The Jacksonville District, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is managing a harbor-deepening project for the Federal Channel in Jacksonville, Florida. USACE identified an area of sediments contaminated by polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a portion of the channel near the Kennedy Generating Station, an electric power facility owned and operated by JEA. Because the Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) is the local sponsor for the Port of Jacksonville, USACE notified JAXPORT of the sediment contamination and indicated that JAXPORT would be responsible for its removal and disposal. Failure to remove the contaminated sediment before the rest of the channel is deepened would prevent access for deeper-draft vessels to JAXPORT's Talleyrand Terminal, which is upriver from the contamination. JAXPORT's primary objective was to remove the contaminated sediment from the Federal Channel in conjunction with the USACE harbor-deepening project. However, JEA began to evaluate contamination at the KGS site in the 1980s and is currently performing a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Facility Investigation (RFI) to document the extent of contamination and to evaluate remedial alternatives. Because the contamination in the channel is adjacent to KGS, JAXPORT's dredging project and JEA's project at KGS were interrelated.
