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Commencement Bay-Nearshore Tideflats The Commencement Bay Nearshore/Tideflats (CB/NT) Superfund site is located in the City of Tacoma and the Town of Ruston at the southern end of Puget Sound in Washington. It encompasses an active commercial seaport and includes 12 square miles of shallow water, shoreline, and adjacent land, most of which is highly developed and industrialized. EPA placed the site on the Superfund National Priorities List in 1983 due to widespread contamination of the water, sediments, and upland areas. The site is divided into a number of separate Project Areas being managed as distinct sites. Site History Five Year Review Report Project Areas Contacts Site History Site Description and Cleanup Progress (NPL Pad) CERCLIS (National EnviroFacts Database) Map: Tacoma Area Superfund and RCRA Sites (PDF) (1pp, 182K) Department of Ecology - Toxics Cleanup Five Year Review Report Sitewide CB/NT Five Year Review (PDF) (83pp, 363K) - December 2004 Figures from CB/NT Five Year Review Report (PDF) (10pp, 4.7MB) Sitewide Five Year Review - December 29, 1999 (PDF) (20pp., 1.7MB) Project Areas Asarco Smelter Hylebos Waterway Middle Waterway St. Paul Waterway Thea Foss/Wheeler-Osgood Waterways Tacoma Tarpits Related Cleanup Sites: CleanCare Removal Site Olympic View Resource Area Schnitzer Steel Fire - Pollution Report, July 2001 (PDF) (4pp., 18KB) Contacts Community Involvement Jeanne O'Dell (odell.jeanne@epa.gov), 206-553-6919 or toll-free 1-800-424-4372 Project Managers Asarco Smelter: Smelter Complex, Residential Cleanup, Sediments - Kevin Rochlin (rochlin.kevin@epa.gov), 206-553-2106 Tacoma Tarpits - Tamara Langton (langton.tamara@epa.gov), 206-553-2709 Waterways: Hylebos Waterway - Jonathan Williams (williams.jonathan@epa.gov), 206-553-1369 Thea Foss Waterway - Piper Peterson Lee (peterson-lee.piper@epa.gov), 206-553-4951 Middle Waterway - Nancy Harney (harney.nancy@epa.gov), 206-553-6635 Sitcum Waterway - Karen Keeley (keeley.karen@epa.gov), 206-553-2141 St. Paul Waterway - Karen Keeley (keeley.karen@epa.gov), 206-553-2141 Occidental Chemical Removal - Jonathan Williams (williams.jonathan@epa.gov), 206-553-1369 Source Control - Kris Flint (flint.kris@epa.gov), 206-553-8155, and Marv Coleman (wsmi461@ecy.wa.gov), 360-407-6259 (Washington Dept. of Ecology) Wood Debris Cleanup - Kris Flint (flint.kris@epa.gov), 206-553-8155 Olympic View Resource Area - Karen Keeley (keeley.karen@epa.gov), 206-553-2141 [ Main Cleanup | Brownfields ] [ Superfund | FOIA | Records Center ] Point of contact: Jeanne O'Dell E-Mail: odell.jeanne@epa.gov Phone Number: 1-800-424-4372 Last Updated: 11/12/2009