western processing co., inc.

7215 S 196TH ST

The 13-acre Western Processing Company, Inc. site is located in the highly industrialized Kent Valley, about 20 miles south of Seattle and 2 miles north of the city center for Kent. The company originally reprocessed animal by-products and brewer's yeast, but the business expanded in the 1960s to include recycling, reclaiming, treating, and disposing of industrial wastes. These included electroplating wastes, waste acids (pickle liquor and battery acid), zinc dross and flue dust from steel mills, transformers, waste oils, pesticides, and spent solvents. From 1961 until 1983, about 300 businesses transported their industrial wastes to the Western Processing site. The company stored 72 bulk tanks and approximately 5,000 drums on the site property. The property also contained other containers, buried materials, open waste piles and 10 lagoons. In 1983, the company was permanently closed by federal court order. As of the 2000 census, 78 people lived within one mile of the site and 78,327 people lived within three miles of the site. The nearest drinking water well for the City of Kent (pop. 86,660) is located more than a mile from the site. This aquifer is much deeper than the contaminated aquifer at the site. Site Responsibility: This site is being addressed through federal, state, and potentially responsible parties' actions

Hazardous Ranking Score

59 / 100

A score of 28.5 or higher qualifies a site for the Superfund National Priority List.

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Region 10
Phone: (800) 424-4372

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Discovery
Site Inspection
Preliminary Assessment
Final Listing On NPL
Removal

Contaminants & Health Effects

      Carcinogen
      Endocrine Disrupter
      Neurotoxic
      Sensitiser
      Reproductive Toxin
      Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic
      VOC
      Mutagen

        Census

        White
        African American
        Asian
        American Indian and Alaska Native
        Native Hawaiian
        Other

        25

        People living
        within a 1 mile radius

        $75,987

        Average Income

        11

        Occupied homes

        Potentially Responsible Parties

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