Site Remediation and Cooperative Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Maine Department of Environmental Protection
EI is providing expert consulting advice to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and other State Trustees in a cooperative Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) concerning a marine oil terminal facility (Site) in Hampden, Maine, for which a request for an integrated remedial action and cooperative natural resource damage assessment has been made and agreed to by the potentially reponsible party (PRP).
EI is drawing on its strong hazardous site remediation and NRDA backround to, on behalf of DEP, work with the DEP, State Trustees, and the PRP to ensure that remediation goals, including removal of free product and oil-saturated soils and elimination of oil discharges to the Penobscot River, are reached, and to jointly develop and analyze data for injury determination at the Site. EI is providing assistance with primary planning, data collection, and analysis for the cooperative assessment. Specific tasks have included/will include discussion of DEP/Trustee objectives for the cooperative assessment process, Site information review, and NRD cooperative assessment planning and support, including providing preliminary written recommendations to DEP and State Trustees regarding adequacy, approach, and techniques for completion of an assessment report. EI is providing expert consulting advice on data gap analysis; injury determination and quantification including metrics for injury; damage assessment methods concerning endangered fish species, petroleum dicharges to soils, groundwater, sub- and intra-tidal sediment and tidal surface water; recreational and cultural uses of “mixed-use” estuaries, with special emphasis on the relationship between these resources and Indian Nations; NRDA precedent; damage estimates; and analysis of restoration planning.
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