Exploring a Remedy for the Generations

The Wyckoff Superfund site is located in Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island. Preventing historic creosote compounds in “The Point” from moving into the environment is a high priority, and the Environmental Protection Agency has selected a containment remedy using a perimeter wall, site cap and groundwater extraction system. The state Department of Ecology agrees that the containment remedy is needed, but has two concerns about long-term protectiveness and stewardship:

• Leaving large amounts of mobile contamination at this site, especially given the sensitive location on the shores of Puget Sound.
• Accepting the long-term financial burden that this action places on the state to maintain and periodically rebuild the containment remedy.

Ecology began a 9-month evaluation process with the assistance of a panel of regional and national experts, and a Steering Committee of local community and tribal members. This process is being called a “Generational Remedy Evaluation” and is intended to look at additional protective solutions that would reduce the remaining volume and mobility of the contamination.

View the Presentation from the January 13 Community Meeting