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Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) Reports and Documents
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- Dioxins: An Overview and History Environmental Science and Technology 2011, 45, pp. 16-20
- HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT (HHRA) NOTE NUMBER 2: ISSUE: Soil Remedial Goals for Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds for Consideration at California Hazardous Waste Sites, Issue Date April 2017
- HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT (HHRA) NOTE NUMBER 3, DTSC-modified Screening Levels (DTSC-SLs)Release Date: June 2020 - Revised May 2022
- US EPA Regional Screening Levels (RSLs) - Generic TablesTables as of: May 2024
---- California Western Railway/Mendocino Railway Property — Skunk Train Facility ----
- CORRECTIVE ACTION CONSENT AGREEMENT, June 5, 2005, concerning the clean up of "ash, ash residues, unburned embers generated from burning of chemically treated ties, soils containing ash residues, used oil, paint, and leaking old batteries" on the Skunk Train facility grounds.
- Report of DTSC Investigation of Skunk Train Depot focused on waste oil, batteries, and paint, dated November 13, 1998.
- Report of DTSC Investigation of Skunk Train Depot focused on waste oil, batteries, paint and used railroad ties., released April 9, 2009
- California Environmental Quality Act Notice of Exemption, April 9, 2021, permitting Mendocino Railway to store treated rail tie waste on site
- Letter to Mendocino Railway dated November 4, 2021 regarding cleanup postponed in 2013 "because of financial hardship" and ordering them to submit a work plan within 60 days.
- Mendocino County Environmental Health NOTICE OF VIOLATION, dated December 6, 2021, concerning “an oil discharge at the Mendocino Railway yard.”
- DTSC reply to Mendocino Railway's request for additional time to submit RFI Workplan Addendum, January 25, 2022, stepping up DTSC supervision with Monthly Project Manager meetings.
- Mendocino Railway RFI Workplan Addendum, May 9, 2022. "The objective of this RFI Workplan Addendum is to address data gaps identified in the 2013 RFI Report and support a final RFI Report and subsequent Corrective Measure Study."
- RCRA Facility Investigation Work Plan Addendum, California Western Facility, dated 13 September 2022, prepared for Mendocino Railway by Kennedy Jenks.
- Supplemental Site Investigation
Work Plan, Former AST AOI and MES/Pilot Study AOI, dated August 11, 2022. Kennedy-Jenks plan for investigating in-ground
contamination in the area of the Above Ground Storage Tanks (AST) and the Machine Equipment Shop (MES), adjacent to the Skunk Train facility.
- DTSC approval for AST/MES study with additional requirement, dated October 6, 2022
- Mendocino Railway acknowledgment and inclusion of additional requirementdated November 21, 2022
- DTSC Letter of approval for RCRA Facility Investigation Work Plan Addendum, California Western Facility, dated October 5, 2022.
- ESTIMATED OVERSIGHT COSTS – FISCAL YEAR 2022/2023, CALIFORNIA WESTERN RAILROAD (SKUNK TRAIN), 100 W LAUREL STREET, FORT BRAGG, CALIFORNIA (SITE CODE 520041), dated October 3, 2022. Includes detailed accounting of costs and Gantt chart style timeline.
- ESTIMATED OVERSIGHT COSTS – FISCAL YEAR 2024/2025, CALIFORNIA WESTERN RAILROAD SITE, FOOT OF LAUREL ST, FORT BRAGG, MENDOCINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA , dated October 3, 2024. Includes detailed accounting of costs and Gantt chart style timeline.
- Quarterly Status Reports
- Quarterly Status Report: First Quarter 2023, California Western Railroad (Site Code: 520041), released March 27, 2023
- Quarterly Status Report: Second Quarter 2023, California Western Railroad (Site Code: 520041), released June 14, 2023
- Reply from DTSC re: Quarterly Status Report: Second Quarter 2023, "DTSC finds that data gaps remain at the California Western Railroad facility, and further study will be necessary to evaluate protective remedies.", released August 9, 2023
- Quarterly Status Report: Third Quarter 2023, California Western Railroad (Site Code: 520041), released October 2, 2023
- Quarterly Status Report: Fourth Quarter 2023, California Western Railroad (Site Code: 520041), released December 18, 2023
- Quarterly Status Report: First Quarter 2024 California Western Railroad (Site Code: 520041), dated March 22, 2024
----------- Georgia Pacific/Koch Industries Mill Site -----------
- When the Berm Blows by William Lemos, PhD. Life long Mendocino County resident and retired educator Bill Lemos details the dangers posed by the failing berms surrounding Pond 8, a toxic soup of dioxin, lead, PCBs, etc. (30mb File)
- Sitewide and Community Communications
- SITE INVESTIGATION AND REMEDIATION ORDER, issued February 16, 2007, ordering Georgia Pacific to investigate and remediate the toxic contamination of the former Georgia Pacific mill site.
- Arcadis Off-Site Sources Memo, dated June 12, 2009. The primary focus of this study was to locate potential sources of groundwater contamination by volitile organic compounds from up-gradient businesses that used them
- DTSC Community Update: Former Georgia Pacific Mill Site Updates on Cleanup Progress and Feasibility Study - May 2018
- FIRST AMENDMENT TO SITE INVESTIGATION AND REMEDIATION ORDER, GEORGIA-PACIFIC WOOD PRODUCTS FACILITY, June 9, 2022. Adds Mendocino Railway to the order and imposes additional requirements.
- ESTIMATED OVERSIGHT COSTS – FISCAL YEAR 2022/2023, GEORGIA-PACIFIC SITE, 90 WEST REDWOOD AVENUE, FORT BRAGG, CALIFORNIA (SITE CODE:202276), dated September 29, 2022. Includes detailed accounting of costs and Gantt chart style timeline.
- CHANGE OF DTSC PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE FORMER GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION SITE, dated May 16, 2023.
- ANNUAL LAND USE INSPECTION REPORT FOR THE FORMER GEORGIA-PACIFIC FORT BRAGG MILL SITE, 90 WEST REDWOOD AVENUE, FORT BRAGG (SITE CODE: 200402), dated August 16, 2024.
- NEW 12/08 SECOND AMENDMENT TO SITE INVESTIGATION AND REMEDIATION ORDER, FORMER GEORGIA-PACIFIC MILL SITE, (SITE CODE: 202276), dated December 05, 2024. Adds Sierra Northern Railway as an additional Respondent to the original 2007 Site Investigation and Remediation Order, as amended in the 2022 First Amendment to the Site Investigation and Remediaton Order.
- Monthly Status Reports
- January 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released February 7, 2023
- February 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released March 1, 2023
- March 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released April 3, 2023
- May 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released June 1, 2023
- June 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released July 6, 2023
- July 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released July 31, 2023
- August 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released September 5, 2023
- September 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released October 3, 2023
- October 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released November 1, 2023
- November 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released December 13, 2023
- December 2023 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released January 5, 2024
- January 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released February 13, 2024
- February 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released March 5, 2024
- March 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released April 4, 2024
- April 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released May 2, 2024
- May 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released June 4, 2024
- June 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released July 8, 2024
- July 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released August 1, 2024
- August 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released September 10, 2024
- September 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released September 27, 2024
- ESTIMATED OVERSIGHT COSTS – FISCAL YEAR 2024/2025, THE FORMER GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION SITE LOCATED AT 90 WEST REDWOOD AVENUE, FORT BRAGG, CALIFORNIA, dated October 10, 2024. Includes detailed accounting of costs and Gantt chart style timeline.
- October 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released November 13, 2024
- November 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released December 9, 2024
- December 2024 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released January 8, 2025
- NEW 2/16 January 2025 Monthly Summary Report, Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, released February 6, 2025
- Land Use Covenants – permanent restrictions on how sections of the former Mill site may be used or developed in the future due to toxic soil and/or ground water contamination.
- Operable Unit A — The Fort Bragg Coastal Trail
- Final Operable Unit A Remedial Action Plan and Feasibility Study, published August, 2008
- Covenant to Restrict Use of Property — Environmental Restriction, recorded December 16, 2009.
- REMEDIAL ACTION CERTIFICATION OPERABLE UNIT – A, GEORGIA PACIFIC, Certified May 7, 2012.
- Licence Agreement Between Georgia Pacific LLC and The City of Fort Bragg for Walkway License from Alder Street to the Coastal Trail, Executed July 19, 2018.
- Operable Unit C — Northern Section
- Operable Unit C Groundwater Operation & Maintenance Plan, dated April 9, 2020.
- Operable Unit D — Southern Section
- Operable Unit D and Operable Unit E Groundwater Operation & Maintenance Plan, dated March 23, 2020.
- Groundwater Monitoring Report Operable Units D and E, , dated Ma7 5, 2021.
- DTSC Site Visit Report - Operable Units (OUs) C & D (Former Georgia-Pacific Mill Site, Fort Bragg, CA), February 13-14, 2023
- Operable Unit E — Central Wetlands, Ponds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
- City of Fort Bragg Mill Pond Complex Planning Framework, dated October 20, 20010. Includes options for remediating OU-E Mill Ponds
- Technical Memorandum – Risk Assessment Approach for Operable Unit E, by Arcadis for Georgia Pacific LLC, dated December 22, 2010
- Response to DTSC Comments dated January 24, 2011 regarding the Technical Memorandum - Risk Assessment Approach for Operable Unit E, , by Arcadis for Georgia Pacific LLC, dated March 18, 2011. Contains notation; “Because the Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD) has required that the current structures enclosing Pond 8 be removed, including the dam, cribwall, and north wall components...&rdqou;
- RESPONSE TO COMMENTS: TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM - RISK ASSESSMENT APPROACH FOR OPERABLE UNIT E, DTSC response to Arcadis March 18, 2011 letter, with additional work by Mark Stelljes, SLR Consulting, dated April 26, 2011
- Mill Pond Complex Restoration DRAFT Conceptual Design June 2011, by Arcadis for Georgia Pacific LLC
- DTSC Former Georgia-Pacific Mill Site Update: Next Steps at Operable Units C, D, and E - January 2012
- Baseline Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment Work Plan – Operable Unit E Addendum, Dated October 12, 2012, Revised February 15, 2013 by Arcadis for Georgia Pacific LLC
- Baseline Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment - Operable Unit E, released July 30, 2015. Appendices and documentation Here
- Kennedy/Jenks Feasibility Study Operable Unit E - May 19, 2017, with many maps of toxic sampling (30mb file)
- Final Feasibility Study Operable Unit E September 12, 2019. Prepared by Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, lists considerations, criteria and alternative actions for addressing and remediating Ponds 1-8.
- Operable Unit D and Operable Unit E Groundwater Operation & Maintenance Plan, dated March 23, 2020.
- Groundwater Monitoring Report Operable Units D and E, , dated Ma7 5, 2021.
- DRAFT Remedial Action Plan Operable Unit E October 14, 2020. The current plan under consideration by the City of Fort Bragg, this will not be finalized until a CEQA process and an EIR are accepted by the City of Fort Bragg, plus the required Public Comment period for the DTSC.
- Mendocino Railway Permit Application for work to address the California Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD) requirements for the Mill Pond Dam and Pond 8, June 24, 2022. Filed with the City of Fort Bragg July 12, 2022
- Re: GEORGIA-PACIFIC, FORT BRAGG MILL SIITE, FORT BRAGG, CALIFORNIA (SITE CODE 202276), dated December 21, 2022. Letter to City of Fort Bragg recommending the City, as lead agency for the EIR for OU-E, consider "the alternatives found in Section 7: Development and Evaluation of Remedial Alternatives of the OU-E FS."
- GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION SITE, 90 WEST REDWOOD AVENUE, FORT BRAGG, CALIFORNIA, OPERABLE UNIT E FEASIBILITY STUDY ADDENDUM SITE CODE 202276), dated December 27, 2022. Letter to Mendocino Railway, stating, "The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has determined that the Operable Unit E Feasibility Study (OU-E FS) for the Georgia-Pacific Mill Site requires additional alternatives analysis in a Feasibility Study Addendum (FS Addendum)."
- City of Fort Bragg Request for Proposals: Environmental Impact Report Mill Pond Remediation Project, released October, 2022.
- PROPOSAL: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT — MILL POND REMEDIATION PROJECT, dated December 16, 2022. Environmental Engineering firm Dudek's proposal to carry out Mendocino Railway's Remedial Action Plan for the OU-E mill ponds.
- DTSC Site Visit Report - Operable Units (OUs) C & D (Former Georgia-Pacific Mill Site, Fort Bragg, CA), February 13-14, 2023
- GEORGIA PACIFIC MILL SITE OU-E MITIGATION MONITORING Year 5 Report, dated January, 2023
- City of Fort Bragg Request for Proposals: Environmental Impact Report — Operable Unit E Mill Pond Remediation Project, released June 29, 2023
- Kennedy Jenks Technical Memorandum, dated June 24, 2022. "This technical memorandum provides a summary of the scope of work for proposed improvements to address California Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD) requirements at the Mill Pond Dam and Pond 8 (the Mill Pond)...
- DRAFT Remedial Action Plan – Operable Unit E former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility Fort Bragg, California, dated October 14, 2020.
- Letter from DTSC to City of Fort Bragg Re: Operable Unit E Environmental Impact Report, dated December 21, 2022
- Response to questions relating to Request for Proposals & Bids: Environmental Impact Report – Mill Pond Remediation Project, dated June 27, 2023.
- Intgral Consulting, Inc. Proposal for Environmental Impact Report, Operable Unit E Mill Pond Remediation, dated July 19, 2023
- DTSC Email: OU-E Feasibility Study Addendum, dated September 5, 2023 “Though DTSC approved the previously-submitted Feasibility Study, given the new information that has come to light, DTSC’s previous approval is now only partial.”
- Mendocino Railway response to DTSC letter of December 27, 2022 requesting additional information regarding remediation plan for OU-E dated September 6, 2023. (DTSC letter of December 27, 2022 Here)
- [Mendocino Railway's] Review of Recommended Alternative for Mill Pond 8 as a Permittable Project under LCP Former Georgia-Pacific Wood Products Facility, dated January 16, 2024
- REQUIREMENT TO COMPLETE FEASIBILITY STUDY ADDENDUM FOR FORMER GEORGIA-PACIFIC MILL SITE, 90 WEST REDWOOD AVENUE, FORT BRAGG, MENDOCINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (SITE CODE 202276), Dated March 28, 2024. “DTSC has determined that evaluation of additional remedial alternatives is needed for Mendocino Railway to meet the Feasibility Study requirement in Section 5.7 of the Order for OU-E.”
- Mendocino Railway Extension Request for OU-E Feasibility Study Addendum, dated April 29, 2024
- REQUESTED EXTENSION FOR FEASIBILITY STUDY ADDENDUM, dated May 16, 2024. DTSC grants extension request to August 30, 2024, “on the condition that Mendocino Railway agrees to monthly meetings with DTSC” with additional requirements spelled out.
- SOLICITATIONS OF APPLICABLE OR RELEVANT AND APPROPRIATE REQUIREMENTS,FORMER GEORGIA-PACIFIC MILL SITE, FORT BRAGG, CALIFORNIA
- To City of Fort Bragg
- To California Coastal Commission
- To California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- To California Division of Safety of Dams
- To NOAA Marine Fisheries – West Coast Region
- To US Army Corps of Engineers
- To North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board
- Table 3-1: Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements (ARARs) and "To be Considered" (TBC) Factors ("Attached" document to above letters)
- Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements (ARARs) Matrix For All Respondants
- Mendocino Railway Stormwater Letter to DTSC alleging that “a significant majority of the ppollutants (80 to 95 percent) entering Pond 8 via stormwater were contributed by drainage areas outside the Site.”, dated August 17, 2023
- Mendocino Railway's Request to Add Respondent (City of Fort Bragg) to Order, involving cleanup of Pond 8, dated September 6, 2023
- Mendocino Railway: Draft Alternatives List, OU-E Feasibility Study Addendum, dated August 30, 2024. See References above for updated concentration levels.
- DTSC Response to: MENDOCINO RAILWAY'S REQUEST TO ADD THE CITY OF FORT BRAGG TO SITE INVESTIGATION AND REMEDIATION ORDER, dated November 4, 2023. “DTSC declines to name the City as an additional party to the Order”. Includes concise summary of dioxin and furan contaminated fly ash from mill operations, its sources and distribution.
- NEW 1/20 OU-E Ponds 6, 7, and 8, Berm, and Dam
- NEW 1/20 TECHNICAL STUDY FOR THE MILL POND IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, prepared by Stetson Engineers Inc., released January, 2006
- NEW 1/20 Fort Bragg City Council Agenda, July 7, 2010, Includes "Interim Corrective Action and Stormwater Rerouting Project" slide deck and Department of Safety of Dams Inspection of Dam and Reservoir in Certified Status dated 2 June, 2009
- NEW 1/20 Fort Bragg City Council Agenda, October 20, 2010, includes: Mill Pond Complex Planning Framework, Preliminary Mill Pond Area Aquatic Habitat Alternatives with drawings
- NEW 1/20 Department of Safety of Dams Letter to Georgia Pacific Requiring Removal of Dam by 2015, dated August 11, 2010
- NEW 1/20 ARCADIS Mill Pond Complex Restoration DRAFT Conceptual Design Chapters 1-3, Dated June, 2011
- NEW 1/20 ARCADIS Mill Pond Complex Restoration DRAFT Conceptual Design Chapter 4 Part I, Dated June, 2011
- NEW 1/20 ARCADIS Mill Pond Complex Restoration DRAFT Conceptual Design Chapters 4 Part II, Dated June, 2011
- NEW 1/20 ARCADIS Mill Pond Complex Restoration DRAFT Conceptual Design Chapters 5-7, Dated June, 2011
- NEW 1/20 ARCADIS Mill Pond Complex Restoration DRAFT Conceptual Design Maps, Dated June, 2011
- NEW 1/20 Mill Pond Complex Restoration Project 3D Photo Revisions, dated September 11, 2011
- NEW 1/20 ARCADIS Mill Pond Dam Supplemental Site Investigation Work Plan, Dated July, 2014
- NEW 1/20 ARCADIS DRAFT Mill Pond Dam Supplemental Site Investigation Report, Dated March, 2015
- NEW 1/20 ARCADIS DRAFT Mill Pond Dam Supplemental Site Investigation Report Appendices (Except B), Dated March, 2015
- NEW 1/20 RESOLUTION OF THE FORT BRAGG CITY COUNCIL EXPRESSING COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY PREFERENCE REGARDING CLEAN UP GOALS FOR THE REMEDIATION OF WETLANDS IN OPERABLE UNIT E, Passed and signed November 27, 2017
- Off-Site Contamination — From 1971 until shortly before the mill closed in 2002, Georgia Pacific operated a "co-generation" electrical generation plant burning mill waste and allegedly other materials. Fly ash from the co-generation plant, containing toxins including dioxins and furans was stored on site, and trucked off-site to be used as soil amendments on fields, lawns and gardens.
- Acton Mickelson Environmental, Inc. Dioxin Sampling and Analysis Report, dated July 14, 2006
- Georgia Pacific response to Hazardous Substance Information Request/Georgia-Pacific Corporation Fort Bragg Sawmill, Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, Volume 1: 1971 to May, 1985, released November 30, 2006. “This is in response to your letter dated October 11,2006 requesting information from Georgia-Pacific related to ‘all off site locations that received fly ash from the GP Fort Bragg Sawmill’”.
- Volume 2: June, 1985 to May, 1987, released November 30, 2006.
- Volume 3: June, 1987 to December, 1989, released November 30, 2006.
- Volume 4: 1990 to 1991, released November 30, 2006.
- Volume 5: 1992 to 2006, Part 1, released November 30, 2006.
- Volume 5: 1992 to 2006, Part 2, released November 30, 2006.
- DTSC Notice and Request for Access to Amethyst Street property in Fort Bragg that had fly ash delivered to it, dated November 11, 2011