Tacoma Tar Pits
Facility Site ID:
221
Cleanup Site ID:
622
The Tacoma Tar Pits Site is part of a larger Superfund cleanup site. The larger site is the Commencement Bay Nearshore-Tideflats Site. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the lead agency conducting the cleanup.
For more information about cleanup at the Site, go to the EPA Site's homepage: Commencement Bay Nearshore-Tideflats.
Tacoma Tar Pits is part of The Commencement Bay Nearshore-Tideflats (CB/NT) Superfund site, located in the City of Tacoma and the Town of Ruston at the southern end of Puget Sound in Washington.
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Documents 1
Legal 1
| Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
| Tacoma Tar Pits Memorandum Deminimus | 4/22/1991 | Consent Decree |
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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EPA Records Center1200 Sixth Ave, Ste 900Seattle, 98101Please schedule an appointment to view print documents at this location.
Contaminants 4
| Contaminant Type | Soil |
Groundwater |
Surface Water |
Air |
Sediment |
Bedrock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metals - Metals Priority Pollutants | C | C | ||||
| Halogenated Organics - Polychlorinated biPhenyls (PCB) | C | |||||
| Non-Halogenated Organics - Non-Halogenated Solvents | 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
This contaminant list was based on our best information at the time it was entered. It may not reflect current conditions at the site.