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State adds airboat to its oil spill response toolbox
Tacoma Smelter Plume: Model Remedies Guidance gets an update
The Tacoma Smelter Plume Model Remedies Guidance provides straightforward directions on soil sampling and cleanup of soil contaminated with arsenic and lead.
New Tacoma park emerges from Superfund site
Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance offers walking paths, an amphitheater, and Puget Sound views on land that was once the ASARCO smelter slag heap.
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.
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.
Tacoma Smelter Plume Yard Program progress
To address soil contamination left behind by the former Asarco smelter, we're breaking ground, removing dirt, and cleaning up 39 yards in North Tacoma and 16 yards on Vashon-Maury Island.
Tacoma Smelter Plume: Reduced services for residents
Because a state capital budget was not approved, we must cut back on the services we offer to the residents of the Tacoma Smelter Plume area.
Tacoma Smelter Plume: 2016 Yard Program Construction Update
September marks the fast approaching arrival of fall, and a halfway point for this season’s Yard Program work in the Tacoma Smelter Plume.
Tacoma Smelter Plume: Recap of Tacoma Public Meetings
Last week Ecology held two public meetings on the progress of the Tacoma Smelter Plume project. Over 50 people came out to learn about yard sampling and cleanup in Tacoma neighborhoods.
Port Gamble Bay update – by the numbers
Get ready to say goodbye to the final, large sign of the lumbermill and sawmill that operated on Port Gamble Bay for more than 140 years.