Redwing Carriers, Inc. (Saraland)
Redwing Carriers, Inc. (Saraland) EPA ID: ALD980844385 Location: Saraland, Mobile County, AL Congressional District: 01 NPL Status: Proposed: 06/24/88; Final 02/21/90 Project Manager Documents:
Site Background: In 1973, Saraland Apartments Ltd., purchased the site and built a HUD subsidized apartment complex on the site. The apartments were built after the sludge and contaminated soil had been covered over with up to five feet of clean soil. The complex consists of 60 apartment units located in 12 buildings and until recently housed approximately 160 residents including eighty to ninety preschool-age or elementary school-age children Cleanup Progress: Threat Mitigation by Physical Cleanup Work On July 12, 1996, EPA issued a Unilateral Administrative Order to Redwing and Saraland Apartments, Ltd. directing them to remove the source of the recurring tar seeps. When both parties refused to comply with the order, EPA took action to do the removal by temporarily relocate 57 families living in the complex and excavating and transporting off site for disposal approximately 20,724 tons of sludge, contaminated soil and debris. In July 1997, EPA collected soil, sediment, and water samples from twenty-three properties adjacent to the Redwing Carriers Superfund Site. The purpose for this sampling was to address community concerns about possible releases from the site. Based on a risk evaluation of the analytical results of these samples, the Agency determined that there is no unacceptable health risk or hazard in the neighborhood adjacent to the Redwing site. In April 1999, EPA published a Proposed Plan to amend the 1992 ROD based on new data collected during the 1996-1997 Removal Action. The amended ROD was signed on June 14, 2000. A global settlement between the Redwing PRPs and the Federal government was reached on the final cleanup of the Redwing Site. A Remedial Design/Remedial Action Consent Decree was entered on February 26, 2002. Demolition of the apartments was completed in the spring of 2004. The 100% Remedial Design was approved on June 28, 2007. The PRP’s contractor mobilized to the site on December 10, 2007, to start the Remedial Action field activities. All on-site field activates were completed in fall 2008. Currently, the only RA activity remaining to be implemented is the installation and monitoring of three off-site shallow groundwater monitoring wells.
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