West Coast Door
Site Background
From the early 1900s to the 1930s, the Buffelen Pipe and Creosote Company/American Wood Pipe Company made and treated wood pipes at the West Coast Door site. They used creosote to make their wooden pipes durable and watertight.
Monarch Door Manufacturing Company began operating on the site after pipe manufacturing stopped in the 1930s. West Coast Door, Inc. purchased the property in the 1950s and made wood‐veneered fiberboard doors there until the mid 1980s.
Today, a Goodwill Outlet store operates on the site and contaminated soil is largely covered by pavement.
Decades of treating wood on site led to creosote related compounds contaminating the soil and groundwater. Contaminants identified so far include:
- Carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (cPAHs), primarily naphthalene
- Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX)
After a public comment period in 2017, we completed a new legal agreement that commits the property owners to begin the cleanup process at West Coast Door.
Documents 17
Legal 3
| Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
| West Coast Door - Agreed Order No. DE 14016 | 4/11/2017 | Agreed Order |
| West Coast Door - Final PLP Determination - Swensen et al. | 6/27/2016 | Final Potentially Liable Person Status Letter |
| West Coast Door - Preliminary PLP Determination - Swensen et al. | 5/11/2016 | Final Potentially Liable Person Status Letter |
Outreach Information 2
| Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
| West Coast Door - Fact Sheet - Agreed Order No. DE 14016 | 3/1/2017 | Fact Sheet\Public Notices |
| West Coast Door - Public Participation Plan - February 2017 | 2/1/2017 | Public Participation Plan |
Technical Reports 8
| Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
| West Coast Door - Pilot Study Work Plan | 1/13/2025 | Remedial Investigation Work Plan |
| West Coast Door - Pilot Study Request and Anticipated Document Schedule Outline | 5/23/2023 | Site Specific Administrative Document - Other (Administrative Correspondence) |
| West Coast Door - Notification of Project Coordinator Designation | 2/7/2023 | Site Specific Administrative Document - Other (Administrative Correspondence) |
| West Coast Door - CPM Change Notice | 10/26/2022 | Site Specific Administrative Document - Other (Administrative Correspondence) |
| West Coast Door - RI Work Plan Addendum - Transducer Deployment | 6/11/2019 | Remedial Investigation Work Plan |
| West Coast Door - RI Data Gaps Work Plan | 7/13/2018 | Remedial Investigation Work Plan |
| West Coast Door - Response to Draft RIFS Letter | 8/2/2017 | Site Specific Technical Document - Other |
| West Coast Door - Agency Review Draft - RIFS Report (VCP) | 1/1/2014 | Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study Report |
Voluntary Cleanup Program 4
| Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
| West Coast Door - SW0865 - VCP Termination Letter | 10/15/2015 | VCP Administrative Document |
| West Coast Door - SW0865 - Request for Information Letter | 9/15/2015 | VCP Administrative Document |
| West Coast Door - SW0865 - Further Action Letter | 10/15/2009 | VCP Opinion on Site Cleanup – Other |
| West Coast Door - SW0865 - VCP Application Form | 4/27/2007 | VCP Administrative Document |
Places to see print documents
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Southwest Regional Office300 Desmond Dr SELacey, 98503-1274Please schedule an appointment to view print documents at this location.
Contaminants 4
| Contaminant Type | Soil |
Groundwater |
Surface Water |
Air |
Sediment |
Bedrock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halogenated Organics - Halogenated Organics | C | |||||
| Non-Halogenated Organics - Petroleum Products-Unspecified | C | C | ||||
| Non-Halogenated Organics - Phenolic Compounds | C | C | ||||
| Non-Halogenated Organics - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons | C | C |
- S
- Suspected
- C
- Confirmed Above Cleanup Levels
- B
- Below Cleanup Levels
- RA
- Remediated-Above
- RB
- Remediated-Below
- R
- Remediated