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1 <br />1 <br />I. INTRODUCTION <br />2 <br />A. The Landfill Tire Fire Site is located in Everett, Washington and owned by the <br />3 <br />City of Everett The Site is a closed municipal landfill site that operated from approximately <br />4 <br />1917 through 1974 on approximately 70 acres in a predominately commercial area. <br />5 <br />B. From approximately 1977 through 1984 approximately 2 million tires were <br />6 <br />accumulated on the Site by a tire chipping business. In 1983 and 1984, two fires occurred <br />7 <br />burning approximately one million tires. The City of Everett commenced an environmental <br />8 <br />investigation regarding the tire fire ash in 1985. <br />9 <br />C. In 1989, Ecology named the City of Everett as a potentially liable party for the <br />10 <br />Site under the Model Toxics Control Act, RCW Chapter 70.10.5D. <br />D. hi 1990, the City Everett Ecology Remedial Action Order <br />11 <br />of and signed a on <br />12 <br />Consent to conduct a Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) of the Site. The study <br />13 <br />identified the Site as a potential threat to human health and the environment. The study <br />14 <br />indicated that landfill leachate was seeping uncontrolled into the Snohomish River. In <br />15 <br />addition, the tire fire ash was originally classified at that time as dangerous waste under WAC <br />16 <br />Chapter 173-303 the "Dangerous Waste Regulation" of 1990. However, in November 1995, <br />17 <br />the "Dangerous Waste Regulation" was amended to make the criteria less stringent for zinc, <br />fire Re-evaluation Site <br />18 <br />the principal constituent of tire ash of the ash under the new criteria <br />�' p <br />19 <br />concluded that the ash was a solid, not a dangerous waste. <br />20 <br />E. In 1994, Ecology issued an Enforcement Order to the City of Everett, which <br />21 <br />required the City of Everett to conduct a Supplemental R1/FS and interim actions. The <br />22 <br />supplemental RI included investigation of landfill gas and the existing landfill cover. The <br />23 <br />Supplemental FS evaluated the City of Everett's proposed ash treatment alternative. The <br />24 <br />interim actions included surface water control and installation of a leachate system along the <br />25 <br />1 entire eastern border of the landfill. In 1995, the landfill area (except the tire fire ash area) was <br />3 ATTORNEY GENERAL, OF WASHINGTON <br />CONSENT DECREE <br />Ecology Division <br />PO Box 40117 <br />Olympia, WA 98504-0117 <br />FAX (360) 586-6760 <br />1 <br />