West Coast Door

3133 S Cedar St Tacoma, Pierce County
Facility Site ID: 6308485 Cleanup Site ID: 2599

  • Site Status

  • Cleanup Started

More about cleanup

Site Background

From the early 1900s to the 1930s, the Buffelen Pipe and Creosote Company/American Wood Pipe Company made and treated wood pipes at the West Coast Door site. They used creosote to make their wooden pipes durable and watertight.

Monarch Door Manufacturing Company began operating on the site after pipe manufacturing stopped in the 1930s. West Coast Door, Inc. purchased the property in the 1950s and made wood‐veneered fiberboard doors there until the mid 1980s.

Today, a Goodwill Outlet store operates on the site and contaminated soil is largely covered by pavement.

Decades of treating wood on site led to creosote related compounds contaminating the soil and groundwater. Contaminants identified so far include:

  • Carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (cPAHs), primarily naphthalene
  • Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX)

After a public comment period in 2017, we completed a new legal agreement that commits the property owners to begin the cleanup process at West Coast Door.

Places to see print documents
Legal 3
Document Title Document Date Document Type
West Coast Door - Agreed Order No. DE 14016 4/11/2017 Agreed Order
West Coast Door - Final PLP Determination - Swensen et al. 6/27/2016 Final Potentially Liable Person Status Letter
West Coast Door - Preliminary PLP Determination - Swensen et al. 5/11/2016 Final Potentially Liable Person Status Letter
Public Information 2
Document Title Document Date Document Type
West Coast Door - Fact Sheet - Agreed Order No. DE 14016 3/1/2017 Fact Sheet\Public Notices
West Coast Door - Public Participation Plan - February 2017 2/1/2017 Public Participation Plan
Technical Reports 5
Document Title Document Date Document Type
West Coast Door - Pilot Study Request and Anticipated Document Schedule Outline 5/23/2023 Site Specific Administrative Document - other (Administrative correspondence)
West Coast Door - RI Work Plan Addendum - Transducer Deployment 6/11/2019 Remedial Investigation Work Plan
West Coast Door - RI Data Gaps Work Plan 7/13/2018 Remedial Investigation Work Plan
West Coast Door - Response to Draft RIFS Letter 8/2/2017 Site Specific Technical Document - other
West Coast Door - Agency Review Draft - RIFS Report (VCP) 1/1/2014 Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study
Voluntary Cleanup Program 4
Document Title Document Date Document Type
West Coast Door - SW0865 - VCP Termination Letter 10/15/2015 VCP Administrative Document
West Coast Door - SW0865 - Request for Information Letter 9/15/2015 VCP Administrative Document
West Coast Door - SW0865 - Further Action Letter 10/15/2009 VCP Opinion on Site Cleanup – Other
West Coast Door - SW0865 - VCP Application Form 4/27/2007 VCP Administrative Document
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

  • Southwest Regional Office
    300 Desmond Dr SE
    Lacey, 98503-1274
    Please schedule an appointment to view print documents at this location.

Contaminants 4

Contaminant Type
Soil
Groundwater
Surface Water
Air
Sediment
Bedrock
Halogenated Organics - Halogenated Organics C
Non-Halogenated Organics - Petroleum Products-Unspecified C C
Non-Halogenated Organics - Phenolic Compounds 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.