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AmeriTies West - The Dalles
Ashland Railroad Yard Cleanup
Bullseye Glass
Columbia Pacific Bio-Refinery
Coyote Island Terminal Coal Export Project
Daimler Trucks
Former Johnson Creek Landfill Methane Investigation
Gasoline Terminals in Northwest Portland
Grimm's Fuel
Hollingsworth & Vose Fiber Company Permits
Hollingsworth & Vose, Formerly Evanite, Cleanup
JH Baxter
Jordan Cove Energy Project: Current Actions
Jordan Cove: Permits and Projects
Liquefied Natural Gas Projects in Oregon
Northstar Development
Portland North Harbor Air Quality
Portland Scrap Yard Fire – NW Metals
PGE Boardman
Precision Castparts Corp.
Riverbend Landfill
Umatilla Chemical Depot
USPS Processing & Distribution Center
Westside Rock Hayden Quarry
Willamette Cove Uplands
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AmeriTies West - The Dalles
AmeriTies West is a railroad tie treatment facility that has operated in The Dalles under various owners since 1922. The facility uses a coal-tar product called creosote to treat wooden railroad ties to make them weather and insect resistant.
Ashland Railroad Yard Cleanup
The Ashland Railroad Yard is a vacant 20-acre parcel owned by Union Pacific near downtown. DEQ has approved Union Pacific Railroad’s plan to begin clean up at the site in mid-2017 to remove most of the contamination from the site and enable Union Pacific to potentially sell all, or a portion, of the property.
Astoria Marine Construction
Bradford Island at Bonneville Dam
Bullseye Glass
Bullseye Glass Company manufactures colored art glass in southeast Portland. In January 2016, possibly unsafe levels of arsenic and cadmium were found in the air near the facility.
Columbia Pacific Bio-Refinery
On Aug. 19, 2014, DEQ issued Columbia Pacific Bio-Refinery, located in Clatskanie, a Standard Air Contaminant Discharge Permit for storage and marine vessel loading of crude oil and ethanol.
Columbia Slough Sediment Project
Coyote Island Terminal Coal Export Project
Ambre Energy would bring up to 8.8 million tons of coal a year by train from Montana and/or Wyoming to Boardman. The company would store the coal in covered storage buildings at the Port of Morrow before transferring it to barges using an enclosed conveyor system.
Daimler Trucks North America LLC
Daimler Trucks North America manufactures heavy trucks on Swan Island in Portland. The company builds Western Star trucks from component parts and paints them in spray booths at a facility located at 6936 North Fathom Avenue.
Environmental Cleanup Sites
List of sites in the Environmental Cleanup Program with their own web pages. These pages are for certain sites that may have significant public interest.
Gasoline Terminals in Northwest Portland
In Northwest Portland there are six gasoline terminals that receive, store, blend, and transfer gasoline, fuel oils, lubricants and a variety of other petroleum products.
Grimm's Fuel
Grimm’s Fuel Company operates a composting facility that receives and processes yard debris at 18850 SW Cipole Road in Tualatin. Grimm’s has a DEQ solid waste composting facility permit for its operations.
Hollingsworth & Vose Fiber Company
Hollingsworth & Vose manufactures specialty glass fiber products from sand and other materials using electric furnaces and other equipment that result in glass melting and shaping of the glass into long, very thin fibers.
Hollingsworth & Vose, formerly Evanite, Cleanup
DEQ is working with Hollingsworth & Vose Fiber Corporation to clean up groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene at its Corvallis site, which was previously operated by Evanite. Groundwater at the site and on neighboring properties contains varying concentrations of a chemical, commonly known as TCE, from releases at the facility in the 1970s and 1980s.
JH Baxter
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) received results from eight off-site soil samples required under the October 2019 cleanup plan for J.H. Baxter’s (Baxter) wood treatment facility in Eugene. Four results, including one in the Bethel Neighborhood directly north of the facility and three stormwater ditch locations, indicated elevated levels of dioxins, a group of toxic chemicals.
Johnson Creek Landfill
DEQ is continuing to work with the owner of the former Johnson Creek Landfill property, Emmert International, to investigate residential properties near the former landfill.
Jordan Cove Energy Project
Jordan Cove Energy Project L.P. proposes to construct a liquefied natural gas export facility near North Bend, Oregon.
Liquefied Natural Gas Projects in Oregon
In Oregon, LNG projects require DEQ and other state agencies to coordinate the application of environmental law with the Oregon Department of Energy. DEQ is responsible for drafting, issuing and ensuring compliance with environmental permits.
Mid-Coast Biosolids Applications
DEQ authorizes a number of cities along Oregon’s Mid-Coast to apply biosolids. Read frequently asked questions and documents associated with the various cities including site authorizations, biosolid management plans and annual reports.
NE Portland Scrap Yard
A five-alarm fire started on March 12, 2018 at a scrap yard called NW Metals in northeast Portland.
Northstar Development
The owner of a 150-acre property that was once home to farmland in Salem plans to transport soil that contains low levels of the insecticide dieldrin from the site to a farm outside Keizer where it will be used to fill in two abandoned quarries.
PGE Boardman
Portland General Electric Company operates two fossil fuel-fired electric generating plants in the Eastern Region.
Portland Harbor
Portland North Harbor Air Quality
Precision Castparts Corp.
Precision Castparts Corp., also known as PCC Structurals, Inc., produces nickel-based superalloy, titanium, stainless steel, and aluminum castings for aerospace, land-based turbine, medical, military armament and other applications. The company has three facilities in the Portland region.
Riverbend Landfill
The landfill’s permit required the well to be resampled, which occurred in June 2016. These results confirmed exceedances for three of the four parameters: bicarbonate alkalinity, dissolved magnesium and dissolved sodium.
Ross Island
Umatilla Chemical Depot
DEQ’s provides its oversight through its issuance and updating of a hazardous waste storage and treatment facility permit for the disposal facility.
USPS Processing & Distribution Center
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is overseeing the cleanup of the 13.4-acre United States Postal Service - Processing and Distribution Center, referred to as the USPS site. Work started in August 2020 with demolition of the former Vehicle Maintenance Facility, and cleanup work will start September 2020, including removal of about 2,200 tons of petroleum-contaminated soils from the north end of the site.
Westside Rock Hayden Quarry
In May 2020, DEQ issued a penalty of $611,403 to Columbia Northwest Recycling, doing business as Construction Materials Recycling, also referred to as CMR, for operating a solid waste disposal site at the Westside Rock Hayden Quarry in Cornelius without a permit.
Willamette River Sediment Study
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