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Foss Moon and Associates

 
Site Contact:
Jeffrey Fowlow
OSC

(fowlow.jeffrey@epa.gov)

Site Location:
4110 East 11th Street
Tacoma, WA
response.epa.gov/FossMoon

The Foss Moon and Associates site is a former oil recycling facility. Areas of concern include a warehouse containing laboratory chemicals, 55-gallon drums containing oil, oily water, and/or corrosive chemicals which are scattered across the site, an above ground storage tank farm, steel containers with oily soil, and tanker trucks containing various types of free product. The contaminants of concern included polycyclic aromatic hydrocabrons (PAHs), oily water mixtures, corrosives and laboratory chemicals, heavy metals, and PCBs.


250 gallon totes filled with free product, about to be shipped from the site AST concrete pad after powerwashing Jim Foss loading an overpacked drum into a truck Loading solidified sludge into a dump truck High vacuum truck Excavating soil from SC-1 James Foss and contractor vacuuming fluids out of AST-12 HR-3 prior to soil or liquid removal HR-3 before soil or liquids had been removed Containment pit with oil contaminated with PCBs Leaking drums in the warehouse
For additional information, visit the Pollution Report (POLREPS) section.