Force Road Oil and Vacuum Truck

The Force Road Oil & Vacuum Truck Company site is located southeast of Arcola and northwest of the city of Iowa Colony at 1722 County Road 573 (Alloy Road) in Brazoria County. The site is approximately 1,300 feet east of the Brazoria-Fort Bend County line. The permitted facility occupies between 9 and 12 acres out of a leased 28-acre tract. Land surrounding the site is used primarily for agriculture and petroleum production. The site is currently an inactive oily wastewater disposal and oil recovery facility. At the time of the HRS ranking, the only visible structures remaining were one metal pump house/storage shed and three above ground storage tanks. In addition, three buried railroad tank cars with a capacity of 10,000 gallons each had also been used for interim storage of wastes. The operation primarily involved the use of five surface impoundments for the separation of waste trans--1.2 dichloroethylene, vinyl chloride and 1.1.1 trichloroethylene brought to the site. Three of the impoundments were used as holding ponds, the fourth served as a sludge pond and the fifth unit was used for spray evaporation of waste water.

Superfund Actions Taken to Date: (skip to the most current action)

• October 1997, a site perimeter fence was constructed to limit unauthorized access and signs were posted warning of contamination.
• August 15, 2000, a hazard ranking system (HRS) documentation record was prepared for the Force Road Oil & Vacuum Truck Company site. [Read the text of the hazard ranking system summary in PDF. (Help with PDF.) The PDF file does not include illustrations or copies of documents cited. The complete HRS record is available as part of official repository records at the Alvin Branch Library and the TCEQ Records Management Center.]
• October 13, 2000, a legal notice was published in the Texas Register (25 TexReg 10413-10414) describing the site, proposing the site for listing on the state Superfund registry. Commercial/industrial land use specifications will be used for remediation of the site contamination. The land use designation may be considered in any remedial action proposed for the site. [Read the text of the legal notice in PDF. (Help with PDF.) The PDF file does not include illustrations or copies of documents cited.] A public meeting to receive citizen comments was scheduled at the Iowa Colony City Hall, 12003 County Road 65, on November 28, 2000.
• November 10, 2000, TNRCC began mailing out requests for response actions, which would show a good-faith offer from potentially responsible parties, asking them to enter into an agreed order to perform a remedial investigation and feasibility study at the site.
• November 28, 2000, a public meeting was held at the Iowa Colony City Hall to receive comments on the proposing of the Force Road Oil & Vacuum Truck site for listing on the Superfund registry and the plan to use commercial/industrial land use specifications for remediation of the site contamination.
• November 29, 2000, a community relations plan was prepared for the Force Road Oil & Vacuum Truck Company site. [Read the text of the community relations plan in PDF. (Help with PDF.) The PDF file does not include illustrations or copies of documents cited as references. The complete community relations plan is available as part of the official repository record at the Alvin Branch Library and at the TCEQ Records Management Center.]
• March 12, 2001, TNRCC mailed out a second round of requests for response action for a good-faith offer to additional identified PRPs.
• April 16, 2001, the TNRCC received a good-faith offer from 13 PRPs responding as a group to begin discussion of an agreed administrative order.
• August 12, 2001, the TNRCC project manager met with the site group of PRPs to discuss a standard administrative order and the identification of additional PRPs.
• September 12, 2001, TNRCC sent out an additional 89 PRP notices to a group of newly identified PRPs.
• November 14, 2001, TNRCC met with the site group of PRPs to negotiate the agreed administrative order to perform a remedial investigation and feasibility study.
• August 29, 2002, the TNRCC issued an agreed administrative order with the respondents agreeing to perform or pay for the remedial investigation and feasibility study at the site. [Read the text of the administrative order in PDF. (Help with PDF.)
• September 1, 2002, effective date of the name change from Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) to Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).
• September 8, 2002, effective date of the agreed administrative order issued by Texas Commission on Environmental Quality requiring the respondents to conduct a remedial investigation and feasibility study, as authorized by §361.185 and 361.272 of the Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act, Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 361.
• November 2002, the potentially responsible parties submitted the draft of the phase 1 affected property assessment work plan.
• December 4, 2002, TCEQ reported its comments on the phase 1 affected property assessment work plan to the site group.
• January 10, 2003, TCEQ completed the review of the phase 1 affected property assessment work plan, and requested that the respondents' consultant address the noted concerns.
• March 25, 2003, TCEQ approved the revised affected property assessment work plan submitted by the PRP's consultant.
• April 21, 2003, the field work for the first phase of the remedial investigation began. The property was cleared, and monitoring wells were sampled as part of the effort to identify the chemicals of concern. Monitor wells MW-1, MW-2, and MW-5 were sampled. MW-4 was found to be damaged and contained some debris inside the well. A new well will be installed to sample that particular area. Pond sediment was sampled from all five site impoundments.
• April 28, 2003, geoprobe sampling was conducted to address the underground storage tanks as well as the surface and subsurface soil investigation.
• November 2003February 2004, TCEQ submitted comments and responded to comments concerning the site group's technical memorandum of the results of the investigation which is undergoing TCEQ review.
• April 14, 2004, TCEQ approved the revised work plan for the site to begin the next phase of field activities.
• May 2004, the respondent's contractor cleared the site and completed geoprobe borings. Also, soil and sediment was sampled for PCB contamination.
• JulyAugust 2004, the respondent's contractor installed two additional monitoring wells and collected additional sediment samples from the impoundments. Due to recent rains, the roadway leading to the site was flooded, causing a slowing of field sampling investigation activities.
• December 20, 2004. the respondents submitted the first phase draft of the affected property assessment report, and the draft of the second phase affected property assessment work plan.
• September 28, 2005, drafts were approved with changes.
• October 21, 2005, the respondents began field activities to implement the phase 2 work plan.
• November 2005, the initial mobilization of the second phase work was completed. Completion of the balance of the work is pending an off-site access agreement with a third party.
• June 2006, obtained off-site access for monitor well installation.
• July 2006, installed groundwater monitoring wells and delineated groundwater contaminant plume.
• August 2006,project manager met with the site group of potentially responsible parties.
• January 8, 2007, the TCEQ project manager suggested formatting changes to the second phase work plan addendum. The respondent provided GPS locations of soils samples in an e-mail.
• January 26, 2007, the updated second phase work plan addendum was received for review and comment by TCEQ.
• February 15, 2007, the second phase work plan addendum was approved.
• June 12, 2007, received the phase 2 affected property assessment report.
• August 31, 2007, comments to the phase 2 affected property assessment report were sent to the respondent group.
• September 5, 2007, received revised map, laboratory data packages, and data usability summary in partial response to TCEQ's August 31, 2007 letter.
• September 21, 2007, approved the revised data usability summary report for the phase 2 affected property assessment.
• October 29, 2007, received revised Tier 2 screening level ecological risk assessment in response to TCEQ's August 31, 2007 letter.
• January 9, 2008, comments to the revised Tier 2 screening level ecological reisk assessment were sent to the respondent group.
• March 17, 2008, received a reasoned justification - ecological risk assessment in response to TCEQ's January 9, 2008 letter.
• May 21, 2008, comments to the reasoned justificatioin- ecological risk assessment were sent to the respondent group.
• June 13, 2008, received revisions to the reasoned justification - ecological risk assessment.
• July 3, 2008, approved the revised reasoned justification - ecological risk assessment and phase 2 affected property assessment report. Directed respondent group to submit a response action plan in accordance with agreed order provision VIII.A.9.
• October 1, 2008, respondents submitted a response action plan which outlines their proposal for remediating the site contamination.

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