SEATTLE (June 12, 2024) – On Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the City of Sherwood
will lead a tour of the former Frontier Leather Tannery site that will benefit from a $5,000,000 Brownfields
grant investment from the EPA. Grant funds will be used for site clean up, as well as to develop a Public
Participation Plan and to conduct community engagement activities.
 

The cleanup site operated as a tannery from 1947 to the late 1990s. A lead‐acid battery manufacturer also
operated in a building at the site from 1956 to 1972. The site has been vacant since the tannery closed. As a
result of the tannery and lead‐acid battery manufacturing operations that took please, the site is
contaminated with heavy metals.
 

EPA’s Brownfields grants help transform once‐polluted, vacant, and abandoned properties into community
assets, while helping to create good jobs and spur economic revitalization in overburdened communities.
 

WHO:
 EPA, Regional Administrator Casey Sixkiller
 City of Sherwood, Mayor Tim Rosener
 

WHAT:
Presentation at City Hall followed by tour of cleanup site to benefit from EPA Brownfields grant funding.
 

WHERE:
Presentation at City Hall, 1st Floor Community Room, 22560 SW Pine St., Sherwood, OR 97140
Cleanup Site Visit, Meet at Southwest Corner of 14647 SW Oregon St., Sherwood, OR 97140
*See attached event location map and details on page 2*
 

WHEN:
Tuesday, June 18, 10 a.m.
 

RSVP TO:
Jason Kelly, kelly.jason@epa.gov