Everett Waterfront Remediation
National Grid/Beazer/Honeywell, Everett, Massachusetts
GEI completed Upland area investigations
included installation of monitoring
an MCP Phase II wells and test pits, and soil
Comprehensive Site and groundwater sampling and
analyses. Estuarine investigations
Assessment, including included collection of more than
a Human Health and 100 surface sediment samples,
20 vibratory sediment cores,
Environmental Risk
and surface water samples.
Assessment for a former
A bathymetric survey was
coal tar processing
performed. Data from an
facility in Everett, electronic depth sounder and
a shore-based differential Global
Massachusetts. Work Positioning System (GPS) station
was performed under an were simultaneously stored
on a multi-channel data-logger,
administrative consent and converted to a 3-D AutoCad
order. The remedial file, used as the base plan.
Depth-sounder signals were
investigation included
further analyzed to assess sub-
evaluation of the nature bottom sediment characteristics.
and extent of coal Sediment and surface water
sampling locations were recorded
tar, PAH, and VOC using GPS and placed on the
contamination in the project plan.
8-acre upland area and Information from the sub-bottom
profiling, surface sediment
an adjacent sampling, vibratory core
tidal river that sediment sampling, and the 3-D
AutoCad files are used to assess
discharges to Boston
contaminated sediment volume.
Harbor.
GEIs services for the project
included the design and
implementation of two Remedial
Response Actions to reduce the
release of contaminated ground
water to adjacent estuarine surface
water, and to remove tar deposits
from a beach. GEI obtained all
the permits required for RRA
implementation, including a U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers Section
404 permit and Water Quality
Certification, and Coastal Zone
Management Federal Consistency
Determination.
GEI conducted a peer review
for the design of a waterfront
Confined Disposal Facility (CDF)
that received stabilized sediment
dredged from the adjacent tidal
river. The CDF was designed to
provide improved access to and
use of the waterfron area.
Key Elements
Former Coal Tar Facility
Waterfront Contaminated Site
Design/Implementation
of Innovative Remedial
Response Actions (RRAs)
Coastal Permits, USACE
Section 404 Permits/
Certifications
Risk Assessment