was also discovered that the sump had no bottom and was essentially an open hole. CMP cleanup team removed all visibly impacted soil and backfilled with clean soil. The compressor and sump have been removed. There are other similar compressor/sump units in this yard that may need some further investigation. No further action expected for this spill. P-445-1997*Leak from an AST at Biddeford CSO facility on Water Street. Small amount of dirt and debris excavated. Solid materials were disposed of at Biddeford landfill. B-738-1997*An unregistered tank was removed from the ground on 12/31/97 at Northeast Timberlands. At Lennie Carr's request,I waived the 30 day notice, so the tank would come out in 1997, and qualify, if need be, for cleanup money. According to Lennie, the removal went off without a hitch, with no contamination discovered in the soil. B-501-1997*9/10/97 @ 11:00 Mona Spear (990-6931), of Bangor Hydro Electric phoned to report a spill of non-pcb transformer oil to a grass area off Route 116 in Medway. A construction truck was driving on route 116 when it failed to clear a power wire. The wire was caught on truck caused the upper bushing of a 10 kVA transformer to be pulled out and also causing about 1 gallon of transformer oil to be sprayed on the 4 foot tall grasses below. An 8 by 8 foot area of swale grass and some tree branches beneath the pole were sprayed with dielectric oil. The branches were picked up and the grass was weed wacked and bagged for disposal at Sawyer Environmental in Hampden. The transformer was taken out of service and replaced. Attachment. I-79-1999*REGISTRATION #4976 - A UST REMOVAL ON THIS DATE REVEALED A LARGE VOLUME OF CONTAMINATED SOIL. THE DECISION TREE CAME TO A BL-1 SITE CLEANUP BUT I UPGRADED THE CLEANUP TO 1000 PPM WITH PID. BASED UPON THE AMOUNT OF HEAVILY SATURATED SOIL AND USING 1/2 OF THE FORMULA CLEAVE LECKY DEVELOPED FOR CALCULATING THE AMOUNT OF CONTAMINATION IN SOIL, I ESTIMATED IN EXCESS OF 4000 GALLONS WAS SPILLED AT THIS SITE. THREE SOURCES WERE IDENTIFIED - #1 WAS PAST UST SYSTEMS - #2 WAS THE LOOSE FITTINGS ON THE GAS LINE VENT AND FINALLY, #3, THE DIESEL TANK HAD A 90% FITTING ON TOP OF THE TANK WITH A SHORT PIECE OF PIPE ATTACHED BUT THE PIPE WASN'T PLUGGED. ALL SATURATED SOIL, ABOUT 1000 PPM-PID, WAS REMOVED AND LANDFILLED, SOILS LESS THAN 1000 PPM WERE PLACED BACK INTO THE EXCAVATION. FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION, SEE THE SITE ASSESSMENT REPORT CONDUCTED BY LANGILLE AROOSTOOK ENGINEERING. CASE CLOSED. A-178-1999*An overfill occurred. The FD and Montgomery Oil responded. Most of the oil was caught in the sand on the road, but some entered a catch basin. The oil was picked up with sorbents. The sand plus an area under the fill were dug up to take to Dragon. A-456-2001*See attached report. B-619-1996*D-TREE=S. A-435-1997*The diesel tank was removed at the Farmington bulk plant. A small amount of contamination was present from overfills. No saturated soils were found. No further action is required. B-676-1998*B-676- 98 St Albans Sunday October 18, 1998 1400 The state police dispatcher asked me to make contact with Robin Chase (938-5770), of St. Albans. Mrs. Chase called to report the dumping of 150 oil containers on the ground near her residence. She is concerned about possible well contamination. I phoned Robin Chase. She said that her neighbors, Ed and Phyllis Jones, owners of a former old sawmill, leave garbage bags full of empty motor oil containers sitting on their property. Their property is located near Big Indian Lake in St Albans. I explained to Mrs. Chase that The DEP does not regulate what her neighbor can or can not place on their property as far as garbage goes. I suggested that she contact the town's code enforcement official as there may be some local ordinances against creating a mess in your yard. B-60-2001*Samantha at Dead River reported that there'd been a small overfill of oil at the Kevin Hughes residence. The incident occurred during filling, but she didn't know exactly WHY it'd occurred. Given the small amount of oil involved, I didn't deem a site visit necessary. P-827-2001*An $11 purchase of diesel was made by a customer who neglected to report a spill, or had the spill while leaving the station. The volume of the spill was estimated at less than 10 gallons based on the sale made prior to the report. The spill was reported by the next customer, a local police officer, who notified the CN Brown staff (Lisa Smith 674-3108), who in turn called the main office and the West Paris Fire Department. The main office reported the spill to DEP. The WPFD applied sorbent material to the affected concrete area. No request for DEP assistance was made and no visit conducted based on the information received from CN Brown. No further action is planned for this incident. B-223-2001* On 4/23/01, 1815 hours Rob King, who is Post Master at Levant, reported that the truck that delivered mail to the central office in Hampden was leaking diesel fuel in their yard and that the truck would end up in Hampden. By the time I got to Hamden the delivery truck in question had come and gone. There was a noticeable trail of diesel fuel at the loading dock in Hampden. Dan Stewart of Hampden PD had been alerted to the situation and had obtained the name and phone number of the spiller. I contacted him and explained the fact that spilling oil was illegal. He said that the problem had been fixed. It was a loose fuel filter on his truck B-170-2001*Worchester Oil Co. called to report that a customer, R.D.Crawford and Sons, POBox 279, Lincoln, Me., had suffered the loss of an estimated 130 gallons of #1. Their office is fueled from an outside AST. Even though the installation was new and appeared to be up to code, it was too close to the office wall. A build up of ice and snow had broken the firematic valve. The drilled well was pointed out to me as being about 300 feet away. The terrain is flat and the soils map shows silty till. The office appears to be a modular home and a couple feet of gravel fill was leveled for its base. Due to the facts of the matter, I concluded that no action was required. I-104-1999*On 5-24-99, Omer Pelletier of Pelletier construction reported that while excavating a trench along North Street gasoline contamination was encountered. I met with him and Darrel Sponberg of Me. DOT on site. There was a section of the trench at about the corner of Main Street and North Street which had gasoline contaminated soil and a small vein of free product that appeared to be quite weathered. The excavation was continued and all contamination encountered was removed and land-spread on a pre-approved site. On July 6, technical services staff did several soil borings in the area to determine the extent and source of the free product. Borings showed no free product and a source not identified. The conclusion drawn was a small amount of free product existed and had been captured through excavation. P-9-1996*4Jan96, L. Doran and I responded to the spill location. Upon arrival I observed Dead River personnel removing a damaged AST from behind a car garage; clean-up activities in the garage building along the back wall; and oil satuarted snow around the damaged tank. I met with Norm Guerette, district mgr. for DR, who informed me that the tank was dented prior to the filling and that he did not want to conduct any further clean-up because that might implicate DR in the spill. Doran and I continued the clean-up utilizing the home owners back-hoe. We segragated out the oil stained snow. 5Jan96, on site to oversee clean-up activities. 6.05cubic yards of soil and snow was removed to Comm. Pav., Scarborough, accompanied by a DEP Vigin Product Letter. 13Feb96, I generated a letter to Guerette, informing him of the DEP intent to seek reimbursement from Dead Riv., copy attached. 19Mar96, request for AST application to fire marshals. No further action is anticipated by Response Services. Nathan Thompson, OHMS I, SMRO B-487-2001*Paul Jacques called reporting that his outfit, CES Engineers, had discovered contaminated soil on the site of a previously removed underground tank at the Rodeway Inn on Odlin Rd. He wanted to know if they could spread the contaminated soil on site. I said I'd meet him there and see if the site was suitable. Driving aimlessly up and down Odlin Road, I finally determined that there is no Rodeway Inn there, although one is listed at 482. In fact, that's the Budget Inn, it's for sale and the owner had a site assessment done as part of the sale process. Oil contaminated soil was found in the area of a reportedly removed UST, during phase II of the assessment. The tank, according to the owner, was removed in 1988, although we have no record of a tank being there or of its being removed. (see B-128-87) I informed Jacques by letter, attached, that CES would have to prove that the tank was removed. He did that to my satisfaction in October, and we therefore agreed that the contaminated soil would be best left alone. P-748-1996*In November 19, 1996 I was contacted by David Allwine. Mr. Allwine's employer Jaques - Whitford was performing a 691 Site Assessment at an Underground tank removal for the NYNEX Corporation, and had encountered contamination. I went to the site that afternoon. THe tank in question was a 250 gallon diesel tank used to fuel an emergency generator at the NyNEx Station in Yarmouth. The tank had been uncovered, the contamination reported had been found in the soils on top of the tank around the fill pipe. Due to a large amount of concrete on top of the tank, the contractor (Portland Pump) could not get the tank out that afternoon. I went back to the site the following day. There was no heavier areas of contamination found beneath the tank. No contaminated soils above the Clean up levels for this site were found, and therfore no clean up performed. No further action. P-212-1999* On the morning of 3/30/99, while enroute to Portland, I noted and stopped for a stalled auto on the roadside giving off what initially appeared to be steam from its radiator. After I pulled over to assist, black smoke began to billow out from under the stopped car's hood. After calling for the local Falmouth Fire Dept. (FFD) I had a remaining passenger leave the burning car, and emptied my truck's extinguisher under the hood but to no avail. FFD arrived to put out the fire several minutes later. Gasoline and motor oil that discharged burned up so no spillage reached soil or gw. Oddly, commuter traffic continued to drive thru the plume of black smoke billowing across the highway until stopped by local troopers. No further DEP, Resp. Div. actions expected. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-675-1999*DEP was called when Dave Dixon (549-7000) observed a sheen on the pond at the Williams gravel pit while taking semi-annual samples required by a Land Bureau Site Order. I met on-site with Dave Dixon and Rich Vassol of W.S. Williams Construction and observed an oil sheen covering the entire pond. I took their samples to HETL for faster processing. All GRO samples were non-detect. The pond samples were positive for DRO, probably motor oil. The spring was non-detect. Mary Corr investigated a possible spill at this site in 1998 (see A-281-99). Testing in May 1998 indicated diesel contamination above drinking water standards in both the pond and the spring. Subsequent samples were non-detect for the spring, and some organic contamination in the pond that was probably not petroleum. I asked Williams Construction to sample the spring on a quarterly basis for at least a year, unless test results indicate evidence of contamination. See attached letter. No further action required by Response Services at this time. B-353-1999*B-353-99 Prospect Friday June 25, 1999 0940 I received a complaint for investigation from Mr. John Kenney (941-4448), of IF & W. John phoned to report that Tom Hodgeman, also with Inland Fisheries and Wildlife had seen what he reported as oil in Carley Brook in Prospect. I went to Carley Brook and was able to access it via route 174 in Prospect. I walked the side of the slowly flowing and meandering brook. I was unable to see anything that was oil or a petroleum product on water. It had been dry until recently and now there was some light flushing of the wetland area. What I did see and I believe Mr. Hodgeman saw was narrow bands of pollen on water. I did not see petroleum sheen on Carley Brook. B-203-2001*According to Dead River personnel, 3/4 gallon of #2 oil was lost to the basement floor at George Schilling's house. The cause was corrosion in the bottom of the oil tank. Dead River personnel recovered the oil from the basement floor; no site visit was deemed necessary. B-312-2001*B-0312-01 Dover-Foxcroft Thursday May 31, 2001 1444 I received a phone call from a Mr. Will Humphries (879-7066), of URS Construction. Mr. Humphries phoned to report a diesel spill at Ames Department Store, in Bangor. Because Mr. Humphries was a little vague on the details I asked if he had the name of the Store manager. As it turned out the diesel spill to the parking lot at Ames was in fact at Ames Department Store in Dover-Foxcroft, not in Bangor. I phoned Mr. Mark Wood (564-3484) of the Dover-Foxcroft Ames Department Store. According to Mr. Wood the spill to the pavement occurred on Thursday May 24 around 1000 AM. The spill was a result of a contracted steam cleaning outfit, The French Company, of Twinsburg Ohio. Dave Ferante ((860) 257-5390) contracted the French Company. Mr. Ferante is the energy and utilities coordinator for the Ames Department Store chain. I explained to Mr. Ferante that as well as Mark Wood that someone should have reported the spill of oil to the pavement more promptly and that this needs to change. The French company was involved in steam cleaning the shopping carts when the spill occurred. The spill was cleaned up using the contractor's spill kit and The French Company disposed of the materials. P-27-1999*Ice fell off the roof at 519 Pool Road in Biddeford and severed the copper oil line causing 50 gallons of Kerosene to spill out onto icy, frozen ground. I hired Seacoast Ocean Services to pad up the product and chip up the ice that was contaminated. They ended up with 100 gallons of oily water collected by a vacuum truck, 4 bags of sorbents, and 10 drums of oil contaminated ice and snow. No further Response action is needed at this time. P-301-1999*On June 14, 1999 I received a call from Downeast Energy. Downeast was at the home of Tom Colby at 65 Cottage Lane. Mr. Colby had noticed an odor around his tank and noticed a very slow drip coming from the bottom. Downeast had responded and immediately pumped off the tank. I checked out the site the following morning. I found very little indication of a spill excepting a few oiled leaves. Mr. Colby said he would rake them up and dispose of them. No further action. P-581-1996*On Sept. 10, 1996 I was contacted by Tony Couture of Precision Tanks. He called to request approval for abandoning a tank by filling in place. The tank was a 5000 gallon diesel tank at Southern Maine Medical Center. I looked at the tank that afternoon and granted the permission for filling in place. The hospital had an above ground liquid oxygen tank, the product lines and two coolant lines for the tank passed directly over the diesel tank in question making it impractical to remove the tank. B-576-2000*On 10/23/00, 1342 hours Gil Merchant of Bangor International Airport reported that on 10/17/00, 1300 hours they had a two and a half gallon release of Jet A from an air craft wing vent on their general aviation ramp. The tank had been filled to capacity the previous night and as the temperature increased the following day the product expanded and pushed out the vent. It landed on tarmack and was recovered with pads. Gil indicated that ten pads went to their waste stream I-150-1999*On 9-27-99, Irving Oil Co. of Houlton faxed a spill report form indicating there had been a small spill in the basement of Greg Lezotte on the Foxcroft Road in Houlton. Apparently the bleeder valve on the tank was left open. The contaminated soil was picked up by an Irving crew the same day and the tank repaired. B-783-1998*B-783-98 On 12/5/98, 0930 hours Lawrence (Sunny) Stanley (a contractor residing on Swans Island) reported that a pick up truck had landed in a ditch and discharged it's fluids, which included gas, oil, anti freeze and transmission fluid. Larry did not have an estimate on the amounts, but he indicated that he had experience cleaning up such spills. He went on to say that he had worked with Bob Randall and that Bob had approved a spread site on the island. It was not possible for me to get to Swans Island that day because the ferry does not run on week ends that time of year. Since there is a residential well within 300 feet of the spill I asked Larry to go ahead with the clean up and that I would check it out on the next Tuesday. When I sampled the bottom of the excavated ditch, the head space readings were zero. The ditch was wet with water so the oily products did not penetrate. Also, it was revealed after the fact that not much product left the gasoline tank. The residence closest to the spill is Norman Staples. I do not consider his well as being at risk. At the time of this writing (12/23/98) I do not have a bill from Sunny. He had said that he would send me the name of the RP along with the bill. It seems that we have trouble extracting a bill from Swans Island. Update: 1-4-99 Bill received. A-700-1999* On 11-15-99, Bill Carver reported that there was 5 gallons of gasoline in the sump at the UST system at The 107. The 107 is a convenience store in Winslow on Route 107, hence the name. I spoke with Mr. Carver and we agreed to let the system operate overnight and check it in the morning. The sump was cleaned out and pads were placed inside. The next morning we checked the sump and no product had entered the sump. I noticed a wet fitting on the 1/4 inch copper line that is connected to the leak detector. Mr. Carver tightened this fitting and then place a cup under the fitting. In addition, he reset the sump alarms to the correct position. We then agreed to make a site visit one week later to check on the fitting. Mr. Carver called me on 11/23 and left a voice mail message. The cup had collected some gasoline so he replaced the copper line. There was no release to the environment. Case closed. . A-532-1999* International Paper reported a release of about 0.5 gallons of # 6 oil. This oil dripped from a rail car that was being used as a storage tank. Clean up was done by IP. P-91-1990* See separate narrative. I-220-1998*On 11-24-98, Bob Neadeau of McCain Foods in Easton called this office to report that a truck entering the plant had rolled over and spilled abuot 15 gallons of fuel onto the road. They responded themselves and cleaned all that they could off the road with sorbent pads. No futher action was seen as necessary. P-654-1996*On 10/23/96 I received a call from Russ McLellan reporting an oil spill at his residence due to severe flooding that had occurred the previous day. I responded to the site that afternoon. Upon arrival I observed that approximately 70 gallons of oil had leaked from his oil tank in his basement when the basement flooded. Much of Mr. McLellans belongings in his basement were oil and water saturated. I made arrangements for a dumpster from Pine Tree Waste to be delivered to the site and instructed Mr. McLelland to dispose of any oil soaked incinerables in the dumpster. I gave him instructions on how to clean non-incinerables and suggested he call a professional cleaner to clean the basmement. Pine Tree Waste removed the dumpster and Serv Pro cleaned the basement. No further action required. _______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II B-66-1996*2/2/96 @ 1220 Mr. Tom Tardiff (848-4246) of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad phoned to report that the railroad had a spill last night in their yard at Northern Maine Junction in Hermon. Mr. Tardiff estimated that between 10 and 15 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled during a fuel transfer from a rail car to a truck. The railroad personnel were using a U.S. (English system) transfer hose and the rail car had a metric connector. The fuel transfer was stopped. About 15 gallon spilled to the gravel or ballast. Absorbent pads were used and disposed of by the Railroad. Mr. Tardiff said that portable fuel containment pans are on order. Such a pan if used would have caught the spilled diesel fuel. I-33-2001*On 4-3-01, this office was notified by Charles Kelley of a spill at his house on the Gardner Creek Road in Washburn. According to Mr. Kelley, because of frost coming out of the ground, the tank shifted and the line cracked, allowing the contents of the tank to empty onto the trailer slab and beneath the trailer. This was confirmed when I met with him on site that day. There was a strong odor in the house. I hired a contractor to begin cleanup that day. An exhaust fan was placed beneath the trailer that day and effectively has aleviated the odor. The well was placed on QM also because it will most likely be impacted. A-436-1996*see attached and site assesment in tank registration #9904 A-19-2000*This 30' boat sunk on December 24, 1999. The Marine Patrol learned about it on January 3, 2000 and located the owner to get him to salvage the boat. When he still hadn't salvaged the boat by January 10, they reported the spill to us. There had been a gas sheen around the boat. Mr. Sullivan reported that only 10 gallons, or less, gas was in the boat. This is his standard procedure when mooring the boat for long periods of time. PO Gonyea of MSO Bucksport was aware of the sinking. I contacted Mr. Sullivan and he reported that he had attempted salvage on January 8, but weather conditions delayed the scheduled ferry and offloading on Vinalhaven. The boat was moored at his company's lobster pound, Island Seafood, and he was well aware of the liability issues. There were 1900 pounds of lobsters in the pound. He called me on January 13 to report that continuing gale force winds had prevented his salvage of the boat. The weather condition was not expected to improve for several days. Mike Mitchell of MSO Bucksport called later in the day to report that he had been out to the site in a small boat in the morning. He confirmed that conditions were still unsuitable for salvage. Further, he said that there was no longer any evidence of gas being released. No further action is anticipated. A-666-1998*Bill Wallace received a call late in the afternoon about a vehicle accident in Madison. A gasoline spill occurred when a private vehicle hit a power pole while taking a curve on Russell Road at excessive speed. The pole was in a drainage ditch that contained several inches of water. The Fire Department collected most of the spilled gasoline with sorbents, so Bill determined it was not necessary to view the scene until daylight. I met with Roger Lightbody, Jr., a member of the Madison Fire Department, at the scene the next morning. There was a rainbow sheen on the water in the drainage ditch in several locations, but nothing I could collect with sorbent pads. I checked the drainage ditch on both sides of Russell Road for about 1/2 mile (unfortunately a culvert ran under the road just below the spill diverting the drainage water to both sides of the road), but did not observe any collectible product. The carcasses of two deer reduced the flow of water in the ditch on the east side of Russell Road a few hundred yards from the spill, preventing any product from traveling further from the spill site. Madison Police will investigate. There were no homes in the area, so no wells at risk. No further action required. A-474-1997*Received a call from Judy Hastings of Mead Corporation that there had been a spill in the Medical Department of mercury. A wall mounted blood pressure manometer fell and broke releasing about 4 ounces of mercury. Judy Hastings is the on site toxicologist. They evacuated the room and sealed it. Clean Harbors was called and they cleaned the room over two days. No site visit by DEP was required, no further work is necessary. See the letter from Mead Corporation for additional information. I-97-1998*DEP was called to this scene by the Warden service as a result of a fish kill. The Kerosene than at the Webber camp had its nipple spanned off by the spring thaw. The entire tank had lost its contents to a small stream next to Echo Lake. Booms were place to contain the oil and contaminated soil was removed to the stringent standard. This spill did kill over 500 banded Killifish. Spill appears to have occurred while the ice was in and the fish were trapped in that area, based upon the report of Dave Basley, IF&W Biologist. P-683-1998*14 November 1998, I responded to complaint received 13 November 1998. The subject was concerned about a foul odor and taste in his drinking water. The well was previously sampled by the homeowner and I contacted Nick Masters at 247-4403, Portland, Me (Name of Lab unavailable). The conclusion was that a hot water heater may be malfunctioning, causing some type of contamination. I did not observe any indication that a fuel leak occurred at this location. According the the lab anaylsis I viewed and on the basis of my conversation with Masters, the well is not the source of the contamination nor has a petroleum product encroached into well. No further response action is warranted. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (22Jan99) P-263-1997*On 4/3/97 I met with George Croston, a facilities management supervisor for L.L. Bean, and inspected Tank #2 at the Taylor Building for possible abandonment in place. The request was denied because this tank did not meet the criteria specified in Chapter 691 allowing abandonment in place. P-369-1996*On 6/30/96 I responded to this residential haz-mat incident at the request of O.O.B. Fire Dept. to evaluate the discharge and check the waste. Meeting Mr. Latakakos onsite he explained how he mixed the two pool chemicals together which burst into flames several minutes later, almost burnig his garage down. The combination of the Brominating Stix and HTH caused an exothermic reaction with a fuel-oxidizer reaction. The waste pads and water smelled mildly of chlorine and had a pH of 5 and I judged to not be hazardous. I also explained to the O.O.B. Fire Dept. that oil-sorbent pads do not pick up an aqueous solution (and may act as a fuel for an oxidizer). No further action anticipated. A-101-1999* On 2-22-99, Ed Pearl called this office to report the release of about 100 gallons of kerosene. Gagne Fuel Oil Corp. had delivered 125 gallons of fuel on 2/15. On 2/22 there was no oil in the tank. Snow and ice had fallen off the roof and broke the nipple at the filter assembly. There was a lot of snow at this site, in addition, the oil spilled onto the ground near the septic tank and leachfield. There were no petroleum vapors in the house trailer or in the space under the trailer. No cleanup, i.e., soil removal, was attempted at this time. This site has been referred to our Technical Services Division. A water sample was collected on 4-8-99, no petroleum compounds were detected (both DRO & GRO). A second sample was collected by Pat Seaward on 8-9-99. In addition, a water sample from the neighboor, Ms. Russel was also obtained. The well on site is slightly upgradient and about 75 feet away. Acccording to Mr. Pearl this well is 185 feet deep and ledge was found at 85 feet. This case now is under Pat Seaward's management. A-210-1997*Augusta Fuel had an overfill during the winter. They believed that they had cleaned it all up at the time. The home owner complained about some dead grass in the area. Augusta Fuel arranged to dig the soil up and replace it with loam and seed it. This was done. No further action is required. A-98-1997*Frost's Mobile removed thier tanks. These tanks were installed in 1957 and relined in 1971. When they were removed, the metal was found to be rotted through to the fiber glass liner. The contamination on the site appeared to be from overfills and loading hose accidents. Some soil was removed and taken to the Frost's farm for land spreading. No further action is required. B-254-1997*On 5/23/97, 1530 Gerry Atwood reported that a five gallon gasoline dispenser had fallen off a truck in front of his house. He said that he had reported the incident to the police in hopes that the person who lost the container would claim it. Gerry was concerned about what should be done with the gasoline. Since it wasn't Gerry's spill I recovered the container to our Haz Stor. Shortly after that one of our own workers volunteered to use it in their lawn mower. To avoid having to dispose of it as hazardsous waste I accepted the offer. Should the owner claim the container, I would be happy to reimburse he or she for the contents out of pocket. I-52-2001*A car struck a utility pole causing transformer to lose 1 gallon of trans. oil. The contaminated soil (lilac tree) and snow was cleaned up and put in drums. 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. B-372-1999*B-372-99 Princeton Thursday July 3, 1999 1755 I received a phone call from the state police dispatcher to make contact with Steve Wallace (838-4275), of Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline. According to Steve Wallace, a hydraulic line broke on a padding machine. This happened today around 1530, at a location about 4 miles south of Princeton, on the Stud Mill Road. The hydraulic oil sprayed over a large area of soil. Clean up consisted of excavation the area. In all about 17 bags of soil were excavated and placed into drums. About 2 cubic yards of soil was drummed and will be removed to Sawyers Environmental, in Hampden. A-103-2001*390 randtoul beverly ma 01915 Kingfield Cash Fuel was making a delevery to the house/camp owned by Anthony Vitalie. and accidently ruptured the outside AST. This resulted in the release of about 100 gallons of kerosene. This camp is located on Pine Rd. whiich is located off the Gammon Pond Rd., in the town of New Portland. When I arrived on site most of the snow had been pushed aside A-294-1996*A car lost its brakes coming down the hill. They thought that the bridge guard rail would stop them. They went through into the river. The car sank. A light sheen was present. The car was recovered. During the recovery operation a hole was torn into the gas tank. About a gallon was lost and recovered with pads. The tank was drained to prevent more loss during transport. A-324-1997*Received a call from Ted Haskell of Haskell Energies that there was some contamination at an underground tank removal that he was doing. I responded to Longfellow's Greenhouses in Manchester. Ted was removing two tanks and planning to install a 12,000 gallon tank. All were #2 fuel oil tanks used to fuel boilers to heat a large number of greenhouses. Some contamination was found. An estimated 200 cubic yards of contaminated soil was landspread on site. The site has a baseline 2 designation based on the Department's decision tree. An action level of 1500 ppm bag headspace was established. All sidewalls of the two tank excavations met this goal. No further work on this site is needed. A-322-2000* A pickup truck owned by Central Fleet Management developed a leak in the gasoline tank. This resulted in the release of about 1 or 2 gallons of gasoline. This leak occurred at the new south parking lot on the AMHI campus. Scott Cyr and myself placed sorbent pads under the truck to collect any spillage. No further action will be required. B-584-2000*Please see attached narrative. A-662-1998*A leaking can of xylene was discovered in the basement of a recently purchased residence. It was detected almost immediately by odor. The can was overpacked. The homeowner was advised about household hazardous waste programs. She scrubbed the area where the xylene had leaked onto the floor. I-70-1998*On 3-28-98, Dead River called to report that there had been a small spill at the trailer of Herbie Corbin in the Caribou Trailer Park. Apparently the tank had corroded and there was an odor outside that was noticed by the owner. Soderberg construction was hired to remove contaminated soil. About 5 yards was taken out. P-336-1998*On 7/13/98 I received a call through the Maine State Police from the South Portland Fire Department reporting that the tank barge Gregory had hung up on the dock at Mobil while discharging cargo and a hole had been punched into the hull. They reported that no discharge had occurred. I responded immediately. While enroute, I notified Steve Eufemia and Ann Hemenway who also responded. Upon arrival I observed that a hole approximately 6 inches in length and 3 inches in width in the number 1 starboard cargo tank. No evidence of discharge was observed. The tank had been emptied prior to the event. There was however, significant gasoline odor in the immediate area. When a representative from Allied Towing arrived, plans for a patch to be fitted over the hole were made and approved by the USCG. No further action required. ____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIAL SPECIALIST II JULY 31, 1998 P-110-1997*On Feb. 26, 1997 I was contacted by Steve Winchenbach of Dead River. Steve had called to report a spill at Carson's Family Restaurant, in Scarborough. I responded that morning. On site Dead River was in the process of emptying a 275 gallon #2 oil tank that had developed a corrosion hole. The tank had most likely been leaking for a couple of days spilling an estimated 100 gallons of oil. The oil had all soaked into the ground around the tank. This day that I was on site the ground was frozen so it was difficult to tell the extent of oil saturated soils. On March 12, I had Sun Environmental excavate the spill area. Once under the frost layer and an inset cement slab, we found grossly saturated soils. We removed 14 yards of soil, and although we did not reach the limits of contamination, due to physical restraints in the area, I believe that the bulk of the saturated soils were removed. If the excavation was sufficient to elimate odors in the building this spring, no further actions will be necessary. P-435-1999*On June 28, 1999 Dead River Oil Company in Auburn called to notify the Dept. of a spill at the home of one of their customers. On May 20, 1999 Dead River had inspected the system of June Guy at 1350 Turner Road #46, and found a weeping corrosion hole. At that time Dead River put some pads under the tank and made arrangements for a new tank. On June 28, 1999 Dead River pumped out the old tank and moved it from the shed it was in, revealing a small stained area under the tank. I inspected the site and suggested removing oil stained soil before putting in the new tank. Dead River removed approximately 1 yard of soil. No further action is anticipated, however I have suggested that Ms. Guy enroll in the insurance fund. 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). B-397-1998*B-397-98 Mobil Oil Terminal - Bangor Mike Dicenso called from the Mobil Oil terminal to report that a pump coupling broke and caused the release of about 20 gallons of diesel to the ground inside their containment dike. They cleaning it up with a suction pump and finished up with a few sorbent pads. The oil went into their sludge tank and the sorbents into their routine oily debris waste stream. No further action anticipated. A-490-1996* Andy Williamson found a 55 gallon drum of solvent(?) in his fathers barn. The elder Williamson has passed away. This drum was given to Andy's father 25 or 30 years ago as part of a settlement with an oil company. An oil spill on the coast had stain the shoreline of the Willianson property. The material, a liquid, in the drum was used to wash the shoreline and the rocks. The drum's labels have worn off, therefore I could not obtain any information on this material. I collected a sample for lab analysis. The liquid has a uniform color and texture and is a petroleum base. It appears to be a dispersant or a glorified kerosene. I called Total Waste Management to get an idea of disposal cost. A cost of $200.00, at a minimum, should be expected. On 4-11-97 I overpacked this drum and brought it back to the DEP warehouse. This drum will then be disposed of, along with some other material, as soon as a contractor is chosen. Lab analysis,... flash point of 152 degrees, no PCB's, appears to be from C10 to C15. P-508-2001*See attached CMP report. P-631-1998*On December 17 Webber Energy spilled approximately 10 gallons of #2 heating oil at Adam's Elementary School in Portland while filling their underground storage tank. I responded to the call. Webber had dispatched clean up personnel from their company immediately. When I arrived on site all free oil was already soaked up with sorbent pads and Webber was in the process of applying speedy dry over the entire spill area (appr. 10' x 20'). THey swept up the first layer of Speedy Dry and then applied one more layer to remain over the stain throughout the weekend. No further action. A-562-1998* DEP received a report that a small amount of fuel was lost from the hose while filling a residential oil tank. According to the spiller all contaminated soil was collected for disposal. The area is dense residential and is served by municipal water. I anticipate no further DEP involvement here. A-325-2001* DEP received a report that a minor fuel oil spill had occurred at this facility. The spill was reportedly confined to pavement and was completely cleaned up. P-376-2000* After receiving an anonymous complaint of 6/7/02, about this boatyard discharging boat-bottoms debris into Casco Bay I visited and met with the business owner, Joe Schmader, to discuss the complaint. The facility is a commercial boatyard & repair business located on Portland's waterfront near the Union Oil gas station on Commercial St.. My previous experience with this facility is their and Clean Harbor's cleaning of oiled boats after the T/V JULIE N discharge of 1997. Onsite I noted a fishing boat bottom being power-washed by a Gowan's employee. A green copper-colored water was running down to the pier and into the harbor, forming a greenish plume. (Marine bottom paints have toxins in them to discourage marine growth on the boat bottoms.) Mr. Schmader, told me that this discharge was allowed and exempted from state requirements. I called the USCG MSO who did not know the Federal regulations on this type of discharge and stated that they would check their laws. I later contacted Ms. Pam Parker of the DEP who stated that this type of discharge indeed was exempt from regulation. She stated that most all of the toxins present in the marine paint have already leached out prior to being washed down. The greenish plume therefore was not toxic (see attached communication). At this time no further Resp. Div. actions are expected. No oil or other questionable discharges were observed at the time of my inspection. Year 2002 Update In mid-July 2002 Steve Arnold of BLWQ investigated another complaint of this same nature and informed me that DEP rules had changed since this June 2000 incident. This discharge type had been prohibited since about September 2000 and Gowen Marine had been notified so. I understand that BLWQ will be taking enforcement actions. See attached communications for further details. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-72-1996*Received a call from Lynn Stewart of L.H. Stewart Co. that they had a small oil spill. He reported that there was a problem with the nozel and that it wasn't shut off from the last delivery. When the driver enganged the pump, product flowed out of the nozle holder and onto the ground. The driver was at the controls and shut the pump off. About 5 gallons were spilled. The spill was onto packed snow. Company personel cleaned up the stained snow and put it into barrels. They were going to let the material melt and dispose of it as oil/water waste. Mr. Stewart reported that only minor staining was left behind. No futher action is necessary. No response was required. 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. 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. A-22-1998*Dave Sait received a call from Maine Emergency Management Agency that they had report of an oil spill at a trailer. He referred the spill to me and I responded to the residence of Ken Joslin in Smithfield. He showed me where the 275 gallon AST had been and where it had leaked. He said that it had leaked a while ago on 1/9/1998 but did not know who to call. He stated that he did report it to his landlord, Mr. Phil Bard (873-4133) who did nothing. I examined the area and did not really see much contamination. Mr. Joslin reported that about 60 gallons had been lost. I did not see evidence of a spill of that magnitude. I advised him that I would put him on quarterly monitoring and if something shows up we would put him on filters. He has returned only one sample (98E-DOR-02461). It had a result of nondetect. If no other samples are received or no positive results are returned, no additional work is necessary. B-508-2000* On September 20, 2000 at 0900 we received a call from Nancy Howe Of Dead River Oil in Brewer reporting a one quart spill of #2 oil at the home of Robert Cote of 101 Washington St. in Brewer. A small hole in the tank leaked the oil onto the cement floor. Mr. Cote smelled the oil and called Dead River who sent a couple men to pump out and replace the tank. They also cleaned up the spill with sorbents before any oil reached a basement drain. The area is on city water. B-582-2000*B-582-00 Little Squaw Twp Friday October 27, 2000 1010 I received a call from Shelly at the Orono State Police Barracks. I was asked to make contact with Mike Drinkwater (695-2547), chief of the Greenville Fire Department about a plane crash in Little Squaw Township. According to Mike Drinkwater, a small experimental plane (tail number N-51AT) set down rather roughly on the Property of the Squaw Village Condos. Mr. Jacobs put his plane down on the 9-hole golf course. About 5 gallons of aviation gasoline was spilled over a fairly good-sized area. There are no nearby wells and the gasoline was sprayed thinly, and may not even kill all the grass it is on. There is no pooled product. Mike Drinkwater wiped up some of the ground with pads. The few pads were disposed of by the Greenville Fire Department. P-23-1999* Gasoline discharge from dispenser to soil at retail, motor fuels UST facility. No containment under dispenser. Discovered by DEP's Harold Evans during Dec. 1998 facility inspection. No remediation at time. See attached NOV and separate narrative of John Dunlap. . P-621-1998* On 12/8/98 I met CTI Tony Couture, of Precision Tanks, Inc., onsite at his request and verbally approved an abandonment-in-place for this residential, consumptive-use, heating oil UST. The tank is buried under the side porch. The neighborhood is a dense residential area of multi-family structures. The UST was not registered at the time and I told Mr. Couture that official written approval is pending him getting me a registration number to insure that the facility is properly registered. This bare steel UST was due for abandonment prior to 10/1/97 and I understand is no longer eligible for UST Ins. Fund clean-up coverage. As of 2/25/98 DEP reg. file indicates that UST is still listed as out of service. I had not heard back for Couture on an exact removal date, a registration number was acquired from Augusta, DEP. Further Resp. Div. actions possible. On 3/5/99 Mr. Couture called to say that the abandonment had been delayed till warmer weather. He would be submitting a new removal notice. An Abandonment-In-Place approval was mailed to Mr. Couture and Ms. Roberts on 3/6/99 following receiving the UST reg. number. A written approval form for the abandonment-in-place has been sent to Roberts and Couture. This report will be addendumed as needed. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-502-1997* DEP received a report that a dump truck engaged in a gravel transport project had dropped a saddle tank near the gravel pit in Summerhaven. Jon Andrews (DEP) met the caller (Skilling) at the site. He identified the vehicle involved (owned by Brochu) as one of several contracted by H.E.Sargent on that day. Skilling offered to excavate contaminated soil using his bucket loader at the pit; Brochu was contacted and agreed to collect this soil. Approximately three tons of contaminated soil was transported to the Augusta landfill on 12/6. The spill area is geologically sensitive although no wells currently lie within 1000' of the spill site. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. B-698-1997*12/3/97 10:20 The Dead River Oil dispatcher called to report a #2 fuel spill at the residence of Ione Smith on Route 15 in E Corinth. The outside tank appeared to have developed a leak spilling what was estimated to be about 100 gallons. Very little evidence of oil could be found however. Most of the oil was believed to be lost beneath the trailer. Investigation shown that little oil could be found. Fumes were also non existent in the trailer. I explained to Ione about how the AST insurance worked and that she would be receiving an application. This is just a precautionary measure should fumes become a problem or the well be affected. The well is located about 100 feet away and slightly upgradient. Approval for the insurance is pending. A-516-1998* DEP received a slightly belated report that a residential tank had been overfilled in Union. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property. The incident was relatively minor, and contaminated soil had already been excavated by the oil company (Maritime). The tank appeared sound. While the area is geologically sensitive the spill was small and quickly remediated. I anticipate no further DEP involvement here as a result of this incident. A-36-1998*Mrs. Patten called when a persistent odor convinced her that she had a tank leak. I visited the site and found evidence of an older spill. Apparently the fuel filter had leaked a small amount several weeks ago. Charlie's Cash fuel had reported it to the fire department, but not to DEP. A small amount of soil had been removed. PID readings in the soil were within stringent standards, but the odor was unacceptable. I removed a little more soil from around the pad, and removed all soil from the pad top. I also spread plastic with clean fill on top. No further action is anticipated. P-498-1998*On 9/11/98 I received a call from the Portland Fire Department reporting a vapor cloud coming out of a dumpster at the Reiche School in Portland. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I spoke with fire officials on scene. They reported that when they had arrived on site, a white vapor cloud was coming from the dumpster. They also reported a chlorine odor coming from the same dumpster. I donned level B response gear and proceeded to the dumpster accompanied by the Fire Department. After looking through the dumpster, I was not able to see any vapor cloud. I also did not smell any chlorine due to the level of protective gear I was wearing. I did not see any unusual containers in the trash that would account for the vapor cloud. I assume that perhaps some small amount of chemical in empty containers may have mixed causing the vapor cloud. The Portland Fire Department made arrangements with City Sanitation crews to remove the dumpster to Regional Waste Systems to eliminate any possible future vapor cloud at the school. No further action required. _______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II OCTOBER 20, 1998 P-663-1996*On Oct. 23, 1996 I responded to a call at a residence in Westbrook. Torrential rains of the previous day had caused the homeowners 275 gallon AST to float up spilling all the contents. An estimated 150 gallons of oil was released nearly all the oil was washed away with the receding rain water. A small amount of oil clean up was done by disposing of all the oil coated items in the basement. I also had Serv-Pro steam clean the basement floor and walls. Derek Davidson - DEP Claims is handling all claims related to this spill. No further action. P-610-2000*Liberty Oil Co replaced the copper line and repaired fixtures. Brad Hahn inspected the site and stated no further clean up necessary or expected given the site conditions. No further mitigation planned at this time. A-522-1997*See attached and site assesment in tank file. I-89-1997* On 7-16-97, Cheryl St. Peter of County Environmental called to report that while removing tanks at Bliers Citgo in Fort Kent some contamination was encountered. About 15 yards of soil was removed and landspread at the Daigle Oil bulk plant. The problem was most likely due to overfills. A-703-1999*Ms. Gagnon found an oil sheen on the ground after hiring a contractor to dig a new well. I visited the site and noticed that the equipment had disturbed a large area when he got stuck after a heavy rain. I couldn't see any evidence of oil on the ground. I did find low PID readings in the areas that she indicated were the most effected. I feel that perhaps a small quantity of oil was left from oil on the outside of the equipment. No cleanup was needed. I-34-2001*On 4-5-01, John Clark of Houlton Water Company called to report that there had been a gasoline odor reported in several buildings on Bangor St. that day. I met with him, and we had a crew begin removing manhole covers. No gasoline was detected in any of them. The complaints had also stopped. We decided it was probably just a one time dumping of old gas by someone on the line. B-232-1997*Knute and Michelle Peterson wrote to request a waiver to abandon in place a 500 gallon underground kerosene tank at their second home on the Cape Road in Stockton Springs. Enough information and photos were furnished to allow an abandonment. The tank had not been used for at least 50 years. The area is also served by a public water supply. It may be noted that both the registration and the 30 day notice form are pending. A-222-2000* Green stuff was found leaching out of storm drain pipe. No source was located by DEP staff. No further action will be required. A-345-1999*Received a call from Jeff Timberlake about a fire at his hardware store. I went to the site and found that his storage shed behind the store was a total loss. According to Jeff, the shed burned down the previous evening. Inspection of the debris and speaking with Jeff Timberlake showed that the shed contained paints, propane cylinders and fertilizer. I did not see and Jeff stated that the shed did not contain any pesticides. Most of the propane cylinders had burst during the fire. Some of the paint cans still contained product. I instructed Jeff to hire a contractor to sort through the debris and properly dispose of the materials. Environmental Projects was hired to remove the waste. A letter was sent to me by Brian Fons of Environmental Projects reporting that two one-cubic yard containers and two drums were shipped off as hazardous waste. No further work is necessary on this job. 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. __________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II AUGUST 22, 1997 B-262-1998* B-243-2001* On April 30, 2001 at 1000 we received a call from Fred Brown of Caratunk reporting a sheen between the ice and shore off the West Shore Road on Pleasant Pond. Mr. Brown tracked the sheen to a broken fitting on an outside AST at a camp owned by Kevin Kelly. Mr. Brown said the road was impassible due to snow and mud so there was no way to bring equipment to the site. Mr. Brown said all the oil in the tank had already leaked out. I obtained Mr. Kelly's address through Carratunk's tax assessor. This was his grandfather's address who said his grandson works in a school in Deerfield. Mass. (413 665-1131) When I finally contacted Mr. Kelly, he couldn't tell me how much oil was in the tank since he had never used the oil furnace. I informed him of the AST fund and had the fire marshal's office mail him an application. I talked to Mr. Brown in early May who said there was no longer any sheen in the water and that I could likely drive to the site during the second week of May. Tom Varney and I checked the camp on May 10 and found that the tank was empty and installed on top of a concrete septic holding tank. There was contamination in the gravel backfill around the tank but we estimated that seventy-five gallons had entered the holding tank around its top access hole and plug. I decided to hire Clean Harbors to pump out the tank and excavate around its sides. Since the road was still too soft for a vac-truck we had to wait until May 17. I met a Clean Harbors crew on the scheduled day and we pumped out the holding tank without any problems. We recovered 258 gallons of total liquid and 60 gallons of pure kerosene. We also excavated two yards of contaminated gravel into drums. There was no sign of oil in Pleasant Pond. B-240-2000*B-240-00 Baileyville Tuesday May 2, 2000 1235 Jay Bowdoin, of Georgia-Pacific (427-3311), phoned to report a diesel fuel spill to the ground. The diesel spill occurred when someone fueling a portable generator overfilled the fuel tank. This flatbed trailer mounted generator was moved so the contaminated soil could be excavated. The contaminated soil (about .25 cubic yard) was removed to the Georgia-Pacific landfill and was spread thinly. A-165-1999*Received a call from Red Webster of Cianbro Corporation concerning a spill at a construction site. Mr. Webster was calling from the new Waterville YMCA. He reported that there had been a mix-up in communications to his workers and some propylene glycol was spilled. It was near the end of the project and Cianbro was clearing up some things. Included in that was some propylene glycol which was left over from winter-proofing pool piping during construction. The workers put the leftover propylene glycol into some barrels. The barrels were eventually dumped to the sanitary sewer. The next morning, Cianbro went to transport the barrels to dispose of the contents and found that they had been dumped. Mr. Webster immediately called the Department to make a report. I asked him send me a copy of the MSDS and to inform the treatment plant that the chemical had been released the night before. There was nothing to cleanup. No further work is necessary on this site. P-107-1999*On February 10, 1999 I responded to a call of a diesel oil spill on Free Street in Portland. At approximatley 12:50 I met Steve Smith of the Portland Fire Department on site in front of the College of Art. There was an oil stain that originated in front of the Colleges loading dock and extended down the side of Free Street until it reached the intersection of Brown Street. It appeared that most of the oil had entered a storm drain in front of Talk America. The public work Dept. had already put some sand onto the road and was bringing more. Stephen K. Harris and Dave E. Peterson, both of the City of Portland public works arrived on the scene to assess the extent of the oil, they also stated that the drain was connected to the treatment plant and that there had been no signs of excess oil at the pump station. There was no source found, nor had anyone in the area seen any oil spill. It was obvious to me that the oil was mineral in nature due to the consistency and lack of odor. I cleaned about 5 gallons of oil from the storm drain and suggested that the sand be left on the road for the remainder of the day. At about 3:00 that afternoon CMP called to report a spill. They had been pumping water from an underground vault on Free Street. There were two transformers in the vault and at least one of them had leaked PCB oil, which was then pumped out onto the street. CMP came back to the scene about 4:00 pm and cleaned up the roadway. Scott Cyr - MEDEP TOSCA coordinator oversaw the clean up. The next day CMP pumped out the affected strom drain as well as two more drains further down stream. No further action. I-86-1997*Spill while unloading former Underground storage Tank (UST) from trailer, 10 yards of contaminated soils taken to landfill. Old UST an old 25,000 gallon steel tank that was removed from Kelley Commons on the UMPI campus. Please refer to I-85-1997 for further removal UST removal information. A-137-2001* DEP received a report that this hydraulic oil spill had occurred over the two previous days (see IP incident report). According to IP they were able to divert the affected effluent to the plant "reclaim" system. DEP is unable to confirm this. P-536-1998*See Attached Narrative. B-191-1999*B-191-99 East Machias Friday April 23, 1999 1355 Mike Tafs ((800) 696-6008) of R. H. Foster phoned to report a basement tank failure in East Machias. About 5 gallons of number 2 heating oil leaked from a basement tank onto the concrete floor and into the sump pit. It is not known when the tank began leaking. R. H. Foster technicians used sorbent pads to soak the oil from the sump and a small amount of speedi-dri on the floor. R.H. Foster pumped out the tank, it contained 100 gallons of heating oil. Previously the tank was filled on March 1st. R. H. Foster will replace the heating oil tank. They also cleaned up a small amount of oil near the sump pump outlet in the yard. R. H. Foster disposed of a few sorbent pads. I-21-1997*This spill occurred while Mr. Golembesky was filling a 5 gal. can from his 275-gal. Aboveground Storage Tank (AST) and forgot about it. The tank drained. The spill is in a home under construction. The furnace has not been installed, but the AST system was and was filled before winter. This fuel has been used to operate a number of kerosene "salamander" heaters. The homes AST system is actually two ASTs in a series, but only one tank was involved in this incident. The well is only about 25 feet from the spill, and the water has an odor in it. Water filter was installed on 3/21/97. Fire Marshall was faxed the information to mail out a claim. Residence well had filters installed and the residence was put on quarterly monitoring program. QMP was from 1997 to 2000. In August, 1997, a new well was installed. Samples indicated non-detect for DRO in the last round of sampling in 2000. 10/24/06 Received request from Kara Walker, OHMS, Augusta to complete this spill report and promote to next level for final review processing. Reviewed spill file and completed info missing in fields related to site name, location, narrative, primary product spilled, and clean-up performed, etc. Promoted spill to draft review level for final review and processing. P-378-2001*Small minor spill from basement AST, serviced and replaced by Mapes Oil Co. The basement is wet and damp, the oil odors were mild and staining minimal. Soil was excavated by hand and removed in bags; approximately 300 lbs was removed. The property is about to be sold and the buyer is satisfied with the clean up (as I understand it) without restoration of small amount of floor material removed. Removal action documented in letter for realtor, buyer and seller. No further action warranted at this time. P-831-1999* On Wed. 12/1/99, I received word from the owner of the Wayfarer Village mobile home park that he had discovered a small gasoline spill to soil in front of unit B4, the home of Rebecca Randell. On 12/3, I checked out the spill. Ms. Randall stated it happened about Thanksgiving when they were changing a leaking gaso. tank on their car. Randell had not reported the discharge. I dug down several feet and noted strong, fresh smelling gaso. in the soil. I left the soil to aerate on a tarp. On Wed. 12/8 I returned and noted gaso. odor still strong and the spill only 200' from the park's two public water wells. Realizing the spill was larger and the wells more threatened than first believed I arranged with Mr. McMorrow, DigSafe, and Scott Dugas Trucking to remove contamination the following day. On Thus. 12/9/99 we all met and removed 24.14 tons of gasoline contam. soil in two 10 yd. truck-loads. The area is over an aquifer and we encountered med.-fine native sands, and no gw in the 10' excav. Gaso. odor was very strong in the top 6' of soil, and eventually lessened. The sands were well draining and the spill went mostly down vertical. The homes 7' deep water and telephone lines were accidentally severed and repaired during source reduction. Randall's 275 gal. outside AST was not up to code and lying partially sitting on the ground. I advised McMorrow that this AST should be upgraded soon considering it is so close to the wells (see photos). This report will be passed to Hahn of DEP Tech Services for further evaluation and actions as deemed appropriate. The wells will be put on DEP QM program for a year. See attachments and any addendums for further details. As RP, Ms. Randall is liable for clean-up expenses for McMorrow's property. S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM P-716-1999*Worker at Oakhurst Dairy noticed leaking seal on fitting to ammonia cooling system. Leak was stopped and valve was repaired. Discharge took place over several weeks. No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary. _____________________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 3 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management 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. ______________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I March 9, 2000 A-267-1998*Went to an underground tank removal at the U-Haul building in Augusta. The site is actually owned by Amerco Real Estate of Phoenix, Arizona. Simard & Sons removed the 1000 gallon #2 fuel oil tank and Summit Environmental did the Appendix P site assessment. The tank was removed and some contaminated soil was discovered. A total of 32.5 tons of contaminated soil was taken to Commercial Recycling. Testing via PID by Summit Environmental showed that the remaining soils were below the action level of 1500 ppm (PID bag headspace). No further work is necessary on this site. See the Appendix P site assessment for this site for additional information. B-766-1998*Beatrice McCourt claims that John Martin and his partner, Billy St. Germain, in the process of renovating the house next to hers, crushed and buried at least 3 55-gallon drums, previously used as outside oil tanks. She alleges that the drums were 1/2 full of oil when they were buried under the new driveway at the property being renovated. On Nov. 25, I investigated the complaint. McCourt's teenage son apparently helped bury the drums, and pointed out about where they were. I bored into the fill with a hand auger in 4 places, with refusal at 12",24",30" and 18" respectively, and tested each hole with a photo-ionization detector. In no case did the PID indicate the presence of petroleum. By the looks of the fill used here, the complaint is likely valid as far as crushing and burying drums is concerned. If there was any oil spilled, it's a minor amount and can't be documented by my efforts. I gather, talking to Ms. McCourt that there is some kind of tenant/ landlord dispute going on between the two of them. That, and the results of my investigation cast doubt on the validity of the complaint. On or about 12/8, McCourt called, asking if I'd told John Martin who'd filed the complaint. I told her I'd not talked to anyone, but reminded her that Martin's brother had seen us talking on 11/25. Mrs. McCourt says she's been threatened over the phone at her new residence. The fresh fill was dumped in a wetland, and has been turned over to the DEP's L&W Bureau and the Orono CEO. B-83-1997*D-TREE=B1. A-660-1999*See attached narrative for additional details. No further action is anticipated. B-177-2000*Aaron Spence is building a house for some people from New Jersey across the street from Steve Burnham. The atmosphere has been tense since he started and Burnham is the first to admit it's like the Hatfields and McCoys along that stretch of Pine Tree Land. On 3/30, Burnham called to complain that Spence had washed out a bucket the previous week, and now he (Burnham) had green stuff on his driveway, running toward the lake. Sounding like a possible Water Bureau problem, I brought Tanya Hovell to the site with me. The green stuff was determined to be grout. I contacted Spence by phone that night and asked him to power wash Burnam's driveway. He readily agreed, saying he'd do it Saturday, after he got off jury duty. He further observed that he'd be glad when he could pull out of there. He must have done the job, 'cause I've heard no further complaints. A-513-2000* DEP received a report from the ME D.E.A. that their agents had taken action on an illegal drug manufacturing operation at this multi-family residence; it should be clear that the property owner (Kellenberger) was not involved in this operation. It was eventually determined that DEP's role would involve sampling the water supply (drilled well) for contamination by spilled/discharged chemicals that might have been used here. After consultation with HETL staff it was determined that two analytical methods were appropriate; no contaminants were evident by either method. No further DEP involvement is anticipated as a result of this incident. I-191-2000*Approximately 1 gallon of heating oil leaked on cement floor due to leaking tank. It was cleaned up immediately. State police in Houlton were notified. A-92-2000* DEP received an after-hours report that the filter on this AST had been damaged. The business on the abutting property (Dick) had plowed snow onto the subject property (Skehan) in such a manner that the snow snapped the filter; amount of oil spilled was liberally estimated at 80 gallons. The owner of T.W. Dick assumed full responsibility for any remedial activity deemed necessary. Contaminated snow was excavated for disposal. It is likely that some oil underlies the slab floor of the subject property. This is not expected to present any problems in this environmentally non-sensitive area. A-554-1999* One UST was removed from this site on 9-9-99. The property is owned by Jane Vickery and is located on Route 27 in Belgrade. It is also known as Willow Bed & Breakfast. No soil contamination was discovered at removal. A site assessment was performed by someone from the DOT. A site assessent report will be on file with the DEP. B-513-1998*On 8/3/98 Chris Gaudet of Petroleum Equipment Service requested a 30 day waiver for UST removals at Downeast Toyota in Brewer. They had filled out the form on 6/30/98 but had neglected to send it in. Meanwhile they had equipment on site and were ready to go. There were two 1K tanks. One contained waste oil and the other had held 10w30. The tanks were being removed because they had failed their cathodic protection test. It looked like the reason for the failure was the lack of insulation between the hold down straps and the tanks. The soil was a sandy backfill and there was no sign of contamination. Bub Saunders was the site assessor and C&C Contractors did the digging. The bottom of the excavation was about six feet from grade and there was no water in the hole. P-177-1998*28 April 1998, Vicki and Ken Grant contacted me and advised that a water sample taken by them contained concerned materials. I contacted Wayne Buck, Maine Health and Environmental Testing Lab, Augusta, who advised that the sample indicated approx. 50 ppb GRO. See attached analysis. 29 April 1998, conducted visit at residential site and met with the Grants. I inspected the AST facility. Other than necessary upgrades to comply with the latest Soild Fuel Board standards for ASTs, I did not identify the home heating fuel tank, located approx. 30 meters from the well, or feed line to be the source of the contamination identified in the well. The only source I could identify was a parked passenger car that obviously leaked fluids onto the gravel driveway approximately 13.7 meters from the drilled well (4.6 meter driven point, w. 2.5 meters of tile). Also, the analysis indicated weathered gasoline as the most likely the contaminant. We discussed removal of stained soil. Ken later removed the soil and spread it in a secure location upon approval of the DEP; no land spreading agreement was generated. I advised that no insurance fund program is implemented by DEP for this type of self contamination to the well. I advised them of the DEP eligiability to pay application. I issued a filter agreement, and the Grants signed. I suggested that they filter the water through the summer in an attempt to purge and treat the low level contaminants. The Grants agreed and a filter agreement was generated and signed. Later analysis indicated a drop in contaminants below detection limits and the filters were removed. No further Response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (31Dec98). B-411-2001*Piscataquis Sheriff's Office called to report that Bill Curtis had called them to report an oil spill on Moosehead Lake. He told them that the six cylinder engine in his boat "blew" and about two quarts made it to the lake off Moody Island. He reported that he was staying at Moosehead Cottage Resort, cabin #6, 695-2112, until 7/21/01. I called the number given and found that it was the resort's phone which was unattended. I left a message requesting that Mr. Curtis call me so that I might get more details. He did not call. Since the amount of oil reported was so small and the time element so great, I did not go to the lake. I expect that there was no significant environmental impact. B-214-2000*Operations at Alpine's cut between I-95 and Stillwater Ave. were shut down for the day and no one was on the site when a harvester, with which they'd been having trouble, caught fire. According to Capt. Vaughn at the Fire Dept., the fire had been going for 2 hours before anyone saw the smoke or heard the explosions of the hydraulics blowing up. No fuel was spilled, but all the hydraulic oil was lost, and most of the lube oil ; the harvester was a total loss. The spilled oil was recovered with sorbents. 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. _______________________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 1 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management B-341-1999*On 6/22/99, 0830 hours Gary Rush , who is Fire Chief for the town of Sangerville, reported an automobile accident in which some petroleum product was released. About a half gallon of gasoline ran off the road into a sandy ditch. Also, a pint of transmission fluid was released to the asphalt. I suggested that they spread the contaminated sand thinly on the side of the road. The spill location was remote. They had already sanded the transmission fluid. A-494-1998* DEP received a report that a resident in Union (Demuth) suspected that petroleum odors were present in his well water. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property. Analysis subsequently detected 79 ppb DRO; a temporary filter was installed and Tech Services (Alex Pugh) involvement was requested. The impacted well is a "dug" well that serves only this residence. It is located in a woody swale behind the residence; this swale channels surface water from a roughly 5-acre area past the well. The water level in the well is at ground surface, and is probably compositionally identical to surface run-off. Two decomposing rodents were extracted from this well during my 9/8 visit. Three neighboring residences are located within 500'. One of these (Worthley) was discovered to have suffered a heating oil spill in the cellar earlier that year (refer A-539-98) but is not necessarily the cause of the contamination at the Demuth well. At the time of this writing (9/98) Tech Services is looking at the feasibility of well replacement at the Demuth property. Response Services will collect the carbon filter here once the new well is on line. B-373-1998*Robert Vigue from Seven Islands called and reported an engine (crankcase) oil spill. 10-12 quarts. Spill was collected and put in a drum and taken to Edmond Roy's and son shop. P-343-2001*The discharge was the result of a car ripping off the nozzle of a dispenser. Sorbent pads and speedy-dry were used to collected the discharged gasoline. A small amount of gasoline had made its way into a storm drain, but the storm drain was dry with nothing to actually collect. By the time I arrived, they were already replacing the hose, and most of the speedy-dry had been collected. No further action required. A-426-1999*No site visit made. See attached for additional details. No further action is anticipated. P-547-1997*On 9/25/97 I received a call from the South Portland Fire Department requesting that I respond to the Southern Maine Technical College for an oral thermomoter break. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I recovered the spilled Mercury with Mercury sorbent and removed the broken thermometer. No further action required. __________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II OCTOBER 23, 1997 B-496-1997*In the summer of 1996 the Me. DEP and the Me. Board of Pesticide Control held a joint operation to recover and dispose of old or obsolete pesticides from a list of known owners. At the end of the pickup period a few people had not brought in the materials. In 1997 another joint operation was organized and my supervisor requested that I do what I could to see that the outstanding pesticides were recovered and disposed of. I contacted Mrs. Butler and learned that she still had the 40 pounds of blueberry dust listed on the Board of Pesticide Control. In addition, she'd like to get rid of it. Since she hadn't brought it in the year before as requested I offered to pick it up (learning that the pesticide was called Trithion, a carbophenothion), stored it in our hazardous materials storage building and later loaded it on a Board of Pesticide truck which hauled it to Augusta where it was shipped out through a licensed hazardous waste hauler. 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-27-1999* An overfill of a customer's gasoline tank resulted in the release of about nine gallons of gasoline onto the pavement. This occurred at the Waterville Puffin Stop located at 94 Pleasant St. The Waterville F.D. responded and cleaned up the spill with pads. I spoke with the store manager and asked him to store the pads in a plastic bag until I could pick them up later. Bart Newhouse picked them up at a later date. No further action will be nessesary. A-711-2000*The R-9 pulp dryer had a gasket failure which caused lube oil to leak to a containment area beneath the dryer. A drop in pressure caused a second pump to kick in which then triggered a hydraulic hose line to rupture spilling more oil. Oil overflowed the containment area, and escaped to the sewer. 100 gallons is estimated to have reached the sewer based on the capacity of the containment, and the volume of oil lost from the dryer. The total spill released was 300 gallons. The gasket was replaced and the machine restarted. I did not conduct a site visit to the mill to confirm the discharge area, however, we are planning to visit the mill as a group of Responders in the near future, and will observe the site of the spill. Mead's report is attached for reference. A-311-1998*A tenant in an old farm called the Pesticide Control Board when he felt that his water was killing plants in the house. He was concerned that reports that an old shed had been bulldozed while still full of pesticides were true. Before he provided us with the location, his real estate agent had the well-tested and reported Simazine in the well. Simazine was used for fruit trees, and an orchard is reported to have been on the property. I visited the site with Henry Jennings of the Pesticide Control Board and a geologist from Maine Geologic Survey on July 23, 1998. The former farm was part of the Herbert Coohon Estate. No crops had been grown in more than 6 years. We found no visual evidence of pesticide storage or disposal at the site. There were no fruit trees nearby. The area is sandy. We sampled the well and three sites near the well that could have been contaminated by pesticides. See attached site plan. Henry reported that no Simazine was found in any of the samples. We had taken two water samples. The lab in Orono reported none detected, but the HETL wasn't able to complete it's testing. A resample was conducted in November and again no Simazine was detected. No further action is anticipated. A-561-1999*No site visit made. See attached for additional information. No further action is anticipated. P-270-1997*On May 20, 1997 I was contacted by Julie Dutremble. Ms. Dutremble owns a home at 3 Green Needle Drive in Ogunquit. Each spring an odor arises from a storm drain that discharges into her yard. I investigated the drain as I did last year about this time and found the same things occurring. There was iron bacteria around the drain producing the odor. Last year I had investigated a nearby gas station to ensure it was not responsible for the problem. I believe the odor is due to normal urban spring run-off. I contacted DOT who owns the storm drain and made them aware of the problem. I also checked the final outfall of this drain into the river and found no indication of any petroleum release. No further action. P-135-1996*By the time I arrived at the site, Portland Public Works had placed sand down on the discharged diesel. The discharge was caused by a fuel line that became loose. The sand was left in-place until later (to absorb remaining oil), when it was to be swept up and spread on the access road to the Portland landfill. No further action required. B-61-1999*Junior hoodlum Justin Faulkingham, aged 12, and two female accomplices, with time on their hands, decided to test the slash resistant qualities of the discharge hose on a skid tank at Cherryfield Foods' farm center. Gentleman that he is, little Justin offered the girls first crack at the hose, but seeing that they weren't strong enough to accomplish the crime, manfully stepped into the breach himself. A few slashes with a knife swiped from his mother's kitchen, and oil was soon spewing everywhere. The dirty deed happened after school on Friday, but was not noticed 'til Sunday. Criminal mastermind that he is, Justin folded immediately under questioning from a Deputy Sheriff and admitted culpability. Cherryfield Foods hired Clean Harbors to do the clean up; because of the dry weather during that period, the off-road diesel did not flow off site, but was trapped in the soil and ditch adjacent to the farm center access road. CH built a weir dam to hold the oil in the ditch for recovery. Contaminated soil was treated on site. B-384-1997*7/19/97 @ 1420 Ellwell Hicks of Dead River called to report a small spill of #2 fuel from a reportedly defective tank at the residence of Jenny Seekins on the Canoe Club Road. Approximately 10 gallons leaked from a pin hole on the 275 gallon tank onto the basement floor. It was later discovered that some of the oil was lost to a crack in the floor and underlying perimeter drain. Some of the oil traveled through a drain to a ditch about 40 feet away. The drain was subsequently flushed to trap residual oil in sorbent material. The ditch was then monitored for a couple of days. It is believed that most of the oil was recovered. It may be noted that they are served by a public water supply. No further action is expected. A-375-1998*No site visit made. Ms. Cromette called as she felt that the tank was unexpectedly empty. There was no odor or staining near the tank. The fuel line is buried. Peter Chamberland of Pauls Plumbing and Heating was called to check the line. He reports that the line was OK, but the fuel gauge was faulty. Ms. Cromette was advised of the need to make several upgrades for her AST. No further action is expected. P-929-2001*On 11/10/01 I received a call from Martha Wall of Downeast Energy reporting a small tank overfill at a customers residence. The spill was cleaned up with sorbent materials. No further action required. __________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II NOVEMBER 13, 2001 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-4-2001*The fill pipe broke in the process of the delivery. The threaded portion of pipe broke and a small amount (less than 5 gals) spilled to the snow. It was removed by the Jenkins Fuel staff and transported to the shop to be separated for disposal. There was a slight sheen on some vegetation beneath the fill pipe (which will be addressed in the spring should it be an issue) according to statements made by A.M. Jenkins. No further actions are required at this time. No DEP funds were used and the clean up was done to the Department's satisfaction. 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. _________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II FEBRUARY 16, 1999 A-14-1996*Received a call from Diane Alexader of C.N. Brown that there had been a small spill at the bulk plant in Rockland. She reported that a transproter had overfilled a bulk tank. Approximately 30 gallons was spilled out the vent. Approximately 10 gallons was sprayed to the ground and about 20 gallons was caught by the dike. Seacoast Ocean Services was hired to clean up the site. The product in the dike was recovered. Approximately 2 cy of contaminated soil was transported by Seacoast to Commercial Recycling for disposal. No site visit was made and no further action is necessary. B-704-1999*On 11/3/99 Vaughn Thibodeau requested documentation for a UST removal that he had been hired to do. He indicated that he had talked with Bob Randall, but that Bob was on vacation. We agreed on the following day (11/4/1999). When I arrived the tank had been taken from the ground. The bottom of the hole gave a clean bag head- space test. The hole was into moist, well consolidated clay. The tank had pin holes in its' bottom, but it had been pumped out years ago and there was no sign of contamination. Webber Oil had arranged to have Thibodeau do the removal. My guess is that Webber was able to get their customers a good proce. Notice that B-705-99 was a UST removal adjacent to this one. Both were removed on the same morning-11/4/99. P-341-2000*Drums abandoned in sand pit. Lab analysis confirmed non hazardous. Liquid recycled. Soil from spillage around drums disposed of at Commercial Recycling Systems. No further action warranted. A-352-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98. See attached CMP report for more information. No further action anticipated. 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. B-618-2000*B-618-2000 11/20/2000 11:50 Lawrence Greenfield, concerned resident on the Thorton Road in Bangor, called to report that he was instructed by Dead River Oil personnel to call this office about his oil spill. Speaking with Mr. Greenfield he stated that about 2 gallons leaked onto his concrete pad from a small corrosion hole on his outside tank. I later received a call from Dead River oil verifying the situation. The oil was cleaned up with sorbent material. No resources of the State were involved. A-345-2000* The Knox County Sheriff's Office reported a release of oil, perhaps diesel, along route 17. An officer followed the slick from the intersection of Rt. 17 and 90 westerly until he got to Mirror Lake. At this time he reported back to the S.O. and they called the DEP. I made a site visit ASAP and found no evidence of oil along this highway. Heavy rains had occurred while the Officer was following the oil slick. Therefore, by the time I arrived all of the evidence had disappeared. No further action will be required. P-64-1998* On 4/17/98 Portland Code Enforcement Officers requested DEP to meet them onsite to help investigate excessive sheen they noted running off Ryder's lot and into the storm drain system with the day's rain. I met Ms. Amy Powers onsite about 1430 hrs and noted a light sheen running down the lot, no recoverable oil. There was no obvious source, only typical runnoff of parking lots contaminated with oil drips off vehicles. Deeming nothing could be done to stop or pick-up the sheen, we agreed to no possible further action at the time. S G Brezinski, DEP BRWM P-42-1998*See attached NRC report. A-644-1998*Mr. Silva had a gas tank leak on his fuel truck over a three week period. He lost an unknown amount of fuel, but estimated it at 20 gallons. He replaced the tank after he noticed a strange taste in his water. About 2 weeks later his well ran dry from a faulty toilet tank valve. When his well refilled, he noticed a large amount of sediment in the water, but the taste and odor was not present. He called the DEP in an effort to get his water tested. I had him dig up the area where the leak was and move the soil to an area on his land away from any neighbors. It was mixed with manure. No MTBE was detected in the sample. B-569-1999*B-569-99 Baileyville Tuesday September 14, 1999 1000 Mary Johnson, of the Portland DEP office phoned to have me make contact with Mr. Jay Bowdoin (427-4005), of Georgia-Pacific Paper Company in Baileyville. Mr. Bowdoin reports that they have an oil sheen in the St. Croix River at the non-contact cooling water outfall. He said he is not as yet sure of the source of the oil, but mill personnel will be checking to find the source of the oil spill. At 1405 I received a call from Brad Kelso of Georgia-Pacific. Mr. Kelso said the oil was coming from the #6 air compressor oil cooler as it was leaking oil. A light sheen is visible but ceased around 1357. He later said that # 7 oil cooler was leaking oil. According to Jake Ward, Brad Kelso sent me the following information concerning the oil sheen: 09-14-99 Sheen on river from oil cooler on air compressor, sheen ceased. 09-15-99 Sheen came back 09-17-99 Another sheen 1' by 20' in area. Brad Kelso said he has not yet resolved the sheening problem from their oil coolers. The mill is still replacing the units and looking for reasons. A-394-1997*A motor oil discharge was reported on Red Water Brook. Pond scum was found. P-684-1999*On 9/21/99 I received a call from Bob Gordon of Gould equipment reporting a small spill at their facility. Five gallons of heating oil spilled from a tank truck undergoing repairs at their facility due to a loose fitting. The oil spilled onto pavement and was cleaned up with sorbent pads and speedy dry. No further action required. ________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II SEPTEMBER 22, 1999 P-292-1998*On 06/30/98 Paul Thompson of SUN Environmental reported contamination found at a tank removal at the Jameson School in Old Orchard Beach. On 07/01/98 Stephen Flannery stopped by, confirmed that there was contamination and returned to the office to get the paperwork. I agreed to take over the case when we returned to the site. I filled out a decision tree with Steve's help and we determened that they should only remove enough soil to put in the new tanks, buildings and utility poles were all around. I oversaw the excavation and disposal of 17 trucks of fuel oil contaminated soil and 1 truck of contaminated concrete. A total of 492 tons of contaminated soil and 348 gallons of oily water was removed. I believe extensive contamiation was left behind because it was unaccessable to the excavator. No further action is required at this time. ______________________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I July 16, 1998 B-42-2001*B-42-2001 02/08/2001 13:30 Al Vollner of the Bar Harbor Water Company called to report that they suffered a chlorine leak about a week ago and were just getting around to reporting it to the Department. It was stated that approximately 2 pounds of the corrosive, poisonous gas was lost to the atmosphere when a worker failed to completely close a valve on a cylinder. The incident occurred at their facility on Eagle Lake off Route 233. The worker was reportedly exposed to the chlorine and taken to the hospital for observation. No other affects were reported. I explained to Mr. Vollner that it would behoove him to get these things reported in a timely manner. A-217-1999* Mr. Jon Ljunggren, the Vienna Fire Chief, reported that a drum of some unknown material was dumped along Stream Rd. I responded and found several area Fire Depts. on scene. They had evacuated several nearby homes and closed the road. The fire fighters that had smelled the dumped material said that it smelled awful and the odor clung to their clothing. The material turned out to be rotten Lecithin, a food grade additive. After much discussion with the F.D. we decided that I would shovel the material into a drum. Most, if not all, of the firefighters on site were not Haz Mat trained, therefore I had to do this task by myself. They were nearby acting as the rescue team. This work was performed in Level B. This case generated a lot of public interest. No further action will be needed. B-151-1997*4/4/97 1510 I received a complaint for investigation from Ms. Ada Angotti of 44 Spruce Street in Millinocket. Ms. Angotti is concerned about an oil sheen from her neighbor, which she said has been there off and on all winter. I phoned the Millinocket Fire Department and ask if they would check out the complaint for me. I explained that I would come up if they identified a problem. See also B-102-96. Later, I received a phone call from a Millinocket fire fighter who identified himself as Mike. Mike said that he looked around and was hard pressed to say that there was a problem. He said he did identify what appears to be less than 2 ounces of oil consisting of a 10 inch diameter stain on the ice in front of 50 Spruce St. A-181-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98. See attached CMP report for more information. No further action anticipated. B-477-1997*On 8/29/97, 1445 hours Jim Tibbits of Eastern Fine Paper reported a 35 gallon spill of heptane. The spill landed in secondary containment and was managed as hazardous waste. The release happened because the level indicator malfunctioned. A-455-2000*An overfill of a UST at the Depot Store occurred. Some spilled to pavement, some sprayed the bank under the vent. Contaminated soil was removed, but it appeared there was some historic contamination as well. The closest well is the next door neighbor, Patsy Berry (948-2715). She has a shallow well in her basement, less than 50 feet from the spill site. Test results indicated ____ DRO. This site was referred to Tech Services. No further action required by Response Services. A-5-2001*I responded to a call from CMP that a transformer had malfuctioned on Piggery Rd. in Augusta. The transformer on pole 13 had been replaced during the ice storm of 98' and CMP workers on site hypothesized that the terminals were not properly tightened at that time. One of the energized terminals on the transformer came loose and the live wire waving around in the wind made contact with the metal housing of the transformer, caused an arc, and welded a hole in the base of the transformer. This allowed the mineral oil to leak out of the unit, and all over the snow below. CMP workers reponded and cleaned up the snow shoveling it into drums. I visited the site and saw no visible stains remaining. No futher work by DEP Response will be required. A-184-2000* Mr. Strong overfilled the tank on his automobile while refueling at the Augusta Dead River Food Trend, which is located on Route 17. He then paid for the gas and left. The store clerk called the Fire Dept. and then I was called. The water district and I checked the nearby storm drain and found some gasoline there. The next outfall had a strong odor of gasoline but no product or flamable vapors were detected. Clean up was limited to the pavement and the first catch basin on Dead River's property. No further action will be required. A-349-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98. See attached CMP report for more information. No further action anticipated. B-663-2000*The Dead River Co. called to report an oil spill at 51A Water St. in Eastport. An outside vertical AST had been damaged and it was estimated that as much as 200 gallons of kerosene had been lost. The caller described the spilled oil as lying in a ravine. I drove to the scene and met with the Dead River service manager, Dick Ramsey and the building manager, Scott Malloch (853-6011). It seems that a cellar door had blown open and swung against the unprotected filter area of the tank. The blow broke the firematic valve allowing the oil to spill into the back yard. When the Dead River personnel had arrived that morning there was a puddle of oil in a shallow (about 4") depression (the ravine) behind the building. They recovered about 70 gallons of this with sorbent pads. This depression was near a perforated soil pipe that broke above the surface just up hill. I believe that this is a perimeter drain or more precisely a back yard drain. I checked a storm water catch basin in the alley next to the building and found that there was a small amount of oil on the surface that I collected with a sorbent boom. I installed more boom in the catch basin to collect oil that might appear later. At the outfall of this drain (directly over the seawall) I found a small sheen (about 11/2' in radius). I did notify the U.S.Coast Guard of this spill and the sheen. I will continue to monitor the site and maintain the sorbent booms until I'm convince that the risk of more oil reaching the catch basin is past. B-540-1996*D-TREE=S. A-145-1999* On 3-10-99, Kalloch Fuel called this office to report what they thought was a leaking UST. The tank is located at Dr. Gilliam's home on 144 Chestnut Street, Camden. Kalloch Fuel delivered 522 gallons to this tank and then delivered another 310 gallons the next day. Kalloch Fuel thought this tank was a 500 gallon tank, therefore, they thought there was a problem. Also the tank is not registered. Frank Gehrling made arrangements with Lew Fish to remove the UST. Kalloch Fuel installed a 330 gallon tank in the basement and then pumped out a total of 829 gallons from the UST. After a couple of cancellations, Lew Fish removed the tank on 3-17-99. Glen Wall was on site during the removal process. The tank showed no visible sign of holes or leakage and there was no soil contamination. There were 4 copper lines attached to this tank which supplied a feed and return to a furnace and an oil fired hot water heater. No additional involvement will be required. B-49-1997*In January of 1997, Dave Webb, proprietor of Heart of Maine Exterminating Service, (263 Main St. Dexter 926-3333) contacted the Maine Board of Pesticide Control to find out when they were going to come take care of his waste pesticides. It was explained to him that the program in question had occurred the previous summer; although his name was on the list of people with obsolete pesticides to be disposed, no one could explain why he hadn't been contacted. BPC personnel contacted Bill Wallace, DEP Augusta, who contacted me, asking that I go get the chemicals. Bob Whittier and I did that on Jan. 28. The chemicals in question had been repacked about 3 years earlier by Ray Connors of BPC; the inventory, that Webb claims he inherited from the person that sold him the business, is as follows: 1/4 gal dibromide + 28 oz of unknown liquid. 1 lb chloropicrin- 1 gal malathion 5 gal direx emulsion ( 20% chlordane) 4 lbs. zinc phosphide + 5 oz diazinon 1/2 gal diphos (9.8% 2,4,5-T), 1 gal Entex 3 lb. Methyl Bromide, 3 lbs unknown 1/2 gal 50% DDT powder, 3 gal 42% calcium cyanide 12 gal liquid chloropicrin, 6 lbs liquid chloropicrin 30 lbs DDT powder Mr. Webb agreed to pay 1/2 the cost of disposal. See the attached clean-up agreement. A five gallon pail of waste was generated cleaning up what Webb said was spilled pesticide on the floor; he didn't know how it spilled, he said, but one of the 5 gallon containers was knocked over and leaking when he inspected the stash in the fall or early winter of 1996. B-708-1998* On November 2, 1998 Cleve Leckey of this office gave me a tank removal case that was originally handled by Bob Randall. Ms. Nancy Abraham of Virginia owned the tank which was at a summer home that she inherited when her father died. The home is located in Forest City. The 1,000 gallon gasoline tank was scheduled for removal that day and when I arrived on site it had just come out of the ground. Chad McPhearson from S.W. Cole performed a site assessment which found no contaminated soil. We also found no hole in the tank. A-474-1999*Received a call from Central Maine Power concerning a spill in Gardiner. A hydraulic hose broke on a CMP bucket truck. It sprayed the ground, a car and a house. The house and car are owned by Roderick and Pauline Sutherburg. According to the report sent to us by CMP the Sutherburg's house and car were washed. Mrs. Sutherberg apparently was not happy with the results and the spill has been referred to CMP's claims unit. No site visit was made and no further work is necessary. P-337-2001*Upon returning to their seasonal home, the Onofrio's found the filter on the external AST broken. The kerosene entered the basement with water covering the floor 1-2 inches, a uniform sheen was documented on the water. Loss or contamination was minimized, as precautions were taken for water. Materials contaminated and removed were mostly lumber related, board feet of framing material, supports, pump stand, work bench legs, some antique hand tool supports (grinding wheel base, small table saw mount) a plywood stand on which the clothes drier was located. Possibly the door frame and molding if still off gasing after a week. Pumps were used to remove contaminated surface water in the basement, along with unspilled product in the tank. Residual oil was remediated with sorbent material. 6.31 tons of contaminated soil were removed and replaced on the exterior. The depth of the excavation was limited by the presence of a large rock/boulder, but field determinations satisfied those involved, the contractor and DEP, that removal was complete with methods practical to the site. No oil was documented in the perimeter drain during the time on site. Based on field measurements and observations, no addition response actions are warranted at this location. If conditions change, the Onofrio's will notify DEP. A-587-1996*Received a call from Lincolnville Fire Department that there was a fuel oil leak at the home of Polly Davis. I responded to the site. Ms.Davis lives in a mobile home on a fairly steep hill. The fuel tank on the uphill side of her home had the filter broken off and some oil had run out the previous day. The oil flowed under the trailer and started flowing out at the bottom of the hill in the drainage ditch. Lincolnville Fire and I padded up the dyed product. The ground was frozen so very little if any oil went into the ground. I visited the site a number of weeks later and found no additional oil. No further work is necessary on this site. A-327-1996*No site visit made. Skowhegan Fire responded, and cleaned with Wadleigh and Kenoco staff. Delivery vehicle gasket loose. No further action anticipated. 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. A-595-2000*Received a call from Hal Shea, a Burner Technician, that he was informed of an AST that was leaking. He stated that he was on his way to check it out, and if there were anything of concern that he would contact the Department. I later spoke with Mr. Shea who informed me that the tank had been patched, with minimal loss of fuel, and that the tank was scheduled to be replaced. I later checked on the site and observed that the tank had been replaced, and that there was some staining on the pad and on the ground in the location of the old tank, but nothing of concern. No further action required. I-45-1997*On 5-1-97, this office was notified of the release of Chlorine from a 100 pound cylinder at the Madawaska Water treatment plant. Apparently a fitting had not been tightened while the tank was changed. The Madawaska Haz Mat team responded and was able to stop the leak without incident. A-677-1999* When the fire department reached this accident they observed fuel leaking from the fill opening of one of the saddle tanks. They used pads to slow and catch the fuel. When I arrived we were able to plug the opening. After the truck was removed I observed some waste oil and a little diesel had reached the shoulder of the road. We cleaned the worst of this up with the sorbent pads. I determined that no further cleanup was needed. The truck had been hauling wood chips. The company planned to remove the bulk of them a few days. I-65-1999*On 5-13-99, I inspected a tank removal at the Acadamy Street Irving station in Presque Isle. All tanks came out without incident. There was a slight sheen on the water in the excavation but because the site was a baseline cleanup, no remediation was seen as necessary. A-713-1998* A faulty nozzle released 8 gallons of fuel oil onto the pavement at a Mobile Home Park that is located at Sawtelle St. in Farmington. Farmington Oil cleaned up the spill with sorbent pads. No site visit was made, no further action required. A-306-1998*Flooding in the basement caused a line to break. The Fire Department responded and used sorbents to remove the oil. No further action is anticipated. I-147-2001*Caller observing machine on the ice (using to break ice) and sees yellowish fluid all over surface of ice. Product is unknown, however may be hydraulic oil. B-88-1999*B-088-99 Jeff Bryant Res. - Brewer Mr. Bryant called to report what he estimated to be a 3 gallon oil spill in the basement of his home at 100 Grove St. in Brewer. He is having some work done to the concrete floor of his basement and the workers cut the fuel line to the furnace. Mr. Bryant had shown the workers where the line was embedded in the concrete, but one of the workers lost control of the jackhammer and the line was cut. The escaping oil was contained on the cellar floor. He called the Dead River Oil Co. who came to the scene and fixed the broken line. A few sorbent pads collected the oil and the pads were returned to the Dead River shop for collection and later disposal. No further action taken. 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. I-151-2000* A hydraulic hose broke on a log loader. Sawdust fines were spread over the spill and the clean up debris was burned in the onsite boiler. Response case clsoed B-294-1999*Eric Hamlin of the Augusta office of Oil Enforcement called to report that he had observed a large oil stain in the dooryard of a vacant farm on the Line Road in Sangerville. He had visited the site to investigate an unregistered underground oil storage tank. He found one and while there observed the 6x8 foot stain. As it was only 25 feet to a well, his concern was well founded. I went to the farm on 6/08/99. It turned out that a burn pile had caused the large black stain. I checked the soil beneath the stain and found no oil contamination. I also checked on the possibilities of underground tanks and I agree with Mr. Hamlin that there is a tank in front of the old barn. There is some question whether or not this is a heating oil tank or a motor fuel tank. While I could find no evidence of a dispenser base, this could easily have been moved. At the same time it looks to me that the old barn had been used to raise chickens and would probably required a heat source; so it could be a heating oil tank. I also checked the area around the boiler room of the new chicken barn. I found a vent pipe and another pipe that penetrated the boiler room wall at an angle and disappeared into the ground on the same side of the boiler room as the vent. On the inside of the room I could see two copper lines coming out of this angled pipe. They appeared to be standard feed and return lines from a tank to an oil burner. However I could not find a fill pipe. It is possible that the fill was obscured by vegetation, the fill may have been removed (if this is the case, water may have entered the tank and caused oil to escape underground) or the tank has been removed without disturbing the piping. I believe that it is most likely that the tank is still there. I-77-2000*Called by State Police. Went to residence. Upon arrival, Irving was finishing cleanup of product. Advised homeowner to clean product residue off concrete floor with Simple Green. Went to PI office to get exhaust fan to exhaust fumes from basement. Set up fan. Advised homeowner to remove portion of saturated wall and carpeting and have replaced by himself or contractor. Also advised homeonwer to vacate home for the evening because of strong odor and risk to children. Returned home. Picked up fan a few days later. 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. P-382-2001* On Fri. 4/6/01, DEP received notice of a surface oil spill at 100 Harris Ave. that had moved onto the neighboring 98 Harris Ave property. The area is suburban residential, on city water and sewer. DEP's Ann Hemenway and I responded and we met with Ms. & Mr. Miles and with Mr. Darling. It was explained to us the on the previous evening 4/5/01, Mr. Darling had been adding oil to his outside AST and accidentally knocked over a pale of K1 oil. He had the fire dept. respond that evening and apparently the Fire Dept. mistakenly told him that as it was only about 5 gallons it did not need to be reported to DEP. We noted a strong odor of fuel oil in the air, and red oil on melt water had gone through the fence onto to the Miles' property. On Mr. Darling's property was the majority of red oil on the snow and under the ice. We gave Mr. Darling sorbent pads and disposal bags to assist him in picking up the oil. It was necessary to remove the ice and snow so as to get at the fuel and keep the oil from further spreading around and off his property. It was also critical to keep the oil from further contaminating the soil requiring expensive soil removal, and from killing more vegetation. Though not as toxic as gasoline, the fuel would have made a long lasting unpleasant odor in the surrounding area. Over the week Mr. Darling brought oil contaminated snow to DEP for melting and disposal, and oily sorbent pads. At this time I understand some minor odor and staining may remain. No drinking water wells are threatened and I understand there is no oil vapor problems within the residences. No further Response Div. actions are expected at this time. We explained the need to report and remediate oil spills. I do not recommend seeking reimbursement for the sorbent pads and waste disposal, etc. used. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM 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. B-390-1999* On July 8, 1999 at 1645 we received a call from Janet Dyer of Central Maine Power reporting a ten gallon spill of <1ppm PCB mineral oil. The spill occurred at pole 15.7 on the Merrill Rd. in Athens. A thunderstorm blew over a tree which knocked down the transformer. Workers excavated a drum of contaminated soil. I-164-1998*DOT encountered some contaminated soil while reconstructing a portion of Rt #161 in Fort Fairfield. Although a faint petroleum odor was present, PID readings were all less than 15 ppm. See DOT report for exact results. Source might have been excessive road tar that used as fill during previous rebuilds. Material was not moving and was left in place Case Closed. B-8-1997*Paul Richards, Techinical Services Staff in Bangor, called to report the discovery of a possible underground tank while installing a water line for the Enfield Town Office. Tank related piping was also found. The surrounding area was excavated only to find piping and rock debris. No tank could be located. Soils in the area shown no sign of contamination. It appeared that the tank had been removed some time in the past. Case closed. B-422-1996*On 8/6/96, 1613 hours Dana Pederson of Ryder Truck called to report that one of their units had sustained a rupture in it's power steering line. This caused a discharge of 2 qts of transmission fluid. The spill landed on asphalt in the driveway that is on the back side of Snow's Corner Store. Ryder Truck dispatched a maintenance person to clean up the spill and fix the power steering line. Ryder Truck recovered the clean up material for eventual disposal. B-272-1997*Mona Spear, Environmental Specialist for Bangor Hydro Electric called to report a small spill of hydraulic oil. Approximately 2.5 gallons leaked from a broken hose on a digger truck on Fire Road #2 in Lake View Plantation. Approximately one-half drum of both oil and speedi dri was generated in the clean up. No resources of the State were believed to be affected. B-100-2000*On 2/26/00, 0936 hours Mr. Watson reported a one gallon release of Jet fuel from a hydrant. For some reason the valve was dripping product onto the cement surface. The clean up produced a half dozen partially oiled pads, which went to BIA's waste stream. A-771-1999*Tim Murry of Dead River called to report a small spill. He reported that a Dead River driver over filled the tank at the home of Albert Dugee by 1-2 gallons. He said that the fill was inside the garage and the vent was outside. The spill was to a paved surface and the driver cleaned it up with sorbent pads. Mr. Dugee was contacted and said he was satisfied with the cleanup and that he was on town water. No site visit was made and no further work is necessary. 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-594-1999* A hydraulic hose ruptured on a piece of machinery during excavation for the natural gas pipeline. This spill occurred on the ROW at mile post 140.1 in the town of Richmond. The oil was cleaned up and no further action will be required. P-569-1998*On 11/10/98 I received a list of wells contaminated with MTBE from the Department of Human Services. On this list, Jeffrey Cummings appeared as having MTBE contamination in his well at 2.5 ppb. I visited the site on 11/16/98 and was not able to determine a definite source of the MTBE. Mr. Cummings indicated that he had had a gasoline leak out of an old truck approximately 3 years ago. He also indicated that there had been a few car accidents near his home. The well at his residence is a dug well approximately 25 feet deep. On 11/16 I also took another sample to attempt to confirm the earlier MTBE result. That sample showed MTBE in his well at 3.2 ppb. At this time, Mr. Cummings has been enrolled in a quarterly monitoring program and I am referring the case to Technical Services for further action. _________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II DECEMBER 3, 1998 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. B-419-1997*D-TREE=N. P-69-1990*Update of 11/27/02 Gerry Mirabile of CMP called requesting information on site. I advised him of after removal report of oil contamination found by Gendron & Gendron during removal in 1990 but unreported to DEP and not cleaned up. At this time there has not been enough evidence to pursue this allegation. See separate narrative of 1990 for further information. S G Brezinski A-731-1998*Received a call from Augusta Fuel that a customer of theirs had suffered an oil spill. I responded to the apartment of Cathryn Brown. She directed me to the basement where I met the technician from Augusta Fuel. He had finished repairing the filter assembly. He pointed out where some of the oil had gone to a floor drain. They had already notified the Augusta Sewer District to let them know that some oil was on the way. I swept up the speedy dry that was put down and bagged it. Ms. Brown had a large amount of laundry she "needed to get to". About half of it was impacted by the oil and I filled two large bags with her laundry. She was left with instructions to wash the laundry with hot or at least warm water and to use a larger amount of detergent then she normally did. Washing the clothes twice was also suggested. P-27-1998*19 January 1998 I responded to facility location and observed stock piled soil contaminated with what smelled like hydraulic oil, that was covered with plastic. I contacted Hancock representative John Intravaia of Kennebunk, and made arragements to have the material excavated and disposed at a licensed facility. The fluid was spilled on the gravel of a new housing lot. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (4Mar98). B-119-1997*D-TREE=N. B-352-1999*Nurse, Pat Caldwell called from the Public Health Nursing Office to report that a mercury-carrying manometer had broken on a counter top in the office. Ms. Caldwell had recently attended a mercury incident training session and had some knowledge of what to do. She closed off the room and using paper towels collected the mercury from the counter top and linoleum floor. The recovered mercury was doubled bagged in plastic freezer bags. I was told the amount spilled as about 1/2 cc. While she was confident that the majority of mercury had been collected she was unsure as to the deposition. She suggested that I talk with her supervisor, Donna Allen. I reached Ms. Allen and learned they had an agreement with Downeast Community Hospital to store and dispose of their mercury waste. No further action taken. 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. ______________________________ 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. 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-128-1999*2/19/99 responded to spill location. In the house basement I observed an AST that had once been fastened to the above floor joicsts, but had fallen to the dirt floor basement at some point. V. Perreault informed me that an oil technician had been at the house to install a new tank in accodance with the area CAP Agency. The technician intalled a tempory supply tank and transfered approximately 50 gallons of oil from the AST to this tempory system. I could not determine the exact source of the leak but it appears the feed line or the filter attached to the feed line broke when the tank dislodged from its raised support. I applied pads to free product in a sump located in the basement. Oil had not migrated past this sump. V. Perreault advised that the new tank was to be installed in a few days. Not to seek reimbursement due to the limited number of sorbent pads used. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (24May99) A-483-1997* An overfill prevention device failed, allowing 4,500 gallons of caustic to spill from a tank into the sewer system. This spill was discovered on 11-21-97. It occurred at the International Paper Mill in Jay. The event was over when the DEP was notified. The pH in the waste treatment plant increased, thus alerting the operators. They called around to various Dept's. to locate the source. The leak was located and repaired. According to John Cronin, the waste treatment plant can handle this amount of caustic. No site visit was made and no further action will be taken. P-515-1997*27 June 1997, Stephen Flannery and I responded to the facility location. We had received a compliant that the facility dumped a 55-gallon drum down the hill behind the facility. Flannery and I did not locate a drum and considered the complaint to be unfounded. No further action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (17Jun97) B-697-1996*Bruce Carter, Town Selectman in Franklin, called to report an oil spill on the South Bay Road. It was stated that he received a call from a resident; Barry Joy, that a Hancock oil delivery truck leaked the oil and tracked it up the road. Mr. Joy was concerned for his well. I arrived shortly afterwards and discovered the sheen and small amounts of oil. It was dark at the time with a heavy rain. Mr. Joy has a well located adjacent to his driveway where a sheen had collected in a puddle. I placed some sorbents in the driveway as a precaution. The next day I inspected the area more closely and found only some stained areas. I later spoke to Randy Foster of Hancock Oil for further information. Mr. Foster believed it was from a loose fitting on top of the tank and ensured me that it would be repaired. It is not believed that Mr. Joy's well is at risk. P-177-1996*Only observed slight sheen on water infront of dock. Appeared to be from road run-off. No further action required. B-656-2000* On December 8, 2000 at 1615 we received a call from Nancy of Dead River Oil reporting a two quart #2 oil spill at the home of Marjorie Mooney at 279 West Broadway in Bangor. A faulty oil burner nozzle in the oil furnace leaked the fuel onto the cement floor. The burnerman replaced the nozzle and recovered the oil with sorbents before it reached any basement drain. P-28-2000*See attached narrative. A-649-2001* DEP received a report that oil had spilled at this rental residence via a leaking flare fitting at the oil AST. An estimated 50 gallons was spilled to soil. Saturated soil was excavated for disposal. The area is residential and is served by municipal water. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. P-217-2000*Visited site of AST removal/replacement with underground piping. Met with Fred Anderson of North American Environmental Services (CTI 310). Very small amount of contamination under pump dispenser. The soil was left on ground surface @ the site for natural aeration. No further action necessary in this matter. ___________________________ Jon Woodard OHMS 3 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management. A-174-1996* DEP received a report from S.D. Warren that a minor chlorine dioxide release had occurred six hours previously. According to the caller (Good) the event was short-lived but a portion of the mill was evacuated for approximately one hour. No site visit was conducted by DEP personnel as a result of this incident. See Warren incident report, attached. A-571-1999* An employee of CMP broke a slingometer. The small droplets of mercury were cleaned up with a spill kit. The spill was reported by Janet Dyer @ CMP. No further action will be required. A-237-1999* DEP received a report that a woods skidder working on the island of North Haven had an ongoing hydraulic oil leak. The North Haven CEO (Quinn) was familiar with the skidder owner (Peters). He claimed that the leaking skidder had been ferried to the mainland the previous week specifically to repair a line leak. Mr. Quinn was unable to provide a contact phone or address for Mr. Peters. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. P-344-1997*Someone had oiled the road to control dust. I spoke with Mr. Butts the resident of 37 Haven Road who stated that he was unaware of what happened. Due to the small amount oil, it was left in-place. No further action required. B-85-1997*On 2/29/97, 0845 hours Scott of Portland Pump called to report that they had encountered diesel contaminated soil while doing repair work on a diesel dispensing island. I went to the site and found that there were no readings as high as 100 ppm. The site has a history of gasoline contamination. (Scott said that Tom Varney was familiar with the site.) The facility's well has charcoal filters already. The odor of diesel was due to some surface spills over a period of time. The spills had carried some asphalt into the gravel below it. They had excavated about three cubic yards of gravel that gave headspace readings of 30 to 60 ppm. I suggested that they use as much as they could for onsite fill and that they stock pile the rest on site for eventual treatment on site. 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 A-9-1997*Mr. Ballow works for DOT environmental services and had observed what he believed were 55 gallon barrels and rubbish on the site. I met Mr. Ballow and he took me to a spot on the Airport where we could observe an area where Dragon cleans their trucks. He had observed some rubbish in the runoff area. He had taken pictures nearly a year ago. The original was lost, but we had a photo copy. This is attached. It is not clear. From the airport we could not see the area where the barrels were noted, but he indicated they were just to the side of the cleaning area. I visited the Dragon site and was met by Melton Savage, a worker at the site. He offered to take me to the place I described. We went to the top of the truck cleaning area. There was only a bed spring and a 5 gallon bucket to be seen in the runoff area. Mr. Savage said they had experienced problems in the past with unauthorized dumping. He thought a new gate had stopped the practice. I didn't see any evidence that this was an ongoing problem. From this spot we could observe the location of the reported barrels. There were a number of culvert pieces. They were similar in appearance and size to 55 gallon barrels. No further action is anticipated. I-87-2000*On 8-22-00, Randy Richards of Daigle Oil called to report that while a delivery truck was delivering oil, it went to the wrong home and 11 gallons was spilled onto the driveway before the driver could stop the pump. The tank was full. I met with Randy and his cleanup crew at the residence. They used speedy dry and sorbent cloths to soak up the oil in the driveway and street. P-895-2001*On October 30, 2001 Windham Public Safety reported the burning of UST sludge at a property on River Road. The property owner was listed as Bruce Elder. Rick Perkins of DEP Air bureau and Cyr DEP Response visited the site. They were met by Ken Jordan, contractor for Elder. Mr. Jordan was attempting to cut (with torch) an old abandoned UST when the sludge caught fire, billowing black smoke was seen and reported to the Windham Fire Department. They responded and extinguished the flames and met with Mr. Elder at the station to discuss the issues. Mr. Elder is the surviving heir and is trying to clean up the family farm property. The UST had been "outback" for a long time, all indications were it was empty and posed no threat (although a small fire was produced) while Jordan cut into it. Some soil was excavated by hand which was thought to be contaminated with residual diesel, the material will be disposed of by DEP with other bulk collected wastes. Mr. Elder was instructed to collect the remaining ash material, from inside the tank shell and containerize it. This was done and also collected by DEP; this was approximately 15 pounds of material. The tank was successfully cut and removed and all traces of ash and stained soil were collected also. Based on the timely response by WFD and DEP the affected area was minimal, restricted to the gravel driveway to a depth no greater than six inches. The material was quickly removed, no additional environmental work is planned. B-64-2001* On February 26, 2001 at 1540 we received a call from Mona Spear of Bangor Hydro reporting a two pint spill of hydraulic oil from a boom truck on the Kittridge Brook Rd. in Bar Harbor. A broken fitting on a hydraulic hose caused the leak. The oil sprayed onto the snow and a crew shovelled the contaminated snow into a drum for disposal. A-36-1997* On 2-4-97 Alan Lyscars, of Field Services, Inc., called this Dept. to report soil contamination. This was discovered while three UST's were removed from the Town of Oakland Public Works garage. There was one area of high concentration under the pump island. The PID readings at this location reached 1,558 ppm. Given the site location, city water and sewer no remediation was requested, via BL1 cleanup goal. B-272-2001* On 5/09/01, 0910 hours Jim and Dorothy Clunan contacted me regarding a sudden change in their well water. It had developed what they called a metallic taste and an odor they described as "hot electrical". I went to the site. I thought I detected a turpentine-like odor. There did not seem to be any spill sources around. I thought that the well pump might have blown and that it may have contained PCBs. The sweet, turpentine-like smell gave me that idea. However, analysis did not reveal any PCBs. On 5/16/01 Jim LaVoie, Alan Ingram and I went to he site and pulled the well pump. The pump had been working fine and there was no evidence that it had leaked oil. Jim took the pump to a pump expert who said that he couldn't tell if it had leaked or not. He did say that it was a very cheap pump (quite possibly from Sears) and that if it had not leaked it wouldn't be long before it did. The Clunan's accepted the recommendation to go with a new pump. Meanwhile, Dorothy supplied us with two potability analyses. They showed a three fold increase in manganese and iron since 1998. The reason for the increase might be because we are having a dry year so far. The test interpretation sheet indicated that this level of manganese could impart an undesirable taste and odor to the water. We did a DRO, which has not come back yet. There was no layering nor sheen on the water we sampled. A-285-2000* Ms. Ridley of Safety-Kleen called this office to report the release of sixteen gallons of clean naptha 105. This release ocurred inside secondary containment at their facility in Leeds. The 16 gallon drum of material was knocked over accidently. The spilled material was cleaned up by employees of Safety-Kleen. I-76-2000*The State Police reported that an aircraft had crashed into the Meduxnekeag River in Linneus. Sorbant booms were installed by the local Fire Dept shortly after the fires were extinguished. On Friday, 7/21/00, after the NTSB folks completed their investigation, The contractor hired by the insurance co to remove the debris began work. Contractor is Nelson Babin, Valley Welding & Repair, P.O. Box 128, Fort Kent Mills, Me 04744, 207-834-5582. When the debris was removed large amounts of oil began to be released. This was collected by using a series of silt fences, sorbant boom and containment boom. A large amount of contaminated soil was identifed in the impact crater and removed on 7/26 & 7/27, after the aircraft debris was removed. The incident was more that could be handled by the NMRO staff. The Bangor office and the Portland office gave us equipment and personnel support. The Malacite Indians gave us support by bringing in canoes and they conducted rock basket sampling to determine if the incident had impacted the invertebrates in the river. Case closed. P-577-1998*ON 11/17/98 DEP WAS CONTACTED CONCERNING AN AST LEAK AT THE APARTMENT BUILDING OWNED BY MR. & MRS. REIS, 22 HIGH ST. APT. 22, PORTLAND. SITE VISIT INDICATED 275 GALLON FUEL OIL TANK COVERED WITH SAND. ACCORDING TO OWNERS, TANK HAD JUST HAD 100 GALLONS OF FUEL DELIVERED WHEREBY LATER IN THE DAY IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE TANK WAS EMPTY. ON 11/23/98 REMOVAL OF CONTAMINATED SOIL TOOK PLACE WITH CLEAN HARBORS DOING THE WORK. THE REMOVAL OF APPROXIMATELY ONE YARD OF MATERIAL WAS DONE BY USE OF A VACTOR. UPON THE REMOVAL OF THE SOIL THE FAN WAS REPLACED IN THE WINDOW FOR REMOVAL OF RESIDUAL VAPORS. AST FUND CLAIM TO BE FILLED OUT. AT THIS TIME NO FURTHER ACTION IS REQUIRED. I-46-1999*On 4-9-99, George Baker of Pinkham Lumber(now Irving Woodlands) called to report that they had discovered hydraulic oil coming into the lagoon the day before. The source was determined to be a blown hose on a crane at the hot pond, which feed into the lagoon. He estimated about 10-15 gallons was spilled. They had immediately set sorbent material in the lagoon to capture the oil. Most of the oil was removed by 4-9 but they have continued montoring and removing what little sheen remains. Spoke to George Baker 4-29, said they had completed cleanup by the week of 4-19. P-431-1999*See attached report. ______________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I December 29, 1999 A-326-1999*International Paper reported a small 10 gallon hydraulic oil spill from a disconnected hose located at the No. 4 paper machine. The spill was cleaned up with absorbent pads and the hose reconnected. Clean up was completed and no further investigation is required. P-894-1999*3 December 1999, responded to spill location and observed a vehicle recovery company pulling a dump truck out of the ditch. I did observe an oil stain on the dirt road, but did not observe any sensitive receptors. I did not observe any saturated soil. I did not require any clean up action. The South Berwick FD deployed a limited number of sorbent pads, and made no request to have the pads replaced. No further Response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 6jan00. P-313-1998*On 07/09/98 I received a call form Randy Geaumont of the Scarborough office of the DOT stating that there was oil on the Exit 7 on ramp of the Turnpike from Payne Road. He stated that there was a stain approximately 3 feet by 100 feet on the pavement in the turn. He stated that the vehicle that had the spill was no longer on scene. I told him to sand it and I would be out to take a look. I arrived on site at 0927 and the stain had been sanded. There was not enough product spilled for it to puddle. I called Mr. Geaumont back to let him know that everything looked good and they should keep the area sanded. No further action is required at this time. ______________________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I July 9, 1998 P-321-1998*DHS reported that the public water supply well at the mobile home park "The Pines at Arundel" had been analyzed and showed a low concentration of MTBE. I called the owners to request a follow up sample, however they declined. Because the concentrations were below action level, no further action will be taken at this time. A-383-1997*A barrel of naphtha spilled in the parking lot of SafetyKleen while it was being unloaded. The spill was picked up using pads. P-626-1996* On Tuesday, 10/8/96, I received notice from Woolwich Fire Dept. thru Frank Gehrling of DEP of a diesel fuel release to a brook from a truck's saddletank. Arriving onscene I met with Fire Chief Wayne Saunders and crew. Apparently a trash truck from T & R Associates rolled over on a soft shoulder leaking fuel out the saddletank's top and into a brook. Meanwhile the town PWD was digging out a dammed culvert 15 ft. away. When the culvert opened up, all the released oil went rushing downstream. WFD responded with sorbent pads and boom; and fence boom downstream. Almost no oil was caught by the sorbents and no recoverable pockets could be found. On 10/9/96 I picked up any oily pads and noted no more free oil, only sheen. See attachemnts for further details. A-512-1996*Janet Lagasse of Central Maine Power called to report a spill from a transformer. At approximately 0100 on 11/20/96 a driver on Route 27 in Augusta swerved to avoid a deer and struck a power pole. The pole had a 50 kvh transformer on it which leaked. The transformer had a 25 gallon capacity and it was tagged less then 2 ppm PCB. CMP reported that their personnel had cleaned up the site that morning. Jon Andrews of this office received a call from Jeffrey Damon, owner of North Augusta market that there was some oil at his facility. Jon went to investigate and found that it was oil left over from that morning's spill. He contacted me and I went to inspect the site. After inspecting the site I contacted Janet Lagasse of CMP and she agreed to meet me on site the next morning. When I met her the next morning on site, she told me that she had inspected the site after our conversation the previous day and had contacted Manter Construction. The cleanup was completed that morning by Manter Construction and hauled away by CMP. No further work is necessary. 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-102-1999* Somehow a mixture of gasoline and disel was spilled at the Irving Mainway in Belfast. Clean Harbors was hired by Irving Oil to clean up the mixture. I spoke with Mike Tatarcyk of Clean Harbors and told me that there was a stain on the pavement about 6 x 8 feet. There was some petroleum in the storm drain, but no petroleum could be detected at the storm drain outfall. B-228-1999*On 5/12/99, 0915 hours Tina Bodkins of Maritimes & Northeast reported a 1 quart spill of diesel fuel. The release was an overfill that happened while a tractor was being refueled. The product landed on soil and the clean up produced half a cubic yard of contaminated soil, which was taken to their hazardous waste stream. Maritimes is a construction company that is presently working on gas pipeline installation. The location of the project at that time was T37MD. P-756-2000*AST removal from former residence of Ruth Crosby (deceased). AST in crawl space secondary tank not used in last 7 years to the knowledge of supplying oil company. One very small surficial stain one bag of soil/sand removed. No further actions required at the site. P-501-2000*16 AUGUST 2000, DEP RESPONDED TO SPILL LOCATION, OBSERVED AN OIL SHEEN ON ROADWAY, PARTIALLY MIGRATING WITH RAIN RUNOFF TO THE DOORWAY OF 53 FEDERAL STREET. DEP CONDUCTED SITE SURVEY OF ADJACENT HOUSES AND STORM DRAINS IN ROADWAY, BUT NO SOURCE LOCATED. IT IS SUSPECTED THAT THE SPILL ORIGINATED FROM A VEHICLE. NO CLEAN UP POSSIBLE OR NECESSARY, OIL TO THIN TO COLLECT. NO FURTHER ACTION REQUIRED. NATHAN THOMPSON, SMRO, 24OCT2000. B-17-1996*Joe Lynch of Lynch Construction called to report the discovery of contamination during the removal of a 2000 gallon fuel oil tank at the residence of Robert Grover of Mt. Hope Avenue. Inspection of the site shown that the contamination was minor and probably due to overfills. The remaining excavation was essentially clean. It may be noted that the area is considered non-sensitive being served by a public water supply. No further action by the Department is expected. I-29-1998*On 2-21-98, a spill occurred on the Garfield Road in Oxbow. A log truck went off the road and one of the saddle tanks had leaked. About 50 gallons was lost onto and beside the road. All was cleaned up by the owner of the truck and the sorbents taken to PERC. P-322-1999*Industrial wastewater spill to the Thompson Lake Outlet Stream. See attached Robinson Manufacturing report. A-59-1996*The Bristol Diner had a heating system failure. Colby & Gale found a loose swage fitting was responsible. The product ran under the building and collected on a puddle of water. Some of the product was padded up, but a beam was in the way of removing the remainder. That was recovered using a vacuum truck. No odors were present in the diner. Because the product was trapped on the puddle, no soil was impacted. No further action is required. B-795-1999*The U.S. Coast Guard called to report that they had attended the raising of the lobster boat Kerry Lynn that had sunk at the dock at Northeast Harbor Marina. Apparently some form of equipment failure caused the sinking and resulted in a 50 square yard patch of sheen in the harbor. They believed the sheen was caused by the bilge slops and not by a fuel leak. No action taken. B-455-2001* This office received a call at 1525 on 8/15/01 from Fred Leigh (Bangor Hydro-Electric Company) reporting an oil spill. He stated that 2-4 cups of hydraulic oil were spilled from one of their line trucks due to a cracked fitting on a hydraulic hose. The oil sprayed onto the pavement and vegetation adjacent to a wooded area. Plans were to repair the line and cleanup the oil. It was indicated that the incident occurred on the Goulds Ridge Road in Olamon around 1430 today. There were no drains or State waters involved. REC: File report. P-271-1999*An employee of the Audubon Society in called to report a drum that had washed up on the shore of their property during a storm. I went and inspected the drum - it was full of florescent light ballasts, containing PCB oil. Some oil had spilled into the drum. I secured the drum and came back the following week with Scott Cyr and Steve Flannery (both of DEP) by boat to retrieve the drum. The drum and it's contents were disposed of with Clean Harbors. No markings were found on the drum. No further action. P-71-1999* On 1/27/999, Asst. Eng. Don White received notice from Mr. Hamilton that Hamilton had received well water analysis confirming gasoline contamination in the well water of his rural residential home. GRO analysis thru DHS, HETL, was 4 ppb MTBE, and 524.2 analysis indicated 0.8 ppb MTBE, and BETX components (see attached). The lab analysis appears to indicate weathered gasoline based on the MTBE and Benzene (not fuel oil). Based on the constituents this could be a large spill far away or a small local spill. I suspect a small spill of less than several gallons near the property. The drilled well is in the front yard approx 25' from the paved road. On 1/28 I met the Hamiltons onsite and sampled their water. problems necessitated re-sampling on 2/24/99. Results of 2/26/99 showed 9.6 ppb MTBE and 3.3 ppb Benzene (see analysis). As the three analyses confirmed petro. contam. I added the residence to the QM program on 1/28/99. The well levels will be monitored. If the contaminants disappear than the QM will be eventually stopped, if the levels exceed the DEP MTBE action level of 25 ppb and/or action levels for the other detected contaminants, than a filter or other remedial actions will be offered. At this time no source has been identified though there is farm upgrade behind the woods that uses motor fuels. An increase in levels may indicate a rising trend or a difference in lab analysis methods or other factors. Likely source is a small surface spill on or near the Hamilton property. The Pray residence across the street was found to be ND. I recommend further neighbor sampling to deliniate the discharge. At this time Pat Seaward of DEP Tech Services has assumed case management and will follow up with further sampling. DEP installed a carbon filter for the Hamilton's in early March, 1999. Further DEP actions are possible. See attached for further details. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM 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. I-149-1996*Aroostook Valley Electric (AVE) is not required to report spills as they have filed an SPCC plan under title 1318-C og 38 MRSA. This report was a listing of the spills they have had since 8/15/96 till 12/14/96. All spilled materila was cleaned up with sawdust and debris was added a fuel to the boiler. Case Closed P-599-2000*Accident scene at the intersection of Rte 1 south and Maple Street Scarborough. While towing a wood chipper, the driver misjudged his speed and rolled the unit over while negotiating a turn onto Maple Street. The spilled products were gasoline, oil, and some battery acid from the broken battery. All the spilled material was confined to the asphalt with pads and speedi dry which was quickly done by SFD. No further action is required. B-536-1997*D-TREE=N. A-43-1998* DEP received an after-hours report that approximately 80 gallons of diesel was spilled to pavement when a shut-off nozzle failed to operate properly. Spilled product was confined to pavement and was collected using speedee-dry. According to the facility manager (Makowski) the spilled material was from a tank that had an algal infection and so was being purged; it is unclear why this infected fuel was being offered for sale, but this matter does not fall under DEP jurisdiction. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. B-70-1996*Mr. Nielson called to say that his company had been to the Douglas Ward residence to repair a fuel leak. I learned that the outside 275 kero tank had developed a leak which was now stopped. The tank was now 3/8 full but with any dripping tank spill it is difficult to guess how long it had leaked. The tank was behind the trailer and set well away from its back wall. This prevented the oil from getting under the trailer. However there is a well 50-60 feet away. On the next day I met with Mr. Ward and learned that it was a fairly new well that utilized 20 feet of casing which would indicate that it was not deep to bedrock. Also the land around the house trailer had all been filled with gravel. As this was in February it was possible that the frozen ground resisted penetration by the oil but a long term drip will often penetrate any way. These factors made it important that the contaminated soil be removed. I explained this to Mr. Ward and also that the AST insurance fund would possible pickup the removal cost after the first $500. Mr. Ward felt that even the $500 would be tough for him and I told him that it was possible that this could be waivered or at least spread out over a long period. Despite this he wanted to attempt the clean up himself. I acquiesced but asked that he keep me up to date. Not having heard I called on 2/8/96 and reached his daughter who said he was still working on it. On 5/16 I spoke with Mr. Ward who said that he had reached a depth of a spade handle and it was still going so he had given up on the shovel. He had contacted his brother-in-law who owns a backhoe and as soon as he was able he would bring it to the site. P-176-2000*The external AST is located within 10 feet of the drilled well. Not knowing an accurate time or duration of leak the levels in the well reported intitial concentrations of fuel oil at 174 ug/L. GAC filter units were installed by Water treatment of Yarmouth on 3/31 and the quarterly monitoring program initiated. The tank was successfully removed, and 6.5 cuyds of soil were removed from beneath the tank adjacent to well casing. The supply line had been surrounded by a maple tree root system at the base of the trunk, the line was physically encased by roots. Brad Hahn of DEP Technical services witnessed excavation activities and water sampling. Initial plans to acquire a well easement were begun, Mr. Hanh is managing the possible easement activities. GAC filters are installed, the source removed and Mr Ulrickson and Miss Robinson are satisfied with the remedial plan as it stands. Quarterly monitoring is happening, pending results will affect the remedial plan towards further development or closure. At this time the Division of Response Services has no further actions planned. P-383-2000*21 June 2000, responded to truck accident and deployed sorbent pads. Approximately 25 gallons of diesel fuel discharged from the saddle tank onto the front lawn of Leo Driscol (Cape Frame Shop) and the roadway. Sysco representative Paul Nadeau, advised that Clean Harbors, So. Portland, was contracted to remove oil impacted material. 22 June 2000. Phone contact with Sysco representative Dain Thomason, advises that insurance company will address any claims by resident Leo Driscoll. There appears to be more contaminated soil on site, but a tree involved in the accident must be removed prior to additional soil removal. No further issues regarding this matter received at DEP as of 12 Sept 00. DEP to seek reimbursement from Sysco for two bales of pads. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 12SEP00. A-176-1997*See attached and site assesment in tank file. P-310-1994* See any separate attachments. A-813-1999* On 10-19 J & S Oil Company reported that a customer's oil tank developed a leak. J & S had made a delivery to Kim Carey's home in Clinton and within a few days she smelled oil. J & S went back and found a weep on the tank. A total of 250 gallons of oil was pumped out and the tank was repaired or replaced. No oil reached the basement floor and no site visit was made. No further action will be required. B-477-2000* On September 1, 2000 at 1415 we received a call from Mark Bosse of Dead River Oil in Houlton reporting a leaking outside kerosene tank at a camp on East Grand Lake in Orient. Mr. Bosse said the tank had a slow leak, a drip every twenty seconds, that he thought leaked about thirty gallons. Barbara Edwards of Houlton owns the camp which has no well and gets its water from the lake. I visited the site and found a small 2' x 4' area of contaminated soil. The camp is thirty feet from the lake and any oil will break down before it make its way to the lake. I checked the shore but didn't find any sign of oil leaching into the water. The nearest well is over a hundred yards upslope and is in no danger of contamination. Since Dead River will install a new, up to code tank, they will excavate less than a yard of contaminated soil to make room for clean sand for a tank pad. They will spread this material in their yard in Houlton. P-675-1999*See attached report from Clean Harbors. A-668-1998* DEP received a report that an oil spill had occurred at this warehouse when a seal failed on a pump. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property. Oil had obviously flowed to a nearby floor-drain, but this drain was plugged. It was determined that only a small amount of oil had actually been spilled and that none of this impacted the environment. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. P-575-1998*3 June 1998, DEP received notification of spill. Pete Labbe informed me that a pump failure or AST over fill occurred in the shop area of the facility overnight. The aboveground waste oil tank discharged through a floor drain into soil. I advised of UIC regulations. We discussed disposal options and I authorized method under disposal information. Sorbents are stored on site until a disposable amount is generated from this and other oil clean up operations. This matter to be referred to UIC Program, Augusta. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, 18Nov98. B-737-1997*On December 30, 1997 at 1045 we received a call from Duane Seekins of C.H. Sprague in Bucksport reporting a twenty five gallon spill of #6 oil at their facility. Workers overfilled a railroad tank car and spilled the product onto the ground. They got a load of sand and mixed it with the spill and then removed the mixture which they stockpiled inside one of their dikes. They will spread this material in the spring. No streams or drainage ditches were threatened. A-718-2000*During a fuel oil transfer 16 gal of #2 oil was spilled to concrete. Oil was sorbed with pads and disposed of. No site visit made, no further action expected. A-69-1997*Received a calll from Paul Twitchel of Twitchel Oil and Fuel who reported a leak at a customers's house. I responded to the house of Leo Powers in Industry. Paul Twitchel was still there. He showed me that the filter had broken off causing the leak. Darlene Powers was taking care of the house for Leo Powers while he was in Florida. She and a friend heard the filter come off the tank and quickly found the problem. They plugged the leak after only loosing 25 gallons of #2 fuel oil. They called Paul Twitchel who proceeded to clean up the spill. The basement floor was concrete and Paul thought that he had cleaned up the spill completely. I saw some damp concrete in a fairlly sound basement floor. Only slight additional cleanup was necessary. Mr. Powers drilled well was approximately 100' from the basement. A sample of his well was taken on 4/11/97. The result returned a finding of no petroleum in the tap water. No further action is needed on this site. P-506-1998*On Oct. 21, 1998 I received a call from Mr. Jim Means. Mr. Means called to inform the Dept. of a situation his children had found in the woods at the Gorham Country Club. The children reported seeing buried engines, old golf carts and waste oil. I visited the Country Club that day. The owner of the golf course showed me around the grounds. The area that the kids reported seeing is a storage area in the woods. The club owner showed me the area and allowed me to inspect it thoroughly. He stated the area is where he collects scrap metal, and has also collected a few various other items. I found no indications of any oil spillage. There was one old golf cart in the area, however it was only the fiberglass shell. There were various drums in the area which I checked, and found to be empty. No further action. P-832-1999*John Hotellino of Durastone reported that 1 gallon of hydraulic oil had been spilled by the fork lift service company while they were doing work on forklifts at his facility. Durastone removed the hydraulic oil with sorbent material and will dispose of it at Regional Waste Systems in Portland. No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter. __________________________________ Jon Woodard OHMS 3 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management P-49-1998* Clean-Up to Dept. satisfaction at this time. See field notes, invoices, etc. for further details. A-593-2000* DEP received a report that fuel was delivered to a "removed" AST at this residence; while the in-service AST was sound, the vent/fill pipes for the former AST were still in place. An estimated 60 gallons were delivered to the cellar floor; this found its' way to the storm drain system via a cellar floor drain, and eventually appeared at an outfall on the harbor. Thompson's Oil assumed responsibility for recovery and constructed a wier dam at the outfall; product was collected over the next several days. A substantial part of the initial spill remains unnaccounted for. Vapor problems were apparent in the subject residence. The cellar was washed and vapor/odor brought under control, although discussions are continuing between the homeowner and Thompson's Oil. I do not anticipate further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. B-188-1997*D-TREE=N. B-220-1999*In May of 1999, an abandoned tank was removed at the former Great Duck Island light. A large hole was found in the exposed portion of the tank, but no holes were found below grade. Some contaminated fill was recovered from inside the tank. See the site assessment by St. Germain & Associates. A-546-1999*DEP received a report that hydraulic oil had been spilled at this facility as a result of a hose leak. According to IP staff, 25 gallons was collected using sorbents and 25 gallons went to the plant sewer. A-792-1999*Received a call from Chet's Burner Repair that they found a small problem at a customer's house. They reported that they found a small stain by a tank that they had been called in to repair. I called Jody Dickey, owner of the house. She confirmed that the filter housing had broken off and leaked a minor amount of product. She stated that the stain was only 18" in diameter and that the tank had not contained any oil for a year. After explaining the AST insurance program to her, she still said that there was no problem. The technician from Chet's Burner Service had actually first stated that the leak was very small and that he was just reporting for completeness. No further work is necessary on this site. P-374-2001*No narrative, please see attachments. B-375-1997*Driving through Harrington on July 16,I spied a bulk plant whose dike and truck rack appeared to have been drenched in fuel oil. No one was home at the adjoining residences, so I was not able to discover the owner. Only through talking to the town manager did I learn that the bulk plant in question belongs to Bob Hammond, of Hammond Oil. For a number of reasons, I did not contact Hammond Oil 'til 1/6/98 when I spoke to Mrs. Hammond and explained to her the problem. I told her of Mr. Hammond's obligation to clean up the spilled oil, and I asked that Mr. Hammond call me at his earliest convenience. I did learn that the first residence East of the bulk plant is not on public water, and is probably within 300 feet of the spill site. More bad news is that the site is in the middle of a gigantic aquifer, making for a stringent cleanup requirement. The excavation of the soil commenced, finally, on 08/03/98. Mr. Hammond did not want anything to do with any government clean up program, so he paid for the entire clean up himself, and spread the soil on his own blueberry field roads. Digging revealed the site to be underlain by clay; a minimum of 1200 yards of soil was removed, to an average depth of 3 feet. At my request, the hole was left open to aerate for a week. As of Sept. '98, the bulk plant had been rebuilt, and no further extensive spillage is expected there. A-518-2001*A diesel or #2 fuel oil sheen was found on the Westkeag River upstream of the Route 73 bridge by Scott Tilton, an oyster farmer with leases on the river. Mr. Tilton called the US Coast Guard and South Thomaston Fire Department to report the spill and possible contamination of his oyster beds. The Fire Department took a water sample and requested DEP have the sample analyzed. Just downstream from the Rt 73 bridge on the southern shore is a Lobster buying station with a 500 gallon fuel storage tank and pump. The last delivery to the lobster buying station was by Montgomery Oil Company on July 10, 2001. The buying station did not report any spills. The probable cause was a vessel overfill with discharge into the water. The sheen was evaporating and being washed downstream by the outgoing tide. No further action was taken. Expenditures were $110.00 for a DRO analysis at the request of the South Thomaston Fire Department. B-140-2001*Don Martin, I-P Co., called to report that some blue dye used in their paper making process had caused a 30 foot long sheen on the Penobscot River in Bucksport. It seems that a wooden pallet that had absorbed some of this powerful dye had been left out in the rain and a small amount of it washed off the mill yard and into the river. He faxed me a MSDS and I found that the only listed hazardous material component was propylene glycol (most commonly recognized as pink anti-freeze). I don't believe that there was any measurable amount of the glycol washed out of the wood. Additionally I don't believe that it is a hazardous waste under Maine rules. No action taken. B-132-1996*Mr. Mathews called to report that one of their heating oil trucks broke a power take off shaft while traveling on Rt. 1 in Harrington. When the shaft hit the road it transmitted some of the impact back to the vehicle breaking the oil transfer pump. The driver pulled over to the side of the road and the oil in the pump and its associated piping leaked out onto the snow. This was about 1/8 mile east of the Sunrise L.P. plant. He reported that there wer no homes in the immediate area. They shoveled up the snow and returned it to their shop in Cherryfield where they will collect the oil and burn it in the shop waste oil burner. B-52-1997*1/29/97 10:21 Judy Randolf of the Kenney's Trailer Park in Searsort called to report an oil spill at her residence. It was stated that during a delivery a worker from Steamboat Petroleum of Winterport overfilled the outside tank. Fumes were noted inside the trailer. I later met on site with Baine Pollard, owner of the oil company. Mr. Pollard stated that there didn't appear to be much oil around the tank and didn't think it was worth reporting. Further inspection behind the trailer's skirting however revealed quite a bit of oil; perhaps 10-15 gallons. The oil was subsequently cleaned up with speedi dri and sorbents. An additional layer of speedi dri was placed down on the affected area and later cleaned up in the spring. This remediated fume problem. B-735-1997*Mr. Pelkey called to report that he had a repair crew at the St. Pierre residence. The outside tank had leaked between 50-100 gallons of kerosene. His crew was cleaning it up by sucking it up with a transfer pump. There was no odor problem and it had not left the site. I went to the residence the next morning. The tank was a flat 275 under a deck. Over time it had settled into the ground (clay) and a small depression had been created under the filter probably during maintenance. The weather had been bitterly cold and the filter had become frozen into the ground. The tank moved and the filter nipple cracked allowing the oil to escape. Fortunately the oil collected in the depression of frozen clay and was easily recovered. No further action was necessary. On 4/9/98 Ms. St. Pierre called to say that she had a problem from this winter's oil spill. I went to the site and saw that some oil had flowed out from under the deck and soaked into the lawn beside her steps. Also the pocket under the now abandoned fuel tank showed oil floating on a puddle of water. I padded up the oil and made arrangements with a small contractor to remove the contaminated soil. This was done on 4/14/98 and the soil taken to Sawyer's landfill. The hole under the deck was left open and I checked it the next day to see if any oil had migrated into the hole. It had not. On 4/16 the contractor filled the holes. It seems the case is now resolved. A-738-1999* DEP received a report that this residential AST had been overfilled. Contaminated soil was visible under the tank; the tank was removed and soil excavated to a depth of 1-1/2'. A dug well is located 100' from the spill site but is unlikely to be impacted by this event. B-549-1997*D-TREE=S. A-6-1998* Auto accident..... a passenger van skidded out of control, on ice, and hit a concrete bridge. It then tumbled into the St. Georges River. The van landed upright and some gasoline was released. The stream was flowing at a fast rate, therefore, containment would have been difficult. Upon my arrival the van had been removed and there was no sign of gasoline. No further action will be required A-697-2000*On Sunday, December 17th, a severe thunderstorm passed through many areas of Maine depositing several inches of heavy rain. Area rivers and streams were flooded with unusually high water flow on Monday morning. It was down one of these streams that Lila Morris' car floated after rolling out of her driveway, down a hill, across her lawn, and over the bank. The vehicle was pulled four hundred feet downstream by the current and fetched up on a rock. The car appeared undamaged but was unapproachable due to the heavy current. After the water subsided a tow truck was able to attach to the car and pull it to dry land. The gas tank, oil pan, and brake lines were intact. No evidence of petroleum release was found. No further action expected. A-266-2001* Wadleigh's overfilled this AST. This bulk plant is owned by Frontier Oil and is located on Rt 137 in China. Sometime in the early hours of 4-11-01 the aboveground tank at Frontier Oil was overfilled. Wadleighs was the transport company that delivered fuel at the time of discharge. The spill was not reported within the two hour time limit. I arrived on scene shortly after receiving the call. Sorbent pads had been placed down on the ground. I made a phone call to Wadleigh's and they were getting a crew ready to send over for clean up. I made some recommendations for equipment to bring. The cleanup crew shovelled many drums of contaminated snow into drums. In addition, a depression was dug into the snow and it was lined with a tarp. Contaminated snow was placed into this area and was shovelled into drums the next day. Cleanup appeared to be adequate. The real problem with this site is that it has no containment around the tank and no overfill protection, such as an alarm or automatic shutoff. Please see attached letters to Frontier Oil. I made a site visit sometime in August, 2001 and saw new electrical conduit along the top of the multi-compartment tank. So it appears that Frontier Oil has complied with our request. I will be forwarding this case to our Enforcement Division to deal with the late report from Wadleigh's. A-250-1997*Rod Markham called to report that he had removed an office floor, concrete, and old asplalt, but had not located the reported UST. He had installed the tank some time ago. I told him that nothing more need to be done to abandon the tank in place. Perhaps it had been removed prior to building over the site. The second tank outside the building was removed and no contamination was noted. B-233-2000*B-233-2000 04/28/2000 15:50 Sheri Bragon, concerned resident on the Pinkham Road in Glenburn, called to report that her outside 275 gallon fuel oil tank was beginning to leak. Investigation shown that the tank was weeping from a very minute corrosion hole. Very little oil appeared to have leaked. A container was placed beneath the drip until the tank could be replaced. It may be noted that the Bragon well is not at risk from this particular minor spill. P-89-2000* On Wed. 2/16/00 Rick Perkins of DEP BAQC notified Stephen Flannery and I of a complaint from Ms. Julie Cope, who claimed she got a fill-up to her car from this station consisting of 90% water. Checking with office records there is no indication this evidence-of-a-leak was reported as required. Ted Scharf of DEP stated that this facility had three inconclusive SIA's as of 10/31/98 with no resolution at this time. The facility is reg. as replaced in 5/88 with four single-wall FRP UST's with single-wall FRP piping, pressurized system (see attached for further info.). The facility is located in the dense commercial area of Morrills Corner, off Rt. 302/Forest Ave. On Wed. 2/23/00, I visited and met manager Ted Downey onsite. Mr. Downey stated that last week his Regular Unleaded (RU) UST took on water after the nearby storm drain overflowed and surface water leaked back into the RU tank thru a loose fill cap. I noted the cap to still be loose and not cam-locked down as it should be. Mr. Downey stated he was not aware of his requirement to report the sudden increase in water to the tank. I advised him that DEP was concerned over a possible breach in the UST. There were no complete SIA records onsite at the time as these are reported to be at their main office. Mr. Downey stated he was not aware of the requirement to report spills, keep a small-spill log, or about the problem SIA's. I gave him DEP info. sheets on SIA's and small-spill logging. Clean Harbors, Inc. confirmed they were called by Portland Pump Co. and pumped off 602 gallons of liquid on 2/16/00. At this time I recommend a more full facility inspection and educational visit to the facility by DEP, BRWM, Tanks Unit staff. A full letter advising the company of its requirements is also advised. A P-Test should be considered. Further Resp. Div. actions are possible. See UST Reg. #1711 files for further information. Stephen Brezinski, DEP BRWM . B-807-1998*Betty Worsfold said she'd been smelling oil for a month before Hubert Billings reported to us that the harbor at Deer Isle was showing a sheen. Investigating on 12/18, I hooked up with Hubert, and we started knocking on doors. The first one we knocked on was Mrs. Worsfold's. The smell of spilled oil assailed us as we opened the basement bulkhead; examining the feedline from one of the two tanks, oil was seen leaking out of the black plastic sleeve used to protect the copper pipe. (On a super high tide, the sea water backs up into the basement thru the ledge. Water gets trapped inside the plastic sleeve, and eventually the copper line corrodes.) The feedline was repaired that day, but because of the sea state, no sorbents were deployed 'til 12/22. On that date, Robert Sypitkowski and I installed a venting system to vent the oil fumes out of the basement, and emplaced an air sampling device to test the quality of the air in Worsfold's living space. Because of the tidal range, and ice building up against the building's cribwork, the sorbent boom picked up very little oil, so it was removed on 1/04/99. The well water shows weathered oil contamination; according to Mr. Billings, this site was once occupied by a bulk plant belonging to Hensellear Oil of D.I. It's thought that the well became contaminated then. 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. B-487-1996*9/4/96 @ 2040 The State Police dispatcher contacted me while I was in route to an explosion (B-485-96) at a paper mill in Brewer. I made contact with Mike Drinkwater, the Greenville Fire Chief (695-2261). According to Mr. Drinkwater a sheen was seen in Moosehead Lake in Greenville at East Cove. It was reported that the sheen had stopped entering the lake from a small stream which was boomed at a location across from the insurance agency. Mr. Drinkwater did not know the source of the sheen or even if the sheen was caused by a petroleum oil. No active response to Greenville was initiated. P-481-1996*On August 5, 1996 I was notified by Rick Perkins (DEP - Air) that an alarm was going off at the Cumberland Farms on Cottage Road in South Portland. I called the gas station, they had not yet determined why the alarm was going off, but that pumps were shut down. I visited the site later that day and checked all the alarm and piping sumps, I found no evidence of a leak. On August 12, 1996 I was contacted by Bill Lovely of Cumberland Farms. He reported that the tanks at the station in question had all been pressure tested and were "okay", and that the alarms were due to a computer malfunction. No further action. P-783-1999*See attached. A-296-2000*A new tank has been installed at this property by The Pollution Prevention Unit. The homeowner indicated that there was slight staining under the old tank. The homeowner dug it up and moved a small amount of soil to the back of the property. This area is on public water. No further response action anticipated. P-763-2000* On Mon. 12/11/00, I was reached by Mr. Ogden, Cumb. PWD Director, regarding subsurface oil contam. found by a recent site assessment for the Public Works Dept. area. He explained that a new school is being considered for this area and would require the demolition of the PWD buildings and new construction. The town also wished to know DEP requirements. Across the street is the Drowne Elem. School. At the end of Drowne Rd. is a closed town dump. Next to the Bus Garage to the W and SW are houses (see map). According to the Sevee & Maher report: a 1000 gal. UST was aban. in 1989 (1992?) by Portland Pump Co.; short of required 30 day notice; with contam. noted but not reported to DEP as required; no free product at present. No UST removal site assessment was required at the time. Other, motor & heater fuel UST's have been abandoned and replaced at the site in recent past [see P-54-00, any attachments, and UST Reg. file #15988]. Present site conditions indicate a BS-1 Clean-Up Goal (see attached DEP Decision Tree). Based on likely future use as a school, the area would be upgraded to having an INTERMEDIATE CLEAN-UP GOAL requiring clean-up of the oil contam. to state satisfaction. The upgrading of clean-up requirements is based on alleviating potential vapor problems and public concerns and agrees with Sevee & Maher's recommendations. See the attached Sevee & Maher report for further details on the area. If the area is disturbed for construction than DEP requires that a DEP rep. be on-site to observe the conditions & severity of the oil discharge and to give final clearance to a clean-up. A copy of this report will be sent to Mr. Ogden. S G Brezinski, Maine, DEP, BRWM A-86-1999*Staining on the road beside the Captain's Catch was reported. The caller alledged that junk vehicles were being stored and dripping on the road. I found no junk vehicles and a minor drip leak. No further action is required. B-691-1999* On November 1, 1999 at 0805 we received a call from Randall Foster of Hancock Oil in Ellsworth reporting a #2 oil spill at the home of Robert Hubbert on the Hancock Pt. Road in Hancock. The spill actually happened around noon on October 30, 1999. Between fifteen and twenty gallons of fuel came out the vent and onto the ground and wood side of the shed and house. I met Mr. Foster at the site that morning and told him that Hancock Oil should have reported the spill on October 30. The home owner, Mr. Robert Hubbert, has a drilled well which is about fifty feet from the spill site. The well supplies Mr. Hubbert's home and a dozen trailers in a adjacent mobile home park. The deliveryman removed the contaminated fiberglass insulation from the shed on Saturday and picked up some oil with sorbent pads but did no excavation of contaminated soil. I had the Hancock Oil crew excavate the contaminated soil in the shed and also outside the shed. We removed almost two yards of soil and sod. Unfortunately some of the oil seeped between the rock foundation and into the wooden sills. Mr. Hubbert is getting estimates on removing the contaminated sill, wall studs and Hancock Oil will replace them. I sampled Mr. Hubbert's well on November 2 and this sample was negative. I placed the well on quarterly monitoring beginning in Feb. 2000. Since the spill was not reported in a timely manner, I also wrote a letter to Hancock Oil informing them of the necessity of prompt reporting of oil spills. A-7-1997*Driver hit the switch as he was storing the hose. The fuel was quickly cleaned from the frozen gravel drive with pads. The owner was home and was satisfied. No site visit made. I-40-1998*On 3-11-98, Bates Fuel Company called this office to report there had been a spill at the residence of Erwin Carrow. The original estimate was that about 70 gallons had been lost, but following my inspection of the property and absence of any fuel in likely receptors, lowered the estimates to about 40 gallons. There was no need at that time for any remedial work to take place. No action to be taken. A-758-1999* Mr. Murch called this office seeking advice on what to do with a gasoline spill that had occurred at his property in Whitefield. His home is located on Route 218, also known as 11 Wiscasset Road. An automobile that Mr. Murch owns developed a leak in the fuel system. The spilled fuel left a stain about one foot in diameter on the driveway. I asked him about the depth of bedrock in the area and he said that it was not near the surface. He wanted to remove the soil with a hand shovel. I agreed with him and suggested that he dispose of the soil in the regular waste stream. No further action is anticipated. P-379-1999* On Monday 6/7/99, I met Mr. Mirabile of CMP and another CMP rep. onsite at their Cape Station generating plant to check on CMP's 6/4/99 request to abandon several buried #2 fuel lines and waste lube lines in-place. The site is located on a spit of land jutting out into Portland Harbor and helping to form Mill Cove. The two turbines are supplied with #2 fuel via underground piping from a 1.3 million gallon AST (see site maps). The water is about 100' or less from the oil lines. I noted no containment around the fuel line area though the large steel AST is bermed. Following CMP's generating plant's purchace by FPL it is understood that the two turbines will be removed and the piping accessable for removal 60 days before or after 3/1/00. Maine requires that the lines be abandoned by 7/1/99 however. On 6/7/99 I approved to abandon the lines in-place with expected removal later on. CMP is open to this for the lube lines though wished a variance to continue useing the supply lines so as not to suffer the expense of installing new up-to-code fuel lines only to abandon them by removal approx. eight months after they are installed (see attached CMP letter of 6/8/99). I understand that CMP is applealing this issue to DEP thru Mark Holden of BRWM, OEU. On 6/16/99 Mr. Mirabile informed me that Cape station suffered a 1 gallon #2 fuel leak from an aboveground section of a pipe. It was noted during a routine inspection and cleaned up by CMP personnel. No further Resp. Div. action expected at this time. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM P-833-1996*In early December 1996 I received a call from Russ McLellan indicating that he had oil vapors in his residence. The residence had been involved in a fuel oil spill in October. After discussing the problem with Mr. McLellan, I believed the problem to be oil in his sump. On 12/18/96 I investigated the complaint. Upon arrival I observed free product in the sump. I believed the source of the product to be a leaking oil line under the basement floor. Mr. McLellan was to make arrangements to have the line replaced and I made arrangements to have a blower installed over the sump to remove vapors from the house. On 1/24/97 myself and Bruce Lambert installed the blower succesfully. I talked with Mr. McLellan several days later and he indicated that he no longer smelled oil in his home. I told him to continue to operate the blower until no oil odor was evident at the outflow end of the system. No further action required. Please see attachments in this report for additional details. _____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II B-521-2000*B-521-2000 09/25/2000 19:51 Dave Gonyea of the USCG Marine Safety Office in Bucksport called to report a minor spill incident off of Acadia National Park in Mount Desert. I was informed that a lobster boat broke up on the rocks when it lost power. Approximately 3 gallons of diesel were stated to have been released producing a minor sheen. The sheen remained unrecoverable. P-824-1996*Spill of P275 Resin at Pioneer Plastcs in Auburn. See attached Pioneer Plastics report. P-631-1997* On 11/4/97, S. Brezinski of DEP Response Svcs. was contacted by Ms. Deborah Miles regarding a complaint of a discharge from a freight train, near the Scarborough Marsh, about two weeks before. Ms. Miles explained that the material smelled very bad but not petroleum (i.e. natural gas or oil) like; and it left a bad taste in her mouth. Ms. Miles stated that she had called the state police right after it happened but did not call the DEP. To add credence to her observation, Ms. Miles explained that she had a law enforcement degree and has been told she could work for the Secret Service and President because she was so sensitive to smells. No DEP visit was made as the oder would be dissipated and further attention would have been ineffectual. S. Eufemia suspects odor from brakes when braking the train. SGB 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. A-261-1999*During renovations at the old Oak Grove Coburn School (being converted to the new Maine State Police Academy) contamination was discovered around a 15,000 gallon tank used to store #6 oil. The tank was in the basement, surrounded by double brick walls. The sand that had been placed between the brick walls and the tank was contaminated with oil. The tank and contaminated soil was removed between May 24-26, 1999. A 275 gallon tank did not show evidence of a leak. No further action required by Response Services. A-517-1998* DEP received a report that an oily sheen was evident on the shores of Washington Pond. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the site and observed a combination of naturally occurring organic scale sheen and iron-rich bacterial flocc. P-533-1998*Water sample results received on 11/18/98 indicating MTBE levels of 16 PPB. State action level is 25PPB. Location of residence well is next to driveway used for residence and next to neighbor driveway. Carbon Filter system for drinking water already installed. (see attached picture of site) P-381-1997*On 7/3/97 at 1140 the Sanford Fire Department reported a waste oil discharge at 6 Riverbank Court. The cause given for the discharge was spillage from oil containers which had been improperly disposed of in bags of household refuse left for curbside pick-up. The initial report indicated the discharge was minor and that firefighters had the oil contained and would have it cleaned up shortly with sorbent pads. No assistance by DEP was requested at this time. Several hours later Lt. Cushing called and requested that DEP pick up and dispose of the spend sorbents and replace one bale of pads. I questioned Cushing as to why so many pads had been used to clean-up what had been reported as a minor discharge. Cushing indicated that another resident of the area had noticed the discharge and had hosed the oil towards a storm drain with water from a garden hose, hence the additional pads. On 7/7/97 I retrieved the used pads for eventual disposal and replaced them with new pads. I recommend that the Department seek reimbursement for one bale of pads from the person named in the "Subject" section of this report. Steven J. Eufemia OHMS III B-221-2000*B-221-2000 04/21/2000 17:17 Mona Spear, Environmental Compliance Specialist for Bangor Hydro Electric, called to report a small dielectric oil spill on Route 92 in Machiasport. It was stated that approximately one pint of "non PCB" oil leaked from a failed bushing on a transformer. The oil was subsequently cleaned off the telephone equipment below the transformer. No resources of the State were reportedly affected. A-397-1997*Received a call from a consultant doing an Appendix P site assessment in Waterville that he had found reportable amounts of contamination. I responded to the site. When I arrived, Ramon Khu of Blymyer Engineers was on site. He pointed out stained soils at the removal site of a 10,000 gallon diesel fuel underground tank. There was also staining at the site of the dispenser. Mr. Khu's PID readings were all approximately 1 ppm. I did insist that the heavily stained soil be excavated and disposed of. Approximately 17 tons of contaminated soil was sent to Commercial Paving for treatment. An additional 500 gallon consumptive use heating oil tank was also removed. No contamination was found and it was not discussed in the Appendix P site assessment. No further work is necessary at this site. A-19-1997*Received a report from Nancy Bonenfant that there had been a small oil spill at her apartment. I visited the house on Gage Street in Augusta. She showed me the two tank fills where Gagne Fuel had overfilled the tanks. She also showed me the basement where some fuel leaked under a tank and an unattached copper tubing that formerly lead to the kitchen. Ms. Bonenfant said some oil also found it's way up to the first floor. I called the installer who did the work on the monitor heater and he explained that the tube was an old return line that he had not removed from the tank. (It has now been properly removed from the tank.) Inspecting the one tank showed that the oil probably came out of loose joints on the fill pipe. Total spilled inside the house was less than 1 gallon. There was very little to cleanup outside the house. Gagne Fuel did go back inside and finish sweeping up the clay sorbent and odor-gone. The spill occured on 1/10/97 and was reported late on 1/23/97. The late report was due to a lack of communications between agencies, the RP and the complainant and is not to be referred. No further work is necessary on this spill. P-263-2001* On Monday 4/2/01, I responded to a reported discharge from the outside vertical, K1 heating oil AST at Ms. Fitzmorris's rural home. The 275 gal. AST was located behind her mobile home up on a hillside. The property is owned by Cynthia Cox who lives in a small house downgrade of Fitzmorris. They both share one dug well (see site sketch). Also downgrade is Claire Piawlock with a dug well also. Later that week Geologist Brad Hahn visited with me. The rear and side area is wooded. Hahn and I considered an invest. and source reduction critical. After explaining the options and need to remediate, Ms. Fitzmorris chose DEP to manage the remediation which was begun on Fri. 4/13/01. DEP oversaw Jack Cross Co. excavate for offsite disposal 20.65 tons of oily soil. The soil was very rocky and made digging difficult (see photos and site sketch). A test pit on the downgrade side of Fitzmorris' found no odor of oil in the soil or free product on gw. Under the AST we excavated down to about 6' to 7' bg. A small amount of red oil was noted seeping in atop gw. though nothing indicating a discharge of 250+ gals. as reported. The soil did have a stong odor of heating oil. I had Cross fill with crushed rock to provide a firm base for the tank. Brooks reinstalled the tank. Ms. Fitzmorris was advised to put a roof over the tank & line to curb future problems. Cox/Fitzmorris and Piawlock were put on QM. The Fire Marshal was notified to send an AST Ins. application and I explained the program to Fitzmorris. DEP covered clean-up invoices. Fitzmorris may be an Ind. Ability to Pay candidate. See attached notes, addendums and documents for further information. Further DEP actions are possible pending QM results. S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM 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-333-2000*B-333-00 Lincoln Wednesday June 21, 2000 1631 I received a phone call from Mr. Lou Derose (794-6721), of Lincoln Pulp and Paper. Mr. Derose phoned to report that a sheen had been spotted on the Mill Pond. He reported that it came from somewhere, but not from the Paper Mill. The sheen was also noted on Mattanawcook Stream. The stream will also be boomed at a location near the dam. During the next week the sheen disappeared then later reappeared and later was gone again. I made arrangements with Lincoln's Fire Chief to find the problem. When I went to Lincoln on Thursday July 6 the problem had been located. I was shown the side and driveway of the Timber House Restaurant and a large vat that had been dumped on now what was a greasy driveway. The grease and oils made it to a storm drain and directly to Mattanawcook Stream. There was only a light sheen near the storm sewer pipe out fall to the stream. The sheen existed for about 24 inches and was about 3 inches wide. I thanked the Chief and proceeded south. B-410-1999* On July 15, 1999 at 1100 we received a call from Cary Skates of the Maine Dept. of Transportation reporting that he found some contaminated soil at the D.O.T. maintenance lot on route 15 in Jackman. Mr. Skates was excavating a hole for a new leach-field when he found about three truck-loads of slightly contaminated soil, 200 to 400 parts per million, on top of a layer of clay. I told him to stockpile the material until I could inspect it for land-spreading. I checked the site on July 26 and met lot foreman Stan Warren. We found an area on site and I instructed Mr. Warren on the requirements for spreading. The material was spread the beginning of the first week of August. P-939-2001* On Tues. 11/13/01, I met with Ms. Write at her Raymond home regarding a fuel oil line leak. Ms. Wright was selling the house and had not occupied it for weeks. Over the time she estimates approx. 1/4 tank of oil appears to have leaked and soaked into the sandy soil of the basement floor. I noted an oil stain under the buried fuel line and filter. About 70' downgrade is her driven point well, and 120' away is Sebago Lake, both threatened by the discharge. The neighboring wells are unlikely threatened do to likely gw flow toward Sebago Lake. I explained Clean-Up & management options, the AST Ins. Fund, and Ms. Wright opted for DEP management. The Fire Marshal was contacted for an AST application. Also briefed was Nate Whalen of the Portland Water District and Raymond CEO John Cooper. On 11/15/01, Clean Harbors Inc. (CHI) vacuumed out 1.5 yds. of oily sand soil from under the tank; copious boulders prevented further soil removal. DEP CG Hahn visited and was briefed. A test pit behind the house and about 30' downgrade was excavated by CHI & DEP on 11/21 to wet sandy soil @ about 14' bg (see site sketches). Severe slumping prevented going deeper. I noted no obvious oil in the excavated soil, and a DRO lab analysis of water-wet soil from the bottom came up ND for DRO (Diesel Range Organics contam.). This indicated that any contamination had not reached this point yet, if it will. Another possibility to consider is that water table of Sebago Lake was down 3' or so and the lake may have been recharging groundwater, causing a stagnant gw flow or flow to the south. Though oil contamination was not detected, the soil excavated was sent to Commercial Recycling for recycling. A 4" monitoring well was installed and a check on the well on 11/27 showed it to be dry. During normal gw levels it is expected to have several feet of water. On 11/27/01 L. J. Gagne Inc. completed landscaping of Wright's and the neighboring Michaud's properties. On 11/29/01 this report and case was be passed to DEP Tech Services for review and further actions as required. Further monitoring is expected and in-situ treatment is possible in order to protect wells and the lake. A copy of this report was sent to Ms. Wright and to Mr. Sorenson, a potential buyer, in mid December, 2001. S G Brezinski, Oil & Haz. Mat. Specialist Maine DEP, BRWM B-328-2001*Please see attached narrative. B-712-1999*A year after the last deadline for the removal of all USTs, owners of tanks unknown to us continue to seek waivers to the 30 day notification requirement prior to removing a tank from the ground. Gordon Pott sought such a waiver on 11/5 for a removal on 11/18. I agreed, intending to attend the removal, but was tied up on another job the day the tank in Dennysville was to be removed. I advised Gordon to go ahead anyway, and advise me if any contamination was encountered. None was. I-154-1997*After giving the DEP proper notice, two UST's were removed from this property. Contamination was encountered around the tanks and the island. The contaminated soil was landspread on the property belonging to the contractor Fred Simard. For detailed information concerning this site see the Site Assessment report prepared by County Environmental in the tank registration file. Soil borings were conducted to determine the impact on neighboring properties. Nothing significant was identified. Case Closed. B-269-1996*On 5/16/96 I took an anonymous call alledging that a UST owned by Harold Chute was still in the ground even though it should've been removed in 1989. I checked it out and the due date was October 94. The caller indicated that Chute's well was not far from the tank. I talked with Harold on the morning of 5/23/96. He indicated that he had received several calls from our department. He speculated that perhaps we weren't too busy. I told him about the anonymous call and that our policy was to follow up such calls. I also added that I was particularly concerned about his well. He said that the well was 58' downgrade from the UST, that it was 212' deep and that the overburden was 30'. He went on to say that he planned on removing the tank this summer. Prior to this, however, he needed to install an above ground (vaulted) storage system of similar volume because they were a half mile from the main road and needed the capacity. We discussed the notification process and I asked him to call me if he needed my help. I must add that the caller did not seem to be interested in Mr. Chute's welfare. B-37-1997*On January 22, 1997 at 1115 we received a call from Ms. Maxine Engstrom of C.H. Sprague in Searsport reporting a seventy five gallon #6 oil spill at their facility in Bucksport. Workers overfilled a rail car prior to shipment. I arrived on site and found a Sprague crew recovering the product with sand. I met Duane Seekins, the Sprague terminal manager, who showed where the #6 oil came out the railcar and collected by the side of the track. Workers recovered the product and stockpiled it until trucking the three cubic yards to Sawyer's in Hampden. No state waters were threatened. B-733-1999*Julie White called from Georgia-Pacific in Baileyville to report that a hydraulic hose burst in the pulp mill and an estimated 15 gallons made its way to the process sewer. 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-561-2000*Jeff Zimmerman of the City of Augusta called to report that they had found an underground tank. They were digging at the site of the former Williams School which is now a playground. They struck the tank and uncovered it. They stuck the tank and were shocked to find it still had petroleum in it. I told him that he really needed to call a contractor to pump out the product and clean the tank. He later informed me that he had contacted Clean Harbors. The tank was pumped, cleaned and removed on 10/16/2000, under the direction of Wadleigh's. No contamination was found. A total of 1975 gallons of liquid was removed from the tank with approximately 250 gallons of that fuel oil. No further work is needed on this site. B-32-2001*B-32-2001 02/01/2001 15:50 Mona Spear, Environmental Compliance Specialist for Bangor Hydro-Electric, called to report a dielectric oil spill on Route 11 in Orneville. It was stated that logging truck hit a utility pole knocking the transformer to the ground. It was initially suspected that at least 5 gallons of "non-PCB" oil had leaked. Inspection of the transformer shown that none of the fluid had leaked. No further action was taken. P-862-1999*Storm blew over power pole, knocking down transformer. Spilled non PCB oil to ground and vegetation. CMP cleaned up. A-492-1998*I had given approval to abandon a small heating oil tank in place. The tank is in a small crawl space under a new part of the store. Both Mr. Jacobson and Bill Carver, a licensed tank installer hired by Mr. Jacobson, indicated that it was impracticable to clean and fill the tank as required. I spoke with Diana Mclaughlin and we agreed that Mr. Jacobson could abandon in place with out having the tank cleaned and filled. (See attached letter) I visited the site to confirm that it was impossible to fill the tank accidentally. The tank top is exposed and the old piping was not buried. The tank is empty. Mr. Jacobson was supposed to provide a copy of the attachment to his deed as an indication that the required work had been completed. This had not been received by the end of 1998. Diana Mclaughlin will change the status of the tank when the attachment has been received. No further action is anticipated. P-599-1999*On 10/21/99 I received a call from the State Police reporting that a Union Oil rack truck that was towing a 500 gallon trailer tank had hit a bump in the road and flipped the trailer. The trailer had approximately 25 gallons of fuel oil in it at the time and about 10-15 gallons leaked out after it landed on its top. Union Oil responded quickly with sorbents and speedi dry and dug up a small amount of soil from the side of the road. The majority of the oil was spilled on and recovered from the pavement. No further response action is required at this time. _____________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I October 22, 1999 B-806-1998*B-806-98 DOVER-FOXCROFT FRIDAY DECEMBER 18, 1998 0928 I received a phone call from Teresa Emery (564-2610), the Dover-Foxcroft fire dispatcher. Ms. Emery phoned to report a 20-gallon gasoline spill at the Dover Exxon. The bread truck driver began filling gasoline in his truck then left his truck unattended. While he was inside until the pump was shut off, about 20 gal of gasoline was spilled on the pavement. There is a notice on the pumps not to leave your vehicle unattended while fueling, and the store clerk told the bread truck driver to get back out to his vehicle. The spill on the pavement was cleaned up by the Dover-Foxcroft Fire Dept. The sorbents and speedi-dri were collected and placed in two 30-gallon plastic containers. This material is to be disposed of by the J.J. Nissen Baking Company through Clean Harbors. P-175-2000*On March 29 I responded to a spill at a residence in Falmouth. The homeowner noticed oil on top of the water in his cellar and upon closer inspection found that the tank was dripping. The owner called a Oil burner service who came out and plugged the leak and began replacing the tank. The cellar is very wet and had standing water in places. I padded up the oil on the water surface and removed about 1/4 yard of soil from under the tank. The tank had been inspected a couple months earlier when the current owners moved in - at that time the tank appeared fine, so it was presumed that the tank had not leaked long nor lost much fuel. I brought the impacted soil I removed to Commercial Recycling for disposal. P-495-1998*See attached P-18-2001* Abandonment-by-removal of waste oil UST in Licensed Terminal & Tank Farm by Clean Harbors, Inc.. No discharges noted or reported and no further DEP actions expected at this time. Required UST closure assessment to have been done by Clean Harbors, Inc. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-677-1999*B-677-99 Machias Friday October 22, 1999 1746 I received a phone call from the state police dispatcher (866-2121). I was asked to make contact with Jeff Gray (942-4416) of Bangor Hydro Electric concerning a 12 to 15 gallon mineral oil spill in Machias. According to Mr. Gray there was an automobile accident in which a car struck a power pole. The pole with its 15 KVA transformer struck the pavement on the Kennebec Road. This caused a transformer oil spill to the asphalt surface and the road's shoulder. Sorbent pads and speedi-dri were used to clean up the spill on the road surface. The affected area of road shoulder was excavated. The gravel was placed in a 55-gallon drum. In all, 2 ? fifty-five gallon drums were filled with oil-contaminated speedi-dri, sorbent pads, and gravel. This material will be disposed of at Sawyer Environmental in Hampden. P-151-1999*On 3/1/99 I received a call from the Auburn Fire Dept. reporting a car accident rollover with gasoline spillage. They were requesting my presence at the scene. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I was not able to detect any gasoline at the location of the accident site. I was also unable to detect any gasoline in a water filled drainage ditch at the location. A deputy chief from the Auburn Fire Dept. reported that approximately 1 gallon of gasoline was spilled. It is likely that the spill had completely dissipated before my arrival. No further action required. _______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II MARCH 2,1999 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. A-311-2001*Received a call from Vickie Gammon of International Paper that there had been a hydraulic oil spill at the mill. She reported that a pulp loader hydraulic hose blew spilling about 25 gallons of hydraulic oil. Employees from the woodroom cleaned up the oil with sorbent material. No site visit was made and no further work is necessary. P-569-2000*See separate narrative for report details. P-859-1996*Beginning on 21 October 1996, S.D. Warren Company of Westbrook, suffered a series of spills related to flood damage. None of the spilled material was recovered nor did Response Services require any remedial action. The entered Date Reported: 5 November 1996, on page 1, indicates the date that the phosphoric acid was reported. See attached SDW memo detailing this release. The following is a summary of reported release at the facility location, excluding the above mentioned spill: 22Oct96, personnel-Thompson 1.miscellaneous. lubricating oils from manufacturing machines, waste oil drums, virgin product drums, crank cases etc. Amount of this material lost is undetermined. 2.hydrogen peroxide. A ruptured disk associated with an aboveground storage tank caused the discharge. The amount of this material lost nor the size of the storage tank was provided to the MDEP SMRO. 3. biocyde. The amount lost, size of container, nor circumstances related to the discharge of this material was provided to the MDEP SMRO 4.asbestos. An on-going abatement project at the time of the flood caused the release of an undetermined amount of removed asbestos. No remedial action possible for these materials and it is presumed that these materials were washed away by high flood conditions. 23Oct96, personnel- Eufemia, Wallace 1.ammonia. 300 gallons (see attached SDW spill report) 2.isopropyl alcohol. unknown amount (see attached SDW spill report). Westbrook Fire Dept. and mutual aid personel responded to the release of these materials. MDEP personnel observed a portion of the response operation but were not asked to assist. MDEP SMRO receive no follow up information regarding this local response product recovered, product remaining in containers, etc. 3.sodium nitrate. 37 50lbs. bags (see attached SDW spill report). No further actions by Response Services is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (18Apr97) B-370-2001*On 6/29/01 Gwen Lujan contacted the Department as she was concerned about an oil spill at a neighboring house, #2 Spear Ave. in Eastport. I spoke with Ms. Lujan and learned that about a year ago she smelled fuel oil. She also told me that previous tenants, Terry and Linda Culleton, had done automotive work on the site and was concerned with hazardous chemicals that might have been spilled or dumped there. She said that some neighborhood children had been sick last year and was concerned that the cause had been from #2 Spear Avenue. I told her that I would try to get to Eastport the following week. On 7/6/01 I visited the address. I could not find any evidence of a spill. The heating oil tank is an outside vertical 275 that appears to be up to code. The house was vacant and I did not enter the basement. However I did use a PID to sample the air around the very loose cellar door and did not get any response. I also looked around the tiny overgrown back yard and could not see signs of any spills. The garage mentioned by Ms. Lujan is a tiny one-car type in general disrepair (as was the house) containing a quantity of junk, but I saw no evidence of spills. I went to the new address of the Culletons, 6 Gilman St., 853-4024, and spoke with Mrs. Culleton. She denied that there had been any oil spills at the address while she lived there. She also gave me the address of the owners, Don and Jessie Dierich, 211 Arlington Dr., Wilmington, NC. From the fire hydrants in the street I assume the neighborhood is served with public water. Since I could not find any evidence of a spill, I expect no further action. B-530-2000* On September 27, 2000 at 1630 we received a call from Major Eric Johns of the Air National Guard reporting that a crew found contaminated soil while excavating for a new fire station at the Air Guard base at Bangor International Airport. I visited the site and found that the excavating crew had found and removed an old conduit and also found contaminated soil around it. Further research into old blueprints showed the possibility of an old 2,000 gallon gas tank in the area. The area is a baseline 1 clean-up standard and although no soil reached that level, the Guard removed twelve yards of lesser contaminated soil for landspreading at an old runway on city property at the airport. There are no buried drainage culverts in the area and an access manhole to a buried radar line showed no contamination or fumes. Further digging will occur in the spring and I will monitor this work for any more problems. I-40-2001*A possible broken line under house caused 20 gallons of kerosene to leak in the ground. Homeowner replaced fuel line. I-15-2000*After a tractor was removed from the median, it was discovered that the truck had lost all of the fuel in it's saddle tanks. Due to the location no cleanup effort was attempted. No damage was identifed by myself or Frank Wezner. The site was watched all summer as we went by the location we would stop and inspect. I will continute to monitor, but no further work is planned. B-615-1997*D-TREE=N. I-35-2000*On 4-14-00, MPG fertilizer department called to report one of their bulk fertilizer tanks had collapsed its supports, broken the bottom valve and lost all 18,000 gallons in the tank. The dike did not hold and most of the contents spread from the dike area to a ditch that emptied to a tributary to Presque Isle stream. It had happened sometime in the early morning of the same day. The material involved was a Urea/ammonium nitrate fertilizer. A contractor was hired to remove all saturated soil to prevent any more leaching to the brook. The soil was spread onto a farm-field at a controlled rate to fertilize, as it was intended. I and Bill Sheehan of the Presque Isle Regional Office-Water Bureau have been working with MPG to re-design the facility to prevent a re-occurrence. A-14-1998*A pole broke and dropped a transformer. The contents leaked out and were caught in the snow and ice. There was a small wetland behind the spill, but it did not appear to be affected. CMP removed the transformer and the contaminated snow. B-505-2000*B-505-2000 09/19/2000 12:45 Bob Bechtold of the Naval Security Group Activity in Winter Harbor called to report a small spill of diesel fuel at their Ocean Heights Housing Complex. It was stated that approximately 3 gallons of fuel spilled onto the paved roadway when a fuel container fell over in the rear of a contractor's pick up. The fuel was subsequently cleaned up with speedi-dri. No resources of the State were reportedly affected. P-262-2000*Leaking transformer - Non PCB. See attached CMP report. NFA P-168-1999*see comment field. 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-153-2000* DEP received a report that fuel oil had been spilled at a delivery vehicle as it was leaving a customer's residence. The gravel driveway and several hundred feet of paved highway were affected. The fuel company (Kalloch) sent staff to sorb oil from pavement and meltwater; contaminated gravel was excavated from the driveway for disposal. A drilled well provides water to this home; this well is located approx. 50' from the spill site but is not likely to be impacted. No other wells are located down gradient of this site for at least 1/4 mile. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. 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-325-1997*On June 26, 1997 at 1120 we received a call from Ray Hitchborn of the Maine Forest Service reporting a spill at their facility near the Old Town Airport. A water drain broke off the bottom of a tank truck and spilled twenty to twenty five gallons of JP8 at two locations. The first was on some gravel and the driver moved the truck onto the tar and plugged the hole with a stick. I arrived on site and met Mr. Hitchborn who showed me the two sites. We put a few sorbent pads on the gravel site and I explained to him how to spread the contaminated soil in a then layer and mix in high nitrogen fertilizer for biological breakdown. We next checked the spill on the runway and we recovered this product with sorbents. I looked at the tank truck and saw the water drain pipe was broken just above the lever valve. The lever arm was tight and hard to move which caused stress at the break point until it weakened and broke. 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. P-798-2001*See attached report from Roux Associates. Bulk plant map available in Augusta back-up file. P-661-1994* LUST abandonment with associated remediation thru source reduction. Gasoline contamination is understood to remain but not cost effectively assessable at the time, such as under the roads and the building. . A-159-1999*No site visit made. This pinhole leak was quickly noticed. Webber responded and stopped the leak. A bucket under the tank had collected most product and sorbents were used to finish the job. No further action is anticipated. B-331-1996*On 6/25/96, 0210 hours Mona Spear of Bangor Hydro Electric Company called to report a dielectric oil spill at their Washington County Substation. The discharge was coming from a bushing on one of the transformers. At the time they didn't know if it was leaking because it was loose or because it was cracked. It turned out that it was cracked. The unit was not labeled, but a lab test indicated that the oil was not PCB by definition-it was less than 50 ppm, namely it was 18 ppm. Most of the oil stayed on the cement pad (a 5' x 3' area), while a 3' x 3" area of gravel had also become impacted. The clean up produced a half drum of contaminated soil and sorbent material. I-1-2001*This spill was identifed by a strong odor of fuel in the home by the renter Debbie Milam (521-0230). The owner of the property currently lives in Alaska, but was home the week of the spill. The cellar is a rock wall foundation with dirt floor. Criterium Engineers was called due to the poor condition of the foundation. They told us how much we could safely excavate next to & underneath the walls. Soil excavation was only possible down 2 to 3 feet, then ledge was encountered. Some fractured pieces of the ledge were worked out of the rock and the surfaces were coated with oil. The bedding is nearly verticle and the strike is almost directly inline with the drilled well. The well has been put on Quarterly monitoring for Diesel Range Organics. No further action other than QM required. Response Case closed B-302-2001*B-302-2001 05/23/2001 17:30 Brian Stetson of Great Northern Paper in Millinocket called to report discovering a sheen in the West Branch of the Penobscot River at their sewer outfall. It was described as a 10 ft. by 30ft. area without a known source. All possible sources were later ruled out. Closer examination of the oil later on shown it to be an organic sheen or wood pitch. No further action was taken. 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-112-2000*A gasket on a transformer blew out while transformer was being filled with oil, spilling 50-75 gallons of Non-PCB transformer oil. The oil spilled to the ground (crushed rock) in the fenced in area of the transformers. Clean Harbors was called to clean up the spill which they did with sorbent material and excavation. No further action required. A-209-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98. See attached CMP report for more information. No further action anticipated. P-289-1996*Marsh sheen discovered. No further action required. A-111-2001*Received a call from Waldo County Sheriff's office that there had been a truck accident involving a tank truck. I went to the site on Route 220, south of Thorndike Village. An H.O. Bouchard tank truck carrying fuel oil had jack knifed and had punctured a saddle tank. The site was up hill and all the diesel flowed down the road. Approximately 125 gallons of diesel fuel were lost. H.O. Bouchard did the cleanup with their own people and the local fire department. Some contaminated soil and spread sand went to Thibodeau & Sons for disposal. A lot of the diesel was in to the banked snow which H.O. Bouchard took back to their shop. Weather was a large factor in the accident, as it was freezing rain. No further work is necessary on this site. Note: There is no Oil Spill Debris form associated with this incident, as it was inadvertently misplaced. P-804-1999* On Thurs. 11/18/99 I was contacted by Mr. Gobiel of the Kennebunk Water District (KWD) regarding two old UST's they had found. KWD was excavating a new water line down Rt. 1 in Wells and found two bare steel tanks and product piping under the south-side breakdown lane, right where they had to put a new fire hydrant. I contacted Dan Ross and Jean Gallant of MDOT though at the time they could not get any decision as to whether MDOTwould accept any liability. I met Gobiel and a KWD crew onsite that afternoon and advised him (after checking with J. Woodard) that DEP would work with KWD to have the tanks taken care of. The tanks checked out to be vapor free and with no liquid and KWD lifted them out. Clean Harbors stated they would truck the tanks away for disposal by 1500 hrs, though they had not arrived onsite by the time I left @ 1615 hrs. The tanks, 500 to 750 gal. size, were corroded with many holes. There was no odor or staining indicating leakage. Gw was just below the tank bottom @ about 6' bg. I filled out a DEP removal notice and UST Reg. form. Local people stated that this was a gas station in the 1930's with two pumps. The present area is occupied by the Midway Motel and the Meadowledge RV Resort. Across the street is a residence. The area is on public water and sewer. Soils were sandy. As the tanks were within the MDOT Right-Of Way and partly under Rt. 1, the DEP will contact MDOT as to their position on reimbursement for DEP's UST abandonment expenses. See attachements for further information. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-739-1997*12/31/97 14:10 A Hamel Fuels dispatcher called to report a #2 fuel spill in the basement of Lawrence Webber at 125 Larkin Street. It was stated that approximately 150 gallons leaked from a corrosion hole on the 275 gallon tank onto the basement floor. The recent filling of the tank probably initated the leak. Most of the oil was contained on the floor and cleaned up with speedi dri. A small amount, perhaps 20 gallons, escaped to a floor drain which is connected to the wastewater treatment system. I told Mr. Webber that if the fumes become intolerable we could arrange a vent system. A good scrubbing of the floor took care of the problem however. B-288-2000*B-288-00 Dover-Foxcroft Thursday May 25, 2000 0900 I received a message and phoned Stan Kitchin (487-6674), of S. & G. Construction. Mr. Kitchin reported that one of his dump trucks was hauling for Barrett Paving and blew a hydraulic hose in the Barrett Paving Company's yard, on Route 7, in Dover-Foxcroft. He reported that he lost approximately 5 gallons of hydraulic oil to the ground. A total of about 2 yards of soil some not contaminated was mixed and taken to his gravel pit in Dover-Foxcroft. The soil was placed in a clay area and was covered with a sheet of polyethylene. The soil will be spread thinly when weather permits. B-507-1997*According to Champion's spill report, attached, an estimated 1 quart of diesel is presumed to have leaked from a contractor's truck on the mill grounds. Jon Banks at the PIN was notifiedby me, by telephone, and a copy of the report faxxed to him. P-867-1992* SUMMARY This report covers notification to Maine DEP of failed SIA inventory management for this retail, motor fuels UST facility. See Maine UST registration file #6484 for further information and resolution. . B-337-1996*On 6/25/96, Mike Longo of Grant Trailer Sales, Inc. called to discuss an approach to removing the eighty some odd USTs at the Queen City Mobile Park, which is on the south side of Stillwater Avenue. The park was in the process of being abandoned and most of the units had already been removed. The plan that we settled on was that he would take out several tanks at a time when he could schedule crews to do it and have me come and observe the excavations and the freshly removed tanks. Over the period between 6/27/96 and 11/12/96 I visited the site eight times and witnessed the removal of 71 tanks. We dug on 11 other lots that did not have a tank. Three of these had been removed in "89" according to Mike's records and 8 of the units had electric heat. The ones with electric heat either never had a UST or it was removed when the electric unit was installed. The tank at lot 160 had a corrosion hole at the upper edge of its end plate and it had leaked a few gallons. There was water in its excavation and about a gallon of product was sorbed from it. Since the area was uninhabited and remote, they cordoned the hole off and left it open for a couple of months. There was no detectable product at that time. The tank at lot 57 also had a corrosion hole at the top of an end plate but there was no evidence of discharge. All of the excavations were into clay. The ones at the east end, which was highter ground, were dry while those at the west end (lower ground) had water at about 4.5 feet. A-475-1997*Received a call from Rome Fire Department about an oil spill at a house on Route 27. The house is owned by Arthur DiAngelous of Titusville, Florida. The house is a seasonal house. The spill was discovered by Mr. DiAngelous' caretaker and the plumber that he had called for a no heat problem. They reported the spill to the Rome Fire Department. I met Gordon Brown at the site. The house was locked and no entry was forced. I got a hold of the caretaker who explained he couldn't let anyone into the house without Mr. DiAngelous' permission. He attempted to get the permission and told me that I was not to be allowed into the house. I eventually got in contact with Mr. DiAngelous in Florida by phone on 2/4/98. I explained that I needed access to the house to see if the cleanup was to the Department's satisfaction. He said that he was not going to let me in until he returned in late May. I warned him about the vapor problem that he would probably have when he returned. He stated that he had suffered an oil spill previous to this and that the odor had gone away. He also admitted that he did receive the insurance form and did not send it in. Other phone calls were made and no permission to enter the building was received. This spill has been referred to enforcement for further action. No cleanup has been done on the site as of May 20, 1999. B-136-1997*D-TREE=N. P-392-1996*See Attached Narrative P-209-1999*24 March 1999, conducted a site visit and observed an oil discharge adjacent to the 275 gallon AST, located outside at rear of building. Dig Safe #19991403467. Permission form submitted to resident and received back to DEP. AST Fund Application Faxed to the fire marshal's office. 7 April 1999, DEP excavated contaminated area and disposed of impacted soil. The AST was replaced by B & D Oil Co., Buxton, ME, and the replacement funded by county CAP agency. 12 April 1999, removed remaining contaminated soil and spread loam. Area later seeded by contractor. 27 May 1999, reinstalled dwelling skirting. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 28 July 1999. 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 P-649-2000* On 10/25 and 10/26/00, DEP's Linda Doran & I responded to this retail UST facility regarding an out-of-service waste oil UST & #2 oil UST found under the now demolished former store. On Fri. 10/27, I met CTI Simard onsite observed the 2nd tank and added it to the UST Removal notice & the UST reg. form. Both tanks were removed after being pumped out. During and after the P-86-98 UST replacement the former property owner, Mr. Silver had failed to notify the state about these tanks nor notify M W Sewall Co. before purchasing the prop. soon after the 1998 replacement. The w. o. tank implies the site was also a former auto repair garage. During a Thurs. 10/26 visit with Simard, I issued a virgin letter for disposal of soil excavated from under the new dispensers. This soil removal was done to facilitate the new piping & island install and the new buried utilities, and was not required by DEP. This contam. soil was obviously old and was covered under Morris Silver's 1998 UST Ins. Fund Claim with agreement of Jon Woodard. Soil invoices were sent directly to the DEP. Excav. and trucking costs are not GW Fund covered as the soil was to be excavated anyways and could have been re-used onsite. On 10/26, new, fresh gaso. contam. was noted around the new UST installed in 1998. The new soil and gw appeared more contam. than it appeared in 1998. Simard stated that there had been a discharge from the new tank sometime after the installation and that some product may have leaked out the sump. I have found no record this release was reported to the DEP. The contam. gw was de-watered by CHES to allow a new sump & piping. At this time the dewatering and disposal by Clean Harbors needs covering under a new UST GW Ins. Fund application, which I mailed to Ned Sewall. See attachments and P-68-98, et al for further details. This report will be addendumed as needed. Under BS-1 Clean-Up, no further remed. is required at this time. S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM. B-57-2000* On February 1, 2000 we received a call from Mona Spear of Bangor Hydro reporting a two to three gallon spill of <50 ppm of PCB oil on the Tannery Brook Rd. in Mariaville. A crew dropped a transformer while removing it from the pole and the unit broke a bushing which leaked the product. Workers excavated a 2'x2' area of contaminated snow into a drum. No wells are in the area. P-421-1988* Abandonment by removal of 10,000-gal. bare steel diesel UST facility following failed precision test. Abandonment done by Clean Harbors Inc. No contamination obvious. See also P-74-1989 for further information. [Consumptive-use motor fuels UST abandonment prior to Maine rules for CMR 691 UST closure assessment.] . 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 . P-340-1998*24 July 1998, Response Services investigated a contaminated well complaint at the entered spill location. This case was immediately referred to the Technical Services Division and a joint effort to investigate and remove the discharge were initiated. From July 1998 through February 1999, the following remedial actions were conducted: 1. Excavation of contaminated soil. 2. Installation, and subsequent removal, of carbon filters by Clean Water of Maine. 3. Installation of a drilled drinking water well by Yankee Well Drilling. 4. Installation of a radon stripper/carbon filter system in a secure, heated shed. 5. additional electrical and water line hook up to shed. 6. Repair of bed room floor due to water line leak. 7. Installation of new AST system and ice protection, as part of AST upgrade project. On November 10, 1998, I observed a leaking pick up truck in the drive way above the original spill location. I advised the truck owner, the resident, James Parmenter, that any additional contamination will not be covered by the fund. No further spills response, except sampling, warranted. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (2Mar99). 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-414-2001* Response to Sunday 5/20/01, auto accident on Rt. 85, with a discharge of battery acid, motor oil and antifreeze. Initial response by Raymond FD. DEP visit later in day. No sensitive receptors understood to be threatened and no further actions expected. See attached notes for further details. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM P-476-2000*Aspen Tree service employee spilled appr. 2 gallons of gas while filling can at C & C Variety. Spill was contianed to pavement and cleaned up by C & C Variety. No further action. A-207-2000* DEP received a report that a small amount of used engine oil was spilled from a private vehicle when a service station attendant left the oil filler cap off. The oil company dispatched an individual to clean the engine and to remove a small quantity of gravel at the vehicle owners' driveway. B-561-1997*On 10/3/97, 0850 hours Norm Gogan of Norlens Water Treatment Service reported a positive GRO test of 67 ppb in the well water of Dewey Gatcombs residence in Hancock. I contacted Marsha Gatcomb and resampled the water. The test came back 55 ppb DRO and 76 ppb TH. The hot water had an overwhelming odor of bog. Also, Marsha showed me water analyses that indicated high manganese as well as the presence of coliform bacteria. The site had been a large saw mill back in 1920 and there is a very large overgrown sawdust pile within 30 feet of the well. I expect that the leachate from the sawdust pile is adversely affecting the quality of the bed rock acquifer. A-483-1996*See attached. No site visit made. No further action anticipated. A-281-2000* An anonymous caller reported what appeared to be an oil discharge. I arrived on site and spoke with the caller. There was an area of dead grass in their back yard and it did have a petroleum smell. There was also a drainage pipe next to the dead grass. It appears that the pipe comes from a vacant garage next door. This garage is used to store stuff, not as an automotive repair shop. I went to the Town Office and found the owners to be the Heirs of Bernard Drake. I was unsuccessful in contacting anyone about this property. The area is served by public water and there are no receptors nearby. It is my opinion that natural attenuation will take care of this small problem. A-166-1997* On 5/19 Scott Reed called this office to report a release of "DARACIDE 6202" This material is a corrosive liquid, that is used to prevent bacterial fouling on a paper machine. Sometime over the weeekend 20 gallons leaked onto the floor. Scott had employees from the mill respond and emergency clean up was begun. Some of this material entered the floor drain and the process sewer. No site visit was made, no further action required. P-163-2001* On Tues. 3/13/01 I responded to a report of a leak from a residential 275 gal. outside K1 tank at this rural residence. I met Mr. Anderson and a Lampron Energy rep. onsite. Due to snowload the filter fitting had part-way snapped releasing approx 130 gal. into the ground next to the house. Jerry Anderson Excav. arrived soon and two 14 yd. loads of oil soil were excavated down to an 8' depth before hitting bedrock. Free product accumulated atop gw, pads were put down atop gw on Tues. afternoon and Fleet pumped out oil & water from the excav. on Wed. morn 3/14/01. By 3/16/01, a recovery well was installed in the spill area, the excav. filled in, the AST reinstalled to code by Lampron, and the recovery well pumped out again. On 4/5/01, and several times later Fleet again pumped out the well trying to remove residual free oil. Onsite I went over the AST Ins. Fund, QM program and Options Agreement with Mr. Anderson. On 3/14/01 I notified DEP Geologist Hahn and he performed a site visit. The site is on QM and an initial 3/14/01, water sample [#P16301-1] was ND for DRO. A 65' deep drilled well is about 25' north of the spill (see site sketch) and I believe it to be moderately threatened. A large bulk of the contamination was removed by excavation and pumping though some oil contam. undoubtably remains within the bedrock and under the house which is on a slab. I do not feel there is a potential vapor problem in the living area at this time. Further DEP actions are possible at this time. QM should continue for at least one year of ND results. See attached notes and documents for further details. S G Brezinski, DEP, BRWM B-300-1996*Mona Spear, Environmental Specialist for Bangor Hydro Electric, called to report a small spill of hydraulic oil on Rt 1 in Milbridge. It was stated that a line truck blew a hydraulic line spraying about 1.5 gallons onto both the ground and nearby vegetation. Approximately one bag of soil and vegetation was generated in the clean up. No water was reportedly involved. A-367-2000* Mead Paper called to report that a pipeline transporting leachate broke. This occurred at their landfill in Mexico, ME. I notified our landfill technicians, ie. David Burns. This pipe had broken at least once recently. No further action required by Response Services. P-340-1997*On or about 4May97, Rutherford contacted me regarding subsurface investigation at the facility location. I was asked to review the assessment and advise on any additional remedial actions. I reviewed the material along with a technical services representative, and it was determined that no redial actions were warranted. No further action by Response Services is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (13Jun97) A-50-1996* DEP received a report that fuel had spilled at a trailer park in Turner. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property on 1/30/96. According to the property manager (Bill Canney) the filter at unit #15 had been serviced by Murray Oil during the summer of 1995. It had developed a slow leak, so a small bucket was placed under the filter to collect drips. This bucket filled with rain water, froze, and lifted the filter, cracking the brass nipple. The trailer occupant soon smelled oil and notified Murray Oil. Approximately two gallons of oil spread through snow and across frozen ground; I did not feel recovery was practical. The drilled well serving the park is located several hundred feet away, topographically upgradient of the spill. I do not feel it is likely to be impacted by this event. I do not anticipate further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. I noticed, however, that most of the ASTs in the park do not meet current OSFB/NFPA standards, but are considered "grandfathered". I encouraged the park manager to voluntarily address some of the worst offenders. A-510-1996*Received a call from Will Humphries of Dames and Moore that he was at a tank removal in Waterville. The site was Central Maine Motors on Kennedy Memorial Drive. Two 1000 gallon underground tanks were being removed. One contained waste oil and the other contained virgin lube oil. Will reported that the highest reading he received with a PID was well below 100 ppm (DEP bag headspace). These figures were well below any action level that would have been set for cleanup. Since one of the products was waste oil, I asked for a lab test of a soil sample from the base of the waste oil tank excavation. The analysis returned a result of 192 ppm. Again the result was below any baseline 2 action level. No further work is necessary at this site. No site visit was made. I-111-1997*On 8-8-97, Tom Bragg of Washburn called this office to report that he had found a 30 gallon drum of Sodium Arsonate in his garage while demolishing it. I told him to put it some place safe and that we would be out to overpack it the following week. Both myself and Carl Allen of this office overpacked the drum the following week and disposed of it with the pesticide pickup program. A-785-1999* On 12-21-99 Steve Baker called this Dept. to notify us of a hydraulic oil leak at the Gardiner DOT facility. A faulty fitting or hose was leaking and the repair person could not repair it immediately. The leak/drip contained all weekend. When they arrived on Monday they found that nearly 14 gallons of hydraulic oil had leaked onto the floor. Most of this oil entered the floor drain system. Crew members cleaned up the oil with sorbent pads and boom. Clean up was complete according to a crew member at the facility. The floor drain is connected to a tank that is located out back. No further action is required. 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-78-1996*Mr Charles Crockett died recently. In the process of cleaning up his belongings his family came across a couple of chemicals. 1 - 50 lb bag of Fungicide powder which contained Dithane, copper, & DDT 1 - pint of mercury. DEP Overpacked the materials and both materials were disposed of in the Pesicide Control Board disposal program. Case closed P-208-1990* SUMMARY & UPDATE by SGB on 4/28/05 4/4/90 report and response to gasoline discharges noted during UST removal and replacement by AL Doggett Co. Approximately 19 yds of soil landspread @ Knightly's 3-D Quickstop facility in Oxford. Facility is a repair garage and retail motor fuels UST facility, located over a mapped S G aquifer. Area is on town water. Two UST's onsite were unregistered and oos at the time and John Knighlty advised me would be removed in the near future. [On 4/28/05, the newer facility was abandoned by Lampron Energy for the Knightly Estate and the waste oil UST was finally pumped out and removed (see P-321-05 and P-317-99 for further facility information)]. . A-614-2000*Frank Gehrling initially received a spill reported by M.W. Sewall at the home of Roy Jenkins, Lee St. in Wiscasset on 11/6/2000. The location was in error, and actually the spill was at the residence of Bill Phynney, Lee St. Wiscasset. The Department received a 2nd call from Mr. Phynney on 11/8/2000 requesting DEP visit the site. Frank was committed to another incident, and requested I respond. Upon arrival on site, I observed staining and fuel oil odor beneath the fill pipe. I hand dug and used a soil corer to obtain soil samples. Using bag headspace PID the concentrations ranged from 35 ppm to 1195 ppm. I defined the area of the spill with wooden stakes. I met with Mr. Phynney and John from MW. Sewall. Sewall agreed to pay for soil removal and disposal. I requested a new whistle cap be placed on the vent line to avoid re-occurrence. This tank was also overfilled on 8/21/2000. See M. James report A-462-00. No further action is required by DEP. A-524-1999* C.N. Brown delivered fuel, off road diesel, to a payloader owned by A & V Constuction. At this time a leak developed in the fuel tank, which resulted in the release of 2 or 3 gallons of fuel. A & V Construction was going to excavate the contaminated soil. No further information is available. P-583-2001*See attached CMP report. P-10-1998*Overfill of residential tank by oil company. Spilled to impervious surface. Cleaned up by Gendron Oil personnel. No further action necessary. ________________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 1 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management P-324-1996*on June 4, 1996 I was contacted by A.L. Doggett to issue an abondonment in place form. On June 5, 1996 I was on site to view the tank in question and give permission for it's abandonment. On June 10, 1996 John Gordon of Field Services called to report contamination found on June 6, associated with the tank being abandoned. There were no contamination levels found higher than the clean up levels for this site, therefore no clean up was required. B-181-1997*Ruth Blackburn of Seal Harbor called to report the discovery of a variety of hazardous chemicals in a garage on a property she recently purchased. Some of the material included heavy metal based paints, arsenic compounds, cyanide salts, some DDT, and an extremely hazardous carbon tetrachloride fire extinguisher. Knowing that the material was probably destined for some method of improper disposal, I picked up the material. When I arrived I separated the hazardous material from the material that could be disposed of in the normal waste stream and temporarily stored it in our haz store building. The material is reportedly owned by an Art MaCrae of Seal Harbor and may be deceased. It may be noted that the CCI4 fire extinguisher was rather corroded. Improperly disposing it could have created serious problems. P-758-1989* Report update of Jan. 2004 Out-of-service UST gas station facility. Located north of Rt. 35/4A intersection. Sensitive area on private wells. Two gasoline tanks of 1000 and 1500 gallons. Referred to DEP Oil enforcement unit for actions. Property later purchased by Mr. Gary Stevenson. Old UST's either removed or covered over without state approval or notification. Gasoline contamination confirmed in 2003. See report P-742-03 for further details. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM . A-121-2001* DEP received a report that this minor oil spill had occurred and been resolved. B-479-1996*On the morning of 9/3/96, 1000 hours Tom Williams of Dead River Co. (Brewer) called to request a abandonment in place permit. They had contracted to remove a 2K UST (02 oil) at the Hutchin's residence, and during the process they discovered that more than half the tank was under a wall. The wall looked like it would be expensive to replace, so I issued an "in place" permit. I had discussed the potential complications that might accompany future real estate transfers. The consensus of opinions was that it would not be a problem. The only part of the tank I saw was one end of the top-including the fill pipe. There was no evidence of spillage. Dead River cut the tank open, Clean Harbors cleaned it and Hughs Brothers filled it with cement slurry. We did not have a copy of the removal notice in this office, but Bill Wallentine said that they had it. I explained what had happened and he suggested that they make sure that the post card got filled out and mailed in. I passed this advise on to Tom since they were the principle contractor. 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. P-342-2000*When a tank truck had been filled with gasoline at the Cumberland Farms terminal in South Portland the top hatch was not properly closed. As the truck began driving through town the hatch worked itself open. When the truck came to a stop at the intersection of Broadway and Cottage, gasoline sloshed out the top. There was a police car behind the tanker and so the truck was immediately stopped. The problem with the hatch was remedied and Cumberland Farms called Fleet Environmental to clean up the spill. When I arrived on site Fleet was just finishing the clean up. They used speedy dry to absorb the gas and then swept it up into drums. I slight stain remained. No further action. A-315-2001*Employee of homeowner reported fuel oil odor while removing tank from abandoned house. Field screening of soil resulted in low levels (below 20 ppm bag headspace method) of contamination. Area served by public water. No further action is expected. P-350-1996*On June 15, 1996 I was contacted by the state police, they called to report a spill of diesel oil of 125 gal from a truck accident in Auburn. I contacted the Auburn Fire Department, they stated that much of the spilled oil they had been able to catch in containers as it spilled from the truck and that the remainder they recovered with sorbent pads. They needed no assistance. No further action. P-505-1999*I responded to a small surface spill at a rental property on Smith Road in Windham. The spill was due to a corrosion hole in the bottom of a 275 gallon kerosene tank that sat right on the ground (no tank legs). Downeast Energy had reported the spill and were on site pumping off the tank when I arrived. Once the tank was removed from the yard, I checked the soil beneath. It appeared the estimate of 5 to 10 gallons was accurate - there was 1 to 2 yards of impacted soil. I tried unsuccessfully that day to contact the owner, Alan Toole. I passed the case to Steve Flannery - DEP Response to follow up. Steve went and looked at the site and agreed that a small amount of soil should be removed. Steve contacted Mr. Toole, who said he would look into it. I again took over the case and tried unsuccessfully to reach Mr. Toole. I sent a letter a to Mr. Toole stating the DEP's request of a clean up. Clean up has NOT been done to departments satisfaction as of this writing (January 11, 2000). A-722-1998* DEP received a report that a minor oil spill had occurred as a result of this overfill. Spilled product was to pavement and was collected with sorbents. B-800-1999*Richard Ramsey called from the Calais office of the Dead River Oil Co. to report an oil spill at the Janet Yardley residence, 65 1/2 Garfield St., Calais. He believed that the spill was a few gallons. The oil tank is in the garage and the line apparently leaked where it passed through the wall into the utility room. The oil ran back to the garage floor and it was noticed by the oil deliveryman. Ms. Ramsey was away for the weekend, but Dead River proceeded to repair the line and clean up the spill. Mr. Ramsey has left messages on the lady's telephone machine explaining what has happened and to contact Mr. Ramsey or me for further information. She has not done either, so I am assuming that she is satisfied with the situation. This area is served by city water. No further action expected at this time. P-202-2001*The filter associated with an outside aboveground tank was broken off by heavy snow causing 230 gallons of oil to spill. The whole lot was extremely muddy and wet. The oil spread out on the mud. I hired Clean Harbors to use sorbents to collect oil and shovel contaminated oil into drums. The well was nearby, but because the ground was so wet I don't think it will be affected. No further Response action is needed at this time. P-225-2000*On 4/25/00 Linda Doran received a call from the Bridgton Fire Dept. reporting a basement full of fuel oil in Bridgton. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I observed approximately 200 gallons of # 2 fuel oil floating on top of several inches of water in the basement of a seasonally operated bed and breakfast. The house was currently unoccupied and the owner was in Florida. A house sitter had observed the spill and reported the event to the fire department. The spill occurred when an empty, old, abandoned AST in the basement had floated during several flooding events in the basement throughout the winter. When the water receded, the tank floated over to two new AST's baffled together and rested on the oil filter. When the water further receded, the tank settled on the filter and broke it off the tanks. The house sitter reported that she had checked the house on 4/23 and everything was ok then. The spill happened somewhere between 4/23 and 4/25. I hired Environmental Projects Inc. (EPI) to respond to the spill and clean it up. That evening, we vacuumed approximately 3000 gallons of oil and water out of the basement. Sorbent pads were left on the water remaining to collect any further oil. A negative air machine was installed in the basement to ventillate the building. I spoke with the homeowner on 4/26 and explained the events that had taken place. I then made arrangements with EPI to remove contaminated soil/silt from the basement as well as pressure wash the concrete floor and walls to remove oil that had smeared them. That work was conducted on 4/27. The ventillation was left in place and the owner of the house was expected to arrive back at the residence on 5/2 for the season. Continued, not in HOSS... B-2-2000*Curt Davis, Me. Air National Guard, called to report that a garbage truck owned by Sawyer Environmental Services had broken a hydraulic hose spilling a maximum of 5 gallons of oil to the parking lot behind building #420. Commercial sorbents were used to clean up the oil. Mr. Davis stated that a minor amount (a cup?) made it to a storm drain and they used sorbent pads to collect the oil down to a sheen. As back up a sorbent boom was place in the next catch basin to catch any oil that was missed. B-359-2000* On 7/5/00, 0352 hours the SP contacted me regarding a truck accident in E. Corinth on Route 15. They connected me directly to the Corinth Fire Department, who indicated that they had a diesel spill and that they wanted MDEP on scene when they righted the truck. The truck was on its' side and was losing fuel from the fill cap on the left side saddle tank, which was about seven feet off the ground. It was unknown at the time as to whether the right hand side tank was also leaking. It turned out that it had not leaked. The fire fighters had deployed sorbent pads in the path of the fuel discharge and this prevented the spill from reaching the ground. The truck had been fueled in Jackman. Its' capacity was 150 gallons (two 75 G tanks). When it was back on its' wheels it was determined that the right tank was full and the left one was half full. This accounted for 113 gallons. Assuming that the truck used 30 gallons coming from Jackman, the tanks should have had 120 gallon. The difference between what was there and what should have been is seven gallons. This would be enough to completely saturate twenty to thirty pads. P-38-1997*On 1/8/97 I received a call from Bruce at Northeast Petroleum reporting a 30 gallon spill of #4 oil resulting from an overfill of a tank truck at their loading rack. Northeast had hired Seacoast Ocean Services to clean up the spill. No further action required. ________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II I-41-2000*On 5-3-00, this office received a fax from JM Huber in Easton regarding a spill at their facility that day. A hydraulic line on a slasher had broken and lost about 70 gallons. It was cleaned up by a crew from Huber with wood chips. The wood chips were then fed into the plant boiler. 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. B-542-1996*Anthony Manzietti lives next to Keenan's Restaurant at the triangle in Bass Harbor. According to the owner at Keenan's, the properties have recently been re-surveyed, because the road boundary was wrong. Manzietti says Keenan's is trying to sneak a new septic system in, too close to the property line. In any case, Manzietti complained about oil on his property, possibly coming from Keenan's waste Fry-o-later grease barrel. I went down and looked, but I couldn't see any oil coming from the grease barrel or anywhere else. B-9-1999*At the urging of her supplier, Pelkey Oil, Lillian Bell reported the loss of 10 or 12 gallons of kerosene from her outside tank. Checking the tank the next day, after the old tank had been removed, I couldn't really agree with the 10 gallon figure. Ms. Bell didn't believe the Pelkey people had lugged any contaminated snow off with them, and the amount of contaminated snow around the tank was more consistEnt with a one gallon spill. I told Ms. Bell that, due to the frozen ground and lay of the land, I didn't believe further cleanup effort was justified. A-377-1999*Received a call from Roger Brown, a concerned citizen. He called to report that the place he had his car worked on, Dan's Automotive in Boothbay, had spilled some waste oil. I went to the site and met with the owner. He showed me around his shop, especially where he stored his waste oil. He has the same problem as a lot of garage owners. He was storing a large amount of waste oil to cover the burners' usage of fuel during the winter. He had some over fills of drums, some loose bungs and minor sloppy handling. I told him to put speedy dry on the small spills and to be more careful in filling the drums. I suggested that a "drum funnel" would make pouring oil from the containers easier. It would also give him a good place to drain his used oil filters. This was definitely more of a housekeeping problem than a spill. No further work is needed on this incident. B-327-2000*On 6/18/00, 1447 hours William Levesque of BHE reported a one quart hydraulic oil spill that had resulted from a tree branch falling on a hydraulic line that was on a bucket truck. The crew recovered as much as possible with fine, dry sand. The latter was contained and put into BHE's waste stream. A-352-1996* Irving Oil Corp. removed two UST's located at Howard Stetson's property. This property was recently an antique shop and prior to that it was a Ford Garage. This property is located on Route One in the town of Waldoboro. The DEP was notified of a release at this site on 7-26-96. Given the site conditions, public water and public sewer, no cleanup was required. Irving was in the process of purchasing this property to allow for the expansion of their c-store/gas station. While additional excavation work was done, additional contaminated soil was found. Tom Schwarm, of ACADIA, speculates that a floor drain was responsible for this contamination. Also, there were a couple of hydraulic lifts that had spillage around them. Most of the contamination appeared to be waste oil. This soil was analyzed and eventually transported to Commercial Paving. A third UST, unregistered and containing waste oil, was discovered on this property on 10/7/96 during excavation for the new UST's. This tank was removed and a site assessment was done. There was contaminated soil around this tank and it was stockpiled until clearance from Commercial Paving was obtained. In total, 597.25 tons of soil was removed from this property and transported to Commercial Paving for disposal. This clean up and construction project continued onto the adjacent property where gasoline contaminated soils were discovered. Finally, clean up has been completed and no further involvement from the DEP will be needed. There are three site assessment for this property. S.A. #1 is for the two UST removed in July, S.A. #2 is for the abandoned UST removed in October, S.A. #3 describes the soil removal, disposal and analytical results. See spill A-234-96 for further information on the adjacent property. P-447-1996* UST piping removal & replacement. No prohibited discharges reported though site assessment required nor performed. Maine CTI was Dennis Davis. Dense residential & commercial area, on city water. . B-631-2000* This office received a call at 1335 on 11/28/00 from Chris Olsen (Maine DOT-Bangor) requesting assistance. He stated that one of their highway maintenance crews was picked up liter along I-95 when they came across a 5-gallon can marked "zylene". Rather than leave it in place and call for advice, they collected it and brought it back to their Hogan Road facility. The can was intact and did not appear to be leaking, but they felt that it might contain a hazardous waste. He was wondering what they should do with it now? Since the contents of the can and source of the material was unknown, I agreed to pick it up and dispose of it through DEP's hazardous waste stream. CONCLUSION: According to our disposal contractor, the material turned out to be "creosote". How it ended up in the ditch along I-95 is unknown. I assume that it fell off someone's truck at some point in time. REC: File report. A-814-1999*A packing leak developed on a pump. A small amount of # 6 oil was lost and recovered using pads. B-201-2000*A CMP customer in Orland noticed that the transformer on the pole outside his house was leaking oil, and reported it to the utility. The responding crew attributed it to a leaking bushing caused by wind stress two days previously. Janet Dyer, who reported to me for CMP, said that they recovered a drum of oily dirt and grass. The minor nature of the spill prompted no site visit from the DEP. B-410-2001*I received a call from Jeanette Spencer, office manager for Jack Marshall Associates Sunrise Village Apartments. She told me that a tenant, Oscar Reed, was changing his car's oil at the apartment complex for some time now. The waste oil was spilled around and saturating the ground and the rubbish collectors had complained about the oil leaking from the trash bags. She had sent him several notes requesting that he take proper care of the oil, but without results. On 8/15/01 I went to the scene, 31 Gardner Ave., Machias. I met Ms. Spencer and was directed to Apt. #12. I could not find evidence of any oil spillage that warranted concern. The only thing I found was an old oil stain on the sidewalk where the trash was placed for pickup. This stain was about 2 feet long and 2 inches wide and now dried out. This complex is on town water. The Reeds were not home. I explained to Ms. Spencer that the spill was so minor that no action was required. She replied that she understood. B-665-1996*Mr. Leigh reported that one of their line trucks broke a hydraulic hose will working on Rt. 116 in Chester. He estimated that they lost something less than 5 gallons. This was recovered by commercial sorbents and digging up some of the shoulder. He could not give an accurate location of the spill as it was on a stretch of road without power poles for markers or residences. However, I drove that piece of road the next day and saw no traces of a spill. I assume that they have done an adequate clean up. See the BHE Co. letter for further details. B-401-2000*On 7/31/00, 0800 hours this office received a message from Ken Averill, who lives in Orono. His well pump had blown its' oil seal a few days ago and he wanted to talk with someone in our bureau about what should be done. We discussed some options. One was to contact the pump manufacturer. We have had cases in which the pump manufacturer has hired a well cleaning contractor, who proceeded to do a real high tech job of restoring the system to its' pre-spill status. Another would be to have our own response people do it. Meanwhile, we wondered if PCBs might be involved. Also, meanwhile, Ken had contacted the well driller who said the lubricant was mineral oil. Also, Carl Redniki of Carmal Well Drilling told Mr. Averill that putting chlorox in the well and pumping it for 3-4 days would clean the system out. Carl indicated that he had success with that method on other occasions. On 8/7/00 Ken said that the odor had gone and that he was going to have the water tested this week. It turned out that the test Ken was talking about was not for hydrocarbons so I submitted a DRO sample, which came back 77ppb DRO with 57ppb additional TPH. On 10/18/00 Tom Maleck and I flushed the well and some of the plumbing with a tergital solution. Because the procedure needed to be repeated eight times we told Ken how to do it. Then after he applies chlorox and rinces that out we will test again for DRO. P-188-1999*On March 17, 1999 Kevin Moore of CN Brown called to report a spill of approximatly 1 gallon at the home of Ralph Pettingill of 5 Kezar Road, Waterford. The spill occurred when CN Brown was filling the 275 gallon AST. The oil spilled out throught the vent line to the ground. CN Brown immediatly cleaned the spill with sorbents and by removing impacted snow. No further action. A-12-1997*See attached. No site visit made. No further action anticipated. I-129-2001*A leaking fitting on a yard crane caused about 2 quarts of hydraulic fluid to leak out. It was immediately cleaned up and put on burn pile. P-698-2000*While doing an inspection at Pratt & Whitney, Alan Morrison - DEP Air Bureau, noticed an oil stain on the ground beneath piping from an emergency diesel generator. Upon investigation it was discovered that the piping was leaking from an elbow joint. Most of the spilled oil was caught in the insulation around the piping, a small amount spilled to the ground and was dug up by Pratt and Whitney personnel. No further action. A-62-2000* DEP received a report that ice/snow had fallen off a roof and sheared the filter off this oil tank. The tank was odd-sized (est. 320 gallon) and had been owner-installed without attention to OSFB guidelines. A sizeable recovery effort ensued, as oil had flowed under the home (a mobile home on a concrete pad) threatening the dug well on the property and a nearby private pond. The subject well was eventually impacted; a replacement well was provided by DEP. The subject area is rural; the nearest neighboring well is far enough away that it is not considered threatened by this spill. 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. _________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II MARCH 2, 1999 A-83-2000* DEP received an after-hours report that a commercial tractor-trailer had strruck a municipal snow-plow, rupturing a saddletank on the plow. The tractor-trailer driver was determined to be at fault. Contaminated snow was excavated for disposal. The affected property serves as a business parking lot in a light-industrial area. A dug well provides water to the business (a small construction company) but is not used for drinking. This well is located 50' from the spill site. A-314-2000* A citizen reportred that an oil drum was in the marsh that empties into China Lake. I found the drum which had a missing bung. A small sheen was on the water near the drum. I could not drag the drum out of the water, so therefore, I enlisted the help of a local wrecker service, Art's Garage. Using the wrecker we lifted the drum out of the water and over the gaurd rail. We then transported the drum up to China General Store were it was placed into an overpack drum. The next day Bart and I brought the drum back to the DEP warehouse. This drum was later collected by EPI for disposal. No further action required. P-551-1999*On August 4, 1999 Sabattus Fire Dept. called to report a 5 gallon diesel spill at the Village Store on Crowley road in Sabattus. The fire dept. had cleaned up the oil with sorbents. I spoke with the Store personnel who explained that a pick up truck was being filled, the owner had walked away from the truck and the automatic shut off did not work. The store personnel also stated that the pump would be put out of service until a technician had looked at the automatic shut off to unsure proper operation. No further action. A-422-1996*See attached A-94-1998* Tom Saviello called this office to report a spill of 1,500 gals. of NaOH. The spill was discovered at 1545 hrs. The spill started sometime after 0730 hrs. The previous day there was a fire on the cable tower and on 3-5-98 they cut power to the area at 0730 hrs. to make repairs. When the power is disconnected to this area it causes the valves to open half way. This resulted in the draining of a tank and lines. The spilled material flowed across the ground and into a sewer drain, which leads to the waste treatment plant. P-264-1999*2/26/99, responded to spill location and observed a snow blower vehicle, the type used by the city to clear side walks, laying on its side in Deering Oaks Pond. The pond was frozen and the apparatus laying on the ice. Sorbents were deployed and the leak stoped. No further response action warranted. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 23APR99. A-461-2000*Received a report that a truck clipped a few lines, causing the transformer to spill a very small amount of tranformer oil containing pcb on the snow. The transformer was replaced and the oily snow and sod was removed by the CMP cleanup crew. No site visit was made. B-689-1997*12/01/97 10:30 Carl Akeley of Great Northern Paper in Millinocket called to report observing an oil sheen below the #5 penstock within the river. It was stated that the oil was traced to a leaking turbine. Apparently a worker accidently knocked over a bucket being used to catch the drips off of the turbine. It was estimated that about a pint of oil was lost to the river. Sorbents were placed in the river as a precaution. Repairs to the turbine are pending. 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. 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. P-522-1997* On the afternoon of Wed., 9/18/97, I was notified by Ms. Tardif about an approx. 5 gal. hydraulic oil spill next to a loading rack at this wellhead and pumping facility. Ms. Tardif is a company geologist and and with the Water Resource Mgmt. of Poland Spring, which is part of Perrier Group of America. The RP was United Waste The site is located off Tenny Rd., also known as Herrick Valley Rd. The following morning, 9/19/97 I met Ms. Tardif, and Tom Snow of United Waste Co., et al, onsite. A rolloff of soil had already been excavated from the soil lot under the loading rack. I noted no visual evidence of oil remaining. Later lab analysis of soil below the spill indicated <50 ppm TPH and Tardif and I agreed that no further clean-up was warranted. SGB 11/25/97 B-654-1996*Mr. Leigh called to report that three transformers had hit the ground in front of the old Grossman's building at 470 Odlin Road. A pole had broken in the on going ice storm. He did not know if the oil was PCB laden or not and, until the wires were re-hung, he could not do the field test. He said there was the potential for the loss of 20-30 gallons of oil. I met him at the site. After a few hours wait, we were able to safely work under the wires and we learned that 2 of the transformers were marked non-PCB and the third tested below 50 ppm in a field test. When the transformers were removed we learned that only a few gallons had leaked. I assisted Mr. Leigh in the clean up and one 55 gallon drum was filled with gravel and ice from the shoulder of the road. In addition a 1/4 of a bale of sorbent pads was used. In conclusion the oil did not escape recovery and no further work is anticipated. P-372-2000* Thru DEP's Jon Woodard, I was dispatched to this incident involving an auto fire on the side of the MTA, with pesticides in the truck of the auto. When I arrived that morn the fire dept. and burned car were gone, though an MTA worker was standing by with the waste in the a plastic bag at the side of the highway. Using appropriate PPE I noted that their were one of two partially melted, quart-size white plastic containers and two small, metal, pesticide pump sprayers. A white powder was spilling from the containers. Enclosing them in a double bag I returned them to DEP, SMRO. No spilled pesticide was evident at the accident scene, apparently being washed to the wooded roadside with the fire-fighting water. The spill was next to a wooded area adjacent to the MTA's southbound lane. It is not known how much material may have reached the environment. There were no nearby sensitive receptors within 300' that were threatened. Information from a container showed it to be FICAM W insecticide; a wettable powder with the active ingredient: Bendiocarb. The material came from Ag Evo USA Company of Montvale, NJ. [ I could find no phone number.] According to the Pesticide Dictionary it has a Class II Toxicity (see attached). The waste will be held until the next Pesticide Pick-Up program run jointly by the Maine Board of Pesticides Control and DEP. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM I-34-1996*Filter broken off an AST behind Bradleys Car Wash. Spill was found by the owner while investigating a furnace problem. Clean up was completed by J. Noble and daigle Oil Co. About 75 gal were spilled and an estimated 25 gal went to the storm drain and to the Aroostook River. No oil was found in the storm drains or in the river. The night of the leak we had heavy rains. Case closed I-120-2000*On 9/28/00, Allen Green of MPG called to report that there had been an overfill of a tank at the Army National Guard on Pleasant Street in Houlton. About 50 gallons flowed out over the top of the tank and out the tank storage room door onto the gravel outside. Dickison London was hired that day to excavate and about 20 yards was removed and taken to Tri-Community Landfill. No further action was seen as necessary. B-11-1997*R. H. Foster of Hampden, in the late fall of 1996, had agreed in principle to purchase L. F. Hall Distributing in Jackman. Part of the purchase agreement required that a site assessment be done at the bulk facility to document any historic contamination. Millett Associates was hired to do the assessment and some test wells were drilled in front of the tanks. Contamination was discovered, of course, and the results are attached. In early June of 1997, I met on site with Alton and Kieth Hall, Scott Smith and Dana Irving of Foster. They wanted to get an idea how much material would have to be removed to meet the stringent cleanup goal. Unfortunately, I couldn't answer their questions because it was impossible to say how contaminated the soil was under the tanks. To do this job right, I told Alton that the tanks ought to be taken down, the contaminated soil removed and cribwork put under the tanks to keep them plumb. (According to Dana Irving, Foster needs all the tankage at this site and at Smith's to accomodate the volume and varieties of product they intend to market in the greater Jackman metropolitan area.) The final upshot at the end of the construction year was that some test pits had been dug on the back side of the bulk plant, and the principles had decided to pursue cleanup under the DEP's VRAP program. They may also, at my suggestion, coordinate cleanup here with the work that has to be done at the Canadian-Pacific siding, adjacent. 1/2/98 A telephone conversation with Kieth Hall revealed that the cleanup will occur in the spring or summer of '98, and WILL be coordinated with the railroad cleanup, hopefully under VRAP. All tanks but one will be scrapped out, and the site permanently closed. P-543-1998* This case was assigned to me on 10/2/98 after being passed on by Maine DHS. This site was one of 1000 private wells sampled in the summer of 1998 as part of an MTBE study. The initial sampling indicated 1.1 ppb MTBE which is near the reliable detection level and may not be accurate (lab or field contamination of the sample). I initially called on 11/13/98 and left a phone massages for the Links. After no reply I mailed an explanatory letter on 11/19/98 to Link and other residences to be sampled. Ms. Tina Link and I finally reached each other on 12/18/98 and set up a re-sampling for 12/21/98. On 12/21 I arrived onsite @ 1140 hrs and met Ms. Link and her daughter. A water sample was taken from the kitchen sink for 624 volatiles analysis. I noted no odor to the water. Results were returned on 12/31/98 showing 2 ppb at a detection level of 2 ppb [below the state action level of 35 ppb for MTBE]. The residence is a single family house located in a rural residential area of Wells Branch. I noted no obvious spill sources. The drilled well is located at the edge of the lawn and woods in the front. A copy of these results was sent to the Links and the case turned over to Brad Hahn of DEP Tech Services for evaluation. Ms. Link agreed to go on QM to monitor the level. MTBE levels continued to be @ about 2.5 ppb as of June 1999. This report may be addendumed with QM data as applicable. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM P-335-1996*On May 28, 1996 Mark Stebbins of the Maine DEP reported to me that he had discovered three 55 gallon drums in a sand pit in Poland during his response to a seperate "sand pit" complaint in that area (sand pit not associated with this one). He further stated that the drums had been shot full of holes and the contents had leaked out, staining the sand around it for 10-20ft. I visited the site on June 7, 1996 and observed that the contents of the drums appeared to be petroleum and had leaked out. I took a sample for analysis to determine the nature of the waste. The area is isolated from any homes or private water supplies, however it's proximaty (<1mi.) from the Poland Spring Wells & located over a sand and gravel aquifer and considered Stringent on the DEP Hydrocarbon Spill Decision tree. I contacted the owner Frank Juliano and received permission to remove the soil. The lab results showed the waste not to be hazardous and I contacted Sun Environmental Services to commence the clean-up. Due to circumstances surrounding a major oil spill in Portland Harbor, extreme weather conditions, and scheduling conflicts with Sun, the clean-up was not possible until early December. On December 3, 1996 SUN excavated approximately 5 cubic yards of soil which was disposed of at Commercial Recycling Systems in Scarborough. No further action by the Department is warranted in this situation. ________________________________ Jon L. Woodard OHMS 1 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management B-98-1997*The Washington County Sheriff's Office called to report that a private truck had been stolen the previous evening and discarded in a tidal area off of Route one. Apparently there was some concern for oil spillage. While on another situation in the area I investigated the situation. Upon my arrival the tide was hight and part of the vehicle was submerged. No sheen was observed however. The vehicle was later extracted. I-27-1998*Valve broke after ice fell on it causing 1.5 gallons of kerosene to be released. Kerosene contaminated snow was scooped up and taken back and disposed of with other oily debris at the shop. 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). 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. A-75-1998*A fuel delivery was ordered from Kalloch Fuels to a new furnace installation. The old tank had been disconnected, but not abandoned. The new tank was on the other side of the building. The old tank was filled and product began to run out of it. It was discovered and Kalloch was able to pump about 100 gallons of product out of it. The rest of the product ran onto the floor. It entered a floor drain which was directly connected to a small brook behind the house. The oil in the basement was absorbed on debris in the basement. This was removed by Kalloch from the basement. The puddles were padded up. Rockland FD placed pads and boom in the stream. The ice by the school captured the product. The ice was removed and placed in drums. Clean Harbors washed the basement. They put the debris in a rolloff and took it to Sawyers in Hampden. Kalloch changed the pads in the stream several times. A-774-1999* DEP received a report that 2 gallons of oil was spilled at this facility due to an AST overfill. Some product was reportedly recovered using sorbents; some sorbed into gravel. The area is not environmentally sensitive and has been the scene of previous significant oil spills and DEP supervised remediations. No further remediation is warranted as aresult of this particular incident. A-320-1997*Vandals broke a lock on the valve to an emulsified asphalt tanker. About 2000 gallons were discharged when they opened the valve. A sand berm was put around the product the next day. The product was mixed with sand and gravel. It was used as cold patch. P-625-1997*24 September 1997, I responded to facility location and met with Todd Tweedie who resided at this location at this time, and Clyde Chapman, Fire Inspector for the town of Westbrook. Tweedie advised us that he was in the process of being evicted. Tweedie informed us that there was a leaking 55-gallon drum and safety concerns associated with the furnace. In the basement I observed an empty 55-gallon drum and two horizontal above ground storage tanks, each with approximately 300 gallon capacity. It appeared that the 55-gallon drum leaked or that a small spill occurred at some point, as a small stain was observed on the dirt floor around the drum (it was believed to contain fuel oil at some point). The two ASTs were of a early vintage and not up to recent standards for combustible liquid supply. The tanks were not properly supported and were weeping fuel oil from an undetermined seam or fitting. I also observed an AST located outside behind the dwelling, that failed to be up to NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) regulations as required for newer intallations. I advised Tweedie that the amount spilled did not warrant MDEP action. I recommended that the tanks in the basement be upgraded or if not in use be off loaded, but the MDEP could not require such action. Chapman agreed with my assessment and advised me that there may be some local violations issued associated with the furnace, and that he would note the condition of oil storage at this facility. 5 November 1997, Chapman advised me that Jerald Jacobs, the landlord, was sited locally for NFPA violations; and that the two older oil tankes were removed and that the outside tank was brought up to code by the installation of a firm working surface and support system. No further action is anticipated by Response Services. Nathan Thompson, SMRO. P-628-1999*9 August 1999, received report of discharge of treated water. PP official on site conducting sampling of water. This matter referred to Dave Coffin, L&W, MDEP. No further Response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 3Sep99. A-338-1998*Mr. Owen Finnegan called to report a spill of waste oil. I went out to the site and Mr. Finnegan showed me the spill. He accused his neighbor, Mr. Randy Gross, of spilling the waste oil. The land in question is a right-of-way that Mr. Finnegan owns that borders on Mr. Gross' land. I saw a small stained area, definitely not fresh. He also showed me some old, faded filters that had been dumped. I called and reached Mrs. Gross. I explained the situation to her. She did say that during the ice storm they had a generator that they changed the oil in and they did leave the pan and oil out on the side of the access road. I counseled her that she and Mr. Gross should not dump oil, but that they should dispose of it properly. She said that they normally did and that she would give the message to her husband. I said that no cleanup was necessary as the spill was obviously old and small. I did remind her that the entire area is very sandy and a small amount of oil or fuel can travel a long way. No further action is necessary at this time. 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-824-1999*Roy Brothers Oil Co. called to report that they had responded to an odor complaint at 4 Myrtle Street in Orono. The technician, Wayne Bagley, found that the feed line had been damaged at the furnace. Their close examination of the line led them to believe it had been damaged (but not severed) by a saw blade! In any case, some oil had leaked onto the concrete floor and down a floor drain. They had used a five-gallon pail of speedi-dri on the floor and will clean it up later. The fuel tank had been filled on 12/20/99 and Roy Bros. says that the account uses an average of 9 gallons a day. The tank was 5/8 full at the time of my visit. Doing some thumbnail number crunching, taking into the figuring that the last two weeks have been windier and colder than normal, I estimate that only 5-10 gallons was lost to the floor drain. I believe this drain discharges to a deep ravine out back. I could not find any product or any water for that matter. Additionally it appears that the steep bank has been used as a trash dump for many years and I expect the end of the drainpipe is now buried under years of debris. Since the basement does not appear to be a wet one I believe there is rarely any water down the drain thus what oil is in it will become tied up at the point of discharge and I don't expect any further action need be taken. B-624-1998*FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY GALLONS OF SULFURIC ACID WAS SPILLED AT GEORGIA PACIFIC WHEN THE DELIVERY TANKER'S HOSE FAILED. MOST OF THE ACID WAS WASHED TO THE MILL'S PROCESS SEWER, BUT LIME WAS SPREAD ON THE SOIL AROUND THE UNLOADING AREA TO NEUTRALIZE ABOUT 20 GALLONS OF ACID THAT RAN OFF THE ASPHALT APRON. SEE GP'S ATTACHED REPORT. B-666-1998*On October 11, 1998 at 1230 we received a call from Jean Rowe of Lee complaining that Robert Muncie had poured motor oil on the camp road in front of his home. Although Ms. Rowe didn't get out of her car to inspect the material, she was positive it was motor oil and would drain into Silver Lake. I checked the site that afternoon and found that the oil was actually rock filings from Mr. Muncie's recently drilled well. These filings pack down real well and he filled in some potholes with them. Mr. Muncie said there are some bad feelings between the two parties. B-156-1999* On April 7,1999 at 0815 we received a call from Dwight Tilton of the Lincoln Public Works reporting some contaminated sand on Flemming St. in Lincoln. He said a couple gallons of diesel fuel was mixed in with road-sand left from winter sanding. He heard that a pulp truck was parked there overnight but couldn't prove the oil came from that truck. He had the town street sweeper, which was cleaning the road, pick up the sand. I checked the site that morning and found no problem with the clean-up. I-23-1996*On 3-5-96, Al White of the Town of Mars Hill called to report that there had been a spill at the town office of about 5 gallons of Diesel. Apparently, the nozzel had come out of the vehicle while it was being filled. All spilled material was picked up using sand./ 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-309-1997*06-07-97 - responded to Portland Harbor to investigate a reported harbor sheen. I observed a sheen in the waters around Portland State Pier. I investigated other surrounding areas and could not identify a source for the discharge. The sheen was too thin for sorbent pads to recover. No remedial actions taken. Nathan Thompson, SMRO B-23-1997*D-TREE=N. P-312-1983* Reported discharge at AST bulk plant. Commercial area of Lisbon across from Lisbon Public Works Dept. and upgrade of Androscoggin River. 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. ________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II NOVEMBER 8, 2001 A-560-1996*The oil storage system at Fox Glassworks was replaced. The previous system was 2 x 55 gal drums. A new horizontal tank was installed. The line was not replaced. It was heavily corroded and failed at a spot where it had been touching the ground. 100 gallons was lost to an area underneath an extension to the retail shop. The soil was removed using a vactor. A mixture of oil and water flowed from cracks in the frost wall for the shop. This was removed by the vactor. More product appeared over a period of days. It was padded up. The site was referred to Tech Services for more extensive investigation since there have been some problems with odors in the shop. A-34-2000*No site visit made. See attached for additional details. No further action is anticipated. 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-622-1999* On Wed. 9/22/99, I was notified by DEP's Beth DeHaas that she had received word from James Totman that one of his 3000 gal. RU gasoline UST's had taken on 9" of water. Portland Pump Co. had found no cause for surface leakage into the tank and a compromise in the tank was suspected. The facility has two 4000 and two manifold 3000 gal. gaso., single-wall, CP UST's installed in 1985. Piping was upgraded in 1995 and 1997 [see P-624-97]. UST 20 year warrantee runs to the year 2005. During my 9/22/99 visit I noted that water was entering again after 300 gal. had been pumped off earlier. Groundwater was measured @ 4.5' bg next to the tanks. This information indicated the water problem was not a bad fuel drop or from a bad fitting on the tank top (aprox. 2.5' bg). We noted a soft material on the tank bottom of T-4 when sticking it for water. On 9/23, water returned to 9" in T-4. Totman and I discussed replacement and taking the tank out of service. On Tues. 10/12/99, I met with CTI Chris Wilson of Les Wilson & Sons, who separated the manifold between T-3 & T-4 so as to put T-3 back in service. No contamination or gw was noted in the 3' deep excavation over T-3. At this time I understand T-4 to be out of service pending facility replacement. The leak appears to be from an internal corrosion hole in the tank bottom under the fill pipe. The tank may not have a strike plate. There is no evidence at present that product left the tank, only that water came in. I explained to Mr. Totman that the tank should be emptied of product in case gw should go down below the tank bottom. The other UST's should be carefully watched as well. Further Resp. Div. actions likely. See attached and UST Reg. file #2097 for further information. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM P-256-1996*29Apr96, I spoke with Joe Aloisio of Sunday River, regarding a diesel fuel spill that occurred at the facility location sometime during the 1995/1996 ski season, the discharge was discovered during the seasonal snow melt. I approved the spreading of the contaminated soil at the facility in an appropriate area with no sensitive receptors. On the basis of the information I received, the AST located at the Baker Mt. maintenance facility was a "difficult fill". I advised Sunday River to monitor their fuel deliveries in a letter dated 31May96. On 18Jul96, they responded, see attached letters. No further Response action is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, (26Mar97). I-99-1998*On 4-29-98, this office received a call from Graydon Mahoney in Caribou. He was reporting a smal spill from an outdoor 275 gallon tank at a trailer he owned on Rt. 1 in Caribou. Apparently when the oil delivery man went to fill the tank he noticed a stain on the tank supporting slab and called it in. I met Mr. Mahoney on site and it was concluded that only a very small amount had leaked from a pinhole in the line and a couple shovels of dirt from beside the slab could be removed to solve the problem. A-93-1996*Fred Cunningham, an officer of Gardiner Savings Bank called to report that a house under the bank's control had an oil leak. He reported that the house at 40 Noyes Street in Augusta had a broken water line in the basement which flooded the basement. He speculated that the basement filled with water and floated the tank causing it to spill. Not much oil was in the tank as the furnace had run out of oil (which possibly led to the pipes bursting). I visited the house on 2/23/96 and inspected the basement. The house was cold and the 275 gallon tank seemed to be full of water and frozen. There was a faint odor of fuel oil, but if there was any oil in the flooded basement, it was pumped off with the water when the plumber drained the basement. No further Response action is needed at this site. P-603-1998* This Hartford Construction Co. report and clean-up are related to P-396-98, O'Brien residence, in that Hartford Const. is understood to be the responsible party for gasoline contamination noted at the O'Brien's and other nearby residences. Following the confirmation of well contam. at O'Brien's, Brad Hahn of DEP traced bedrock gw contamination back to this site using monitoring wells and drinking water samples. Four or more residences have detectable levels of MTBE, including Mr. Hartfords own residential well to the east of the spill site. Mr. Hartford operates a small construction company at this site, storing diesel, gasoline and heavy equipment. A 275 gal. #2 oil and waste oil tanks are also onsite. The area is rural residential and is located about 1 mile west of the New Hampshire border. Bedrock is at the surface in many places. The spillage was acknowledged by Mr. Hartford to be from at least one overfill of the 1000 gal. gasoline AST. Excavations on 12/1 and 12/14/98 showed convaluting gray shale, averaging one to three feet below grade. Soils covering this were for the most part sandy, non-native fill. At the request of Mr. Hahn, DEP CG and project manager, Response Services was onsite 12/14/98 to help oversee removal of contaminated soils. 45.73 tons of gasoline contaminated soil was excavated by Hartford Const. equipment and hauled to ARC in Eliot, Maine, for recycling. Soil was removed to bedrock indicating contam. went straight down into the rock. Using a 10.2 ev Photon PID calibtrated to the DEP set point and bag-headspace method, I noted levels ranging from 1900 ppm at the bedrock surface under the former AST location to 3.5 ppm and below on the outer walls (see field notes). Hatford has stated he will be installing the AST's in concrete berms. See DEP Tech Services for further info. and clean-up details. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-140-1997*Jeff Roberts operates, parttime, a small junk yard behind his house. As with every other junkyard in the state, he's engendered some enemies over the years who've got nothing better to do than call the DEP and complain about oil spillage. The exciting thing is, in this case, the complaint was somewhat true. Roberts salvages motors and transmissions, and on the date of my visit, there was some transmission fluid dumped on the ground. Additionally, a gallon container of waste oil in the back of his pickup was leaking onto the ground. The complainant's allegation of sewage and oil being discharged to Hurd's Pond outlet were false. Roberts was out of state at the time of my visit, so I left my card, instructing him to call and heard from his mother that night. I told her the spillage would have to be cleaned up, and open drums of oil covered. When I re-inspected on July 8, the work had been done to my satisfaction. 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. B-246-1999*An anonymous caller reported that while working on the new catwalk at GNP's #6 oil unloading area, he discovered oil in the ground. I gather that since this discovery occurred in 1998, the complainant had become a born-again environmentalist, since he waited until 1999 to report it. He said that when he drove ground rods on the North end of the new catwalk and pulled them out, they'd be coated with oil. He said, at the time, he was told not to make waves if he liked his job. On June 15, I made arrangements to inspect the site in company with GNP's Nadia Peters. The company, despite being in the throes of yet another sale, was nonetheless in the midst of rebuilding the oil unloading area. At the site we met John Jones, the mill's steam engineering foreman, John Raymond and Tony Capona, welder and USMC veteran. A new, grounded catwalk was indeed present and a trench 2 feet deep on the mill side at the unloading track had been excavated, exposing two soil faces. There was very little sign of oil in the soil, certainly less than one might expect at such a site, so either the heavy oil concentration in the soil had already been removed when the trench was opened, or there never was much oil there to begin with. There was evidence of some oil contamination under the tracks, but not heavy enough to warrant removing it, if the decision tree ( attached ) were to be followed. P-747-1996*On 11/19/96 I received a call from Dead River reporting a small fuel oil spill at a client's residence in Biddeford. The spill occurred due to a leaking fuel line. Dead River cleaned up the spill and took the debris to Commercial Recycling. No further action required. ____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II P-806-1999*On November 19, 1999 Dead River Oil Co. reported that a customer of theirs had suffered a discharge of #2 fuel oil in her basement. They had been called by her due to high fuel consumption during the months of August-November. She had received 177 gallons on 8/4/99 & 247 gallons on 10/4/99. Dead River had found a leaking fuel pump on the furnace, but the spillage did not appear to be great enough to reflect the expected loss of fuel. 11/19 I visited the site (no-one home) while in Norway investigating another site. The dug well to the home is approximately 50 ft. sharply down-gradient of the house and the woods behind and to the south of the house (all down gradient) appear very marshy, indicating a high groundwater table. 11/22/99 I was able to meet with Ms. Walker at 1645hrs. She showed me the location of the furnace. There was no fuel oil odor at all in the house or basement. The line to the furnace had run under the floor directly in line with the dug well. Ms. Walker believed that the discharge from the pump was much larger than the oil company is claiming and that the line under the floor (which was replaced due to the new code), in her opinion did not leak--since the excessive use of oil corresponded with the discovery of the furnace pump leak. I explained the AST fund to her and informed her that I would like to sample her well, and at some point may do some exploration to confirm that there is no contamination threatening the well. 11/23/99 Linda Doran obtained a water sample from the dug well. Results negative for DRO. 1/25/00 & 7/7/00 I re-sampled the well, results negative. Since there has been no impact to the well over the span of approximately 1 year when the excessive use of oil was first discovered it is unlikely that there was a discharge from the line under the floor. No further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter. ____________________ Jon Woodard OHMS 3 Division of Response Services BRWM A-436-1997*No site visit made. Spill into catchment in back of truck while the hose was still in the reel. Some spilled into the driveway. No further action is anticipated. B-251-2000*An old man from Massachusetts had just gassed up his car prior to arriving at the Dunkin' Donuts on Main St. in Bangor. Upon his arrival there, the Police theorize he became confused and paniced, hitting the accelerator instead on the brake, jumping the vehicle up over at least one curb in the newly paved driveway. The car's gas tank, previously patched, started leaking in the same place and lost its entire content. Some of the gasoline made it to a storm sewer. The fire department was called and they did an excellent job laying down sorbents and speedy dry to contain and absorb the spill. Milton Ketch and I retrieved the sorbents and shovelled up the speedy dry, and while we were occupied doing that, the old man disappeared. P-34-2001*Majority of spillage contained in sump. Remainder cleaned up with sorbent boom and pads. I-170-1997*See attached Narrative Beaulieau property in Frenchville. Spill was reported by a Frenchville resident and was verified by Tim Lowel of the Fire Marshal's Office. When I investigated the site, two spills were identified at either end of the tank system. The tank is a three compartment double wall tank. The tank is filled from the bottom with one connection on each end and one in the middle bottom of the tank. Both spill areas are about 6 feet in diameter, but the oil penetrated much deeper on the West End of the tank. Water flowing through the temporary tank site is picking up enough oil from the west end of the tank fill area, to leave a steady sheen. Two areas were holding the oil and no threat was identified to the St. John River. Samples were taken and were witnessed by the Madawaska Police Chief lab results: Water- West End of Tank 97E-DOR-03692 Diesel Range Organics 763000 ug/L Total Hydrocarbons796000 ug/L Resembles Fuel Oil #2. Sample Diluted. Accurate surrogate recovery couldn't be determined. Soil - East End of Tank 97E-DOR-03732 Diesel Range Organics Total Hydrocarbons Soil - West End of Tank97E-DOR-07879 Contaminated materials were excavated and taken to the TriCommunity landfill Site area is a Stringent clean-up goal. Due to the problems the site operator has had, I recommend enforcement action. Case closed - B-287-1996*Fred Leigh, Environmental Analyst for Bangor Hydro Electric Co. called to report discovering a dielectric oil spill at the Young's Corner substation on Route 233 in Bar Harbor. It was stated that approximately 2 gallons leaked from a secondary containment box onto a gravel area. The lab analysis for the material revealed a poly-chlorinated biphenyl concentration of about 42 parts/million classifying it as non hazardous. The approximately one drum of soil and sorbent material was taken to Sawyer Environmental in Hampden for disposal. No resources of the State are believed to be affected. A-229-2001*No site visit made. See attached report. No further action expected. I-198-1998*Mr. Gene Michaud contacted the Northern Maine Regional Office concerning an oily smell in his water. Investigation of the site revealed an Aboveground Storage Tank (AST) with a large oil stain around the base on the abutting property of Chamberland's Hardware. Contaminated spill was excavated and land spread on an approved piece of ground. DEP's Division of Technical Services in Bangor have been advised and have taken over the case. Please refer to their files for additional information. P-699-1996*UST monitoring system indicated that inner tank had been breached and product was entering interstitial space. No water entered tank and there was no indication that product was escaping to outside. Tank owner, John Magoon, informed me that he had contacted the tank manufacturer and the tank would be removed and replaced as soon as possible. I contacted Mr. Magoon on January 14, 1997 and he informed me that he was negotiating with the tank manufacturer and would inform me when he had an agreement with them. I contacted Diana Mclaughlin of the Div. of Oil Facilities Regulation and she stated that it would be ok for the tank to remain in service temporarily until a replacement date was set, provided it was a reasonable time frame. The tank was removed in May, 1997. No contamination was reported by Mr. Magoon. 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-121-1998*A tractor trailer accident on the interstate at mile marker 274 involved both fuel tanks leaking into water directly under the accident. Booms and pads were installed by the local Fire Dept. I installed two underflow dams after the truck was removed. Dickison & London was hired to maintain the dams and remove any saturated soil. All the spill cleanup material including the underflow dams were removed in August 1998. Case closed P-17-2000*ME DEP Solid Waste Division recieved a complaint of cars being crushed and stockpiling of tires without a permit. On January 10th, 2000 I accompanied Solid Waste representative Bill Bullard on a site visit. I saw one small area with oil staining, very few vehicles actually on site, and approximatley 500 tires. Solid Waste will be following up on the tires. I found no significent spillage or violation enough to require any further action by DEP 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. . B-7-1997*On January 6, 1997 at 2240 we received a call from the State Police concerning a truck accident between mile 164-165 on I-95 in Carmel. A tractor trailer that was hauling potatoes and owned by Mid Valley Sales of St. Agatha drove off the southbound lane and tipped on its side. The trooper thought that between thirty and forty gallons leaked from one of the saddle tanks. No water is in the vicinity. The trooper planned to leave the truck as is until the next day. I visited the site the next morning and met Tim Richardson of R&M Towing who said the company planned to off load the spuds before he removed the trailer. There were a couple small pockets of fuel beneath the cab and R&M people recovered this fuel with pads. 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 B-623-2001*On 10/31/01, 1216 hour the sheriffs' office for Sumerset County contacted us regarding a tractor trailer accident on Route 201 in Moscow. The tractor was still on the road and it was loosing a small amount of fuel from the saddle tank cap. The dispatcher indicated that this was not a problem because the fire department had it under control. The issue concerned the load of wood chips that had landed in the water. I told him that they would be expected to recover the load. Leaving it there would certainly have an adverse affect on the water quality as well as the environment for the nearby property owners. P-384-1998*On 08/13/98 I received a call that a tank was leaking into the basement of an apartment building in Biddeford. I responded and found that there was a corrosion hole in the bottom of the tank and approximately 200 gallons of fuel oil had been released. The oil company had been there and put a screw in the hole to stop the flow. I called Clean Harbors who came with a vacuum truck and sucked off all the oil. I returned and had Clean Harbors remove all the saturated debris from the basement and put in two sumps in the floor which we vacuumed twice. A ventilation system was installed and the case was referred to Technical Services. _____________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I January 7, 1999 I-135-2000*On 11/29/2000, Dennis of Dead River called to report that while conducting routine maintenance, a small leak in a residential tank was discovered. There was a stain on a concrete floor that indicated it had been leaking a while. A new tank was installed. A-80-1997*Received a call from Mike White of Emery and Garrett that he was at a tank removal at Maritime Energy in Waldoboro. He reported that he had high readings and some soil should be removed. I responded to the site. When I arrived Mike explained what was happening. The last tank was being removed. Mike reported that he had found readings up to 3000 ppm bag headspace. The site was a stringent site and therefore the cleanup standard was set to 100ppm PID bag headspace via Bureau protocall. Apprximately 200 cubic yards were removed. Mike reported that there was some contamination left in the sidewall of the excavation near the US 1 at the pump islands. Mike obtained a sample of the well. The laboratory result of his sample showed a trace (<5ppm) of MTBE. I resampled the well and also found a trace (unquantified) of MTBE. I informed the store manager and put the store on 1/4'ly monitoring. The site has been referred to Technical Services. See the Appendix P site assessment for additional information. B-305-2001* On 5/23/01 Keith Bridges of Keith Bridges Construction contacted me about removing an underground fuel tank at the residence of Adeline Ladd, which is located at 44 Riverside Street in Milo. He indicated that he was ready to do it on 5/24/01. I told him that I would be there with the paper work. The tank was a double walled, plastic clad, thousand gallon tank that had been installed in "91". Adeline was concerned about the tank because or the closeness to the Sebec River. Her husband had the unit installed at a time when they used to winter in Florida. She doesn't do that anymore so the need for the higher fuel storage capacity had gone and she just did not want to have to think about it anymore. Needless to say the excavation was squeaky clean. The soil was fine gravel. Judging from the appearance of the river it would seem bedrock would not have been more than twenty feet from grade where the UST had been located. The bottom of the tank hole was about eight feet from grade. Milo has public water and sewage treatment. P-311-1998*On July 6, 1998 I received a call from the Portland MSO- USCG about a drum that had washed up on Popham Beach. The caller had stated that the drum was full of grease. I went to the beach and found the drum in question. It was full of grease and lying on it's side buried in the sand. There was no grease on the ground near the drum nor any other signs of any leakage, however the bung was off the drum. The drum was located a good distance down the beach and required a truck to remove - a truck could only access the beach on an outgoing low tide. I came back the following day at low tide with John Dunlap, and Chris Estes and a pick up with a winch and liftgate. We were able to get the drum loaded and brought it back to the Portland office with no spillage. A-198-2000* Mr. Brooks called this office to request help in determining if his well was contaminated. I made a site visit on 4-6-00, and found that the well in question (well #1) had been disconnected and there was no easy way to collect a sample. Therefore, I could not collect a sample of well # 1 at this time. I did collect a sample from the water at the house, which comes from well # 4. Well #4 was drilled recently and has a yield of 100 gallons per minute. I made a second site visit on 5-24-00 to collect a sample from well # 1. Using a battery operated purge pump, a sample was obtained. This was later found to have a concentration of 15 ug/l GRO. Pat Seaward and I made another site visit to resample well # 1. The results of this sample were 3 ppb of MTBE. The levels are below the State's action level and therefore no action is required. A-574-1996*JOHN DAIGLE CALLED TO REPORT THAT, WHILE FUELING A TRUCK, THE NOZZLE FELL OUT OF THE TANK SPILLING 5-10 GALLONS OF DIESEL FUEL. EXCAVATION OF THE SOIL YIELDED ~2 TRUCKS WHICH I MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO HAUL TO DRAGON FOR DISPOSAL. P-887-1999*16 December 1999, conducted site visit and observed UST excavation. No problems observed. No further Response Action warranted. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 5jan00. I-152-1996*A woods crane overturned just before Weeks Brook Two in the SE cornerof T11 R8 wels. Spill was cleaned up by the spillor's crew. The Speedi dri used to cleanup the spill was taken to Mr. Cyrs property in Portage and land spread. Case Closed 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-702-2000*A 55 gallon drum was found on the side of the road with a small stain next to it. Lewiston Public Works recovered the drum. The oil smelled like diesel. The stained area was appx. 2' x 6'. I raked the stained soil out to a thin layer along the side of the road. Area is industrial, with city water. No further action anticipated. B-484-1996*On 9/4/96, 1520 hours David DeHass of Jackson Labs called to report a five gallon hydraulic oil spill. One of the hoses on a fork lift truck broke. They recovered four gallons with speedy dry. David estimated that one gallon of the spill got into the sewer system. He had given the treatment plant a heads-up, and they (at the treatment plant) didn't think that they would see it. Based on some of the experiences that I've had with spills to sewer systems, I agreed with that prediction. David said that they would dispose of the half bag of oiled speedy dry over a period of time in their bio waste incinerator. This unit has two burn chambers. The first burns at 1400 degrees farenheight and the second (which destroys the gases from the first) at 2000 degrees farenheight. B-432-2001* On 8/02/01, 1330 hours Clifford Perry (dispatcher for DOT in Ellsworth)reported that an excavator had landed on it's side and was leaking hydraulic oil. The amount was not known and there was a stream nearby. The location was the intersection of Routes 1 and 200 in Sullivan. Sullivan Fire had responded. The initial report mentioned diesel fuel, but there was no evidence of a diesel release. When I arrived there was an oil stain on the side of the pavement that was less than a yard square and the product had not spread. The stream was free of oil. Joe Fontain (Sullivan Fire Chief) said that Barbee Construction had taken the soiled pads with them. The residual stain was not enough to be a traffic hazard nor a threat to the environment. B-456-1997*A loose secondary bushing allowed enough oil to leak out of this transformer to interrupt power service to the nearby residence. Laboratory analysis showed the PCB concentration to be 6.5 ppm. A small quantity of contaminated soil and debris was shovelled up and disposed of at Sawyer's Environmental Recovery Facility in Hampden. B-2-1998*On 1/1/98, 1148 hours Tom Groblowski, who lives on Cottage Street in Hampden, reported petroleum product in a ditch that parallels Cottage Street a few hundred feet from his residence. When I located the site I observed that the product was heating oil and that there was about ten gallons of it at the end of a culvert that drained a storm drain system on Cottage Street. I deployed about a quarter of a bale of pads and proceeded to look for a source. Ray Pikes of Hampden Fire Department joined me shortly after I arrived. Ray summonsed a public works person and we proceeded to uncover storm drains and sniff them with our Photon. Between the PID and visual observation (i.e. seeing product on the water) we determined that there was product in the catch basin just down grade from 23 Cottage, which belonged to Barbara Williams. Barbara lives with her son, Eric. No one was available at the time but the next day Ray called to tell me that they had discovered the source. The William' AST had developed a corrosion hole. I discussed spill remediation and the fund with Eric. Eric said that it had been cleaned up and that there were no problems. I told him that he could contact me if problems emerged later on. I-56-2000*On 6/2/00, Lewis Hews of Irving Forest Products called to report there had been a small spill at the mill on Pinkham Road. About 5 gallons of hydraulic oil was lost from a contractors backhoe. All was picked up with sawdust and burned at the on-site boiler. P-230-1997*Overfill of UST. Cleaned up by responsible party. No further action by the Division of Response Services necessary in this matter. ___________________ Jon L. Woodard OHMS 1 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management P-825-2000* In the evening of Wed. 12/27/00, Stephen Brezinski of the Maine DEP Response Div. was requested to respond to a hazardous waste situation by agents of the Maine Drug Enf. Agency (DEA) and Wells PD. As requested, I met and followed them first to a mobile home off Bragdon Rd. where amphetamines had been produced and we were concerned about haz. waste dumping on the property. Because of snow and ice, little could be seen at the time. The main lab and all the methyl-amphetamine waste was picked up from a colonial house and garage located at 4 Brooke Ln., at the corner with Rt. 109. Between the basement and garage I collected containers of Acetone, Muriatic Acid, Coleman Fuel (flammable), iodine, hypodermic needles (Bio-medical Waste) and several containers of unknown solutions with high and low pH's and falling onto the hazardous range. DEA reports the lab was operated by Mr. Albert W. Demoss. On 12/28/00 representatives from Clean Harbors Env. Svcs. and I profiled and packaged the hazardous waste for transport to Clean Harbors of Braintree, Mass. and eventual disposal. See the attached manifests and other documents for further information. I recommend Maine DEP seek reimbursement for disposal costs from Mr. Demoss who is the responsible party and/or the property owner of 4 Brook Lane where the lab was located. Past hazardous waste chemicals from Mr. Demoss' operation are believed to have been dumped down the municipal sewer drains, dumped on the properties, and/or disposed of with the residential solid waste. Stephen G. Brezinski, Oil & Hazardous Materials Spec. Maine DEP, BRWM A-663-1999*Workers at S.E.A. Ltd. spilled about 1/2 quart of Penetrol into the bilge of a boat they were working on. One worker turned on the bilge pump before realizing he should not discharge the spilled product to the harbor. About one pint of bilge water mixed with Penetrol actually reached the water. The bilge was pumped out. Penetrol is an oil-based wood preservative. See attached MSDS. No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services. P-433-1986* Report update of 1/28/03. DEP response to gasoline free product and vapors in city sewer drains followed by 1987 UST facility abandonment and replacement. Contaminated soil excavated. Product & vapor problem ceased following facility replacement. See separate narrative of St. Germain for further details. S G Brezinski P-22-1997*The line on the furnace was not connected and when the tank was filled the line discharged oil on the floor around the furnace. When I arrived, the furnace had been removed and most of the oil collected with rags. There was still some oiled fiberglass insulation and flooring that had to be removed. Mr. Grant stated that his brother was an oil burner technician and knew what had to be done and wanted to do the work himself since he caused the discharge. I informed Mr. Grant that I could assist him with disposal of the oiled waste if he had a problem. The was no discharge to the environment, only a vapor and fire hazard. No further action required. A-339-2000* Irving Oil spilled about 15 gallons of diesel onto the concrete while offloading into an UST. This spill ocurred at Timber Express on 6-16-00. The diesel was cleaned up using sorbents and no further action will be required. P-411-2000*A car pulled away from a gas pump while the hose was still connected spilling no more than 10 gallons of gas to the pavement. The Auburn Fire Dept. responded and cleaned up the spill with sorbent pads. No further action. B-58-1997*On February 3, 1997 at 1545 we received a call from Mona Spear of Bangor Hydro reporting a spill of two gallons of hydraulic oil from one of their line trucks. The truck slid off Route 9 and into a ditch three miles east of Route 193 in Beddington. The product leaked from a broken line and Hydro workers recovered the product with sorbents. No state waters were threatened. I-179-1999*On 11-30-99, the Caribou Fire Dept. called to report that they had responded to a complaint of LP gas odors at the Forsman Sintered Products facility on Armco Ave. in Caribou. Their investigation showed no LP present, gas or fuel, but there was an odor that could not be discerned and employees were complaining of headaches. I investigated and found the odor was most likely due to the machinery in the building and very little ventilation. I told them to ventilate and if that didn't solve the problem to get back to me. B-328-1997*A settling concrete pad caused the top seal on an electrical regulator to leak. See BHE Co.'s report, attached. P-1006-1999*Contaminated soil found at Phillips Elmet Substation, Lewiston. No current equipment appeared to be leaking. Tagged 88 ppm PCB. Cleaned up and disposed of by CMP. No further action necessary. P-25-2001*A chunk of ice came of the roof of a home and landed on the filter of an outside 275 gal. K-1 AST. The filter broke off and oil spilled from the tank. The caretaker of the home arrived shortly after and found the leaking tank, he plugged it as best he could. When I arrived the Waterboro Fire Dept. had soaked up what free product they could, most of the oil was caught in the snow and also under the snow. I secured the tank and the scene and made preparations for a backhoe to come in the next day. The following day I met Leighton excavation on site. Approximatley 7 tons of snow and dirt were removed. I believe nearly all the spilled oil was recovered, however for safety measures the homeowners will be put on quarterly monitoring for at least 6 months. NFA 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. B-225-1999*Fishing the brook behind D&H Construction, Mrs. Johnston encountered an oil sheen, and investigating, traced its source to cars buried on the property. Investigating the next day, I could find no oil sheen, but found instead an organic or silver sheen produced when organic material in the soil decomposes. I found no evidence of cars buried behind the construction company, but I did see a bunchh of junk thrown over the bank and partially buried. I passed the complaint along to the Solid Waste Division. P-22-1998*18Jan98, Newfield Fire Dept, notified SP-Gray, of a K-1 spill at entered location. Chief Colwell, was informed at 2100hrs that I would conduct a site visit 19Jan98 at 0800hrs. Colwell advised that 221.9 gals of oil released from a ruptured AST and that oil was under a house trailer and that drinking water wells were located down grade of the spill. 19Jan98, I contacted Clean Harbors(CH),Prtld, and hired a vacuum truck/work crew. On site I observed a heavy olfactory presence of oil and a severly ruptured AST along the back side of the dwelling. 0900hrs I met w. Colwell, the tenants (see subject/owner), and CH reps. 0930hrs I contacted homeowner to receive verbal approval of initial clean up actions; removal of oil saturated soil and snow in immediate area of spill. 0945hrs I reinspected the site and took initial photos. I observed that the AST was not on a firm working surface and that the standard vent (vent whistle and rain guard) were nonexistant; and that the vent consisted of a 15.25 cm long threaded galvanized pipe with an end-cap attached. It appeared to me that the end-cap was not removed during delivery, which enduced an over pressurization condition and caused a resulting seam failure. One end of the AST is completely blown out and the force of the discharging oil pealed back portions of the trailers outer siding. 1030hrs I contacted CNB and spoke w. Diane Alexander. I informed her of DEP actions taking place. 20Jan98, CH on site to complete initial removal operations. I met Zagarella Ltd, Parsonsfield, on site to assess hardware needs for plastic vapor barrier and temporary skirting. 21Jan98, on site with Zagarella,installed vapor barrier under trialer and secured temporary skirting. 22Jan98, Zagarella disposed of oil impacted skirting. 3Feb98, met Roger Eberly, Safety & Accident Director, CNB, (207-743-9212) and Alex Thornton of Colonial Insurance. Identified oil saturated soil under concrete slab. (see attached narrative) A-208-1997*Contamination was found at the time of a new tank installation. Reportedly the site had been both a Gulf Station and A 7-eleven. The current owner reports that he had 6 tanks removed about 10 years ago when notified that it was required by DEP. The contractor told him that none of the tanks had leaked. When I arrived at the site, the top 7' of clean bank run had been taken away. Contaminated material had been stockpiled on site. At the South end of the excavation clay extended from about 4' to 9' where bedrock was encountered. Bedrock was at 5' at the North. Water with a sheen covered most of the bottom. PID readings were less than 300 ppm in the clay. Backfill at 9' along the bedrock was 5000 ppm and at 9' in the South end 2200 ppm. I decided that enough material had already been excavated. The new tank excavation had buildings on two sides and roads on the two other. The store at the site was on a slab. I took the PID into the basement of the office building next door. The foundation was of granite blocks, and I found 0 ppm in the openings in the mortar closest to the tank excavation. Some of the former piping was still in place. I had this removed. I saw no evidence of more that one of the reported former tanks. I presume the others where on the other side of the site. I did not require excavation to look for contaminated soil. The vent pipes were still in place on the far side of the building. Mike Simard, the new tank installer, reports he also removed as much of these as possible, but that they extended under the slab. He plugged the ends. No further action is anticipated. I-151-1999*On 8-17-99, Larry Girvan called this office to report there had been a spill of number 2 fuel in the basement of his residence in Fort Fairfield. Appently the tank had developed a corrosion hole and began to leak the night before. A contracter was hired to replace the tank and the concrete floor cleaned. 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. P-51-1996*23Jan96, 0930, arrived on site and observed Ray Labby Construction equipment removing soil from an excavation next to the dwelling, under the fill/vent lines associated with a basement housed above ground supply tank. I met w/ Ed Cowan of Brunswick Coal & Lumber, 18 Spring St., Brunswick (729-9921), who informed me that BC&L accidently delivered oil to the wrong house and that when the spill occured the delivery personnel failed to report the spill tothe company dispatcher. Cowan informed me that BC&L is the RP and taking all required actions to clean up the spilled product. The spilled product was transported by rain down the drive way and impacted snow approx. 35 feet from the driven point drinking water well. Cowan and I surveyed the area and identified small areas lightly impacted by oil that were removed by the Labby crew. The well was later sampled on 28Feb96, and no oil was identified in the sample. Response services will seek reimbursement from BCL for expences incurred by the Department Nathan Thompson, SMRO (22May96) 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-519-1996*On August 20, 1996 I received a call from Brent Sutter of Acadia Environmental. He called to report a slight amount of contamination found during a fuel oil tank removal. The tank was located at 445 Sabattus Street in Lewiston at an old service garage that was recently purchased by Webber Oil. The contamination he described to me was minimal and did not require any clean-up, I asked to be notified if any other contamination was found. I was paged on another site later that afternoon by Brent. He stated that there had been a waste oil tank removed that was in good condition and no visible contamination. He also stated that they had removed piping that had been previously left in the ground from a previous gasoline UST removal. The piping led to what appeared to be an old pump island, and here there was heavy gasoline contamination found. Brent said the soil was not saturated and that the contaminated area appeared to be limited. I could not get to the site so I requested that Brent document the contaminated areas well and close things up, with no clean up being done. I will wait to review the Site Assessment before making a final determination about this site. P-706-2000*see attachment, narrative, map P-558-1992* Abandonment-by-removal of retail motor fuels UST facility and clean-up of prohibited discharges of gasoline through source reduction. Sensitive geologic area; residential and commercial-use. See attached separate narrative, UST Reg. file #14350 and separate attachments for further details. . P-886-1999*I received a call reporting that the Wilson residence on River Road in Arundel had bright blue water coming out of their well. When I arrived to check it out, I was shocked to find the water coming out of the tap was truly brilliant blue (see attached photos). It was determined after looking in the well casing this was a case of vandalism. There were blue crystals on the top of the pitless adapter and on the inside of the casing near the top. I brought Brad Hahn of Technical Services in at this point (see his report attached). On January 11, 2000, approximately 6500 gallons of water were pumped from the well. I also involved Andy Slusarski of Hazardous Waste Enforcement and the York County Sheriff's Office. In the end, it was never determined who vandalized the well or what was used. No further Response action is needed at this time. A-150-1996*No site visit made. No further action anticipated. P-664-1996* This property is one of several on this street inundated during the flood event of 10/21-23/96. The 275 gallon AST located in the cellar floated when the cellar flooded, severing the copper supply line. Mr. Martin estimates that 60 gallons of fuel was in the tank at the time. This oil spread over the surface of the water in the basement, smearing the contents of the cellar (furniture, drywall, personal belongings, etc.) with oil as the waters receded. Consistent with other impacted properties in this neighborhood, DEP arranged for a disposal roll-off to be delivered to the residence. Mr. Martin was instructed to place oil contaminated debris (including drywall and fibre-glass insulation)into this roll-off, and was told that DEP would arrange and pay for the disposal of this material. Mr. Martin was also informed that DEP would assist him with the abatement of residual petroleum vapors remaining in the structure but restoration of the flood damage was not within DEP's purview. It was suggested to Mr. Martin that he contact his own insurance and/or FEMA to seek relief from the other flood related damage. Consistent with other flood related oil discharges at residential sites, it is recommended that the Department not seek reimbursement from the homeowner for expenditures from the Surface Oil Fund instead submit a claim to FEMA. P-407-1999*See attached report from CMP. No further action required. ____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II JUNE 24, 1999 B-452-1999*B-452- 99 Brooksville (North Brooksville) Wednesday July 28, 1999 1550 I received a phone call from Mr. Barry Bunton of North Brooksville. Mr. Bunton said that there is something in the Shephardson Brook, near his home, on the Varnumville Road. He believes oil dumping may have occurred, as he sees a sheen. He is concerned about his drinking water well near his house. This area has seen near drought conditions this late spring and early summer. According to Mr. Bunton, last Wednesday someone dumped something in the brook. I said that I would be in the area early tomorrow morning. Thursday July 29, 1999 0815 I arrived in North Brooksville on the Varnumville Road. I noticed that the Shephardson Brook had a dam on it and there were stranded pools of water that were once a flowing brook. These pools had marsh sheen on them. It was a grayish-blue film that would break off in angular chunks when disturbed. What he may have seen is his neighbor inserting a hose into the brook, as his neighbor has been drawing some water from the brook to irrigate his nearby garden. I reported to Mr. Bunton what I had found on this investigation. I explained the conditions could change if they got rain soon. B-81-1999*B-081-99 C.N.Brown - Brewer Ms. Bailey called to report that she had just discovered an estimated 1/2 gallon spill of gasoline in the yard on asphalt. She did not know the cause, just after a customer left the spill was noticed. The gas was quickly contained with speedi-dri and a few pads. These will be picked up by C.N.Brown maintenance. P-290-1996*Mr. York was concerned that the logging contractor that was working on his property had discharged hydraulic oil and was wondering what he should do. I responded to the complaint and observed a slight sheen on a puddle next to the road which could have been from any source. Mr. York's major concern was the dark coloration of the soil which was determined to be decaying detritus. No further action required. A-649-1998*No site visit made. The whistle wasn't working properly. Some oil went to crushed stone outside the building and some was leaking around the fitting to the gauge in the building. Kalloch staff reported that they pumped off a few gallons, then cleaned the tank and removed some stone. No further action anticipated. 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. A-250-1996* An anonymous complaint was received concerning dumping or spreading of lube oil along the roadway in Turner. I drove out to the site and could not find any evidence of such spillage. No further action will be nessesary. B-687-1998*On 10/23/98, 0700 hours the State Police (Orono Barracks) reported a truck accident nine miles north of Bingham in Caratunk. A saddle tank had become impacted. Upon investigation it became obvious that the tank was nearly empty and that the release had been spread over several hundred square yards of asphalt. The truck had been traveling north around five AM when a southbound tanker trailer truck lost a tire (the rim came with it). The derelict tire caused the northbound truck to go off the road. It glanced off ledge on its left side and ended up nose down, with no front axle, in the right hand (heading north) shoulder. The collision with the ledge also impacted the left saddle tank, which discharged the remainder of its contents over a 30-40 yard distance. The DOT was on hand to spread sand on the oiled asphalt. 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-276-1997*On 5/21/97 Nick Keene representing Clean Harbors called to report that a Waste Management of Maine truck had burst a hydraulic hose while at the Clean Harbors Rumery Road facility and had discharged approximately 20 gallons of hydraulic oil. The oil spilled both onto a concrete surface and the soil adjacent to the concrete. Clean Harbors personnel used sorbents to remove the oil from the concrete and excavated the contaminated soils. The sorbents were incinerated and the contaminated soils were placed into a dumpster along with the facility's process tank bottoms for disposal along with the regular waste stream. P-948-2001*Report of motor oil dumped on ice in brook. Visited site and was unable to substantiate. P-67-1998* Vehicle fire at loading dock of Bradlees. Fuel tank burned open and with subsequant discharge down parking lot with firefighting water. Responded to by fire dept., DEP, and Clean Harbors, costs of which were covered by vehicle owner, Penske Leasing. No further actions expected at this time. No spillage to soils or drains, etc. S. Brezinski B-489-1999* On August 9,1999 at 1100 we received a call from the Bangor Fire Dispatcher reporting a fuel oil spill at 135 Park View Ave. in Bangor. I arrived on site and met owner Brian Potter and representatives from the fire department and Webber Oil. We found a small leak in the tank bottom that spilled between five and ten gallons of fuel oil onto the dirt floor. No oil reached any drain and we recovered some pure oil with sorbent pads. Webber Oil later replaced the tank with an up to code installation on a pad. The area is on town water. A-20-2000*A plow truck slid off the road and leaked gas out the tank vent. The fire department responded and used pads to collect as much product as possible. They reported some had reached a culvert about 150' away, but they felt they were collecting it there and little had passed the culvert. They also used some sand from the back of the truck to dike the spill near the truck. I visited the site the following day. I could still find free product, in snow along the ditch. There was very little product below the culvert. I contacted Fleet Environmental to come clean contaminated snow, leaves, and sand by hand. We had cleaned about two thirds of the ditch before sunny warmer conditions affected the site. At that point we could only see sheen and no additional free product. The ground under the ditch was frozen and I decided no additional remediation would be needed. We left a few pads at both ends of the ditch as a precaution. There are two nearby residences, but they are far enough away and upgrade to not be at risk. Map by Delorme Map Expert. No further action is anticipated. A-550-1999*An anonymous caller reported that IP was taking transformers and placing them in a metal recycle bin. The caller stated that he knew that these transformers contained PCBs. He also stated that paint wastes were also being placed in a dumpster. I called Tom Saviello to ask about this activity. He checked and found nothing. The paint cans were empty. The transformers were being moved during an installation. Scott Cyr confirmed that IP had no PCB containing transformers on site. B-491-1997*9/9/97 08:00 Wayne Giffard of C.S. Winchester in Brewer called to request a waiver to remove tanks at Nason's Store in East Dixmont. Two 3000 gallon and a 2000 gallon diesel tank was slated for removal. Bub Saunders of Fessenden Geo-Environmental would be on site for the assessment. All three tanks were removed from a sand fill material. High levels of gasoline contamination were found on the bottom of the excavation in a native till. Gasoline concentrations exceeded 5000 ppm equivalent benzene. Approximately 70 yards of material was removed and taken to land owned by Dave Dysart for spreading and treatment. An unknown quantity of contamination on both the north and east side of the excavation could not be accessed for fear of undermining an addition to the store. Contamination levels in these areas still exceeded 5000 ppm. About 10 feet of clean overburden also hindered the clean up. The area is considered sensitive due to the store's public water supply and a nearby private water supply. The store's well proved negative for gasoline. Harvard Nason, the store's owner, was sent to a fund application in case Technical Services staff determines that further work in necessary. P-75-2001*The York County Sheriff's Office called to report that a sand truck had rolled over on Fenderson Road in Parsonsfield. A hydraulic hose had a slow leak in it and the oil was collecting in a snow bank. The caller stated that they were in the process of righting the truck and they would collect all the contaminated snow when they were done. No further Response action is necessary at this time. ______________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I March 8, 2001 P-710-1996*31Oct96, I received a compliant from Letarte concerning a steady sheen of oil entering Calvery Pond thru a storm drain, and also entering the City's waste water treatment plant. On site after I observed the sheen, Letarte informed me that he delineated, by inspecting storm and sewer drains for signs of petroleum product, the Main St. area where he felt the suspected oil was coming from. We identified Brunswick Transportation, Handyman Rental, and Gould Equipment as potential commercial facilities in that area that may be contibuting to a release. Letarte and myself visited these facilities, but were unable to identify any problems or reported producted loses from our inquires. 1Nov96, Letarte sampled a storm and sewer drain within the area in question. On 6Nove96 I delivered the samples to Katahdin Analytical, Westbrook, after confirming DEP authorization to pay for the testing. The samples came back closely resembling #4 fuel oil and motor oil, see attached analytical results. This matter will be referred to the Oil Enforcement Unit. Response Services will conduct product recovery when applicable pending further Department action. Nathan Thompson, SMRO. (9DEC96) B-355-1997*7/8/97 15:15 John Selleck of Coastal Environmental called to report discovering minor contamination during the removal of a 1000 gallon #2 fuel tank and a 10000 gallon JP-1 fuel tank at the Georgia Pacific facility in Woodland. Mr. Selleck reported contamination levels at averaging 300 ppm in the excavation of the 10k tank. No contamination was discovered in the area of the #2 fuel tank. The area is considered "non-sensitive" being served by a public water supply. The site could also be labeled as a "non attainment area. None of the contamination was removed from the excavation. No further action is expected. P-261-2000*A broken wood gate had been propped up against an outside 275 gallon K-1 tank. The wind knocked the gate onto the filter of the tank breaking it off. The property owner called her oil company who came out and stopped the leak. Most of the contents of the tank spilled to the ground and ran under the deck. I responded to the spill and called Clean Harbors to do the clean up. We took up the deck to get at the oil. The groundwater level was right at the surface (the area is filled in salt marsh) and so the oil stayed floating at ground level. We soaked up the oil with pads and dug up the impacted soil beneath the tank. The condominium association took responsibility for the spill because it was their broken gate that caused the release and their insurance covered all expenses. No further action. I-17-1999*While installing a furnace duct, the technician drilled through the supply line to the furnace. Free product was contained and cleaned up with sorbents, but some wood was contaminated. A-286-1999*Received an anonymous complaint concerning the Town of Peru. A local resident who wished to remain anonymous called to complain that the Town of Peru's public works garage had oil spills all around it. I went to visit and found some spillage. The town was storing waste oil in drums and there had been some sloppy handling of the oil. There was no sign of large scale dumping of product. I spoke to the foreman on site and told him to clean up around the drums and to improve his handling of the waste oil. I urged him to store the drums under cover in a bermed area that had an impervious floor. No further work needs to be done on this site. I think an occasional visit by Response as we travel Route 108 would help the situation. P-74-1998* In the afternoon of Thurs., 2/19/98, I met Mr. Baker at his single family house in Lisbon. Down in the basement Baker showed me his 275 gal. AST that somehow had the firematic broke off reportedly discharging about about 50 gal. onto the dirt floor, though I suspect the spillage was less. There was no strong odor and no complaints from Mr. Baker or his family. They are on public sewer and water. I advised Baker he may remove the soil for landspreading and/or apply to the AST Fund for a DEP managed clean-up. The site falls within an Intermediate Clean-Up Goal based on potential vapor problems which do not exist at this time. As of 11/98 I have not heard from Mr. Baker and suspect no further Resp. Div. actions. See attached notes for further information. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-222-1998* On 4-27 Tammy Liberty reported that vandals had broken the copper line on the AST at the house trailer they own in Winslow. No one is living in the trailer at this time. The property is located on the China Rd., Route 137, across the street from a barber shop. Look for mail box 6395. It was estimated that 130 gallons of oil was in the tank at the time it was vandalized. All of the oil that was in the tank leaked out. Some of the oil soaked into the plywood structure that served as an entry. This structure had to be moved in order to excavate the oil contaminated soil. On 5-4-98, Gerald MacKenzie excavated the soil. Bedrock was encountered at about three feet. A total of 26 yards of soil was removed and transported to Waste Management's landfill in Norridgewock. The oil leached into the bedrock. Several pieces of bedrock were left on site for display. The bedrock was extremeley friable and the fracture lines headed toward the well. This case has been referred to our Technical Services Division for further review. Contact Pat Seaward. On 6-23 Tammy Liberty called this office to report that the well water smelled of oil. I collected a sample and brought it to Northeast Lab. It was analyzed and had a concentration of 520 ppb. I arranged to have a dual carbon filter system installed by Haskell Water Treatment. This was completed on 7-3-98. During one of these last site visits Lucien told me that they had a run in with an ex roommate of his deceased brother-in-law (the brother-in-law has been deceased for about two years). Several days after this run in, the vandalism occurred. 7-15, I called the Winslow P.D. and let them know that the cost of cleanup have exceeded $4,000. Homeowners Insurance Company is Foremost Ins. Comp @ 1-800-527-3907 ext. 8913 claim # 5913937., Agent Eric Johnson. Pat Seaward and I made a site visit in August 1998. Haskell's winterizes the filters. Carbon rebedded 5/99, h20 samp 6,160 ug/l. water sample on 6/30/99 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. B-303-1997*On 6/18/97, 1330 hours Daniel Brooks, who has a residence in Hampden called to request an abandonment in place permit for a thousand gallon UST that had been used as fuel supply for his residence. We discussed the ins and outs for the process and he maintained that if the tank qualified he would like to abandon it in place. I looked at the situation and agreed that removal by excavation would cause untoward damage to the property. Also, they have city water. I wrote the permit and gave him a thirty day notice form. A-254-1996*Madison Paper lost 800 gallons of sodium hypochlorite solution during a delivery. It was lost to the process sewer through a leaking blow down valve. See the attached report. A-83-2001*Received a call from Louis Giroux of Mead Paper reporting a spill at a wood yard in Anson. He reported that 125 gallons of hydraulic oil was spilled from a log-handling machine. I questioned the amount and he said that Phil Tarr was lead on this spill. I eventually got in contact with Phil and he stated that it was a big log handling machine and had emptied its' whole hydraulic system. Phil also said that the environmental department from the mill would be involved with the cleanup. See the attached spill report from Mead Paper for additional details. No further work is necessary on this spill. B-334-1996*In June of 1996 Rob Peale of the Augusta Office of the Dept. of Environmental Protection notified this office that in Dec. of the preceding year the LaGrange Primary School sent a routine water sample to the Dept. of Human Services Drinking Water Program. This sample was reported to show 10 ppm of toluene. Mr. Peale requested that my division investigate this report. Having been a long term resident of LaGrange, I was given the task. I was aware that the LaGrange "downtown" had a long history of gasoline contamination and that there was an ongoing clean up being monitored by our Tech Services group. I went to our geologist, Paul Blood and learned that they had been having the school well monitored from 12/91 to 10/94 (two months before the DHS sample was taken). All during this time (8 samples) the results were "non detected" and as such was taken off the quarterly monitoring scheduled. Mr. Blood said that he would have the well sampled before the start of the school year. On 1/7/97 the well was sampled by Paul Richards of Tech. Services. On 1/15/97 we received the results back from the lab. It showed no levels of toluene or any other gasoline component. Mr. Richards had explained to the school personnel why we were taking a water sample and told them, that if they did not hear from us, the original sample was a false alarm and not to be concerned. Case Closed. A-92-1996*See attached narrative. P-634-1997* In the evening of Thursday, 11/6/97, S. Brezinski promptly responded to a reported diesel fuel spill in the commercial truck parking area of Mile 24's rest area. Kennebunk FD, and MTA workers were onscene and responding with sand (sorbent) and to stop the leak. Arriving onscene about 1930 hrs. I met a repairman tending to the damaged saddle tank. Apparently the truck driver had driven over a metal sign post which caused two large punctures in the right tank; causing this tank and part of the left tank to liberate to the ground until the FD closed the cross-over valve. Though starting on pavement, much of the spill drained onto soil which was excavated by MTA and disposed of at Commercial recycling on 11/10/97. I was later contacted by Dan Lacross of Crawfrod & Co. who I understood represented Proline Carriers and would cover clean-up the MTA's clean-up expenses. Onsite DEP drained a remaining 0.5 gal. from the right tank, crudely patched the holes, but otherwise no DEP expenses were incurred. No further DEP actions are expected. This area has been the site of past serious discharges. See earlier reports on Punky Swamp, et al. S G Brezinski B-651-1999*On 10/14/99, 1615 hours Mona Spear of BHE reported a transformer oil spill on a private camp road that is off Herrick Road in Southwest Harbor. The spill happened when a falling tree branch that hit a bushing on the unit. The impact caused a pint of oil to spray out. The oil landed on tree branches, moss and soil. The analysis came back 140 ppm PCBs. The clean up addressed all visible signs plus a one foot buffer. A-459-1999* DEP received an after-hours report that a commercial truck was jack-knifed on I-95 and was leaking fuel. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the scene and pumped fuel from the damaged saddle tank. The vehicle was then towed away. Approximately 25 gallons of fuel was sorbed into soil in the median. I met with DOT personnel the next day to remove this soil to a higher location in the median. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. P-791-1991* Failed SIA (evidence of a leak) for retail, motor fuels UST facility. See attached test results, report narrative for further information. See also reports p-268-88 & P-320-91, et al for further site history. . P-766-1996*On 11/27/96 I attended a tank removal for which I had issued a 30 day waiver for. The removal was at the Siesta Motel in Brunswick. One 4000 gallon UST was removed. The tank appeared to be in good condition and no contamination was observed. No further action required. _________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II A-128-1999* DEP received a report that a small amount of heating oil was spilled at this residence when overflow line became plugged on the dispensing vehicle. According to the spiller, oil spilled to frozen soil but did not penetrate and was immediately sorbed using pads. The property owner confirmed this. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-148-1997* DEP received an after-hours report that an AST at an abandoned residence had been vandalized/stolen, resulting in a spill of oil. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property and directed the removal of approximately 14 tons of contaminated soil. Spilled oil had sorbed into soil within 20 feet of a dug well; analysis of water sampled several days after the spill showed no petroleum contamination. Based on information collected on-scene and from the Knox County Sheriffs' Dept. it is my understanding that the property had been vacant for several months following the sudden death of the owner. There appeared to be a contested claim to ownership from potential heirs. Two brothers (Nichols, Collins) claimed to have received permission to collect a furnace and oil tank; they conducted this operation on the week-end of 5/3/97, emptying the contents of the tank onto the gravel driveway in the process. I anticipate no further Response involvement as a result of this incident. P-421-2001* On Monday 5/21/01, I met with Lewiston Public Works officials and with Erik Clark of Summit Env. regarding the status of soil excavated out by LPW for a new drainage line. The drainage line went across the rear of the former Pepperell Mill property to the Public Works facility (see site sketch). The soil was high in silt/clay content and was not suitable for reuse around the drainage line. About 40 yds. of surplus soil appeared to be contaminated with coal slag, ash, and possibly petroleum products. This type of contamination is common at old mill sites and often extends all around the general area. I did not observe the open excavation though noted no oil saturated soil in the excavated pile. This area may qualify as a "Brownfield". See also P-04-90, P-49-90, P-644-96 and P-348-97 for further information on this former mill and soils in this area of Lewiston. LPW was responsible for management of this soil by agreement with the mill property ownership. Disposal offsite would have required TCLP analysis of the soil and approval of the receiving location. Previous acquired knowledge indicated that this soil could not be treated as a clean, inert fill. Lewiston Public Works chose the option of keeping the soil onsite on the Mill Assoc. property where it was stockpiled (see site sketch), but leveling it off. A copy of this report will be sent to the LPW and Mill Assoc. owners. No further actions regarding this are anticipated at this time though this soil should be properly managed if disturbed. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-17-2001*B-017-2001 01/16/2001 09:30 Fred Leigh, Director of Environmental Services & Compliance for Bangor Hydro-Electric, called to report a dielectric oil spill on Cedar Street in Bangor. It was stated that a vehicle hit a utility pole knocking the transformer it was supporting to the ground. The transformer subsequently broke open spilling approximately 12 gallons of "non PCB" oil. All the oil was reportedly contained to the snow covered road surface. The contaminated snow was then scraped up and disposed of through Clean Harbors Inc. P-609-1999*On August 26, 1999 Helen Hatch of Downeast Energy called to report a spill at their Congress Street Mobil Gas Station in Portland. A bad gasket on one of the gas meters leaked approximately 15 gallons of gas into the piping sump. All product was contained with in the system with no release to the environment. The gasket was repaired and the gasoline removed from the sump. No further action. P-334-1994*SUMMARY May 1994, removal of fuel oil and waste oil UST's, and abandonment & replacement of gasoline product piping for retail, motor fuels UST facility. New double-wall piping beings installed for three s/w FRP tanks. The site owned & operated by Webber Energy but previously owned by EXXON Corp. No CMR 691 UST Closure assessment was required by Maine for the piping replacement and I understand that no discharges were assessed for or reported. See the attached spill report narrative, and reports P-277-1990, & P-712-2007. [In 2007 during facility replacement old, bare steel product piping was found still in the ground that was reported in 1994 by the CTI to have been removed.] . P-828-1999*Hydraulic Line on a CMP bucket truck ruptured spilling approximately 2 gallons of hydraulic oil. Most of the oil spilled onto a asphalt driveway, but some also sprayed onto a fence, a car and a yard. CMP cleaned up the oil with speedy dry and sorbents and scrubbed the oil impacted items. See enclosed CMP report. No further action. B-497-2000*Marriners Paving was delivering asphalt to a project on Islesboro when their truck fell off the ferry. People at the scene blamed the accident on inexperience of the driver; the ferry was not yet tied up in the slip when the driver started off the vessel. Because of the steep incline of the off ramp, the truck did not have enough momentum to make it, and the driver goosed it. Not secured, the truck's drive wheels pushed the vessel away from the slip until a sufficient gap developed and the truck fell into it, sinking in about 30' of water. The asphalt hardened immediately. The driver swam to shore. The incident was reported to Portland and referred to the Bangor office. Only next day did I figure out that Islesboro is not in our territory anymore. By that time I'd been in phone contact with the USCG in Rockland, who were aware of the incident, but not too excited, since there was very little sheen. I was also in touch with Steve Durell and Eric Prock at Prock Marine. They were aboard Prock's tug, the George Roper, moving a barge to the scene to raise the truck. Also enroute was Perry Holmes at Rockland Marine, with their barge. All these people confirmed that there was no sheen coming from the truck's fuel and that the site would be boomed off and any fuel lost during the raising contained and recovered. Time was of the utmost concern, for the ferry could not tie up while the truck and barges obstructed the ferry slip. Rich people were marooned, never a pleasant situation. Crews from Prock and Rockland Marine worked all night and raised the truck by morning of the next day. Unfortunately, they broke the truck into at least 3 pieces doing it, but my information is that STILL no fuel was spilled. A-598-1999*Received a call from Scott Reed of Mead Paper concerning a large spill at the plant. He called to report a spill of an estimated 19,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide from the #15 paper machine. He later reported that the calculated total was 12,680 gallons of sodium hydroxide. All the spilled material went to the process sewer and was neutralized. The cause was originally thought to be a manual valve that was left open. In the enclosed report, Scott Reed states that there were multiple reasons why the leak occurred including a valve left open and the failure of a tank level indicator. See the enclosed letter report for additional details. No site visit was necessary and no further work is needed. I-148-1996*When I investigated the reported problem, I found most of the piping & valves to be weeping at a steady rate. I contacted Webber and advised them of the problem, they in turn hired a local guy to complete the repairs and get the tanks drained. Excavation work will take place in the spring. P-292-1996*On 4/1/96 Brent Sutter an environmental engineer employed by Acadia Environmental Technology reported that petroleum contaminated soil which exceeded Chapter 691 notification levels had been encountered during an after the fact UST closure assessment being conducted at the City of Portland Central Maintenance Garage, 52 Hanover Street. The attached correspondence details the circumstances requiring the after the fact assessment. A DEP HYDROCARBON SPILL DECISION TREE was completed indicating that "Baseline-1" goals would apply to this site. Contamination levels exhibited by the soils encountered did not exceed the clean-up goals established for this site therefore no additional remedial actions were required. Portions of the product pipe runs which had not been removed at the time of the UST were observed during the test pitting in the area of the former pump island. I requested that this piping be removed where accesssible. The City of Portland's tank removal contractor, Portland Pump Co. removed this piping on 4/4/96. No further action is recommended. 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. ___________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II OCTOBER 20, 1998 B-40-1997*On 1/19/97, 2330 hour Victoria Justus (Director of Environmental Health & Safety at UMO) reported a two quart crank case oil spill at the alumni parking lot on the Orono Campus. One of the students vehicles had blown its engine and spilled the waste oil. They recovered as much as they could with sorbent pads. The parking lot was paved with asphalt; so, between the recovery by the pads and the substantiveness of asphalt to oil it is doubtful that there will be any migration of the spill. A-467-1996*THE SKOWHEGAN FIRE DEPT REPORTED THAT A MOTORIST DROVE OVER THE HOSE OF A DELIVBERY TRUCK AT THE WEBBER STATION AT NORTH AND WATER STREETS SPILLING SOME 40 GALLONS OF GASOLINE. THEY SUPERVISED THE SPREADING OF SAND AND SPEEDI-DRI. I MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR IT TO GO TO NORRIDGEWOCK. A-65-1997*See attached. No site visit made. No further action anticipated. 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 B-213-1998*Ronnie called to report that while making a fuel oil drop to their bulk storage facility, their driver managed to spill about eight gallons of #2. This was at the loading rack and the spilled fuel ran to their dike were it was recovered with sorbents. The sorbents will be disposed of along with their other routinely acquired special wastes. A-581-1998*This was a very small vehicle leak into the Leigh's paved driveway. The vehicle belonged to a visitor to the house and was gone by the time I arrived. The spill was noticed before it had time to run off or penetrate the pavement. The vehicle was moved away and kitty litter was used to clean the drive. There is a well onsite, but this spill wasn't a threat. No further action is anticipated. A-538-1998*DEP received a report that gasoline was spilled to pavement following this vehicle accident. Fire officials reported that all spilled product was recovered using sorbent pads. A-353-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98. See attached CMP report for more information. No further action anticipated. 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 B-719-1999*B-719-99 Steuben Thursday November 11, 1999 1122 I received a phone call from Mr. Gordon Kelly (546-2755), of Kelly Oil. Gordon phoned to report that during the process of filling a heating oil tank at the Ava Brown residence in Steuben the heating oil tank split. He said the tank weld on an end of the tank separated. He wanted to know what to do until I got there as he was supposed to be at a funeral. I said that the tank should be emptied into 55-gallon drums or some other container(S) so it is not leaking and I would be there as soon as possible. When I arrived in Steuben I got directions from a gentleman that turned out to be Ava Brown's brother. He showed me the way to her mobile home on the Dollyhead Road. When I arrived I noticed 3 55-gallon drums on scene along with a split horizontal mount 275 gallon heating oil tank. Two of the 55-gallon drums were full one had about 40 gallons of oil in it. Gordon Kelley had recovered 150 gallons this way and an additional 35 gallons using 5-gallon pails of oil was returned to his delivery truck. An approximate 185 gallons were recovered. Then I drilled and pumped out about 12 gallons into the nearly full 55-gallon drum bring the total to about 197 gallons of heating oil. Mr. Kelly pumped in 137 gallons of heating oil and said the tank had some oil in it. He spread some Absorb-All (a peat moss derivative) on the spill. It was beginning to rain so I spread a nearby tarp over the spilled area about 12 by 10 feet on the surface. Kelly Oil later cleaned up the Adsorb-All. It appears, due to quick action, about 20 gallons of oil was spilled at this location. This oil tank is one year old and has a proper vent. I am not sure why this tank split. I did not see a sprayed area near the vent pipe. B-149-2000*On 3/16/00, 1630 hours Ken Gallant of Champion International Corporation reported a sheen adjacent to their salt water intake. It was 200 feet long and varied in width from a few inches to a dozen feet. They had checked all of the possible sources from their facility and they were exonerated. The sheen did not have an odor. At the end of their search they found an area where a product that looked like motor oil was coming up from the bottom. Apparently it is not a continuous source because the sheen is not constant. B-91-2000*The Dead River Oil Co. called to report that a fitting on the furnace feed line had been overtightened and leaked at the John Watt residence, 174 14th Street. They estimated that about .5 cups of #2 had dripped onto the concrete floor and was cleaned up with sorbents. A-421-1999*See attached. I-3-1999*On 1-27-99, Leo Robishaud of Daigle oil called to report there had been a spill of fuel oil at the facility of Maine Frozen foods in Caribou. Apparently during the delivery of fuel to the aboveground fuel tank an overfill had occured. The delivery was being done by John Noble Company, a contractor for Daigle Oil. The delivery request had been for more than the tank could hold. About 100 gallons had spilled into the diked area before the pump was stopped. All oil was spilled into the dike. The delivery crew cleaned all oil out of the dike with sorbent pads. P-868-2000* In October of 2000 I assisted in the disposal of old gaso. contaminated soils at the nearby Five Points Shopping Ctr. The env. contractor had noted site use in the surrounding area including an old auto repair shop formerly known as Jim's Auto Repair. There was a question as to possible remaining UST's at this old gas station. The location is now known as Bruce's Auto. On 10/25/01 I briefly visited and noted no surficial piping exposed or pump islands indicating remaining UST's. MDOT was doing road widening, and new paving was being done in the front lot. DEP files indicate that Antz and St. Germain observed the abandonment-by-removal of three "leakers" (UST's) on or about 4/23/87 [see P-247-87]. Thirty yds. of soil was aerated and then used as cover at Biddeford Landfill. This removal took place prior to DEP's Clean-Up Decision Tree and requirements for closure assessments. It is not known at present how thorough remediation was at the time or at present. Gasoline/oil contaminated media likely remains and should be properly managed per state requirements if disturbed. No site closure can be confirmed at this time. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-783-1999* Elizabeth Foley @ home 774-3144...work 832-2105...On 12-20-99 Farmington Oil Company reported an oil release at a cottage owned by Elizabeth Foley. This cottage is located on Dodge Pond in the Town of Rangeley. It appears that a vandal broke the filter and nipple off of the outside AST. A wooden door had been placed in a position to deflect any snow or ice that may have fallen off the roof. The AST had been filled just recently and all of it had discharged onto the ground. In addition, the heat had not been operating for several days resulting in frozen water and drain pipes. I made a site visit the next day. I then contacted Mike Adams, a contractor, to start excavating. The tank was removed and the contaminated soil was excavated. However, the water table was very close to the surface and we found free product. After a futile attempt at pumping the fuel, it was below 20 degrees, we used sorbent pads to recover the fuel oil. Next we installed a vertical plastic culvert to act as a recovery well. This worked well for a few days. There is a dug well up-gradient of the spill site and the camp is on posts. Dodge Pond is located about 50 feet away. After some discussion with the DEP Technical Division we chose to install an interpreter trench. A trench was excavated into the frozen ground and a layer of crushed rock was place on the bottom. The plastic 8 inch drainage culvert was then placed on top of the rock and backfilled w/ more stone. Two inch hard insulation was then placed into the trench and top soil was used to create a mound over the trench. Inside the culvert we connected several lengths of sorbent boom. This trench only had a limited effectiveness. After monitoring the site for many months we decided to close the case. If 250 gallons of oil was lost I have no idea where it might be. Less than one liter of oil reached the shoreline of Dodge Pond and to the south a stream empties into the pond, no oil was ever detected. The site was restored, no further action A-116-1998* DEP received a report that contaminated soil was encountered during a piping upgrade at this facility. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property and arranged for the removal/disposal of 27 tons of soil. The area is zoned commercial and is served by municipal water. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-575-1996*JIM CAREY REPORTED THAT, WHILE FILING THIS CUSTOMER, HIS DRIVER NOTED OIL BUBBLING UP AROUND THE FILL PIPE. HE IMMEDIATELY STOPPED, AND DISCOVERED THAT THE UNDERGROUND PIPING HAD A LOOSE ELBOW AT THE FIRST JOINT. CAREY'S CLEANED IT UP BY EXCAVATING THE VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF CONTAMINATED SOIL, AND SPREADING IT WITHIN THEIR DIKE. A-356-2000*Mrs. Cyr called with concerns after receiving water test results of 100 ppb MtbE, and 6 ppb benzene. My sample confirmed these results and I had a POE carbon filter system installed. There is evidence of automotive work taking place near her well. The home has not yet been enrolled in the quarterly monitoring program. No further response action is anticipated. A-445-1997*A tank was removed at the Off Island store. Some loose connections were found in the area around the pump island. Contaminated soil was found in this area. The bedrock was shallow and the contamination extended to it. The contaminated soil was removed. The septic system leach field limited the extent of removal on the eastern side of the contaminated area. The leach field should provide a good nutrient source for bioremediation of the materials which are present in this area. P-268-2000*Workers at Maine Energy Recovery Company (MERC) discovered some biomedical waste during operations at the facility. The suspect waste was segregated and the medical facility responsible was contacted. Ann Hemenway visited the site to confirm the situation. MERC and the responsible party made arrangements to dispose of the waste using an appropriate biomedical waste disposal facility. 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 P-648-2000*The Falmouth Code Enforcement Officer reported drums of oil in a box trailer that appeared to have been abandoned. He also stated it looked like there had been some spillage. I checked the site and found the box trailer with 8 drums of various oils, most appeared to be new (unused) oil. One drum was lying on it's side and appeared to have spilled onto the floor of the trailer with a small amount dripping out to the ground. I contacted the property owner who referred me to Mr. McNeal, the owner of the trailer. When I contacted Mr. McNeal he was working in MA. but was very cooperative. He was aware that one of the drums had been knocked down, he stated this was done by vandals, he was not aware however that there was any spillage. The following weekend Mr. McClean had all the drums removed to a secure site. The oil spilled to the ground was not of sufficient quantity to warrant a clean up. No further action required. P-8-1996*PRODUCT CLEANED UP TO BL STANDARDS BY WESTBROOK FIRE DEPARTMENT. NO FURTHER DEP ACTION NECESSARY A-537-1996* DEP received an after-hours call from the State Police reporting a 200-gallon release of hydraulic oil to the sewer at this facility. Jon Andrews (DEP) contacted Tom Saviello (I.P.) for details. According to Mr. Saviello the release involved 190 gallons. He was not at that time sure of the cause of the spill but felt that it had been halted. Mr. Savillo went on to explain that the current facility SPCC plan recognizes the sewer primary clarifier as a "secondary containment" system. He did not intend to pursue recovery of product spilled to the sewer as he felt that this would be effectively treated by microbial degradation. Information later provided by I.P. amends the amount spilled to 110 gallons, and confirms that it considered spilled product "treated" by the sewer (see I.P. report, attached). No site visit was conducted by DEP personnel as a result of this incident. I am unclear as to whether DEP recognizes all of I.P.s claims regarding treatment and containment of spills of this nature, and have recommended that those claims be investigated. P-673-1993*Nov. 1993: Removal of three gasoline UST's with offsite disposal of contaminated soil to 'asphalt plant' of un-named location. Contamination first discovered in 1991. See also the CMR 691 cosure assessment, and reports P-617-1991, P-490-1992, et al. SVE system later installed and water treatment initiated. 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. P-673-1998*6 December 1998, spill reported. Advised of abatement action conducted by Kittery FD and licensed furnance repair personnel. 8 December 1998, responded to spill location. I observed a stained area approximately 4 meters wide by 8 meters long. The area impacted smelled of fuel oil, but was not oil saturated. I raked and turned the area for aearation. No further complaints have been received. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, (14Jan99) A-249-1998*See Attached report A-580-1998*An anonymous caller reported that Mr. Danny Peaslee had several removed USTs stored on his property and that they were leaking. I made a site visit on 10-23-98, but no one was home at that time. I found the underground tanks, however, they were being used as storage sheds and no apparant leakage was found. I did find several buckets of waste oil that were in the front yard. Some of these buckets did not have covers and there had been some spillage onto the ground. No action was taken. See spill report A-631-98 for my next site visit. P-58-1999*DEP responded to an oil delivery mishap. For further details regarding events leading to this mishap see P-517-1998. 215 gallons of #2 fuel oil were discharged when Lampron's Enterprise attempted to deliver oil to a fill port that did not have an oil tank connected to it. The oil discharged into a basement and was remediated with excavation, removal of mixed liquid media with a vacuum truck, and treatment of impacted groundwater with a groundwater treatment system on-site. A ventilation system was installed to mitigate oil vapors in the residence. Please refer to the attached site assessment for further detailed information. No further Response Services action is expected at this time. A-333-1997*Received a call from Bill Carver of Bill's Tank and Pump Service. He was at O.W.Holmes in Newcastle at an underground tank removal. Arnie Fessenden of Fessenden Geo-Environmental Services was on site to do the appendix P site assessment. Bill reported that there was only one high reading around the fill pipe of the diesel tank. Some separation of contaminated soil was done at this time. Subsequent readings did not show any other readings that high. Permission to landspread at the tank site was granted. No further work is needed on this site. No site visit was made. See the Appendix P site assessment for further details. I-133-1999*On 9-3-99, Mark Bosse of Dead River called to report that while routinely changing a tank for a customer it was noticed to be leaking from corrosion on the bottom. I met with him at the residence and found a small amount had leaked onto the dirt floor. After they moved the old tank out of the way, they were going to dig all the contaminated soil out that was possible, lay plastic in the hole and cover with clean fill. 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. B-550-1999*A TRACTOR TRAILER HITTING THEIR POLE CAUSED A BHE Co TRANSFORMER TO PLUMMET TO EARTH. SEE THE BHE Co REPORT, ATTACHED. B-365-2000* DiCenzo Construction Co. called to report that a sub-contractor, Franklin Sand and Gravel, had suffered a diesel oil spill at a construction site at Bar Harbor. The town water system is under going some modification to their facility near New Mills Meadow Pond. A truck owned by Franklin S & G was leaving an excavation and its saddle tank scraped on ledge on the edge of the excavation. This caused a hole and it began to leak diesel. This leak was spotted by Dick Freeman who was supervising the job for DiCenzo and he signaled the truck to stop. The leak was stopped and Mr. Freeman estimated that a total of 25 to 30 gallons was lost. While on my way to the scene they began to clean up the spill by excavating the oil contaminated dirt and stone. They removed about 7 cubic yards and placed it in the damaged truck which was sent to their shop in Hancock. As a result of my visit I had them remove another 1 1/2 cubic yards which was also taken to Hancock. I am satisfied with the clean up. The contaminated soil was land farmed at a site owned by Franklin Sand and Gravel in Hancock. P-245-1996*On 4/29/96 I attended a tank removal that I had issued a 30 day waiver for. The 1000 gallon heating oil tank was removed and observed to be pitted but having no holes. There was no contamination observed in the excavation. No further action required. __________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II P-221-1997*Child playing on 275 gallon outdoor AST stepped on filter and broke firematic valve. Approximately 150 gallons of kerosene was discharged. Royal Oil Company had been called by the homeowner and had stopped the leak and placed sorbent pads on the free product in the yard. I cleaned up the pads and contacted Clean Harbors to meet with me on the site and plan the clean-up for the next day. Gordon Pott of Clean Harbors met me on site and made arrangements for excavation and landscaping of the affected area. The work was completed on 4/30/97 and no further action is expected by Response Services in this matter. _____________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 1 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management B-157-1996*Brad Kelso, Environmental Specialist for Georgia Pacific in Woodland, called to report an incident involving #6 fuel oil. It was stated that approximately 300 gallons leaked from faulty 1 1/2" line. Most of the oil was contained on concrete floor. It was estimated that about 50 gallons escaped to a floor drain. This oil was subsequently captured in sorbent boom at the collection ponds of the waste water treatment system. The speedi dri and sorbents were disposed of by Allwaste of Bangor. P-352-1997*SUMMARY June 1997: Abandonment-by-removal of three bare steel motor fuel UST with associate piping and UST reinstallation by Portland Pump Co. Historical discharges to soil & groundwater noted though RP was allowed to reuse soil onsite rather than offsite disposal. Managed as Baseline-1 Clean-Up Goal. New replacement UST facility installed in new location? See attached report narrative, and the CMR 691 UST Closure Assessment by J B Plunkett Co. for further details. About year 2000 the facility was taken over and managed by Irving as a Maineway store & gas station. See also report P-719-07. S Brezinski . A-385-1998* Sometime in October of 1992, Tom Benn notified this office that the well at the Odd Fellows Hall had become contaminated with fuel oil. This was a newly drilled well. I investigated the site and collected water samples. These samples were later analyzed by the lab and found to contain 8,000 ug/l. Carbon filters were installed. I remember that there was a stain on the side of the building, just above the oil tank's fill and vent. Originally we thought that the oil in this well may be connected to the spill at Mrs. B. Allen (A-147-92). There were also rumors that there had been a discharge at the Robbins residence. I checked into that area and found evidence of a small amount of oil in the soil. Please check out the lab results in that report. In July of 1998, Tom Benn approached me about the entire Tenants Harbor case. We decided that separate spill numbers were appropriate given the fact that we had gained so much more knowledge about the various spills in the area. P-386-1999*11 June 1999, investigated complaint received 10 June 1999. Upon arrival I observed a 275 gallon AST located behind the dwelling. The ground around the tank was oil impacted and the tank was not properly supported. This site and adjacent properties are serviced by private drinking water wells. I contacted the subject and informed them that a clean up is warranted. The subject approved and on 17 June 1999, the Department conducted a limited remediation by excavating impacted soil. In addition I removed approximately 15 gallons of oil from the tank. The AST appeared to have leaked from corrosion holes. Upon request from the subject, DEP sampled the well on this site after gaining access to the trailer from Mr. Petingail (the subjects contractor) on 12 July 1999. No petroleum products were detected. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 4Aug99. P-288-1999*On 4/22/99 I received a call from Roseanne of Thibeault Oil reporting a 5 gallon spill of # 2 Fuel Oil in Brunswick. The spill occurred when a gasket on the meter of a tank truck failed causing the spill. Thibeault cleaned up the spill with speedy dry. No further action required. ________________________________________- SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II MAY 10, 1999 P-418-1998*On 09/04/98 I responded to a call that an AST was leaking at a residence in Saco. When I arrived the Fire Chief informed me that he had been called by the treatment plant when they found oil in their system. The treatment plant was able to trace the oil back to a home that was unoccuppied (for sale). It turns out the copper line had failed and was weeping. An oil company was contacted, the tank valve was closed, the copper line was removed, and the owner was contacted in Florida. After talking to the oil company and the owner we determined that only 10-20 gallons of oil was lost and it all went to the sewer. No further response action is necessary at this time. ______________________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I September 23, 1998 P-183-1997*On 4/3/97 I received a call from Terry Pruner of Coastway Oil reporting a spill in Cundys Harbor. A burner technician from CR Heating who was working for Coastway had responded to a rental residence on Grover Lane. When he arrived, he observed that a valve on an out of service above ground tank in the basement of the residence had been opened allowing oil to spill into the basement. The oil was contained on the cement floor in the basement and there were no floor drains or other openings in the floor that would allow the oil to escape. The technician cleaned up the spill with sorbent pads. No further action required. _____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II B-61-2000*B-61-2000 02/03/2000 20:20 Bruce Goodness of Pelkey Oil in Bangor called to report a spill of #2 fuel at the residence of Barbara Foster at Lot 12 in the Cedar Haven Trailer Park off of Route 1A in Holden. It was stated that the outside 275 gallon tank had developed a pinhole leak at some point during the winter or late fall spilling upwards of about 100 gallons. Investigation of the area around and below the tank shown little evidence of spillage. Since the ground was heavily frosted, clean up would not commence until spring. A heavy rain at the end of April revealed that some of the oil had found a perimeter drain and discharged about 30 gallons to a nearby farm pond. The oil was cleaned up and monitored for further discharges. Meanwhile, Clean Harbors personnel removed approximately 2 yards of contaminated soil from beneath the tank area. As of the end of May, the sheen at the outfall to the pond had cleared. Since one of the park's wells is located approximately 100 feet from the spill it will be monitored for DRO contamination. Since the well is a public water supply it is routinely tested through the State's drinking water program. B-372-2000*Some time before 7/14/00, Don Page of Webber Oil Company contacted me regarding the abandonment of a UST at the residence of Mary Anne Bostwick at 36 Grove Street in Bangor. We looked at the job together and realized that when the tank was uncovered it might become apparent that an in place abandonment might be the best way to go. On 7/14/00 Vaughn Thibodeau called to say that he had uncovered the tank and that he felt that the piers supporting the barn would fall into the hole if he proceeded with removing the tank. I went to the site and agreed with Vaughn and proceeded to write an in place permit. I checked for %LEL and it was less than 6% so we agreed that a sawsall could be used to open the tank. It was filled with a fluid, cement slurry. B-435-1996*D-TREE=I. B-401-1997*On 7/24/97, 1730 hours Mona Spear of Bangor Hydro reported a sheen on the Union Rivr that had been caused by a lube oil release from the hub runner seal on one of the turbines at the Ellsworth Hydro Plant. The amount was estimated at less than a quart. The unit had been shut down and sorbent boom had been deployed in an effort to contain the sheen. The final report regarded the disposal information as NA. This is not surprising in as much as sorbent material usually doesn't pick up sheen. B-560-1997*Petty Officer Young called to say they were overseeing the raising of a fishing vessel that had gone down overnight at its mooring. The owners were in the act of recovering the vessel but the sinking had caused a sheen in a small cove. They saw no active release of oil but had sorbents at hand if necessary. It appeared that the Coast Guard had it well in hand and I did not go to the scene. A-40-1999*Received a call from Pat Goodine of Goodine's Oil Heat reporting a small leak at a customer's house. Mr. Goodine's crew had responded to a call of a leak after a plow truck had nicked the filter housing causing the pipe to crack. They reported that there was some oil on the ground. I went to the site and found some contaminated snow. I removed all the contaminated snow I could find. I filled a 55gallon drum. The drum was later removed DEP-Augusta where the snow was melted and the oily-water mixture was disposed of as a liquid. The ground had a very hard, deep frost and all the oil was contained in the snow. No further work is necessary at this site. A-14-1992*See attached report. 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 A-260-1998*Received a referral from Health Engineering about the Monmouth Water Association. They found minor amounts of MTBE in samples that were sent in for annual testing. I arranged with the Winthrop Utility District to inspect the well head site and sample. I visited the site on 5/21/98. I found no evidence of spillage in the area around the well head or pump station. Results from samples taken were 2.5 ppb MTBE. The site was referred to Technical Services for monitoring or further action. B-94-1999* On February 26, 1999 we received a call from Gail Frutzkey of Irving Oil in Machias reporting a three gallon spill of #2 fuel oil in East Machias. The spill occurred at the home of John Bosk (255-4572) when an air eliminator in the back of a home delivery truck malfunctioned and spilled about three gallons of fuel onto the gravel driveway. The Irving driver recovered the product with sorbents and excavated a wheelbarrow of gravel. The frozen ground prohibited any penetration of the oil into the ground. P-859-1992* Statistical Inventory Analysis leak detection issues. Geologically sensitive, rural residential & commercial area. . A-744-1999* DEP received a report that a small quantity of hydraulic oil had leaked from a piece of equipment at this facility. Contaminated soil was excavated for disposal. P-362-2000* This report covers surface discharges at the dispensers on Friday 6/16/00, and on Tuesday 6/26/00, at this retail, motor fuels UST facility. While fueling a DEP truck on both days I noted a fresh stain and facility personnel cleaning up the spills with speedy-dry and shovels. Both spills were reported to be under the 10-gallon notification level by the facility manager. Both spills occured due to driver in-attention (not being at the dispenser when filling). The 6/16 spill of about four gallons was between the first two dispensers and mostly remained on the concrete. the auto driver put the nozzle in upside down so the auto-shut off was inactivated. The 6/26 spill travelled down the pavement from Pump #9 almost to a storm drain (see site sketch). Though apparently below the 10-gallon notofication level for spills at UST facilities, past experience has shown that spills such as this seep down to soil and groundwater through the joints and cracks in the pavement. Considering this, it is arguable that both spills were required to be reported to the DEP. Discharges such as this are common to most all gas stations and may contribute significantly to oil contamination found at otherwise tight facilities. Being on city water and sewer and underlain by silt & clay this area likely falls within a Baseline-2 Clean-Up Goal. No further DEP actions expected at this time. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-389-1997*Received a call from Robert Brown of Rangeley that his mother's house in Oquossoc had suffered an oil leak. I responded to the residence of Cecilia Brown. Mr. Brown showed me the tank that had leaked. It was definetly a corrosion induced leak as there was a small hole in the bottom of the tank. He claimed that he lost a total of 250 gallons. He stated that the tank had just been filled and that it was now empty. I arranged to excavate the contaminated area. It was a very tight area as the tank was in under a corner of the house. I used a mini backhoe to try and excavate the area without damaging the house. To my surprise, we dug out of the bottom of the contamination. I did not find 250 gallons worth of contaminated soil. A test on the Brown's well showed no product found. In June of 1998, I returned and did another round of sampling. This included the Brown's house, a small store and a large campground behind the Brown's house. Only the Brown's showed anything. Total hydrocarbons showed a trace amount but diesel range organics was nondetect. Both other sites were nondetect. The site has been referred to Technical Services. No other action by Response Services is needed. A-529-1999*Received a call from Steve Groves concerning a sodium hypochlorite spill. He told the State Police that there had been a spill of approximately 100 gallons of sodium hypochlorite during a transfer from a tote to a process tank. All of the spilled material went to the process sewer. The treatment plant at International Paper is licensed to treat caustic materials. In the written report sent to us, Steve stated that the amount was 275 gallons and that it was a fitting failure that caused the leak. See the attached report for additional details. No site visit was made and no further work is needed on this incident. B-395-2001* Bangor Hydro Electric Co. called to report that a line truck had leaked about one quart of hydraulic oil onto the pavement of the Herrick Road in Sedgwick. A hydraulic line broke near pole #68. It was cleaned up with pads and speedi-dri. P-203-1998*See spill report P-202-98. B-304-1996*Bangor Hydro stores transformers at their Graham Station facility in Veazie. The week of June 10 proved to be a hot one, and two of the stored transformers overheated, leaking oil through some loose bushings and onto the ground. It's theorized that the bushings had worked loose because of extreme swings in ambient temperatures. Sawyer's Environmental provided a roll-off dumpster, and an estimated 20 yards of contaminated gravel was removed from over the rubber membrane and shipped off for disposal. B-833-1999* On December 31, 1999 at 1625 we received a call from Dick Ramsey of Dead River Oil in Calais. The bank rented a generator for any Y2K problems and the generator's fifty gallon tank had no vent. Unfortunately, when the deliveryman filled the tank through the open bung the delivery rate was too fast which caused a couple gallons to "burp" back out the vent. The driver collected the spill with sorbents. No oil reached any storm drain. B-329-1996*Ms. Spears called to report that one of their line trucks blew a hydraulic hose and spewed out what was reported to be less than one gallon. Serendipitously this oil fell on to nearby wood chips. The chips were collected and disposed of at Sawyer's Environmental Landfill. B-405-2001*Please see attached narrative. P-835-1996*10Dec96, conducted site visit and observed several 55-gallon drums. On 17Dec96, Stephen Flannery, Zagarella Ltd., and myself attempted removal, by pumping off the drums contents. The material was too viscous and the operation was stoped. We tried again on 9Jan97, and again could not recover material. 17Jun97, Zagarella and I overpacked and removed three drums, which were later disposed by Enpro Environmental Servc., Prtld, ME. Response Services is recommending that the Department not seek reimbursement. The materials on Elkins property did not appear to have been discarded recently. See attached memo not to seek reimbursement. A Zagarella invoice for services rendered on 17Jun97 was inadvertently not duplicated and attached to this spill report. No further Response Services action is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (24Jul97) A-484-1996*See attached. No site visit made. No further action anticipated. B-361-1997*Yr fthfl crrspnt was nearly drawn into yet another family feud on July 11, when a man came into the office complaining that his son-in-law, for whom it was plain he had no use, had placed four 5 gallon pails of waste oil amongst some demolition debris the son-in-law had dumped on the man's land. Before I could visit the site with someone from Solid Waste Division, the man called back to say that his son had dug thru the debris and recovered four 5 gallon pails of waste oil. The pails all had covers on them, so no oil was actually spilled; the oil was going to be burned at Green Point Auto Salvage, where the son works. No word on what happened to the solid waste. A-587-2000* DEP received an after-hours report that this minor spill had occurred and had been completely contained/recovered. A-443-1997*No site visit made. See site assesment in tank file. No further action anticipated. B-664-1999*On 10/17/99, 1550 hours Edgar Merrithew of Sprague Energy reported a 70 gallon six oil spill at their terminal in Bucksport. They had experimented with different pump packing in an effort to minimize the leakage around the shaft and it turned out that the packing blew out, which leaked more than the usual amount and the containment that had been provided overflowed. Initially the spill was above the tide, but when the tide came in they estimated that a half gallon got into the water. They had deployed containment boom from MDEP's trailer. They used sand to absorb the oil and the clean up produced 20 yd3 of contaminated material, which they had transported to Thibodeaus' plant. They included the rocks on the beach that had been oiled A-367-1998*This was a slow drip over several weeks. Maritime responded and cleaned the concrete under the furnace with sorbents. When I arrived I dug into the soil around this area and determined that no further action was needed beyond a little additional cleaning of the concrete. Maritime agreed to do this. A-711-1999*Received a report from the State Police that there was a truck accident in Grafton Twp. on Route 26. I responded to the site. It was on Route 26, past Grafton Notch State Park. A logging truck had hit a small bridge and ripped out the fuel piping from his saddle tanks. The area where the truck came to rest was very sandy, as it was part of the sand deposits from the nearby stream. Rumford Fire Department had dispatched an oil spill team and they patched the holes in the piping. When the truck was removed it was obvious that some excavation needed to be done to protect the stream. I contacted a local excavation company out of Bethel to excavate the contaminated sand. No buildings were nearby and the only receptor at risk was the stream. No further work is necessary on this spill. I-54-2000*On 5-23-00, the highway Dept. of the city of PI faxed a spill report form to this office regarding the spill of 15 gallons of hydraulic oil at the corner of Edgemont and Skyway streets. A hydraulic line had broken on a dump truck. They had used sand and sorbent pads to clean up the spilled material. A-790-1999*Received a call concerning this site from Jon Andrews of DEP - Response relaying a call about a site in Andover. It concerned Dave's Store, a site I was familiar with. When I arrived I met Agnes Foster, the manager. She stated that the store was in the midst of being sold. Part of the process was an inspection by the buyer's bank, which pointed out some problems that needed fixing. One of these problems was the kerosene pump. The pump is fed by two 275 gallon above ground storage tanks. The pipe coming from the tank to the pump was leaking slowly. Dead River was called and fixed the pipe and told Ms. Foster to call DEP to report the contaminated soil. While on site, I arranged for a local contractor to dig a test hole for me the next day. I arrived the next day and an operator from Steve Swasey Excavation dug a test pit by the side of the pump where the pipe leak was. The ground was a medium to coarse sand. At 2' the PID test readings were 70 & 0 and at 4' the PID readings were 0 & 0. The Photon PID was calibrated that day with a response factor of 225 per DEP criteria. The leak is within 1300' of the public water supply well for the town of Andover. Looking at the attached well head protection zone map, Dave's store is just outside of the protection zone. With the PID reading "0" at the site at 4', no further action is necessary. A-743-1999*Tenants in this apartment building reported noticing an oil odor for some time. It became much worse Saturday, December 4, after a delivery. Pucky Oil staff went to check the tank reported it was leaking. We cleaned the oil from the concrete floor. The tank pad, which had been poured directly on the floor, had oil weeping out the low side. I had Fleet Environmental come to the site to remove part of the pad adjacent to the foundation and to open some holes in the pad to try to locate any free product. Fleet also pressure washed the affected area. We found very little oil under the pad, but oil did enter from under the foundation wall when it rained a few days later. This is minor and is being monitored and collected. The odor in the two apartments was the concern at this spill. The front apartment is occupied by the Longs, and PID readings were as high 50 ppm. The Simpsons occupy the back apartment. The highest PID reading in their apartment was 12.9 ppm, and Mrs. Simpson was pregnant. Initially both the Longs and Simpsons were reluctant to leave their apartments, but did relocate to a Hotel when I expressed concern at the high PID readings. After completing the basement cleanup, PID levels in both apartments remained high. I had carpets and soft furnishings cleaned. I had an exhaust fan installed in the basement. On December 16, PID readings at the Long's were below 4 ppm, 0.9 ppm in the Simpson's, and 4.2 ppm in the basement. I returned to the site December 29 and learned that somebody had disconnected the fan on December 26. The Longs felt that the odor had gotten worse at that time, and had given the landlord notice that they would be moving. PID readings in the basement were 2ppm, but as high as 6ppm in the Long's. A monitor heater used to heat the apartment, was serviced the week before, but still burned with a yellow flame. The Longs reported that they stopped using the monitor and felt this eliminated the odors. No further action. P-807-2001*DownEast responded to a call from 110 Stackpole Road Durham. The homeowner did not make the initial complaint but followed up with calls as advised by the plumber on site. Skip Houghton of DE was onsite and reported 2-3 gallons on the concrete, his crew was about to finish the removal and try to scrub the stained area. At the time of the notification the owner was not home, but would be told to contact DEP if she has any follow up concerns. Based on statements received from Houghton NO DEP visit was conducted at this time, however, should information change arrangements will be made to inspect the site. I-101-1996*While doing a site assessment for a property transfer, S.W. Cole encountered gasoline contaminated soil in a couple of their borings. No tanks have been on site for over 30 years. Site meets the Baseline 2 cleanup standards. Cole will determine if any work will have to be completed to meet the standard. Cole will supply a copy of their report. Report has not been received as of 4/14/98 A-380-1996* DEP received an after-hours report that used syringes had been found along an Augusta street. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the area and collected two syringes from the complainant. An inspection of the street revealed no other syringes. It is assumed that those found had fallen from household rubbish that was collected earlier that day. The two collected syringes were added to the bio-waste stream at DEP. I do not anticipate further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-724-1998*Staff arriving at the school in the morning found fuel leaking from the secondary containment around the piping in the furnace room. They found that the alarm on the secondary piping had gone off the previous evening. Staff had been at the school at that time, but the alarm was in an area where it wouldn't have been noticed. They also found the sump on the UST was full of oil. They called Ted Haskell and Ted reported the spill to us. When we arrived we placed extra pads to stop the flow in the furnace room to prevent additional fuel from reaching the sewer system. 50 to 70 gallons of oil were removed from the sump. Ted found the connection in the sump from the return line had come loose. We removed another 25 gallons or so from the secondary piping. Oil was removed from the furnace room. Some oil had gone to the sewer system. We checked the sewer pumping station and placed some boom here as a precaution. We could smell oil here and in a few other points, but no recoverable oil was found. This may partially be due to the heavy sewage flow. Ted repaired the system. This is a new installation. The problem may have been caused when a new portable classroom was placed adjacent to the buried fuel lines. This classroom required several feet of fill and compaction. No further action is anticipated. P-103-1998*On 1/7/98 at 0855 Santino Ciccomancini called and reported that fuel oil vapors had been detected in the basements of several townhouses at 39 Walton Court, Portland. Ciccomancini indicated that he and his father manage the apartments and had received complaints from several residents. They had at first called Northern Utilities thinking that odors reported were attributable to the natural gas service, however the techician who responded did not register indications of a natural gas leak on his instrumentation. He suggested that the odor might be fuel oil and recommended that Ciccomancini call the DEP. Nathan Thompson and I responded and were directed to two separate basements in the townhouse complex. In the first basement Nathan and I both detected a very faint odor which we both identified as thiol, the chemical used to give natural gas it's characteristic odor. It was most noticeable, although still faint, near a gas fired appliance in this basement. In the second basement we entered we both noticed a faint odor characteristic of fuel oil or kerosene. This was most noticeable near a sump which connects to the storm sewer system. This building is also serviced by natural gas therefore an on-site source was ruled out. We then checked several of the closest catchbasins and drainage ditches and found no evidence to indicated a petroleum discharge. At this time we surmised that the petroleum odor was due to an off site spill into the storm sewer system and because it was now very faint was probably not an ongoing discharge. We requested that we be notified if the odors persisted or became more noticeable. No additional odor reports were received. __________________________ Steven Eufemia OHMS III A-137-1996*Received a call from Joe Young on Friday, March 29 reporting an oil spill in the basement of his house. He said that he couldn't go back to the house today. I made an appointment with him for Monday.I inspected the site on Monday. He said that he called for maintenance for no heat on Friday. The technician reported that the tank was empty. Togeather they sumized that the fuel line, buried in the concrete had leaked and the technician replaced the line. When I arrived there was no odor, even though there was access to the soil beneath the concrete floor. I arranged with Ted Haskell to excavate the line on Thursday. I went to the site and met Ted Haskell on Thursday. Ted pointed out the lack of odor even when digging in what soil was exposed. We decided to test the line. Ted pressurized the line to 95 psi for 20 minutes with no pressure loss. The line did not leak. Since there was no evidence of product loss other then the inventory problem, I conculded there was no discharge. No futher work is necessary at this site. P-490-1998*18 Nov 98, responded to 17 Nov 98 complaint of oil around foundation. No street address was available, as the house was under contruction. A neighbor made the complaint. Upon arrival I observed a petroleum based sealer that had spilled from a 5-gallon bucket. I observed simular buckets around the site. It appeared that the buckets had been left out haphazardly. I contacted the subject and spoke to Mark Curtis, who informed me that the spill would be clean up. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, (14Jan99) 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-31-1998*No site visit made. A tractor punctured its oil pan. The fire department responded and cleaned most of the oil with sorbents. The remainder of the oil was contained in snow on the road. They had Public Works use a loader to place this in a plastic lined recycling container. Wadleigh's hired Seacoast to remove the ice and oil from the recycling container a few days later. No further action is anticipated. P-511-1997*On 9/16/97 I received a call from the Lewiston Fire Department reporting that there had been a waste oil spill in an alley behind the Canal St. Parking Garage between Pine St. and Ash St. I responded immdediately. Upon arrival I observed a United Waste trash truck that had waste oil leaking from the trash compartment. I learned that at one of the truck's stops, a drum of waste oil had unknowingly been picked up in a dumpster. When the driver of the truck compacted the load, the drum burst spraying oil onto the wall of the parking garage, onto several parked cars, and onto the pavement of the alley. It was not known where the drum had originated from or who was responsible for it. United waste hired Allwaste to clean up the oil spillage. The oil on the pavement was sorbed and vaccumed and arrangements were made to have the cars washed and the building pressure washed. Some of the contents of the trash truck had been contaminated with the oil. The truck was taken to Mid Maine Waste Incinerator and the oiled contents were loaded directly into the "hopper" at the plant and not placed on the tipping floor. The Lewsiton Police Dept. is investigating who may be responsible for the drum being placed in the dumpster. No further clean-up action required. _______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II SEPTEMBER 16, 1997 P-452-1995* Excavation and abandonment-by-removal of 12000-gal. #2 oil and a 550-gal. diesel UST's. The UST excavation and gw appeared un-contaminated until the partially removed tank rolled over in the excavation overnight and discharged 20+ gallons of #2 oil to the excavation groundwater. A new 12,000-gal UST installed in the excavation. See attached narrative and records for further information. SGB A-4-1997*see attached narrative A-316-1996* An estimated one gallon of gear oil was lost when a crane was submerged at a river-side job site during heavy week-end flooding. No site visit was conducted by DEP personnel as a result of this incident. A-505-2000* DEP received a report that hydraulic oil was spilled at this facility (IP). Most spilled product was recovered; two gallons reportedly escaped to the plant sewer via a nearby storm drain. B-416-2000* This office received a call at 0900 on 7/27/00 from Chief Richard Bronson (Brewer Fire Department) requesting assistance. It was indicated that a resident of Brewer had recently died after discharging a carbon tetrachloride fire extinguisher in a confined space. The Fire Department has picked up two of these extinguishers and wanted to know how they could be properly disposed of. Since this was more of a "hazardous waste" issue than a Response issue, I referred him to Scott Leighton (DEP-Licensing & Enforcement; Bangor) for advice. FOLLOW-UP: SEE ATTACHMENTS (E-mail messages dated 7/27-31/00 and Bangor Daily News articles dated 7/29/00 and 8/1/00). On or about 7/31/00, Tom Maleck (DEP-Bangor) and Scott Leighton went to the Brewer Fire Department to pick up the "two" extinguishers, which turned out to be five. Since then, the Bangor Fire Department has been receiving calls from the public wanting to know what to do with theirs and a number of the other local fire departments have been going around collecting them from some of their residence. A few calls from as far away as Damariscotta have been received. CONCLUSION: Throughout August and September, arrangements were made through the State Planning Office (George MacDonald; #287-5759) to have DEP collect the carbon tetrachloride fire extinguishers from the five local communities (Bangor, Brewer, Hampden, Hermon, Veazie) that were participating in Bangor's Household Waste Pick Up Program on 10/7/00. An estimated 40 to 50 assorted glass bulbs and metal cylinders were collected and dropped off at the Bangor Public Works facility on 10/7/00. They were then over packed by a hazardous waste transporter and taken out of State for disposal. The cost was somewhere around $2200. REC: File report. P-654-2000*A CN Brown delivery truck overfilled a 275 gallon residential AST containing #2 oil. A small amount of oil shot out the vent pipe to the outside of the home. CN Brown cleaned up the spill with sorbent material. No further action. A-221-1997*See attached. No site visit made. No further action anticipated. I-2-1996*Fuel tank on locomotive ruptured from debris on track. Most spilled product recovered by burning at Masardis siding. A-64-2001*I responded to a report of leaking AST at the MacGregor residence. I arrived to find Dead River technician on site repairing a broken nipple between filter and tank on a 275 gallon horizontal unit. The tank was located beneath the eave of the two story wood frame home. No protection was provided for the filter. The installation was done by the homeowner. Snow and ice from the roof had fallen causing the break. The kerosene had leaked down through the snow into the ground. The oil seeped through the concrete block foundation into a root cellar beneath the home. I was able to sorb up some free product with pads in the cellar, which has a crushed rock floor. The MacGregor's have a dug well approx. 100 feet away. I took a baseline water sample and referred to Tech Services. I bagged up contaminated snow. I hired Kip's Home Services to excavate soils and dispose off site. The tank was re-installed away from the eave to prevent a reoccurance. The site was landscaped to repair damage to the lawn. No further action by Response Services is required. P-461-1998*Fuel oil tank removal, minimal contamination. Woodard & Curran and Doggett did the removal and excavation. No further Response action needed at this time. P-683-1997*Visited site and met with owner to determine if UST existed. Found vent pipe and approximate location of tank. UST removed by Pollution Control Services. No contamination encountered. No further action by the Divison of Response Services is necessary in this matter. ________________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 1 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management P-755-1999* In the evening of Friday 10/29/99, DEP was notified of an ongoing fuel oil discharge to Mutiny Brook from a basement AST. I arrived on-scene about 0830 hrs and met with Fire Chief Brad Grover. The oil was traced to a 275 gal. basement AST for a house undergoing demolition by its new owners. The red oil leaked into a hole in the basement floor and seeped into the fast moving brook about 20' away (see site sketch & photos). We set up boom at the seep and pads downstream at an old dam. People had complained of an oil odor on 10/26, but had not found the cause till 10/29/99. The area is rural residential, on wells. An old UST gas station (Phil's Mobil) now with AST's is across the street. On Sat. 10/30, I met with Chief Grover and assessed the clean-up in the daylight, and changed sorbents. Excavation of the basement was impractical. Fleet Env. was hired by DEP to change sorbents on 10/31 and on 11/1/99, et al. At the downstream granite-block dam the oil had formed a brown mousse. On Tues. 11/2, I noted the discharge to have reduced and pad changing to be less frequently needed. DEP and Fleet alternated tending the sorbents. DEP replaced the fire Department's sorbents. There is no indication Phil's Mobil is a source at this time. No drinking water wells are believed threatened. I was informed that the Rickards had owned the property for approx. a year and were tearing it down. Much of the discharge (up to 100 gal.) was not recoverable, either adsorbing into the ground, evaporating, or washing away downstream. The Rickards will apply to the AST Ins. Fund and have removed the AST. Fleet Env. and DEP will check and change sorbents as needed. See the attachments for further info. S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM A-500-1999*This overfill flowed out the vent pipe and off the roof to the containment building. The driver was not immediately aware that the tank was full. Fuel flowed about 30' in the drainage swale toward the lake before soaking in. Neither the driver nor the owner of the trucking company could tell me the rate that the truck pumps fuel. The driver and an employee of the store shoveled some contamination into bags and boxes. The driver reported that he felt he had removed all contamination. I visited the site the following day, and found that the soil was still heavily contaminated. Bickford hired Environmental Projects to do the cleanup. We excavated an area only 4' deep. The soil was coarse sand and we couldn't go deeper without undermining the containment building. PID readings were generally much improved except for those close to the building and just under where the spill reached the ground. See attached sketch. We installed a passive vent line in the bottom of the excavation to provide further remediation. The nearest well is 75' away and 110' deep. The well is currently unused, but is expected to go back in use soon. I plan to test this well now and in about a year to confirm that it is not impacted. Other wells are 200' or more away. I feel that any contamination not removed during the excavation would move toward the lake only 30' away and lower than the excavation rather than to the well. The initial well test was ND. The well belongs to Mary Morris at the Pines Market. I reviewed the site with Cheryl Fontaine, and no further action is anticipated unless the well is impacted. B-509-2001* On September 17, 2001 I attended the removal of an abandoned 1,000 gallon fiberglass heating oil tank at the Brewer One Stop on North Main St. in Brewer. R.H. Foster owned the tank and Portland Pump performed the removal. We found no sign of a hole or soil contamination. The area is on town water. B-457-1998*On July 11, 1998 at 1950 we received a call from Brad Kelso of Georgia-Pacific Corp in Baileyville reporting a two hundred gallon spill of hydraulic oil. A hose broke and leaked the product onto the floor in the digester area of the kraft mill. Half of the oil went into a drain that is connected to the mill's treatment plant. Workers recovered the other hundred gallons with sorbents. A-532-1997* Mr. Pelletier reported that a logging operation was leaking hydraulic fluid at a wood cutting operation in Troy. He had also spoken with Ryan Annis about a stream crossing issue at this site. I was asked to contact Ryan about doing a site visit together. It snowed the next day or the day after, no oil was/would be visible. Ryan made a site visit, but I was unable to make contact with him prior to his departure. I spoke to Ryan later and he said that the spilled hydraulic was a minor amount. No site visit was made by Response. P-301-2000*CAP LEFT OFF DIESEL TANK OF DRAGON CEMENT TRUCK. APPROXIMATELY 10 GALLONS SPILLED AND ENTERED STORM DRAIN. CLEANED UP BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES. NO FURTHER ACTIONS NECESSARY BY THE DEPARTMENT. ______________________ Jon Woodard OHMS 3 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation Waste Management B-335-1997*D-TREE=N. B-338-2000*B-338-00 Dover-Foxcroft Saturday June 24, 2000 0731 I received a phone call from the state police dispatcher. I was asked to make contact with the Piscataquis County Sheriff's Department (564-3304), about a vehicle off the Norch Road in Dover-Foxcroft. According to the sheriff's dispatcher a pick up truck is in Branns Mill Pond a wrecker has been called. Sometime during the night (Saturday to Sunday), The owner can not locate his truck and believes it was stolen. The driver of this truck (may have been liquored up), apparently rustled a cow, from a property on the Merrills Mills Road dragged the animal behind the truck (the cow died), and later drove or had an accident that caused the vehicle to end up in Branns Mill Pond. When I arrived on the scene I met with Assistant Fire Chief Mike Curtis. The chief showed me around and I saw a very slight sheen on the pond. They had sorbent pads out and boomed off the area near the submerged truck. I explained that I would take the slightly contaminated pads with me, but everything else could be taken out of the water dried and reused on another spill. It looks as though .5-gallon of gasoline may have leaked from a chainsaw or gasoline tank in the bed of the pick up truck. A wrecker removed the pick up truck from the pond. B-411-1997*7/30/97 13:30 Norman Laberge of the USN Communications Facility in Cutler called to report an incident involving epoxy paint. It was stated the workers were in the process of painting one of the large communications towers when the wind carried off some of the spray and deposited it in a small tidal pond. A few ducks feeding on this pond became covered with this orange paint. Investigation of the area shown little evidence of affected ducks. It was believed that the paint mist had time to cure loosing its hazardous constituents before affecting the pond. Staff from Inland Fisheries and Wildlife remained on site as a precaution to monitor the well being of the ducks. P-155-1997*Due to home owner dissatisfaction with spill clean up, conducted by CN Brown on 18 March 1997, I visited this site on 11 April 1997. I observed a slight olfactory odor in the soil below the AST piping that is located on the south side of the house. I also observed an oil stain on the house at the AST piping. A drinking water well is located approx. 8-10 meters (8.8-11 yards) from the spill site. My communications with D. Alexander of CNB, indicated that a limited amt. of snow and dirt was removed, but an odor remained in the house. On or about 15 May 1997, an additional amt. of soil was removed by CNB. As of 19 Sept 1997, during my latest communication with the home owner, I was advised that the excavation was left open all summer for aeration purposes. The only issue pending at this time, is if oil stained portions of the foundation will cause an odor in side the house this winter. However, at this time the clean up appears to be satisfactory. As of 26Feb98, no further complaints have been received by DEP regarding this site. CNB took responsibility for the spill, thus no AST Fund expenditures are authorized. No further action by Response Services is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (26Feb98). B-24-2000*On 1/5/00 Karen Knuuti took an anonymous call alleging that Speedway 95 had junk cars all over the place and that they were leaking gas and oil. A follow-up investigation did not site any significant releases. The cars were enduro cars that belonged to some of the speedway's clients. The facilities' manager, Del Merit said that he would have the owners remove their cars from Speedway 95. B-720-1997* Working in Portland for the Christmas season, Beatrice Hastings was not home on 12/13/97, when her basement oil tank started leaking. Having just been filled on 12/12, 265 gallons of oil was lost to the cellar floor; the spill was discovered when Hastings' daughter checked on the house. Smelling oil,she called their burnerman, Roger Clark, who notified the DEP. On Sunday, 12/14, I had Clean Harbors on scene, sucking oil, contaminated soil and concrete into their CUSCO truck. As of the morning of 12/15, they had filled up the truck and were seeking an overweight permit to transport the waste to Commercial Paving in Scarborough for disposal. An overweight permit was obtained and no further soil was removed. A-734-2000* One underground tank was removed from Central Maine Newspapers. Bag space analysis indicated slight petoleum comtamination. The levels were so low that no clean up was required. B-481-2000* On September 4, 2000 at 1930 we received a call from Roland Ramond of Dead River Oil reporting a spill at 108 Ohio St. in Bangor. A basement 275 gallon tank leaked about 125 gallons of #2 oil onto a cement floor. Most of the oil went into a drain that was connected to the sewage treatment plant. I advised Dead River to notify the treatment plant. I arrived on site and met Mr. Raynond and Mike Perry from the sewage treatment plant. I talked to the apartment house custodian who said a tennant notified him of a smell late that afternoon and that they had first smelled it the previous day. This means the fuel had slowly entered the sewer system over a thirty-six hour period and also during a rainstorm which would further dilute the oil. Mr. Perry and I checked the Kenduskeag pump station and we found no sign of oil. Mr. Raymond picked up about fifteen gallons of oil off the cement basement floor with sorbents. A-36-2000*A spill occurred at the bulk plant. Oil company staff used sorbents to collect free product and removed a small amount of contaminated soil. No further action required by Response Services. A-240-2001*Second spill at this location. Previous spill number A-104-94. Ice from the roof broke the firematic valve. Oil soaked into the ground near the slab for the building. During soil removal I noticed that the water in the excavation didn't go down with time. I placed a clay wall on the well side of the excavation and stopped digging. I consulted Cheryl Fontaine of tech. services and she agreed that further digging might give the contaminated water a path to the well. Since the well was not contaminated from the spill in the same location in 1994 I decided not to disturb anything further. No further response action is expected. Site revisited with Tech Services for more soil removal after contamination was discovered in the well in July. A new seal was installed at the casing/bedrock interface. P-248-1996*ON 4/29/96, MR. GRUBB WAS GRANTED A WAIVER TO REMOVE THIS UST FOUND DURING CONSTRUCTION. GEORGE ERSKINE, CTI 178, CONFIRMED HE WAS HIRED TO REMOVE THE UST. THE FACILITY IS NOT REGISTERED AT PRESENT, AND IS OF UNKNOWN AGE. AS OF 4/30/96, NO PROBLEMS WERE REPORTED WITH THE REMOVAL. B-4-1997*D-TREE=N. B-111-2000*Driver inattention was the cause of an overfill at the pump at the City's bus garage. An estimated 10 gallons was spilled to pavement and recovered with sorbent material 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) B-564-2000* On October 16, 2000 at 1150 we received a call from Gene Proulx of R.H. Foster in Machias reporting a one gallon spill of #2 fuel oil. The spill occurred at the home of Henry Lund of East Machias (255-6928) when the hose on the delivery truck cracked and spilled the product into the truck's hose compartment and onto the tarred driveway. The deliveryman recovered the oil with sorbents before it left the pavement. I called Mr. Lund and he confirmed the information. No wells were threatened. I-144-1997*On 9-25-97, Daigle Oil company called to report that there had been a loss of fuel oil in the basement of one of their customers in Caribou. The customer was Francis Fuhrman on the Van Buren Road. Apparently the tank had corroded and started to leak sometime in the night of 9-25-97. From the delivery and usage records they estimated about 40 gallons had been lost. I met with a service man from Daigle that morning at the house. He had cleaned most of the spilled product from the concrete floor and all from the sump area. He was planning to finish the work that morning using sorbent pads and speedy dry. I placed the Fuhrmans on quarterly monitoring. A-167-1996*see attached B-248-2001*Chief Robert Graves, Shirley Fire Department, called to report that they were on the scene of an accident involving a moose and a R.H.Foster tank truck. Nothing was leaking from the tank trailer but the ditch side saddle tank had lost about 30 gallons of diesel to the shoulder. The nearest well was a couple of hundred feet away. He reported that they had put down a few sorbent pads but most of the oil had been absorbed into the shoulder. I visited the scene and believed that the closest well was not threatened. As clean up of the oil would have entailed closing at least one lane of traffic to recover oil that I felt did not threaten the environment or public health, I did not require a clean up. On 7/13/01, Jim Hosmer, resident engineer for Me DOT, called to advise me that they were cleaning the ditch along Route 15/6 in Shirley and had discovered some diesel contaminated sand in the ditch. This was diesel spilled as a result of a R.H. Foster truck and moose interaction at the intersection of the Upper Shirley Road. Since the object was to remove the sand, he was requesting assistance in handling it properly. He believed that he had an appropriate land spread site at the DOT lot in Shirley on Route 15/6. On 7/16/01, I met Mr. Hosmer and inspected the proposed spread site which has a vacant piece of asphalt. The only well for some distance is theirs and it is heavily salt contaminated. In a word, it is a great spread site and I approved it. Total yardage spread is approximately 3 yards. P-760-1999*Mike Hudson of the Hazardous Waste Enforcement Unit relayed a complaint from Jim Briggs, Selectman, Town of Pownal regarding a vacant property on the Lawrence Road in Pownal. The property allegedly contained 55 gallon drums and 5 gallon pails full of unknown substances. I visited the site and determined that the drums were mostly empty, and those that were not contained scrap metal and other solid waste, or water. The pails contained a solid material similar to road salt solidified together. There did not appear to be any reason to suspect hazardous materials being improperly stored or discharging on the site. 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-245-1996*Ms. Lane called to report that the oily water return system from their outside metal chip bins had failed. There are two pumps that return this water to the plant and both failed with the result that she estimated that 15 gallons spilled out onto the ground along side Baker Blvd. The spilled water contains a metal turning lubricant/coolant that contains 40-70% mineral oil. Lemforder hired Hughes Bros. Inc. to dig up the contaminated soil and hauled it to Sawyer's Environmental Landfill for disposal. A total of 9.3 tons of dirt. While I did not attend the clean up I am sure that the environment has been protected. A-348-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98. See attached CMP report for more information. No further action anticipated. A-58-1996*An ice chunk fell off of the roof and broke the filter off of a 130 gallon tank. This tank was hooked up to a monitor heater. The product was caught in the snow. The snow was removed. The tank was located in an area with other tanks for the other housing units. This area was isolated from the living areas and does not present a vapor problem issue. No further action will be taken at this site unless vapor issues arise. 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-740-1999*Jeff Murdy, Webber Tanks of Bucksport, called to report that some oil contaminated ground water had been discovered while they were laying new underground pipes from the dock to their storage tanks. The excavation in question is in a parking lot on the northwest corner of Champion Paper mill's fitness center which is across Rt. 15 from the mill's main gate. He reported that the water displayed a sheen. I went to the site with Mr. Murdy. At about 3' down the ground water in the ditch did indeed display the sheen. He told me that in 1981 they had a fuel oil line leak from corrosion. This is in the same area and in fact a recovery pond had been dug about 30 feet from the present excavation. According to the equipment operator the oily water came in as they neared the old spill recovery area and the amount of contamination had not increased since they had first discovered it. The '81 spill was confirmed by Robert Randall of this office. Since this is a baseline-one site, I required no further action, other than I needed to be notified if fresh product was discovered or that if any soil had to be removed off site. B-410-1998*On 6/26/98, 1700 hours Jane Boudreau of Brewer Automotive reported a small release of Freon 22 (Chloro,di floro methane) at their plant in Brewer. Apparently a worker thought that Freon gas could be used to cool hot parts with. I expect that this misconception was fueled by the fact that it worked well as a parts coolant. Although the exact amount of the release was not known, it was not more than a few pounds. The Air Bureau's reportable amount is 2000 pounds per year. A-559-1998* Wes Moody, the CEO of the Town of Kingfield, reported that one of their employees had found an oil sheen in a septic tank. The owner had asked to have the septic system pumped out. The employee refused to pump out the septic tank. The tank is located at Auto Body Tech. in Kingfield. Mr. Moody was concerned that the oily waste would present a problem at the Town's waste disposal site. I suggested that we (I), collect a water sample and have it analyzed for hydrocarbons and solvents. On 10-14-98, I collected water samples from this septic tank. A sample was collected from the top layer of water and another sample was collected near the bottom of the tank. Both samples were analyzed for SVO and VOA. Low levels of Acetone were found along with high levels of DRO extending from the fuel oil range to motor oil range. I faxed the results to Mr. Carbajal with instructions to let me know were the ultimate disposal destination would be. He never returned my phone calls. Finally on 7-15-99, I made contact with Mr. Cabajal and he told me that AAA Interstate Septic Tank Service pumped this tank out. AAA is located in New Sharon, ME. 207-778-2467. According to Mr. Carbajal the oil levels were within AAA legal limits. I-135-2001*A truck rolled over near St. John's Bridge and spilled fuel and oil onto the ground. Well was close to spill as truck was against the residence. Unknown amount of fuel and oil spilled. B-476-1997*8/29/97, 1654: Erick Shorey of Shorey Oil in Newport reported an AST spill of 240 gal. that had taken place the day before at the residence of Cheryl Morse on Rt. 23 in Hartland. Since there was no hope of recovering product that had puddled on the surface I did my investigation the following morning. I observed a product stained area of about 16'x8', which figures to be 128 ft2. From the spill volume and the area estimated, penetration was 8-9'. The groundwater level as measured from the well was 10' from grade. I covered the stained area with poly in hopes that the contaminated soil could be removed before the groundwater became impacted. On 9/5/97, Stan Norris was on site to do the excavating; Erick Shorey was there to handle the AST manipulations. The penetration was not of uniform depth. In the middle of the stained area there was a trace of product at 13' whereas the ends of the area were clean at 4'. The head space reading at 13', which was the level at which groundwater was coming into the hole was 100ppm. I stopped the dig at this point because I did not want the contamination to go deeper. The groundwater direction seemed to be coming in from the north side of the hole. Since the well is due west of the spill, there is a chance that the residual contamination will be carried south past the well. We removed 128 yd3 from the site. The well has been put on quarterly monitoring. P-88-1999*There is no narrative associated with this report. B-144-2001*On 3/24/01, Webber Oil Co. called to report that a customer, Robin Hill, had suffered an oil spill at her residence, 2035 Essex Street. They felt it was less than five gallons. The details were few. I went to the address and met Ms. Hill. It turned out that some kerosene had spilled onto her enclosed porch carpeting from an abandoned feed line that had been left without sealing. She had to remove about 50 square feet of carpeting. The stained plywood was given a coating of speedi-dri and a fan placed in a window. On the afternoon of 3/28/01 I met with Ms. Hill and Chuck Martin, Webber Oil, to clarify liability questions. At the time of the occurrence, I was unsure of the cause of the spill. I learned that the abandoned line had been there prior to Ms. Hill moving in last summer and suspected an overfill was involved. However, a closer look revealed that the porch floor is about 4 inches lower than the top of the horizontal tank. It also appears that the porch is settling. We all came to the conclusion the spill occurred due to settling of the porch and not by action of the oil company. While I explained that Ms. Hill (or her father, Emery Hill who actually owns the property) would probably qualify for the AST insurance fund, she did not care to spend the 500 dollar deductible on the porch which was in dubious condition to begin with. I do not believe that the environment or public health is threatened. No further action is anticipated. A-51-2000* DEP received a report that 150 gallons of hydraulic oil was spilled to the sewer at this facility. No recovery was attempted. See also A-50-00. P-153-1999*On February 27, 1999 I received a call from Sanford dispatch reporting a spill of approximatly 50 gallons from a small aircraft that had crashed in the woods near the Sanford airport. I spoke with the fire chief on site who stated that the fuel was lost during the crash, the plane was still in a tree, there was no recoverable fuel found. No action will be taken. B-469-1999*For reasons unknown, the "Pair-A-Dice" started taking on water during the night of July 31/August 1. The bilge pump failed to start ( the Fire Chief thinks there's a ground fault in the shore side outlet to which the pump was connected) and therefor the boat sank. The only oil lost was what little oil there was in the bilge. The Fire Dept. was summoned and used sorbent booms to contain the oil prior to pumping out the salon and raising the boat. The booms were recovered on 8/3/99 and had so little oil in them that they were saved for reuse. B-322-2000* This office received a call at 1020 on 6/15/00 from Central Maine Power Company (Augusta) reporting an oil spill. It was stated that at 1840 last night, a tree fell across one of their lines on the Etna Road in Stetson, which resulted in a small leak from the transformer on pole #107. The oil field tested non PCB's and was cleaned up. Approximated one bag of soil, grass, and leaves was removed and will be disposed of through Consolidated Waste Services, Inc. (#634-2714) in Norridgewock. There were no drains or State waters involved in the incident. REC: File report. 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. P-21-2000*See attached report. No further Response action is necessary at this time. ______________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I March 3, 2000 A-287-2000*A postal vehicle leaked. Sorbents were used to clean up the spill, and the vehicle was towed away for repair. Due to heavy rains, some sheen may have reached the storm drain. No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services. P-491-1997*UST Removal Contractor: Seacoast Ocean Services BL-2 site No further action by Division of Response Services is necessary in this matter. _____________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 1 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management P-417-1999*see attached narrative. P-84-2001*No narrative. Please see attachments. 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. B-16-1997*On January 10, 1997 at 0740 we received a call from the Bangor Fire Dept. reporting an oil spill at 305 Griffin Rd. The building is a multi-family apartment owned by the Bangor Housing Authority. The fire department believed that between 150 and 175 gallons were spilled and they received the call at 2330 the previous night. I met Mr. Brown of the Housing Authority at the site along with tenant Diane McLaughlin. Ms. McLaughlin had piled clothes and other debris on the copper feedlines from the twin tanks which caused the crack in the line. The Housing Authority had spread speedi dri on the floor and along with the clothes on the floor these sorbents had recovered about seventy five gallons of fuel. The remainder of the product leaked into the basement drain which is tied into the treatment plant. I visited the treatment plant and told Tom Hambrook of the spill but they hadn't seen any sign of the fuel. B-611-1996*An anonymous former employee of Snow & Neally Co. in Hampden called to report that their machinery had a habit of dripping oil onto the floor of the building. The complaint sounded "disgruntled" in nature. A future investigation may take place in conjuction with a RCRA inspection the next time the Department is in the area. It may be noted that records indicate Snow & Neally reports their spills. I-67-1996*The diesel tank at the DOT facility had piping problems, which resulted in a large volume of soil to be excavated. Some contaminated soils were hauled to the Presque Isle landfill and some were taken to the Soucy Hill DOT facility for land spreading. A total of about 500 cu yds was removed from the excavation. The soils are very tight with very little lateral movement of the contamination. This site is also used for salt & sand storage. See Dames & Moore report for detailed information located in the registration file. Case Closed. B-617-1997*On October 23, 1997 I was at the Mountain View Veterinary Hospital on Route 3 in Trenton for the removal of two abandoned gasoline tanks. Cleve Leckey of this office had granted a waiver but was unable to attend. Clean Harbors was the licensed installer and Ron Howes did the licensed site assessment. A 3,000 gallon tank and a 2,000 gallon tank were removed with no problems and we found no contaminated soil. Clean Harbors pumped about 1800 gallons of gasoline contaminated water from the 2000 gallon tank and 1250 gallons of contaminated water from the 3000 gallon tank. The water table was below the tank bottom but none of the liquid leaked out even though the larger tank did have a pin hole leak. (see site assessment) All PID readings were negative. P-552-1999*On August 5, 1999 Downeast Energy called to report a spill at a customers home. At 38 Scarponi Drive (Linhaven Trailer Park) at the home of Mr. Blankenship there was a small corrosion hole discovered in the outside 275 gallon tank. Downeast had already pumped off the tank and the homeowner had dug out the soil that was impacted by oil. The tank sat on a cement slab and only a small amount of oil ran off the slab and into the ground. Because of the small amount of soil (1/2 of one trash can full) to dispose of I gave permission to the homeowner to spread the soil at the maintenance yard/sand-pit of the trailer park. No further action. B-429-1997*In 1997,Carl Lyon acquired the former Center Harbor Mkt. and leased its' space to a boat builder. When it was in business, the market sold gasoline, and it was thought to be the source of gasoline that polluted Lyon's well circa 1985. (see B-76-85?) Petrotite tests at the time proved inconclusive, so the market was allowed to go on vending gasoline, until it went out of business. In 1997, the abandoned tanks were removed, and from the size of the hole in the center gasoline tank, there can be little wonder why the store went under, and even less as to where the gasoline from that contaminated the Lyon's well. The tanks were buried in sand, but the bottom of the tanks were only 6'' or so over the top of the ledge; what gasoline was lost went directly into the bedrock and was unrecoverable at this tank removal. A new well has been drilled at the Odd Fellows Hall across the street, and the analysis of that well water is pending at this writing. P-13-2000*Received a call from the North Bridgton, Post Office stating that there were employees getting sick, and it was thought to be contributed to an oil spill that had happened a few years pervious. I met with the Post-Master who showed me the area in question. There was evidence of a small over fill, but no evidence of a large oil spill that would be causing vapor problems. I did make the suggestion that they have the air test for mold spores or other possible air contaminates. The basement was very damp and the furnace was extremely old. No further action required. A-203-2001*Outside ASTwith ice damage to filter. Probably 100 gallons lost. This site suffered many and various delays to excavation. The excavation was limited by a building, a utility pole, and underground power lines. When digging I found a clay layer at about 3 feet. I decided to stop digging so as not to chance puncturing the clay that may be protecting their well from contamination. The soil was not highly contaminated, the well has remained clean for several months, and there have been no vapor problems. No further response action anticipated. B-566-1997*D-TREE=S. 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. B-391-1997*On July 21, 1997 at 1315 we received a call from Warren Overlock of Dead River Oil in Millinocket reporting a fifteen to twenty gallon spill of diesel fuel at the Earth Grow plant in Medway. A front end loader backed into the temporary storage tank and tipped it over allowing the fuel to spill out the vent. The driver and other workers on site quickly righted the tank. I advised site manager Rick Powers to excavate and stockpile the contaminated soil for landfarming. I visited the site the next morning and found that workers had excavated about three yards of soil. Mr. Powers and I found a site at the plant for landspreading the material. No wells or open water were threatened. 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 P-303-1989* 1/3/03 update to report by S G Brezinski. Correction to town location. Investigation regarding improper rocky fill used during install of CP protected steel UST's. See separate report narrative and documents for details. A-71-1997*Scott from M&H Logging called to report that a truck belonging to Burton Hall of Errol NH had a cracked tank and leaked diesel fuel in their yard. Most of it was caught in buckets, and what spilled was cleaned up with pads. Frenchy helped, and said that they had done a good job. A-717-2000*No site visit made. See attached report. No further action expected. B-38-1996*The State police dispatcher phoned and asked me to contact Mona Spear (943-6744) of Bangor Hydro Electric, about a transformer spill. According to Mona Spear, during the ongoing wind and rain storm, a tree fell on the electric transmission lines which brought a nearby pole down. There was a 25 kVA McGraw Edison pole mount transformer which hit the ground. The transformer's secondary bushing was broken and oil leaked from this area. While no visible oil could be found in the frozen gravel and leaves there may have been some trapped under the ice. This transformer and pole was located on the Pine Trail Road (Fire Rd #4) about 100' from Phillips Lake. The pole was located on the corner of a beach area. The Bangor Hydro clean up personnel followed a ditch, but could not find any oil. See attached. P-95-1998*On 3/2/98 I received a call through the Maine State Police from Mark Delcourt reporting a copper line leak under his basement floor in Standish. I responded to the site the next morning. Upon arrival, I observed several inches of free product in his sump hole and a slight fuel oil odor in the home. At that time, I made arrangements with CAB Services and Engel Environmental to clean up the spill. Please see attached reports from Engel Environmental regarding clean up activities. On the first site visit, I also explained the AST insurance fund to Mr. Delcourt. Due to the close proximity of the home's drinking water well to the spill, I placed Mr. Delcourt on a quarterly monitoring schedule. The first QM result came back negative for fuel oil, but the second sample taken on 4/20/98 showed slight fuel oil levels in the well. I referred the case to Brad Hahn of Technical Services. We visited the site with the homeowner and John Engel on 6/1/98 to review the well results with the homeowner and to have him sign a filter agreement. The plan devised for the short term was to install carbon filters on the well, and continue to monitor fuel oil levels in the well. Engel Environmental will continue to remove free product from the sump hole as necessary. ________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II JUNE 2, 1998 P-856-1996*22 October 1997, reponded to entered location. I observed the fishing vessel "The Bag Lady", registration #ME 3110F, owned by the subject. I obseved the beached vessel with minimal damage and no petroleum discharge. I spoke to the subject briefly and advised him that the MDEP was not requiring any remedial actions, and that a salvage company could most likely recover the vessel. I also observed the sail boat "Veronica Lauren", registration #ME 4529W, beached at East End Beach. I did not observe a patroleum discharge associated with this boat. No further Response Services action is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (17Apr97) 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. I-38-1999*On 3-31-99, Dead River called this office to report there had been a small spill of fuel oil in the basement of the Doucette residence in Caribou. The tank had corroded on the bottom most likely from condensation on the inside. About 15 gallons was lost and had gone to the drainage paths cut into the concrete floor. Some(a small quantity) had gone to the floor drain. Dead river was called to replace the tank and Soderberg construction was hired to clean the floor with sorbents. All was removed from the basement and no odor was present. P-173-2001* On or about Thus. 3/22/01, I visited this rural construction company site in response to a complaint filed with DEP's Jon Woodard regarding spilled oil. The area is residential & commercial on private wells and therefore geologically sensitive. I met with the company owner, Mr. Clyde Foster who allowed me to look at his property. The company has several garage buildings and a residence and has reportedly been there prior to the adjoining residences (see site sketch). Onsite I noted no AST or UST's evident. Heavy trucks & equipment were parked in the yard. A light sheen was on several puddles on the gravel driveway. I also noted several small oil spots from dripping motors though nothing exceeding approx. 0.1 gal. in size. I did not note any prohibited discharges that I believed threatened any nearby receptors. Mr. Foster stated that he had been having disputes with his neighbor to the south and that is the source of the complaint. I gave Mr. Foster a bale of sorbent pads and advised him on being careful with managing his fuels. As of Jan. 2002 I have received no further complaints on this problem. No further DEP Resp. Div. actions are being planned at this time. See site sketch and attachments for further information. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM I-50-1998* The driver of a pickup traveling west on the West Road fell asleep at the wheel. The truck rolled over ending up on its roof. The truck was carrying a 260 gal homemade diesel fuel tank which lost about half of its contents before being righted. The Caribou Fire Dept. deployed sorbent pads and boom to capture the fuel running down the road and ditch. The spill site is on a steep hill. A contractor was hired to excavate the road shoulder that had saturated soil. The oil doesn't appear to have damaged any properties other than the DOT road surface and the shoulder. Case Closed B-612-2000* On November 15, 2000 at 1150 we received a call from Tracy Lord of the Maine D.O.T. in Shirley reporting five, one gallon milk jugs of oil in a roadside turnoff on route 15 in Big Squaw Township. I visited the site on November 17 and found the jugs which contained used motor oil. There was no leakage and I brought the jugs back to the garage and poured the oil into our used oil drum for re-cycling. P-116-1999*On 2/16/99 I received a call from Les Wilson & Sons reporting evidence of a leak at a tank removal in Portland. When the tank was removed, a large number of holes could be seen in the tank. A small amount of oil sludge could be seen in the excavation. I instructed Wilson to remove the sludge with sorbent pads and backfill the excavation. No further action required. _____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II FEBRUARY 16, 1999 A-438-1997*No site visit made. No further action anticipated. B-339-2000*B-339-00 Bar Harbor Saturday June 24, 2000 1628 I received a phone call from the state police dispatcher. I was asked to contact Melissa Stein ((800) 552-2004), of Irving Oil about a spill at the Irving Mainway, located at 99 Cottage Street in Bar Harbor. I phoned the given number and spoke with Mike Little. According to Mr. Little, 3 gallons of gasoline was spilled during the filling of an underground storage tank. The gasoline ran off the asphalt surface onto Cottage Street. The gasoline was cleaned up using sorbent pads and speedi-dri. The Bar Harbor Fire Department (288-5554) was on scene during the clean up. P-116-1996*AST RUSTED OUT IN BOTTOM, HARRIS OIL REPLACED TANK AND REFERED OWNER TO CLEAN HARBORS REGARDING CLEAN-UP. CLEAN HARBORS REFERED OWNER TO DEP ON 2/21/96. CLEAN-UP UNDER DEP BY SUN ENVIRONMENTAL. SEE ATTACHMENTS. B-354-1999*The Rockwood Fire Chief, Joe Munster, called to report that they had noticed an oil sheen on the Moose River in Rockwood. They had traced it back to an AST at an uninhabited trailer owner by Ms. Irene Tournigny. The obviously old tank had developed a rust hole in its bottom and what oil was in it leaked into the fill under the trailer and then worked its way underground to break out in the Route 15 ditch. After entering the ditch it entered a culvert whose outlet is in the river. The firemen tilted the tank back to stop any more release; but by then the gauge read empty and they said it felt empty. I placed a sorbent boom in the ditch and another at the mouth of the culvert to stop the oil from entering the river. I then used sorbent pads to collect the free product in the ditch. The water source for the trailer comes from a dug well uphill and there are no wells or opportunity for one down grade of the spill. The chief knew that the trailer had not been used for at least five years and an accurate accounting of the oil lost is unattainable. Since the oil was contained, I adopted a wait and see attitude. I've visited the site on 7/9 and 7/15 and found that the booms were in good order and there seemed to be no gain of oil. There was obvious mats of algae in the ditch that were bio-degrading the oil which I enhanced on 7/15 with 2# of high nitrogen fertilizer (29 %). Other than continual observation I expect no further action is necessary. P-410-2000*An anonymous caller was concerned about drums containing unknown wastes being buried at the McLaughlin property in New Gloucester. I visited the site the day I recieved the complaint. Mr. McLaughlin recycles metal from the Masonite (International Paper) plant in Lisbon. I checked all the drums on the property - they all were either empty or contained scrap metal. I also checked any areas on the property where the soil had been disturbed and found no indications of buried drums. I will refer this site to ME-DEP Solid waste personnel. No further action by Response Services 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 A-590-1996*Received a call from Jim Meldrum of Kingfield Cash Fuel that there had been a small overfill at his bulk plant. Petroleum Products Coop was making a delivery to his bulk plant. Apparently some fuel came out through the vent pipe and flowed over the tank. The area was diked with clay walls and floor. There was snow in the containment area. The bulk plant owner, Mr. Meldrum excavated the contaminated snow and put it on a nearby large brush pile that was then burned. I explained to him that I probably would not have approved of that method but it seemed like there was no harm done to the environment. I also cautioned him to report spills as soon as practical just to get him in the habit of doing it right when he does actually need assistance. No response was required. No further work is needed on this site. Petroleum Products Coop has not reported the spill as of 12/30/96. B-449-1999*B-449-99 Hancock (Hancock Point) Wednesday July 28, 1999 1415 I received a phone call from Ms. Gladys Foss (422-9019), of Hancock. According to Ms. Foss she saw oil on the beach about 10 days ago. A pail near a path had golden oil and paper rags in it. She said that she saw a 1 quart can of motor oil it was golden in color (virgin motor oil). The can was on the east side of the road and was empty. Thursday July 29, 1999 0810 When I found the location as described by Ms. Foss there were 10 to 12 paper towels that contained some oil. The oily paper towels were picked up and taken to the DEP temporary storage area for ultimate disposal at the Auburn incinerator. B-370-1998*On June 7, 1998 at 1800 we received a call from Dead River reporting a #2 fuel oil spill at the Town Taxi garage on Broadway Street in Bangor. I talked to Roland Raymond who estimated that one hundred gallons leaked onto the cement floor and some may have entered a drain. I arrived on site and met Mr. Raymond and Paul Baron, who is the owner of Town Taxi. Most of the oil was on the floor or in a small bermed collection area beneath the tank but some did enter a floor drain. Fortunately, the drain was plugged with mud and dirt so the product just collected in the drain entrance where workers collected it with sorbents. The rest of the oil was collected with sorbents. The storage system consisted of two basement tanks connected together. The leak originated from a cracked nipple on the connection between the two tanks. Mr. Baron thought one of his drivers must have hit some pallets beside the tank and one of the pallets hit and cracked the feedline. Rec. file. A-529-1998*An anonymous caller reported that a tank had been left behind when the old K of C Hall was moved. The caller claimed that the lines had been cut and that product had run out onto the ground. I inspected and found a minor amount of spillage on a cement floor. A UST was also present. The building's current owner arranged to remove the tank. The Whitefield CEO inspected the site and verified that no contamination was present. A-780-1999*Received a call from Ken Pankovic concerning a late report of a small oil spill. Mr. Pankovic is the newly hired safety officer for the Stone and Webster gas fired generating plant in Rumford. He reported that during the final phases of construction, approximately 5 gallons of "DIAL", non-PCB transformer oil was spilled at the plant site. He wanted to know how he could dispose of the pads. This report and question, was eight days after the spill. I went up to the site to inspect the area. The site is in an industrial park. The spill was to a paved surface and looked like it was adequately cleaned up. I explained that reporting of spills needed to be done in a timely manner if no further enforcement action is to be taken. He seemed to understand. I directed him to the incinerator in Auburn for disposal of the drum of pads they had collected. No further work is necessary on this site. B-615-1996*Mark Knapp, concerned citizen from the Hovey Road in Milo, stated that his neighbor, Keith Bridges, dumped all types of debris including oil into an old cellar hole and setting it on fire. It was also stated that Karen Knuuti of solid waste had alredy been involved. A subsequent conversation with Karen revealed that Mr. Bridges had removed the burnt debris from the hole and dipsosed of it property. Any oil, if any, surely would have burnt. It may be noted that a transfer station is proposed for the property. P-260-1999*18 February 1999, I responded to spill location. I observed a discharge from an AST vent that impacted a small corner of the paved driveway, p-stone under the fill pipes coming out from the garage, and p-stone in a sump hole just inside the garage under the AST piping. The AST is located in the basement toward the back of the house. The fill is at the front of the house. The fill appears difficult due to the length of the piping and vent whistle located at the tank. Lavasseur was having the tank replaced this day and relocating it toward the front of the house. Apparently, this is the second spill at this location in the past year or so. I contacted DR and spoke to Dennis OBrian. OBrain was reluctant to take responsibility for the spill indicating that the facility had a defective fill receptor. I informed OBrian that the discharge was from the vent. I also informed him that the tank should not be filled if the piping is defective and that spills are required to be reported to the DEP. After OBrian inspected the site they took RP actions to clean it up. No further information received by DEP regarding this site and no additional actions necessary. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 22APR99. P-50-1994*Incident was a structure fire involving flooring materials containing styrene. Most of the product was consumed in the fire, although fire fighting efforts resulted in the production of water contaminated with styrene. Clean Harbors collected the water in question with and vacuum truck. B-379-1997*7/17/97 18:23 Scott Patterson, concerned resident in Dover, called to report discovering a 5 gallon pail of roofing tar disposed of on the shore of the Piscataquis River just below the wooden, covered bridge. Some of the tar had also been spiled. A couple days later I removed the pail shoveled up the tar. Disposal is pending. It's owner however remains a mystery. A-283-1997*See attached for additional information. No site visit made. No further action anticipated. A-143-1999*Received a call from Randy Murry of Murry Oil that there had been a spill at a customer's site. Randy reported that while they were filling the underground storage tank at DeCoster's Plant #4 building, he had overfilled the tank. He reported approximately 100 gallons of #2 fuel oil was spilled. He said that DeCoster personnel were assisting him and that he did not need any assistance that night. I told him I would be going out the next day to inspect the cleanup. When I arrived at the site the next day I met Mr. Murry and Mr. Herman Brown of DeCoster. I pointed out the areas that still needed some cleanup. Most of the cleanup had been done already and the site looked fairly good for a spill of 100 gallons. I subsequently spoke to Jim Hillier of Hillier & Associates. He is a geologist that is contracted by DeCoster to be a third party in assuring compliance with environmental rules by DeCoster. He pointed out that there was a well for the site over 500' away. It was his opinion that based on knowledge of the local geology the well had a low risk of contamination from the spill. With that determination, no further work is necessary on this site. A-46-1996*This spill occurred when a 500 gallon tank was being transported to a logging site. The trailer carrying the tank broke loose and the tank was damaged. The two fire departments cleaned with sorbents, and helped pump the remainder from the damaged tank. No further action is anticipated. 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-664-1998*Received a call from Alternative Fuel that a customer of theirs had suffered a spill. I went to the island and inspected the site. Mrs. Patricia Bunker owned a house on Pleasant Street that she rented. The current tenant happened to be a driver for Alternative Fuels. The Fire Department and Alternative Fuels had done a good job of cleaning up the spill. The aboveground 275 gallon tank had rusted through the bottom of the tank. The basement where the spill happened was wet and had a lot of water in it. Most of the fuel was on top of the water and some may have run out of the basement into a drainage ditch. The oil in the basement was cleaned up with sorbents. There was some sign of oil in the drainage ditch, but it disappeared quickly. There was little to do except pick up the sorbent pads that had picked up some oil. There is a well at the house. It is the only well in the area. The rest of the area is served by town water. Eventually the well was impacted. I spoke with Mrs. Bunker and she stated that the house is plumbed for town water. She stated that she had some "issues" with the water district. I stated that the Department would probably not pay to remediate the well with a lower cost option available. The case has been referred to Technical Services for final disposition on the well. B-730-1999*Bangor Hydro Electric Co. called to report that a half-gallon of non-PCB mineral oil leaked from a damaged transformer on the Newbury Neck Road. The transformer on pole #159 was damaged when a truck snagged the service wire causing the transformer to spill a little bit of oil onto the ground. This was cleaned up and sent to Sawyer's landfill in Hampden. P-566-1996*On 5/22/96 at 1725 the Maine State Police relayed a report they had received from the Portland Fire Department regarding a petroleum discharge from a rolled over tractor trailer on Bates Street, Portland. I responded to the site and observed a tractor trailer which had rolled onto it's left side as it had come down the Rt 295 off ramp and entered Bates Street. The unit, which was carrying lumber, had come to rest on a traffic island in the middle of the intersection of the two aforementioned thoroughfares. The only visible petroleum discharge was used motor oil which was coming from either the crankcase vent or fill. I estimate that 3-5 gallons of oil had spilled. The Portland Fire Department had deployed 10-12 sorbent pads on the spilled oil which I bagged for disposal. The street was subsequently sanded. The unit was not heavily damaged and was righted without further incident. A-70-1999*Received an anonymous complaint about a 5-gallon bucket of waste oil. The caller described where the house was and said the bucket was leaking. I went to the house while travelling back from another spill. I found the bucket. It seemed to be filled with waste lube oil and was overflowing. I knocked on the door and spoke to the homeowners' teenage daughter. I told her that the oil in the bucket needed to be disposed of properly to prevent further spillage. She said she would tell her father. I went past the house a few weeks later and found that the bucket was not present and some sand had been spread on the concrete. No one was home so I didn't find out what became of the bucket of oil. No further work is necessary. I-106-2000*On 9-20-00, Tim Gouple, a DOT foreman called to report that while excavating on Main St. Presque Isle, and old UST was discovered at the intersection of Park and Main St. I met with him on site that day, the tank was partially full of water with no fuel. I told them to drain the water and pull out the tank. No further action necessary. P-696-2001*05.06.2001 responded to entered location. Discovered a parameter drainpipe of the facility discharging fuel oil into roadside ditch. I inspected the AST and observed evidence of a spill. No information, except that some type of work had been performed to the heating system several months prior, would be provided to DEP on site. I do not feel that all the facts were presented to DEP in this event. I received an anonymous phone call at a later date fielded by another Responder; the caller advised that a large discharge associated with the AST did occur. My second attempt to learn about what happen resulted in no usable information. The parimeter drain area was flushed and all free phase product collected with pads. No further Response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 8.31.2001 A-791-1999* DEP received a report that a small quantity of fuel was spilled from this commercial vehicle. Local fire officials confirmed that the spill was to rain-puddled pavement in a non-sensitive area; no remediation was consdered practical. B-442-1997*Mr. Dunning, S.W. Cole Eng. Inc., called to report they had discovered gasoline contamination at the removal of gasoline tanks at The County Squire Convenience Store on Rt. 1A in E. Holden. On scene, I learned Irving Oil Co. had removed 3 single wall fiberglass tanks with single wall fiberglass suction piping. While the tanks were installed according to Chapter 691 in 1988 by Webber Oil Co. and could have remained in the ground, the land owner, Fred Hunton, requested they be removed. Irving requested a waiver of the 30 day waiting period from Jake Ward of this office. It was granted. S.W. Cole was hired to do the site asessment and concurrently, they were doing a Phase I site assessment for a potential buyer, Benjie Grant. G.R. Adams, Jr. Inc. was hired to do the actual removal. The tanks were removed without problems. Soil samples from the tank hole and the pipe trench showed gasoline levels in the 25-50 ppm area well below the notification level of 100 ppm; however, a routine sample from the tank hole wall in south west wall at a depth of 9-11' showed 655 ppm at which point I was called. I was aware that some 8-9 years earlier there had been a significant spill of gasoline from a UST that had left a foot thick layer of gas in the ground. This had been remediated and I was under the impression that the nearest well, the store's, had not been impacted. I met with Mr. Dunning and Mr. Grant and watched as the active pipe line was removed. PID levels in the trench showed the same 25-50 ppm levels. I then had them dig below the trench just outside the north west corner of the tank hole excavation and beginning at about 4' through to 9' we found 5600-4500 ppm of contamination. I had been called to the road in front of the store in 1989 when the MEDOT had discovered gasoline contamination soil in their right of way. This appeared to be in a band between 3' and 6' down. CONTINUED.... P-699-1999*On 10/3/99 I received a call from Cheif Bryant of the South Paris Fire Department informing me that an AST at 381 Hebron Road had fallen over and approximately 150 gallons of fuel oil had been released. When I arrived on site a representative of Dead River Oil Co. was there and the owner of the property, Phillip Keene, was also there. Mr. Keene told me that the tenants had noticed the front legs of their outdoor AST were sinking into the ground two days earlier. The tenants informed Mr. Keene of the problem on 10/3 and he had tried to use a jack to prop up the tank and in the process the tank fell over and broke off the gauge allowing approximately 150 gallon to be released. The tank was then proped up and the guys from Dead River emptied the rest of the oil from the tank. The two mobile homes on the site use the same well which the owners believe is around 200 feet deep (drilled) and 50 feet upgradient(?) of the release. The site has very uneven topography with at least one bedrock outcrop. We decided to excavate some of the contaminated soil and had very little luck because the surficial material is very rocky. In general it was sandy with some gravel and many boulders. The spill occurred about 5-10 feet from the septic tank which we uncovered during excavation. The leach bed is about a hundred feet directly down gradient. At this time I do not believe that any other response action is required. I have referred this case to Technical Services. _____________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I October 4, 1999 I-177-1998*Oil filter was not tightened causing 4-6 gallons of fuel to spill. It was cleaned up with sorbents and put in waste oil drum P-524-2000*See attached report from CMP. A-118-1997*Received a call from Gary Glidden of Dead River that a customer of his in Boothbay Harbor had suffered a spill. I responded to the site. The building is a bed and breakfast owned and operated by Gordon Frezzel. The line from his 275 gallon fuel tank had developed a pinhole leak. The tank was in a shed attached to the building. There was a floor drain in the concrete floor. Apparently all the oil went to the floor drain. Dead River only discovered the problem from inventory records. The building is very near the water and is built directly on the granite bedrock. The floor drain dumped directly into the fractures of the granite. The oil was surfacing in the outcrops along the shore. Dead River employees had already applied sorbents to the rocks and put sorbent boom into the water near the rocks. There was a heavy sheen in the water. All the oil was discharging from fractures in the granite. Sorbent pads placed in the larger fractures were succesful at sorbing oil. I returned on the 18th to change pads and maintain boom. Mary Corr and I returned on the 22nd to change pads and remove the sorbent boom. I had determined that the sorbent boom was not being very effective and that dispersing what oil did reach the water quickly was a better solution. No further work is needed on this site. 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. A-228-2000*A hydraulic hose broke on the wood yard crane. About 220 gallons was lost onto the bark pile. It was dug up and taken to the boiler. I-86-1998*On 4-10-98 Maine State Police reported a fatal air crash off the N/S runway at PI airport. Site inspection next day revealed no aviation gas present-probably burned in fire. A-10-2000*While the #1 paper machine was shut down, a leak from the drive unit was discovered. PCB content was estimated at >500 ppm. Clean Harbors was hired to clean up the spill. Mike Hudson (DEP) was notified of the PCB release. See attached report from IP. No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services. A-68-1999* DEP received a report that an overfill had occurred at this residential oil tank. Spilled product was sorbed into snow; the area is dense residential and is served by a municipal water supply. The spiller excavated all contaminated snow and transported it to a secure landfill for disposal. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-447-1999* DEP received a complaint from Camden town officials that it was suspected that the operator of this facility had been discharging waste liquids to the municipal sewer. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the facility in the presence of Roger Droukas (Apollo Tanning), Ross Parker (Camden Municipal Treatment Works), and Jeff Weymouth (Camden F.D.) . Mr. Parker alleges that the treatment facility had assumed an odor characteristic of the tannery beginning the previous day, and that based on prior experience with the tannery he believed tannery staff were discharging to the sewer. Mr. Droukas admitted to discharging several drums of liquid to the sewer, but claimed these contained only rain water. Several gallons of spilled product were visible on the floor of a waste liquid receiving building; some of this material had flowed outside and was puddled on soil. Mr. Droukas claimed this might be "fish oil", and was not considered hazardous; a sample was collected for analysis and would later show no need for handling as a "hazardous substance". No remediation of soil was warranted as a result of this relatively minor spill. It became apparent that the Department had some outstanding issues with Apollo, and that questions regarding storage/disposal of wastes went back several years. The company was currently in a precarious financial situation and had experienced several suspicious fires in recent months. DEP, Hazardous Materials Compliance, has some ongoing communications with Apollo regarding some of their handling practices; these issues are not a part of this spill report. I anticipate no further Response involvement as a result of this particular incident. Refer also to DEP spill files A-369-98, A-602-89, UST reg. files 10817 and 10818, and files maintained by Hazardous Materials Compliance (BRWM), and Air Quality Licensing. A-158-2000*Received a call from Jerry Junkins of International Paper concerning an oil spill at the mill. He reported that 1 gallon of #6 oil had leaked from the #1 boiler pump and had gone to the sewer. He did say that the moat around the pump normally had some #6 oil in it. Enough #6 oil was put into the moat that it found a crack in the wall and leaked out to the sewer. The oil was trapped in the sewer and recovered. No oil reached the treatment plant. See the attached report from International Paper for additional details. No site visit was made and no further work is necessary. A-259-1997*A flat bed truck was carrying a 1000 tank full of chicken manure. The truck drove onto the shoulder and rolled into the ditch. The contents of the tank discharged onto the ground. The accident was immediately above the Outlet Stream. It was also upwind of the settled area of Vassalboro. The manure was dug up by Manter Construction. They mixed it with their loam pile. A-214-1996*No site visit made. No further action anticipated. See attached for additional details. B-85-2000*B-085-2000 02/17/2000 Nick Hodgkins of the Division of Remediation in Augusta called to report another MTBE case down in Hancock. It was stated that a lab analysis of the well water at L.A. Gray shown low levels of the gasoline additive at 1.7 parts per billion. A source could not be readily identified. The MTBE could be associated with the Irving across the road or minor spillage from vehicles in the L.A. Gray parking lot. In any event LA Gray was placed on quarterly monitoring as a precaution should the situation be more serious. 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-114-2001*On 2/29/01 I received a call through the Maine State Police from Don Jeradin of Downeast Energy reporting a 175 gallon spill of Kerosene at Brunswick Ford. The spill occurred when the weight of ice and snow broke the firematic valve off from an outside Above Ground Storage Tank. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I observed oil contaminated snow around the tank. I encouraged the facility manager, Brandt Hatala to apply to the Insurance Fund. He agreed. I hired Clean Harbors to remove the contaminated snow from the spill area. The snow was taken to their facility at Rumery Rd., in South Portland. No further action required. ________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II MARCH 27, 2001 I-38-2000*On 4-26-00, Patsey Nadeau of Allagash called to report there was something in her water. She thought it smelled of gas. She reported there was an old abandoned gasoline station across the street. I met with her that day to check. I could not smell anything in the water but sampled it. There was several children and an infant living in the home. Results came back negative for gas and fuel oil. P-255-1998*Report of an unknown substance in Crockett Brook, possible hazardous material or slit associated with new construction. Responded to complaint and did observe a cloudness in water which appeared to be pine pollen. Regardless, of actually origin of substance, it did not appear to be associated with the new home construction. No further action required. B-434-1999*Lucia Allen, Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline Co., called to report that an employee ran over a rock with his car and about 1.5 quarts of engine oil was spilled at the Baileyville compressor site. The company dug up about 4 square feet of soil which was placed in their oil debris dumpster. This debris will be taken to Sawyer's landfill in Hampden. A-205-2001*AST leak caused by snow and ice accumulation breaking brass nipple between filter and tank. Reported by Tom Hildreth, operator of Carrabassett Coffee, who leases the building from Mr. Greg West. The tank is located beneath valley of roof. I contracted with Jordan Excavation of Kingfield to remove contaminated soils and replace with bank run gravel. Septic system located adjacent to spill does not appear affected. Public water is available with no known water wells in area. Soils were excavated 4/6/01. Soil was sandy gravel trending to cobbles at depth. Excavated approx 42 yards. Could not remove some contaminated soils beneath building foundation. No odors present inside office or work area. Advised Mr. West to install protection for the filter and supply line upon reinstallation. No additional work required for Response Services. Not referred to Tech Services based on public water availability. A-680-1998*Testing as part of the Governor's MTBE sampling program revealed low levels of MTBE in the Ricker Orchard well (2.4 ppb). I resampled on 12/15/98 (6.3 ppb). The drilled well is located next to the Mr. Ricker, Sr.'s residence. The driveway is paved. Orchard operations are next to the house; parking for the employees is on the far side of the packing building some distance from the well. No source of contamination was evident. This facility does not do regular testing because they disagree with DHS about being a public water supply. Therefore, I have added them to our quarterly monitoring program. The case has been referred to Tech Services since it is a stringent site. No further action needed by Response Services. A-521-1998*See attached and site assesemnt for additional details. This site has been referred to Technical Services to determine if additional remediation is needed. I-124-1997*On 8-25-97, the Van Buren police reported a dump truck carrying asphalt had overturned on U.S. Rt. 1 about 6 miles north of town. The whole load had spilled from the truck. I had Soderberg construction take a backhoe up and place the spilled asphalt in another dump for transportation the the Lane Facility it came from for recycling. B-47-1998*1/21/98 15:50 Mona Spear, Environmental Compliance Specialist for Bangor Hydro Electric, called to report one of several dielectric oil spills related to the "1998 ice storm". This particular incident also involved a transformer falling off a pole and rupturing. Approximately 7 gallons of dielectric oil spilled into the ice and snow. Approximately 3 drums of "non PCB" contaminated snow and debris was generated from the clean up. P-290-2001*Overfill due to failure of automatic shut-off. Cleaned up by CN Brown. 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-194-2001* I found that the Gerard's mobile home was served by two 275 gallon AST. Mr. Gerard would have them filled during the summer and use only one tank at a time when winter came. This was done by manually turning a valve. It turned out that the firematic valve to the standby tank had broken under the weight of ice and snow and the whole tank was lost. His well is about 100' away and up grade. Mr. Gerard created this lot and said that the well was drilled through 40 feet of clay. The area around the lot is generally flat and the vegetation indicates wet tight soils. Mr. Gerard says that he had brought in a lot of fill that he shaped with a borrowed bulldozer. The mobile home is on a mounded slab and there is no fuel odor inside. An outside inspection showed that the oil would move away from the well and be absorbed by the fill on top of the native clay. As such I felt no clean up was required to protect their health or the environment. A-174-1999*Received a call from Franklin Memorial Hospital that they had a small mercury spill. Roger Wells called to report that they had dropped a small thermometer, breaking it and spilling the mercury. They have mercury spill kits on the premises and the Farmington Fire Department used one on them to clean up the mercury. The spill was contained to one room with a tile floor. No further action is necessary on this spill. A-639-2000*Received a call from Steve Meckler of Hancock Lumber that there had been a small oil spill. He reported that a 10 wheel dump truck had a hydraulic line brake and spilled approximately 10 gallons. This happened at the sawmill on to a dirt area. They excavated the area and sent the contaminated soil to Thibodeau's for disposal. The area is an industrial area and there are no nearby waterwells. No further action is needed on this spill. P-747-2000*No further narrative. See attached report. NOTE: The attachment associated with this report was inadvertently misplaced, therefore not attached. B-489-1997*On 9/8/97, 1125 hours John Wiggen reported a fuel overfill at a rental property that he owns at 3 Blake Street in Brewer. Apparently the fuel vendor had put enough product into the system so that the threads on the fill pipes seeped. Since the fill pipe went into the basement it caused an odor. The seepage had stopped by the time I was notified. There was not enough spillage to clean up and the odor problem was taken care of by opening the basement windows. I expect the overfill was an oversight. A-78-1999*A dump truck was struck by a car. The saddle tank was ruptured. The product flowed onto the road and in the ditch. H.E. Sargeant cleaned up the roadway because they had equipment at the bridge rebuild. Johnson was a subcontractor on the job. Johnson hauled the soil to Dragon. A-148-1996* On 4-5-96 the Franklin County S.O. reported a leak of nitrous oxide at Gifford Ice Cream in Farmington. The Farmington Fire Dept. responded. A 50 lb. cylinder was connected to a machine. The leak was somewhere in the machine. The F.D. response was to stop the leak and ventilate the building. My involvement was to gather data and relay the hazards of the compound to the F.D. No site visit was made. No environmental damage was done. P-226-2000*Kerry Blum found puddles of oil in her yard. It was discovered the oil had leaked from a 275 gallon outside K-1 AST used to supply fuel to a furnace in a garage/shed. The oil had apparently been dripping from a broken fitting for an unknown amount of time. The area of the shed was underlain by tight clay, when the shed was installed the perimeter of the footing had been excavated and filled in with sand - this is the area that the oil seemed to all collect in. I hired Environmental Services to excavate out around two sides of the shed - this was done with a vactor. There was also 100- 200 gallons of liquid vacced up during the excavation. Much of the liquid was oil. I placed lotted flex pipe into the trench and sloped the trenches to a sump at one corner of the garage. Some oil has continued to be collected in the sump. I will continue to monitor the site throughout the spring. No further action beyond that, anticipated. P-703-1993* REPORT SUMMARY 10/30/93: Approx. 10-gal. spill @ dispenser due to customer error, on pavement. Response by Auburn Fire Dept. Unknown how much product may have reached soil through joints & cracks in pavement. There is confusion as to who recovered waste for disposal. I-97-1996*On 9-5-96, an annonymous caller reported that a small engine repair shop operated by Lendell White was dumping gasoline on the ground and had a number of engine and engine parts scattered around outside that were leaking. I investigated that day and met with an employee. There was no evidence at all to substantiate the complaint, and it was noted that this was a very neat operation. B-382-1999*B-382-99 Bangor Wednesday July 7, 1999 1015 I received a phone call from Mr. Bob Trask (654-9549), of Precision Tanks. Mr. Trask phoned to report that contaminated soil had been found at the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building during the removal of two #6 (also used #5) heating oil tanks. I explained to Mr. Trask that they needed to have a site assessor on scene during the tank removals. When I arrived I temporary stopped excavation until a site assessor was on site to do the site assessment. Workers were involved in placing sheet piles around the tank excavation so that the compact area would not collapse into the excavation and so the excavation would be safe to enter during the tank installation that was to follow. I recommended some local site assessors and they got hold of FGS/CMT, Inc. to do the work. Soon Bub Saunders of Fessenden Geo-Environmental Services arrived on scene. Excavation resumed. I set the clean up level to Baseline 2. Most of the Black to gray stained soil was removed. The heaviest contamination was located around the fill pipes and ran down into the ground around the tanks. There was no evidence of leaking tanks or piping found during the removal. In all, from July 7th to July 9th, nearly 19 tons of contaminated soil went to Sawyer Environmental in Hampden. The sandy soil and sand varied from saturated to lightly contaminated even though the clean up was set at B2. B-425-2001* On 7/31/01, 0440 hours Jim Patrick reported a spill of unknown material at the Sawyer Building on the UMO campus. The Orono Fire Department Haz Mat team was responding. It soon became known that a water pipe had burst and that the water dripped into the cutting oil containment tray on a metal cutting lath. This caused a couple gallons of the oil to spill onto the cement floor. The MSDS indicated no hazards and further stated that spills should be handled like any other oil release. The oil was recovered with pads and speedy dry. These materials were stored at the facilities waste storage for eventual disposal. I-178-1999*On 11-22-99, Irving Oil Co. faxed a spill report form to this office regarding the overfill of a basement tank at the residence of Aurora Madore in Caribou. The delivery driver had overfilled the tank and about 1/2 gallon was spilled onto the floor. All was picked up using sorbent pads. I-141-1997*DISPOSED CONTAMINATED SOIL ON COMPANY LAND REFER TO ATTACHED SITE ASSESSMENT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. P-565-1996*SEE ATTACHED NARRATIVE A-582-2001* DEP received a belated report that several gallons of gasoline was spilled at a remote (no ferry service) island when a valve was left open at the fuel line of a tractor. Gasoline contaminated soil was excavated for disposal; two residential wells within 300' were sampled and determined to show no contamination from this spill. A-45-1997* DEP received an anonymous report that a transformer on a pole was leaking at this property. I contacted the utility company (Fox Islands Co-op) that owns the transformer; they sent a technician to investigate. they later reported that all transformers on the property were intact, but that a small amount of what appeared to be creosote was observed in snow at the base of one pole. It is believed that this is the material originally reported. A sample was analyzed as a precaution (see F.I. Co-op attachments). I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. P-3-1998*On January 2, 1998 the Department received a report that approximately 70 gallons of fuel oil had been discharged in the basement of a residence. The discharge had occured as the result of an oil delivery to the wrong residence by DL Hardy, Inc., subcontracting for Webber Energy. The home which the oil was mistakenly delivered to had visible vent and fill lines, with no tank attached. The driver was proceding to pump fuel into the fill pipe when the homeowner arrived and stopped him. Approximately 70 gallons had been pumped onto the basement floor. I arrived and met with the homeowners after the oil company had done an initial clean-up and left. At that time they were satisfied that DL Hardy would complete the clean-up of the basement. After several weeks the homeowner contacted me and complained that he was not satisfied with the effort being put forth by the oil company. Peter Eremita (Div. Tech. Services) and I met with him and the insurance adjuster for DL Hardy and determined what an appropriate clean-up for the Department would be, and explained that Mr. Bailey's clean-up level may exceed that of the Department. The Department's concern was mainly with the vapors in the living area, and for that reason Peter Eremita was involved. The site has been referred 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 B-577-2001* This office received notification at 0817 on 10/12/01 from the Maine Air National Guard, 101ST Air Refueling Wing (Bangor), reporting an oil spill on the Heavy Duty Ramp at BIA. It was indicated that 20 gallons of JP-8 aviation fuel were spilled on the tarmac around 1000 on 10/6/01 when personnel accidentally overfilled a tank on a military aircraft. All of the oil was contained and recovered with Super Soper and sorbent pads. There were no drains or State waters involved in this incident. REC: File report. B-492-1997*D-TREE=N. I-140-2001*Due to a filter leaking, 1 gallon of fuel oil was spilled. It was cleaned up with speedy dry and oil soak and was taken back to shop. 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-554-2000*I received a complaint from the Maine Emergency Management Agency that there had been a spill of toluene at the Eastern Fine Paper facility in Brewer. It seems that the tank truck driver hooked the delivery hose to the wrong side of the pump. Instead of filling the tank he drafted out of the bulk tank into the truck causing the toluene to spill out of the tanker's vent. They were estimating a loss of about 100 gallons. This stayed on the paved yard and after being foamed by the Brewer Fire Dept. was collected with sorbent pads. There were no fires or injuries. The recovered material was shipped off through a hazardous waste transporter, Van Rogers and Waters. I-58-1999*A HOSE BROKE ON THE LOADER SPILLING 35 GALLONS + OF HYDRAULIC OIL. OIL TAKEN TO WASTE OIL BURNER. A-548-2000*Received a call from John Cronin concerning the spillage of lube oil. During the change out of a roller on #4 paper machine, approximately 20 gallons of lube oil was spilled into buckets and the dike around the paper machine. No oil reached the sewer. No site visit was made and no further work on this spill is necessary. A-238-1999*Received a call from Vikki Gammon of International Paper. She reported that a crossover line on a truck failed releasing 10 gallons of diesel to a paved surface. International Paper personnel cleaned it up. The fuel did not get to the sewer system. No site visit was made and no further cleanup is required. P-1000-2001*A report was received regarding an old sand pit on Davis Road in Lyman which the caller stated had been used as an oil dumping site for many years. The caller stated that tank trucks of "tank bottom sludge" had been dumped into the pit and that the practice had stopped 25 or so years ago. I visited the site and found the pit in question. It is located about 20 ft. vertically below Davis Rd. and has a lot of scrub brush and grass around the edge of it. The area of impact, however has no vegetation and the soil is black stained along the edges to nearly saturated in what looks to be the primary dumping area. I dug into the oil about 12 inches and took a PID reading of the ambient air in the hole and got a reading of 14 ppm. I took a lab sample for volatile and semi-volatile compounds to confirm that it was petroleum. I contacted the town and was informed that the property was owned by an estate and the trustee was in California. I returned to the site on 11/15/01 with Mark Woodruff of the Div. of Tech. Services. We sampled the soil in three locations for EPA method 8260 & 8270, and Maine Waste Oil Parameters. We also located the site with GPS. The site is located on a mapped sand & gravel aquifer, and although there are no wells within close proximity, there is no public water in Lyman. The results of the sampling showed hazardous constituents in the soil. Due to these results, the extent and age of the contamination and the fact that the owner is deceased, this site has been referred to the uncontrolled sites unit. __________________________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 3 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediatoin & Waste Management B-748-1999*B-748-99 On 11/23/99, 0938 hours Jim Allison of SERF reported that they had a hydraulic oil release on Copeland Hill Road in Holden. The release happened when a hydraulic hose burst on one of their garbage collection trucks. They had deployed several bags of speedy dry and were in the process of recovering it when I visited the site. The spill was in the form of a quarter mile long, intermittent streak. There was only a faint stain left where the speedy dry had been recovered. P-449-1998*On 09/24/98, I received a call from Dave Ruger the S. Berwick Police Dispatcher. He stated that they had gotten a call about a leaking oil tank in the basement of an apartment building. The fire department responded and one of the firemen also worked for Gagnon Oil so he replaced the broken valve. The tenant that noticed the spill is Brian Parkhurst (384-8269) and the owner of the building is Sue Paquin (757-489-4485). I went down and looked at the spill. The leak was stopped and sorbent pads had been put down in the area. I contacted the owner and she said that she would contact her daughter who lives in the area and have her find someone to dig out the soil that had been contaminated. On 10/15/98, I received a call from Tracy Paquin who had a friend dig up the contaminated soil and take it to Commercial Recycling. No further Response action is needed at this time. I-107-1997*Busted Hydraulic Hose, used speedi dry and sorbant pads to clean up, disposed at Presque Isle Landfill. A-256-2000* DEP received an after-hours report that a minor transformer leak had occurred. According to CMP staff, contaminated soil was collected for disposal. A-177-1996*See attached and site assesment for tank registration # 4969 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-669-1996*Benny Tibbetts of Tibbetts Oil called to report a small spill at his bulk plant in Lincoln. Approximately 10 gallons spilled into the rear of a pick up truck while an individual was filling a portable tank. The oil was subsequently cleaned up with speedi dri. No resources of the State were believed to be affected. B-119-1998*On February 25, 1998 at 1205 we received a call from the Regional Dispatch reporting that the Veazie Fire Dept. had a gasoline spill from a leaking car tank. I arrived on site and met the fire department who said that about five gallons of gas leaked from a hole in a gas tank on a private vehicle. Merlon Knox of 12 Flagg St. owned the car which was parked in the parking lot for the address. Fireman used sorbent pads to recover as much gas as possible before the rain flushed it into a storm drain. They succeeded in absorbing most of the spill. A-72-1999* DEP received a report that gasoline was leaked from a state vehicle while it was parked on a paved parking lot behind the IFW headquarters in Augusta. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the site and collected contaminated snow/ice. CFM later confirmed that the leak was due to a corrosive hole in the tank. The area is served by public water and is not considered geologically sensitive. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-713-2001*Mead paper personnel observed #6 fuel oil in a containment vault near an oil storage tank. Mead Paper used a vacuum truck to remove sand, pea stone, steam condensate and oil from the vault and to find the cause of the leak. (See attached Mead report.) P-527-2000* On Thus. 8/24/00, I visited this property and met with Mr. Thurlow who lives across the street. The house is a residence (presently unoccupied) and a barn at the N corner of Rt. 26 and (Rabbit) Valley Rd. Mr. Thurlow explained that the previous facility/property owner operated a paving business from the property, and that the facility had been out of service for about 15 years. The area is rural residential & farming on private wells. Thurlow described the two tanks coming out about 8/10/00 [less than 30-days of when the DEP received the removal notice and as stated on the notice]. Though the UST's were registered as 500 gallon, they were 2000 and 1000 gallon sized. Being a commercial, motor fuel UST facility, and over 1100 gal., an MRSA 691 UST removal assessment is likely required. Thurlow stated that CTI Mark Winslow and Fire Chief Knightly were onsite for the removal. Thurlow said that the two tanks were filled with water which Thurlow described he pumped out onto the ground of his property. I have noted no record that this water in the tanks, which is evidence of a leak, has been reported to DEP as required by the owner or contractor. I advised Thurlow that he should take care with the property's well should it become contaminated by any dissolved gaso. or diesel fuel that was in the water. A copy of this report will be sent to the Reg. file with a request to correct any errors in the UST registration file #20329. As these were non-compliant UST's removed beyond their required removal deadline, I understand that the GW Clean-Up Ins. Program is not applicable. No other Response Div. actions are intended at this time. See attached for further info. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-390-1998*On 5/27/98 Bill Robinson of A.E. Robinson Oil inquired about removing a UST from George Howard's place of business in Dover, which is on 9 East Main Street in Dover-Foxcroft. We arranged to do it on 6/17/98. The hole, which was into fine, silty, loamy soil, was absolutely clean. The tank (1K heating oil UST) had been out of service for years, but it was in good condition. The tank had not been registered so the registration form was filled out and sent in along with the waived 30 day notice. P-625-1994* Mystery oil dumping complaint. no dumped material found. See also P-291-93 and P-427-95 for further details. . P-117-1997* On Saturday, 3/8/97, I recieved a call from an emergency room nurse at Southern Maine Med. regarding procedures for exposure to cyanide. Apparently they recieved a call advising them to prepare for a victim. I gave them what information I could from the response library. This unconfirmed report reportadly originated from a call to the Wal-Mart pharmacy and Poison Control. The county sheriff was interested because cyanide exposure is ofter associated with freebasing cocaine. Since this initial report I have heard no follow-up and no further DEP involvement is expected at this time. SGB 4/97 A-140-1998*Received a telephone call from Dennis Fullerton of Maritime Energy that he was at an underground tank removal in Warren and had found some problems. I responded to the site. The store was the Maritime Farms #11 store on Route 1. It is a convenience store and small bulk plant. The gasoline is in underground tanks and the heating oil is in above ground tanks. Originally one previously unknown underground tank was scheduled for removal. One of the tanks was a 2000 gallons tank of unknown content. When this tank was removed, part of the excavation sidewall fell into the excavation and exposed another tank. This other tank was approximately 1000 gallons in capacity. The two tanks were probably installed together, possibly in 1969. Both tanks were in good shape but one tank was missing a bung hole plug. When the tanks were removed, a lot of water flowed into the excavation. This water originated in the granular backfill of the new underground tanks. The capacity of the backfill drained into the excavation of the older tanks. In order to investigate the concentration of product in the soil, the water would have to be pumped out. However there was a sheen on the water so pumping it overboard without treatment was not an option. Two granular activated carbon drums were used to filter the water. The two drums were plumbed in series and the water was discharged to a storm drain. No sheen was seen on the discharge water. Testing by Mike White of Emery and Garrett Groundwater, Inc. showed that no soil was above the action level set for the site of 2500 ppm bag headspace. No soil had to be removed. A survey of some houses in the area showed that all were on public water. No further work is necessary at this site. See the appendix P site assessment for additional information. B-323-1996*D-TREE = I. A-175-1996* Approximately 105 gallons of aqua ammonia was spilled into a diked area at about 0535 on the morning of 4/19/96 (see Warren incident report, attached). Warren staff believe this is below the reportable quantity. The original report from Warren was that all spilled product was pumped to the secondary clarifier prior to DEP notification. No site visit was conducted by DEP personnel as a result of this incident. A-651-2000* DEP received an after-hours report that this oil spill had occurred several days previously. According to the oil company a "bleeder valve" had been left in the open position; all spilled product was reportedly collected. B-646-1998*B-646- 98 Orrington Thursday October 1, 1998 1455 I received a phone call from Chuck Martin (942-5501 Ext 240), of Webber Oil. Mr. Martin phoned to report finding heating oil contaminated soil in the basement at the Diane Briggs' apartments, at 13 Mill Creek Road, in Orrington. According to Chuck the tank may have been leaking slowly for some time. The soil was saturated to a depth of 18 inches. He said the owner is Diane Briggs (862-3540 w). I phoned Mrs. Briggs. She said that the contaminated soil was dug out and the area was filled with brick and stones. She indicated that soil was excavated down to a depth of 6 inches. The well is located about 35 feet from the contaminated soil, and is 200 feet in depth. When I asked If she could meet me at the scene she said she did not want any DEP involvement. She indicated that her husband's dealings with the DEP left a very bad taste for him and caused him to lose his retirement. I indicated that some DEP involvement may help prevent a drinking water well contamination. She was not interested. Case closed. P-528-1999* On Wed. 10/6/99, I met Maine DEP's Ted Scharf, and CTI's Elwin Scott & Mike Simard, of Simard & Sons, Inc., onsite for a repair of the Industrial Roofing's 3000 gallon, dbl-wall diesel UST. That day I granted them a waiver to have the tank removed. Once removed a split in the plastic coating on the bottom was repaired by a Total Containment factory technician, and the tank reinstalled by Simard & Sons Inc. There are two Total Containment motor fuel UST's, approx. ten years old. The split in the outer containment was first indicated by water entering the interstitial space (see 7/15/99 letter). Groundwater was high and had to be de-watered across the parking lot. I noted no evidence of petro. contamination in the tank area during my visit. We did note some diesel contamination under the pump island. The vent line for the gasoline UST was below the roof line. Scott stated he would advise Industrial Roofing it needed to be raised to requirements. I understand the tank was re-warranted. No UST removal assessment was required in this case. The area is urban commercial and residential, on city water and sewer. See the attached, and UST registration file #3276 for further details. No further Resp. Div. actions are expected at this time. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-583-2000*Ron Walsh of Kelloch Fuel in Rockland reported that a customer, Mr. Nelson Bellissimo on Old County Rd. had a leaking 275 gallon fuel tank in his basement. The leak was caused by a pin hole drip which had stained the concrete floor. Kelloch Fuel was responding to pump off the remaining fuel, and replace the tank. I arrived at 1130 hrs. to investigate. The concrete floor was stained beneath the area where the old tank was located. Based on the stain size, I estimate approx. 5 gallons had left the tank. A new tank was being installed. There was a sump in the basement which did not have oil in it, however, a sorbent pad was in place to capture any residual. The floor was spread with kitty litter and an odor killing powder provided by Kelloch. I checked the discharge pipe from the sump in the back yard and found no evidence of oil or water. The residence is served by public water and sewer. No further action is required by DEP. A-215-2000*Received a call from Houle's Plumbing and Heating that they had found an oil spill at a customer's house. I responded to the house of Mildred Vaughn. She had suffered a leak in the copper line to the tank. Approximately 50 gallons had spilled and covered about 1/3 of the basement. The basement had a good concrete floor with no cracks in it. Houle's had spread speedy dry while replacing the fuel line. The speedy dry was swept up and I put more down. A few days later with some odors still being a problem I hired a contractor to remove and replace a wall in the basement that had been impacted by the oil. That work and the last application of speedy dry cured the odor problem. No further work is necessary on this site. A-140-2001* DEP received a report that oil was spilled at this residential AST following ice/snow damage to the filter. Oil had flowed under the crawl space, where most was collected using sorbents. A fan was installed to control vapors in the residence. The area is residential and is served by a municipal water supply. A-468-1998* DEP received a report that contaminated soil and water was encountered during this UST removal. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property. Other DEP staff (Hynson, Scharf) were already involved due to installation anomalies. The tank outer wall appeared sound, although minor contamination was evident in the excavation. This is not a sensitive geologic area, and so no remediation was considered necessary. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-126-1999* DEP received a report that a container of unknown liquid was on the gravel road shoulder off route 215 in Newcastle. Jon Andrews (DEP) investigated and found a half-full gallon container of windshield washer/anti-freeze. A small amount had spilled but is not likely to cause any problems in this location. B-582-1997*On 10/13/97, 1742 hours Mark Quellette reported an AST anomaly at the residence of Don Tuck on Levenseller Road in East Holden. Their 275 gallon AST had been housed in a small shed that was a separate building located about six feet from the house. The AST developed a small corrosion hole, hence a slow leak. Over a long period they lost about 100 gallons of fuel. However, very little of it got onto the ground. A fair amount of it soaked into the shed's wooden floor and another good sized portion must have evaporated, which left only a few gallons to fall to the ground. We scooped up about a yard and a half of soil that was under the shed. The Tuck's had dismantled the shed and had planned to burn it along with their brush pile. The soil, which probably contained a couple of gallons, was spread thin on site. During the dig we encountered live angle worms at a depth of 3-4 inches. A-69-2000* Susan of C.N. Brown's Farmington office called this office to report an oil spill at the home of Ramone Perez. The oil delivery person overfilled the tank and oil squirted out onto the log siding of Mr. Perez's home. C.N. Brown was going to attempt cleanup of the oil. No site visit and no further action will be required. P-235-1998*On 5/29/98 I received a call through the Maine State Police from the South Portland Fire Department reporting an overfill of a tank truck at the loading rack for Star Enterprise. The spill was cleaned up with sorbent pads. No further action required. ____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II JULY 31, 1998 B-73-1997*On February 12, 1997 at 1340 were received a call from Fred Leigh of Bangor Hydro reporting a one gallon leak of hydraulic oil from a bucket truck. A leaking hydraulic line caused the spill which occurred on the Tannery Loop Rd. in Amherst. Workers recovered the oil with sorbents. No state waters were threatened. A-690-1999* DEP received a report that a small quantity of oil was spilled at this residence due to a leak at the filter. Contaminated soil was removed for disposal. I-24-1998*On 2-16-98, Daigle Oil Co. called this office to report that one of their customers had a leak from their 275 gallon tank. The customer, Brian Williams, had called for the repair of a broken brass fitting on the end of the tank. Apparently the weight of snow around the tank which had settled caused the fitting to crack. This was evident when I met with them there later that day. Dickison London was hired to remediate, but could only remove about 5 yards of soil because of the location of the house. They were placed on QM because the well is located about 100 feet from the tank. B-646-1999*On 10/13/99, 1505 hours Fred Leigh of BHE reported a 130 gallon dielectric oil release from a failed regulator at the Stud Mill substation . Stud mill personal had discovered the release and they responded by deploying sorbent boom and sawdust. Because the soil was fairly tight and the release was cataclysmic, there was pooled product, which was immediately immobilized by the application of the sorbents . BHE started excavating the contaminated soil the following morning. They removed by hand a total of 24 yd3 of soil that contained on an average of five gallons per cubic yard. They were down four feet in places and well- consolidated clay was encountered at this depth. They were unable to recover contamination that had gotten under the cement slabs that supported the heavy electrical equipment, but because of the clay and the minimal recharging under the slabs I doubt that the remainder will damage the aquifer. The closest well, which services the stud mill, is a quarter of a mile away from the spill. P-469-2001*The initial complaint stated an old small leak from the AST. Upon assessing the situation, I believed there to be a significant release from the AST, migrating possibly beneath the slab, trailer, and deck. The surficial staining was dark and the odor strong. The decision was to hire a contractor to assist in the remediation of the spill. The initial assessment appeared to have been wrong, and the release minor, and migration of the oil limited to just beyond the slab. No staining was noted below six inches in depth and contamination did not go beneath the trailer. The small excavation was filled and regraded. Soils were disposed of at CRS in Scarborough. Ms. Ledoux is a Dead River customer so a call was placed to Dead River to reestablish service and upgrade the system after the clean up was completed. No additional calls have been received in regards to the clean up, therefore, no additional work is planned at this time. P-941-1999*No DEP response. Thibeault reported spill indicating that they failed to properly tighten a newly installed fuel filter on residential heating oil tank. DEP advised that the spill is cleaned up and that a portion of the product migrated to a dry sump. Thibeault removed approximately a five gallon bucket of oil impacted sand from the sump. Phone contact with the home owner, Mr. Hall, indicated no additional concerns and that Thibeault clean up the spill to his satisfaction. No further Response action requested or required. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 27Jan00. 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. B-419-1998*A dump truck belonging to a contractor working for S. D. Warren rolled over on CMP land, spilling an estimated 15 gallons of diesel and 10 gallons of motor oil. Because the contractor had attended spill response training I put on for S. D. Warren in 1996, the spill was contained, reported and cleaned up in short order. See the attached report from Sharon Fortin. P-198-1997*Five (5) - 5 gallon containers containing what appeared to be fiberglass resin were improperly disposed of in a dumpster at Abatement Professionals. There were no markings or labels that might implicate a possible responsible party, although a similar incident occurred on May 27, 1997, with a possible source. For further details see P-186-97. No further action required. P-561-1998*On the afternoon of Nov. 10.1998 I received a call from Mark Cyr. Mr. Cyr had called to inform me of an oil spill at his apt. building at 7 Montreal Street in Sanford. One of the tenants had accidently broke off the firematic valve on the tank. An estimate of 15 gallons of oil was spilled. Mapes Oil Com. was called immediately to repair the tank and clean up the spill. They cleaned it up with sorbents and speedy dry. No further action. A-605-2000*UST and associated piping removed from site. No evidence of loss of product. No further response action anticipated. A-469-1996*Received a report of a spill from Scott Reed of Boise Cascade. He reported that an oil line broke on a paper machine and that approximately 50 gallons of lube oil went to the basement and an unknown amount of that went to the sewer. See attached report from Boise Cascade for additional details. No response was required, no further work is necessary on this incident. 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. P-122-1999*Mr. Hooper contacted the department regarding oil in his sump hole. Upon further investigation, it was determined that the sump pump itself was the source of the oil. I left a few sorbent pads with Mr. Hooper to collect the oil. None of the oil appeared to have been pumped outside. No further action required. P-67-2001*Downeast reported that a bleeder valve had been left open and about half a gallon of product leaked out before a worker smelled it and called them. There was poly layed out under the tank and all of the product was contained there. No further Response action is necessary at this time. ______________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I March 8, 2001 B-638-1997*On several occasions before 11/4/97 Charles Dickey had left a message on my voice mail requesting that I call him. The message further indicated that he had a UST question. On each occasion I tried to return the call. On 11/4/97 we made contact and it turned out that he wanted to abandoned his UST in place because it was up against his field stone foundation. I arranged to meet at his place that afternoon and his description of the situation was accurate so I wrote an in place permit. The UST was not registered so I gave him a registration form. We also discussed the 30 day notification and possible waiver of that. I indicated that I should be there when the abandonment takes place so that the paper work will go smoothly. I gave him my card. The fact that a neighbor of his was abandoning his UST in place prompted Charles to give us a call. P-218-1998*On 05/21/98 Steve Flannery received a call from John Gordon reporting contamination at a tank removal for which Steve had granted a waiver for. I responded to the site for Steve. Upon arrival, I observed that there was moderate contamination in the tank fill of the tank excavation. Contamination was likely the result of loose fittings on piping as well as tank overfills. Contamination levels did not exceed clean-up standards for a baseline-1 site and therefore no clean-up was conducted. No further action required. _____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M . BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II JUNE 2, 1998 P-17-1999*On January 13, 1999 I was contacted by Joe Levassuer. Mr. Levasseur stated that Dead River had been to his home earlier to fill his oil tank, and had overfilled the tank. I spoke with Dead River, they were enroute to the site to clean up the spill. Speaking with Dead River and the homeowner after the clean up I learned that approximately two to four gallons of oil had spilled, some to the cellar of the home, but most outside (through the vent line) to the driveway. Dead River had cleaned this all with sorbents, they scraped up some impacted soil from the cellar, and they removed about two gallons of oil from the tank, to be sure it was not overpressurized. I spoke with the homeowners, they were satisfied with the clean up. No further action anticipated. . I-64-1996*This UST site was very interesting, after operating for over 40 years, the only contamination was around one fill pipe. All contamination ws removed. Case Closed B-517-1997*On September 18, 1997 at 1750 I received a call via the 800 number from Bangor Hydro reporting a three to four gallon spill of hydraulic oil. The spill occurred at 1715 and a broken hose on a boom truck caused the spill which occurred on the gravel driveway of Mr. Michael Tenan of Lakeview Plantation. Workers excavated one drum of contaminated soil which was hauled to the Hydro's garage for final disposal by a hazardous waste dealer. No waters were threatened. P-685-1998*23 July 98, responded to incident location. No discharge occurred. Stood on stand-by until situation was cleared. See attached MEMA report. No further response action. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (22Jan99) A-221-2000*A trivial amount of gasline was lost in an automobile accident. No wells are near. It was treated in place. A-519-1997*This spill happened when the delivery arm broke off the loading rack while loading a truck. The ground was frozen at the time so much of the product was quickly cleaned with sorbents. The following day Maritime hired an excavator to remove contaminated soil. No further action is anticipated. A-707-1998* DEP received a report that a vehicle accident/fire may have resulted in a spill of gasoline. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the site. The fire was reportedly intense, and no gasoline was evident at the scene. The nearest well is several hundred feet away and is probably not at risk from this event. P-248-2000*On 4/30/00 I received a call through the Maine State Police from Downeast Energy reporting a fuel oil spill at a client's residence in Saco. The spill occurred when a copper fuel line leaked. No estimate of spillage was available, however, the spill was not believed to be large. I responded to the site on 5/1. Nobody was home at the time and I was unable to observe the spill. I spoke with the homeowner on 5/2 and was able to inspect the site on the same day. I observed a small area of staining on the dirt floor of the basement, and a small amount of free oil in the sump. There were sorbent pads in the sump that Downeast had left, and the pump was unplugged. It did not appear as though any oil had been pumped out the sump pump. I made arrangements with Clean Harbors to vactor the contaminated soil from the basement on 5/8. Work was completed the same day. 2.93 tons of contaminated soil was vactored from the basement and taken to Commercial Recycling. The excavation was backfilled on 5/8. No further action required. _____________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II JUNE 16, 2000 P-393-1999*On 06/18/99 I received an anonymous call that there was carpet cleaning waste being dumped into a ravine on Hall Street in Portland. I went out and looked around. I saw no evidence of a prohibited discharge. I took several photos of the ravine. As I was driving away a Carpet Services van pulled onto the street. I am going to refer this to the Water Bureau and the Hazardous Waste Enforcement Unit. No Response action is necessary at this time. _____________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I June 18, 1999 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-450-2001*Christopher Rich drove his truck off Vista Road and into a brook that is a tributary to Highland Lake. Some gasoline, transmission fluid, and engine oil leaked out of the vehicle. The brook was boomed and the leaks were cleaned up with sorbents. No further Response action is needed at this time. P-488-2001*See attached CMP report. A-223-1996*The nozzle fell out of a car while the owner was washing their windows. About 5 gallons was lost. The product was picked up using pads and floor dry. I-22-1999*An anonymous complainant reported oil vapors in John's Restaurant in Van Buren. When I arrived in Van Buren at the restaurant, I found the problem to be next door at Affordable Golf. The spill had most likely occurred during the night of 2/28/99 and was repaired by the oil burner technician on 3/1/99. The owner & the burner man had completed the majority of the clean up when I arrived. Owner was advised to contact the State Fire Marshal's Office and request a claim form. The odor complaint was made as a result of the spill debris in the back of owners pick-up. Case closed. A-293-2001* DEP received a report that oil had spilled to the concrete floor of this prison generator room when a shut-off valve failed; the "day" tank overfilled. The Augusta Fire Department responded initially by placing sorbent pads, but withdrew upon realizing that their staff did not meet the Federal (CFR 1910.120) training requirements to perform "response" work. DEP and a contractor collected pads; the floor was cleaned with no oil escaping to the environment. B-723-1997*12/17/97 1048 I received a call from a Mr. Alex King, of Bangor Hydro Electric Company. Mr. King is the system operator for Hancock County. He phoned to report a hydraulic oil spill from a Bangor Hydro Electric bucket truck that burst a hydraulic hose, on the Silsby Road in Aurora. About 3 gallons of the oil spilled on to the roadway near Pole 24 REA Cedar PI. The spill area of 10 to 12 feet was cleaned up using sorbent pads and speedi dri. The debris was drummed up and amounted to 1/2 of a 55 gallon drum. This material was disposed of at Sawyer Environmental in Hampden. See attachements. I-57-1999*MAINE STATE POLICE REPORTED A TRACTOR TRAILER UNIT LEAKING DIESEL FUEL. TRUCK WAS STOPPED ON ROUTE 1 ABOUT 200 YARDS SOUTH OF WESTFIELD FOUR CORNERS. WHEN I ARRIVED, THE LEAK HAD BEEN SUCCESSFULLY MITIGATED BY A PASSER BY, MIKE PELLETIER, WHO RIGGED A 12 VOLT VACUUM CLEANER OFF THE TOP OF THE LEAKING SADDLE TANK. SPILL WAS CAUSED BY ROAD DEBRIS THAT HIT THE TANK. THE CROSSOVER VALVE WAS SHUT OFF AND THE REMAINING FUEL WAS REMOVED USING DEP EQUIPMENT. DOT SPREAD SAND ON THE SPILL AND RECOVERED THE SAND AND SOIL CONTAMINATED ON THE SHOULDER THE NEXT DAY. THIS MATERIAL WAS PLACED INTO A RECLAIM PILE TO BE MADE INTO HOT TOP LATER THIS SUMMER. CASE CLOSED B-208-1997*On 5/8/97, 0945 hours John Marshall (Assistant Fire Chief-Ellsworth Fire Dept) reported a diesel spill that had taken place the previous day at Ellsworth Falls Food Market. A customer, Richard J. Anderson of N.J. set the nozzle to fill his vehicle's tank and it overfilled. It was raining so the spilled product spread out. There was a catch basin nearby that the fire department was able to protect. They deployed and recovered about 18 pads. Half of them were totally saturated. They picked up an estimated 4 gallons of product. The rest was spread over such an area that it probably evaporated within a few days. P-195-2000*The float was pulled ashore and the section in the water was boomed. No free product was recoverable as it was a sheen. The float consisted of four barrels and was emitting a minor sheen. The owner was not contacted as they are out of state and seasonal. Notice was left but no additional information has been received, therefore no further action is warranted. P-229-2001*On 3/29/01 I received a call from Julie at the Westbrook Fire Dept. reporting a 20 gallon spill of hydraulic fluid. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I observed a broken hydraulic hose on a Westbrook Public Works street sweeper. Public works crews were in the process of cleaning up the spill with speedy dry. They asked what to do with the debris when they were finished and I instructed them to call Regional Waste Systems and make arrangements to take the waste there. No further action required. ________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II MARCH 30, 2001 P-774-2000*I was contacted by Downeast reporting that one of their customers had a leaking AST. I arrived to find that about 150-170 gallons had spilled from a corrosion hole in the tank. The ground was frozen so a lot of the oil was recovered with sorbents. I then hired Fleet to vactor approximately 2.7 tons of contaminated soil. No further Response action is needed at this time. A-277-1999*No site visit made. See attached for additional details. No further action is anticipated. A-737-2001*A mail contractor truck discharged most of the cooling system antifreeze on the pavement at the Waterville post office during the early morning hours of November 21. The spill was not discovered or reported by the Postal Service until the morning of November 22 at which time much of the antifreeze reportedly had evaporated. The Waterville Fire Department responded to the scene and recommended diluting the remaining product and washing the material into the storm drain. The Waterville Sanitary district was telephoned by DEP personnel only to discover the storm drain at the post office was not connected to the waste water treatment plant. Large puddles of antifreeze were solidified by the Postal Service with Speedi-Dri and swept up. The loading dock area was then washed with clean water. See attached NRC incident report. B-223-1998*On April 6, 1998, at 1600 we received a call from Theresa Thurlow, Enfield Town Manager, reporting an oil spill from a camp on Cold Stream Pond. Mr. Al Therriault, who lives on the Davis Road which runs along the pond's shore, spotted the oil and with the help of friends tracted it back to an outside kerosene tank at the camp of Mary Jo King of Old Town. I arrived on site about 1700 and found that collapsing ice had cracked the nipple connecting the tank to the filter. The oil had flowed into a seasonal brook that emptied into the lake. The spill likely occurred at least two or three weeks before Ms. Thurlow reported it to us. The only sign of the oil was in a couple of eddys along the narrow stretch of open water along the shore. Even the open water was occasionally blocked by ice. I installed sorbent booms in a couple of spots where some kerosene collected in back eddies and small coves. I also installed sorbent boom and containment boom around the brook's outfall into the pond. After visiting the site the next day and changing some sorbents, I contacted Ms. King and informed her of the spill. She met me at the site on April 9 and I showed her the problem. She decided to switch to electric heat since they don't visit the camp in winter and use very little kerosene. I changed some sorbents and planned to leave them in place until a period of steady rain and ice out. I visited the site April 21, which was just after a two day rain and ice out, found no sign of oil and removed the remaining sorbents. P-777-1996*On 12/13/98 the Department received a call that approx. 250 gal. of #1 fuel oil had leaked from a outdoor AST at the Dingley residence in Auburn. I arrived and observed that the leak had been caused by a corrosion induced hole in the bottom of tank. The tank was contained inside a concrete dike, however the drain for the dike had been left open. The product had leaked down the foundation footing and into the two separate cellar holes. The house was located on concrete footing except for two sections: one 8ft. by 8ft. cellar where an old furnace had been housed, and an approx. 12ft. by 12ft. cellar under the opposite end of the house where the electrical panel was housed. The smaller of the basements was located directly adjacent to the spill and had no sump pump and contained 4 ft. of water with 1/2" product layer on top. The larger basement did contain a sump pump, however it was set to allow 2-3" of water to build up on the floor and it also had a small layer of product. Seacoast Ocean Services (SOS) was called and both cellars were pumped out, sump pumps were installed and connected to oil water separators & carbon drums. A vapor suppression fan was also installed. After several problems with this system's inability to keep up with the ground water flow, the smaller basement (which was the only one which continued to contain oil) was pump out by SOS, the old furnace was removed, and the cellar was filled with crushed stone and capped it with concrete. The sump hole was raised to the top of the concrete for future use, if needed. Perforated pipe was also installed and capped off for use if vapors posed a threat in the future. As vapors do not pose a problem at this time and no trace of oil is entering the basement, no further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary. ___________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 1 Div. of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management P-483-1989* REPORT SUMMARY & UPDATE OF DEC. 2004 by SGB 5/8/89, case of installation of new buried UST facility by D & W Construction without presence of a Maine Certified UST Installer onsite. Referred to UST Enforcement and BUSTI. CTI Daniel Webster gave up Maine CTI license. See attached letters, testimony and report narrative for further information. . B-119-2000* This office received a call at 1615 on 3/1/00 from Bill at the Maine Independence Station in Veazie reporting an oil spill. He stated that they were in the process of flushing their turbines, in preparation to start up, when an estimated 75 gallons of turbine oil backed up in the system and went out through the vent line. All of the oil was contained on frozen ground in crushed stone. There were no drains or State waters involved. Plans were to dig a sump to collect as much of the oil as possible and then excavate whatever remains. The spill was discovered at 1500 today. CONCLUSION: Thirty-eight cubic yards (56.6 tons) of material were later excavated and taken to Sawyer's Environmental in Hampden for disposal. REC: File report. P-666-2000*Due to a misunderstanding between the homeowner and Dead River, a 275 gallon #2 AST was filled twice. Service Plus the second company called to fill the tank, was asked to deliver 100 gallons, however once the Service Plus driver began to pump the oil it was clear that the tank was full and a small amount of oil spilled out of the vent (appr. 2 gallons). Service Plus cleaned up the spill by removing the impacted stones beneath the tank. The town of Kennebunk replaced the stone. No further action. P-127-1997*Surface water had infiltrated the well due to heavy rains and frozen ground causing the production of hydrogen sulfide through anaerobic, biological activity. Ms. Lessard stated that they had not experienced the odor before and thought it to be a sudden release of oil. I suggested that they chlorinate their well to eliminate the presence of bacteria. I informed her to call me if chlorination was not successful. No further action required. P-606-2000* On Monday 10/9/00, I met onsite w/ CTI #316, Mike Simard and crew of Simard & Sons; Kurt Soderberg, and a rep. from Summit Env. performing the CMR 691 UST removal assessment. The UST facility being abandoned-by-removal was a 10,000 gal. Stp-3 tank holding diesel for the company trucks. The area is commercial & industrial, on city water & sewer. I was told that the tank had not given a successful CP reading for a while so was being replaced along with a leak-detection upgrade (see maps for location). The tank (T-1) was registered as installed in 1986, by CTI #11 of A L Doggett Co. It was removed on 10/9/00, with the coating in good shape except that the anodes were spent. The CP test wire was still taped to the tank top which may have made it more difficult to test well (see photo). CHES pumped out remaining liquid before the removal. The buried product and vent piping were bare steel that was field-covered with a white coating during the 1986 installation. The coating was peeling off and the piping was very rusty. Fill was a clean sand. Surrounding soils were silty-clay, keeping gw high as evidenced by the neighboring marsh. Despite having three tie-down straps the tank floated up after product and top fill was removed (this was unusual for a steel tank even in high gw). I noted no sheen, fuel odor, or other evidence of a prohibited discharge. See attachments and DEP UST Reg. #12280 for further information. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM P-245-1999*On 04/13/99 I received notification from Irving Oil that they had overfilled an underground storage tank at the Windham Fire Station in Windham. The overfill caused a 5 - 10 gallon spill of fuel oil. The Windham Fire Department used sorbent pads to clean up the spill and Irving Oil excavated 1 ton of contaminated soil from the area. No further action required. ____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II MAY 10, 1999 B-154-1996*An anonymous complaint called to report gasoline spillage from a car crushing operation at Phinney's Garage on Route 186 in Gouldsboro. It was stated that gasoline was running off from operation and finding its way to a small brook which eventually led to the bay. A strong odor of gasoline was also reported to be evident. No other information was given. We arrived on site shortly after the complaint was filed to observe that the crusher was still in operation. Inspection of both the brook and the bay shown no evidence of gasoline. We then met Jim Phinney, owner of the yard, to observe the crushing activities. Only a small amount of oil was found around the crusher. Mr. Phinney told us that he does his best to drain off the fluids of each vehicle; i.e. gasoline, engine oil, and antifreze. He also made us aware that neighbors disliked the aesthetics of this operation and could easily see the nature of the complaint. During the conversation we observed two vehicles being crushed. Each of them did not have a fuel tank. Before leaving we informed Mr. Phinney to keep any spillage to a minimum. It may be noted that "Hayes" from Chelsea, ME owned and operated the crushing equipment. 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. B-552-1998*On 8/20/98 at 1430 we received a call from James Porter, the Calais Code Enforcement Officer, reporting a waste oil spill at Ramsdell Auto Repair at 41 Downes St. He said that about one hundred gallons of waste oil spilled out an open bung in an outside 275 gallon tank. The owner of the business, Walter Ramsdell, declared bankruptcy in 1995 and the city of Calais lists Fleet Properties, a division of Fleet Bank, as the property owner. I met Mr. Porter at the site on August 21 and found that most of the oil stayed around the tank but some flowed across the property to the edge of a neighbor's yard. The area is on town water so well contamination is not a problem. I initially hired Earle Construction for the excavation but they had to cancel since they couldn't pull away from their current job site. Consequently, I hired E.G. Hold for the digging which occurred on September 9. We removed ten yards of soil and pumped out seventy-five gallons of oil from the tank. P-483-2000* On Fri. 8/4/00, I visited this auto towing & storage business in response to an 8/2/00, anonymous complaint regarding leaking, spilling and/or dumping of automotive fluids to the ground over years. The site is in a dense commercial area of Auburn at the junction of Turner St. and Center St. (see site maps), and is on city water and sewer. On the N side is a new Irving gas station. To the E is the Androscoggin River. On the S is another former gas station. This site has the islands remaining from gasoline UST's removed in the 1980's. The building is occupied by Specialty Subaru auto sales, and by Stan Pelletier's Towing, who owns the property. In the rear is a fenced-in gravel lot holding over 30 vehicles. Outside are stored approx. 30 more vehicles (see photos). Inside the fenced-area I noted various brown stains on the soil that appeared to be old diesel and motor oil spillage and leaks. I found no records these spills were properly reported. Spillage may be from dumping or leaks from damaged/crashed cars. I noted no active leaks though could not get into the fenced area to check further that day. There is no known drinking water wells nearby though there is a possible threat to the river and city drains. I did talk to Mr. Pelletier that day and followed my visit up with a 9/14/00, letter (see attached). As of 10/20/00 I have not heard anything back regarding my visit and the 9/14/00, letter. This report will be forwarded for further action. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-39-2000*No site visit made. Steve reported that the cold caused a hose to rupture on the hydraulic ram. The contents of the ram ran onto snow and ice. Because it was extremely cold this was easily collected with a bucket loader. The remainder was cleaned with wood chips. No further action is anticipated. P-151-1997* On 3/18/97 I was notified by Woodard & Curran Env. Eng. of a problem with gaso. contaminated water and vapors entering the basement of the People's Heritage Bank at the intersection of Old Mill Rd. & Main St. (Rt. 109) in Sanford. Though the problem appears to likely be an abandoned Top Gas/North Phoinix gas station, south of the bank, I felt compeled to investigate this Irving facility as well in order to rule out all potential sources. This Irving site (Reg. #19556) had been operating for only two weeks at the time of my visit. It is formerly the location of an auto dealership known as Star Mountain Motors (UST Reg. #1301), and Tri-Sun Pontiac, Cadilac, Nissan. In Nov. 1989 two 5000 gal. fuel oil UST's and a 500 gal. waste oil UST was removed as outlined in Brad Hahn's DEP spill report P-805-89. About 30 yards of waste oil contaminated soil was excavated hauled offsite for disposal on 3/21/90 as described in spill report P-863-89, not mentioned in the Rust Env. assessment of April, 1996. It is possible that residual contam. is the source of the 54 and 29 ppm PID readings mentioned in Rust's assessment. Neither of Hahn's 1989 spill reports mention evidence of gasoline discharges. Based on Hahn's observations and material supplied by Irving, there appears to have been a minor petroleum release at the site though the site is now clean to Dept. satisfaction and no further clean-up is anticipated at this time. Drainage from the site appears to be intercepted by a drain running down Old Mill Rd. and is unlikely able to impact bank as well. See the attachements for further details. I thank Mr. Gerry Lemire and Irving Oil for their assistance and getting a copy of Irving's assessment to DEP promptly. SGB 4/97 P-205-1998*On May 14, 1998 I responded to a call of an oil sheen on the Presumscot River above the S.D. Warren dam in Westbrook. When I arrived on site I traced the sheen to a small pool of oil that had come out of a drain of an old mill. The owner of one of the mills business immediatley recognized the oil as mineral that he uses in manufacturing of wood salad bowl oil. I boomed off the oil and the owner cleaned up the small pool. The oil is not hazardous nor petroleum based and presents no hazard to the environment. No further action anticipated. P-869-2000*1 Feb 2001 received report of free phase product (fuel oil) on floor in basement. Notified Prtld. Fire Dept. and responded to spill location. Entered 1st floor apt. and met w. V. Tartt and Lt. Devoe of PFD. I observed the olfactory presence of fuel oil. Entered basement and observed strong olfactory fuel oil odors and visually observed a leaking 275-gallon above ground storage tank. The tank had a 'magnet patch' applied on the bottom, indicating a corrosion hole. There were several open containers filled with free phase product laying about and speedy dry had been deployed on the floor. Tartt advised that the leak occurred in mid DEC of 2000 and that the landlord (Dieckmann) had been notified and re-notified again on 1 JAN 2001. No action taken. Tartt described physical symptoms common to fuel oil that her and her children were experiencing (headaches, nau., tired, etc.). Devoe contacted MED CU, who arrived and interviewed Tartt. Lou Fournier, facility contractor (774-4328), arrived and advised that the oil company filled the wrong tank. I noted that the fill pipe was not tagged out or taken out of service. The corroded tank posed a significant threat of catastrophic failure, especially during the pressures exerted on the tank when being filled. I requested that the tank be off loaded and immediately taken out of service or that I would take action to do so. Fournier agreed and took the necessary actions including cleaning up the speedy dry and open containers. On or about the week of 19 FEB 2001 I inspected the site and observed the work had been completed. The odor had been reduced and still noticable. Referred to DEP Oil Enforcement Unit. No further Response action warranted. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 7 MAR 2001. B-16-2001* On January 15, 2001 at 0400 we received a call from the Orono State Police barracks reporting a two to three gallon spill of diesel fuel from a truck accident. The accident occurred at the intersection of routes 1 and 6 in Topsfield. A Guptil's Logging truck went off the road and into a ditch. A couple gallons of diesel leaked out a saddle tank fill cap. No waters or wells were threatened. B-479-1997*9/2/97 0900 The State Police in Orono called to report an accident involving a propane home delivery truck on the Copeland Hill Road in Holden. The driver had apparently wandered onto the soft shoulder overturning the truck. Investigation shown that the nearly full propane tank suffered only a few scratchers from the pavement. No propane was released. The truck was subsequently righted without incident. P-525-1996* On 8/21/96 S. Brezinski investigated a vehicle accident involving a commercial truck, a highway overpass and herring. I understand a small amount of hydraulic oil discharged that was lost among the gross amount of fish debri. The fish waste was picked up and the road sanded because of the slick fish debri. No further action is anticipated and no sensitive receptors are threatened by the hydraulic oil. The fish debri is not within Response Div. jurisdiction. P-54-2000* On Tues. 1/25/00, DEP was notified by the Cumberland Public Works (CPW) Director, Adam Ogden, about water coming into the interstitial space of his 10,000 gal., dbl-wall Stp-3 tank for gasoline (T-6). Water had been pumped out on 1/25 but returned. We initially suspected a fitting on top. The tank was installed by A L Doggett Co. in 8/89. An 8000 gal. dsl UST was installed next to it in 1/95. A 2000 gal. #2 oil UST was removed in 1999. The CPW area is rural residential on city water & sewer. Across Drowne Rd. is a school. SW is an old town landfill. Les Wilson & Sons checked the tank during the summer and noted that the CP failed @ a reading of 84 (85 is passing). We suspected at the time that the leak may be lower on the tank as the fittings/tank top was below the groundwater table. Over the spring & summer the UST was taken out-of-service and a removal planned with Les Wilson & Sons. The active 8000 gal. diesel UST exhibited no reported problems. On Tues. 10/24/00, I met onsite with Adam Ogden, DEP's Scharf & Witkop, CTI#365 Chris Wilson w/ crew, and Alan Lyscars of Field Services Inc. performing the required CMR 691 UST removal assessment. The fill appeared to be a clean sand and the surrounding soil was a silty clay. Gw was about 4.5' bg and about 1.5' below the tank top. There was no odor of a prohibited discharge, sheen or free product layer on the gw. The Drummon tank's three tank anodes were spent (used up). The risers and flex's were coated white, which was coming off. One flex was kinked. There were wires coming off the piping though we spotted no anodes attached to them. The tank was held down by three cables. The tank coating was scared by about a dozen rusty holidays from the cables or damage during installation. This gaso. UST is to be replaced by a smaller AST. No further Resp. is actions are expected at this time. The diesel may be removed in the near future to build a new school on this site. See attachments. SGB A-629-2000* DEP received a report that 50,000 lbs of 50% NaOH solution (pH 14) had been lost to the plant sewer when a valve was left open during a transfer (see Mead incident report). Mead claims that the process sewer can adequately neutralize this material before discharge to the Androscoggin River; David Dodge (DEP, Water Quality) was notified of the incident. B-135-1997*Wayne Pelkey of Pelkey's Burner Service called to report a spill of #2 fuel oil spill at the Phillis Bates residence in the Holiday Park II off of Essex Street. Wayne felt that at least 200 gallons leaked from the feed line on the outside tank. Apparently the tank had settled in the frost bending the line and disrupting the nipple. Investigation shown that approximately 200 gallons spilled onto the frozen ground spreading over a significant area. Oil vapors were the primary problem at this particular spill both beneath Phillis's trailer and around surrounding trailers. The area was temporarily covered with poly until Clean Harbors could arrive at the site. Eight cube containers of #2 contaminated soil and sorbents were generated in the clean up and disposed of at Sawyer Environmental in Hampden. The area is considered "non sensitive" being served by a public water supply. A large fume problem was the only issue resolved in this case. AST fund coverage is pending. P-480-1998*On 10/11/98 I received a call through the Maine State Police from the Portland Fire Deparment reporting oil in a flooded basement in Portland. At their request, I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I met with a maintenance worker who showed me where an oil tank in the basement had broken off a fuel line when the tank floated in the flooded basement. Fortunately, he was there when the spill happened and was able to limit the spill to approximtely 2 gallons. The spill had spread out over the surface of the water and was not recoverable. I told the maintenance worker to continue to pump out the basement and to use some "Simple Green" to assist in cleaning any residual oil from oily surfaces in the basement. No further action required. ____________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II OCTOBER 14, 1998 P-61-1997*On 1/28/97 I received a call through the Maine State Police from Jeff Bryant reporting a small fuel oil spill at his residence. Downeast Energy was on site and had advised him to report the spill. Downeast fixed the leaking tank and cleaned up the spill. No further action required. __________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II P-192-2000*Kittery Fire Dep't boomed the vessel and sought recovery costs for materials used. USCG issued citation for several deficiencies. Bilge material from the alley shaft was collected and pumped to drums on the dock and disposal was arranged with the fish Co-op. A "Captain to Port" order was also issued pending corrective actions to the vessel. DEP expended no funds. The town and Coast Guard initiated enforcement actions, therefore no further action by DEP is warranted. P-240-1999*On April 13, 1999 A pick up truck hit a phone pole on route 25. The fuel tank on the truck was ruptured spilling 10-15 gallons of gas. The Limington Fire Dept. recovered approximately 5 gallons of gas in a bucket as it spilled from the truck. The rest of the spilled gasoline we recovered by digging out the impacted soil. No further action. B-32-2000*On 1/20/00, 1400 hours Alex Horth of General Alum & Chemical Corporation reported a release of Alum solution from a valve on their low iron alum tank. The solution is 49% solids and it solidified when it landed on the cold ground. In order to stop the release by removing ten thousand gallons of the solution. The fifty gallons that hit the ground was scraped up, treated and returned to the process. The EPA RQ for this chemical is 5000 # of dry chemical. The 50 G of 49% solution is way under that amount. A-259-1998*No site visit made. The tank was being emptied after the fire. A small amount spilled and was quickly cleaned. No further action is anticipated. B-250-1996*Mr. McCahill called the 800 number to report a release of less than one pound of chlorine at the Lincoln Pulp and Paper. There were no reported injuries from this release. For a more detailed report see the attached Haz Mat Spill Report by Louis Derose of LP&P. P-493-1996*The site was determined to be a baseline 1 using the DEP "Hydrocarbon Spill Decision Tree" due to its location, in a industrial area, and the fact that the building had no basement. No soil was removed, because no new tanks were being install and no saturated soils encountered. For further details on tank removal see site assessment "UST Site Assessment, Former Hillview Variety, RT. 112, Saco, ME, by Acadia Environmental Technology, dated September 18, 1996". No further action required. P-680-2000* On Fri. 11/3/00, CTI George Erskine Jr. advised me that a diesel dispenser had been hit by a vehicle at the So. Ptld. Public Works Garage and that buried piping was in need of repair underground (for the following Monday 11/6/00). There was no discharge though. I advised him to contact DEP's Dunlap regarding an emergency UST reg. amendment, and that I would visit when he had the piping exposed. The facility was installed by Erskine Const. in 1989 to replace UST's later abandoned in 1990. On Tues. morn 11/7/00, I visited and noted the pavement dug up next to the diesel dispenser and the disp. removed from the island. Erskine Const. was not on-site. The area is mixed residential & commercial, on city water & sewer. There was no containment sump under the dispenser. There was oil contamination in soils under the dispenser though. Over the UST there was water in the submersible-pump sump. The facility is listed as continuous leak detection though there was no leak sensor in this sump (see Beth DeHaas' letter of 11/8/00). The piping is reg. double-wall FRP and I noted it to consist of single FRP product piping enclosed in a thin, flexible, black plastic boot. I have found no record that Erskine reported to the state, this oil discharge or water to the sump, as required. The discharge to the soil did not appear strong and I believe that no sensitive receptors are threatened at this time. Any contaminated media should be properly managed if disturbed (i.e. excavated, etc.) though. See any attachments and DEP UST Reg. file #3630 for further information. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-276-2000*T. A. McIntire runs a painting business in Mount Desert, and uses gasoline as a final rinse for his brushes and spray guns, because it's so volatile it drys quickly and leaves no oil residue. Claiming no one would come to Somesville and take away the waste gasoline, he's been storing it in 5 and 55 gallon containers behind his shop. On the evening of 5/20, someone poured at least 2 five gallon containers of the waste into the ditch behind McIntire's shop; the ditch drains towards tidewater via the storm sewer under the road. Disaster was narrowly averted when a passerby walking his dog heeded his wife's advice for once, and DIDN'T dispose of his cigar in the storm sewer. The Fire Department was summoned to investigate the fumes and deployed sorbents to control the problem that night. Upon my arrival to follow up next day, I picked up some sorbents and re-deployed others. Talking with Asst. Chief Joe Gilliland, I learned that the local officials had a pretty good idea who'd dumped the waste, and that he'd done it so that he could be a hero by discovering and reporting this threat to public safety. His plan was foiled by the dog owner and his wife. Scott Leighton and I visited T. A. McIntire on May 25, to inform him of his obligation to store his hazardous waste in a more responsible manner. In August of 2002, McIntire was apparently having labor troubles, as an anonymous complaint alleging well contamination at McIntire's shop was reported to at least 3 people here, and George Seel in Augusta. (attached) On Sept. 11,2002 I obtained a wellwater sample at McIntire's shop and had it analyzed for gasoline and diesel range organics. Results were that the well is contaminated with 14.000 ppb gasoline and 1900 ppb diesel range organics. On the morning of October 4,2002, a series of 5 hand auger holes were bored behind McIntire's shop. Three showed no hydrocarbon contamination at all, as measured by PID. The last two, on the south end of the line, where the spray platform was in 2000, showed hydrocarbon contamination between 500 and 1000 ppm. I instructed Mr. McIntire to secure the services of an excavation firm, and arrange for the removal of the contaminated soil after November 1,2002. P-386-1998*On August 14, 1998 I met the USCG on site at the Maine Shipyard in South Portland where a 30 fishing vessel had sunk. The vessel had a small sheen coming off of it so the Coast Guard had called Clean Harbors to boom off the ship with sorbent boom. I went back the next day to make sure the boom was still containing any oil that may be escaping the vessel. There was no visible oil at this time. The following day the vessel was removed from the water with no further spillage. No further action. 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. P-592-1999*On Oct. 18, 1999 Water Zemla of Downeast Energy called to report a spill at the home of one of their customers. The 275 gallon tank at the home of Richard Weegar had begun to develop a small corrosion hole. The house is up for sale and the realtor selling the home had noticed a wet spot on the bottom of the tank. I inspected the tank. There was a patch on it when I arrived and a new tank was enroute. There was a very small stain beneath the tank which did not appear to extend into the ground more than a couple inches. There was no noticeable loss in inventory. It appeared that very little oil actually leaked from the tank. The area is served by public water and there are no odors in the home. No clean up was required. A-192-1997* Response Services received a report that surface spillage was evident at the diesel dispensing pump at this facility. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property on 5/12/97 and inspected the pump in the presence of the facility owner (Webb). Minor surface spillage had obviously occurred on occasion historically; Mr. Webb agreed to excavate this for disposal. Because of the relatively non-sensitive geologic nature of the site it was agreed to address this remediation at the same time as the diesel UST was removed (scheduled for later that summer). The UST owner (Webber Oil) agreed to conduct this removal as soon as possible. The diesel UST was removed on 7/10/97. A 1" diameter hole was observed on the tank bottom. Contamination was limited due to the presence of clay soils in the excavation, but approximately 30 tons of soil was transported to Pike (Fairfield) for treatment. Approximately 8 cu.yds. of contaminated soil was excavated where surface spills had left the pavement. This was transported to a large agricultural property (Kelly) in Pittston for landspreading. An additional 60 cu. yds. of marginally contaminated (<750 ppm headspace) soil was landspread at this same property following excavation for placement of a new UST. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. P-466-1999*On July 3, 1999, DEP responder Linda Doran was contacted concerning an oil sheen on Ossipee Lake. During her investigation of the area on this same day there was only one possible source which was a home owned by Mr. McIsaac. On 7/6/99 Linda Doran and John Dunlap returned to the site. We met with Mr. McIsaac who is the only residence in the area with an oil tank. He let us in the basement where we found oil in the sump. Contact was made with his oil company who pumped the sump down and replaced the oil line which was under the cement floor which was the cause of the discharge. Boom was placed outside along the retaining wall where the sump drain discharges. A water sample was taken due to drilled well in close proximity to spill. Sample results received on 7/15/99 indicated no contamination. On 7/15/99 I returned to the site to check sump. Sorbent pads were found to be clear of any oil with a slight sheen on the water. No free product was seen in the sump. I would say approximately five (5) gallons of oil was spilled and that the leak was in the copper fuel line located next to the furnace which is close to the sump. On 7/20/99 I returned to the site to look at the sump. Again no sign of free product with the sorbent pads showing very little product. Turned on the sump pump to lower water level in sump. Checking the discharge area very little sheen was seen from discharge. On 8/5/99 site visit met with owner. No indication of any further product in sump. Told the owner he could plug the sump pump back in before he leaves at the end of the week. Owner to keep an eye on conditions in sump throughout summer. At this time I see no further action required. P-502-1998*On 8/14/98 I received a call from Bob Young reporting oil found in an excavation at the West Bath Elementary School. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I observed that there was a small excavation that had been made for a new light pole. In that excavation, there was a slight fuel oil odor and a slight sheen on some groundwater. Further investigation showed that the contamination may have come from an old oil line leak at the facility. Several years ago, an underground oil line had been replaced due to leakage. No wells were at risk in the area. No clean up conducted, no further action required. ______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II OCTOBER 20, 1998 B-442-1998*On July 7, 1998 at 1630 we received a call from the Dead River dispatcher reporting a spill at the home of Thomas Porter on 277 Center Street in Old Town. Dead River delivered 100 gallons of #2 fuel on 7/3 and Mr. Porter had 80 gallons left on 7/7. Mr. Porter uses his fuel oil to heat his hot water but this would only account for five to ten gallons of product. His feedline is buried in the concrete and concrete will corrode the copper line. The serviceman disconnected the old line and ran a new one inside a protective sleeve and on top of the basement floor. There is no sump or basement drain and the area is on town water. The small amount of fuel lost is not worth tearing up the concrete floor to provide access for any recovery. A-625-2000*Received a call from Ms. Woodcock stating that she thought her well was contaminated with oil. She made this contention, because a sheen appeared on the water after it sat for awhile. After further discussion with Ms. Woodcock, it was determined that the sheen was most likely due to biological activity in her well. There was no odor when she used the water that is usually associated with petroleum contamination, and the only time she saw a sheen was when the water sat for awhile. In addition, she stated that in the past she had had problems with bacteria in her water. I gave Ms. Woodcock the number to the HETL lab to have her water tested for biological agents, and if they found nothing wrong to contact me. I later spoke with Ms. Woodcock who informed me that she had had her water tested and that it was high in coliform. No further action required. P-246-2000*See attached report from CMP. P-2-1997*On Jan. 2, 1997, I received a call from George Duranleau of Sanford YCCA (Community action coalition). He had called to report a spill at the home of Ms. Nola Swett. Ms. Swetts 275 gallon #2 oil tank in her cellar had begun leaking sometime in the last two days. An estimated 10 to 50 gallons had leaked out. Ms. Swetts cellar had a clay floor with drainage dug into, channeling water to a sump pump. The sump pump pumps the water to a field behind the house. When I arrived on site the oil tank was being off loaded. I padded up a couple of gallons of oil from the clay lined channels and the sump. I checked the back yard where the sump emptied out and there was no sign of any oil in the area. I came back the following day after the tank was changed out and padded up more oil from the sump. I checked Ms. Swetts cellar again the following week and the oil had ceased to come into the sump. No further action. P-605-1996*9May96, I received a request from Cascade Water Park to facilitate them in a "last minute" tank removal, due to a real estate transaction. I issued a UST Registration Application, 30-day removal notice, and a waiver to the 30-day notice even though work had began to remove the tank by a certified tank installer and certified geologist. Cascade failed to submit the original 30-day notice and UST registration application to the DEP in Augusta. To my knowledge, the paperwork submitted to the the DEP by Cascade was a removal card (attached to the 30-day notice I had sent them) and a 691 Site Assessment submitted on 16 Oct 96, after my repeated requests to Sebago Tech. See P-631-96 for related information. Referred to the DEP Oil Enforcement Unit on 24Dec96. No further Response Services action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO. (24DEC96) B-316-2001* Sometime before 5/29/01 Butch of G R Adams arranged to have us waiver the thirty day waiting requirement for removing a UST at the residence of Wes and Ellen Shepeluk, which is located at 270 French Street in Bangor. It was a thousand-gallon tank that had been out of service for many years. It had been discovered by workers, who were doing some landscaping on the property. It had been buried in clean gravel with about a foot of overburden. It had a lot of superficial rust but no evidence of holes nor of a product release. G R Adams took the tank. B-612-1997*10/1/97 10:00 I received a phone call from Arnie Fessenden of Fessenden Geo-Environmental Services. Arnie phone to report that there was contamination found during the removal of 2 underground gasoline storage tanks. The tanks were two 3000 gallon ones that were installed in 1984. One was regular unleaded gasoline and the other was mid grade product. Arnie phoned for a D-tree. I explained that I could be there in about 2 hours. He explained that the excavation contractor Sheldon Stanley could be finished by then. Clean up was set to an immediate level and soils contaminated above about 500 ppm were taken to Sheldon Stanley's spread location, in Lubec. This amounted to about 28 cubic yards of material most of which came from an area near the fill pipes and around the tanks. I was informed that they may go for a cleaner location as a certain amount of soil must be removed to allow installation of new tanks. The licensed tank installer on scene was David Porter of J.D. Thomas. See also site assessment Job 97-285. 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-494-1997*Went to an underground tank removal at Williams Construction in Gardiner. The site is the Williams Construction maintenance yard. Heavy truck and equipment maintenance has been done there for about 30 years. Ted Haskell was the certified installer and Dames & Moore were doing the Appendix P site assessment. A total of four underground tanks were removed. Contamination was found and the tank installer reported it. PID bag headspace readings were less then 1000 ppm except one at 1370 ppm. No contamination was removed as none exceeded the action level for a baseline 1 site. There is a significant amount of low to moderate levels of contamination still on site, but the industrial character of the area allows this cleanup level. No further work is necessary on this site. P-81-2001*Rob at Portland Pipeline called to report that he had seen a sheen in the water by Pier 2. They had the vessel Anja at that pier unloading at the time. Rob called to the vessel to stop unloading until they knew if there was a leak. Clean Harbors was called to boom around the vessel and look for a source. By the time Clean Harbors arrived the sheen was gone and a thorough inspection found no leak. Portland Pipeline then allowed the vessel to continue unloading. No further Response action is necessary at this time. ______________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I March 20, 2001 P-669-1999*Narrative Attached. I-114-1998*On 6-1-98, this office received a fax from J.M. Huber regarding a spill of hydraulic oil inside their plant the day before. It occurred while a fuel pump was being replaced on a piece of their machinery. All was cleaned up by on site personnel using sorbent material. B-26-1998*On 1/13/98 Mrs. Scott Thomas reported a strange odor that seemed to be coming from a ditch that drains the Bangor International Airport. She had registered concerns about this ditch earlier this year. That complaint involved a scum that turned out to be iron hydroxide from iron bacteria activity. She said that there was an odor associated with that also. When I investigated the then current complaint the odor resembled baking bread. At that time some of the BIA hangers were being used to house people who had been displaced from their dwellings by power outages that had been caused by the ice storm of "98", and there probably was some baking going on in one of the hangers. The odor did not seem to be associated with the water in the stream. However, there was a breeze that was traveling down the same gully as the stream, and this seemed to be carrying the odor of baking bread. In any event the odor did not seem to be hazardous. P-650-1999*16 April 1999, responded to site location to inspect AST facility for potential upgrade program. Completed Heating Oil Supply Tank And Piping Upgrade Project Reporting Form and submitted the form to G. Seel, Technical Services Division, MDEP. Upon approval and completion of the upgrade, invoices received and forwarded to Mr. Seel for final payment. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 14SEP99. P-833-2001*Site was visited on October 15 to assess situation and receive general overview of situation from residents. Although the well initially was not impacted (negative DRO), the household was placed on the quarterly monitoring program as a precaution. With no odor or evidence of free product, it was necessary to drill test holes in the floor in an attempt to determine where lost product traveled. Twelve holes were drilled at strategic locations in the basement and two tested positive with the PID. The "hot" holes were on either side of a 90 degree bend in the buried line (its course was evident). Given this information and including knowledge of high groundwater every spring, the next appropriate route was to remove a 3'x3' section of the floor to eliminate the "x-ray vision" issue. On the same day of the floor section removal, Fleet Environmental Svcs was present to excavate approximately 2 yards of contaminated soil and input a recovery well with backfilled with 3/4" stone. The mentality behind this action is predicated upon the basement's susceptibility to water in the spring and the hope that some product may be recoverable when the water table does rise. After completion of that task, a box was built in the hole flush within the floor so the resident's ability to utilize that portion of the basement would not be negatively impacted over the course of the winter. Unfortunately, prior efforts proved futile (no product recovered) and the resident's well now tests positive for DRO. The sump basin was removed and the hole was backfilled and cemented. The residents are on filters, in our QM program and the case has been referred to Tech Services. A-435-1999*Received a call from Waterville Fire Department that there was a sheen on the Kennebec River by the CMP dam by Hathaway. I responded to the scene and found where the sheen was on the river. The sheen was coming from the discharge of the dam. Observations upriver showed that no sheen was going into the dam gallery. Attempts to contact CMP on a Saturday were unsuccessful. I called on Monday morning and informed CMP about this. No further work by Response Services is necessary with this spill. B-657-2001*An RST driver, truck loaded with liquid asphalt, and westbound on Rt. 9, drove his truck into the ditch in the opening minutes of Nov. 27. Ordinarily, there'd be nothing unusual about that, it being the Airline, but this was on a newly improved straight incline, with a passing lane. The trooper said the driver didn't remember what had happened. The truck came to rest on its right side, with some liquid asphalt leaking out through the dome cover. The saddle tanks did not leak. I arrived on scene about 0200, and seeing that there was so little oil spilled and that it was not migrating, I decided not to wait for the RST response team coming from St. John. Earl Nickerson and his team off loaded the tanker, got it righted and cleaned up what little asphalt was spilled. A-452-1996* DEP received a phone call from Bill Messner reporting that contaminated soils had been encountered (headspace readings measured at 9850 ppm) during a site assessment at this property. This information was relayed to DEP, Tech Services who had an involvement here previously (refer A-447-90) at which time some form of remediation was pursued. It was determined that no further remediation would be conducted here unless free product was encountered. I anticipate no further involvement by Response Services as a result of this incident. A-226-1999*Nancy Johnson noticed that a crew was spraying the bottom of the Mary Day which was hauled up on the beach. She reported that large amounts of orange material were coming off and flowing into the harbor. I got an answering machine when I tried to contact her. Both Rockland CG and I investigated. The Mary Day had been beached for a bottom cleaning and repaint. The hull had been pressure washed, but no evidence of large amounts of paint chips were observed. The vessel had been painted with a lead free low copper content antifouling paint. The crew was using drop cloths to protect the ground in the areas where they were caulking and painting. The operation appeared to being done with concern to ensure no impact to the beach or harbor occurred. 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. B-44-1999*B-044-99 Medway - Lenney's Superette Dead River Oil Co. called to report that they estimated that about 4 gallons of K-1 was spilled onto the pavement when the air eliminator failed on the dispenser attached to a 550 gallon AST. Lenney's sells the K-1, but Dead River owns the equipment. Dead River cleaned up the oil with speedi-dri and sorbent pads. No drains or water courses were involved. A-71-1996*see attached A-470-1996* A delivery of oil was made to C. N. Brown's bulk plant on 10-21-96. The gauging tape was inaccurate and the driver overfilled the AST. The oil then leaked out of the site glass, which is located on the tank gauge assembly. The driver noticed the problem and placed a bucket near the site glass. This action allowed the oil to flow into the dike instead of spilling onto the ground. Crews from C. N. Brown then collected the oil (using buckets) from inside the dike and dumped it into the transport. Seacoast was also called to vac out the inside of the dike. The small amount of oil that spilled onto the ground was also cleaned up. No site visit made and no further action will be required. B-70-1999* On February 11, 1999 we received a call from Dennis Woodruff of J.D. Thomas Oil Co. in Calais reporting a spill at the home of Gary Kneeland of Baileyville. Mr. Kneeland's basement tank developed a leak in its bottom and Thomas Co. workers plugged the hole and recovered the oil with a wet Vac and sorbents. Mr. Woodruff estimated that about forty gallons leaked onto the concrete floor but none entered the drain. The clean-up was finished the previous night. The area is on town water. B-457-1999*Lennie Carr of LC's Tank Installation notified Beth DeHaas of our Augusta office of a tank anomaly at the Westgate Texaco. According to Lennie, gasoline appeared in the interstitial space of the 8k gallon no lead tank. How it got there was unknown. Beth instructed Lennie to pump out the gasoline from the void, and vacuum test the tank. That was done, but the origin of the gasoline was still not determined. See the attached letter from Beth. Since no more was heard on the subject, it apparently was a one time occurrence. P-283-2001* 4/10/01: Anderson Excavating began excavation of affected soils. 4/20/01: Water sample collected and tested run for DRO, as homeowner was complaining hot water smelled. Filters are in place as the well did show positive results for DRO at 517 ug/L. Brad Hahn, MDEP Technical Services, has been advised and visited the site for further remediation and well management/replacement. A new well was installed under the guidance of Brad Hahn. Response has had no further dealings with the site beyond the initial discovery and preliminary removal action. 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. B-383-2001* This office received a call at 1545 on 7/5/01 from Dead River Company (Brewer) reporting an oil spill. It was stated that approximately one pint of #1 oil was spilled at Dale McLaughlin's residence (14 B Street) in the Birch Hill Estate in Bangor around 1330 today. They were in the process of filling his tank when some of the oil "backed up". Most of the oil was contained on the skirting and cleaned up. There were no drains or State waters involved in the incident. REC: File report. P-360-1996*On 5/31/96 Steve Eufemia received a call from an anonymous complainant reporting sloppy material handling, leaking hydraulic lifts, and leaking waste oil drums at Crepeau Motors in Kennebunk. On 6/20/96 I inspected the site accompanied by Willis Emmons of the Kennebunk Sewer District. We both inspected the service garage area and did not observe any waste oil discharge. The garage was heated with a waste oil furnace. The floor drains were inspected and did not show any signs of oil or chemicals in them. No major leaks were observed around the hydraulic lifts. Some weeping of hydraulic oil was observed around a bad gasket. This did not constitute any environmental threat but could be a safety hazard. No further action required. ____________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II A-205-1996*No site visit made. No further action anticipated. See attached for additional information. B-812-1999* On December 22, 1999 at 1310 we received a call from the Old Town Fire Dispatcher reporting a 2'x30' fuel oil stain on South Brunswick St. The fire department received the call from a Ms. Plourde who said the oil came from the top of a Fox Fuel truck. The fire department spread Speedi Dri on the stain. They estimated a maximum of two gallons spilled. None reached any drains. A-139-1996*Black Liquor leaked from a failed gasket inside a diked area. The spilled liquor was piped into another dike area. The Black liquor was then piped to a ditch with a drain that discharges into the treatment plant. Some Black liquor spilled onto the ground. Clean Harbors was hired to clean the ditch area. P-219-1998*On 5/15/98 I received a call from Gordon Pott reporting contamination at a tank removal in Portland. The contamination did not exceed clean-up levels for a baseline-1 site and was not removed. The contamination was believed to have come from a nearby fuel farm for Delta Airlines that had known contamination and not from the tanks at Northeast Airmotive. No further action required. ______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II JUNE 2, 1998 A-716-2000*Received a call from Houle's Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning regarding a flooded basement at the old, Sears building located across from the post office. They stated that the water had a sheen on it, and were inquiring on what to do with the water. Peter Blanchard and I responded to the complaint and ascertained that the sheen was the result of an overfill that was not completely cleaned-up. Apparently, the sump pump in the building stopped working allowing water to accumulate in the basement. Sorbent boom was placed at the entrance of the sump hole to collect oil as the water was pumped to the Waterville treatment plant. No further action required. B-283-1996*D-TREE = B2. A-340-1997* DEP received a report from an environmental consultant working at this facility that contaminated soils were encountered during a UST removal. A hole was observed in one of the tanks. The area is commercial/residential and is served by a municipal water supply. Following discussion with the water company it was determined that soils contaminated in excess of 1000 ppm (headspace) would be removed for treatment at an asphalt plant (Pike). I do not anticipate further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. P-294-1999* SUMMARY On Mon. 5/17/99, I visited this AST oil bulk storage facility in resp. to a 5/11/99, request by P Gagnon & Sons president, Mark Gagnon. Mr. Gagnon explained that the berm had collected diesel, K1, and #2 spillage within the peastone floor of the tank's dykes. I confirmed dark, saturated fill around the tanks (see site sketch). Mr. Gagnon stated that there was a plastic liner under the stone fill to keep the product from soaking into the ground. His plan was to excavate the soil and replace it with clean fill. I issued a virgin contamination disposal letter for the soil to go to ARC in Elliot. Spill quantity is unconfirmed but could be 100 to 200 gallons. LOCATION ASSESSMENT The area is next to a RR line that used to supply the facility. East, across the street, is the South Berwick Public Works yard. The bulk plant is just out of the protection zone for a town well-field #91470 (see map). I was told this site has been used as a bulk oil storage for 40+ years. I noted no other DEP spill reports for this site. To my knowledge this spillage is chronic with facility use, though does not appear to have been reported to DEP, as required, when the spills occurred. CONCLUSION By the end of the year 1999, I had not received a copy of the virgin letter back indicating the discharges had been cleaned up. Mr. Gagnon returned a call in Dec. 1999 stating he had not gotten around to the clean-up. On 1/3/00 I sent the attached letter voiding the virgin letter issued seven months earlier. At this time this bulk fuel facility is not cleaned to Dept. satisfaction. P Gagnon, Inc. is in non-observance of Maine reporting requirements for these discharges, and further Response Div. actions are expected. See attached for further information. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-25-1997*A DOT driver was refueling a truck during a snow storm. The vehicle was left unattended and the nozzle failed to shut off. The driver was watching through the window of the garage and saw the product running onto the ground. He ran out and shut the nozzle off. About 5 gallons were lost. The area was padded up and sand was spread. I checked the area and found no further action was needed. 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 A-31-2001*Mead reported a white liquor spill which occurred due to a blown gasket on the discharge line of their pulp digester. The line was isolated and the gasket repaired. The white liquor drained to the sewer and was diluted in their treatment plant. Mr. Tarr indicated the pulp room notified the treatment plant operator that the caustic liquor had been discharged and was headed for them. I notified David Dodge of DEP Water Bureau of the event. He indicated that it should not cause an upset of the system based on the volume of waste water they handle at the plant. I did not conduct a site visit for this spill. A-112-1996*A hose blew out on an engine during maintinence in the engine house. About 30 gallons was lost to the floor. The material was picked up using pads. P-251-2000*Jackie West hit her oil tank in her yard, with her car, knocking off the filter. The Kennebunk Fire Dept. responded and cleaned up the oil with sorbent pads and speedy dry the night of it's occurrance. I visited the site the next morning to ensure a complete clean up and repair of the tank. Ms. West's oil company was on site when I arrived fixing up the tank and removing the remaining sorbent material (speedy dry). No further action. 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 I-127-1997*Hydraulic oil was spilled from a ruptured line, cleaned up with sorbant pads and boom. 10 gallons had gone into Little Machias Stream. P-162-1999*26 Jan 1999, responded to spill location and observed hydraulic oil along the curb of both the east and west side of the Bishop Road. I contacted the road commissioner of Poland, Richard Chick. Chick advised me that a hydraulic line broke on a city plow truck during snow removal. I suggested that the town clean up the spill using sorbent pads and speedi-dri. On 29 Jan 1999, Chick advised me that the clean up complete. The houses along this road receive water from private wells. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (4Mar99). A-253-1997* DEP received a report that petroleum contaminated soil had been encountered during excavations at this property. Jon Andrews and Mary James (DEP) visited the site on 7/23/97. Based on observations and anecdotal evidence it is presumed that the contamination is associated with above-ground #6-oil supply tanks that had been removed years previuosly. Because of the geologically non-sensitive nature of the site (industrial, no nearby wells) it was decided that only soils "saturated" with oil would be excavated for disposal; approximately 30 cu.yds. were so removed on 7/28. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-260-1997*Received a call from Dead River that a customer of their's had a spill from an inside aboveground storage tank. I responded to the residence of Jill Gordon in Fairfield. The 275 gallon tank was in the basement and had developed a leak. Three Dead River people were there cleaning up the spill when I arrived. The basement had a concrete floor and a sump and dry well. Some of the oil stayed in a sump hole in the furnace room. However some, an estimated 30 gallons, was pumped to the dry well. The owner did not know of any access to the dry well as it was situated under the garage. She did tell me that it was not piped to the sewer. The basement was cleaned up with speedy dry and pads. Dead River installed a new tank. The old tank had an internal corrosion leak. No attempt to get the oil in the dry well was made as it poses no threat as there are no nearby environmental receptors. The area is in Fairfield and is supplied with town water and sewer. No further work is necessary on this spill. B-22-2001*B-022-01 Lincoln Tuesday January 23, 2001 1425 I received a phone call from Mr. Timothy Herbold (873-6958), of the Springfield Terminal - Guilford Rail System, in Waterville. Mr. Herbold reported that a hydraulic hose burst on a rail-mounted truck in Lincoln around 1300 today. The spill was located on and near the railroad tracks where the railroad tracks run near to Station Avenue. The first report from Waterville indicated a spill of 30 gallons. Springfield Terminal was sending a clean up response team to shovel up the contaminated snow. The clean up crew was dispatched at 1330. I phoned the Lincoln Fire Department (794-8161) and spoke with a Mr. McComb. He said he would check out the spill, and get back to me. When Mr. McComb phoned me, he reported that there may be as much as 5 gallons of hydraulic oil sprayed over the snow. I later received a phone call from Timothy Herbold. Mr. Herbold reported that the actual size of the spill was around 5 gallons. The contaminated snow was picked up and disposed of by the Springfield Terminal. P-645-1996*On 10/21/96 I received a call from Brian Atkinson of Buxton Oil reporting a spill at a client's residence in Saco. I met with him at the site on 10/23. Approximately 100 gallons had leaked out of an above ground storage tank when the tank shifted during a rain storm causing the firematic valve to break off the tank. Most of the discharge soaked into the ground under and around the tank as well as underneath the mobile home. There were no wells at risk from the spill. Oil odor in the home was mitigated by opening the skirting around the trailer and ventillating. No further action required. _______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II P-734-1999*On Oct. 22, 1999 I received a call of a spill at a trailer park in Yarmouth. A grounds-keeper (Pam Murphy - A Tender Touch) under contract to the trailer park was mowing the lawn and accidentally hit the filter on the tank at 28 Red Wagon Trail, breaking it off the tank. Pam held her finger over the hole in the tank and yelled for a neighbor to call the fire dept. When the fire dept. arrived they plugged the hole with a stick and called an oil co. When I arrived the tank was being fixed. Pads caught much of the spilled oil. Pine needles were thick under the tank and also acted as an absorbent for the oil. Pam and I cleaned up the pads, raked up the needles and dug out about two yards of soil, thereby removing nearly all the spilled oil. Pam filled in the area with loam on the following Monday. No further action anticipated. I-201-1999*A broken tree branch caused a transformer to leak 1 gallon of transformer oil. Spill was soaked up with sorbents and removed with oily wastes for disposal. 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. ____________________________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 3 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management I-108-1998*On 5-22-98, Irving Oil called to report that a customer had called them with a leaking basement tank complaint and they were on their way to the house. I met with them there and found that due to a cracked fuel line a small amount of oil had leaked onto the floor in the basement. All was picked up with sorbents and the line replaced. P-738-1997*DEP responded to the failure of a snow making machine which discharged transmission oil (15 gallons) and compressor oil. The oil migrated over frozen ground to a nearby stream. DEP used sorbents to remediate the spill which were disposed of at Maine Energy in Biddeford. No further Response Services action is expected at this time. P-284-1998* What was reported by Ms. Stanton, a concerned mother, as an oil-like sheen next to the school playground led to DEP's discovery of a small overfill of the nearby #2 oil UST. During a 6/24/98 visit I observed groundwater seeping out of a slope near the playground with a waxy sheen. Sheens such as this may or may not be oil related. About 50 ft. upgrade next to the school building I noted a mounded UST (a tank installed near grade and covered with fill. Opening the fill manway a spill of several gallons of old #2 oil sat in the overfill bucket. The area around the bucket was open to soil and it appeared to have old spillage reaching soil. I contacted the school principal and maintenance manager and showed them the problem. I next contacted Gerry Lemire of Irving Oil and explained that their South Portland office had an overfill at the school, did not clean it up and that I found no report of it with the DEP. On 7/2/98 Mr. Perkins of Irving reported back to me that a crew had gone out to clean up though didn't feel that the spillage outside the bucket was serious. I confirmed a clean-up that afternoon and agreed that the dark staining was also do to foliage decomposition. No water or sheen was seen coming from the ground this day. It is not conclusive that the sheen was definitely related to the discharge at the UST though considering sensitivity of spills near schools, the above actions were prudent. No further actions expected at this time. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-333-1996*On 6/24/96 this office received a list of water analyses from Rob Peale of our technical service group in Augusta. The list had been generated by the DHS and it was a report of wells that had low levels of toluene. The report also indicated that there was a potential source (such as a UST containing gasoline) in the area. Rob indicated in his note that new wells frequently have low levels of toluene. I talked with Mr. Boyd, who is in charge of the physical plant. He said that they had a new well drilled last August. It was his understanding that toluene came from the lubricant used by drillers. He assured me that they had been given clearance to use the water. He also indicated that there were no potential sources such as USTs in the area. I e-mailed Rob the results of this investigation. A-551-2000*I received a call from Clean Harbors Bow NH office reporting a spill at Verizon (formerly Bell Atlantic) maintenence garage in Rockland. The caller reported ten gallons hydraulic oil spilled to a concrete floor inside the garage. The spill was contained and cleaned up with sorbent pads. No further work is aniticpated by DEP. I-13-1999*Called by state police at 1645, arrive at scene 1715. Vehicle(van) had rolled down embankment off Route 161. Fuel tank was ruptured when tow-truck pulled van back up over the guard rail. Contents of tank discharged to snow-bank and pavement. DOT use speedy-dri to sorb up on pavement. Excavated contaminated snow and sorbents. All to landfill. Left scene at 1800. Case closed. P-101-1993* Report update of October 2003: Report of dissolved solvent contamination in private well(s) in new housing development off Harris Road. Appears to have come from from old auto junkyard on the property prior to redevelopment into single-family homes. Possible contamination source from Greenlaw's Junkyard downgrade on Rt. 9. Area is located in Cumberland near Falmouth/Cumberland border. Case management passed to DEP uncontrolled sites unit under Scott Cyr. See their records for further information and resolution. S G Brezinski B-212-2000*On 4/13/00 Mark Whiting passed on to BRWM a report of gasoline dumping in a ditch. The report came to Mark from Merilyn Smith , who is on the Board of Selectmen in Stockton Springs. Merilyn indicated that "someone" saw Sonny Malo dump gasoline from a gas tank that he had taken from a vehicle that he was junking. Not having a good feel for how old this report was and knowing that there was not enough documentation for enforcement plus other job related issues, I did not immediately go to the site. I did talk to the CEO, Ron Fowle, who said that he would pass on my message. ( Sonny was not reachable by phone.) I wanted Sonny to know that he could dispose of old gasoline by diluting it wit fresh gasoline and burning it in his own vehicle. I also wanted him to know that if someone saw him dumping gasoline and was willing to testify to that event, he would have problems. B-433-1996*D-TREE=I. P-863-1992* Failed SIA investigation. P-431-2001*05.30.2001 received call from Clean Harbors requesting Virgin Letter for #6 oil soil contamination, approx. 1 to 2 cubic yards. Phone contact with John Lester of Global advised DEP that the valve pit area had contained some #6 oil contamination associated with an old valve leak at the facility. DEP could not determine if the spill had ever been reported or clean up. Cargil is the RP in this case and has agreed to pay for the clean up as part of sales agreement. Cargil contact is Jim Gilmartin at 508-376-5475. No further Response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 8.30.2001 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-685-2000*On 12/22/00, 2300 hours Denise Robinson of the Blue Hill Fire Department reported a five gallon gasoline release from a car that had rolled onto it's side on East Blue Hill Road. The state police report indicated that the fire department had responded and that they had cleared the scene. Also, the report stated that there were no sensitive receptors such as bodies of water or residences. I was not able to speak with Blue Hill Fire at the time because there was no answer at the call back number. I discovered that Denise had been in charge of that response while taking another report from Richard Horton, who is the assistant fire chief for Blue Hill Fire. 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. B-189-2000*On the morning of 4/7/00 Dave Warren of Warren Company (wood harvesters) reported a small off road diesel spill from a skid tank. Apparently the tank had been filled to near capacity and the product expanded and discharged some product to the ground. The release landed on a puddle of water. Dave said that the spill had been recovered with three sorbent pads, which he put into their waste stream. 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. B-539-2000*B-539-2000 09/30/2000 14:05 Merl Harris of the Milo Fire Department called through the 1-800 number to report a gasoline spill associated with a truck accident on Route 11 in the center of town. Mr. Harris stated that fire personnel caught the majority of the fuel in a trash bucket. A small amount on pavement was cleaned up with sorbent material. Both the fuel and the oiled sorbents were retrieved and disposed of. An inspection of the accident site shown no evidence that the State's resources had been damaged. P-227-1998*On 5/27/ 98 Ann Hemenway of the division of Technical Services was contacted concerning a well that was contaminated with kerosene. Ann and I went to the site that day and collected a water sample from the home in question. The sample was prepaided, however, the analysis done on the sample was not conclusive as to whether it was contaminated. I acquired another water sample and had a different analysis done - the analysis showed no kerosene contamination. No further action required. B-496-1998*On the morning of 7/26/98 this office received a fax from the NRC reporting a mystery, off shore sheen off the Town Pier in Bar Harbor. The area of the sheen was described as 40' x 40'. The term "rainbow" was used to further describe the sheen. This means that the oil had been there long enough to go from a slick to a rainbow sheen. B-337-1999*On 6/20/99, 2202 hours Brian Levitt of Atlantic Salmon of Maine reported s small release of Parasite S inside a trailer van that was transporting the material to Atlantic Salmon. The truck driver for Grand View Enterprises had reported the incident to Brian and Brian took it upon himself to make the required notifications. The estimated volume of the release was less than a gallon. It came from a 55 gallon drum that had not been properly secured when it was shipped from Western Chemical Co., Inc, located in Ferndale, Washington . Parasite S is a 37% solution of formaldehyde and it is amazingly hazardous. It has a low flash point, which makes it an explosion hazard if not properly vented. Also, it is an inhalation hazard, a hazard to the mucous membranes (can even cause blindness) and it is a skin absorber. Brian indicated that they (he and the truck driver) were trained and prepared to deal with the spill. They vented the trailer, dawned level B with the appropriate cartridge respirator and recovered the spilled product with "Safety Sorb", which is like Speedy Dry. The portion of formaldehyde that was released to the air is expected to be readily degraded by photolysis. Its' half life is expected to be less than a day. A-768-1999* DEP received a report that 25 gallons of oil was spilled at this facility due to a valve failure (see I.P. incident report). I-3-2000*While plowing snow a payloader slipped on the ice and slid into a 1000 gal diesel skid tank, hitting the tank on the corner of the tank about 11 o'clock. (high, upper left of flat end) Spill was contained by the snow and the crew on site used sorbents to collect the oil. Remaining oil was pumped out of the tank. Saturated material was disposed of in the open cell at the landfill. No further action needed. Case Closed A-344-1998*Transformer damaged during Ice Storm '98. See attached CMP report for more information. No further action anticipated. I-192-2001*150 gallons of heating oil leaked due to broken valve. P-437-1996*NOTED OLD MOTOR FUELS VENT PIPES ON BUILDING DURING DRIVE-BY. TWO UST'S REPORTEDLY REMOVED ON 6/1/87 BY CLAUDE DUBOIS EXCAVATING, THOUGH INSTALLER NAME UNKNOWN. APPARENTLY VENT PIPING AND POSSIBLY PRODUCT PIPING REMAIN. UST L & E WILL BE COPIED ON THIS REPORT WITH RECOMMENDATION THAT PAUL'S GARAGE BE NOTIFIED TO REMOVE THEIR PIPING. THIS REPAIR GARAGE IS LOCATED ON ELM STREET IN BIDEFORD BETWEEN 5-POINTS AND THE SACO RIVER IN A DENCE RESIDETIAL & COMMERCIAL AREA. POTENTIAL CLEAN-UP WOULD LIKELY BY INTERMEDIATE BASED ON POTENTIAL VAPOR THREATS TO BASEMENTS. I-104-1997*Warden Service call in sheen on Little Machias Stream near Pinkham Lumber. Cleaned up with sawdust and burned in boiler. B-601-1996*On 11/02/96, 1940 hours Gary McCray of the Bangor Fire Department reported an AST anomaly at 219 Griffin Road in Bangor. He indicated that the volume was 100-150 gallons and that a sewer drain was involved. The nipple to the filter had been broken off by some impact. Apparently, the person responsible for the spill was there when it happened and was able to minimize it by plugging the leak with her finger. She must have been able to summon help verbally because the actual volume of the spill was probably less than 10 gallons. The maintenance person collected 2-4 gallons in a bucket while making the repair. He had pulled a a partial vacuum on the tank with a shop vac. This slowed the discharge so that he could drill out the broken nipple and install another. I picked up a dozen pads that were less than half saturated. Also, I sorbed a quart of product out of the drain. The drain was some kind of valve in it that had not let any of the product out. A waste water treatment representative showed up and we agreed that the sewer system had not been impacted. A-463-1998*The tanks were removed at the Silver St. Cumberland Farms station. Spills from overfills were discovered. The soil was left in place. No new tanks were planned for this location. A-20-1999*Received a call from Todd Knoble of Pittsfield reporting that he had a spill in a basement of an apartment building that he owns. I responded to the site. He estimated that approximately 50 gallons of #2 fuel oil was spilled in the basement onto a concrete floor. He had already done a very good job of cleaning it up. He is a volunteer firefighter and had the fire department bring over some sorbent pads. I helped him with the rest of the cleanup and took the contaminated sorbents back to Augusta for disposal. I advised him to air out the basement as much as he could and to wash the concrete floor with a strong detergent. Later conversations with Mr. Knoble showed no lingering oil odor in the basement. No further work is necessary on this spill. A-750-1999*Four rail-cars loaded with #6 fuel oil derailed in Shawmut and rolled into a small pond en route to Sappi Fine Paper. See attached narrative for more information. No further action required by Response Services. B-121-1998*Francis Daughan is an attorney practicing in York; the gasoline tanks at the Gouldsboro Variety were supposed to have been taken out of service by 10/1/97, and removed from the ground before 1/1/98. In fact, the clerk at the store told me on 2/26/98 that gasoline had been sold from the tanks thru January of 1998. J&S Oil of Winslow (872-2714) delivered the bulk gasoline. The tanks and piping system proved tight, according to the site assessment,but contamination was discovered in the soil, presumably lingering from the removal of older tanks in 1989. (B-653-89) Because the store has a snack bar and is served by a private well, a stringent clean-up goal was set. On 2/26/98 I faxxed to the owner the clean-up options agreement. Not until 3/23 did he fax me back an answer, allowing me to finally start the clean-up. On that date I started lining up contractors. The clean-up progressed April 6 thru 9,1998. In excess of 1000 cubic yards of soil were removed and replaced. The contaminated soil was spread to weather at Paul Joy's pit. In December of 1998, sale of the property was being negotiated. B-623-1996*Some time before 11/14/96 I was contacted by Ronald Dennis about removing some USTs at his business facility. We discussed the procedure and I furnished a list of contractors so that he could get quotes. I also agreed to waive the 30 day waiting period. The removal took place on 11/14/96. The installer was Chris Gaudet and the site assessor was S.W. Cole in the person of Todd Sekera. The digger was Dale Chapman. When I arrived on site the operation had been interrupted by the occurrence of an unknown UST that had apparently held gasoline. Currently it was full of water. The drop tube had been removed and the opening had been covered with a sheet of rubber. Clean Harbors was on the way to pump the rouge tank. The site was close to a sand and gravel acquifer, but the soil was a tight, silty till. There was no water in the hole even at 11 feet. There was no danger of a vapor problem and the area has public water. However, we did not consider it as a non attainment zone so we agreed on an intermediate level clean up. When the excavated area had gotten to be 6 yards long, 3.3 yards wide and 3.5 yards deep the readings were under 100 ppm with the exception of the place that had been under the dispenser, which was around 400. This generated 70 yds of mildly contaminated soil, which was treated on site. A-454-2000*A regulator in the back of a CMP truck leaked a small amount of mineral oil into the truck bed. The spill was cleaned up by CMP staff. See attached report for more information. No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services. P-559-2001*Mr. Studey called his supplier DownEast with an odor complaint. DownEast upon investigating found the outside AST had developed a small seep. The tank was horizontal beneath the stairs, with some minor staining extending beyond the footprint of the tank and off the pad. Mr. Studey excavated the soil/loam and placed it in two (2) bags supplied by DEP. The tank was removed and replaced by DownEast. DEP removed the soil and disposed of it in a bulk shipment for Mr. Studey. No other actions are required at this time, the clean up was minor and the actual volume of oil lost small. B-390-1997*7/21/97 10:30 Allan Stinchfield, concerned citizen in Bangor, called to report discovering various pesticides in his newly acquired home on Silver Road. Knowing that our annual "pesticide pick-up" was forthcoming I took a look at the material. A few spray cans of insecticide, a pound or so of Chlordane and 24D were later disposed of during the pick up. P-560-2000*At delivery the tank was overfilled spilling oil out the vent pipe onto deck, vinyl siding, and soil at the base of the foundation (two sides side and rear). Initial hand excavation not successful, hired Labbe of Brunswick to complete task. Removed more than 6.38 tons and resurfaced excavavtion to homeowners satisfaction. No further action is anticipated at the location. A-11-2001* Something happened to a transformer on Lakeside drive in Booth Bay Harbor. CMP reported the spill and had a crew on the way to clean it up. The transformer was an older model and may contain PCB oil. Later lab analysis, shown in attached paper work, show no evidence of PCB's. No further action by Response will be required. B-771-1998*B-771- 98 Pembroke Sunday November 29, 1998 0908 I received a call from the Orono Barracks (255-4000) covering the Machias area. I was asked to make contact with Chuck Michaud (726-5168), of the Maine State Police about a case of burglary and criminal mischief in Pembroke last night. According To Chuck Michaud the property rented by Jeremiah Curtis on the Little Falls Road, in Pembroke was burglarized and vandalized sometime Saturday night between 1900 and Sunday morning at 0100. The vandalism included draining a reported 100 gallons of heating oil from the outside, elevated 275-gallon tank. The phone number I received to contact Jeremiah was his mother's (726-5168). I made contact with his mother on Monday. I told her I would be in Pembroke on Tuesday Afternoon and asked if She or Jeremiah could be at Jeremiad's place of residence. Tuesday December 1, 1998 early afternoon I did a site visit in Pembroke. Neither Jeremiah, nor his mother was there. I asked a neighbor to see if I had the right place. There was an outside tank elevated off the ground by steel framing that feed an end range burner, and maybe a furnace. There was a small stain, about 24 by 40 inches near the tank. One third of the oil stain was on the concrete pad. The rest was on gravel type soil. There were ledge outcroppings noted on the property. There was very little oil to clean up. This amount of the spillage was over reported. The quantity lost is closer to 20 gallons. I received a phone call from Jeremiah. I explained to him that he should excavate the small amount of soil and spread it thinly on his driveway. After making this recommendation it is unclear if he did any clean up as he is very difficult to contact. A-575-2000*An AST supply line was damaged by vandals allowing about 1/4 of the contents of a 275 gallon tank of kerosene to be lost. Bart and I removed the contaminated soil with hand shovels and containerized it for disposal. No further action is expected. A-249-2000* The owner or a contractor drove a nail into the copper feed line at Briar Patch Greenhouses. The individual then turned the firomatic valve off. This simple but effective response technique resulted in the release of less that one gallon of fuel oil. A phone call was then made to Dead River Company to make the needed repairs. No further action will be required. B-191-1996*D-TREE = S. P-875-2001*10.15.2001 I spoke with Jeff from Hebron Academy. Jeff advised that the day before a feed line broke off an above ground supply tank. The spill was confined and approximately 10 gallons was collected using a bucket. The remainder of the spill was cleaned up with sorbents. I advised Jeff of DEP reporting requirements. No further Response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, 10.26.2001 P-379-2001*Portland Public works discovered an abandoned plastic drum adjacent to Westbrook Street and requested assistance in identifying and removal. The drum was upright with both bungs secure and appeared 1/2 full. A bung was loosened and screened with a PID and the determination was made by hits registered on the PID and physical characteristics it was a waste oil petroleum mixture. The drum was loaded and transported to DEP warehouse for storage, profiling and disposal. No stains or leaks were observed at the discovery site. No further actions are required at this time. A-533-2000*Homeowner's relative changed her filter for her and failed to tighten it properly. Approximately 50 gallons lost to ground. Area served by public water. No vapor threat. No further action expected. P-362-2001*Brief visit to check on owner's request to abandon-in-place a UST. Left note and card but no return call. Further DEP actions possible. See attached and UST Reg. files. Confused registration number, possibly same facility as #4109 @ 247 Main Street? Area over mapped S & G aquifer, though may all be on municipal water. S G Brezinski DEP, Div. of Response Services P-398-1998* Mr. Arthur Dunlap, Gray CEO reached me on 8/21/98 reporting that an anonymous caller notified him of a gaso. odor and apparent leak relating to a gasoline UST at the marina at Middle Range Pond, Poland. On 8/25/98 Dunlap called back stating he had checked the tank out and noted no leakage; I agreed also to check out the facility when next in the area. 9/15/98, Tuesday: I visited in the morning and met with Mr. Komanetsky. The facility is at a local store, restaurant and marina business off Rt. 26. I noted a 1000 gal. steel AST with steel berm, and bare steel piping coming out the tank top and then running along the surface of the ground to the dispenser about 20 to 30 ft. away, by the water's edge. Water was in the berm but no evidence of a product discharge. The tank had no extended vent pipe (only 7' or so above grade), and I noted no emergency relief vent. Though a suction pump dispenser, head pressure could cause un-aided drainage should the line develop a leak, I did not note a solonoid valve or not. There was no containment under the dispenser. Mr. Komanetsky stated that he planned to raise the vent and I advised him it should be 12' or more. The low vent was the likely source of the gaso. odor problem. The AST replaced a gaso. UST registered as removed by SUN Env. about 7/24/98, (DEP UST Reg. 7238). No further DEP Resp. Div. actions are anticipated. As gaso. AST's fall under State Fire Marshal's jurisdiction, a copy of this report will be forwarded to that office. S Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-478-2000*Received a call from Joe Trembler of Safety-Kleen in Leeds. He reported an 11-gallon spill of petroleum naptha mainly to the inside of a truck. The entire spill was cleaned up with sorbents. No site visit was made and no additional cleanup is necessary. See the attached report from Safety-Kleen for additional information. A-41-2000*No site visit made. See attached for additional details. No further action is anticipated. A-128-1997*Irving had a delivery truck roll when it drove onto a soft shoulder. The truck did not lose any product but was perched at an unstable angle. Irving unloaded it before it was righted and pulled from the ditch. No product was lost. P-372-1999*No Response visit. See attached letter. No Response action is necessary at this time. _____________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I June 11, 1999 A-673-2000* A tank truck owned and operated by Irving Oil slid through the "T" intesection of Route 9 and 202 in Unity. The tractor and trailer bounced in and out of the roadside ditch and stopped on someone's lawn. I was told that a crew was on their way and they would off load the product, which was fuel oil and kerosene. When I arrived a wrecker was pulling the tractor and trailer forward onto the frozen gravel driveway. From this point the rig was driven backward onto the highway. The landing gear was dropped and the crippled tractor drove a short distance away. Another tractor owned by Irving Oil was on site and it slipped onto the tanker and down the road it went. A very small amount of engine oil and hydraulic oil spilled onto the lawn. Staff from Irving Oil cleaned this up. There are some severe ruts in this homeowners lawn that Irving will have to repair. No further action is required. B-54-2001* This office received a call at 1615 on 2/15/01 from Mickey Coombs (Irving Tanning Company; Hartland) reporting an oil spill. He stated that around 1000 on 2/12/01, a heat exchanger failed at their facility and approximately 10 gallons of #6 oil was discharged to a sump outside the building. All of the oil was contained on concrete and in the sump. Clean Harbors of Maine, Inc. (South Portland; #799-8111) was hired to recover the material, which will be recycled. REC: File report. B-318-1997*On June 24, 1997 at 1000 we received a call from Mr. Harold Nielson of Etna who is an employee of Prospectors Alliance of West Toronto, Canada. Mr. Nielson said a company truck was working in Lower Enchanted Township when a drum that was in the back of the pick up tipped over and lost a couple of gallons of diesel fuel around a loose bung. The truck was in a dirt parking area off the logging road and some of the product spilled onto the soil. There were no open waters nearby. I advised Mr. Nielson to spread the soil in a thin layer and mix in a few handfuls of high nitrogen grass fertilizer as a starter food for bacterial breakdown. I-245-1998*CARIBOU FIRE DEPT. REPORTED A SPILL THAT THEY RESPONDED TO ON HERSHEL AND NORTH MAIN STREET. AN UNKNOWN SOURCE LEFT A TRAIL OF DIESEL FUEL ABOUT 1/2 MILE LONG. THE FIRE DEPT. STAFF BELIEVES THE SOURCE WAS A SCHOOL BUS BUT THAT WAS NEVER CONFIRMED. SPILL WAS COVERED WITH SPEEDI DRI AND LEFT TO BE GROUND IN BY THE TRAFFIC. CASE CLOSED. A-322-1996*WHEN MR MILES TANK LEAKED HIS DAUGHTER CALLED WADLEIGH'S OIL, THINKING THEY WERE HIS REGULAR SUPPLIER. IT TURNED OUT THAT IT WAS WINGATE-LATHE INSTEAD, BUT WADLEIGH'S REPORTED THE EVENT. IN MOWING THE LAWN SOMEONE HAD APPARENTLY BROKEN OFF THE FILTER LOSING AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT. D-TREE CAME OUT STRINGENT. 12 YDS3 WERE EXCAVATED AND HAULED TO DRAGON, WHICH SHOULD TAKE CARE OF IT. A-59-2000* A hydraulic oil leak on paper machine #2 resulted in the release of three hundred gallons of oil. Two hundred gallons made its way to the process sewer, the remainder of the oil was contained and cleaned up by Mill employees. No site visit was made by DEP. B-676-1997*On 11/17/97, 1615 hours this office received an anonymous report stating that there had been a 110-200 gallon kerosene spill at 372 Mt. Ephrian Road in Searsport. Since the caller remains anonymous, the thrust of this investigation is to find out if any wells are contaminated in the vicinity of this property. The caller said that the spill took place 4-5 years ago and that the well at the property was contaminated. She also named a responsible party, but I must delete that from this report. The current owner is Adrian Ellis Sr. Adrian does not have a phone so I drove out to the location hoping to find him home. He wasn't. However, his residence is almost a tenth of a mile down gradient from the nearest neighbor. I have explained the situation to Adrian via a letter. Hopefully he will answer and we can find out if there is a problem. As of 12/12/97 I have not heard from Adrian Ellis Sr. so I assume that he does not have a problem with his well. P-95-1999*See narrative. A-26-1998*A town selectman called to report that a utility pole that went down in the ice storm was leaking from the transformer and still had not been cleaned up. I obtained the location from Dee Jones and asked that the fire department tape off the area. He agreed to this and said they would also put up danger signs. I called CMP and reported the problem. They did not have it on their list of leaking transformers. Apparently some of the out of state companies assisting with repair of the storm damage did not understand the need to report leaking transformers to CMP. CMP eventually cleaned it up. No PCB's were reported in the oil. Their report noted that the sign the town put up read "PCB's - Danger of Death". No site visit was made and no further work is needed on this site. I-19-1997*97 An odor of gasoline in the storm drains along Main St., was reported anonymously by an Ashland citizen. I sampled the outfall of the storm drains and found MTBE at 4 ug/l, Diesel range organics at 442 ug/l, and total hydrocarbons at 808 ug/l All gas stations in the area have been notified to watch their inventory very carefully. Nine geoprobes were conducted between the storm drains and the existing tank field that might have contributed to the problem. No positive source was identified. The source could be related to the Tibbets removal (I-169-97). See complete file for detailed information. Response case closed A-586-2000* DEP received an after-hours report that a minor oil spill had occurred at this facility (see ME Yankee incident report). B-21-1996*Decision Tree Cleanup Goal: N 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. I-157-2000*Car backed into pump. Debris was cleaned up with speedi dri & sorbants Response case closed. B-353-1996*D-TREE=N. B-602-1997*10/17/97 1416 David DeHaas of Jackson Labs in Bar Harbor called to report a small spill of hydraulic oil at the facility. Mr. DeHaas stated that about 5 gallons spilled from a broken line on a piece of construction equipment. The oil was subsequently cleaned up with sorbents and speedi dri and burnt in their incinerator. No resources of the state were believed to be affected. P-140-2000*On 3/7/00 I received a call from Mark Guerrin of North American Environmental Services reporting a 30 gallon spill of # 2 fuel at Lampron Enterprises in Bridgton. The spill occurred when a UST was overfilled at the facility. North American was responding on behalf of Lampron to clean up the spill. The spill was cleaned up using sorbent materials and 2 drums of soil were excavated and taken to Commercial Recycling. No further action required. ________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II MAY 2, 2000 A-704-1998*A follow-up site assessment to a UST removal in October 1997 found high concentrations of MTBE (2000 ppb) in the water supply. Almost no other hydrocarbons (GRO method) were found. A confirmatory sample was taken and analyzed at HETL. It showed similar results. Filters were installed. A subsequent interview with the clerks revealed that they had been experiencing health effects since the middle of the summer. The current sample showed non detect after the filters. The Elwell residence was sampled since it is a day care. The results showed 1 ug/L MTBE and no other product. The case was referred to Tech Services. Significant investigation is required. B-188-2001*On 4/9/01, 1625 hours Bob Marquis of Marquis Heating reported that Jim Alexander had an AST nipple leak at his residence in Greenfield. The AST was located close to the garage, which was on a cement slab and the household well was 30 feet from the AST on the other side of the garage. I was able to arrange a site visit the following morning. The soil at the spill site (e.g. under the nipple that had cracked) was very porous and there were no puddles of product. However, a bailer indicated that there was over three feet of fuel oil on the well. I called John Selleck (one of our tech service technicians) and John came out with a pump that was capable of removing oil from the surface of the water. We recovered twenty gallons on that occasion and another ten on subsequent visits. Filters were installed on 4/27/01 and the well is on QM. Bedrock is five feet from grade at this location. We don't know if the acquifer has been impacted or if the product went down the casing. Maybe QM data will give us a clue. The case has been referred to Tech Service. 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. ___________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II A-391-1996*An operator was flushing a line and accidentally opened a charged valve. He was sprayed with product and suffered caustic burns. The valve was closed and the product was washed to the process sewer. P-748-1997*While filling a container, Mr. Mundee was distracted resulting in an overfill spilling approximately 5 gallons onto the floor. A small amount made its was into a sump that drains to the backyard. By the time, I arrived the Standish Fire Dept. had collected all recoverable oil with sorbent pad. There was question that the oil that had made its was into the drain might effect the well. After determining the location of the well (up-gradient of the drain) and taking in consideration the small amount of oil that actually made its way into the drain, it was determined that the well was not at jeopardy of becoming contaminated. No further action required. 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. P-299-1998*On 7/6/98 I received a call from Ed Bearror reporting an oil sheen in Taylor Pond in Auburn in front of his summer residence. I responded immediately. Upon arrival, I observed a fuel oil sheen along a bedrock lined shore in front of 141 Willard Rd. Further investigation of the property showed that there was a significant oil stain underneath an above ground tank serving the residence. No leak from the tank itself could be seen. It appeared as though the copper piping from the tank was leaking. I shut off the tank at the firematic valve to prevent further leakage and contacted Mr. Bearror in Bangor as to my findings. I asked him to have the piping replaced ASAP. I also explained the insurance fund program to him and encouraged him to apply. After talking with Mr. Bearror, I placed sorbent boom in the pond around the affected area of shoreline. I also noted a drilled well very close to the tank. The well belonged to a neighbor, Debbie Grondin. From Ms. Grondin, I learned that the well had been drilled last fall and was 260 feet deep and had casing to 90 feet. I asked her to be alert for any change in taste or smell in the well and told her to contact me if she had any problems. It did not appear as though much could be done in the way of excavating contaminated soil from under the tank due to the shallow distance to bedrock and the condition of the foundation for the home. On that first day of response I also notified Dan Thayer who is the president of the Taylor Pond Association as to the spill and the response to it. I have continued to visit the site on a weekly basis to monitor the sheen in the pond. Due to complaints from nearby residents that sheen was escaping the sorbent boom, I returned to the site with 50 feet of fence boom to place around the sorbent boom. That appeared to reduce the amount of sheen escaping the boom. Continued (not in Hoss) B-603-1999*Roger Salley called from the A.E.Robinson Oil Company office in Dexter where he is the dispatcher to report an oil spill at the Harold Henderson residence on the Monroe Road in Garland. It seems that this is a new mobile home installation and, when the outside AST (installed by A.E.Robinson) had 25 gallons of #2 added to it, it leaked onto the ground from a loose fitting at the firematic valve. I went to the home and met Mr. Salley. The tank was installed over the new gravel pad and the oil had sunk in and not run off. The new drilled well was about 25' away and just slightly upgrade. While the surrounding vegetation indicated tight soil and a high water table, I was concerned that the oil, if left, would find its way into the water line trench and thus to the well. I explained this to Mr. Salley and why the contaminated soil must be removed. He understood and would contact a contractor, David Wyman, to remove the contaminated soil the next day. I went back the following day and found that the clean up was inadequate. Mr. Salley and Mr. Henderson met me there and I explained in greater detail how the spill should be cleaned up. Mr. Salley and I then tried to locate the contractor but were unsuccessful that day. As I would begin my vacation the next day I told Mr. Salley to contact Mr. Whittier of this office and he would inspect the clean up. On 10/06/1999 Mr. Henderson called this office and as Mr. Whittier was not available he talked with Cleve Leckey. Mr. Henderson reported that about 15 cubic yards of gravel were removed down to clay and that the remaining soil exhibited no odor. Mr. Leckey felt that this was satisfactory and okayed the filling of the excavation. P-14-1999*On January 10, 1999 the Auburn Fire Dept. called to report a spill they had checked on. The resident at 218 Lake Street had noticed some red in the ice at the end of his driveway. The fire dept. had checked out the spill, and stated that there was less than 2 gallons of diluted oil frozen into the ice on the side of the road. I followed up with Dead River, the homeowners oil supplier. Dead River stated that they had made a delivery there a couple days earlier but had no indication of a spill. They checked the Clarks tank and system to ensure it was not leaking. No further action. B-692-1999*In July of 99, the AST in the basement of the Leavitt's home started to weep at the bottom next to the nipple. No oil was spilled in that incident (B-453-99) but I deemed it prudent to replace the tank under a DEP funded program. Ironically enough, the first time the replacement tank was filled, it leaked. The presumably licensed technician Sinclair Oil used to install the tank failed to tighten a union in the fill pipe. Mrs. Leavitt smelled the spilled oil from inside the residence, and notified Sinclair's driver. He stopped pumping and cleaned up most of the oil with sorbents; he also notified Doug Sinclair, who responded with more clean-up equipment. In the ensuing weekend, the Leavitts moved into a motel and Sinclair washed the basement floor twice. When I inspected the cleanup on 11/1, I asked that they wash the basement floor again, and vacuum up some oil they'd missed along the NW cellar wall. That cleanup was done by 11/3, and the homeowners seemed happy upon my reinspection the next week. Doug Sinclair said he didn't report this spill because he thought we'd've all gone home by 1600 Friday, and that he was about to report it Monday when I called him. He claimed to be unaware of the 800 spill report number. P-174-2000*A limb fell off a nearby dead tree and broke the filter off an outside AST spilling approximately 100-150 gallons of oil onto the ground. The camp is within 75 feet of Sebago Lake. The soil is all sand. The camp's water comes from a surface well in the basement only 10-15 feet from the spill location. We excavated as much soil as we could without jeopardizing the camp's foundation. Handed off to Technical Services. No further Response action is needed at this time. B-550-2000*B-550-00 Milford Wednesday October 4, 2000 1158 Jim Ryan 866-2121, of the Maine State Police phoned to report a spill of 40 gallons of hydraulic oil to the pavement on Route 178 near its intersection with Route 2 in Milford. I arrived on scene in Milford. I spoke with the Assistant Fire Chief and All Griffin of Griffin's Disposal. The town of Milford had sanded the spill area on Route 178. The fire department was involved in sweeping the sand and speedi-dry around and picking it up with a back hoe's front loader bucket. Griffin's Disposal Service, Inc took the .6 of a cubic yard of sand and speedi-dry to Sawyer Environmental in Hampden, under Authorization # 49126A. I-49-2000*On 5-19-00, Pat Fournier, a selectman for the town of Wallagrass called for a resident of that town. The resident had several herbiside containers and wanted to know what to do with them. I told her that I would inspect them and overpack them if necessary and put them on the pest. pickup program. She said they would call, but never did. P-976-2001*10.06.2001 received compliant from K. Duvall, concerning a defective dispensing nozzle associated with first pump on right of entered location. Duvall advised that the pump did not automatically shut off and gasoline spilled on her car and her clothes. Duvall also advised that when she queried the facility attendants they had knowledge of the defective nozzle. I contacted the CN Brown maintenance department and advised them of the problem. Linda of CN Brown advised me that CN Brown safety personnel would contact Duvall and that a work order would be issued for the nozzle. DEP contacted Duvall as follow up. Duvall advised that CN Brown had contacted her and that she was satisfied with the outcome. No further Response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 11.27.2001 P-211-1996*On April 3, 196 I received a call from George Weismeyer. He called to report a possible spill of oil that was getting into his sump and ruining his sump pump. He stated that approximately four years ago his neighbor had had a spill (see sttached spill report #P-310-92) and that since that time he had found oil in his sump on a couple of different occasions and had two sump pumps quit working over the last four years. I visited the site, I saw no new oil in the sump, there was some material along the side of the sump that could have been old oil or just organic build-up. We checked out the broken pump and found that it had stopped working not from oil but from iron scale buildup. Once the scale was cleaned up from the pump it worked fine. I checked the neighbors and found no signs of oil around from the spill. I suggested that Mr. Weismeyer call me immediately if he found oil in his sump again. No further action at this time. I-57-2001*On 5-3-01, Terry Overlock, who owns a house on Portage Lake, called to inform me that he could smell oil coming from an old abandoned camp next door. The camp was owned by James Holmes who had died a year before. No one had been in since then. I investigated that evening and found oil coming from the basement sump to a discharge pipe in a canal that fed the lake. Oil was in the lake. Booming was placed in the lake and canal with the help of the local fire dept. A contractor was also hired to install a cutoff trench between the camp and lake in order to remove as much contaminated soil as possible. I pumped about 70 gallons of product from the sump. It was determined the line from the tank to furnace had leaked. A-102-1998* DEP received a report that a vehicle parked overnight at this property had leaked diesel fuel onto the parking lot. The Gardiner Fire Department padded up all puddled product, but some oil had flowed to soil. Jon Andrews (DEP) spread contaminated soil on the parking lot to promote volitilization. This area is served by a municipal water supply. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. I-20-1998*On 2-3-98, Paul Durepo of the Limestone Fire Dept. reported a spill at the residence of Eldon Hanning on Rt. 89 in Limestone. Apparently the brass fitting on the end of his outside 275 gallon tank had broken due to the weight of snow. About 200 gallons had been lost. Soderberg Construction was hired to remove the contaminated soil . About 30 yards was removed on the following day. Mr. Hanning was placed on QM. P-37-1997* In the evening of Monday, 1/20/97 DEP was notified by Dead River oil Co. thru the state police of an AST leak at this mobile home, quantity undetermined at the time. The AST was located in a shed behind the home along with an AST for unit 44. The 275 ga. tank was on legs which were placed on coarse crushed stone. It was apparent that the tank had settled into the ground and the filter connection (firematic) had settled onto the edge of the shed footer and eventually broke off. A dark fuel oil stain was under the tank at the time of my 1/2/97 visit. It appears that the oil seaped down into the coarse stone and it was not possible for me to determine how much oil spilled. Behind the trailer is a steep hill to forest and to Lake Auburn 200 ft away. At the time Dead River was reluctant to refill the AST until it is reinstalled on a firm base, fearing that the filter would brake off again. Ms. Guy states that the AST is owned by Mr. Dean and Ja-Lynne Mobil Home Court. On 1/23 I talked to a Ja-Lynne worker who reported putting blocks under the tanks and that Dead River felt comfortable filling the tank now. I advised him that I would be back to check for contamination to the lake when the snow leaves. Further action is possible. P-230-1999* On the morning of 4/23/99, Mr. John Corvin reached me reporting that he found a small spill of an Lead Arsenate Insecticide in his garage. Mr. Corvin explained that he had 30 to 40 red & white quart size cardboard containers. Apparently a rat chewed thru a container allowing some of the Arsenate to leak out onto the concrete floor. Baldwin is rural residential and farms. I contacted Philip Perry, an inspector with the Maine Board of Pesticide Control who stated that he could go out and look at it. He would contact me if an involved clean-up was necessary. Later that day Mr. Perry notified me that the spillage was very small. He contained the spill & box in plastic and stated he would pick it up with the next Pesticide Pick-Up day they do with DEP. No DEP visit was required. As of Nov. 1999 I have heard nothing further on this problem. No further DEP Resp. Div. action is anticipated. See attachments. S G Brezinski DEP, BRWM P-373-2000*See attached narrative, tables and figures. P-77-1979* April 1979: Discharge of estimated 2200 gals. of gasoline from leaking UST. Facility owned by Mobil Corp. This incident occurred prior requirement for UST facility registration and closure assessments. No further information as to any clean-up actions. See records of Mobil Corp. for further details. [The exact location of this facility was not recorded and is unconfirmed with DEP at this time. It may be the location of Walker's Chevrolet on Rt. 25 in Parsonsfield.] . P-386-1997*Primarily surface oil clean-up; no clean-up associated with UST's at this time. A-521-2000*Received a call from Bowie Brothers Well Drilling that he was at a clients house and that well pump had blown and that there was some mineral oil in the well. I arranged with him to leave the pump and hose on the reel and I would clean the well bore. I recovered a small amount of oil on sorbents and proceeded to wash the well bore with a surfactant. I also washed down the hose, pump and fittings on the reel. Bowie Brothers put the pump back into the well and I cautioned Mr. Gowan not to drink the water until it passes a water test. The water test I took returned a result of 120-ppb total petroleum hydrocarbons. I asked Water Treatment, Inc. to install a carbon filter system. Ed Young of Water Treatment called to report that the Gowans will be going to Florida for the winter and will return in the spring. Mr. Gowan said that he doesn't want the system installed until the spring. No further work by Response Services is anticipated until the spring of 2001. Addendum Filters were added in February of 2001. Samples were taken at intervals to evaluate the filters and to see if the ground water had cleaned up. Samples from after the filter never showed any petroleum. Sample dates and results from before the filter are shown below: 11/23/2001 81 ppb 11/01/2002 non detect 03/28/2003 non detect 07/08/2003 non detect This time with before filter sample results returning as non detect, the filters were ordered removed on 7/17/2003. No further work on this case is indicated. B-476-1996*The soils beneath the site were contaminated by pipe and/or pump leaks over a period of years. The contaminated soils were discovered by test-pitting as part of a site assessment investigation. The material spilled was a fuel oil - kerosene product. There is no real accurate estimate of the amount spilled. Since the tanks have not held petroleum product since the 1970's, there is good reason to believe that the spill occurred in the 1970's, when Gulf Oil used the site as a bulk storage facility. Georgia Pacific had only used the tanks for storage of black liquor in the late 1970's. For more detailed accounts of the work at the site, please refer to the "Pembroke Tank Farm, Pembroke" site file of the VRAP Program, BRWM in Augusta. B-420-1999* C.N.Brown Oil Co. called to report that they had suffered a small .25 to .5 gallon #2 oil spill at the Phyllis Healey residence at 42 Getchell St. in Brewer. The driver attempted to fill an already full tank and the oil sprayed out the vent of the basement AST. They had already dug up the contaminated soil and had checked the basement where nothing was wrong. I contacted Ms. Healey and learned that she was not satisfied with the clean up as she could still smell oil and was afraid the neighborhood kids would set it afire. I went to the scene. As I drove into the yard I saw that about 15 square feet of lawn had been dug up but around the edges was still some staining. I explained to Ms. Healey that the chances of this being accidentally set afire was extremely remote. At this time Mr. Richard Goodness introduced himself as the landowner and other residence of the building. We went into the basement and checked the oil system and found that as C.N.Brown had reported there was no leakage at the tank or plumbing. Mr. Goodness said that he was satisfied with the cleanup already done. As there was no longer any risk to the environment or public health I agreed and explained such to Ms. Healey. No further action expected. A-372-1997*A thermostat was broken on a hardwood floor. The homeowner swept up the debris, but some remained. There were infants and a pregnant woman present in the house. I suggested that they cover the area with plastic until Clean Harbors could remove the remaining materials. Clean Harbors cleaned up the remaining material the next day. 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-176-1998*On March 13, 1998 at 1330 we received a call from Bob Marquis of Marquis Oil reporting a #2 fuel oil spill in a home owned by David Metzger at 99 Front St. in Old Town. The injection line to the oil burner leaked and sprayed fuel onto the clay basement floor. A two inch layer of crushed rock covered the clay. I went to the site and met Mr. Marquis and a neighbor who called in the spill. The owners are two college students who were in Florida for spring vacation. The neigbor was feeding the cat and said the house was cold, so cold that the fish tank froze. She notified the oil company who found the problem. I estimated that about twenty five gallons of oil leaked and the wet clay floor prevented it from soaking into the ground. There was also a thin rainbow sheen in the sump so no oil reached any drains. I talked to Mr. George Hazlett, the father of one of the owners, and told him to rake up the crushed rock and recover the oil on the clay with the bale of sorbent pads that I gave him. On Monday, March 16, Mr. Metzger, one of the house's owners, called and said that they had finished the clean up. I checked the site that day and found the clean up satisactory. P-476-1996*On 8/5/96 I visted the Moore residence to make a determination for an abandonment in place request. The tank was located underneath the garage floor. The request was approved. No further action required. ________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II B-98-1999*B-098-99 Lincoln Monday March 1, 1999 0434 The state police dispatcher asked me to make contact with the Lincoln Police and Fire dispatcher (794-2221). The information was In reference to an overturned automobile. The automobile is reported to have a full gasoline tank and is leaking some of its contents into the brook. I contacted the dispatcher for Lincoln and was told that the car had a full tank and was leaking gasoline into a large rapidly flowing brook. The accident was reported to Lincoln Police at 0353 this morning. When I asked if they might be on scene for another hour, they said that they were already wrapping up, that no large amount of gasoline was released, and the fire department was able to soak up a small amount by using a few sorbent pads. P-585-1996* Because of a previously known product piping install problem I visited this scheduled piping replacement and stage-2 install several times during Sept. 1996. Single-wall FRP piping was connected to underground bare steel piping near the dispensers. This piping was replaced by Enviroflex double wall piping with new containment sumps at each end. The installation was overseen by CTI #316, Mike Simard; and CTI #166, James West (JT). On 9/16/96 during an unscheduled visit I noted previously unknown moderate to strong gasoline contamination in soil under product piping that had been uncovered and dug out the day before. This contamination had not been reported to DEP by either two installers nor Irving Oil. Gerry Lemire, Irvings rep. assured me he would speak to JT regarding this so dicharges will be properly reported in the future. Rather than return any contam. soil to the excavation, Lemire opted to have all contaminated soil hauled to Com. paving for recycling. See the attachments for further information. Gaso. contaminated media is understood to remain onsite and should be properly managed if disturbed in the future. B-83-1996*On 2/6/96, 1912 hours Mike Blake (owner and operator of Corinna Citgo) called to report there had been a 10 gallon diesel spill at Corinna Citgo. Apparently a customer was involved with the discharge, but he hadn't reported it to Mike. Consequently, it is not know as to weather the discharge was due to nozzle malfunction or an overfill. Mike said that he had recovered most of the product with a half a bale of pads and some speedy dry. The clean-up produced a trash barrel full of used pads and speedy dry. P-720-1996*Overfill of indoor AST in basement of apartment building. Concerned tenant reported vapors in building. Visited site and met with tenant and landlord. Tank had been overfilled by Mapes Oil due to loose bung on top of tank. Landlord felt it was due to vandalism (someone stealing oil from tank). Mapes had cleaned up affected area once and very little smell remained. The tenant complained of odors again a week later and I contacted the landlord who made the appropriate arrangements. No impact to the outside environment was observed and no further action by the Division of Response Services is necessary. ______________________________ Jon L. Woodard - OHMS I Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management A-121-1997*We received a complaint about oil in a wetland in the Hedgehog Village. The complainant said that a large amount of gasoline or oil was running off of his neighbor's property. There was still snow on the ground, but there was melt occurring. The runoff was carrying vehicle drippings from the winter into the wetland area. No further activity is required. B-311-1996*Early on the morning of June 15, a pick-up truck belonging to Lawrence Lord & Sons Welldrilling of Alexander went off the Cooper Rd.; the 100 gallon skid tank in the back of the truck was thrown out during the incident. Initial reports were that all of the tank's contents had been discharged and was in the ditch. I therefore got underway for Alexander. I'd gotten as far as Orono when the Barracks notified me that as daylight came on, it was apparent that only a couple gallons had spilled from the tank, and that the Fire Dept. had the spill controlled. In light of that, I turned around and went back to bed. B-157-1998*On March 9, 1998 at 1245 we received a call from Ms. Philomena Lee of Whitney Energy in Lincoln reporting a kerosene leak at Donald Bubar's home on the Transalpine Road in Lincoln. I contacted Mr. Bubar who said that ice collapsed and broke off the feedline for his outside kerosene tank. Consequently, about 225 gallons of fuel spilled since Whitney Energy filled the tank on March 6. Mr. Bubar said he shovelled away the snow around the filter and dug into the ground beneath the leak but found that the oil didn't spread more than a couple feet on the ground's surface. Since there was no frost in the soil the oil likely penetrated down instead of out on the surface. Mr. Bubar has a drilled well which is located about 125 feet upslope on the other side of the trailer. I visited the site on March 19 and found that the tank is located on the top of a steep slope down to Rocky Brook. The brook is about 150 feet down the slope. Any run off and groundwater movement is down the slope and towards the brook. I-195-1999*AT THE HOME OF DAVE COLLINS A PUDDLE OF FUEL OIL WAS DISCOVERED UNDER THE FURNACE. HE IS RENTING THE HOME. Staff had Allen's Vaccum truck come in and suck up fuel spill/ puddle along with approx 2.4 tons of contaminated soils around the spill area. A blower fan and poly tent was installed to vent the vapors out of the basement. The 2.4 ton of contaminated soil, speedi dri sorbent materials were hauled to the Tri-Community Landfill. 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-595-1996*Received a call from certified tank installer Ted Haskell about a problem he was having at Mount St. Joseph in Waterville. Ted discovered that in a 10,000 gallon #2 fuel oil UST, the interstitial leak detector was malfunctioning and the interstitial space was full of water. He tried pumping it out but could not get the water level down. He called me and told me about the problem. He reported that there was no odor of fuel in the water he was pumping out and no water in the tank proper. He then put a larger pump into service and was able to pump the water level down, but recovery was very quick. This evidence indicated a large leak in the skin of the tank. The tank was manufactured by Total Containment and had a plastic liner over a steel tank. Ted was in contact with Total Containment to request leak detection and warranty assistance. The factory technician was scheduled to visit in January. Since the steel tank did not seem to be compromised, letting Total Containment inspect the tank for posssible warrenty adjustment seemed the prudent course of action. In January the factory technician tested the tank and Ted had to prepare the site by dewatering it and excavating one end of the tank. A nitrogen test was done and detected a very large leak in the skin. Additional excavation was done and a split in the seam was revealed. The technician declared it a material failure and Total Containment honored the warranty and offered to replace the tank. The tank replacement occurred the week of 1/21/97 with Ted Haskell doing the installation. When the old tank was removed, Ted reported that the seam failure was extensive and definetly a manufacturing fault. Due to the fact that this was replacing an out of specification tank, no waiver of the notice to abandon was necessary. No product was released during this incident and Ted reported that the excavation was clean. No further work is necessary on this site. B-780-1998*B-780-98 Bucksport Friday December 4, 1998 1350 I received a phone call from Bub Saunders (947-3184), of Fessenden Geo-Environmental. Mr. Saunders phoned to report contaminated soil at a phase II site assessment that was being conducted as part of a property transfer of the Dragon Concrete Plant on Route 46 to Thibodeau Construction. Bub said that he was excavating in an area near an out building / garage and found elevated levels of hydrocarbons as tested with a PID. I arrived on scene, Mike Thibodeau, of Thibodeau construction was on scene as was a person representing the environmental interests of the Dragon Concrete Company. Excavation continued and Clean up levels were set to stringent due to the proximity of a near by well on the adjacent property. In all, about 100 cubic yards of contaminated soil, from a former tank removal location was removed. This soil was stockpiled for later removal to Dragon Concrete, in Thomaston. B-710-1998*Mr.Willey called to report that he had seen three drums dumped at the edge the North Road in Newburgh. It looked to him that the drums had tar or #6 oil in them. Tom Maleck and I went to the seen where we found three drums of hardened asphalt. One had leaked a small rope like piece of tar. We recovered the drums and "rope" and, after approval of the Bangor Solid Waste Supervisor, Cindy Darling, disposed of the drums at Sawyer's Env. Rec. Facility. P-54-1998*Leaking container of DARACLEAN 2380 (Potassium hydroxide) while in transport to user. Responded to by Clean Harbors. See field notes, etc. for further details. 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-482-1996* Mike White, of E&GG Inc., called this office on 10-7-96 to report the finding of contaminated soil. The soil was discovered during a routine underground tank removal. Two tanks were removed from the North Jay Grange #10. PID readings up to 715 PPM were detected using the poly bag method. Both tanks had holes. No cleanup was done at this time because the area is served by town water and the site is located next to an uncontrolled Haz. Waste site. For more info on the Haz. Waste site see spill report A-488-90 and Larry Brown of DEP/BRWM. No further action will be taken on this site at this time. B-650-2000*B-650-00 Stockton Springs Tuesday December 5, 2000 1515 During an inspection at Staatsvurg Manufacturing Company, in Stockton Springs, Scott Leighton noticed an oil stain in front of the building. The oil staining originated near the area in which there are drums of used machine oil and metal filings are stored. On Wednesday (December 6, 2000) I visited Staatsvurg Manufacturing, and spoke with Mr. Louie Marquis, (the apparent owner and operations manager). I showed Mr. Marquis the oil stained area in front of the building. He said that the last time the oil and steel shavings and cutting oil was picked up by a local contractor. I explained that the staining needed to be cleaned up. He may choose to hire a few workers with shove or use a small rubber tired backhoe. Mr. Marquis contracted Mr. Louis Seekin (548-2470), a local excavation contractor. Mr. Seekin would be doing the excavating. The material was to be placed in open top drums to await shipping to Sawyer Environmental, in Hampden. I was there for the clean up which occurred on Monday December 11. Mr. Lou Seekin showed up on scene with a large excavator and removed the stained area and put it into four 55-gallon drums. These drums are to be held and taken to Sawyer Environmental in Hampden when Mr. Louis Marquis contacts me. P-1003-1999*CMP personell discovered a small stain (4' x 3") on the gravel at the Bethel substation. None of the nearby equipment appeared to be leaking. The PCB of the transformers was unknown, however no sample could be taken due to the frozen ground. Crews returned on Jan. 10, 2000 to clean-up/sample the material, however it was still too frozen. They returned later in the spring and removed the material. 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 ******Waiting for verification of clean-up.********** 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. A-125-2000*Received a call from Jeff Reardon that there was an oil spill on Route 1 in Camden. I responded to the scene and was met by a Camden firefighter. It was raining and the water showed a sheen on the road. A search of the area showed the possible start of the problem, a driveway. No one answered the door. Speculation is that they had received a delivery of fuel oil earlier in the day and while reeling in the hose some fuel spilled, probably a lot less then a gallon. The truck drove through it and the rain spread it further. No work is needed at this site. P-470-1999*On 6/25/99 Scott Cyr received a call from John Cook who reported seeing a Crooker truck dumping liquid material on Board Rd. in Brunswick near a pond. I investigated the complaint on 6/28/99. I did not see any evidence of discharge in the area where it was reported to have happened. No further action required. _______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II JULY 6, 1999 A-90-1996*Received a call from Mike Bartlett of G. H. Bass that there had been a hydraulic oil spill in their Weld Street plant. He reported that a hose broke on a molding machine and 15 gallons of hydraulic oil spilled onto the plant floor. Company personel cleaned it up. No Response action was necessary. See report from G.H.Bass for additional information. P-498-2001*Mrs. Duncanson got clean sand fill delivered to her home to fill in behind a retaining wall. She runs a day care and noticed that the kids clothes smelled funny. She discovered that the sand had a distinct oily smell to it. I went out and collected samples for analysis. We discovered the sand had 891 parts per million (ppm) Diesel Range Organics and 25 ppm Gasoline Range Organics in it. We had the sand vactored out and replaced with truly clean fill. We were never able to track down the original source of the contamination, but the soil was delivered by Blue Rock. No further Response action is needed at this time. P-401-2000*See attached report. Product was neutralized and washed up. _____________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I July 5, 2000 B-358-1999*The State Police dispatch advised me that a Charles Hasner called to report a 30 gallon gasoline spill onto the pavement at the Corinna Big Apple store. I called the number given and could not make contact with a real person at the number given. I called the store and talked with a clerk who believed that it had been cleaned up. Since it was a hot day and the report to the police said the spill was to pavement and the report indicated that the spill had taken place 4 hours prior to me getting the call I assumed that would be little to clean up. On Monday morning I contacted the C. N. Brown office and learned that the correct name was Charles Hafner. Mr. Hafner is a dispatcher for the company. He was not in but his counterpart; Bob Noyes had the information I was looking for. Apparently the company driver had been making a gasoline delivery at about 16:00 and overfilled a tank. This facility is an AST system inside a concrete dike. Mr. Noyes said that the driver cleaned up the spill with sorbent pads. The pads are collected by a licensed waste transporter for disposal. No further action expected. P-564-2000*SUMMARY While in this area for another spill visit, I checked out this registered UST location #4233, to check on a planned 1991 UST abandonment-by-removal. The UST was gasoline but no Certified Tank Installer (CTI) was mentioned on the notice. The facility owner & operator is a vending and food company. The area is urban commercial and residential, I believe on city water. Onsite I noted no evidence of a UST or of any prohibited discharges so I did not stop into the office. No further action is expected at this time. See attached. REPORT UPDATE In July 2006, I was contacted by Ron Donovan inquiring on DEP records of the UST being removed. I advised him of my year 2000 site visit but nothing conclusive and that there is no evicence that DEP observed the 1991-92 tank abandonment. He recalled more than a tank-truck load of water being pumped out of the tank due to groundwater leaking in thru corrosion holes in the tank. There is no record that a CMR 691 UST Closure Assessment was performed during this removal. No required Maine CTI is listed. S G Brezinski . A-136-1996*see attached P-630-1999*August 1999, responded to spill location and met with complainant. We toured the unpaved, grassy area. Mr. Dargie advised that he observed a suspicious, white van in the area. No further information concerning the vehicle could be given. Upon further investigation, Mr. Dargie observed a black material that appeared to be dumped. I observed several residual black stains on the ground. I conducted a pH test on the material that resulted in a neutral result. I could not identify a responsible party, the source of the discharge, or the nature of the material. It appeared inert in my opinion. I also observed a limited amount of building material had been left or dumped on this site. Further action may be warranted pending future complaints. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 9Sep99. B-725-1998*On 11/10/98, 1540 hours Gerry Lemire of Irving Oil in Brewer reported a 10 gallon overfill at the residence of Steve Elliot in Calais (60 Monroe Street, 454-2431). At the time of the report they were in the process of hiring a contractor to remediate the spill. The next day Moses Cilley called to say that he had 5 yards of contaminated soil from the Irving clean up. We discussed disposal and he suggested Lonney Cilley's property in Princeton. I had approved Lonney's place a couple of years ago so I agreed. I faxed a spreading agreement form and got it back signed by Lonney. From the dimensions supplied by Moe the calculated penetration of the spill would have been three inches. He dug down ten inches on the area. This information indicates that the spill was entirely cleaned up. It was fortunate that the ground sloped away from the dwelling, which was a mobile home. P-389-1996*On 6/28/96, DEP became aware of this apparent chlorine incident that occured at Mt. Ararat School in Topsham. Aparently, DEP was not notified though Topsham Fire Dept. responded. See the attached newspaper clipping and contact the school for further information. No DEP visit made and no further Response Div. action likely. A-306-1999*Ms. Schafer and Beverly Murdock noticed a sheen at a spot where water from the bog was washing across the road. I visited the site and observed a few small areas with organic sheen. There was no evidence of petroleum. No further action is anticipated. I-11-2000*Spill was reported to the home owner by the furnace repairman.The furnace had developed an oil leak and could not be repaired. The furnace was shutdown and the home owner contacted Aroostook County Action Program for emergency assistance to replace the furnace. The Fuel tank and supply had been brought up to code by ACAP with DEP upgrade monies. The fuel system had been leaking for quite a while. I contacted a contractor to put down a poly barrier and to vent from under that to the outdoor. No further action required. P-139-1996*On 3/2/96 I received a report through the Maine State Police from the South Portland Fire Department reporting a drum of unknown contents that had washed up on Willard Beach. I responded immediately. Upon arrival I observed the 55 gallon steel drum to have "fuel" spray painted on it. The drum appeared to have a few gallons of liquid in it. I could see no evidence that the drum was or had leaked. I hired Clean Harbors to pick up the drum. The drum was later determined to contain a very small amount of gasoline. Clean Harbors disposed of the contents and drum. No further action required. __________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II 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. I-94-1999*On 6-17-99, Parker Smith of McCain Foods called to report that a delivery truck had spilled about 10 gallons of diesel on hot there at the plant in Easton. A fuel line had broken on the truck. They had cleaned it up by excavating the hot top and soil from the shoulder of the road. B-122-2001*B-122-01 Blue Hill Monday March 19, 2001 1610 Mr. Phil Finley, of Hancock Oil phoned to report that one of their home delivery trucks, while in Blue Hill apparently had a problem with the internal valving. This resulted in a 20-gallon spill of number 2 heating oil to the area in front of the home and attached garage. "Rockwood Partners" is the residence of Blaise Deisbour (374-5012). The spill was to pea stone with sand underlayment. I explained that I would soon be en route, though I was not sure where the spill was located. I gave Mr. Finley my cell phone number so he could call and offer a 'mid course correction' . When Mr. Finley phoned he also said that R.F. Jordan Construction, of Ellsworth had been hired to do the excavation. They were told not to start until I arrived. When I arrived, it looked like a 9 foot by 30-foot area was affected by the oil spill. The stained area was back dragged and the pea stone and underlying sand was removed. This material was placed on a R.F. Jordan Construction dump truck. I explained that I would make contact with Pine Tree Landfill (formerly Sawyer Environmental Recovery Facility) and get the authorization numbers prior to them transporting the material on Tuesday. Tuesday March 20, 2001 0739 I spoke with Mr. Phil Finley and told him I would fax him a copy of the Oil Spill Debris Form. I also faxed this form to the driver at R.F. Jordan and faxed a copy to Betty Robinson at Pine Tree Landfill. B-60-2000*The Dead River Oil Co. called to report a cup spill of #2 heating oil at the Pham So Do residence at 115 Dartmouth St. in Bangor. It seems that a seal on the burner was leaking. The technician reported that it was all on concrete and that no drains were involved. The burner was repaired. Sorbent powder used on the stain was swept up and returned to their shop for disposal. A-168-1999*A Wiscasset highway truck blew a line as it was leaving the public works garage. A 1000' trail of hydraulic fluid was evident on Danforth Street between Federal and Hodge Streets. The highway crew placed sand on the spill and later swept it up. After visiting the site I suggested further sweeping be done as a public safety measure. No further action required. P-683-1996*On 10/29/96 I responded to an accident on the turnpike. A backhoe being hauled on a flatbed trailer had come loose from the truck and tipped over. The backhoe was leaking hydraulic oil when I arrived on site. The oil was being caught in a can. Some hydrualic oil spilled to the ground and was cleaned up with sorbent pads. There was very little to no diesel spilled at the scene. Once the backhoe was righted it quit leaking. No further action. B-320-1997*For reasons unclear to me now, an abandoned aviation gas tank was discovered at the Brewer Airport. Unfortunately, between installation and discovery, the property had been split, with the tank on the lot belonging to Nickerson & O'Day and the island-vent pipe on the Brewer Airport property. Wayne Giffard was hired to take the tank out, and it was a rush job, as the owner was flying in from out-of-state to be present. By the time I arrived back in town to write the waiver, the tank was out, and the site assessor gone. No contamination was encountered. I-51-2001*Nozzle fell out causing 15 gals. of diesel fuel to be spilled. B-729-1997*On December 22, 1997 at 0815 we received a call from Tammaro Oil in Baileyville reporting a two hundred gallon kerosene spill on Route 1 in Baileyville. The spill occurred the previous afternoon at the home of Evelyn Corbett when ice fell off the trailer roof and broke the filter off the tank which allowed the fuel to leak onto the ground. The area is on town water. I arrived on site about 1100 and met Mike Tammaro, Jerry Crosby, who was also a tenant in the trailer and a crew from E.G. Hold who is a local contractor. They were excavating contaminated soil beneath the tank and alongside the trailer. There was no frost in the ground due to the early snow but the back hoe encountered a clay layer about two feet down which prohibited any further downward penetration of the kerosene. However, some of the fuel was too far under the trailer and removal of this soil would undermine the structural integrity of the trailer. We installed some perforated PVC pipe backfilled with crushed rock to vent the fumes from beneath the trailer. I told Mr. Crosby that he and Ms. Corbett should check their homeowners insurance and that I would have the fire marshal's office mail them an application for the Above Ground Storage Tank Fund. A-701-1998* DEP received a report that oil was spilled when a piece of logging equipment burned at this remote property. The vehicle owner (Castonguay) excavated contaminated soil for land-spreading on a woods road that he owns. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. B-675-2000*B-675-2000 12/18/2000 12:30 Eben Waugh of Bartley & Cobb Oil (RH Foster) called to report a spill at their facility on Pritham Avenue. It was stated that approximately 100 gallons spilled from their 6000 gallon above ground tank when a pump malfunctioned. All of the oil was contained in a lined concrete dike. The oil was subsequently pumped out for reuse and the remainder cleaned up with sorbents. No resources of the State were affected from this incident. B-91-2001* On March 7, 2001 at 0845 we received a call from Joe Bailey who is the manager of Irving Oil's heating oil office in Millinocket. He said his office received a call from Ms. Lula Osnoe of 38 Beech St. in East Millinocket reporting a leaking fuel line in her basement. Ms. Osner has an Irving account but she had just had an independent burnerman work on the furnace. An Irving crew arrived on scene, tightened the leaking connection and recovered the fuel with sorbents. They estimated that between five and ten gallons leaked onto the cement floor. No oil reached any drain. P-763-1996* On Wed. 11/27/96 I responded to an emergency call regarding an MDOT snowplow that had been hit be a car and had its saddle tank reuptured. Onscene I noted a heavy spill of oil on the paved entrance to Dellies Pub resturant. A thick layer of fresh sand spread by MDOT contained most all of the oil atop the pavement. As instructed, crews picked up the sand and layed fresh sand to absorbe remaining oil. The sand was recycled at Commercial Recycling under a DEP virgin letter. Little oil was observed to have soaked into the ground, though I advised MDOT to have their Env. Div. look at it to evaluate any threat to the two nearby drilled wells. A copy of this report will also be refered to DEP Tech services. Mr. Kitchen, owner of Dellies Pub was very concerned for his well that also serves his recidence. See the attached for further details. SGB 12/96 A-15-2001*Anonymous citizen complaint of engine blocks stored behind Tracy's Express warehouse. There were some automotive parts in the area but nothing appeared to be leaking. Tracy's Express agreed to have the area cleaned up and the parts disposed of properly. I visited town hall and found that Tracy's Express was in violation of some local solid waste rules so I reported the problem to the Turner Code Enforcement Officer, Roger Williams 225-3414. No further action is expected. P-708-2000*I received a call from a tenant at 38 Central regarding oil odors from a spill that occurred about one year prior. The previous tank system had leaked a small amount. The system had been promptly repaired, however odors were coming up from a crawl space under the home. I call the property owner to discuss ways to eliminate the odors. I met the owner on site the work on the crawl space. A layer of 6 mil poly was placed across the ground of the crawl space and covered with 3-4 inches of clean gravel. The tenant reported that the odors had gone away. No further action. B-590-1996*On 10/30/96 I received an anonymous complaint of oil spillage at the Sinclair Fuel office on Route 2 in Carmel. I visited the site on 10/31 and talked to the secretary who showed me around the facility. There was some spillage beneath an outside 275 gallon tank which supplied kerosene to a trailer on the property. The vertical tank was installed on cinder blocks and one leg was almost off a block. I told the secretary that the oil burner code required that an upright tank is installed on a cement pad. I also noticed that two large trailer units were set up on the property with their landing gear down. The secreatary said that they use those trailers as heating oil storage tanks and unload from them to home delivery trucks. I told her I thought that using mobile storage units as stationary tanks was against the fire marshals regulations. I later informed the fire marshal in Bangor who said it was illegal and he would check out the faciltiy. A-417-1999*Received a call from a Mr. Ron Gordon concerning his neighbors Richard and Shawn Parks. He accused them of dumping oil and gasoline on his property and burning the gas and oil to dispose of it. He said that I should come out when they aren't home as they are troublemakers. He mentioned that he has called the town about junk on their property a number of times. He also mentioned that he is having a property boundary dispute with them. I did not have a good feeling about this. Later in the week on Saturday, he called again but I didn't want to go out about this. Monday, Mary Corr another Responder in the office also took a call from Mr. Gordon. He gave her the same story as he gave me. However, the State Police Dispatcher spoke with Mary and recommended that we not go out there. Guns have been mentioned. Nobody had been arrested yet, according to the dispatcher, but it may get to that point. Not a very good place to be. It was collectively decided that we would not go out to this complaint. See e-mail printout of Mary's for additional information. P-298-1999* On 5/16/99, DEP reviewed the 4/23/99 copy of a UST removal assessment performed by EER the previous 1/19/99 for Cumberland Farm's (CFI's) Scarborough, Maine store. The report stated that the two 550 gal. steel, #2 oil UST's had been removed unregistered and without notice. CFI apparently mistakenly believed that heating oil UST's were unregulated in Maine as they are in Mass. On 5/17/99 I wrote to Mr. Dandrade of CFI informing of Maine's requirements for UST's like this, requesting that the UST's be registered, and advising that they check other sites for unregistered UST's. [CFI has also found unregistered UST's at their Sanford and Cape Elizebeth stores in recent years.] Further research showed that a removal notice had been filed the previous Oct. 1998 for these two UST's. The tanks were registered by CFI: #20026. The store does not have a motor fuel facility. Two other businesses also occupy the location. The two removed UST's were reported to have been installed in 1975. The area is largely commercial, along US Route 1. EER stated they found no reportable contamination noted during the abandonment. See DEP UST Reg. file and attached for further details. No further DEP, Response Div. actions are expected at this time. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM. P-792-1999*Blown seal on a dump truck in the yard of MERC released approximately 2 gallons of hydraulic oil to the pavement. MERC personnel cleaned up the spill with sorbent pads and speedy dry. No further action. I-80-2000*On 8-14-00, Joanne Ramo called this office to report that her well was contaminated. I met with her at her home that day and took a water sample. The possible sources include a gas station next door and an old fuel oil business several houses down the street. B-114-1999* On March 15, 1999 at 1215 we received a call from Loraine Sarrah of the Plymouth Fire Dept. reporting a leak from a basement tank at the home of Kurt Billingham on route 7 in Plymmouth. She said the basement flooded and then froze which broke the feedline near the tank's filter. She estimated that 100 to 150 gallons leaked onto the ice and water. Firefighters turned off the sump pump. I visited the site that afternoon and although no one was home the basement window was open and I stuck the product level on the water/ice and found about an inch of product. Since the product wasn't going anywhere I decided to contact the owner before I hired Clean Harbors to vacuum the fuel from the basement. I visited the site the following day and talked to Shawn Engstrom who also lives in the house who gave me a phone number for Mr. Billington at work since the residence had no phone. I contacted Mr. Billington and informed him of his responsibility to clean up the spill and also about the AST Insurance Fund. He accepted responsibility and asked me to contact Clean Harbors for clean-up. I arranged for them to have a Vac truck and crew on site on March 19, 1999. Clean Harbors arrived as scheduled and we spent about five hours on site pumping, skimming and using sorbents to recover the oil. We recovered almost all the oil in the basement and pumped an additional fifty gallons from the tank. This oil didn't leak since the fire department had plugged the hole the first day. We finished the clean-up and I told Mr. Billington that he'll receive a AST insurance application from the Fire Marshall' office and he should fill it in and return it as soon as possible. P-658-1997*19 Sep 97, inspected basement of subject. I observed an above ground storage tank of a type of construction I have not encountered previously. I agreed to removed the product and have it disposed. I conducted the removal of the product on 7 November 1997, and recovered approximately 264.95 liters. I made arragements with Seacoast Ocean Services to test and remove the liquid from MDEP possession. However, SOS never came and picked the material up, so I made arragements to have the material tested and re-used (see attached letter dated 13 January 1998). No further response actions anticipated. Nathan Thompson, 29Jan98. A-383-1998*No site visit made. The driver and fire department cleaned the fuel. Some fuel went into a storm drain. The fire department notified the sewage treatment plant. No further action is anticipated. A-178-2001* DEP received a report that a minor transformer oil spill had occurred. Oily snow was collected by CMP for disposal. 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. P-890-1999* On Wed. 12/21/99 Mr. Mulherin reported to Maine DEP that his submersible well located in his drilled well had leaked its cooling/lube mineral oil into the well casing. After checking his Pump model number and conferring with Woodard and Flannery of DEP, I advised Mr. Mulherin that his pump was NOT on our list for pumps potentially containing PCB's in its mineral oil (see attached). I further advised him remove the free oil, add then add a little dish detergent such as Dawn, and then flush out of the well and pipes till the water was clear. Mineral oil does not pose a significant health threat and this treatment has proven to satisfactorily clean up mineral-oiled wells. On 1/5/99 I gave Mr. Mulherin names for several wet labs if he wished to have his well analyzed for PCB's, and I mailed him MSDS's for mineral oil and PCB's; and an article on PCB Water Contamination (see attached). About 12/21 I visited the house at Mr. Mulherin's request to sample as he claimed inability to pay for analysis, and he still did not trust his water. A sample was analyzed by Maine Env. by EPA 608. I noted no odor, sheen, or free product in the water sample. If PCB's did turn up in the analysis, further DEP Resp. Div. action assisting with remediation was expected. On 2/2/00 analysis results were received which showed ND for a Quantification Limit of 0.33 ppb. Analysis results were promptly mailed to Mr. Mulherin. Jon Woodard of DEP and I agree to seeking no reimbursement for lab costs from the Mulherins at this time. See attachments for further data. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-179-2000* On March 31, 2000 at 1630 we received a call from John Sklenar of K-Mart reporting a leak from a pad mounted transformer behind his store. I met Mr. Sklenar at the site and he said one of his employees noticed some stained soil around the unit. A corner of the transformer was bent and he believed a snowplow hit the unit while plowing snow during the winter. Bangor Hydro flagged the area and will replace the unit. Since the transformer was three or four years old we felt it held non PCB oil. On April 18 Bangor Hydro took the unit out of service and replaced it. The nameplate inside the transformer said it contained no PCBs. However, Clean Harbors did excavate six drums of oil contaminated soil. I-72-1997*On 6-27-97, I recieved a call at home from the State police to report that there had been a truck rollover on the river Road in Fort Fairfield. I responded and found that the truck was on its side in the ditch well away from any residences or the river. Both saddle tanks were pumped off to avoid and loss during the righting of the truck. A negligable amount was spilled through the cap before my arrival. B-26-2001*A tank with an 1 1/4" fill and a 3/4" vent cannot be successfully filled with 200 gallons of oil, at least when the vent is turned downward and ice built up around the end. Ronald Overlock, driver for New England Heating, discovered this incontrovertible truth on the morning of 1/26/01. He said he stood at the truck and watched the meter, since the tenant had only ordered 200 gallons of fuel. (Just because a user says the tank will accept 200 gallons, doesn't make it so.) At Overlock's behest, tenant Joseph Brown stationed himself at the fill pipe to listen for the whistle; he said he never did hear one and at the 183 gallon mark, the tank end blew out. Overlock said he heard a loud bang, and stopped pumping; at the same time, Mr. Brown came running around the corner, saying there'd been a loud bang in the basement. Overlock entered the basement and observed 3" of oil on the floor; the boiler was afire. He ordered the occupants to call the Fire Dept. and to vacate the building. The building is owned by Jerry Wood of 8735 West Riverwood Dr., Crystal River Florida 34428 (352) 795-8895. The Fire Dept. arrived and put out the small fire still remaining at the boiler. There was not much oil remaining on the cellar floor, but they put down sorbent pads to recover what oil they could. The discovery of a floor drain led them to believe that the oil had drained from the basement that way; because the drain exited to daylight near the river, the Fire Dept. notified me. Prior to my arrival, the firefighters cleared the snow away from the end of the floor drain; there was obviously no where near 220 gallons of oil there. Lifting the cover off the drilled well and shining a light down the shaft, it appeared as though a sheen was on the water column. A sampler run down the well revealed 1/8" of fresh oil on the water surface. B-470-2000*In the summer of 2000, METCO, a heavy equipment dealer, was sold. Due diligence dictated that a site assessment be performed before the property changed hands. Don McFadden of Sebago Technics did the work and documented several areas where, over the years, equipment had leaked lube and hydraulic oil or fuel. All the contamination that could be found was excavated and disposed at Sawyer's Environmental Recovery Facility in Hampden. A-579-2000*I received a call from Betty at C.N. Brown at 1100 hrs. on 10/17/2000. Betty indicated a minor overfill had occurred at customer home in Belfast. Customer name is Loren Robert Sr. of Robbins Rd. Betty indicated approximately 1 pint of K-1 had been spilled to gravel drive. Soils had been excavated with no visible remains nor odor detected. I contacted Mr. Robert and he indicated that there was no evidence left of the spill. I called Belfast water district and Robbins Road is served by Public Water. No further action is anticipated by DEP. 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. P-503-1994*While undertaking some trench work at their Williams Terminal in South Portland, Clean Harbors encountered some contaminated soil. A total of 73.41 tons soil were removed and processed at Commercial Recycling Systems. B-585-1997*D-TREE=S. P-258-2000*The initial call was rec'd by L Doran of ME DEP Response services she passed it to DEP/Cyr for follow up. A drum of oil/water either from motor fleet use or the boiler house began to leak and was moved to an outside location adjacent to the building. This second location was on a slight slope therefore the discharge migrated a short distance from the drum down the slope. The soil was initially excavated (an area approximately 5'x5' to a depth of one foot) and placed on the back parking lot, with plans to farm it as a remediation plan. Some additional soils were hand excavated to ensure complete removal. However to be consistant with the redevelopment of Pineland it was decided the contaminated soil would be removed from the site. The individuals present were Robert Arsenault (Sevee & Maher Eng.), Norm Finley BGS (state), Butch (Pineland staffer), and Dennis Martin (Coastal Environmental) and Cyr DEP. No additional work was planned for this particular event based on the information at the time of this report. 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-573-1996* On 9/11/96 Bill Verdun of US EPA referred a complaint to me about a flammable and toxic liquid causing a problem within the new Cumberland Cty Jail in Portland. On 9/12/96, Mr. Russ Brigham, Facilities Mgr. returned my call to explain that they had been dealing with an mystery chemical fluid forming bubbles under the floor coating in several areas of the jail. At the time they were having Northeast Test Consultants doing an investigation with samples for lab analysis. Based on my extensive time onsite during the initial construction phase of the site, (P-344-91) I assured Mr. Brigham that this liquid and vapors were not likely coming from the ground under the facility. Later tests indicated that the chemicals were coming from the floor coating and not the underlying concrete and below. At this time I understand that the problem is under litigation with the building contractors and/or flooring producers. Rather than a strict Haz-Mat incident, Maine DEP consideres this problem to be more of an indoor air-quality issue more applicable to OSHA, DHS, et al. As this is not an emergency issue, no further Response Div. action is likely. See the attached for further details. A-197-2001*Received a report from Dee Hobart of H.E. Sargent concerning a small oil spill. She reported that a hydraulic line broke on a piece of heavy machinery spilling approximately 1 gallon of hydraulic oil onto the ground. The spill was at Waste Management - Crossroads in Norridgwock. They excavated about 1 cubic yard and disposed of it on site. No site visit was made and no further action is necessary. P-861-1992* Former UST bulk plant. Remediation thru DEP, BRWM Uncontrolled Sites unit. B-671-1997*11/20/97 10:55 Dave Bowen of Community Fuels called to report a small #2 fuel spill at the residence of Sally Scott on Route 141 in Swanville. Mr. Bowen explained to me that a hose failed on his delivery truck spilling about 10 gallons onto a frozen surface. The oil was then cleaned up with speedi dri. No resources of the state were believed to be affected. P-118-1996*On February 21, 1996 at 1200hr. I received a call from Adam Ogden of the Brunswick Public Works Department reporting that he had been contacted regarding the disposal of approximately 5 gallons of nitric acid. The getleman who wished to dispose of the material, Mr. Fulton Pinnette, wished to donate the material to Silvix Corp. for use in their manufacturing process. I checked with the RCRA unit and determined that since it is a housegold waste (and, in fact virgin product), this would be an appropriate disposal method. I contacted Mr. Ogden and relayed the information. No site visit was made and no further action is necessary in this matter. __________________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 1 Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management Division of Reponse Services P-687-1998*21 July 1998, I meet with the Hughes' to complete UST removal and registration documentation. I completed a registration, 30-day removal, and abandonment in place forms. 18 August 1998, I arrived on site to inspect UST abandonment operations by Todd Zagarella, Parsonsfield. The tank was abandon and cleaned to DEP satisfaction and regulations. No discharge occurred as a result of this abandonment. No further response action is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (22Jan1999) B-611-2001* On 10/27/01, 1300 hours Joseph Fontaine of Sullivan Fire Department reported a crankcase oil spill that had resulted from a truck accident. The mishap took place on the bridge that replaced the "Singing Bridge". Sullivan Fire had recovered as much of the spill as they could with pads and DOT deployed sand to make sure that the release would not present a hazard to traffic. I-39-1991*Mr. Sealander called and reported he had an odor in his well. When I visited the site, I found the most likely source to be a snowmobile that was actively leaking when I visited. The site sites on fractured bedrock with less than a foot of overburden. The fractures are in line with well and the leaking snow sled. Mr. Sealander was advised to not drink the water and to install a carbon filter. Response case closed. B-31-1997*On 1/15/97, 2230 hours the state police said that they had taken a call from a person who was concerned about a vehicle that had gotten into Big Wilson Stream. I was unable to contact the person because the telephone number was not in service. I contacted Don Amis, who is the game warden for that area. Don was familiar with the incident. He said that it was just the rear wheels that was in the stream and that there was no spillage of product. He said that the incident was in Little Wilson Stream near Little Wilson Camp in Elliotsville Plantation. P-650-1997*14 August 1997, I received a spill complaint from the subject; who sounded distressed over spilled transmission fluid on a dirt road in front of her house and how the oil will kill animals that come in contact with it. The subject became agitated upon my inquires for details concerning the spill. The subject then went on to complain about the dumping S.D. Warren paper mill does on land that abuts her property. No specific details were presented regarding this issue. I responded to spill location. A person visiting the residence informed me that the spiller's car blew a seal in the automatic transmission causing the spill. The subject did not present herself upon my arrival. I removed the thin, saturated and stained layer of dirt and placed it in plastic bags lined with sorbent pads. I later removed the pads for disposal, then I spread the remaining soil for areation. I referred this case to the Land & Water Bureau for their consideration toward mentioned dumping complaint. No further response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (18Nov97) B-153-1998*On March 6, 1998 we received a call from Gary's Fuel of Penobscot reporting a five gallon kerosene spill. The spill occurred on March 5 at the home of Ms. Eva Greenlaw on the Silver Lake Road in Bucksport. The deliveryman didn't secure the nozzle to the fillpipe and when it popped off he lost about five gallons of kerosene onto the ground. He recovered the fuel with sorbents and by excavation of a drum of contaminated soil. I-72-1996*The State Police reported a pulp truck leaking fuel at the weigh station south of Presque Isle. Spill was contained and truck was being held. When I arrived, I found the right saddle tank leaking around the crossover valve. After shutting off the crossover line, the Rt tank was pumped into the left tank. The leaking valve was taken out and reinstalled with tread tape. Spill was cleaned up with about a dozen pads which were supplied by the State Police. A-645-1999*The ALLIED RESOURCE, a 56' landing craft, sank in about 200' of water when the loading door opened accidentally. About 50 gallons of diesel fuel was on board; a slight sheen was observed the day of the sinking. The owner had hoped to salvage the vessel, but was delayed by bad weather. Now it is up to the insurance company whether or not the vessel will be salvaged. Any action would likely not take place until March 2000 due to weather. Petty Officer Dave Gagne at USCG MSO-Bucksport (469-2394) was also involved. No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services. A-201-1996*See attached narrative B-518-1998*I was at the Ellsworth Fire Station when a call came in, reporting that there was 30 gallons of diesel fuel laying on the ground next to the pump at the Wayside Market. The caller said he'd reported to the clerk the fact that there'd been an oil spill, and her response was "So?" Fire Fighter/engineer Mike Hangge and I responded, and used the Fire dept.'s sorbents to wipe up what was left of the spill. We explained to the clerk that spills of this nature are supposed to be reported, and that we could've recovered a lot more oil if the spill had been reported in a timely fashion. She claimed to have no knowledge as to when or how the spill occurred. On 8/6/98 I had a conversation with Tim Ray, owner of the store, and explained to him the same thing. He said he'd have a conversation with the clerk, and I'm confident that spills there will be reported in a more timely fashion henceforth. B-295-2000*B-295-2000 05/27/2000 12:53 Bob Oleski of the Bangor International Airport called to report a small Jet A spill out on the General Aviation Ramp. Approximately 8 gallons of the fuel leaked from a wing vent on a jet aircraft. The fuel was subsequently cleaned up with sorbent material. No drains were reportedly involved. A-618-1999*DEP received an after-hours report that a minor oil spill occurred at this facility and was properly cleaned up (see IP incident report). A-357-2000*Attended the removal of a 1000 gal. steel tank used to store #2 fuel oil. The tank was solid and there was no evidence of a spill. B-515-2000*B-515-2000 09/21/2000 10:55 Clyde Pelkey of Pelkey Oil in Bangor called to report a small spill of #2 fuel on Kenduskeag Ave. It was stated that the PTO on their delivery truck failed spilling about two gallons onto the roadway. All of the fuel was reportedly contained on the pavement surface. A little speedi-dri was used in the clean up. P-317-1999* While returning from a nearby site I noted on 1/21/99 that this downtown So. Paris UST gas station [DEP UST Reg. 7857] and repair garage was closed and out-of-service (OOS). While there on 5/19/99 I noted the facility to still be OOS and I stopped briefly. The site is owned by W. H. Knightly Oil Co. of Norway. In 1990 the facility was known as "Main Street Texaco" though the dispensers are now marked as a GULF station. The reg. address is 178 Main though the neighboring no's. are 150 and 158 Main. The surrounding area is commercial and on city water and sewer. Behind the gas station is a oos car wash also owned by W. H. Knightly, that had diesel UST's removed in the past. On 4/1 - 4/4/90, T-1 thru T-4 were removed and I visited the site to see about a UST removal & discharge clean-up (P-208-90). DEP Reg. files have new, replacement dbl-wall gasoline UST's [T-6 thru T-9] installed on 10/3/89 by A L Doggett Co. though as the new UST's were installed in the same excavation as the old UST's, this 10/3/89 reg. date should likely be 4/6/90 or after. DEP Reg. files still list the facility as active. During my 5/19/99 visit I noted: 1. The four gasoline UST's [T-6 thru T-9] had residual product in them. The fills were not padlocked so could be subject to unauthorized use or dumping. 2. There were three vents obvious though four tanks. 3. On the stations N side was a 1/2 full drum of waste gaso. and a full drum of waste oil. Below the drums was a surface spill into the soil. This discharge was not reported and cleaned up to Dep. satisfaction. This may also constitute as improper haz. waste storage. 4. There were two 275 gal. AST's in the rear of the garage. See attachments and DEP Reg. Files for further info. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM . P-438-2001*04.13.2001 received report of abandon drum along roadway in Buxton. Chris Estes recovered the drum and put it with a similar drum recovered from the same location under DEP spill number P-110-01. No further Response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 09.27.2001 A-621-2001*CMP was replacing a transformer at a remote site in Waterville. The transformer case ruptured causing a spill. CMP personnel bagged the transformer to contain the oil and used sorbents to clean up the ground. This transformer was in question because it didn't meet the profile for either PCB or non-PCB types. Testing by CMP found no PCB's (see attached report). No referral is required. P-807-1996* Several years before, DEP had picked up a virgin bottle of lab grade HCl from the Auburn MTS Yard, that had been left on the side of the Turnpike and found by clean-up crews. DEP attempted to find an organization that could use the product for its intended purpose though ended up having it taken by Clean Harbors for disposal as haz. waste on 1/9/97. 12/31/96, the HOSS spill date is the day when disposal as a waste was decided, as the correct reporting date is presently unknown. No RP is known. See attached disposal and billing information for further details. B-46-1997*1/27/97 @ 1208 Tom Spitz (581-4071), Chemical Hygiene Officer and Facility Emergency Coordinator for the University of Maine phoned to report a small sulfuric acid spill. According to Mr. Spitz there was a 1 pint spill of 30% sulfuric acid, which occurred when one automotive wet cell battery was dropped on top of another at the Facility Management area, near the fluorescent light storage area. The small stain on frozen soil was treated with baking soda. See attachment. A-15-1997*See attached and site assesment in tank file. P-169-1998*On 04/22/98 I attended a tank removal at the J. C. Penney Store at the Auburn Mall that I had issued a 30 day waiver for. During the removal, a small amount of # 2 fuel was discovered around the fill area of the tank. The contamination was believed to be the result of overfills as there was no overfill protection on the fiberglass tank. Removal of this 10,000 gallon tank took longer than planned and another date was set to remove the other 300 gallon diesel tank. On 5/4/98 I attended the removal of the second tank. This was a bare steel tank containing diesel fuel and was discovered to have one corrosion hole in the tank. The resulting contamination did not exceed clean up goals for a baseline-1 site and no clean up was conducted. No further action required. __________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II 6/2/98 P-157-1999*On March 2, 1999 I received a call from Marie Forte of Downeast Energy. Marie called to report a spill of approximately 1 gallon at the Sundial Inn in Kennebunk. Marie stated that the Inn has two manifolded 275's and that the oil was not equalizing between the two tanks. When Downeast delivered oil they overfilled the tank(s). The oil spilled out the vent pipe onto a paved area outside the Inn. Downeast had cleaned up the spilled oil with speedydry had pumped off some the oil from the system and was investigating the system to find out why the tanks weren't equalizing. No further action. I-160-1997*On 10-15-97, I observed the removal of a 30000 gallon #6 oil tank from Maine Frzen foods in Caribou. The tank had many corrosion holes in it and there had been some oil that escaped into the surrounding ground. About 500 yards of contaminated soil was removed and landfilled and some of the free oil on the water table in the excavation was removed with hay. The site was cleaned to a baseline 1 standard. 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-416-1998* DEP received a report that 160 gallons of sulfuric acid was spilled at this facility due to a "line leak" the previous day. According to the caller (Junkins) spilled product was initially confined within a containment area, but was then pumped to the plant sewer. No site visit was conducted by DEP staff as a result of this incident. I-99-2000*A broken hose caused approximately 40 gallons of hydraulic oil to be spilled. It was cleaned up with pads and the gravel was dug up. It was taken to the St. John Mill. A-167-1998*A car was found in the Hallowell Quarry. It had been driven onto the ice during the winter and it sank through. The vehicle had been reported stolen. Hallowell PD recovered the vehicle. They said that product had been lost, but all I found was a light sheen. It dissipated in the rain. B-165-1999*B-165-99 Holden Saturday March 13, 1999 0248 The state police dispatcher phoned and asked me to make contact with Chief James Ellis (843-5151), of the Holden Fire Department. According to Mr. Ellis, an unnamed customer at the Irving Mainway was using the self-service gasoline dispenser. He inserted an object in the nozzle handle to keep the gasoline flowing into his tank. His next mistake was to go into the store. Soon gasoline was running out of his automobile onto the pavement. The fire department was notified as the gasoline was running down gradient off the property onto US Route 1 and toward a storm drain. With sorbent material and speedi-dri, the Holden Fire Department prevented the gasoline from reaching the storm sewer. On Monday morning I observed the area of the spill due to the staining it left on the asphalt pavement. I was able to confirm that the staining stopped about 18 inches prior to reaching the storm drain. The Irving Oil Corporation disposed of sorbent materials consisting of sorbent pads and speedi-dri. A-84-1997*An automobile accident occurred on Route 27. The vehicle left the road and ran into a telephone pole traveling backwards. The rear of the car and the fuel tank were crushed. The fuel tank was plastic and did not leak. A small amount of product popped out of the fill pipe as a result of the crushing action, but no further product was lost. The FD foamed the car prior to recovery. No product was found after the car was moved. P-911-2001*USCG reported 55 gallon drum floating offshore in the vicinity of Portland Pipeline terminal. The drum was retrieved and found to contain water. 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 Remediaiton & Waste Management A-141-1999* The Damariscotta Fire Dept. called the 1-800 # to report an oil spill at the home of Larry Gillison. This home is located on the Back Meadow Rd. It was estimated that a total of 100 gallons of kerosene leaked from the tank. It appears that snow and ice fell off the roof or deck and broke the fitting. The ground was frozen at this location which made oil recovery somewhat easier. The Fire Dept used sorbent pads to collect the oil. I made a site visit that night. The entire area is served by public water. No soil removal needs to be done. No further action required. B-573-1996*On 10/17/96, 2019 hours Barry Webster of Winn General Store called to report that they had a 26 gallon gasoline spill. A customer had driven away with the dispensing nozzle still stuck in their fuel tank. The oversight resulted in the hose being separated from the dispensing pump. The exact amount of the spill was calculated from the final reading (the pump had not stopped) and the amount of the product purchased. The area of the spill was about 256 square feet, and mostly asphalt. This translates to about one pint per square foot. Barry had deployed a bag or so of speedy dry. This would increase the surface area, hence the rate of evaporation would be much faster. The weather at the time was dry and windy, which would further enhance evaporation. Based on experience I would estimate that there was very little gasoline left in the speedy dry by the following day. Furthermore, I would say that the amount of product that went into the ground was nill A-124-2001*Worker spilled a portable container of kerosene to a concrete floor in the fabrication building. Spill collected with sorbent material (speedi-dry) and sent to safety-kleen for disposal. No further action is expected. P-235-1996*Visited at request of Ms. DeHaas. The new owner, Mr. Scott Roberts will register and plan on removal by August, 1996, under CMR 695 requirements. Further Response action possible with pending UST removal. See attachments for further information. B-394-1996*Dave Deane of Dufresne & Henry Inc. called to report the discovery of contamination during the removal of two 550 gallon fuel tanks at the Brooklin Post Office on South Main Street. It was stated that contamination levels were in the range of about 550 ppm at the bottom of the excavation. Approximately 50 yards of contaminated silty till was removed and taken to Sawyer Environemental in Hampden. Two small corrosion holes appeared to be the culprit. The site was cleaned to stringent standards since private wells were located in the area. B-253-1996*Mr. Scharf works in the oil enforcement div. of my dept. and called me with the information that it had been reported to him that a UST at Indian Island was taking on water. Ms. Sockbeson was the contact person. I spoke with her by pho ne and then visited the site. There is some confusion as to where the 3 tanks registered under 2592 are located. However she showed me the tank that was taking on water and it was directly in front of the community center. There was no evidence of oil at that time and from her information it seemed that the influx was being controlled by pumping and leaving plenty of space in the tank. We discussed all the problems associated with the leaking tank and I told her that they would have to remove all oil from the tank and remove it from the ground. I left her with a removal notice and over the early summer discussed such things as what to replace it with and who should do it. In October while I was on vacation a tank installer, Chris Gaudet, contacted Tom Varney of this office and requested a waiver of the 30 day removal notice so that he could remove this tank while the weather was good. Mr. Varney granted a waiver and it was later removed. Exactly when is not known by this office. As no contamination was reported I assume that no oil had escaped the tank. As stated earlier there is confusion as to which tank was removed as shown on the registration so I drove to the site on 1/24/97 to see for myself that the tank reported to me as leaking was removed. From the new slab and appropriate covers I could see that the tank had been replaced. I see no further action is needed. B-506-2000*B-506-2000 09/19/2000 13:15 Gil Merchant of the Bangor International Airport called to report a small Jet A spill out on the general aviation ramp. Approximately 3 gallons spilled from jet engine on an aircraft. All of the fuel was reportedly contained on the pavement. The fuel was subsequently cleaned up with a few sorbents. P-120-1982* Report Update of 2/25/04, by SGB DEP and BFD response to gasoline product in storm drain to Saco River. UST replacement but no piping removal. In 1990 it was shown to be continuous suction-piping discharge (P-762-90). Facility replaced in 1996 after Roger Compagna sold facility to Mr. Ralph Leo and name changed to Holly's Gas. See also separate narrative and DEP reports P-797-96 and P-173-2004, et al for further details. 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. A-254-1999* DEP received an after-hours report that a commercial truck had left the road at this intersection and punctured a saddle-tank. An estimated 75 gallons of fuel was spilled into a small (1/4 acre) pond. Representatives from the company owning the truck agreed to cover any remedial expenses; clean-up crews arrived the following day and sorbed all measurable product. A good percentage of the spilled fuel probably evaporated. A minor transformer oil spill occurred as a result of damage to a CMP pole during this accident (see attached CMP report). Subsequent visits to the pond show near total recovery one month after the spill. 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. P-147-1996*On 3/7/96 Clarence Smith representing the Spurwink School called to report that oil (unspecified) was seeping from the toe of a slope adjacent to a student residence at the Spurwink School, Edes Falls Road, Casco. Brad Hahn received the report because he had been working on a groundwater contamination incident involving gasoline, allegedly from a nearby service station, and was familiar to many of the people living or working in this area. He and I responded to the site on 3/8/96 and determined that the reported oil outbreak was leached iron asssociated with the outfall of the footing drains surrounding the residence. We inspected heating oil storage tank in the basement of the residence and found no evidence of leakage. The supply line which ran to the furnace was sleeved in a polyethylene liner. We reported our findings to school personnel. No further action is required. B-267-1999* On May 28, 1999 at 1430 we received a call from Mona Spear reporting a one gallon spill of hydraulic oil on the asphalt of the Pineo Pt. Rd. in Harrington. A hose broke on the truck spilling the oil which workers picked up with sorbents. No waters were threatened. P-915-2001*On 11/8/01 I received a call from Lynn White of Dead River reporting a tank overfill at a client's residence in Wells. Aproximately 0.25 gallons came out the vent pipe when the tank was overfilled. The driver shoveled a small amount of dirt from beneath the fill pipe and wipe down the cedar shingles with sorbents. No further action required. _______________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II NOVEMBER 8, 2001 A-26-1999*A slight overfill occurred because of an unneeded delivery. A small amount of product came out of the vent. The tank was cleaned up and the excess product was pumped off. P-67-1997*On Feb. 4, 1997 I was contacted by the Old Orchard Beach Fire Department. They called to report a gasoline spill that had just occurred. 3-D Variety at 135 Saco Ave. had been vandalized sometime during the night. The vandals had pulled off the hose from a gasoline pump. When the pump was turned on at 0600, 24.8 gallons of gas spilled to the pavement before the attendent noticed and shut off the pump. When I arrived on site the fire Department had deployed some sorbent pads on a stream of gasoline that had run off the gas station lot and down Union Street. The Fire Dept. had also had the city put down sand on the gas. The gasoline saturated road sand was scraped up and brought to Commercial Paving for recycling. A-559-2000*I recieved a call from Jeff Leach on 10/10/2000 at 0750 reporting that a 5 gallon plastic container of kerosene was spilled on Route 17 in Whitefield. He described the container on the shoulder of the road dripping fuel. He indicated the location was near the Sheepscot River intersection with Route 17. I arrived on site within 15 mins. however, the container had been removed by an unknown party. There was a sheen and odor on the north shoulder of the highway. The container had contained gasoline, not kerosene, based on the odor. I excavated by hand shovel a 30 gallon drum of contaminated sand and returned to the warehouse. No further work is anticipated by DEP. A-377-1997*Pesticides were collected on a state wide basis in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture Board of Pesticide Control. A grant was obtained from EPA to pay for this. The pesticides were packed and shipped from Augusta. A-449-1999*No site visit made. The hose on a loader broke. The oil was contained with pads and some soil was removed. No further action is anticipated. 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. P-702-1999* On 9/24/99 DEP was contacted regarding a clearance for further actions at this former UST facility. According to P-869-90, four retail, bare steel, gaso. UST's were removed in mid-1990 by CTI Wayne Kennagh, though Kennagh failed to report contam. as required. DEP did not visit the removal. As part of property sale, Emery & Garrett Groundwater (EGG) reported gaso. contam. found during a 10/21/90 soil gas survey (sgs). Mike White of EGG and I cooperated on clean-up actions in Dec. 1990 thru summer 1991 (see P-869-90). Approx. 400 yds. of soil was removed from the front of the facility for aboveground remediation offsite. Soil was largely sand w/ rocks. Gw was noted at 8'-10' bg with slow recharge. The nearest mapped aquifer is approx. 0.5 miles away. The area was largely dense residential and business, on town water & sewer. At the time of soil excavation it was feared that strong dissolved contam. had migrated under the building, Main St., and/or the neighbor's property to the north. According to the 1/18/91 and 7/16/91 assessments, further survey points found gaso. contam. >2000 ppm next to and under Main St. (Map/Figure 3). Points near the old garage were below 5 ppm. (Map/Figure 4); and points along and on the neighbor's property north to be 0.0 ppm. In the areas of the 4000 gal. and 1000 gal. diesel UST's in the rear, the 10/21/90 sgs noted water saturated soils (SG-5 & SG-6) so no readings were attained at two points [see 1/18/91 assessment Fig. 2 and Table 1; and 10/12/99 note from M. White]. Based on DEP site visits, and the EGG assessments, this site is understood to be remedied to Dept. satisfaction at this time. I am aware of no further complaints or work since 1991. Gaso. contam. is understood to remain under Main St. and should be managed properly if disturbed. See attached assessments for further details. I understand no new facility has been installed and that the property is for sale. S G Brezinski, Maine DEP, BRWM 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. A-450-2000*Received a call from Roy Koster of Central Maine Power reporting a small spill. A transformer on Depot Street in Unity leaked due to the pole leaning. He reported that the amount leaked was about 1 cup. Speedy-dry was used to clean up the small amount of oil on the grass and soil. In addition, a small amount of soil was also excavated. No site visit was made and no further work is necessary. See the attached report from CMP for additional details. B-76-2001*On the last day of February, Sinclair Fuel delivered oil to the Brenda Haney residence; the driver reportedly entered 100 gallons into the truck's meter as the maximum amount to be delivered, made his connection to the scully fitting on the fill pipe, then apparently went back to the truck and stayed there. At or about the 60 gallon mark oil started spewing out of the vent, the tank in the basement expanded to near the breaking point, and an estimated 4 gallons spilled onto the basement floor. Why did this happen? 1. With the delivery truck pumping oil into the tank at 70 - 100 gpm, the whistle assembly on the tank, <1/2" diameter, cannot relieve the pressure of the oil as fast as it's being introduced. Had the driver been at the fill pipe, where he's supposed to be, he would've heard the whistle quit and stopped pumping. 2. Clint Southard, another occupant of the house, had loosened a bung atop the tank, and although he says he'd retightened it as tight as could be by hand, that still wasn't tight enough. It's possible though, that had pressure not been relieved via this bung, the whole tank would've burst, spilling ALL the oil into the cellar. On 3/1, fumes in the dwelling as measured by PID were about 6ppm in the dwelling space and 18 ppm in the basement. I therefor asked Sinclair to wash the cellar floor down again with Simple Green, and asked them to install a vent system to vent the fumes outside. On 3/6, after the building was heated back up, fumes were about 40ppm in the dwelling and 10 ppm in the basement. The vent system still had not been installed, so I called Brian Beaulier and repeated my instructions to install the vent. As I told Haney and Southard, the vent is inexpensive and simple to install, and for that reason there is no reason to be breathing hydrocarbon fumes. B-352-1996*A very localized tornado pulled down a pole-mounted transformer in Bingham late on the evening of July 9. The transformer case breached and spilled its oil. It was originally thought that the oil was washed away in the rain, but 10 days later, it was noticed that the grass was tuning brown. Four and a half tons of soil were removed. See CMP's report. P-211-2000*Responded to a truck accident at this location. Pick up ran red light on Town house Road and struck Nappi Distributors truck traveling east on Rte. 5, breeching diesel tank. Nappi truck had swerved to avoid accident and continued onto front yard of adjacent prorerty. Approximately 10 gallons of fuel was lost. The Waterboro FD recoverd what product they could with sorbent pads. The remainder was in the snow and spread over a large area, making it unrecoverable. A-356-1999*Roy Koster called to report a small transformer spill. He stated that a transformer in Andover had developed a leak in a bushing. The transformer was replaced. A test of the oil showed non-detect for PCB's. No site visit was made and no further action is necessary. See the attached report by CMP for additional information. A-268-1996*Received a call from Scott Reed of Boise Cascade about a lube oil spill. He reported that the #10 paper machine had developed a leak in it's lubricating system. A total of 300 gallons of lube oil was lost to the sewer system. He reported that a sheen did develop on the primary clarifer and that boom was deployed to contain the oil to the primary clarifyer. No oil went past the treatment system. No response was necessary. No further action is needed. P-40-1998*30 January 1998 I responded to facility location. Upon arrival I observed a gasoline tractor trailer and a gasoline spill in the facility lot. I met with Diane Wheeler of 4 Star(4S), Cumberland Farms(CF) representative Maurice Tetreault, and the Berwick Fire Chief. The gasoline station was cordon off by the fire department. I was informed by these parties that a spill occurred during the transfer of product from the tanker to the underground storage tank. Neither party would take responsibility for the spill. I hired TWM to clean up the spill. Pending TWM arrival, I observed that the spill occurred at the UST fill box for super unleaded gasoline, and impacted layered ice on the paved portion of the lot. An undermined amount of product migrated to a storm drain and impacted inland surface water. The local FD diked the drians to prevent further discharge. TWM arrived, chipped up oil impacted ice and recovered the deployed speedi-dri and sand used for diking. This material was placed in drums for disposal. I requested that CF check the UST. A service technician arrived later and the tank checked out OK. I requested that 4S have the tanker checked for defects and that was done immediately by Fedco (attached), and the tanker checked OK. I therefore attributed this spill to a mishap or error in product transfer by the delivery personnel. Response Services will request reimbursement from the transporter. No further response action is anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (4Mar98). B-502-1997*D-TREE=N. P-185-2001*I responded to a call from Ron Dionne reporting a diesel spill from one of their peddler trucks. Apparently on March 5th, while filling the tank at 12 Allen Ave. in Windham, a hose broke on the peddler truck spilling diesel onto the gravel driveway. On March 17th the homeowner called Downeast because nothing had been done to clean up the spill. Ron Dionne hired M.L. Rogers to dig up the contaminated gravel and to put clean fill in its place. No further Response action is necessary at this time. ______________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I March 20, 2001 I-163-2001*On 11-29-01, Jody Thompkins of MPG called to report that a small spill had occurred at the home of Richard Holmes. They had spilled some fuel oil on the hot top driveway from the delivery truck. They cleaned it up with sorbents. Mr. Holmes asked if I would check to make sure the cleanup was complete. I did and it was. B-378-2001* On July 3, 2001 at 0900 we received a call from John Flanders of Barrett Paving in Dover-Foxcroft reporting a three to four gallon spill of hydraulic oil. A hydraulic line broke on an asphalt roller on route 7 in Dexter spilling the oil on a new section of pavement. Workers recovered the oil with sorbent pads before it flowed off the new asphalt. B-608-2000*MDOT's Joe Tedford called reporting the loss of an estimated 10 gallons of hydraulic oil, because of a leaking hose on a truck. He said it was all recovered with sorbents. B-122-2000*B-122-2000 03/02/2000 Dead River Oil in Ellsworth called to report a #2 fuel leak at the residence of Lillian Snider on the Tunk Pond Road in Sullivan. It was stated that the outside tank developed a pin hole leak spilling an unknown quantity of fuel over an unknown period. Investigation of the area around the tank shown little evidence of fuel spillage however. The Snider well is located approximately 100 feet away and is not believed to be at risk. No further action was taken. B-504-1999* On August 17, 1999 at 1045 we received a call from Ida Townsend of Perry reporting a possible leak from her outside kerosene tank. The Townsends had heard of the free money to upgrade their AST and thought that they might already have a spill since there was a stain on the two x four wood cradle that supported their tank. Ms. Townsend said there was no sign of oil on the ground beneath the tank. I visited the site the next morning and found the situation as described. The tank had no legs and was supported by two x fours. The one supporting the tank on the filter side had a oil stain but no oil was on the ground.. Mr. Townsend's oil company had already pumped out the tank. There really was no spill but the installation needed replacement. I contacted the Washington-Hancock Co. Action Committee who processes the paper work for the AST tank replacement fund. I-113-1998*On 4-29-98, Andy Buck informed this office that soils above the notification level were encountered at the tanks removals for MPG on Parsons Road (old Theriault Tire). A cleanup standard of BL-2 was set for the site and approximately 475 yards of soil was removed and landspread at the Giggy farm on the Washburn Road in Presque Isle. See site assessment in tank registration file for further details. B-178-1996*Unice Stoddard, owner of a new home on the Jacksonville Road in East Machias, called to report discovering a strange material in an attached shed. The material was described as a grayish powdery substance which was contained in about six cardboard boxes. A sample of the material was taken and determined to be asbestos. The case was then referred to Ed Antz, asbestos specialist in Augusta. B-574-1999*B-574-99 On 9/13/99 Robby Perkins of Golden Heat (a company that services oil- heating equipment) reported that the AST owned by Mildred Santarpea on Fogler Road in Exeter was weeping and that Mildred was not financially able to replace the tank. Robby was familiar with the CAP program and he had determined that the fund for replacing ASTs had run out. I checked with George Seel and found that he didn't have any money either. The tank was not leaking hard enough to form drops of product, but it was weeping and there was some oil staining the ground under the tank. The Santarpea well was about 20 feet from the tank and there was another well at risk down grade from the Santarpea residence. Under this set of circumstances I was allowed to replace the AST and clean up the spill using a spill number. The actual spill was probably less than three gallons because the excavation was absolutely clean after three cubic yards had been removed. The hole was into clay at two feet from grade. A-202-1999*Sometime during the last month the filter loosened on the tank. Although the filter was full of water, the threads were not stripped from the pot metal filter holder. Thus it is unclear whether vandalism or storm damage is responsible for loosening the filter housing. The entire contents of the tank was lost. The product ran down a bank and soaked into a camp road. It also ended up in a wet area. Some product was recovered from the wet area using pads. Hay bales and silt fence were installed as erosion controls since we had to remove a culvert. A collection area was dug below the road and ringed with hay bales and sorbent boom. The contaminated soil was dug up. The stream crossing was replaced. P-468-2001*Alice White of DownEast Energy called to report an unknown vehicle had filled up at the diesel pump (commercial account) and driven off with an unsecured cap, discharging fuel to the roadway. After a little research it was discovered the vehicle was SAD 71 bus #14. The Kennebunk fire dep't was notified and speedi dry applied to the roadway, no request for assistance was made. The diesel was confined to the roadway, the intersection at Water Street and Factory Pasture Road had a more extensive stain caused when the bus stopped. No other calls were received and no follow up was requested, therefore no further actions are warranted for this call. A-394-2001*A dump truck left rt. 90, hit a granite product of some beautification project, rolled over and split a saddle tank. Rockport FD patched the tank and contained the fuel that had already leaked with sorbent pads. When the truck was righted, amazingly, the patch didn't leak. Upon further inspection it was discovered that the reason that the patch didn't leak was because there was a previously unnoticed three-foot gash in the underside of the tank and there was nothing left to leak. We used sand as sorbent, picked it up with power brooms and a skid steer. No further action is anticipated. 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-702-1997* On 12/2/79 I returned a call to Ms. Tobey who explained that she was seeking a variance to leave their UST in place till they could arrange a contractor. Greenwood Const. had come down to check out the job for changing the steel piping and found that their tank also actually steel, and not FRP as they had believed. I referred her to Diana McLaughlin's group in Augusta. As of 12/9/97, no removal notice has been received. On 5/11/98 DEP received a notice for removal, scheduled for 6/10/98 by Greenwood Construction. Mark Greenwood informed me on 9/14/98 that he had not abandoned the Historical Society's facility and had not heard from them. I reminded him that as of 10/1/98 out-of-complience facilities who have not properly abandoned their facility can no longer take advantage of the GW Fund. That day I tried to phone the Museum but did not reach anyone. Further Resp. Div. actions possible pending removal. This report may be addendumed as needed. See DEP Reg. files for further info. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM P-97-2001* This report is complimentary to P-184-98 which describes the discovery of an old gasoline UST, belonging to Willits Ansell, and under proposed MDOT road & bridge work for Route 127. Mr. Ansell refused to comply with requirements to register and abandon the UST facility so MDOT arranged removal and the required CMR 691 assessment. The new bridge was underway at the time of this abandonment (see photos). On Tues. 2/13/01, I met CTI Gordon Pott and a Clean Harbors crew. Brad Tyrone of Hilliar & Assoc performed the env. assessment for MDOT. The UST had been out-of-service for 40+ years and it took time before careful excavation re-discovered it. The old, bare-steel tank was full of water but no free product, buried about 2' bg. CHI pumped the water into a vacuum truck prior to removal. Product piping was noted to run under Rt. 127 towards the old Post Office where the dispensers may have been. After removal we noted the tank was very rusty and easily punctured. A neighbor stated that MDOT also abandoned a 2nd old tank here in 1998 though perhaps this refers to a tank abandoned in 1988? South of the tank area under the old roadway we noted contamination which we believe is associated with the piping and/or first tank (removed in 1988?). This gaso. spillage appeared weathered. Tyrone, Pott and I oversaw source removal of the gaso. contam. soil to Stringent Clean-Up Goal. No gw was treated. We pressumed the discharge was of leaded gasoline. The soil was accepted at Commercial Recycling. MDOT managed the removal and clean-up as the UST was in their right-of-way for this bridge expansion. There are 2 to 3 wells within 300' but I do not believe any sensitive receptors are threatened at this time. No further DEP Resp. Div. actions planned at present. See attached, DEP UST Reg. File #20405, the removal assessment, and records of MDOT for further information. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM P-326-1996*Present during tank removal where two tanks were accidentally discovered. One tank contained, what test to be kerosene, and the other contained gasoline. There were no holes discovered in the tanks. Minor contamination was encountered under the tanks which could be attributed to overfills or a weeping fitting. For further details on tank removal see "UST Site Assessment, The Village Store, 97 South Freeport Road, South Freeport, Maine" prepared by Flour Daniel GTI, Inc, 141 Main Street, South Portland, ME, dated July 1996. No further action required. A-670-1998* DEP received a referral from DHS that this public water supply showed low levels (4.1 ppb) of the gasoline additive MTBE. Jon Andrews (DEP) resampled on 12/9; no MTBE was detected at this time. The case has been referred to Tech Services for their information. B-594-1998*On 9/9/98, 1000 hours Cynthea Wilcox reported a product release in the basement of her house in Cherryfield. The release was coming in dropwise fashion from a corrosion hole in the spigot end of her AST. She estimated that she had lost 50 gallons, but I calculated from the area and thickness that it was less than 10. The surface that the spill landed on was a mixture of broken cement pieces and wet clay. It was difficult to remediate so I suggested that they keep the basement area ventilated, since the only problem caused by the release was odor. The well is close to the house but it is deep into bedrock and the spill area is wet clay with surficial ground water very close to grade the year round. I told Cynthea that if the odor persisted into cold weather, I would have a vent system installed. On 10/9/98 Robert Sypitkowski and I installed a vent system that is removing product vapor without cooling the basement area. As precautionary measures I had Cynthea apply to the fund and I put her well on QM. B-116-1996*According to Bob Oleski at BIA, an estimated 20 gallons of jet fuel was spilled early on the morning of Feb. 25, when a malfunctioning wingtip vent on an aircraft vented fuel to the ground. The spilled product was dammed up using speedi-dri and the liquid itself was recovered using a super sopper, an ingenious device resembling a lawn roller. B-222-2000*B-222-2000 04/24/2000 16:25 Rich Gray of the Trenton Fire Department called to report a spill of gasoline at Betsy's Kitchen on the Bar Harbor Road. It was stated that approximately 15 gallons spilled from an overfill while fueling a private vehicle. All of the gasoline, which was contained on a paved surface, was cleaned up with speedi dri. No resources of the State were reportedly affected. A-484-2000* An anonymous caller reported that diesel had been spilled at Service Rental Inc. in Waterville. I made a site visit and found a small problem at their above ground skid tank. There was a loose fitting associated with the dispenser and hose that was located on top of the tank. I asked them to repair/tighten the fitting and clean up the small amount of diesel that had dripped onto the ground. No further action will be required. P-410-1999* On Tues. 6/22/99, I briefly visited this facility to check on a scheduled UST abandonment by Ray Labbe & Sons construction co. The UST facility had been an active, unregistered fuel oil UST for the dentist office of Dr. Walter Higgins. It is located adjacent to Mid Coast Hospital, and is served by public water & sewer. The UST had been removed recently though Labbe had left the vent pipe up. Dr. Higgins and Ray Labbe assured me that the vent pipe would be removed as required to remove indication a UST may still be there. No evidence of a leak was reported during the abandonment or observed during my 6/22 visit. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-93-2001*Steve Weider, Wagner Forest Management Ltd., called to report that a pair of logging trucks tangled on the Golden Rd. in T5R20. This accident resulted in the loss of an estimated 100 gallons of diesel as well as some motor oil. He said that the accident was on Turgeon Hill approximately 94 miles in from Millinocket. Because of the volume and its proximity to Hurricane Pond, I went to the scene on 3/9/01. I found that the accident occurred on a grade about 600' feet from the pond. Mr. Weider showed me where the oil had flowed down the roadway for a couple of hundred feet before disappearing into the snow on the pond side. Workers at the wreck site had intentionally diverted the oil down the dirt road in effort to have the soil absorb as much of it as possible. There was about 4 feet of snow on the ground. As such, I could not determine how much oil made it off the road. The area below the road is a flat cedar "swamp" and it is about 600' through the woods to the lake edge. I believe that the oil that made it off the road will be absorbed by the vegetation and impact to the pond will be negligible. B-448-1997*Brooksvillesdriver had picked up 10 totes of dye, weighing 2207 each, in West Virginia, and was taking them to St. John, N.B., across Rt. 9. It being summer, the road was undergoing major reconstruction, that being about the only stable industry in Washington County. The driver reached Devereaux, and was directed onto a newly graded stretch, three feet higher than the original road bed. He said a dump truck coming the other way crowded him, and he got his right front tire into the soft fill on the shoulder; before he could do anything, his truch fell off the new section onto the old roadbed, coming to rest on the right side. So did all the dye totes. The stainless steel totes are remarkably rugged, and they did not rupture; there was minor leakage of dye around the fills on top of the totes. By midnight, R&M Towing had dragged the totes out of the stricken trailer and loaded them onto a sound one. What minor spillage there was was cleaned up with sorbents and disposed of in the municipal trash stream. A-301-2000* Matt from Best Price Fuel called this office to report a small release of fuel oil at the residence of Don Randall. Mr. Randall is located in a white farm house on Route 3 across from Lapointe Lumber. According to Matt the thumb valve, on the delivery truck, loosen up while backing into the driveway. This resulted in oil inside the hose reel to leak out onto the driveway. Matt was on his way to clean up the spill. No other action taken. A-428-1996*Received a call from Bill Carver, certified tank installer that after inspecting a Rockland High School to bid on a job, he noticed #6 oil in the piping trench. He told me to call Stanley Blake, SAD 5 maintenance supervisor. I finally spoke to him on 10/7/96 and made an appointment for 10/9/96 to inspect the pipe trench. When I arrived, they had the covers to the pipe trench already removed. Jim Carson, industrial boiler technician was on site. Since the piping was connected to an underground tank, I told him to get a certified tank installer before beginning any work. He agreed that was the correct approach and contacted his regular installer, Ted Haskell. Ted called me the next day, 10/10/96. He reported that the gasket on the manway was bad and that is how the oil was getting out. He also reported that he had barreled the #6 oil and also had some contaminated water that was infiltrating the pipe trench. We agreed that hauling it off site as oily waste was the best approach. No further work is necessary. P-867-2001*On 10/22/01 I received a call from Connie at Dead River in Auburn reporting a spill at a customer's residence in Lewiston. They were requesting that we respond to evaluate. I responded immediately. Upon arrival I observed what I estimate to be a 15 gallon spill in the basement of the residence. Much of the spillage was contained within the furnace unit and was being removed by Dead River. Some oil appeared to have stained the soil around the furnace. A very small amount of soil was shoveled out of that area by Dead River. There was no detectable odor of fuel in the basement or in the living space. I advised the homeowner to call me if she was experiencing any oil odor problems as a result of the spill. No further action anticipated. __________________________________________________ SHERYL J. M. BERNARD OIL & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPECIALIST II OCTOBER 23, 2001 A-435-2000* DEP received a report that a small amount of gasoline spilled to a stream as a result of this vehicle accident. No recovery was feasible. B-200-2000*Roy Bros. has a small bulk plant off of Main St. in Lincoln and on the site was a 1000 gallon AST in a concrete containment structure, with a roof overhead. The tank stored diesel used to fuel their delivery trucks. On the morning of 4/11, the tank started leaking inside the containment structure; that wouldn't have been too big a deal, except the containment structure didn't hold it. A good deal of the spilled product leaked out of one corner of the dike wall, and onto the ground. It was cleaned up that day and taken to Sawyer's Environmental Recovery Facility for disposal. I'd asked Larry Winchester of Gould Equipment ( a Webber subsidiary who also owns Roy Bros.) to determine why the concrete containment didn't hold oil before they put a new tank back inside. Instead, Webber management decided to do away with the tank and diesel pump at this site. B-79-1997*1/4/97 1552 I received a call from the state police dispatcher (866-2121). I was asked to call Carl Gustafson (794-8300), of Whitney Energy. Carl phoned the dispatcher to report a 10 gallon gasoline spill at a service station at Main and Clay Streets in Lincoln. According to Mr. Gustafson gasoline leaked from a straight truck piping under the truck during a gasoline delivery to the service station. About 10 gallons of gasoline leaked onto the pavement and left a 2 by 3 foot area on the pavement. The spill was cleaned up using oil sorbent pads. The pads were disposed of by Whitney Energy. P-223-1996*16APR96 responded to mile 32 north on the Maine Turnpike. Upon arrival I observed a tractor trailer unit, involved in a traffic accident, leaking diesel fuel. The leaking fuel was migrating into a storm drain that discharged into a wet land area on the west side of the turnpike. After deploying sorbent pads I survied the discharge location and only observed a slight sheen; rain water run off transported the oil quickly to an unknown location at too great a distance from the spill area to attemp any type of recovery operation (I assume the water drains to the Saco R.). USCG investigated spill. Maine State Trooper #731 (Frank Howcomb) investigated spill for Public Safety. Response Services to seek reimbursement for sorbent pads. No further action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO (10JAN96) P-737-1997*DEP received notification of contamination found during a tank removal. It was determined that the contamination was a result of historic overfills. Minor contamination observed was left in place. Please refer to the Contamination Assessment Report Underground Storage Tank Removal report prepared by Field Service, Inc. located in Tank file #2890 for further information. No further Response Services action is expected at this time. P-272-1998* In the early afternoon of 6/19/98 DEP was notified of low levels of fuel oil contamination in soil found during the abandonment of a UST at this business. I advised Morgridge & Sons that based on their report they could would not be required to do a clean-up. Expecting not to be able to get to the site that afternoon I advised to put soil back into the excavation if they wished. Because of another spill out at the PNSY I did visit the site at about 1700 hrs (see notes). An assessment done by TWM was received by DEP on 8/28/98 which confirmed the earlier report and my site observations. This UST abandonment was done with no required 30-day notice and I understand was not registered at the time. At my request, Morgridge later sent in appropriate reg. and an after-the-fact notice. Minor amounts of PAH chemicals such as Fluoranthene where noted in a 8270 method analysis. The source is of these PAH's are unknown but typically are from burning. Because total levels are only about 1 ppm I recommend no further action at present (chemicals such as these are not addressed by the DT). See attachments for further information. S Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM B-25-2000*B-025-00 Blue Hill Wednesday January 12, 2000 1448 Greg Vokes (667-4681), of the Dead River Company phoned to report an oil spill that occurred on December 29th, during the last filling of a seasonal resident's home in Blue Hill. Apparently the whistle on the tank was not working, during the last tank fill. As a result the tank was slightly overfilled. About one gallon of heating oil leaked from the plastic tank gauge housing, onto the concrete floor. This small spill was discovered by the property's caretaker and reported to Dead River. The spill was cleaned up with sorbent pads. The tanks whistle was replaced. P-457-2001*6.6.2001 responded to spill site. Initiated recovery of free phase product from basement sump pump. Underground line leak, discovered by Davis Oil, Eliot, ME. Davis, the third contractor to respond to the odor compliant, tested underground feed line from 275 gallon aboveground supply tank and discovered a breech in the line. Davis installed a new feed line. It is estimated that the line may have been leaking under the concrete floor for a year or more. Site referred to Technical Services. No further Response action anticipated. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 09.20.2001 B-272-2000*B-272-00 Brewer Friday May 19, 2000 0918 I received a phone call from Kenny Fitz (848-7551), of Sawyer Environmental Services. Mr. Fitz phoned to report a hydraulic oil spill from a Sawyer trash compactor bin truck at Eastern Fine Paper, in Brewer. According to Mr. Fitz the operator of the truck noticed a malfunction of the hydraulic system on the right (passenger side) of the truck. The driver, Donald Olsen stopped power to the hydraulics and hydraulic oil tank. Sorbent pads were put down and speedi-dri was used to soak up the oil. An area of about 8 by 50 feet was affected and covered with speedi-dri due the sprayed hydraulic oil. The clean up was complete in about an hour. The spill debris went to Sawyer Environmental in Hampden. P-591-1997*UST Removal Contractor: Pollution Control Services Consultant: Environmantal Engineering & Remediation See site assessment for further information. _____________________ Jon L Woodard OHMS 1 Division of Response Services Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management P-42-1996*REMOVAL OF TWO HEATING OIL TANKS AT MAINE TURNPIKE FACILITY. (COMMERCIALY OPERATED) SEE EARLIER DEP REPORTS FOR INFOR. ON MOTOR FUELS UST WORK. NO FURTHER RESPONSE DIV. ACTION ANTICIPATED. SEE ATTACHED. A-169-2000*A gasket on a manhole to a large transformer sprang a leak, spilling about a gallon to the dirt floor of a building at CMP's North Augusta Service Center. The transformer was tagged (9ppm PCBs). No site visit made. No further action required by Response Services. B-325-1998*B-325-98 Mt. Hope Cemetery - Bangor Charles Adams of A-A Contractors called to report that his company had contracted to due an upgrade of a 1000-gallon fiberglass UST at the Mt. Hope Cemetery. While doing the work they had found gasoline in the dbl. walled tank's interstitial space, which he was now reporting. At the time of the report there was no reason to believe that gas had escaped the tank. The tank manufacturer, Xerxes, was called to the scene. Mr. Adams later told me that he learned that the company's warrantee was so limited that the Cemetery Association decided to remove the UST and establish an above ground facility. The UST was remove on 6/2/98 and no contamination was reported. P-559-1998* In the evening of 11/13/98 the state police barracks referred an Irving Oil notification of a 25 to 30 gal. spill at their Rt. 100 facility by MTA Exit 12. On calling the Irving dispatcher he explained that a truck driver from Misty River Trucking Co. was being inattentive and allowed the nozzle to fall out of his truck tank and continue pumping onto the ground. The spill was cleaned up at the time of the call by Irving employees; nothing reportedly reached drains, surface, or ground waters. The following day, Sunday, I visited the site and confirmed that the spill was confined to the concrete and asphalt paving. The asphalt was degraded which may be the liability of Misty River Trucking who allowed the spillage. As the fueling was in the primary control of Misty River Trucking at the time of the spill, Misty River is primary responsible party. No further Resp. Div. actions are anticipated. To prevent further occurrences I advise that drivers monitor the fueling at all times, and that perhaps the lock for the nozzle-handle be removed so a driver or attendant can not walk away from an active pump. The area is on public water and sewer. Some spillage may have reached soil thru the pavement. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM P-867-1999*On 12/17/99 Jon Woodard received a call from Dale McBurnie reporting a spill at a client's residence in Denmark. I spoke to Mr. McBurnie a short time later. He advised me that a loose fitting on the burner nozzle of the furnace had resulted in oil leakage into a dirt floor basement. There was free oil in the basement and they were in the process of cleaning that up with sorbent pads. We then discussed placing plastic over the spill area the reduce vapors until I could respond to the site the following Monday. I responded to the site on Monday 12/20 first thing in the morning. Upon arrival I observed large puddles of water in the basement with free oil floating on the water. The puddles had been created because the sump pump for the basement had been unplugged during the spill response on the previous Friday. I hired Fleet Environmental to respond to the site. While awaiting their arrival, I opened the single window in the basement to increase ventilation. I also observed the sump pump discharge area. It appeared as though some oil had been pumped out before the pump was shut off. The discharge point was very close to a drainage ditch on Rt. 117 and does not appear as though it will need clean up. I also learned that the residence was served by a dug well up-gradient of the spill location. When Fleet arrived, we sorbed the free oil with sorbent pads, removed oily debris from the basement, and used a fan to ventilate the basement. When the oil was removed from the puddles, we plugged the sump pump back in and drained the water in the basement. Sorbent pads were left in the sump hole and at the sump discharge location. Fleet Environmental will change the sorbent materials as needed. Continued, not in HOSS... P-541-1999* On 8/4/99 Mr. Schirazi visited DEP's SMRO and discussed Shevenell-Gallen & Assoc. (SGA) assessments for this Sunrise Motel, 962 Portland St. property; and his prop. across the street @ 959 Portland St. (P-548-99). Sunrise Motel has been owned by Mr. Schirazi since 1988 and is located in a commercial/residential area of Rt. 1 not far from the Scarborough town line. The area is on public water & sewer with no aquifer or drinking water wells known within 2000'. I understand the assessments were done by SGA for Fleet Bank as part of refinancing. I noted no prohibited surface spillage during a Thu., 8/5/99 site visit with Mr. Schirazi. A 275 to 300 gal. #2 oil UST, located behind the pool, was abandoned-by-removal in 1991. While installing MW-1 on 3/3/99, SGA measured PID readings below DEP notification level of 100 ppm (no free product or oil saturated soils). A gw lab sample noted 182 ppb DRO (Diesel Range Organics). This low a level of oil contamination would likely not have been detected by an excavator contractor during the 1991 UST abandonment [#2 oil abandonments do not required a CMR 691 UST removal assessment]. MW-2, next to the Aquaboggin prop. was ND for contaminants examined for. See attached maps and data for further information. Based of my site visit, the 2/11/99 Phase 1 and the 8/2/99 Phase 2 assessments; no further DEP Response actions are expected at this time. No receptors (buildings, drinking water wells) are known to be threatened or effected. See DEP UST Reg. # 18383 file and SGA's assessments for further details. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-540-2000*Received a call from Gerry Mirable of Central Maine Power reporting a transformer spill in Pittston. He reported that a truck had hit the wires and pulled the transformer down. Apparently the truck caught fire which complicated the immediate response. He reported that the transformer was tagged at <1ppm PCB. CMP personnel cleaned the reported 2'x 2' contaminated area. No further action is necessary. See the attached report from CMP for additional details. P-224-1996*21Apr96, responded to incident observing #2 heating oil in basement sump and oil impacted lawn of both Hassett and their neighbor. The sump pump had been discharging oily water to the lawns for an undetermined amt. of time. The basement area was flooded with water, sorbents were installed in the sump area and the sump pump was turned back on. 22Arp96 installed a carbon filter to the sump pump system and repaired minor leaks in the current discharge line. While inspecting the basement area, I observed that the sump pump was not properly grounded; the buried copper feed line appeared to be in a bad state of repair and appeared seriously corroded, and; that the supply tank itself was not up to the latest codes, but was informed on 21Apr that the tank was intalled prior to todays standards. The supply tank is resting on concrete or red brinks and is vented to the basement area. The leak appeared to be from a loose fitting on the filter connected to the supply tank or the buried copper feed line was ruptured at some point.(when contacted by Hassett, the maintaining oil co. took no responsibility for the disrepair) 26Arp96, met Pleasant Hill Elec. on site to install a ground fault for the sump system. 01May96, met Dead River technician on site to have new copper line installed, because I felt a threat of a discharge from the line was forthcoming or the line was contributing to the spill. Replaced pads, red oil staining observed on the sorbents. 03May96, on site to adjust sump pump float level. I observed a clear sheen (no red color as associated with free product). Replaced pads. 05Jun96, raked and spread fertilizer on oil impacted area of the lawns. 21Jun96, spread grass seed, hay, and watered area. 26Jul96, observed grass area all looked good. 01Aug96, removed carbon drum. This site should be identified as a potential problem for a future spill, for reasons stated above. Nathan Thompson, SMRO P-628-2001* On 8/14/01, & Tues. 8/27/02, I visited this UST facility in response to an 8/13/01 inquiry into the status of a UST. Three abandoned (removed) UST's were registered (#18496 & #18497) @ Dana Warp Mill but no active UST (see attached records). At the corner of Dana Court & Bridge St. I noted a fill & vent pipe (photos 1 & 2) located in a dirt parking area across the street from the mill building; 16" of black oil was measured in the tank. The UST piping goes under Bridge St. to the mill's boiler room. There is no manway so as to check the piping or tank top area. The city records indicate that the UST property is owned by the Dana Warp Mill property owner(s): Tim & Marie Flannery [Map 32, Lots 121 & 209]. On 8/31/01, I sent the attached letter to Mr. Flannery to follow-up phone messages. Eventually Mr. Flannery got back to me with information that this tank is still registered under former owners: Riverside Mill Assoc., under Reg. #9580. It is listed as a 15,000 gallon, dbl-wall CP steel #4 oil tank with steel CP piping, installed 10/1/88 (see attached record). Number-4 oil is not a heavy, heated oil. There is no continuous leak detect. though annual Cathodic Protection testing has been required. I noted no discharges to the env. at present. Facility's #18496 & 18497 appear to be at another, previously associated mill building. At this time I recommend that Mr. Flannery will update the UST registration to reflect his ownership. The #9580 facility is registered as being within 1000' of public water (i.e. well) which appears to be incorrect (see well location map) and should be changed. Mr. Flannery should insure that the UST facility Cathodic Protection has been tested and UST facility repairs/upgrades performed as needed & required. A copy of this report will be sent to Mr. Flannery and the Westbrook CEO. See the attached for further details. This report will be updated as needed. S G Brezinski, Oil & Haz. Materials Specialist DEP, BRWM 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-628-1998*No site visit made. MTBE was found at 2.7 ppb in the well as part of the Governor's MTBE study. Ms. Ramiller was unwilling to let me resample. I asked again in May 1999. No further action is anticipated. P-889-1990* Retail, motor fuels AST facility inspection. See separate narrative for details. Referral for further investigation. A-205-1999*A fitting failed on a sulfuric acid pump. About 50 gallons was lost before the pump was shut down. It landed in a sump which was directly connected to the mill sewer system. P-351-1999*On June 2, 1999 I Roy Koster of CMP called to report a hydraulic spill that had occurred the previous day on Birchwood Drive in Casco. One of CMP's bucket trucks had broke a hydraulic line spilling 5-6 gallons of hydraulic oil on the road and shoulder. CMP personnel cleaned up the spill with sand and by digging out the affected soil on the shoulder of the road. No further action anticipated. A-129-2001*See attached report. No site visit made. No action anticipated. A-444-1997*A minor overfill occured during a delivery. The side of the house was splashed with product. The siding was cleaned and the tank was pumped down to the correct outage. P-410-1992*SUMMARY Maine DEP management of large gasoline discharge associated with faulty, non-compliant underground steel product piping by former Maine CTI B. K. Sharma. The facility was a convenience store and retail motor fuels UST facility owned and operated by Gendron oil Co. Formerly owned by J P Cullinan Oil Co. who had earlier replaced the removed UST's with an AST motor fuel system. rural commercial and residential area. Long term remediation and final resolution passed to DEP Tech Services. See P-438-1993. S G Brezinski . P-407-2000*25 June 2000, investigated well water odor compliant at subjects residence. Advised by Dearborns that auto accident occurred in April of 2000 and that a gasoline leak occurred next to their drilled well. Sample results of the drinking water well indicated 589 parts per billion, gasoline range organics. Responder Jon Woodard installed a carbon filter treatment system on the well and put the Dearborns on quarterly well monitoring. Woodard also sampled neighboring wells and had the samples analyzed at Maine Environmental Lab, Yarmouth, no impact detected. This case referred to Technical Services as a result of well contamination. During the Response investigation of this incident, we learned that there may exist underground storage tank(s) at Thompson's Garage, Buxton. Thompson's Garage is located on the north side of Route 202, across from the Dearborn property, the exact address of the garage is unknown at this time. This matter referred to Oil Enforcement Unit for further consideration. Nathan Thompson, SMRO, 15DEC00. I-101-1998*A traffic accident occurred at the residence of Jim Alexander in Blaine. Some gas was spilled and Bill Sheehan responded. Problem was taken care of with sorbent pads. B-522-2001*George Robinson called from the Dead River Company to report that one of their trucks had burst a hydraulic hose at 19 Forest Ave. in Bar Harbor. The two gallons of oil fell onto asphalt and no water or drainages were involved. They collected the oil with speedi-dri and sorbent pads. This material will be returned to the Ellsworth office for collection and disposal. 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. P-509-1999* On Tues. 7/20/99, CTI LaVallee advised me that A L Doggett Co. abandoned these UST's the previous month. He stated that they had been having a problem with the interstitial space of one tank and believed there to be a pin-hole somewhere. The three UST's were only 10 to 12 years old. I recalled him saying the tanks were near the DPW salt pile storage. I understand no DEP rep. visited the removal, and that no reportable contamination was called in. I am not aware if any "evidence of a leak" had been reported. See DEP UST facility Reg. #6719 and any earlier spill reports for further information. I understand that Alan Lyscars of Field Services performed the required CMR 691 UST assessment. The area is on public water and sewer. There were no DEP expenses; and no GW Ins. Fund claim is expected. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-692-1998*A problem occured with the overfill alarm system on the new tug Ft. Bragg. The initial fill of the tanks resulted in an overfill which landed in the water next to the vessel. The boatyard crew immediately applied boom and contained the spill. The Coast Guard supervised the cleanup. P-711-2000*Mr sewell reported small amount of oil in the ditch next to his driveway after a car went off the road and cracked the oil pan. I responded the following morning (waiting for daylight). Mr Sewell was concerned about possible threats to the neighborhood wells. The small amount of oil spilled (no more than 5 qts) was trapped on the standing water of the ditch and ice. Using pads and removing the ice the spill was cleaned no residual oil remained. A very light sheen of non recoverable oil was on the water surface. I informed Mr Sewell the amount of oil spilled did not pose a threat to the ground water as it was clean up quickly. The site requires no further action. I-217-1998*Road conditions on the interstate caused a tractor trailer to flip on its side and end up in the median strip. Leak allowed product to leach into an organic bed on the shoulder of the road. An underflow dam and pads were used to try to contain the oil. After a couple of weeks of babysitting the spill and recovering product every day, it was decided to excavate the area of the original spill. B-561-2000*On 10/13/00, 1304 hours Joe Quinn, who lives at 31 Lane Street in Bangor reported that an oil spill had taken place at his house and that Dead River was cleaning it up. The facility was on automatic delivery and the tank was much fuller than it should have been. The vender truck driver got eleven gallons into the tank when product started to seep from the thread on the fill pipe. An estimated three gallons landed on the cement floor and headed for a drain. The path of the product was 10' X 2' and it did not appear to have flowed into the drain. At the time of my visit, which was around 1400 hours, the spill area was dry and more speedy dry had been deployed. The odor was barely detectable and the Dead River technician said that he was going to use a vent fan. The weather at the time was warm enough to do that. I asked Joe to get back to me if he became dissatisfied with the clean up. I-139-1999*On 9-14-99, Russ Smith of Maine Public Service called to report there had been a transformer that was knocked off a pole in Conner. The transformer lost all 8 gallons it contained onto the front lawn of Kevin Pirie. The transformer oil was tested and found positive for PCB oil. A crew from MPS shoveled about 3 yards of contaminated soil and had a soil sample from the bottom of the hole analyzed to confirm cleanup. The sample showed negative for PCB's. No further action was necessary. P-130-1996*Approximately 2 gallons of anti freeze leaked from U. S. Post Office vehicle, less than 1 gallon entered storm drain, cleaned up by Postal Service. No site visit made. No further action necessary. A-715-1998*A process failure resulted in an overfill of a caustic tank. About 500 gallons went to the sewer before the process could be shut down. 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. P-373-1996*16Feb96, received spill compliant from Phil Garwood of the DEP Land and Water Bureau in Augusta. I responded to the compliant, that dispensing from the pumps to the ground was occuring at this facility on or about 11Feb96. Upon arriving I did not observe product staining or signs of spillage around the pump island, that may have been associated with this compliant. I spoke w. the owner/operator Dave Bingham. Bingham informed me that he takes preventive steps to prevent spills and that he has had no compliants of water in the gasoline. Bingham said that no product delivery takes place at his facility unless station personnel are present and that drip pans are utilized at every hose connection during product transfer, from the delivering tanker truck to the above ground storage tank; and that the delivery hose is evacuated after delivery. Bingham appeared to express concern over the compliant and informed me that he could not think of who would make such a compliant. No futher action by response services. Nathan Thompson, SMRO P-80-1996*A 55 gallon drum of unknown liquid was recovered from the shore of the Kennebec River (Drummore Bay) in Phippsburg. The drum was corroded and leaking and could not be opened on site. It was transported to the DEP facility in Westbrook where it was sampled and found to contain water. A-507-1998*Received a call from Diane Alexander of C.N.Brown reporting a small spill. She reported that they had overfilled the tank of Theresa Snow and there was some weeping from the joints of the piping. She also reported that Ms. Snow was upset because it was a new house. I agreed to go out and look. I went out to the house but Ms. Snow was not at home. No further complaint was received by us from Ms. Snow. Diane Alexander reported that it had been cleaned up in the house. No further work is necessary at this site. B-660-1999*On 10/16/99, 1700 hours I took an anonymous call alleging that about 200 gallons of diesel fuel had been dumped at the intersection of the Dead Water Road and the Chase Pond Road. On 10/21/99, I had other business in the Moscow area so I located the area after discussing my search with a local person who had lived and hunted in the area all of his life. The spill area was 10 yd X 3yd by 6" deep and it was into coarse till. The amount of the spill is estimated to be around 27 gallons. Probably someone was driving at high speed over the gravel roads and managed to puncture their fuel tank. The initial report indicated there was a streak of fuel preceding the large stained area. There was nothing nearby that would be impacted so I did not invoke the groundwater fund in order to recover the product. B-128-1997*On 3/18/97, 1630 hours Robert Ford, who lives in E. Corinth, reported that he had oil in his well. He had smelled oil in his water a couple days earlier an on one occassion he saw pink product in his bath water. Meanwhile, he had found a leak in his AST system. Apparently the filter and the fuel line coming from it had been buried under a pile of dirt. The tank was located in the basement and the basement has a dirt floor. The brass nut that fastens the fuel line to the filter had been cross threated when the system was installed. This had to be a long time ago. The Fords purchased the dwelling 5 years ago and they had not had occasion to inpsect their oil storage system. I would guess that the discharge started a short time ago. The distance from the basement floor to bedrock is less than two feet and the level of the bedrock acquifer is probably less than ten feet from the top of the bedrock. The discharge was cming out in drops at the rate of a point every 24 hours at the time it was discovered. There did not seem to be much soil that was contaminated and the reason for this had to do with the rate of the leak. At the slow rate the product went straight down instead of spreading out like it would in the case of a cataclysmic spill. The basement is not very accessible and digging would not recover much product. Meanwhile charcoal filter will be necessary. I expect that the acquifer will clean up in a relatively short time because the spill was about six feet from the well, which was about four feet outside the foundation of the house. Fund application, QM and filter installation have been arranged. B-203-2000* On April 12, 2000 at 1445 we received a call from Dick Horton of the Blue Hill Fire Dept. reporting a five gallon hydraulic oil spill from a M.E. Astbury dump truck. The truck tipped onto its side near 175 South Blue Hill Rd. A crew from Astbury excavated fourteen yards of contaminated soil which was stockpiled at their office. They will landspread the material when warmer comes in May. I-24-1996*On 3-6-96, Richard Camrie reported a spill of Kerosine to the state spill number. The State Police then reported this to the PIRO on call person. A response was made that day. Apparently the line from the outside tank had been broken by a piece of ice. About 70 gallons of kerosine was lost and some had migrated to the basement where it was discovered by Mr. Camrie on top of the water there. He had also noticed a smell in the house. Dickison London contractors were hired that day to remove all contaminated water and debris from the basement and all contaminated soil from beneath the tank. This was accomplished the same day. The water supply well is located about 5 feet from the tank and currently is a concern. A sample was taken the same day for analysis and Mr. Camrie put on monthly monitoring. B-519-2000*B-519-00 Bangor Friday September 22, 2000 1456 I received a phone call from Nancy (989-8576), of the Dead River Company. Nancy phoned to report a 2-gallon number 2 heating oil spill in the basement of the Columbia Market. The Columbia Market is located at 96 Harlow Street, in Bangor. The last oil delivery was made on September 8. About 2-gallons of oil leaked through the gauge housing on the top of the tank. The delivery person should have stopped filling the tank when the whistle stopped. Dead River cleaned up the oil spill to the concrete floor and wiped down the heating oil tank with sorbent pads. Dead River disposed of the sorbent pads. The tank level gauge housing was replaced. P-514-2000*Ken Martin of the USPS called to let me know that they had a spill of 2 quarts of power steering fluid in the parking lot at their Braddell Street facility. He stated that it all went onto the pavement and was cleaned up with sorbents. No Response visit necessary. _____________________________ Ann E. Hemenway Oil & Hazardous Materials Specialist I August 21, 2000 B-622-2000*B-622-2000 11/21/2000 16:55 Dead River Oil in Brewer called to report a small spill of #2 fuel at the residence of Sue Patrick at 241 Goshen Road in Winterport. It was stated that approximately 2 gallons leaked from a corroded line on her basement AST. The oil was cleaned up with a couple sorbent pads. No drains were involved. B-33-1998*1/15/97 16:55 Mona Spear, Environmental Compliance Specialist for Bangor Hydro Electric, called to report one of several dielectric oil spills related to the "1988 ice storm". In this particular case a neutral service line pulled out of a transformer, breaking off a bushing. Two gallons of dielectric oil spilled into the snow at the base of the transformer. Approximately two drums of contaminated snow was generated in the clean up. A-100-1998* DEP received a report that a private vehicle had spilled transmission fluid on I-95 during a period of heavy rain. The Department was unable to send someone to the scene immediately, and it was determined that no product would be recoverable due to the rain. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-117-1998*Received a call from Diane Alexander of C.N. Brown reporting an overfill at a customer's house. C.N. Brown over filled the tank at the home of Mr. Rock Libby. Most of the overfill came out the vent as a spray. C.N. Brown scalped about 6" of soil from the impacted area the same day as the spill. They generated about 0.5 cubic yards of contaminated soil which they took back to South Paris. It will be disposed of by Seacoast Ocean Services with other oily waste. I contacted Mr. Libby who was satisfied with the cleanup. No site visit was made and no other work is needed. A-106-1997*See attached. No site visit made. No further action anticipated. A-402-1998*Robert Gleason, owner of Dresden Cash Fuel "found" some tanks on his property. The tanks dated from the previous site owner's business and had been abandoned for many years. He arranged to have them removed. Some contaminated soil was discovered under the gasoline USTs. The soil was sent to Commercial Paving. Although he signed the options agreement and selected to manage and pay for the site, he was not prepared to pay Commercial Paving. Since the Richmond town well was close, we decided to have Commercial Paving bill us to ensure that the soil removal was done. The Richmond well was tested. No petroleum hydrocarbons were found. A-404-1998* DEP received a complaint from a private citizen that oil odors were evident at a neighbors' fuel tank. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property. The fuel tank(s) consisted of two 55-gallon drums surrounded by a plywood shed; one of the drums had a slow leak via a corrosive hole. Fuel was transferred out of the leaking tank and it was removed. Six tons of contaminated soil was excavated for disposal. The neighborhood is dense-residential and is served by a municipal water supply, although it overlies a sand/gravel aquifer that is still tapped by some individual residences. I anticipate no further DEP involvement as a result of this incident. A-61-2000*No site visit made. See attached for additional details on Spill # 2. This was reported after the fact by E/PRO. E/PRO informed Seaward Corporation, a CMP contractor, of the spill reporting requirements. In the future they will report the spill and obtain a soil shipment form or test as appropriate to demonstrate that the material will be properly disposed of at a facility licensed to accept oil contaminated soil. No further action is anticipated. A-161-1997*A fatal tractor trailer accident occured at the junction of Routes 1 and 90 in Warren. The truck rolled and burned. Much of the fuel was consumed in the fire. The fire department recovered some fuel and hydraulic oil which was taken for use in a waste oil burner. About 24000 lbs. of fish was lost during the accident. The area has two small streams running through it. This made it important to recover the fish. The truck's owner gave me permission to give the fish to local lobstermen as bait. They removed the majority of the fish. Clean Harbors was hired to remove the rest of the fish using a Vactor. They recovered less than 4 yards. It went to Sawyer's landfill. No further action is required. P-775-2000* On Wed. 12/13/00, DEP received a complaint regarding water contamination in a retail, motor fuels UST of the Jetport Express CITGO. Mr. Mathew reported on or about 12/3/00, his spouse's car was filled up with PU (Premium Unleaded gaso.) at this facility, and then quickly became disabled on leaving the facility. The auto was reportedly towed to a repair garage near his home which found approx. 6 gals. of water in the car's fuel tank. The facility has 5 registered UST's, of which three are active (T-1 thru T-3) and two are abandoned-by-removal (T-4 & T-5). The single-wall FRP tanks are reg. as installed by CTI David Croxford of Portland Pump Co. in 1986. The area is dense commercial on city water & sewer. I visited the facility on Mon. 12/18/00, and spoke with the manager, Ms. Fitzpatrick and with the facility owner. They admitted to having a water problem in the PU UST about 11/1/00 though believed it was from a fuel delivery by M W Sewall Oil Co. They stated they were not aware that the water in the tank was required to be reported to the DEP as it is "evidence of a leak" [CMR 691 5(D)(11)]. The UST water was reportedly pumped out by Clean Harbors. In the UST's I found 1.5" of water in T-2, the PU tank. In T-1 (RU) I noted 0.5" of water. The spill buckets all had water in them. The fill-pipe cap's gaskets may not be tight and I recommended that they be changed to help keep surface water out of the tanks. The dip stick used for inventory management was about 0.5" short which could make for inaccurate inventory and this stick should be replaced. The submersible pumps were buried in soil so the fittings and piping could not be seen. Surface spills could go to several drains on-site. The owner stated that the facility piping and sumps will be upgraded next summer related to road expansion and redesign. I noted no obvious prohibited discharges during my visit. See any attachments and Maine DEP UST Reg. file #12989 for further information. I-14-1997*On 3-5-97, the State Police called this office to report that there had been an accident involving a snowmobile and a car. In the accident the gas tank had been torn from the sled and about ten gallons of gas spilled onto the road. I went to the scene, which was on the N. Jemptland Road in Stockholm. All the gas was confined to the black top and had spread out so that recovery was not really feasible. No action was taken. P-295-1999*On 5/12/99 DEP called to exit 24 Topsham where truck saddle tank was discharging diesel fuel due to punctured tank from debri on road. Tank was secured with approximately 100 gallons loss on side of highway. No recovery. B-643-1999*B-643-99 Eastport Tuesday October 12, 1999 1508 I received a phone call from Petty Officer Mike Mitchell(469-2394), of the Coast Guard Marine Safety Field Office, in Bucksport. PO Mitchell phoned to report that there was an apparent oil spill of a small quantity of virgin motor oil being pumped into Eastport Harbor. This sheen at its largest was about 15 yards by 30 yards in area. The source of the oil sheen was the bilge of the Dragger "Angela Dawn". I was informed that MK1 Webb could not secure the automatic bilge pump due to potential liability. There is only a light sheen and the coast guard will attempt to contact the owner. Because of the miniscule oil spill potential, neither the Coast Guard nor the DEP plan to boom the light sheen. P-738-1996*16Oct96, responded to complaint. Huard informed DEP that an area on his property has been used to accept fill material, under the home owners (Huard) authorization. Huard informed S. Eufemia of the DEP SMRO that someone dumped some swamp material and that oil was leaching out of the dumped fill. I did not observe a visual or olfactory indication that a petroleum product was discharging from the dumped material. A possibility exists that the complainant observed a biological sheen resembling a petroleum product coming from the fill. No further action. Nathan Thompson, SMRO. (6DEC96) A-162-1998* I tried to find this site, but ended up at someone else's property. I finally made contact with the plumbing inspector and he told me that it was not a big deal. He gave me better directions, so the next time I am in the area I will check it out. A-693-1999* DEP received a report that 1000 gallons of acid was spilled at this facility. Initial release was reportedly to a bermed area; apparently this was pumped to the plant sewer for treatment. A-356-1997* DEP received a report that a gasoline-stained area was present on a paved parking lot, presumably from a leaking or overfilled vehicle. No soil was impacted; no product was recoverable. No DEP involvement was deemed necessary. A-452-1998*No site visit made. This was caused when a fuel pump became disconnected. The fire department responded and cleaned the fuel with sorbents. The area was paved and served by public water. No further action is anticipated. B-379-2001* This office received a call at 1320 on 7/3/01 from a State Police dispatcher in Augusta requesting that I contact the Washington County Sheriff's Office (#255-4422) in Machias. They had a truck stopped on Route 1 in Baileyville that had lost approximately 75 gallons of diesel. When I called the Sheriff's Office, I was informed that a saddle tank strap on a Cierres Express (New Limerick) truck had broke loose and an estimated 75 gallons of diesel had slowly leaked onto Route 1 from an area in Topsfield, near Route 6, to Baileyville, about 20 miles further south. Most of the oil was spread too thin along the highway to do anything with, but the Baileyville Fire Department was using sorbent pads to clean up the oil where the truck had stopped. To their knowledge, there were no drains or State waters involved in the incident. All of the oil was contained on asphalt. REC: File report. A-429-2000*CMP cleaned up an old floor drain at their Fairfield Service Center. The line was flushed with water--it will be tested for metals, DRO, and PCBs. Soil was also removed. The floor drain was sealed. A new drain connected to an oil/water separator and the municipal sewer was installed. No further action required by Response Services. A-633-1998* DEP received a report from DHS that this residence had been identified with MTBE (at 17 ppb)in its well water. Jon Andrews (DEP) visited the property and re-sampled; this analysis showed MTBE at 22 ppb (the current "action" level is 25 ppb). The homeowner was advised of the results and the case was referred to Tech Services. The neighborhood is rural-residential, with several residences within 1000'. I did not elect to sample water at these residences as a part of this initial investigation. No gasoline spill that could be considered the source of this contamination was identified. B-519-1996*D-TREE=S. P-281-2000*The discharge was the result of a minor overfill of an AST where a limited amount of soil was removed. No further action required. A-91-1999*The fire department reported that they had shoveled some oil-contaminated snow into containers after the accident. I went to the site to retrieve the container. No further action is anticipated. 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. ____________________________ Steven J. Eufemia OHMS III B-732-1999*Ray Koster of Central Maine Power Co. called with the information that a spill of about 10 gallons of transformer oil had occurred in Bucksport. It seems a truck had backed into a pole causing the transformer to fall and spill its contents. He said this was pole #83 on Rt. 15. When I asked for directions to the site he was unable to provide such and it turned out that the previous information was wrong. I tried to find the site the next day and found no spill at pole #83. Eventually I learned that it was on a side street and the correct pole was #83.11. Mr. Costa later (11/19/99) phoned me with the info that the lab result showed that there were no PCB's in the spilled oil. They reported that during clean up two drums (I assume they were 55 gallon types) were filled and returned to the North Augusta Service Center for later disposal. A-598-1998*A corrosion leak occurred in a basement tank. It was caught by the odor. The house is on town water, so vapor problems in the house drove the cleanup. Soil was removed in the basement using a Vactor. The soil was very sandy. Enough soil was removed to eliminate the vapor problem. The hole was filled and a new tank installed. I-149-1999*On 9-27-99, Daigle oil called this office to report there had been a spill of 2 fuel at the residence of Terry Blake in Amity. While throwing firewood down the basement, the fuel line was broken and the contents of the tank leaked onto the dirt floor. The well was 2 weeks old and within 100 feet of the spill. A contracter from Houlton was hired to remove as much contaminated soil as possible. About 4 yards was removed before bedrock was encountered. The well was placed on quarterly monitoring. A-30-1997*See attached & tank file # 10864 P-634-1999*On 9/8/99 DEP responded to an incident at 101 Ash St. Lewiston concerning the finding of fuel oil in the basement sumps. Upon arrival DEP met with Lewiston fire and the owner of the catering business, Anthony Bussiere. According to Mr. Bussiere he had noticed a fuel oil odor earlier in the week and just thought it was due to oil having been delivered. Due to the odor not going away he investigated further finding oil in the basement sumps. It was discovered that the 275 gallon oil tank located at 103 Ash had lost its contents. 103 Ash is an abandoned HUD housing unit which is being managed by City West NE, Inc. located in CT. I met with the maintenance man, Raymond Pare, who stated he had not been in the building for some time due to its condition. Further inspection found the oil tank located at the back of the building had leaked its entire contents due to a leaking valve assembly. The oil ran along the wooden floor and down into the soil where due rain run off ran down along the foundation into 101 Ash building basement and into the sumps. A call was made for a vac truck from Fleet Environmental Services, Inc. whereby both sumps were pumped down. Due to the possibility of more oil running into 101 Ash plans for removal of soil at 103 Ash, tank location, along with opening the cement floor area at 101 Ash where oil was seen running in the basement. On 9/10/99 removed soil in area of tank looking for possible avenue for the oil to run into basement of 101 Ash; nothing found. Work centered in the area where the oil was breaking out into the 101 Ash basement. Removal of cement floor area indicated a 6" clay pipe and fill of bricks and stone. Oil was seen running through an area in the floor not related to the pipe but where majority of the water runoff from the building runs under the foundation. A collection sump was put in place after removal of majority of contaminated fill and oil. (See additional narrative attached) B-141-2001*B-141-2001 03/26/2001 08:45 Scott Smith of Hall & Smith Energy in Jackman called to report a rather large #2 fuel spill at a set of apartments owned by Francis Vir of Quebec just south of town on Route 15. It was stated that approximately 300 gallons had leaked from tandem tanks when the heavy snow pack broke off the filter. On the initial investigation there was not much to observe due to the snow. The well to the apartments was pointed out to be only about 30 feet from the spill site. Arrangements were later made with Mr. Vir to initiate a clean up. On April 9th I met with Fred Nadeau of Nadeau Excavation of Jackman. The tanks were set aside temporarily. Excavation then proceeded along the frost wall to the building. Bedrock however was encountered at about 3 1/2 feet. The surface of the rock was observed to be saturated with fuel. Only 14 yards of contaminated soil were removed. Since the water supply is believed to be at a high risk to becoming contaminated the case was given to Technical Services staff for investigation. 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. B-46-2001*B-046-01 Franklin Monday February 12, 2001 0845 I received a complaint for investigation via e-mail notification and the forwarding of an e-mail message that originated from Ronald Fortier, of Ellsworth. The investigation for complaint that involved an abandoned bulk oil storage facility was forwarded to me by Beth DeHaas (287-2651), of the Augusta tanks enforcement unit. I phoned Ronald Fortier to get the details on the location and any other information concerning the former Crabtree Oil bulk storage facility. I told Mr. Fortier that I would go out to the location on the Eastbrook Road (Route 200) tomorrow, (Tuesday February 13). Tuesday February 13, 2001 1425 I visited the former Crabtree Oil and viewed two vertical oil storage tanks, a pump house for transferring oil to home delivery trucks. A gasoline type dispenser pump on the site. Photos were taken and there is approximately 18 inches of snow covering the site. It would be best to revisit this location when the snow is gone in early to late spring. B-46-01 Franklin Beth DeHaas (287-2651), of the tanks enforcement unit, wrote a letter dated February 26 to the Crabtree Estate. The letter was addressed care of Jeffrey Crabtree. It was mailed to begin the process of a dialog with the current owner (s) of the abandoned bulk oil storage facility, and to explain the role of the Maine DEP in cleaning up the site if the site contains product in the storage tanks or soil contamination. The certified letter was signed for, but there was no response. On June 14 Beth DeHaas and I did a site visit at the abandoned bulk storage facility on the Eastbrook Road in Franklin. A notice of violation dated June 26 followed the visit. The notice explained the statutes and set a date of July 31 as the date the bulk plant should be properly cleaned up. The tanks needed to be emptied and cleaned and any oil-contaminated soil needed to be remediated. by the July 31 date. I did receive a phone call from at least one of the lawyers for the Estate of Janice M. Crabtree. I made suggestions on whom to call to pump and clean out the bulk oil storage tanks and clean up the surface contamination from various surface oil spills and facility leaking pipe joints, valves and pumps. I asked to be notified when they were ready to begin clean up on the site. On August 14 a notice went out to the involved parties that I would begin coordinating the clean up of the bulk oil storage facility. This notice was sent to the following people: James P. Modisette (Attorney for two Crabtree brothers) William Blaisdell (Attorney for Jeffery Crabtree), Bill Mathews Jr. (R.W. Mathews and Sons), Mary Sauer (Assistant Attorney General), Tom Maleck (Maine DEP, Bangor Response) Thursday August 16, 2001 1018 I phoned William Blaisdell (667-2547), attorney for Jeffrey Crabtree to inform him of plans to be on the site on Monday the 20th. Attorney Blaisdell indicatd that he thought that the involved parties were going to move forward on this. I explained that that is what should have happened, but did not. Now DEP plans to move forward. I explained that he could contact Beth DeHaas, in Augusta if there are any questions. I invited him and or his client to meet me on site. I also phoned James B-462-1996*Mike White of Emery & Garrett, Inc. of Waterville called to request the Department's presence during the dismantling of a C.N. Brown bulk plant on Route 2 in Mattawamkeag. It was suspected that contamination would be encountered based upon a phase I site assessment by Millett Associates completed in 1993. Once the large above ground tanks were removed work began at removing the fuel contamination. The soil consisted of a highly permeable sandy till consistent with the definition of a sand and gravel aquifer. Most of the contamination was confirmed to a few feet below the surface where it met the ground water. Contamination levels rapidly decreased below the water table. Approximately 3500 yards of material was removed however down slope of the former facility. It was then transferred to a previously approved site in Lincoln for spreading and treatment. Due to sensitivity of the area being located on a sand and gravel aquifer, the site was referred to Tecnical Services Staff. It is not known to what extend the ground water is affected. A-47-1999*The valve froze on the supply line to the boiler causing about 10-12 gallons of #6 oil to spill onto the cement floor of the boilerhouse during the night. Clean Harbors was hired to perform the cleanup. No site visit made; no further action required. P-108-1998*On 3/6/98 at 1615 Milton Clark representing Webber Oil Co. telephoned to report that a #2 fuel oil discharge had occurred in a basement of a residence belonging to Kenneth Norton in Hollis. Clark indicated that the residence was a rental property and that Webber had initiated a service call at Norton's request due to a complaint by the tenant that there was an oil odor within the structure. During this service call Webber personnel observed oil on the basement floor, prompting their report to DEP. The exact cause and quantity of the spill had not been determined at the time of the initial report. Nathan Thompson and I both responded to spill site to investigate the the cause of the discharge and to begin the clean-up. The front section of this residence sits atop a walk-in basement that has an earthen floor; the rear portion was built directly over unexcavated ground and is supported only by posts. The furnace is in the walk-in basement and the supply tank was positioned under the rear section of the structure resting directly on the ground without any supports. The tank was connected to the furnace by an unprotected copper line having a fuel filter attached directly to the furnace instead of the usual position on the tank. We determined at this time that the discharge was in all likelihood the result of a leaking fitting on the fuel filter. The floor of this basement is perpetually wet due to a high ground water table and there is a sump and sump pump adjacent to the front wall of basement to control flooding. On this date there was oil present in the sump although none appeared to have been discharged along with the sump pump effluent. A dug well servicing the resident is also located within the basement adjacent to the sump and should be considered at risk. In my opinion, however the water quality of this well is suspect irregardless of the oil discharge. Before leaving that evening Nathan and I deployed sorbent pads on the basement to remove what free product was there. The AST was replaced, and at that time .70 tons of soil were removed and disposed of at Commercial Recycling in Scarborough. The Norton's were placed on quarterly monitoring as their well was at risk. P-412-1998* This report outlines the clean-up by Webber Oil of their former AST oil terminal located at the end of Kensington St., Portland. In 1994, Brad Hahn and I oversaw the removal and associated oil spill clean-up of UST's at this local (see P-225-94). In 1998 I was told that Webber was selling the property for development as a marina by another party. August, 1976, areal photos show five (or six) large oil tanks onsite though these were removed in 1982-83 with a small clean-up at the time. The site is located behind the B & M Plant and next to a residential neighborhood. Nick Hodgkins of the DEP's VRAP program was also brought in to give a clearance of the property following the clean-up and prior to sale. I visited briefly on 9/2/98, met with Ms. Jones and Mr. Hodgkins and observed soil being excavated from the former AST area noted in the photo. The oil contam. smelled old and strong. DRO showed 1000 ppm with possibly some oil saturated soil. Jones had originaly requested a virgin letter from DEP, Resp. Svcs. for soil disposal though this could not be issued as there was no proof that this discharge was a virgin product. Soil would have to be tested by TCLP before being allowed for recycling at Com. Recycling. I noted no oil leaching to Casco Bay. On 9/14 I received a neighbor complaint that the oil odor was too strong, I relayed this complaint to Acadia. As this site was going thru VRAP, no further DEP Response Div. involvement and site time was necessary. See assessment of Acadia and records of VRAP program for further information. S G Brezinski Maine DEP, BRWM A-730-1999*High winds damaged