Sound Battery aka: Allied Battery Co Inc Tacoma
Site Background
Batteries were manufactured on this site for several decades beginning in the 1940s. During environmental investigations, lead was found in soil and groundwater. Based on this contamination, the site was included on the state Hazardous Sites List.
The property owners worked with Ecology under the Voluntary Cleanup Program to remove the contaminated soil and treat and monitor the groundwater. Over 1,200 tons of contaminated soil was removed as part of cleanup.
Several soil and groundwater tests showed that the cleanup was successful. Ecology has determined that no further action is necessary.
Voluntary Cleanup Program
This site was cleaned up under our Voluntary Cleanup Program, which provides technical help to owners of contaminated sites.
Voluntary Cleanup Program customers pay fees to cover our costs for technical help and reviewing cleanup reports. Sites in this program must meet the same cleanup standards as the sites Ecology manages under legal orders.
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
Environmental Covenant
Restrictions/Requirements
- Maintain/Protect Monitoring System
- Restrict All Ground Water Extraction/Well Installation
- Restrict Land Use
Restricted Media
- Groundwater
Documents 13
Legal 3
Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
Recorded Env. Covenant | 2/3/2017 | Environmental Covenant; Alternative Mechanism |
Sound Battery Aka Allied Enforcement Order 97TC-S137 | 6/12/1997 | Enforcement Order |
Sound Battery Aka Allied Enforcement Order 90-S315 | 1/5/1991 | Enforcement Order |
Public Information 1
Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
Sound Battery delisting fact sheet | 12/21/2017 | Fact Sheet\Public Notices |
Technical Reports 8
Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
2022-10 Sound Battery Cov Letter | 10/24/2022 | Site Specific Administrative Document - other (Administrative correspondence) |
Allied Battery CO Inc.Tacoma - Cover Letter and Groundwater Monitoring Reoprt | 2/4/2020 | Groundwater Monitoring Report |
2022-10 Sound Battery Q3 GW monitoring report | 11/1/2019 | Groundwater Monitoring Report |
Long-term GW Monitoring Plan | 7/1/2016 | Performance/Confirmational Monitoring Plan or Report |
Closure Report Sound Battery, Tacoma, WA | 7/27/2015 | Final Cleanup Action Report |
Sound Battery (Allied Battery) Cleanup Acton Plan | 6/24/2014 | Cleanup Action Plan |
Remedial Investigation and Focused Feasibility Study, Sound Battery, Tacoma | 11/19/2013 | Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study |
Sound Battery Near Surface Soil & Groundwater Investigation | 9/7/2011 | Remedial Action Report |
Voluntary Cleanup Program 1
Document Title | Document Date | Document Type |
2017.10.23_SW1208_Sound (Allied) Battery Co. Inc._Site NFA with EC and GW Monitoring Plan | 10/23/2017 | VCP Opinion on Site Cleanup – NFA |
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.
Contaminants 1
Contaminant Type | Soil |
Groundwater |
Surface Water |
Air |
Sediment |
Bedrock |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Metals - Lead | RB | RB |
- S
- Suspected
- C
- Confirmed Above Cleanup Levels
- B
- Below Cleanup Levels
- RA
- Remediated-Above
- RB
- Remediated-Below
- R
- Remediated