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Fine will be reduced if cleanup at Georgetown plant beats deadline
Friday, January 18, 2002
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF
Philip Services Corp., a hazardous-waste company, has agreed to clean up its Georgetown plant years before its original deadline in return for a $600,000 reduction in environmental penalties.
In August, Philip Services, which operates locally as Burlington Environmental Inc., was fined $773,000 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to monitor ground-water contamination and other violations.
At the Georgetown plant, where wastes are stored, benzene and solvents have seeped into the ground water, and contamination has reached an aquifer that drains into the Duwamish River.
In an agreement announced yesterday, Philip Services will spend at least $2.2 million to close the facility by the end of 2003. The site would otherwise have been closed by 2011.
Philip inherited the contamination problems from previous owners when it bought the site.
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