Whitney Site

The site is the location of private property and farmland. Ecology and Benton-Franklin Health Department staff conducted a site visit on in March 2010 in response to a complaint of a leaking saddle tank on a truck.
 
The 4.7 acre parcel was densely filled with discarded items. There were multiple areas where soil staining was observed. In addition, the parcel was densely littered with aboveground and underground storage tanks (ASTs and USTs), drums, chemical containers, batteries (some in deteriorated condition), refrigeration units, tires, heavy equipment, farm machinery, vehicles, fruit industry waste, garbage, scrap metal, wood, and debris. Chemicals stored on site were identified either through labeling or the site contact and included waste oil and other petroleum products, creosote, paints, boiler water treatment, dispersants, antifreeze, and ZEP industrial cleaning product. However, most of the containers with contents were not labeled and were in poor condition.

Past practices on the property that are likely to be responsible for contamination include chemical and waste oil storage, a recent waste oil spill from an AST, a fire behind the residence in 2007, creosote wood treating, a methamphetamine production operated by a former tenant through 2007, equipment repair of farm machinery and vehicles, disposal of garbage and fruit industry waste, and storage of leaking machinery or other dumped items.