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Brownfields

Brownfields are abandoned or underutilized properties that may have environmental contamination. Brownfields are common in communities of all sizes — they may be old gas stations, dry cleaners, industrial facilities, smelters, or former agricultural land.
Brownfields are abandoned or underutilized properties that may have environmental contamination. Brownfields are common in communities of all sizes — they may be old gas stations, dry cleaners, industrial facilities, smelters, or former agricultural land.

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Major habitat restoration project completed on Lower Peshastin Creek

The Lower Peshastin Creek Restoration Project cleaned up contamination, reconnected the creek to its historical channel, and improved vital habitat for threatened and endangered fish species.
 

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2025 Washington Brownfields Conference

The 2025 conference was a homecoming for many community leaders and an eye-opening orientation for those brand new to brownfields.

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Brownfields: From blighted to beneficial

A brownfield is a property that’s been developed in the past, and is now vacant, abandoned, or underutilized. It may have environmental contamination.

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Cleaning up: Setting the stage for new affordable housing in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood

Comment on a legal agreement with DESC to clean up three Seattle properties for redevelopment into affordable housing

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Two Seattle sites to be cleaned up for affordable housing

We invite you to comment on cleanup site documents and attend two open houses for the Morningside Acres and L Auto Repair cleanup sites in Seattle, which will be developed into affordable housing, 

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Cleaning up: Diversifying Spokane's Riverfront Park

Redeveloping Riverfront Park made parking lots and old buildings into a renewed space.The city used EPA grants and Ecology technical assistance to clean up past railway and industrial contamination.

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The Maddux pilot project

Watch our new video about The Maddux pilot project, where our Toxics Cleanup Program staff talk about cleaning up contaminated sites for affordable housing in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood.

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Wenatchee’s Saddle Rock trail reopens after summer cleanup project

The Saddle Rock trail has been closed since July for cleanup of heavy metal contamination. After completing the project, Ecology and the City of Wenatchee celebrate the trail's grand reopening.

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Two sites in King County move forward on environmental cleanup for affordable housing

Two cleanup sites in King County slated for redevelopment into affordable housing are both reaching key cleanup milestones this summer, and we’re inviting the public to comment.

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Cleaning up for affordable housing on Bellingham Bay

Once contaminated by decades of use as storage for a paper mill byproduct called lignin, four acres of downtown Bellingham will soon be cleaned up and redeveloped into affordable housing.

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