Special Bd. of Aldermen — 10/26/15 Page 17
Alderman O’Brien
We've had a company in Nashua that dumped a lot of asbestos and at one time it was considered darn good
fill, now we are more educated and stuff so | am not surprised it is around in our City. But from time to time it
shows up. Again, | know ask a lot of questions and one statement, but you didn’t touch base on the
monitoring, so what happens, is somebody going to come and make sure that none of this is getting exposed
or anything and who would be responsible for that?
Mr. Millan-Ramos Let me see if | understood your question. Are you asking what kind of monitoring would be
done to ensure that no one is exposed to the asbestos?
Alderman O’Brien
To be more direct and explanatory, what I’m saying is as time goes on, things where if it is a field ...
President McCarthy
Are you addressing the asbestos or the lagoons?
Alderman O’Brien
But this is what | am talking about, would the lagoons be repurposed?
President McCarthy
The lagoons will have monitoring wells around them and part of the management plan | assume is to check
those which is very similar to what is done out at Gilson Road.
Alderman O’Brien
Maybe | don’t completely understand because | thought that would be encapsulated as well and that is what
we were talking about being repurposed so people could walk on it.
Mr. Millan-Ramos Let me try to clarify. The asbestos that is in the City-owned property and the asbestos that
is on the Fimbel Door property would be put in a cell adjacent to the containment unit. It would be in the soil
and it would be covered with an impermeable capping.
Your question about monitoring of asbestos, every time asbestos is moved as Mayor Donchess mentioned,
there is possibility for friable asbestos to be inhaled and that is obviously a health hazard. So the way to deal
with that is to keep it wet at all times and then there is monitoring that is used on workers to make sure that no
one working with the asbestos, the people immediately dealing with it, are exposed at unreasonable number of
fibers that would cause the disease. In fact, that was the very first job | did out of college, before | joined EPA,
was monitoring asbestos air so | think | know a little bit about it.
Ms. Taylor That would be during the work though.
Mr. Millan-Ramos That would be during the work. If it is properly done and it is kept wet at all times and
people working on it are properly monitored, there is no reason to believe that people in the public would be at
risk.
Alderman O’Brien
