Bristol Awarded $7.2 million Remediation Contract
Bristol Awarded $7.2 million Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Contract for Northeast Cape, Alaska, Remediation Work
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Alaska District, has awarded Bristol Environmental Remediation Services, LLC (Bristol Environmental Remediation), a $7.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for hazardous, toxic and radioactive waste (HTRW) remediation services, at Northeast Cape, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.
Northeast Cape is located on St. Lawrence Island, in the Bering Sea, near the territorial waters of Russia, approximately 135 air miles southwest of Nome. The site has been subject to previous phased remedial investigations and several previous removal actions, including work by Bristol.
Bristol will be tasked with providing the following remedial services: excavating and removing contaminated soils and sediments; developing and implementing a Sampling and Analysis Plan for Monitored Natural Attenuation of petroleum-contaminated sediment; designing, constructing, and installing a landfill cap; removing dangerous poles, wires, and other miscellaneous debris from tundra areas site-wide where clearly identified; and removing partially submerged debris and/or drums from specified streams and ponds in the vicinity, including the Suqitughneq River. The goal will be to revegetate or stabilize the site before demobilization. In addition, Bristol will prepare a remedial action report, which will include surveys and as-built drawings of specified sites and a discussion of all remedial action work performed.
“The biggest challenge will be the short field season,” said Project Manager Molly Welker. “We anticipate being out on-island by early July when the ice allows for beach access, and then we need to be off-island in September because of the heavy fall storms.”
The team has to make the most of Alaska’s long hours of daylight. “Setting up camp in a remote location, where there are no facilities and you have to bring everything in, is another challenge,” said Welker.
The Northeast Cape site is 60 miles from the nearest year-round community of Savoonga, and is accessible only by boat or air. The team will have to bring all its own equipment, as well as personnel and supplies for the duration of the project.
The current scope of work is to excavate and remove approximately 2,725 tons of petroleum-contaminated soils, 430 tons of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated soils, and 15 tons of arsenic-contaminated soils.
Bristol has performed extensive HTRW site remediation at other locations, including major excavation work, capping of landfills, and other cleanup activities at remote sites.
Bristol’s experienced craft crew and a scientific team will set up a mobile field-screening laboratory to guide removal of contaminated soil.
“The Bristol team is skilled in coordinating air support for these areas,” said Bristol Environmental Remediation’s CEO Steve Johnson. We have performed work at remote site projects for the past 10 years, by both land and air. The Bristol team is experienced in setting up remote site communications, and constructing camps equipped with medics and clinics,”
Bristol has had an award-winning work history on Northeast Cape projects since 2003. Bristol’s demolition and removal actions at the site earned the following accolades from the Corps of Engineers: Alaska District Celebrate Safety Contractor of the Year (2005), and Bristol was nominated for the Alaska District Celebrate Safety Award (2009). Bristol also received quarterly safety awards for 2003 and 2005.
“Winning this [project] award demonstrates that Bristol has a good working relationship and a proven track record in working with the USACE,” said Welker.
Bristol Environmental Remediation Services, LLC, provides environmental consulting, environmental remediation, and waste characterization/disposal services, as well as ordnance and munitions removal, for private and public sector clients at sites across the country. Bristol Environmental Remediation was founded at the end of 2006 on the strengths and background of Bristol environmental remediation specialists with interest and experience on cleanups on Native lands. Bristol Environmental Remediation’s services include remediation and cleanup of contaminated sites, as well as preparation of remedial action plans and reports to support its cleanup projects.
The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation, a regional Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion.
Bristol Environmental Remediation is an ANC 8(a), U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Certified Small Disadvantaged Business, eligible to receive sole source contracts without contract value limits per CFR 124.506(b). The company is listed in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database, the primary registrant database for the U.S. federal government.
As wholly owned subsidiaries of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation, all Bristol Alliance companies are “100‐percent Indian‐owned” firms.
