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-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 pp