LOOW Community Action Council
Next Meeting:  LOOW CAC Executive Committee Meeting
                         May 22, 2013 - open to all  
                         6:30-9 PM, Lewiston-Porter School Alumni Room

                        

Videos

The CAC has compiled a range of videos that show the NFSS site, IWCS construction, and public meetings. Links to each video are below. Some of these videos are very long — a time length is indicated after each title/link.

Public Meetings, Workshops and Poster Sessions, 2009-2011
Links to videos of Public Meetings, Workshops and Poster Sessions from 2009-2011, organized by date:

3.25.2009:  Public Technical Planning Session, Phase IV Remedial Investigation (RI) of the Wastewater Treatment Plant on the former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (LOOW)
Public Meeting/Workshop (29.22 minutes)
Poster Session (20.11 minutes)

6.24.2009:  Public Meeting to review activities related to the RI and the path forward, present general scope for additional studies needed to complete RI addenda, discuss transition to the FS (Feasibility Study), including the Operable Units Framework and Technical Memoranda process.
Public Meeting/Workshop (1 hour 57.02 minutes)

9.16.2009: LOOW Phase III (Underground Utilities) RI and Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment Results Results, including an overview of Management Action Plan (MAP)
Public Meeting/Workshop (2 hours 7.17 minutes)

12.2.2009: Overview of the LOOW Management Action Plan
Public Meeting/Workshop (2 hours 11.13 minutes)

3.24.2010: DOD Restoration Advisory Board Presentation, DOE Presentation on NFSS VPs and 2 Drainage Ditches
Public Meeting/Workshop, Part 1
   (47.17 minutes)

Public Meeting/Workshop, Part 2
   (2 hours 2.35 minutes)

6.23.2010: Building 401 Dismantlement, RI FS Update, Lewiston-Porter School Property Sampling, What's Next for LOOW Property (Occidental Feasibility Study Sampling, Underground Storage Tank Closure Report, Records Management Project, Archive Search Report, Phase IV RI Report), EPA Report
Presentations, Posters, Part 1
   (55.26 minutes)

Presentations, Posters, Part 2
   (1 hour 38 minutes)

11.3.2010: Public Safety Hazards at LOOW (plan to address structural hazards and signage), EPA representative presented the Lewiston-Porter Schools and Occidental Chemical Company Preliminary Investigation Report
Public Meeting/Workshop (1 hour 34.08 minutes)

9.28.2011: Presentation of the first Technical Memo in the Feasibility Study Process for the IWCS — Waste Disposal Options and Fernald Lessons Learned
Public Meeting/Workshop (2 hours 10.06 minutes)
USACE Videos of LOOW IWCE Site Work, late 1980s
Tape 1: NFSS Summary (11.35 minutes)
1987. An overview of the NFSS, its history and remedial action through the mid-1980s. Produced by the Department of Energy.

Tape 2: NFSS Highlights (8.35 minutes)
Rough Footage, no narration.

Tape 3: Video Survey, Narrated (2 hours)
Video Survey Clamming in 411, R-10 pile work, CDD excavation, organic pile, K-65 tower, offsite excavations, more.

Tape 4: Video Survey, Narrated (33.19 minutes)
Video survey, narrated On and off site areas, K-65 tower and more. 1984.

Tape 5: Ground and Aerial Footage (51.18 minutes)
USACE NFSS Ground & Aerial Footage USACE NFSS ground and aerial footage, plus public hearing.

Tape 6 (Part 1 of 3): Narrated Footage (1 hour 34.31 minutes) Hydraulic mining of 434, residue transport from 434 to 411, tower demolition, more. May 17, 1985.

Tape 6 (Part 2 of 3):
Narrated Footage (1 hour 20.25 minutes) Narrated Footage Including hydraulic mining of 434, residue transport from 434 to 411, tower demolition, more.

Tape 6 (Part 3 of 3): Narrated Footage (1 hour 18.11 minutes) hydraulic mining of 434, residue transport from 434 to 411, tower demoition, more. July 1985.

Tape 7 (Part 1 of 3): Narrated Footage (56.32 minutes) Installing pond 3 liner, final 434 demolition, placing rubble in IWCS, filling pond 3, placing sand bed in 411, more.

Tape 7 (Part 2 of 3): Narrated Footage (1 hour 29.09 minutes) Hydraulic mining of 434, residue transport from 434 to 411, tower demolition, more.

Tape 7 (Part 3 of 3): Narrated Footage (1 hour 17.55 minutes) Installing pond 3 liner, final 434 demolition, placing rubble in IWCS, filling pond 3, placing sand bed in 411, more. September 18.


Tape 8:
NFSS Background and Future/1985 (12.31 minutes) Department of Energy film, August 1, 1985

Tape 9:
Un-narrated Aerial and Ground Footage (1 hour 2.48 minutes)

Tape 10: Rough Footage, Site work (28.56 minutes) Placing cap, transfer of water from pond 3 to pond 4, miscellaneous site work.

Tape 11:
Partially Narrated, 411 and 409 (22.15 minutes) 411 and 409 Pumping building 411, demolition of buildin g 411, demolition of building 409, cap erosion from winter, more.

Tape 12:
Site work (10.29 minutes) 409, north pond, Hittman, NE quad, 401 Building 409 demolition, north pond cleanup, Hittman building, NE quad pumping, compactor at 401, excavation south of decon plant, more.

Tape 13:
Narrated Rough Video (38.34 minutes) Pond 3, 411 trench, 409Pond 3 excavation, building 411 trench fill, building 409 backfill/grade, dewatering, pond 3 bladder, more.

Tape 14:
Narrated Rough Video (1 hour 17.22 minutes) NFSS area, north pond bldg 411, organic burial area, bldg 409, more

Tape 15:
Narrated Rough Video (32.35 minutes) Seeding NW quad and cap, grading south end cap, water backed up by Washuta, tent and displays, more.

Tape 16:
Narrated Tour of the NFSS (11.59 minutes) North and south end caps, new Naval area, northeast quad, west side gate installation, more.