Oversight committee begins detailed review of EPA holding-basin remedial action work plan

The 222 Main Street Oversight Committee opened detailed review of the EPA remedial action work plan for the holding basin and set a coordinated internal process to submit comments by the EPA deadline of June 28. Chair Ray asked members to send draft comments early in the week so he could compile a single submission; he said he would also check the plan for an explicit community-notification schedule.

Committee participants reiterated previously raised technical concerns about the interface between the concrete edge and bedrock and the depth/layering of the final cap. "Len was the one who articulated this the most about putting the edge of the concrete all the way down into the bedrock instead of half bedrock half till," a member said, noting Len’s prior recommendations appear unadopted in the current plan. The committee agreed to collect comments, with Len to draft bedrock/cap comments, Ed and Doug to review instrument placement charts, Brad to check a concerning uranium data reference, and Ray to assemble and submit the consolidated comments.