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Peconic River and Sewage Treatment Plant

Peconic River

The Record of Decision for the Peconic River project, titled "Final Operable Unit V Record of Decision for Area of Concern 30 (Peconic River)," has been approved.  Attachments to this document include Appendix A, Appendix B, and Appendix C which consists of Table C-1, Table C-2, and Table C-3.  The document's signature page is available.

The Action Memorandum: Peconic River Removal Action for Sediment outside of BNL Property is available for public review, as is the Notice of Availability.

The Proposed Remedial Action Plan (PRAP), titled Proposed Plan for Operable Unit V: Peconic River, and the Feasibility Study Addendum (several figures are in a separate document) are available for review.  A fact sheet summarizing the PRAP is also available.

The Action Memorandum: Peconic River Removal Action for Sediment on BNL Property is available for public review, as is the Notice of Availability. 

The Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis and Action Memorandum: Peconic River Removal Action for Sediment on BNL Property is available for public review and comment.  The document is at the Administrative Record libraries, and is available on the web here.  The public comment period was from September 22 to October 21, 2003. 

Two reports — Peconic River Habitat Assessment and Fish Biomass Prediction and Estimation of Potential Water Levels in the Peconic River near Brookhaven national Laboratory Based on a Review of Hydrologic Data — have been placed on the web.

The Baseline Human Health Risk Assessment, Operable Unit V, Peconic River is available for public review.  The document is at the Administrative Record libraries, and is available on the web here. The Notice of Availability was published on April 30, 2003.

The phytoremediation study, Determination of Phytoextraction and Harvesting Efficiency of Several Dominant Emergent Wetland Plants -- Contaminated Sediment in the Peconic River, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York is available.

Fact sheets are now available discussing promising technologies for the remediation of contaminated sediment in the Peconic River on Laboratory property. These fact sheets offer a high-level evaluation of remedial alternatives. A more in-depth evaluation will be published later this summer as an addendum to the Operable Unit V Feasibility Study.

No decision has been made yet on which technologies will be applied to the Peconic River cleanup. The U.S. Department of Energy will consider community input and the evaluation results when making a decision on how to proceed with this project. Additional involvement opportunities will be announced when available.

Proceedings from the December 2000 workshop on Peconic River remedial alternatives are available online at the TechCon Peconic River Project web site. The TechCon site also contains a discussion forum where the public can ask questions about and provide comments on this project.

Sewage Treatment Plant

8/03:  The Sewage Treatment Plant cleanup has been completed, in accordance with the Operable Unit V Record of Decision.  More information here

2/26/02: The Record of Decision for the Sewage Treatment Plant has been signed. This document is available online in both html and Adobe PDF formats.