San Diego Region - Regional Board Actions from 1999 through August 2001 Pertaining to Shipyard Sediment Site

Regional Board Sediment Workshop

• San Diego Bay Contaminated Marine Sediments Assessment and Remediation Workshop

Elevated levels of pollutants exist in the bay bottom sediments adjacent to NASSCO and Southwest Marine shipyards. The concentrations of these pollutants cause or threaten to cause a condition of pollution that harms aquatic life beneficial uses designated for San Diego Bay. The concentrations of these pollutants may also present aquatic-dependent wildlife and human health risks from exposure to pollutants through the food chain attributable to the contaminated sediment.

Agenda Package for February 2001 Board Meeting

At the February 21, 2001 Regional Board meeting, the Regional Board adopted Resolution Nos. 2001-02 and 2001-03. These resolutions direct the Executive Officer to issue Water Code Section 13267 letters to NASSCO and Southwest Marine requiring each shipyard to submit the results of a site-specific study to develop sediment cleanup levels and identify sediment cleanup alternatives by June 21, 2001. All files listed below were included in the agenda package for the February Board Meeting as self extracting zipped files. The files listed below are in Adobe Reader format.

• Executive Officer Summary Report
  The EOSR provides information regarding Agenda Item 13 – Consideration of adopting tentative Resolution Nos. 2001-02 (NASSCO) and 2001-03 (Southwest Marine). Executive Officer Summary Report (Supplemental)
• Errata Sheets for Tentative Resolution Nos. 2001-02 and 2001-03
  The errata sheets consist of revised pages of the tentative resolutions. The shaded areas denote additions and the strikeouts denote deletions:
  • Errata Cover for Tentative Resolution No. 2001-02
  • Errata Cover for Tentative Resolution No. 2001-03
  • Errata Sheet for Tentative Resolution No. 2001-02
  • Errata Sheet for Tentative Resolution No. 2001-03
• Final Regional Board Report
  The final report discusses the issue, history of the shipyards involvement with sediment investigation and cleanup, the basis for interim cleanup levels for the shipyards, the purpose and results of the peer review panel, regional board follow-up to the peer review results, evaluation of the most sensitive beneficial use, and consideration of six cleanup level options.
  • Final Report (2/16/01) - Final Regional Board Report for 2/21/00 Board Meeting Final Appendices
  • Appendix A - Regional Board Resolutions 99-12 & 99-20
  • Appendix B - Russell Fairey Report
  • Appendix B - Steve Bay Report
  • Appendix B - Todd Thornburg Report
  • Appendix B - Todd Thornburg Table
  • Appendix C - Statistical Analysis of Grain Size and Chemistry Data
  • Appendix D - Staff Report for Establishment of Shipyard Sediment Cleanup Levels for NASSCO & Southwest Marine (2-17-99)
  • Appendix E - Statistical Analysis of Shipyard Storm Drain Comparison to Background Reference Station
  • Appendix F - Cover Letter (8-3-95)
  • Appendix F - Shipyard Sediment Study (8-3-95)
  • NASSCO Cost Table (Table 1)
  • Southwest Marine Cost Table (Table 2)
  • Concept Graph (Figure 1)
• Response to Comments
  Regional Board staff received a considerable volume of written comments on the staff report from interested persons by the November 8, 2000 deadline. Staff responded to the comments received. Response to Comments