File #: 2023-0023    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/7/2023 In control: Local Services and Land Use Committee
On agenda: Final action: 7/11/2023
Enactment date: 7/20/2023 Enactment #: 19644
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an agreed order amendment with the Washington state Department of Ecology for final cleanup of King County's Maury Island Site, the former Glacier/Northwest Aggregates Sand and Gravel Mine, and to take those actions necessary to complete the cleanup as required by the agreed order amendment.
Sponsors: Joe McDermott
Indexes: Maury Island, Washington, State of
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19644, 2. A. State of Washington Department of Ecology Agree Order Amendment No. DE 8439, 3. 2023-0023 transmittal letter, 4. 2023-0023 Exhibit D, 5. 2023-0023 Exhibit E, 6. 2023-0023 Exhibit F, 7. 2023-0023 Exhibit G, 8. 2023-0023 fiscal note, 9. 2023-0023 Legislative Review Form, 10. 2023-0023 Public Participation Plan Jan 2012, 11. 2023-0023 Public Process Summary March 2023, 12. 2023-0023_SR_MauryIsland
Staff: Sherrie Hsu
Drafter
Clerk 01/03/2023
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an agreed order amendment with the Washington state Department of Ecology for final cleanup of King County's Maury Island Site, the former Glacier/Northwest Aggregates Sand and Gravel Mine, and to take those actions necessary to complete the cleanup as required by the agreed order amendment.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. On December 30, 2010, King County acquired from Glacier/Northwest Aggregates four tax parcels comprising approximately two hundred fifty acres of land on Maury Island.
2. King County acquired the property "as is." The property is known as the "Maury Island Site" and the King County parks and recreation division of the department of natural resources and parks 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 impacted by the smelter plume.
4. The Washington state Department of Ecology, Glacier/Northwest Aggregates and King County conducted investigations of the Maury Island Site over the past decade which found elevated levels of arsenic, lead and cadmium in surface soils.
5. Before King County acquiring the Maury Island Site, Glacier/Northwest Aggregates and the Washington state Department of Ecology were negotiating the terms of a potential agreed order for remedial work, in accordance with the Washington state Model Toxic Control Act, chapter 70.105D RCW.
6. The purchase and sale agreement between Glacier/Northwest Aggregates and King County committed King County to assume all responsibility for remedial obligations related to hazardous substances at the Maury Island Site, including, but not limited to, all remedial obligations arising under the Model Toxic Control Act and the implementation of any future orders imposing remedial obligations issued under...

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