Albert Jensen & Sons Inc

A Puget Sound Initiative site - Reaching the goal of a healthy, sustainable Puget Sound.

Albert Jensen & Sons Inc. Site (site), was historically used for boat building and maintenance as early as 1910. Today, the site is still used as a boat maintenance facility and shipyard with a boat pullout and wash station onsite. Decades of industrial use have contributed to contamination in the soil and marine sediment at the site.

The Port of Friday Harbor (the Port) recently purchased the site from Albert Jensen & Sons, Inc. with the intent to redevelop the site and address existing environmental concerns. Ecology plans to work with the Port to design and implement a cleanup plan for the site. Recent sampling of the upland soil and marine sediment at the site identified contaminants including tributyltin (TBT), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins/furans, phthalates, organic chemicals, pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and metals.

In late 2019, Ecology and Port of Friday Harbor entered a formal legal agreement called an Agreed Order. The Agreed Order requires the Port of Friday Harbor to define the nature and extent of contamination at the site in a Remedial Investigation report, to develop and evaluate cleanup options in a Feasibility Study, and to draft a Cleanup Action Plan that addresses the contamination in the uplands and marine sediment.

Investigation work to date includes:

    ·  2017 Environmental Site Assessment – Preliminary investigation of the site was conducted to determine the likelihood of the presence of hazardous substances in, on, or at the property.
    ·  2018 Initial Investigation Report – identified contaminants of concern in the soil and marine sediment at the site.
    ·  2018 Sediment Data Report – further characterized sediment contamination at the site.
    ·  2019 Conceptual Site Model and Data Gaps Report – identified primary contaminant sources in the upland portion of the site and summarized data gaps.

Public Comment Documents
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Public Involvement Materials
Fact Sheet describing the Agreed Order and Public Participation Plan comment period held in December, 2019.

Technical Documents
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