Thursday, 5 July 2012

Tacoma Smelter Plume: Soil cleanup and signs planned for Federal Way parks

By Hannah Aoyagi, Tacoma Smelter Plume Project, Toxics Cleanup Program

Three Federal Way parks have arsenic and lead soil contamination from the former Asarco smelter in north Tacoma.  This fall, we are cleaning up the worst of the contamination and putting up signs in places we can't do cleanup.


Lake Grove Park
Part of the park (photo to right) has some very high lead levels.  In this area,

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