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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Eagle Harbor may cost $200 million to clean up
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND -- Cleaning up Eagle Harbor ultimately could cost more than twice the $100 million already spent to remove gooey toxins from the ground and water around a former wood-treatment plant.
Millions of gallons of groundwater have been treated since the area was first proposed as a federal Superfund site 20 years ago. The work continues and long-term solutions are expected to cost between $30 million and $150 million more, said Mary Jane Nearman, an Environmental Protection Agency site manager.
"We are trying to consider what is protective of Eagle Harbor and Puget Sound. Any way we go, we are talking a long-term proposition at this site. It is a very long-term cleanup," Nearman said.
The wood-treatment plant that operated at the site from 1903 to 1988 leaked an oily residue of creosote and other dangerous chemicals deep into the ground and Eagle Harbor. Scientists in the early 1980s discovered that much of the harbor's bottom was lifeless, with tumors in the organs of bottomfish that remained. The area was proposed for the federal Superfund list in 1985.
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