Port Angeles City Dump Toxic Materials
The City of Port Angeles unlined dump on the bluff of the Strait of Juan de Fuca contains 1,000,000 cubic yards of garbage some of which has fallen and leached into the marine waters of the Strait.
Dry Creek Coalition has assembled data for several years through Request for Disclosure from the Clallam County Environmental Health Divisiion and the City of Port Angeles Public Works Department. Pictures contained in this package are of Dry Creek Coalition origination. Additional pictures are contained in the Galleries Section of our web site. DCC testified to the City of Port Angeles Planning Commission on 12 October 2005 that the garbage in the unlined dump should be removed and disposed of in a toxic landfill. City Engineer Gary Kenworthy, now retired, stated that the dump contained 1,000,000 cubic yards and that removal was cost prohibitive. The City of Port Angeles filed a SEPA finding a Determination of Non-Significance (DNS) environmental impact for building a retaining wall to prevent garbage from falling into the Strait as the bluffs erode.
Highlights of the pdf package below are contained on the first three pages of the attachment. The remainder of the package is documentation of dump issues and include:
An analysis of city generated assay of the garbage in the unlined garbage dump consisting of thousands of tons of lead, zinc, copper and substances toxic to marine life.
City engineering studies which show lack of concern for violating the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) jurisdictional Mean Highest High Waterline (MHHW) boundary for construction.
A letter from USACE citing the City of Port Angeles for violation of Federal Clean Water Act
Letter to Governor Gregoire regarding toxic leaching into the Strait
Letter to Department of Ecology regarding dumping stormwater from the dump into the mouth of Dry Creek
Letter to the Department of Fish and Wildlife with concerns for the Hydrologic Permit issued for construction that damaged Dry Creek flow
This package was delivered to the Puget Sound Partnership at the Workshop at the Jamestown Tribal Center in 7 March 2008
This is the first half of the package given to PSP and Port Angeles City Council
This is the second half of the Port Angeles Dump package presented to PSP and Port Angeles City Council
PADumpPkg2of2.pdf
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