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Tacoma Smelter Plume Yard Program
Through our Residential Yard Sampling and Cleanup Program, we're cleaning up and replacing soil in 14 yards and a community park in the southern end of Vashon-Maury Island.
Video highlights Washington's innovative cleanup law
We're celebrating 30 years of cleaning up Washington under our environmental cleanup law & the Model Toxics Control Act. To date, more than 7,000 sites in Washington have been cleaned up.
Cleaning up: It’s about turf in two Everett parks
We’re pulling up sod and replacing soil in two northeast Everett parks. Toxic metals and other particles from the Everett Smelter contaminated the grounds.
What’s in a name: Defining the problem with nuclear waste
Two developments herald potential major changes in the long-term federal effort to clean up the highly contaminated Hanford nuclear reservation.
Investing in communities to turn blighted properties into affordable housing
Ecology is funding projects in six cities to help clean up contaminated properties – and help with the housing crisis.
Cleaning up: Washington’s environmental cleanup law turns 30
We're celebrating 30 years of cleaning up Washington under our environmental cleanup law – the Model Toxics Control Act.
New Online Map: Dirt Alert
This month we launched our new Dirt Alert Map. This online map focuses on the Tacoma Smelter Plume and covers other areas in the state where arsenic- and lead-related soil contamination may exist.
Celebrating cleanup in Cashmere's Mill District
Cashmere's historic lumber mill district is now ready for redevelopment thanks to cleanup efforts.
Defending the public's right to comment on Hanford decisions
We will always defend the public's right to provide input on Hanford decisions.
Cleaning up: Taking it to the streets in Everett
We’re cleaning up a major intersection in Everett where part of a smelter that produced lead and arsenic once stood.