PFAS Soil and Groundwater Testing Request

At a glance

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What: A resident request that the city fund PFAS soil and groundwater testing at the former Allwood recycling site (also called DTG Recycle, listed as a state cleanup site) and the adjacent Evans Creek relocation site, before land is disturbed.
Where it stands: raised in general public comment on October 14. The Planning Commission took no action; budget decisions belong to the council.
Next: the commenter asked commissioners to ask staff whether baseline environmental data has been collected for docket parcels and to tell the council they support funding the testing in the 2027-2028 budget.

David Morton said both sites sit in critical aquifer recharge areas; a 2011 assessment places the Allwood site in the wellhead protection zone of one of the city's wells, and a 2013 fire there likely involved PFAS foam.
His argument: once soil is disturbed a pre-disturbance baseline cannot be collected, so testing first is cheaper than finding contamination after construction.
A related environmental testing request was made on the Pacer Propane property: see Pacer Propane Property Surplus Sale (Resolution 1632).

About 3 minutes across 1 meeting (from transcript timestamps; approximate).

Meeting	Minutes
2026-10-14 - Planning Commission	3

2026-10-06 - City Council Business Meeting — David Morton spoke at the public hearing on the 2027-2028 budget requesting funding for soil and groundwater testing at the Evans Creek relocation project and the former Allwood recycling fire site, identifying PFAS concerns.
2026-09-15 - City Council Business Meeting — David Morton spoke at the public hearing on the 2027-2032 CIP about confirmed or suspected contaminates, groundwater PFAS, and the need to fund soil and groundwater testing prior to Evans Creek relocation construction.
2026-10-14 - Planning Commission — Raised in general public comment; no commission response recorded.