The Ecology Urban Waters program requests comment on the draft, Addendum 3 to Quality Assurance Project Plan Spokane River Toxics Reduction Strategy Study, dated September 6, 2016.
Please submit comments to Adriane Borgias (ABOR461@ecy.wa.gov) by September 20, 2016.
This addendum is an addition to an original Quality Assurance Project Plan. Addendum 3 represents a minor addition to the existing “Spokane River Toxics Reduction Strategy” project. The project uses an Ecology approved QAPP (dated July 11, 2014) that was prepared by LimnoTech and approved by the Spokane River Regional Toxics Task Force.
This Addendum adds 20 groundwater/spring water samples, with associated quality assurance samples, to the study. The Addendum also includes a new procedure: groundwater sampling for low level PCBs.
The first set of samples were collected in August and September, 2015 following development and technical review of the Addendum. The second and third sets were collected February 17, 2016 and May 17, 2016, respectively. The following people provided comments on the preliminary draft:
Pam Marti, Peer reviewer
Bill Kammin, QA Officer
Mike Hermanson and Ben Brattebo, Spokane County
The significant concerns of the reviewers have been addressed in the draft Addendum. Ecology’s Quality Assurance officer provided email approval for the sampling activities on August 10, 2015.
All field sampling is complete and analytical results received. Comments are being requested prior to completion of data analysis and report write up.