HWY 89 Storage Units (Home Based Explosives Development cont.)
EPA Region 8CERCLA 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• Career Thiokol (now ATK) Employee
• Award winning rocket propellant scientist (worked on space shuttle)
• Renting 7 Storage Units
•Wife wants to clean them out
Drums are Full of Propellants or Ammonium Perchlorates
Thousands of Chemical Items in 7 Storage Units
Chemicals Found at Residence’s Garage
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
HWY 89 Storage Units
• Waste streams include:• explosives• Shock-sensitive compounds• Oxidizers• Water-reactive powders• Flammables• Propellants
ATK Estimates All Major Transportation Routes Will be Shut Down if Site Got Fire
Explosives, Burned/Detonated by Bomb Squads
EPA/START Inventory and Sampling
PRPs/ATK Removal Operation Under AOC
HWY 89 Storage Units
• ATK agreed to take over clean up, with EPA oversight
• Moving quickly
• Plan to complete before Christmas
HWY 89 Storage Units
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