Overview

The lumber mill/pulp plant functioned under various owners from 1925 until 1978. It operated as a paper pulp mill from at least 1963 until 1978 under the ownership of the Scott Paper Company. Scott sold the northern portion of the property to the Port of Anacortes which used it as a log storage area. Because of the use of chemicals in the production of pulp, the area has become a toxic cleanup site, listed by the State of WA, Department of Ecology. The area had become polluted with "...metals, diesel- and motor oil-range petroleum hydrocarbons, carcinogenic polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (cPAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and dioxins/furan." (See State of Washington, Department of Ecology, "Scott Paper Mill," accessed 02/22/2017.)

PCAD id: 20920