State order targets Boeing Everett plant's polluted history
EVERETT — Notices along Powder Mill Creek offer a warning:
“CREEK CLEAN UP IN PROGRESS. NO WADING. NO DRINKING.”
For years, the bulletins have been some of the few public signs of the industrial toxins migrating from what’s just upstream: the Boeing Co.’s Everett plant.
The manufacturing powerhouse, in operation since the late 1960s, is the source of a plume of contaminated groundwater that extends roughly 2,800 feet from the head of a steep canyon, northward into the creek, until about a mile from where the small waterway empties into Puget Sound.
The tainted water, which comes from beneath an asphalt-lined stormwater basin on the northern reaches of Boeing’s property, is laden with Trichloroethylene.
TCE is a solvent that’s used to degrease metal parts during the manufacturing process — and a known carcinogen to humans.
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