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The company went bankrupt in 1993 under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up its operations. The site was put on the Superfund list in 1987 for PAH , Heavy Metals and PCB pollution.

Between 1994 and 2002 , the US Army Corps Of Engineers created a one to three foot cap of clean sediments over the bottom of the harbor to contain polluted sediments.


TRIVIA

The company's Vice President and General Manager was a victim of the 1912 ''Titanic'' Disaster .


REFERENCES

  • A fate sealed with creosote by Christopher Dunagan, Kitsap Sun, 1997

  • http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1050

  • http://www.wyckoffsuperfund.com/