Rays Auto Wrecking Everett

The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) proposes to remove Ray’s Auto Wrecking site also known as Silver Pines from the state’s Hazardous Sites List.  This site is a former auto wrecking yard located in Everett, Washington.
 
The wrecking yard is known to have begun operations in the mid-1960s.  Auto wrecking activities (which included car crushing operations) ceased by early 2007.  At that time, various buildings on the property such as a single-family residence, office, and shed were demolished.
 
The site underwent a Site Hazard Assessment (SHA) by the Snohomish Health District in 2005. It was subsequently ranked under the Washington Ranking Method (WARM).  The site was ranked a “4” and placed on the Washington State Hazardous Sites List due to evidence of soil contamination by oil-range petroleum hydrocarbons, carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, cadmium, and lead.  This ranking is based on a scale of 1 to 5 where “1” represents the highest relative risk, and “5” represents the lowest relative risk.  This ranking is designed to estimate the potential threat to human health and the environment relative to all other sites in Washington State.
 
Ecology has determined that the cleanup work at the Ray’s Auto Wrecking site meets requirements for cleanup under MTCA and therefore does not pose a threat to human health or the environment.