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Spokane Transit Authority Former Railroad Property

SITE DESCRIPTION

Ecology is proposing to remove the Spokane Transit Authority Former Railroad Property site from the Hazardous Sites List.   The site is in a commercial and industrial area and is currently vacant.  The site is located south of the Interstate Fairgrounds, north of Sprague Avenue, east of Havana Street and west of Fancher Road in Spokane Valley, Spokane County, Washington
 
The Hazardous Sites List is a list of contaminated sites throughout the state that are ranked on a scale of one to five.  One represents the greatest potential threat to human health and the environment; five the least potential threat.  The site ranked a two.
 
Environmental assessments conducted on the property in 1998 and 1999 discovered petroleum and arsenic in soil and arsenic in groundwater.  For more details please click on the fact sheet below.
 
Comments Accepted January 19, 2009 through February 17, 2009

SITE DOCUMENTS

• Fact Sheet - January 15, 2009

Related Information

• Watershed Information for WRIA 57

Additional Resources

• Acronyms used by the Toxic Cleanup Program
• Cleanup Process: Major Steps & Definitions
• Data Submittal Requirements for All Cleanup Sites
• Facility/Site Atlas
• Toxics Cleanup publications