Ceremony signals the impending end for former B-17 plant.
It’s been 40 years since airplanes were produced in Boeing’s Plant 2, which was constructed partly on piles over the Duwamish Waterway between 1936 and 1941.
But demolition of the plant is expected to begin this year, with cleanup and restoration starting in 2012 as permits are obtained. More than 76,000 cubic metres (100,000 cubic yards0 of tainted sediment will be removed and replaced with clean sand. Some 500 piles will also be taken out.
Sunday’s ceremony honored not only the industrial plant, but the men and women connected with its role in U.S. history. Two B-17 pilots spoke, as did a woman who was among the “Rosie the Riveter” female workers who took war-production jobs during World War II.
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