Rebecca Marfurt

Environmental Programs Specialist

Department of Environmental Quality

Land Protection Division

Success stories of DEQ’s Site Cleanup Assistance Program

• State Program

• Clean up National Guard Armories being closed by OMD

• Clean up Abandoned Hazardous Waste Sites

SITE CLEANUP

ASSISTANCE

PROGRAM

(SCAP)

• OMD has built 7 large facilities across the state in order to combine troops.

• 60 old armories have or will be closed

• DEQ remediates environmental hazards before transfer to the new owner

NEW

NATIONAL

GUARD

ARMORIES

ARMORY HISTORY: THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Mays Avenue Camp, OKC

5 Billion Dollars nationwide for public works during the Great Depression

Goal was to stimulate the economy and provide long-term benefit for the community

Workers would receive on-the-job training for further employment

This program employed 119,000 Oklahomans (mostly farmers) between 1935 and 1937

Paid eighteen cents an hour

WORKS

PROGRESS

ADMINISTRATION

(WPA)

THEN AND NOW

THEN AND

NOW

ARMORY

REMEDIATION

• DEQ does assessment of site and samples for environmental hazards.

• Consultants are hired to sample and create inspection reports for:

– Lead-Based Paint

– Lead Contaminated Dust

– Asbestos

ENVIRONMENTAL

ASSESSMENTS

• Abatement of asbestos from building.

• Remediation of lead contaminated dust from floors of entire building (40 ug/SF).

• Removal and replacement of soil from outside Indoor Firing Range vent fan and/or drain pipe.

• Abatement of lead-based paint from surfaces in building.

– Removal and replacement of friction surfaces such as doors and windows.

BUILDING

REMEDIATION

LEAD-BASED PAINT

ABATEMENT

Before Abatement After Abatement

• Removal and disposal of lead contaminated sand from bullet trap.

• Removal and disposal of lead contaminated debris.

• Remediation of lead contaminated dust from all surfaces of IFR (200 ug/SF).

– Seal surfaces of IFR with acrylic sealant once remediated (40 ug/SF).

INDOOR

FIRING RANGE

(IFR)

REMEDIATION

FIRING RANGE REMEDIATION

BULLET SAND TRAP

INDOOR FIRING RANGE

Before After

FLOODED FIRING RANGE

SPOOKY

STUFF

Alva Armory

McAlester Armory Tahlequah Armory

Success Stories

SUCCESS STORIES

NEW USES

Route 66 Museum

Chandler

SUCCESS STORIES

Cushing Emergency Response Center Mangum Inmate Work Center

Greater Southwest History Museum

Ardmore

Oklahoma’s armories are an important part of our history

DEQ’s SCAP program has remediated these buildings so that they can safely be used to benefit

the public

TAKE HOME

MESSAGE

• Site Cleanup Assistance Program Website

– www.deq.state.ok.us/lpdnew/scapIndex.htm

• Bidding Information

– http://www.ok.gov/DCS/Construction_&_Properties/CAP_Bids_&_Drawings/index.html

ADDITIONAL

INFORMATION