Title
Approval of Agreed Order with the Washington State Department of Ecology for Former West Olympia Landfill Site
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Move to authorize the City Manager to sign the Agreed Order between the City of Olympia and the Washington State Department of Ecology for cleanup of the former West Olympia Landfill Site.
Report
Issue:
Whether to authorize the signing of an Agreed Order for cleanup of the former West Olympia Landfill Site.
Staff Contact:
Jay Burney, Assistant City Manager, Executive Department, 360.753.8740
Presenter(s):
None - Consent Calendar Item.
Background and Analysis:
The former West Olympia Landfill is an approximately 12-acre site adjacent to Haggen on the west side. The site was formerly used as a landfill from the mid-1940's until around 1968. The City has been performing environmental monitoring and analysis on the site since 1984.
In 2013, the City received assistance through the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Targeted Brownfields Assessment Program to perform Remedial Investigation (RI) and an initial Feasibility Study (FS) analysis of the site. The RI work involves characterizing the extent and nature of contamination (soil borings, groundwater monitoring, soil vapor sampling), and the FS work evaluates potential cleanup options.
As we finish up the RI/FS work with the EPA's contractor, we are at a point where we need to get a formal review and approval of that work so that we can move forward with cleaning up the site. In order for that to happen, we need to be under a formal clean-up program with Ecology. The two options available are through the Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP) or an Agreed Order. Ecology is extremely understaffed in the VCP program and it could take years for us to get feedback under that program, so Ecology is recommending the Agreed Order program, which staff concurs with. In working with Ecolog...
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