North Marina West End

A PUGET SOUND INITIATIVE site – Reaching the goal of a healthy, sustainable Puget Sound now and forever

North Marina West End - 2007

Background: This Site is located along Everett’s waterfront adjacent to Port Gardner Bay and is part of the Port of Everett’s (Port) North Marina Redevelopment Project called Port Gardner Wharf. Information about the redevelopment can be found at the following Port web site. The Port’s North Marina West End Site has been used for commercial, marine, and general industrial purposes since the early 1900s. These uses included trucking and marine construction activities such as welding, sandblasting, creosote log storage, and painting. In addition, there were a number of storage tanks for diesel fuel, gasoline, and oil. Chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), petroleum hydrocarbons, and five metals have been found to exceed Model Toxic Control Act (MTCA) cleanup levels in soil. Vinyl chloride, petroleum hydrocarbons, and two metals exceed MTCA cleanup levels in groundwater. One PAH (acenaphthene) exceeds its respective Sediment Quality Standard (SQS) in sediment. The Port has completed significant investigation and partial cleanup of this Site as part of the larger North Marina Redevelopment project

Status: Ecology and the Port of Everett entered into an Agreed Order for Site cleanup on 6/30/08. The Agreed Order requires the PLPs to develop an Interim Action Cleanup Report, a Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study (RI/FS) work plan to evaluate the nature and extent of Site contamination, an RI/FS Report, and a draft cleanup action plan. The Interim Action Cleanup Report was finalized and approved on 1/6/09. The RI/FS work plan has been developed and Ecology approved it on 4/1/09. RI field activities commenced in April/May 2009 with the installation of groundwater wells and the collection of sediment samples. Groundwater samples will be collected in June 2009.