Marshall Faraday Campus Park
Brownfield Grant

Carnow Conibear coordinated with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to apply for a United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Brownfields Clean-up Grant to perform remediation activities at a historical filling station. The site is one portion of the proposed Marshall Faraday Campus Park, which will connect two public schools. Carnow Conibear prepared and provided the grant application and supporting documentation to CPS for submittal to the USEPA. Upon announcement of the grant award, Carnow Conibear prepared a work plan detailing the proposed remediation activities for the site.

 

Both the USEPA and CPS signed a cooperative agreement in March 2005. Carnow Conibear prepared the initial reports required by the USEPA agreement including a Community Relations Plan, documenting how the CPS would coordinate community input in the project approach for remediation, and a site-specific health and safety plan. Because the grant will be used to perform a site investigation, Carnow Conibear prepared a sampling plan, documenting the proposed locations for soil borings and excavation closure samples associated with underground storage tank (UST) removal, and a quality assurance and control plan associated with all on-site sampling and analytical testing.

 

Upon approval of the reports, Carnow Conibear coordinated the UST removal and conducted a Phase I ESA. The remediation activities that were performed as part of the grant included the removal of three USTs, the Phase II ESA, and the enrollment of the site in the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s (IEPA) Site Remediation Program (SRP). The enrollment of the site in the SRP program included the preparation of a Comprehensive Site Investigation (CSI) Report, Remedial Action Plan (RAP), and Remedial Objectives Report (ROR). After the reports were approved by the IEPA, remediation began.

 

Upon successful removal of the three USTs and site remediation of soils contaminated with benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and total lead, Carnow Conibear prepared and submitted the Remedial Action Completion (RAC) Report for the Site. The report was approved and an NFR letter was issued by the IEPA in March of 2007.