OU4 – Roy-Hart School Property
Operable Unit (OU) 4 represents the Royalton-Hartland School District property within OU2 that is designated by the gold-colored area in the middle of the map below:
RCRA Facility Investigation (RFI) Report Volume II for OU2 and OU4 was completed and approved by Regulatory Agencies in 2009 pursuant to the 1991 AOC. A Corrective Measures Study (CMS) was completed in 2011.
A Final Statement of Basis, dated May 2013, was issued by NYSDEC pursuant to the 1991 AOC. NYSDEC implemented the remedy between 2015 and 2020.
NYSDEC announcements of work in OU4 include:
Spring 2023 Remedial Activities Announcement (click here)
April 2020 Phase 6 OU4 Remediation Announcement
https://www.dec.ny.gov/data/der/factsheet/932014ou4update.pdf
April 2019 Phase 5 OU4 Remediation Announcement
https://8zh82d.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/Portals/0/NYSDEC%20Roy-Hart%20Update%202019.pdf
November 2018 Phase 5 OU4 Remediation Announcement:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/data/der/factsheet/932014ou4phase5.pdf
May 2018 Phase 4 OU4 Remediation Announcement:
https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/remediation_hudson_pdf/932014soilremed.pdf
March 2017 Phase 3 OU4 Remediation Announcement:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/data/der/factsheet/932014ou4phase3.pdf
May 2016 Phase 2 OU4 Remediation Announcement:
https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/remediation_hudson_pdf/fmc12.pdf
May 2015 Phase 1 OU4 Remediation Announcement:
https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/remediation_hudson_pdf/fmc5.pdf
Current Status
- NYSDEC has approved FMC’s Off-Site Investigation and Remediation Work Plan for 2022 Activities that includes advancing remediation in OU4. The Work Plan can be accessed here.
- FMC took over the remedy implementation beginning in 2021, to the extent not yet complete.
- NYSDEC announced in April 2020 that the sixth and final phase of soil remediation at the Royalton-Hartland (Roy-Hart) school property is scheduled to begin in May 2020. NYSDEC, working with the Board of Education and school district, will be remediating areas in the right-of-way north of the Middle School, in the parking lot between the High School and Middle School, and south of the former tennis courts. Click here to view the announcement.
