Eastside Chrysler Jeep

The Eastside Jeep and Eagle (former) property is located in the City of Bellevue, King County, Washington. This site was historically utilized as a car dealership with an automotive service and repair facility as early as approximately 1964. These operations utilized below grade hydraulic hoists in the service bay area and two waste oil tanks on the north and south sides of the building. The property encompasses approximately 1.72 acres and is bounded by 116th Avenue NE on the west, the Bellevue Lincoln Mercury dealership to the north, the Performance Dodge dealership to the south, and a Burlington Northern, Inc. Railroad right-of-way to the east. There is currently a building at 200 116th Ave. NE which also formerly housed the Eastside Jeep and Eagle Dealership, but that is not the subject property at 400 116th Ave. NE, which is now an entirely paved area several lots north of the property with the sign that indicates “Eastside Jeep and Eagle”.

Soil contamination was identified in the service bay area at the vaulted hoist locations. Groundwater contamination was also identified along the north property boundary in an area south of where soil remediation had taken place on the Bellevue Lincoln Mercury property. The Lincoln Mercury property to the north has undergone some remediation of the soil along its southern boundary. To the south, the Performance Dodge has had a waste oil tank removed and several monitor wells were also observed.

The results of the independent remedial action of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil and groundwater associated with the hydraulic lifts and a trench drain in the service bay at the former Eastside Jeep Eagle (EJE) dealership is documented in a December 20, 1996 Dames and Moore report. Ecology issued a letter of ‘No Further Action’ in May 1999 after the January 1999 covenant was recorded and sufficient groundwater monitoring had occurred. A conditional point of compliance for groundwater was assumed and a restrictive covenant was recorded for this exceedance to allow a property transaction to proceed, even though the level of contamination was rapidly improving due to the successful soil cleanup.