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i ,~ ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: March 21, 2000 Action Agenda Item No. - ~ _Q _SUBJECT: Fairview Park .Testing Results/ Fairview Youth Baseball Facility Use DEPARTMENT: County Engineer, ERCD and PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No Recreation and Parks ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Thames, 245-2303 Bob Janes, 245-2661 David Stancil, 245-2590 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-45Q1 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To receive the results of the soil testing and Fairview Park, and to consider use of this or another facility for the Fairview Youth Baseball (FYB) group. BACKGROUND: In November of last year, the Board authorized soil testing to be performed at Fairview Park in north Hillsborough to determine whether a playing field could be created and used this summer by the Fairview Youth Baseball group. At the Board's direction, the County's environmental/geotechnical consultant, Trigon Engineering, was instructed on February 17 to expedite a porkion of the Fairview Park investigation. The goal was to try to determine if it was practical to continue using the existing "playing field" for youth baseball activities this season. Accordingly, Trigon was directed to initiate an expedited and additional series of environmental tests targeting only the area in an around the ball field. The soil samples were taken on February 25, 2000 and received by the laboratory for analytical testing on February 26~'. Orange County and Trigon received the results of the lab tests on March 13'". In accordance with EPA and NCDENR guidelines, Trigon collected three sets of three discrete soil samples from the top two feet of soil in and around the ball field. Each set of samples was combined and the three resulting composite samples were analyzed for the presence of volatile organic compounds (VOC's), semi-volatile organic compounds (sVOC's), PCB/pesticides and RCRA 8 metals. One additional or "background" sample, intended to establish non-landfill- related background or baseline levels of the various chemicals for which the site was tested, was taken from an area of the Fairview property lying approximately 500 feet northwest of the landfilled area.