Commercial Body Builders

Remediation of Petroleum-Contaminated Soils and Regulatory Closure for Heating Oil Tanks and USTs Pump Island Release

Client: Commercial Body Builders, Portland, Oregon

The Former Commercial Body Builders site had operated as a petroleum trucking facility and truck maintenance shop in the 1950s and 1960s, and was then operated as a commercial truck body manufacturing and repair shop. Releases of petroleum hydrocarbons to soil had been identified from two underground heating oil storage tanks and a former USTs pump island and piping run.

Grant Associates assessed the site and performed a Soil Matrix cleanup as part of a property transfer, excavating approximately 45.22 tons of petroleum-contaminated soils from around and beneath the on-site building. The cleanup was performed in stages so as to not compromise the structural integrity of the building.

Grant then prepared a cleanup report to satisfy closure record keeping requirements and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued a No Further Action determination for the site. The new owners were then able to secure financing for the property.