File #: 2012-0196    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/11/2012 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 7/9/2012
Enactment date: 7/18/2012 Enactment #: 17367
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an agreed order with the Washington state Department of Ecology for the remedial investigation and feasibility study for the King County's Maury Island Site, the former Glacier/Northwest Aggregates Sand and Gravel Mine.
Sponsors: Joe McDermott
Indexes: Washington, State of
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17367.pdf, 2. A. State of Washington Letters, 3. 2012-0196 transmittal letter.docx, 4. 2012-0196 fiscal note.xlsx, 5. 2012-0196 notice of public hearing.doc, 6. 2012-0196 news release.doc, 7. 2012-0196 Staff Report - Maury Is site remediation.doc, 8. A. State of Washington Letters
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Clerk 05/18/2012
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an agreed order with the Washington state Department of Ecology for the remedial investigation and feasibility study for the King County's Maury Island Site, the former Glacier/Northwest Aggregates Sand and Gravel Mine.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. On December 30, 2010, King County acquired from Glacier/Northwest Aggregates ("NWA") four tax parcels comprising approximately two hundred fifty acres of land on Maury Island for the purchase price of $36,000,000.
2. King County acquired the property "as is." The property is now known as the "Maury Island Site" and the King County parks and recreation division of the department of natural resources and parks ("the division") is the custodian of the property.
3. The Maury Island Site is located within the Tacoma Smelter Plume, a large area contaminated by lead, arsenic and other pollutants from a former copper smelter located in Tacoma. Soils on Maury Island are among those most significantly impacted by the smelter plume.
4. The Washington state Department of Ecology ("Ecology"), NWA and King County have conducted multiple investigations of the Maury Island Site over the past decade. These investigations have found arsenic, lead and cadmium in surface soils within the Maury Island Site at elevated levels many times greater than natural background concentrations.
5. At the time King County acquired the Maury Island Site, NWA and Ecology were negotiating the terms of a potential agreed order for remedial work related to the Maury Island Site, all in accordance with the Washington state Model Toxics Control Act, chapter 70.105D RCW ("MTCA").
6. Section 9.4 of the Purchase and Sale Agreement ("PSA") between NWA and King County specifies that following closing, King County shall assume all responsibility for any remedial obligations related to hazardous substances at or migrating from the Maury Island Site, including b...

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