West Coast Door

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.