Specifications include, but are not limited to: Engineer Selection for EEC DEP DWM Solid Waste Branch Central Kentucky Stage 1 Site Characterization Project Boone, Bourbon, Carroll, Clark, Fayette, Grant, Jessamine, Madison, Montgomery, Owen and Scott Counties; The selected engineering firm will provide the services necessary to accomplish this including: • Perform a review of all KDWM records for each facility. The file review will consist of obtaining information specifically related to site characterization and engineering reports, lab analysis reports, site inspection and field visit reports, well sampling and purge records, correspondences, special waste applications, Notice of Violations, solid waste permit and conditions, site photographs, and drawings or maps. • Provide ONE letter containing a list of landfill sites that do not qualify for the HB 174 program. • Obtain and format site-specific imagery, topography, geology, and other standard planimetric information, such as roads, streams, and municipal boundaries. Obtain historic aerial photography and other pertinent mapping layers, USGS Topographic Quadrangles, USGS DOQQ Imagery, USGS Geologic Quadrangles, area hydrology, and area water wells. • Conduct property value authority (PVA) research on each site. Collect ownership and boundary information for immediate and adjacent properties. Right of Entry permissions must be obtained for each site, including neighbors where reconnaissance must extend beyond the landfill property. • Perform site visits and interviews. Conduct a site visit during the dry and wet seasons. Site visit activities shall include, but not limited to, sampling of leachate outbreaks and streams, estimate discharge of springs, and estimate flow of surface water, take photographs of key features and structures. The site visits shall attempt to verify the waste limits without invasive field activities, locations of leachate outbreaks and seeps, and overall facility surface water drainage conditions. Coordinate and conduct interviews with individuals familiar with site operations, such as solid waste coordinators, former operation managers, EEC field office personnel, current property occupant or owner, adjacent residents, and persons identified by earlier interviewees. Inform KDWM of any additional potential historic landfill sites not initially identified in KDWM records that are discovered through the site visit and interview process. • Identify potential environmental site impacts and characterize corresponding hydrogeologic, hydrologic, and hydraulic transport potential. Each characterization shall identify potential receptors, likely flow regimes, and observe site conditions. Each site’s characterization information shall be reviewed and qualitatively ranked to support future site by site comparisons based on a ranking system to be defined by the Kentucky Division of Waste Management. The site ranking will be based on site and source conditions, environmental conditions, potential receptors, and waste characteristics. • Provide copy of each site’s final report containing a narrative, corresponding documentation, and site ranking.
