Pacific Creosoting Company

Pacific Creosoting Company

Pacific Creosoting Company was a company on Bainbridge Island's Eagle Harbor. Its factory coated logs with creosote. It began operations as The Perfection Pile Preserving Company in 1904 and was taken over and renamed by Horace Chapin Henry in 1906 when he introduced the new Bethell Process.

The company went bankrupt in 1993 under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up its operations. [cite news|title=A Fate Sealed with Creosote|author=Christopher Dunagan|publisher=Kitsap Sun|date=1997|url=http://web.kitsapsun.com/packages/toxic/twist.html|accessdate=2007-10-01] The site was put on the Superfund list in 1987 for PAH, heavy metals and PCB pollution. [cite web|url=http://www.wyckoffsuperfund.com|title=Wyckoff/Eagle Harbor Superfund site]

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. [cite web|url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1050|publisher=HistoryLink|title=Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks around midnight on April 14-15, 1912.|author=Greg Lange|date=April 22, 1999|accessdate=2007-10-01]

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