Everett Smelter
Facility Site ID:
2744
Cleanup Site ID:
4298
Sign-Up For Soil Samping
You can sign up for free soil sampling if your property is within the Everett Smelter Cleanup boundary and has not been tested yet. Find out by visiting our Dirt Alert Map. If there are results for your property, it has already been tested.
To sign up for free soil sampling, download and complete an access agreement.
Submitting the form:
By email: Meredith.Waldref@ecy.wa.gov
By text: (425) 229-3683
By mail: Everett Smelter Cleanup
Department of Ecology
PO Box 330316
Shoreline, WA 98133-9716
To sign up for free soil sampling, download and complete an access agreement.
| Access Agreement |
Submitting the form:
By email: Meredith.Waldref@ecy.wa.gov
By text: (425) 229-3683
By mail: Everett Smelter Cleanup
Department of Ecology
PO Box 330316
Shoreline, WA 98133-9716
Site Description
| Limpieza de la fundición de Everett: Novedades para el 2021 |
Everett Smelter: Thông Tin Tẩy Nhiễm Năm 2021 |
Ликвидация отходов металлургического комплекса Everett: новости на 2021 г. |
Everett Smelter Cleanup: 2021 Update
Visit the project home page for more information and the latest news about this cleanup: ecology.wa.gov/EverettSmelter
The Asarco smelter, which operated in Everett between 1898-1912, caused widespread arsenic and lead contamination in northeast Everett. Smelter operations left contamination behind on the former smelter property, and contaminated particles from the stacks settled on surrounding areas. Arsenic contamination in Everett was first detected in 1990.
The Everett Smelter cleanup site is divided into two parts:
- The Uplands Area, which is located south and west of East Marine View Drive and includes residential properties and parks, and
- The Lowlands Area, which is located north and east of East Marine View Drive along the Snohomish River and includes mostly industrial lands.
So far, Ecology has completed cleanup work on more than half the residential homes in the Uplands Area and at American Legion Memorial Park. Ecology has been studying contamination in the Lowlands Area and recently released a Cleanup Action Plan, which describes the preferred method for cleaning up contamination in this area.
Site use restrictions called institutional controls are in effect
Institutional controls can be fences, signs, or restrictions on how the property is used. For instance, an institutional control may prohibit installing drinking water wells or disturbing a protective cap that isolates contamination. These restrictions keep the contamination contained and keep people from being exposed to the contamination. The controls are usually listed in environmental covenants recorded with the county.
Periodic reviews are required when institutional controls are required at a site. Ecology conducts reviews to make sure the controls remain effective and the cleanup still protects human health and the environment. We conduct periodic reviews about every five years.
Institutional Controls 1
Environmental Covenant
County Recording #:
200504050143; 200504050142; 200504050141; 200504050140; 200504050135; 200504050139; 200504050138; 200504050137; 200504050136; 200704251108; 200701290760; 200604270899
County Recording Date:
4/5/2005
Restrictions/Requirements
- Ongoing Maintenance of Remedy
- Prohibit Removal or Alteration of Existing Buildings
- Prohibit Soil Disturbance
- Require Educational Programs
- Restrict All Ground Water Extraction/Well Installation
Restricted Media
- Groundwater
- Soil
Documents 107
Legal 12
Public Information 60
State Environmental Policy Act 2
| Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
| EverettSmelterProject_DNS- SEPA Checklist | 8/4/2016 | SEPA Documents |
| Amendment and SEPA Addendum To the Integrated Final Cleanup Action Plan And Final Environmental Impact Statement For the Upland Area | 12/30/2002 | SEPA Documents |
Technical Reports 33
There may be more documents related to this site. To obtain documents not available electronically, you will need to make a public records request.
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.
Contaminants 2
| Contaminant Type | Soil |
Groundwater |
Surface Water |
Air |
Sediment |
Bedrock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metals - Metals Priority Pollutants | C | C | C | B | ||
| Non-Halogenated Organics - Petroleum Products-Unspecified | B |
- S
- Suspected
- C
- Confirmed Above Cleanup Levels
- B
- Below Cleanup Levels
- RA
- Remediated-Above
- RB
- Remediated-Below
- R
- Remediated
This contaminant list was based on our best information at the time it was entered. It may not reflect current conditions at the site.