Tacoma Smelter Plume: Soil cleanup in progress at Tacoma parks

By Hannah Aoyagi, Toxics Cleanup Program



Loading soils into a truck to send to the landfill (Jane Clark Park).



Scraping off the top layer of soil from Jane Clark Park in Tacoma.

Ecology's Soil Safety Program is spending the summer at several parks, cleaning up arsenic and lead soil contamination from the old Tacoma Asarco smelter. 

The largest project is at Jane Clark Park in north