Anacortes Port of Dakota Creek

Facility Site ID: 2670 Cleanup Site ID: 5174

A Puget Sound Initiative Site - Reaching the goal of a healthy, sustainable Puget Sound.

Background

Photo: Washington State Coastal Atlas, 2016 (click to enlarge)
Photo: Washington State Coastal Atlas, 2016 (click to enlarge)
The Dakota Creek site is an active shipyard that is used for vessel construction and maintenance. Since around 1879, the Anacortes Port of Dakota Creek site has been used for maritime-related industrial activities like shipping, shipbuilding, repairs, bulk fuel storge, and vessel storage. These activities have resulted in soil, groundwater, and sediment contamination. Other potential sources of contamination at the site include previous outfall discharges from the former Scott Paper Mill and City of Anacortes municipal sewer prior to disconnection. Dakota Creek Industries (DCI) began leasing portions of the site from the Port beginning in 1976.

Before 2008, the marine area of the site featured multiple piers, docks, and marine railway boatlifts. One marine railway was removed in the early 1990s and the other was removed in 2008. This second railway removal was part of a redevelopment project that also took out two docks and dredged sediment from the waterway to make it deeper, reinforced the shoreline, and built a new pier. During this redevelopment an interim action cleanup was completed to remove around 26,000 cubic yards of contaminated marine sediment and upland soil from the marine area and land. Contaminants that remain at the site are located in upland soils and groundwater.

Status

A Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) was performed in 2020 to describe the extent and nature of contamination at the site and present potential options for how to clean it up. Following the RI/FS, a Cleanup Action Plan was drafted, describing the final cleanup action work for the remaining contamination in the soil and groundwater at the site, and explains the requirements that the cleanup must meet. The final Cleanup Action Plan was competed July 2022.

In November 2022, an Engineering Design Report was completed which detailed the planned cleanup activities and schedule. Soil excavation and removal was completed between June and August 2023. Approximately 1,215 cubic yards of contaminated soil and asphalt/concrete debris was removed and replaced with clean soil.

The site is currently under one year of groundwater monitoring to determine the effectiveness of the excavation and disposal remedy. One year of monitoring will be completed in November 2024. Any contaminated soil that remains will be capped with pavement to prevent people and wildlife from encountering it. Long-term monitoring of the groundwater will then be put in place to ensure that contamination does not migrate offsite and create a risk of exposure.

The Cleanup Process


Legal 5
Public Information 3
Document Title Document Date Document Type
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Public Participation Plan 2022 6/6/2022 Public Participation Plan
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - 2022 Fact Sheet 6/6/2022 Fact Sheet\Public Notices
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Fact Sheet Site Investigation Documents 10/1/2007 Fact Sheet\Public Notices
Technical Reports 25
Document Title Document Date Document Type
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Post-Construction Compliance Groundwater Monitoring Report 11/1/2024 Groundwater Monitoring Report
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - SHARP Report 7/17/2024 SHARP Report
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Engineering Controls Monitoring Plan 5/2/2024 Site Specific Technical Document - other
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Construction Completion Report 12/7/2023 Site Specific Technical Document - other
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - 2023 1st Half Monthly Progress Reports 6/9/2023 Site Specific Technical Document - other
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Engineering Design Report 11/1/2022 Engineering Design Report
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Final RI/FS Appendix I, Part 2 10/27/2022 Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Final RI/FS Appendix I, Part 1 10/27/2022 Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Final RI/FS Appendices J-M 10/27/2022 Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Final RI/FS Appendices A-H 10/27/2022 Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Final RI/FS 10/27/2022 Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Final Cleanup Action Plan 7/12/2022 Cleanup Action Plan
RI/FS Work Plan Addendum for Supplemental Soil Investigation at the Dakota Creek Industries Site, Anacortes, Washington 3/1/2021 Site Specific Technical Document - other
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Draft Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study 4/27/2020 Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study
Upland Soil Data Gap Analysis and Proposed Soil Boring Locations for Dakota Creek Industries Shipyard, Port of Anacortes 3/17/2014 Site Specific Technical Document - other
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Remedial Investigation Data Report 10/11/2010 Remedial Investigation Report
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Interim Action Report October 2010 10/6/2010 Interim Action Documents
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Site Hazard Assessment 8/1/2008 Site Hazard Assessment Report
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - RI/FS Interim Action Work Plan Addendum June 2008 6/17/2008 Interim Action Documents
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - RI/FS Interim Action Work Plan April 2008 4/1/2008 Interim Action Documents
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Sediment Sampling Data Report, Final, January 2007 1/3/2007 Site Specific Technical Document - other
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Appendix C Laboratory Analytical Report for Sediment, Final, December 2006 12/18/2006 Site Specific Technical Document - other
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Appendix B, Surface Sediment Sample Collection Forms, Final, November 2006 11/17/2006 Site Specific Technical Document - other
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Appendix E Sediment Sampling Data Report, Final, October 2004 10/31/2004 Sampling and Analysis Plan
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - Appendix D, Figures presented in the Sediment Quality Analysis Report, Final, February 2003 2/21/2003 Site Specific Technical Document - other
Voluntary Cleanup Program 1
Document Title Document Date Document Type
Port of Anacortes Dakota Creek - NW1030 & NW0874 - VCP Termination 9/5/2007 VCP Administrative Document
There may be more documents related to this site. To obtain documents not available electronically, you will need to make a public records request.

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Contaminants 17

Contaminant Type
Soil
Groundwater
Surface Water
Air
Sediment
Bedrock
Halogenated Organics - Halogenated Organics S RB
Metals - Metals Priority Pollutants RA C S RB
Metals - Metals - Other S
Halogenated Organics - Polychlorinated biPhenyls (PCB) B RB
Pesticides - Halogenated Pesticides B
Non-Halogenated Organics - Petroleum Products-Unspecified S RB
Non-Halogenated Organics - Phenolic Compounds B S RB
Non-Halogenated Organics - Non-Halogenated Solvents B S
Halogenated Organics - Dioxins/Furans B B
Non-Halogenated Organics - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons RA C
Non-Halogenated Organics - Methyl tertiary-butyl ether B B
Non-Halogenated Organics - Benzene B B
Non-Halogenated Organics - Other Non-Halogenated Organics B
Non-Halogenated Organics - Petroleum-Diesel RB B
Non-Halogenated Organics - Petroleum-Gasoline RB B
Non-Halogenated Organics - Petroleum-Other RB B
Pesticides - Non-Halogenated Pesticides B
S
Suspected
C
Confirmed Above Cleanup Levels
B
Below Cleanup Levels
RA
Remediated-Above
RB
Remediated-Below
R
Remediated
This contaminant list was based on our best information at the time it was entered. It may not reflect current conditions at the site.