Dawn Food Products

Last updated: October 2024

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We held a comment period from August - September 2024 on an Interim Action Work Plan and State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) Determination of Non-Significance. We received one comment during this time, and our response can be read here, in our Response to Comments. The future Remedial Investigation, Feasibility Study, and Draft Cleanup Action Plan will be available for public review.

Documents available for review and comment during the most recent comment period:

• Interim Action Work Plan: Plan for early partial cleanup actions to address contamination at the site.
• State Environmental Policy Act-Determination of Non-Significance: Ecology determination that the cleanup work is not likely to harm the environment.

Download the fact sheet here to read a summary of the latest information about this cleanup site.

The Dawn Food Products site is adjacent to the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site, which includes a 5-mile stretch of the Duwamish River. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added the LDW Superfund Site to the Superfund National Priorities List in 2001. Ecology is working to stop or reduce sources of contamination to the LDW Superfund Site, an effort known as “source control,” so that the EPA can proceed with the cleanup of the river sediment. 

The Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA) is Washington’s environmental cleanup law. It provides requirements for contaminated site cleanup and sets standards that protect human health and the environment. Ecology enacts the MTCA and oversees cleanups. The MTCA site cleanup process is completed in steps (see graphic below) over a variable timeline.

Since no significant changes were made to the Interim Action Workplan or SEPA DNS, Ecology will finalize the documents and Bridge Point will proceed with the Remedial Investigation, Feasibility Study, and create a Draft Cleanup Action Plan for public review.

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.

Current Dawn Food Products cleanup site Public Participation Plan

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. 

​Location
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.