Publication Summary

Title

Lakewood Plaza Cleaners, May and September 2006 Groundwater Monitoring Results

Month-Year PublishedMarch 2007
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Short Description

Annual groundwater monitoring at the former Lakewood Plaza Cleaners site was conducted during May and September 2006.

Four wells had PCE concentrations that exceeded the MTCA cleanup level of 5.0 ug/L: monitoring wells MW-20B (216 and 518 ug/L), MW-16A (29 and 124 ug/L), LPMW-2 (9.9 ug/L), and municipal well H1 (7.3 ug/L). Well MW-20B had a TCE concentration (5.6 ug/L) that exceeded the MTCA cleanup level of 5.0 ug/L. Cis-1,2-DCE was detected in MW-20B (6.6 and 11 ug/L) and MW-16A (4.6 and 0.48J ug/L); the federal MCL for cis-1,2-DCE is 70 ug/L. PCE concentrations in wells MW-20B and MW-16 appear to be rising.

(Also see abstract below)
Publication Number07-03-013
Author(s)Marti, P., and T. Roberts
Print Availability
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Number of pages 19 pp.
Keywords groundwater, Model Toxic Control Act, monitoring, toxic, wells
Subject Waterbodies
Clover Creek
map of Washington state showing locations of subject waterbodies
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Abstract Long Description

This progress report is one in a series describing results of long-term groundwater sampling at the former Lakewood Plaza Cleaners site south of Tacoma. Results of volatile organics in samples collected from seven monitoring wells and one municipal well in May 2006, and four monitoring wells and one municipal well in September 2006, are included.

  • Monitoring wells MW-20B and MW-16A, as well as municipal well H1, continue to have tetrachloroethene (PCE) concentrations higher than the Model Toxic Control Act (MTCA) cleanup level of 5.0 ug/L. PCE concentrations in these wells during May and September were: MW-20B (216 and 518 ug/L), MW-16A (124 and 29 ug/L), and H1 (7.3 and 4.8 ug/L).

  • PCE was also detected above the MTCA cleanup level in well LPMW-2 at a concentration of 9.9 ug/L. This well is located near the former septic system of Plaza Cleaners which was identified as the source of the contamination.

  • Trichloroethene (TCE) was detected in MW-20B at concentrations of 4.2 and 5.6 ug/L, the latter of which exceeds the MTCA cleanup level for TCE of 5.0 ug/L.

  • Cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cis-1,2-DCE) was detected in wells MW-20B (6.6 and 11 ug/L) and MW-16A (4.6 and an estimated 0.48 J ug/L). The federal maximum contaminant level for cis-1,2-DCE is 70 ug/L.

    Most concentrations remain within the range of those reported in previous samplings conducted since 1991. However, PCE concentrations in wells MW-20B and MW-16A appear to be rising. PCE concentrations in well MW-16A during the May 2006 sampling had increased to the highest levels detected in the well since the initial sampling in 1985 (110 ug/L). PCE concentrations in municipal well H1 remain near the MTCA cleanup level.

    Link to EIM data for User Study ID LAKEWOOD


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