SWMU 79 – Operations and Moral Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Beach Areas on Cabras Island

SWMU 79 (Cabras Island) is currently uninhabited. Three concrete pads (Launch Pads 1793, 1794, and 2013), formerly used for military drone launch operations, are located on the eastern side of the island. A generator building (Building 2037), with an associated underground storage tank (UST), is located in the southeastern part of the island just southeast of an open warehouse structure (Building 2004). The Radio Communications Building (Building 2065) is located on the eastern side of the island (south of Launch Pad 1793). The Officer's Beach House and Officer's Bath House (Buildings 104 and 120) are located south of the bath house (Building 120), and the second tank is located near the Drone Handling Building (Building 2353). An expolsives trailer (RLS1/RLS2) is located between Building 2004 and Building 2353. The use of these buildings, concrete, pads, and tanks were discontinued with the closure of Naval Station Roosevelt Roads (NSRR), located adjacent to the property on the island of Puerto Rico.

The Navy conducted an Environmental Condition of Property (ECP) Investigation on Cabras Island which identified the presense of semi-voliatile organic compounds in the surface soil adjacent to Launch Pad 1794, metals in the surface soil adjacent to Launch Pads 1793, 1794, and 2013, metals in the concrete barriers of Launch Pads 1793 and 1794, and metals in surface soil adjacent to Buildings 2004, 2037, and 2353.

Status

  • A Final Phase I/II Environmental Condition of Property (ECP) Report was submitted to the EPA on September 21, 2009.
  • A Draft Phase I RFI Work Plan was submitted to the EPA on August 20, 2010.
  • The Final Phase I RCRA Facility Investigation Work Plan was submitted to the EPA on December 15, 2010, in accordance with EPA's comments dated October 7, 2010.
  • A Draft Decommissioning and Demolition Plan for Cabras Island was submitted to the EPA on March 31, 2011.
  • The Revised Final Phase I RCRA Facility Investigation Work Plan was submitted to the EPA on June 21, 2011 in accordance with EPA comments dated March 11, 2011.
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