Brunswick NAS-Environmental, Engineering and Scientific Consulting Services
Abstract
The Midcoast Regional redevelopment Authority (MRRA) is the OEA recognized implementation Local Redevelopment Authority for redevelopment of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, a component unit of the State of Maine, is a municipal corporation created by Maine law, 5 MRSA ยง13083-G, and charged with the responsibility to acquire and manage property at the former Naval Air Station Brunswick (NAS Brunswick) and the Topsham Annex and to facilitate the rapid redevelopment of properties in order to recover from economic and employment loss as result of base closure decision in 2005. The first meeting of the MRRA Board of Trustees was held on September 27, 2007. Working with our engineering consultants and BSD, MRRA has engaged in a series of projects to identify and eliminate inflow and infiltration from our sanitary sewer collection system. As required under the conditions of property transfer, MRRA notified the Navy on June 20, 2016 of our intent to disturb soil as part of the construction of this infrastructure project. At that time, we were advised by the Navy and regulators that, because of the potential for perflourinated compounds (PFCs) to be present in the groundwater at some of the project locations, MRRA would not be able to dewater excavations in these locations by conventional methods. Instead, MRRA has been required to develop and implement a groundwater management plan (GMP) to deal with any groundwater that is potentially contaminated with PFCs and needs to be pumped from an excavation in order to complete construction. We were also notified that transfers would also be delayed because of the new concern about PFCs. FY 2018 Work Plan The funded work plan has been impacted significantly by the amount of time that staff has had to spend on dealing with the PFAS issue in discussion and negotiations with the Navy and environmental regulators regarding PFAS testing, environmental land use controls that are being considered and the impact upon our reuse plan. In addition, MRRA has also had to revise plans and budgets on infrastructure projects where there is contact with groundwater in suspected areas of PFAS contamination across the campus. Just this past fiscal year, a sewer project had an unbudgeted and funded liability of over $225,000 to remediate groundwater through a filtration process to bring the ground water to drinking water standards and then discharge back into the aquifer. The Work Plan would be amended to include scientific, environmental and/or engineering consulting services to support our understanding of the work of the Navy and environmental regulators on dealing with what had been commonly referred to as perflourinated compounds (PFCs) at Brunswick Landing, the impact on our Reuse Master Plan, the financial and business plan considered in the preparation of Economic Development Conveyance application.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Feb 04, 2020
- Source ID
- HQ00051710074
Entities
People
- Jeffrey Jordan
Organizations
- Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority
- Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
- Office of the Secretary of Defense