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POLLUTION COMPLAINT LOG

POLLUTION COMPLAINT NO.______________________

REGION TIDEWATER DATE 09/18/2017 TIME 11:30 A.M.

ORGANIZATION COALITION FOR EQUAL JUSTICE

REPORTED BY MR. ROY L. PERRY-BEY PHONE (804) 252-9109

ADDRESS P O BOX 1772 HAMPTON, VIRGINIA 23669

CITY /COUNTY NORFOLK, VA BASIN (HRT LOT # 39) formerly the Old VEPCO

plant (the site) that impacts Ghent, Youngs Terrace, Tidewater Gardens, and Calvert Square.

SPECIFIC LOCATION Young Terrance housing project bounded by Virginia Beach

Boulevard and Monticello Avenue on the east, south and west, respectfully, and by Princess

Anne Road and Salter Street on the north and east, respectively (the Site) adjacent to and

directly south and east, respectively the housing project and downtown Norfolk.

TYPE OF POLLUTION: hazardous substances, buried throughout the toxic site including

coal tar, coal ash, iron and constituents associated with these hazardous wastes which include

highly volatile organic compounds, ethylbenzene, xylene (BTEX), polynuclear aromatic

hydrocarbons (PAHs) cyanide and phenolics, inorganic nitrogen compounds, metals and

gases such as methane vapor pollution which are acutely toxic, chronically toxic, and

carcinogenic constituents, cyanide, arsenic, chromium, lead, benzena, toluene, phenol,

chrysene, indeno[1,2,3-cd] pyrene, benzo [a] pyrene, benzo [b] fluoranthene, benezo [ghi]

perylene and benz[a] anthracene, migrating off-site through the air, soils, surface water and

contaminated groundwater beneath (the Site) onto the housing property and surrounding

areas referenced above of downtown Norfolk, facilitated by seasonal rain, wind and flooding.
POLLUTION SOURCE [IF KNOWN] Old Norfolk Manufactured Coal Gasification Plant
and the former City of Norfolk municipal waste incinerator/garbage crematory, presently

(HRT LOT #39 (the site).

TIME/ DATE OF CONTAMINATION 1853

DURATION OF CONTAMINATION September 17, 2017,

VOLUME REACHING WATER Unknown

REMARKS: [EXTENT OF POLLUTION THAT REFLECTS ALL RECEPTORS,

BOTH HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN, WHICH HAVE ALREADY BEEN IMPACTED

AND/OR WHICH MAY BE POTENTIONALLY IMPACTED BY THE LONG TERM

EXPOSURE AND RELEASE OF CONTAMINATION ETC.]

ORIGINAL REPORT RECD BY: _____________________________________

NOTIFICATION BY PReP TO:

REGIONAL OFFICE___________ TIME/DATE

SHD- WATER PROGRAMS_________ TIME/DATE

EPA______________________ TIME/DATE

COAST GUARD OTHER____________TIME/DATE

OTHER___________________________TIME/DATE

REGIONAL INVESTIGATOR: __________________

FOLLOW UP INFORMATION:

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H.Q PREP DUTY OFFICER

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