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i JOE 0. TANNEN Ci>n>mi*'Onor J. I CONARO LEDOn T6H fJiviVon Ih/ecKX JU'jjm-fmeut of ^Juhural ^Resources ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DIVISION ? 70 WASHING ION STREET. S \V ATLANTA. GEORGIA 30334 September 30, 1976 ME M0 RANDOM TO: TOTH:. FROM: RE: J. Leonard Ledbetter Gene B. Vfelsh William M. Jemigan Citizen Inquiries PCB Coosa River, Rone, Georgia As requested in the attached note, the enclosed.citizen inquiries regarding PCSs were investigated while our evaluation survey was being conducted at the General Electric plant during the week of Senterter 20, 1976. " 1. . In response to the letter from Mrs. R, I,. 'Sanders, I contacted her hr; phone at 5:3.5 on September 21, 1976. She rdviso-3 that . her house was located about 200 yards south of the Lavender Road crossing over toe Little Dry erode tributary which receives drainage from toe G.E. serial discharge 004. She has a garden located on the opposite side of toe creek bed fren her house. During extremely heavy rainfall situations she stated that toe creek flooded out into the garden area. She was advised that, we had already established a sediment sampling station at toe Lavender Bc-ad crossing. She was pleased to hear that we were investigating in that area and wanted to knee/ if wa would advise the oitiaau if our findings indicated anra reason to be concerned over hvnan health:. I assured her that of course we would. She inquired as to whether it was possible for PCils to rove from soil into vegetable. I advised her that it was possible but that since the location of her garden wan only .wary infrequently flooded m l fcinoa rerirf. discharge 004 v::>s; not associated with a h--c.vl.ly eontai-iinatod area at toe G.i:. plant the prol.nbility that a &ioriiici.-nt aucoiaala.ti.fin could have occurred in toe area of her garden was in lr.y opinion lew. 2. htto-pts to y-snoli I'r. Degp'tsy, too senior sanitarian at tlv? I'lcv/d Oointy ; D.j,xxUv.u.i, to respond to the qu--.-,t lonr. ; r.rcl-lcra prc&Jitwl in his Dtptertor 13, 1976 letter proved unnuctrrssful f.s v . .... ,..i. , - y!..r. tl: . x cci*1:-!. r-s -'l l J.V/W ).CvM.*JyyA . t'T\i'.;.b C.l.Oi I WJ.tJl l/V |.i.w/.i^ w> HONS 030549 ) Ve: Citizen I'nqiw-'icn PCli >1 r;r,o 7. f?r:t/rfccr 30, 1076 (1) Otic; ntreati located near the residence of fir. William Kelson, 303 larkspur Lane, is Itorseloo Creek just down- olacan of the conjunction with the drainage from serial 003 and no<! in the 0-eneral riectric Company's plant property. Mr. Dempsey advised that the report by iir; Kelson that he had seen dead fish in the stream referred to an observation he hid made several years ago. 1 he recent publicity on PCH ccmtariination brought the instance back to r.iinl and resulted i.n his subsequent report of it to ft:. Dempsey. Ko additional details had been reported that might relate this observation to PCBs. {7.) The residence of Mrs. Carrie Kostopl.is,'38 Donley Drive, was located and found to to in the Garden hakes subdivision area which is to the northwest of the General Electric Ccirpanv plant site. There is no drainage whatsoever fren the General riectric plant site into the Garden lakes sub division area. The area where the dead trees are located according to Mr. Derpscy, is low and. beccnes inundated arvrl water saturated after the slightest rainfall. Mr. Dempsey concurred that the trees probably died freen having their root systems constantly submerged in water, lie had rot observed the oily substance.reported by Mrs. Kostoplis and could provide no further information as to the nature of it. (3) Mr. Dempsey stated that the question regarding danger to livestock drinking inter had originated from a cattle farmer south of tom who pirns Coosa River water into watering troughs in Ids pasture area. Mr. Dempsey was advised that cattle, just like fish, could acarulate DCEs from rater in their fat tissue but va hnd no reason to believe the con centration in the Coosa River water was high enough to have ` resulted in significant fcj.o-accunulation in cattle. The only suro way to determine if .there had been any significant accumulation v.ould be to obtain tissue samples fra? noma of . tho cattle. ' It was suggested that the farter be contacted to see if water could, bn obtain'd from some other source such an a farm pond or tributary into the Coosa if he wanted . to eliminate any possibility. (4) Tlie Coc-don Likes DuV.div.isi.on is p.ipproaliratol.y one mile rnrfh- v.'enl: c.f the Ckmoral Electric plant site rod dc.?:i >r.,b receive drnJrtf > from ary of the.pit nt site whateoevr. Mr. T.-..p.y.y \r.:s artviijed that cm thin basis there was no to r.arpact tbac &.. fishing lakes located in tho subdivision -tre in any way om- ^r'initn-d with ret**.. HONS 030550