Bridge Point Development: Construction stormwater permit and settlement
We reached an initial settlement agreement with Bridge Point Tacoma for $8.95 million dollars that will help reduce air quality impacts to communities near the company’s proposed warehouse development project (often called Bridge Industrial).
Bridge Point Tacoma, is developing a 2.5 million square foot warehouse facility in South Tacoma. This project is located on a historically contaminated site (Commencement Bay, South Tacoma Channel Superfund Site).
What is Ecology’s role in the history of the project?
In December 2023, we issued the project coverage under the Construction Stormwater General Permit (CSGP). We included an administrative order with the project’s permit coverage. This order had conditions Bridge Point Tacoma had to follow to protect water quality when working on a contaminated site, as well as conditions to mitigate air quality and traffic impacts from diesel trucks. Bridge Point Tacoma appealed its permit coverage and the traffic and air-quality related conditions in the administrative order, although both the order and permit coverage remained in effect during the appeal process.
As part of a settlement agreement, Bridge Point Tacoma has agreed to withdraw its appeal and pay Ecology $8.95 million to address traffic and air pollution in South Tacoma.
What happens next?
Ecology will use these funds to implement protective measures and add local-scale air monitoring in the South Tacoma neighborhoods impacted by diesel truck traffic. As part of Ecology’s Climate Commitment Act, we have identified these neighborhoods as overburdened and highly impacted by air pollution.
In the coming months, we will start gathering community input about how the settlement funds should be used to best address air quality and traffic impacts from diesel trucks in South Tacoma. We will also reissue the administrative order that accompanied the project’s construction stormwater permit coverage. That reissued order will include the same water quality conditions as the original order.
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Contact information
Brittny Goodsell
Communications — Media contact
brittny.goodsell@ecy.wa.gov
work: 360-280-3704
mobile: 360-280-3704
Meg Bommarito
Regional Planner — Northwest Region
meg.bommarito@ecy.wa.gov
425-681-6236
Bobbak Talebi
Regional Director — Southwest Region
bobbak.talebi@ecy.wa.gov
360-789-9500