[CPEO-BIF] The Old Bremerton Gasworks site, Bremerton, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Contaminated West Bremerton property could become Superfund site

Staff Reports
Kitsap Sun (WA)
January 22, 2011

BREMERTON - An old industrial site in West Bremerton, found to be 
heavily contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals, could become a 
federal Superfund site, leading to a massive environmental investigation.

The Old Bremerton Gasworks site, a 3.7-acre waterfront property between 
Pennsylvania and Thompson avenues, could become the first site in 
Washington state to be added to the Superfund List since 2007. That’s 
when the 27-acre Lockheed-West Seattle site was designated for federal 
oversight by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Old Bremerton Gasworks site became contaminated with a variety of 
hydrocarbons over many years. Some of the worst compounds probably 
spilled from a coal-gasification plant that operated there from the 
1930s into the 1950s, according to studies conducted so far.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/jan/22/contaminated-west-bremerton-property-could-become/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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