Enviromental History of the Fore River Shipyard

The entire Quincy/Fore River Shipyard was assessed and remediated as needed by General Dynamics and its environmental consultant, Goldberg Zoino & Associates in the mid to late 1980s with remediation of an oil spill continuing to 2002.  The assessment included research in past site uses of oil and hazardous materials, the identification of areas where testing of surficial and subsurface soil and groundwater were appropriate, the collection and testing of soil and groundwater from the presence of oil and hazardous material and an assessment of the needed for further testing or remediation.  Remedial activates including removing above and under ground storage tanks, removal of PCB transformers and PCB contaminated soil, and remediation of an oil spill which concluded in 2002.  The only area currently undergoing remediation is a plume of chlorinated VOCs in groundwater which extends from the Clean Harbors property to under Building 57.  Clean Harbors is responsible for this cleanup under a consent order with the US Environmental Protection Agency.

In 1994, Goldberg Zoino concluded based on its work done at the shipyard, that no further investigation, monitoring or other actions were warranted with respect to areas of concern they identified provided that site activities remained industrial or business in nature except for the oil spill.  The oil spill was remediated successfully in 2002.

At the present time Quirk is undertaking a removal of 4 PCB transformers not addressed by General Dynamics and the removal of associated impacted soil and concrete.

This summary has been prepared by HML Associates based on its reviewed of readily available information.