Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2020 19:27:00 GMT
The State of Oregon including the DEQ, the OHA and the State Agency The Port of Coos Bay.
The DEQ refuses recognize the Clam Diggers Association of Oregon as Stake Holders thereby denying us our right to FREE SPEECH and our right to ASSEMBLE to comment on the contamination and pollution of lower Coos Bay. The DEQ is lying by misrepresenting the DEQ's effort to clean up Coos Bay.
The OHA has refused to recognize our request to delineate the exclusion zone associated with the sewage outfall in West Coos Bay. The when we the CDAO representative testified before the OHA. the Commissioner for OHSU continued interrupted his testimony by saying Shut Him Off!)
The Port of Coos Bay is an accomplice in the effort to deny the CDAO of our civil Liberties. They that the CDAO is the organization that initiated the Port's failure to comply with the Memorandum of Understanding the State of Oregon entered into keep the EPA from declaring a number of sites in Coos Bay as Supper Fund Sites.
The result in our humble opinion and desire for public safety to harvest pollution free clams, We the CDAO cannot recommend taking clams from the tidal flats associated with the Charleston Boat Basin or the tidal flats associated with the Fulton Street sewage outfall until the State delineates a shellfish SAFE ZONE at the sewage plant outfall and removes the contaminates from the tidal flats associated with the Charleston Boat basin and South Slough.
Clam Diggers Association of Oregon
PO BOX 1083
Coos Bay, OR 97420
Ph: (541) 756-5577
FAX : (541) 756-5577
December 2, 2020
Keith Anderson Western Region Administrator
Michael E. Kucinski Manager Western Region Cleanup and Emergency Responce
Department of Environmental Quality
Western Region Eugene Office
165 East 7th Ave. Ste: 100
Eugene, OR 97401
FAX: 541-686-7551
RE: June 7, 2018 letter to Cami Grandinetti
Charleston Shipyard site ECSI#1905, CERLIS ID #0001389972
63130 Troller Road
Coos Bay, Oregon
Prohibiting lead stakeholder involvement
Dear Mr. Anderson and Mr. Kucinski,
I am writing in regards to your letter dated June 7, 2018 to Cami Grandinetti and your claims of public outreach for comments. The Clam Diggers Association of Oregon (CDAO) was the lead stakeholder and was never given any notice even though we were in communication with Mr. Anderson, Coos Bay DEQ office and Medford DEQ office.
This purposeful exclusion of the lead stakeholder was not in the interest of public safety.
Under the watchful eye of DEQ the post cleanup tests never happened for over 10 years. Doing so likely allowed contaminates to spread to a wider area.
It was also noted in the 2016 Hart Crowser Remedial Action Completion Report chain of custody report “no name was given for the person who supplied the clams for tissue testing.”
In other words, the chain of custody was broken and should not have been allowed under chain of custody legal requirements.
This whole cleanup process looks like someone is trying to hide things when names are not being provided. Not providing names allows for easy substitution of samples to make an area look cleaned when it isn’t with no accountability. The pour-water samples showed contaminates in the water. We would have expected a wider area of tissue sampling based on this data. Isn’t this how we find the source of contaminates?
Page 2 December 2, 2020 letter to Keith Anderson and Michael E. Kucinski
Enclosed is a picture of clam diggers in the south slough where DEQ claims this area is clean enough for safe harvest of shellfish. How can this be true when boats are left to rot exposing clam diggers to biocide paint, metals and who knows what? This picture is worth a thousand words on your lack of cleanup efforts to protect human health at the Port of Coos Bay.
Clam Diggers Association of Oregon was excluded so DEQ could help sweep the problems under the table for the International Port of Coos Bay. The same thing happened when DEQ did not enforce the post-testing requirement with the Super Fund Deferral Agreement.
Because we believe this area is unsafe for shellfish harvest, we will not recommend harvest. We are also maintaining a list of shellfish license holders so we can notify people in the event health problems occur.
We would like a wider tissue testing area and we want observer’s present throughout the chain of custody for tissue testing.
Sincerely,
Chuck Erickson Director CDAO
Coos Bay, OR 97420
William Lackner President CDAO
Newport, OR 97365
Enclosure: June 7, 2018 letter to Cami Grandinetti
Clammers ask state to refer Port of Coos Bay to the EPA
Cc: Cami Grandinetti Program Manager, Remedial Cleanup Program
PLEASE MAKE THIS LETTER AND ATTACHMENTS PART OF PUBLIC RECORDS]
The DEQ refuses recognize the Clam Diggers Association of Oregon as Stake Holders thereby denying us our right to FREE SPEECH and our right to ASSEMBLE to comment on the contamination and pollution of lower Coos Bay. The DEQ is lying by misrepresenting the DEQ's effort to clean up Coos Bay.
The OHA has refused to recognize our request to delineate the exclusion zone associated with the sewage outfall in West Coos Bay. The when we the CDAO representative testified before the OHA. the Commissioner for OHSU continued interrupted his testimony by saying Shut Him Off!)
The Port of Coos Bay is an accomplice in the effort to deny the CDAO of our civil Liberties. They that the CDAO is the organization that initiated the Port's failure to comply with the Memorandum of Understanding the State of Oregon entered into keep the EPA from declaring a number of sites in Coos Bay as Supper Fund Sites.
The result in our humble opinion and desire for public safety to harvest pollution free clams, We the CDAO cannot recommend taking clams from the tidal flats associated with the Charleston Boat Basin or the tidal flats associated with the Fulton Street sewage outfall until the State delineates a shellfish SAFE ZONE at the sewage plant outfall and removes the contaminates from the tidal flats associated with the Charleston Boat basin and South Slough.
Clam Diggers Association of Oregon
PO BOX 1083
Coos Bay, OR 97420
Ph: (541) 756-5577
FAX : (541) 756-5577
December 2, 2020
Keith Anderson Western Region Administrator
Michael E. Kucinski Manager Western Region Cleanup and Emergency Responce
Department of Environmental Quality
Western Region Eugene Office
165 East 7th Ave. Ste: 100
Eugene, OR 97401
FAX: 541-686-7551
RE: June 7, 2018 letter to Cami Grandinetti
Charleston Shipyard site ECSI#1905, CERLIS ID #0001389972
63130 Troller Road
Coos Bay, Oregon
Prohibiting lead stakeholder involvement
Dear Mr. Anderson and Mr. Kucinski,
I am writing in regards to your letter dated June 7, 2018 to Cami Grandinetti and your claims of public outreach for comments. The Clam Diggers Association of Oregon (CDAO) was the lead stakeholder and was never given any notice even though we were in communication with Mr. Anderson, Coos Bay DEQ office and Medford DEQ office.
This purposeful exclusion of the lead stakeholder was not in the interest of public safety.
Under the watchful eye of DEQ the post cleanup tests never happened for over 10 years. Doing so likely allowed contaminates to spread to a wider area.
It was also noted in the 2016 Hart Crowser Remedial Action Completion Report chain of custody report “no name was given for the person who supplied the clams for tissue testing.”
In other words, the chain of custody was broken and should not have been allowed under chain of custody legal requirements.
This whole cleanup process looks like someone is trying to hide things when names are not being provided. Not providing names allows for easy substitution of samples to make an area look cleaned when it isn’t with no accountability. The pour-water samples showed contaminates in the water. We would have expected a wider area of tissue sampling based on this data. Isn’t this how we find the source of contaminates?
Page 2 December 2, 2020 letter to Keith Anderson and Michael E. Kucinski
Enclosed is a picture of clam diggers in the south slough where DEQ claims this area is clean enough for safe harvest of shellfish. How can this be true when boats are left to rot exposing clam diggers to biocide paint, metals and who knows what? This picture is worth a thousand words on your lack of cleanup efforts to protect human health at the Port of Coos Bay.
Clam Diggers Association of Oregon was excluded so DEQ could help sweep the problems under the table for the International Port of Coos Bay. The same thing happened when DEQ did not enforce the post-testing requirement with the Super Fund Deferral Agreement.
Because we believe this area is unsafe for shellfish harvest, we will not recommend harvest. We are also maintaining a list of shellfish license holders so we can notify people in the event health problems occur.
We would like a wider tissue testing area and we want observer’s present throughout the chain of custody for tissue testing.
Sincerely,
Chuck Erickson Director CDAO
Coos Bay, OR 97420
William Lackner President CDAO
Newport, OR 97365
Enclosure: June 7, 2018 letter to Cami Grandinetti
Clammers ask state to refer Port of Coos Bay to the EPA
Cc: Cami Grandinetti Program Manager, Remedial Cleanup Program
PLEASE MAKE THIS LETTER AND ATTACHMENTS PART OF PUBLIC RECORDS]
