Eddon Boat Park
Site Description
Eddon Boat Park is located at 3711 and 3805 Harborview Drive in Gig Harbor. The three-acre site was a residence, boatyard, and boathouse from the 1940s until 2003.
In 2004, Gig Harbor voters approved a $3.5 million bond for the city to buy the property. Since 2005, Ecology and the City of Gig Harbor (the city) have worked together to clean up the site.
From 2005-2007, the city studied the site’s soils, groundwater, and sediments. A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields grant supported this work. Technical support also came from Ecology’s Voluntary Cleanup Program. The city also received a remedial action grant of $230,902 from Ecology. In 2008, the city entered Ecology’s formal cleanup program to complete cleanup.
SITE CLEANUP
Decades of boat repair and maintenance polluted the site’s land and water. Contaminants above state cleanup levels included:
· Heavy metals.
· Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
· Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
· Tributyltin.
The city removed contaminated soils, sediments, and treated timber bulkhead from the site. It covered less contaminated sediments with sand and gravel. A restrictive covenant is in place to prevent the release of contaminants that are safely capped.
After the city completed the cleanup, it monitored the site for five years to ensure the cap stayed in place. Ecology now regards cleanup of the site complete.
The cleanup allowed the city to restore the site to public use. It is now a park.
Ecology will do a site review at the end of 2015 to make sure that cleanup still protects human health and the environment.
Current Status
Ecology held a public comment period for the removal of Eddon Boat Park from the Hazardous Sites List from January 9 - February 10, 2014. You can read more about the cleanup here:
- Comment Period Fact Sheet.
- Letter of Satisfaction – states that the city did all activities under the agreed order (legal agreement).
- Project Completion Report.
- Cleanup Action Plan and Agreed Order – describes how the city cleaned up the site.
- Monitoring reports for 2009 – 2013 (see View Electronic Documents link to the right).
Ecology received no comments during the comment period. We are now in the process of removing the site from the Hazardous Sites List.
Site use restrictions called institutional controls are in effect
Institutional controls can be fences, signs, or restrictions on how the property is used. For instance, an institutional control may prohibit installing drinking water wells or disturbing a protective cap that isolates contamination. These restrictions keep the contamination contained and keep people from being exposed to the contamination. The controls are usually listed in environmental covenants recorded with the county.
Periodic reviews are required when institutional controls are required at a site. Ecology conducts reviews to make sure the controls remain effective and the cleanup still protects human health and the environment. We conduct periodic reviews about every five years.
Institutional Controls 1
Amended Environmental Covenant
Restrictions/Requirements
- Ongoing Maintenance of Remedy
- Prohibit Soil Disturbance
- Restrict Access
- Restrict Land Use
- Restrictive Signage
Restricted Media
- Soil
Documents 15
Legal 4
| Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
| Eddon Boat Park Satisfaction Letter | 8/6/2013 | Order Notice of Satisfaction/Status |
| Amendment to Environmental Covenant - Eddon Boat Park | 6/10/2011 | Environmental Covenant; Alternative Mechanism |
| Eddon Boat Park Environmental Covenant Eddon Boat Park Sediments and Uplands | 6/11/2009 | Environmental Covenant; Alternative Mechanism |
| Eddon Boat Park Agreed Order and Cleanup Action Plan | 8/8/2008 | Agreed Order |
Public Information 2
| Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
| Eddon Boat Park Proposed Removal from Hazardous Sites List fact sheet | 1/9/2014 | Fact Sheet\Public Notices |
| Eddon Boat Park Fact Sheet Draft Cleanup Action Plan and Agreed Order Available | 6/30/2008 | Fact Sheet\Public Notices |
Technical Reports 8
| Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
| Eddon Boat Park Year 5 Monitoring Report | 7/1/2013 | Performance/Confirmational Monitoring Plan or Report |
| Eddon Boat Park Year 4 Monitoring Report | 7/18/2012 | Performance/Confirmational Monitoring Plan or Report |
| Project Completion Report Eddon Boat Park Remedial Action | 10/1/2011 | Remedial Action Report |
| Eddon Boat Park Year 3 Monitoring Report | 7/22/2011 | Performance/Confirmational Monitoring Plan or Report |
| Eddon Boat Park Year 2 Monitoring Memo | 7/28/2010 | Performance/Confirmational Monitoring Plan or Report |
| Eddon Boat Park Year 1 Monitoring Report | 9/2/2009 | Performance/Confirmational Monitoring Plan or Report |
| Eddon Boat Park - Site Hazard Assessment | 7/11/2008 | Site Hazard Assessment Report |
| EDDON BOAT PARK SW0688 PRA PLAN.pdf | 6/29/2006 | Remedial Action Report |
Voluntary Cleanup Program 1
| Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
| SW0688 EDDON BOAT PARK PSFA LETTER | 6/29/2006 | Voluntary Cleanup Program Opinion – Other |
Places to see print documents
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Southwest Regional Office300 Desmond Dr SELacey, 98503-1274Please schedule an appointment to view print documents at this location.
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Peninsula Branch Library4424 Point Fosdick Dr. NWGig Harbor, 98335This location may only have print documents available during open comment periods.
Contaminants 5
| Contaminant Type | Soil |
Groundwater |
Surface Water |
Air |
Sediment |
Bedrock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metals - Metals Priority Pollutants | R | B | ||||
| Metals - Metals - Other | R | B | B | |||
| Non-Halogenated Organics - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons | R | B | RB | |||
| Non-Halogenated Organics - Organotins | B | |||||
| Metals - Mercury | RB |
- S
- Suspected
- C
- Confirmed Above Cleanup Levels
- B
- Below Cleanup Levels
- RA
- Remediated-Above
- RB
- Remediated-Below
- R
- Remediated