Project Planned for Polluted Tannery Property

SHERWOOD, OR-A Tualatin-based company named Pacific III LLC is working with the state Department of Environmental Quality in an effort to build industrial buildings on a western 12-acre portion of the polluted 33-acre property here at 1210 N.E. Oregon St, according to information released by DEQ this week.

Later this month, DEQ and Pacific plan to sign a Prospective Purchaser Agreement defining the cleanup that Pacific will perform on the site in exchange for DEQ limiting its future liability to the State of Oregon for cleanup costs at the site. The12-acre portion Pacific is eyeing has been home to a tannery and a battery plant. Chromium, lead and cyanide have been detected on the property and in the groundwater.

Information on when and how the actual sale of the 12-acre site would take place was not available, as Pacific’s managing partner Patrick Lucas was not immediately available for comment. The company has an option to purchase the site from Trans-Pacific International, an option no doubt contingent on limiting said liability.