[CPEO-BIF] Rayonier Inc. site, Port Angeles, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Harbor-Works releases part of draft due diligence study of Rayonier site


Peninsula Daily News (WA)
February 5, 2010

PORT ANGELES - The Port Angeles Harbor-Works Development Authority 
released today a partial draft of the due diligence study of the 
Rayonier Inc. site that includes environmental data and comments on 
possible types of development.

The draft of the study being completed by BergerABAM of Seattle lacks a 
risk assessment, cultural resources assessment, summary, conclusion and 
recommendations.

It provides many tables of environmental data on both upland and marine 
areas of the site at the end of Ennis Street, which has pockets of 
contamination by dioxin, PCBs, arsenic and other toxins created during 
the 68 years that a Rayonier of pulp mill operated before it was closed 
in 1997.

But the study says that the extent of contamination of both the upland 
areas and the marine areas of the 75-acre site cannot be determined 
until specific site cleanup levels have been established.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20100205/NEWS/100209992

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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