[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "Port of Seattle [WA] to investigate remaining sediment contamination in Smith Cove"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Port of Seattle to investigate remaining sediment contamination in Smith Cove
Agreed order with Ecology to address area around Terminal 90-91 complex


By Brandon Macz
Queen Anne & Magnolia News (WA)
October 25, 2019

The Washington Department of Ecology announced Thursday it had reached an agreed order for the Port of Seattle to evaluate and plan for a final cleanup of sediment contamination at its Terminal 90-91 complex in Smith Cove.

Sediment contamination at the complex has been found to include metals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), semi-volatile organic compounds and petroleum-based hydrocarbons, which are the result of an extensive history of military and industrial uses at the site.

Various oil companies operated a tank farm at the site between 1926 and December 1941, at which point the Navy took possession of the Terminal 91 facility through condemnation to use it as a receiving and supply depot.

The Port of Seattle acquired the Terminal 91 facility after the Navy declared it surplus in 1976.

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For the entire article, see
https://queenannenews.com/Content/News/Homepage-Rotating-Articles/Article/Port-of-Seattle-to-investigate-remaining-sediment-contamination-in-Smith-Cove/26/538/40432

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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