What's in the soil at Gas Works Park?

[@bosatsu76]

Good work. Enjoyable and informative.

[@dand4485]

I would be worried about going to Gasworks. I'm a Seattle native, born and raised here. My father was born in 1913, and my mom worked in Virginia Mason in the 40/50's. I grew up in the 60/70's back when Gasworks was (cough,cough) donated to the city for a park... Genius move owner to give away a super toxic place for free as if they would have started cleaning it would have be millions upon millions more then just writing it off a loss/donation... I can still hear my mother saying the are getting off cheap... I remember in the 80's when the park was closed for a few years to remove the top 3 feet of soil to remove the pollutants. But the interesting part was how they discovered the chemicals were present... That goes back to the Seattle Police dive team. They were training at the south of of Lake Union hear the U.S. Naval reserve building and just off the shore a bit. As the diver descended in the depths of the water the rubber suits of the divers simply disintegrated from the chemicals. Considering the distance and to have the effects of the chemicals some 30 or 40 years after has to so the concentration of the chemicals. Anyway after the divers incident an examination of what chemicals were in the water and who used them... The gas plant at gas works... I use to play one the structures at Gaswork drank plenty of beer and we use to have bottle rocket fights, but honestly kind of surprised i never got cancer from playing around there. But the place as long as is can remember it was one huge chemical dump... Avoid at all costs...

[@garlasalle9489]

Rich Haag was a brilliant landscape architect who saw the beauty in the beast

[@JTSunriseMusic]

Met him, a cool guy 👍

[@tysoncodes]

What should we do if we have been swimming in the water for several years?

[@-_-----]

Okay but you didn't actually tell us which chemicals are polluting the soil 😑

[@CeeTee380]

Idk… don’t eat the dirt, don’t swim in the icy water, and maybe reallocate some of these funds to more pressing problems. Like the housing crisis maybe?

[@RacheILevine]

kurt’s ashes, layne’s ashes, chris’s ashes…but not jimi’s because his body was buried.

[@GummyBearWA]

Now do West Seattles' arsenic soil contamination.

[@罪のアリス]

Anyone with a boat can tell you about the soil in Gas Works. One of the worst places to drop an anchor.

[@andrewdavidson4421]

I'm really not convinced by this.... The water next to the lake isn't safe to swim in, but the rest of the lake is? I really want to see someone test the water for themselves

[@Truemoon69]

It is a beautiful place, but there are many more dangerous things around there besides the ground and the water

[@richardkronberg4925]

Vagrants?

[@sidneyvandykeii3169]

They have been crying about the soil in Gasworks Park since at least the 1970s.

[@bosatsu76]

And your point is....? We allowed a Capitalist company to poison us... We fell for the Industrialist motto of progress and privatize the profits... And now we socialize the costs of repair to our world and the very lives of our families... And THAT is 'crying' about it?

[@sidneyvandykeii3169]

@bosatsu76 And these industrialists are the people who built Seattle. Without them, the city would be more like.....Pullman. Yikes...lol That said. 50+ years later, and they haven't cleaned it up YET. Quit crying about it and Gitter Done. Don't cry about the contamination since there has been 50+ years to fix it and it has only been partially done.

[@WessyD123]

Damn. I bet a 100 bucks on drug paraphernalia,

[@shannonnewman3091]

I bean going there for over 30 years

[@richardkronberg4925]

Are you glowing?

[@Limon-yt8iz]

Americas toxic history.

[@bosatsu76]

Unfettered Capitalism's privatize the profits, socialize the costs' toxic history as well... A lesson we've learned over and over these last 6 decades. Time to review and retweak our goals for the economy...

[@richardkronberg4925]

Don’t Drink the water!🤮

[@willyd1977]

Something thats makes people communists and lunatics....

[@-_-----]

Communists? How about endocrine-disrupting organic chemicals? Lunatics? Try Lead and Mercury. You're not too far off base, honestly.

[@protocl]

Need more tattoo’ed reporters 😍

[@mexifry222]

They look gross and unprofessional

[@royrunyon1286]

Boycott KOMO, ABC and their sponsors for their lack of objectivity.

[@philipfleming3008]

$73,000,000 my sweet aunt...this city can't fix a stop light for that!!! lmao

[@Zoleankico4267]

“Their priorities”, have nothing to do with the people.

[@sidneyvandykeii3169]

Or pave the roads properly.

[@justrosy5]

Objectively, that's a really ugly "park." I wouldn't want to spend 5 minutes there.

[@GingerCC-he8be]

The property is beautiful, but the cylinders are the nastiest looking things I've ever seen in a park, outside of drug addicts shooting up, having sex or defecating in the open, all that happens at that park at all hours.

[@BallardBaller]

Meh... a little industrial history is good for most people, you're clearly not an artist, and frankly this city is sanitized, thats why there aren't any artists here.. I hope it stays

[@GingerCC-he8be]

@@BallardBaller 🙄 YOU clearly are not an artist or an environmentalist. It is a completely toxic environment, maybe there are some rocks to kick while you are there.

[@sanfranfan9959]

Waste of money....lets ignore our housing issue/crime.

[@hypnicjerk7696]

About 10,000 opioid infused BMs...

[@BallardBaller]

LMAO, no swimming at gasworks, but the rest of lake union is fine..... I've swam in the Hudson River many times, it might be the cure for some of this Seattle Woke Culture