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HWY 89 Storage Units (Home Based Explosives Development cont.)

HWY 89 Storage Units (Home Based Explosives Development cont.). EPA Region 8 CERCLA Removal Box Elder & Weber Counties, UT OSCs: Tien Nguyen, Al Lange, David Romero, Gina Andrews. HWY 89 Storage Units. 80+ Year old individual At Home with Hospice Care Unable to communicate

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HWY 89 Storage Units (Home Based Explosives Development cont.)

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  1. HWY 89 Storage Units (Home Based Explosives Development cont.) EPA Region 8 CERCLA Removal Box Elder & Weber Counties, UT OSCs: Tien Nguyen, Al Lange, David Romero, Gina Andrews

  2. HWY 89 Storage Units • 80+ Year old individual • At Home with Hospice Care • Unable to communicate • Career Thiokol (now ATK) Employee • Award winning rocket propellant scientist (worked on space shuttle) • Renting 7 Storage Units • Wife wants to clean them out

  3. Drums are Full of Propellants or Ammonium Perchlorates

  4. Thousands of Chemical Items in 7 Storage Units

  5. Chemicals Found at Residence’s Garage

  6. HWY 89 Storage Units • 3 locations • 2100 South Hwy 89, Perry • 8823 South Hwy 89, South Willard • 1620 9th Street, Ogden (residence) • 16,000+ individual containers/units

  7. HWY 89 Storage Units • Waste streams include: • explosives • Shock-sensitive compounds • Oxidizers • Water-reactive powders • Flammables • Propellants

  8. ATK Estimates All Major Transportation Routes Will be Shut Down if Site Got Fire

  9. Explosives, Burned/Detonated by Bomb Squads

  10. EPA/START Inventory and Sampling

  11. PRPs/ATK Removal Operation Under AOC

  12. HWY 89 Storage Units • ATK agreed to take over clean up, with EPA oversight • Moving quickly • Plan to complete before Christmas

  13. HWY 89 Storage Units • Questions? • Comments?

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