Tacoma: Mill ruins are environmental disgrace

Re: “Decades-old pilings on waterfront to be removed,” (TNT, 1/5).

I am chagrined to see that an industrial entity can close a facility in Tacoma and leave the ruins behind – ruins that include toxins in the form of creosote-treated pilings on the Ruston Way waterfront.

Is there any accountability for the visual mess and poisonous abandonment by the commercial entity that owned the Dickman Mill?

To have left behind this blighted ruin for the people of the Tacoma and the state Department of Natural Resources to clean up is more than sad, it reeks of arrogance.

The decision to honor this crass industrial behavior by naming a city park Dickman Mill Park can be reversed. I would strongly support just such a reversal.

This story was originally published January 8, 2020 at 12:47 PM with the headline "Tacoma: Mill ruins are environmental disgrace."