• PACIFIC SOUND RESOURCES, KING County, WA

Stage of Clean-up: Design Underway

The West Seattle wood treating plant of Pacific Sound Resources (PSR) is located at 2801 Southwest Florida Street in Seattle, King County, Washington. The 20-acre property is in an industrial area on the shore of Elliott Bay and Puget Sound, near the Duwamish River. Wood treating operations at the plant date to 1906. PSR has owned and operated the facility since 1964. Another turn-of-the-century wood treating facility owned and operated by PSR (formerly the Wyckoff Co.) since 1964 was placed on the NPL in 1987 as part of the Wyckoff Co.-Eagle Harbor site. Operations at the two facilities have been similar. The primary wood preservatives used were CREOSOTE, which consists primarily of polyaromatic HYDROCARBONS (PAHS) and PENTACHLOROPHENOL (PCP). Each was mixed with fuel OIL.  More...

Contaminants Detected
	Ground Water	Surface Water	Air	Soil	Other
2-METHYLNAPHTHALENE		X	X
ACENAPHTHENE		X
ACENAPHTHYLENE					X
ANTHRACENE		X	X
ARSENIC		X	X
BENZ(A)ANTHRACENE		X	X
BENZO(A)PYRENE					X
BENZO(B)FLUORANTHENE		X	X
BENZO(K)FLUORANTHENE		X
CARBAZOLE			X
CHROMIUM		X	X
COPPER			X
COPPER COMPOUNDS			X
DIBENZOFURAN		X
FLUORENE		X
PHENANTHRENE		X	X
PYRENE		X	X
ZINC			X
ZINC COMPOUNDS			X

Groundwater and Drinking Water
Were drinking water wells shut down due to contamination?	No data
Are drinking water wells potentially threatened?	No data

EPA Hazard Ranking System scores for PACIFIC SOUND RESOURCES:

Less Hazard

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Number of PRPs currently associated with this site:

0

EPA Site Information

• NPL Fact Sheet
• Government Accounting Office (GAO) assessment
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Public Health Assessment
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Public Health Assessment
• NPL Site 5 Year Reviews
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) Hazardous Waste Site Information
• Superfund Hazardous Waste Site Advanced Query Form

Scorecard reports for KING County on:

• Potential Sources of Land Contamination
• Criteria Air Pollutants
• Hazardous Air Pollutants