Manufactured gas plant waste released into Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, Wash.

SEATTLE – The Coast Guard received a report on Oct. 5, 2010, from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a manufactured gas plant (MGP) coal tar creosote waste release in the mid-tidal zone of Sinclair Inlet in Bremerton. The source is a subsurface concrete pipe coming from the old Bremerton Gasworks, a site where a coal-gasification plant operated from the 1930s into the 1950s. The pipe...