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EPA Celebrates Boeing’s Duwamish
Waterway Clean-up Efforts
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
celebrated Boeing’s clean-up efforts in the
Lower Duwamish Waterway (LDW) as part
of their 40 years of protection, prevention and
preservation.
Over the last decade, Boeing has combined
with other “early-action” work on the water-
way. As a result, Polychlorinated biphenyl, or
PCB, sediment has been reduced by 50 per-
cent in the area that was previously home to
Boeing’s Plant 2, which manufactured B-17
bombers during World War II. It was demol-
ished in 2011.
Boeing has also transformed more than a
half mile of industrial waterfront back into
natural shoreline, providing refuge and food
sources for fish and wildlife, Boeing said.
In 2015, Boeing completed sediment cleanup
on approximately a one-mile span of the LDW.
The cleanup removed 265,000 cubic yards of
contaminated sediment and bank soil from the
waterway and shoreline — enough to fill 4,000
rail cars — Boeing reported. Now, more than
170,000 native plants occupy more than 5 acres
of shoreline.
Their effort was the largest of the early
cleanup actions of the Lower Duwamish
Group, which includes King County, the Port
of Seattle and the City of Seattle.
Boeing has worked with the EPA and state
Department of Ecology to coordinate its water-
way cleanup and habitat restoration. For more
information on Boeing’s efforts in the LDW
cleanup, visit the website at boeing.com.
Report: CTE Students Find Better Paying Jobs Out of School
Washington high school graduates who
do not attend college are more likely to
land a living-wage job or apprenticeship
if they have taken career and technical
education (CTE) courses.
This information was made possible
by a December 2016 state audit released
with data