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Tacoma Power Paint Chips

 
Site Contact:
Kathy Parker
OSC

(parker.kathy@epa.gov)

Site Location:
21st St and Cheyenne St
Tacoma, WA 98407
 response.epa.gov/TacomaPowerPaintChips

On June 12, 2018, Washington Department of Ecology Compliance Department requested EPA's assistance with a report from neighbors in the area of N21st St. and Cheyenne Street in the Ruston area of Tacoma. Contractors were seen leaving lead-containing paint chips on the ground where they were working. The neighbor saw the crew cutting up an electrical transmission tower on a tarp but when the tarp was picked up, paint chips fell through holes in the contractor's tarp.