Provisioners Express Inc

The Property is a 6-acre land located at 2102 West Valley Highway North in Auburn, Washington. Currently, the Property is a refrigerated goods trucking terminal owned and operated by Commerce Road Terminals LLC, which is part of Estes Express Lines (Estes), a motor freight transportation company. The Property included one main refrigerated warehouse building, a vehicle maintenance garage, and parking areas.

The Property appeared to be a vacant land prior to 1987.  A refrigerated goods trucking terminal was built on the Property in 1987.  Provisoners Express operated at the terminal from 1988 to 2000.  GI trucking leased the terminal from 2000 to 2002.  Estes leased the terminal from 2002 to 2017.  Estes purchased the Property in December 2017 and continues to use it as a refrigerated goods trucking terminal and a truck maintenance facility. 

Site investigations discovered two contamination source areas at the Site. One area includes the northwest portion of the maintenance garage and north of the maintenance garage.  The soil and groundwater in this area is contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons. The contamination is associated with a waste oil underground storage tank (UST) formerly located north of the maintenance garage, and two former floor drains and sumps with drain lines located inside the garage. 

A second source area is south and southeast of the maintenance garage. Groundwater in this area is contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons. The contamination is associated with a diesel UST formerly located southeast of the maintenance garage.  A new release to groundwater occurred between January and May 2018 in this area at monitoring well MW-8. The source of the new release has not been fully identified.

A series of cleanup actions have been conducted at the Site, which are considered as interim actions.  The interim actions consisted of the following: 

·         Removal of one waste oil UST located north of the vehicle maintenance garage, and disposal of 350 cubic yards of petroleum-contaminated soil from the waste oil UST area. 

·         Removal of two floor drains and sumps, and associated drain lines from inside the maintenance garage, and disposal of 100 cubic yards of petroleum-contaminated soil from the floor drain/sump area. 

·         Removal of one 12,000-gallon diesel UST located south of the maintenance garage. 

·         Installation and operation of two groundwater remediation systems in the contamination source areas north and south of the maintenance garage. 

·         Pump-out of approximately 55 gallons of contaminated groundwater in monitoring well MW-8, after a new release to groundwater was discovered. 

A majority of the contamination sources have been removed from the Site by the interim cleanup actions.  Further groundwater cleanup and monitoring is still needed.

·         Gasoline-, diesel- and heavy oil-range petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHg, TPHd, and TPHo) into the Soil.

·         TPHd and TPHo into the Ground Water.

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