Harris Avenue Shipyard

Harris Avenue Shipyard aerial photo.SITE DESCRIPTION

The Harris Avenue Shipyard site is located at 201 Harris Avenue in Bellingham. The Shipyard has been used by various parties for shipbuilding and ship maintenance since the early 1900s. In 1966, the Port of Bellingham purchased the property and has leased it to several different companies for use as a shipyard. The site is currently being leased by Puglia Engineering, doing business as Fairhaven Shipyards, and All American Marine (these companies are not responsible for the contamination at the site). Sampling has been performed at the site over the past several years, and the Port will update data in a more thorough site investigation. To date, the main contaminants of concern include copper, zinc, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and phenol.
Harris Avenue Shipyard is one of several cleanup sites identified in the Bellingham Bay Comprehensive Strategy, a bay-wide guidance document issued in 2000.  The Comprehensive Strategy integrates sediment cleanup, control of pollution sources, habitat restoration and aquatic/shoreline land use on a bay-wide scale.

Ecology and the Port of Bellingham entered into a legal agreement (called an agreed order) to perform a remedial investigation/feasibility study at the site.  The documents were available for public review and comment through July 9, 2003. 

The agreed order was signed by both Ecology and the Port in August 2003.   The order outlines the work to be performed and ensures that the work is conducted in a timely fashion in accordance with all applicable regulations.  For a brief overview of the project, click here to read the fact sheet

In preparation for the study, supplemental sediment bioassay samples were collected in August 2003 and analyzed during the fall and winter of 2003/2004.   A draft remedial investigation/feasibility study document should be available for public review and comment in fall 2004

Questions about the project can be directed to Mary O’Herron at the Department of Ecology Bellingham Field Office, 1204 Railroad Ave, Suite 200, Bellingham, 98225 or mohe461@ecy.wa.gov.  

Site Documents

The documents listed below were released for public review in June 2003 and finalized in August 2003.  (Please note: They are presented here in their draft format.    The only changes made in the final version were to the title pages and the document date.)

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map showing site location as Clark County, WA SITE INFORMATION

Facility Site ID: # 2922

Location:
Bellingham,  Whatcom County

Contact:
Mary O'Herron Site Manager
360/738-6246

Status:
Independent Remedial Action  Get definitions of Status terminology