Dawn Food Products
Current Status
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Blog | "Cleaning Up: Dawn Food Products site moves closer to cleanup”
Cleanup moves forward with Remedial Investigation
Ecology held a 45-day public comment period (May 22 – July 5, 2023) on a Public Participation Plan and a legal agreement called an Agreed Order with Bridge Point Seattle 130 LLC (Bridge Point), the Potentially Liable Person, for the Dawn Food Products cleanup site at 6901 Fox Avenue South in Seattle. The Agreed Order requires Bridge Point to address contamination at the site.
Ecology has reviewed and considered the public comments received on the documents and will finalize both documents.
Based on Ecology’s evaluation of the comments, no updates were made to the Agreed Order or Public Participation Plan.
Ecology will finalize the PPP. We will continue to evaluate the community’s use of our adjusted LDW site outreach planning for future comment periods and will amend the PPP, as needed, based on community engagement.
The Dawn Food Products cleanup site is continuing the cleanup process. Ecology will make the future Remedial Investigation, Feasibility Study, and Cleanup Action Plan available for public review and comment.
Why This Site Matters
General Cleanup Process
What Happens Next?
Each of those steps will require a public comment period. The graphic above shows these different stages of cleanup. Sometimes multiple stages occur in one public comment period.
Public Participation
This plan includes information for the public regarding opportunities to get involved in the Site cleanup process. The outreach activities and mechanisms presented reflect Ecology’s current plans for keeping the public informed and for receiving information and comments from the public.
Site Information
The Dawn Food Products cleanup site is located at 6901 Fox Avenue South in Seattle WA. Bridge Point Seattle 130 LLC recently purchased the approximately 5.4-acre property in the industrial area near Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood in 2021. This property is located adjacent to the Lower Duwamish Waterway (LDW) Superfund Site.
Site discovery and Initial Investigation
A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) was conducted in January 2020, documenting contamination of soil and groundwater. A Phase II ESA was conducted in March 2020, documenting contamination in the form of metals, total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) from gasoline, Carcinogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (cPAHs), and halogenated solvents. The goal of this investigation was to determine if the release may pose a threat to human health or the environment, and if further cleanup actions are needed. Ecology tracks any site that is suspected or confirmed to be contaminated with hazardous materials, as required by the state’s cleanup law, the Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA), created by a 1989 voter initiative.
Ecology’s Confirmed and Suspected Contaminated Sites List
Following this investigation process the site was listed on the Confirmed and Suspected Contaminated Sites List.
Documents 32
Legal 4
Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
Minor Change to Agreed Order No DE 21602 | 7/24/2024 | Agreed Order Amendment |
Dawn Food Products - Agreed Order Final | 7/6/2023 | Agreed Order |
Dawn Food Products PLP Determination Letter | 2/27/2023 | Final Potentially Liable Person Status Letter |
Dawn Food Products - Early Notice Letter | 12/6/2022 | Early Notice Letter |
Public Information 15
State Environmental Policy Act 1
Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
SEPA Determination of Nonsignificance | 8/5/2024 | SEPA Documents |
Technical Reports 12
Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
Dawn Food Products - Interim Action Work Plan | 6/10/2024 | Interim Action Documents |
Dawn Food Products - Final Remedial Investigation Work Plan | 1/31/2024 | Remedial Investigation Work Plan |
Dawn Food Products - SHA Rank Letter | 8/7/2023 | Site Specific Administrative Document - other (Administrative correspondence) |
Dawn Food Products - Site Hazard Assessment | 8/3/2023 | Site Hazard Assessment Report |
Dawn Food Products - SHA Notification Letter | 3/29/2023 | Site Specific Administrative Document - other (Administrative correspondence) |
Dawn Food Products - Initial Investigation Field Report | 6/22/2022 | Initial Investigation Report |
Dawn Food Products - Remedial Investigation Work Plan | 11/3/2021 | Remedial Investigation Work Plan |
Dawn Food Products - Letter: Formal Request to Negotiate an Agreed Order | 5/26/2021 | Site Specific Administrative Document - other (Administrative correspondence) |
Dawn Food Products - Summary of Soil & GW Conditions Memorandum | 2/5/2021 | Site Specific Technical Document - other |
Dawn Food Products - Phase 2 ESA Letter Report | 3/6/2020 | Site Specific Technical Document - other |
Dawn Food Products - Phase 1 ESA Report | 1/31/2020 | Site Specific Technical Document - other |
Dawn Food Products - LDW Superfund Site Dawn Food 104(e) responses | 9/1/2008 | Site Specific Technical Document - other |
Places to see print documents
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Northwest Regional Office15700 Dayton Ave NShoreline, 98133Please schedule an appointment to view print documents at this location.
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South Park Branch / Seattle Public Library8604 Eighth Avenue SouthSeattle, 98108This location may only have print documents available during open comment periods.
Contaminants 9
Contaminant Type | Soil |
Groundwater |
Surface Water |
Air |
Sediment |
Bedrock |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Metals - Metals - Other | C | C | ||||
Halogenated Organics - Polychlorinated biPhenyls (PCB) | B | |||||
Non-Halogenated Organics - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons | C | |||||
Halogenated Organics - Halogenated Solvents | B | C | S | |||
Metals - Arsenic | C | C | ||||
Metals - Lead | B | |||||
Metals - Mercury | C | |||||
Non-Halogenated Organics - Benzene | B | |||||
Non-Halogenated Organics - Petroleum-Gasoline | C | S |
- S
- Suspected
- C
- Confirmed Above Cleanup Levels
- B
- Below Cleanup Levels
- RA
- Remediated-Above
- RB
- Remediated-Below
- R
- Remediated