| Illahee, Washington | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | Washington#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Illahee |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Washington and the United States |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Washington |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kitsap |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population As Of: | 2000 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | Pacific (PST) |
| Utc Offset: | -8 |
| Timezone Dst: | PDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -7 |
| Coordinates: | 47.6128°N -122.5967°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 1512320 |
Illahee is an unincorporated community in Kitsap County, Washington, United States, between Bremerton and Silverdale. It is home to Illahee State Park and other local parks. The word "Illahee" means earth or country in the nearly-extinct pidgin language Chinuk Wawa, commonly spoken in the area until the early twentieth century.
Illahee's elevation is 36 feet (11 m).
The Port of Illahee community dock was built around 1916 to serve the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. In later years this port was used by the United States Navy to demagnetize ships.
The official shellfish harvesting status of the Port of Illahee is maintained by the National Shellfish Sanitation Program. In addition, environmental contaminants of the surface-water and Mytilus tissues at the Port of Illahee are monitored routinely by local ecology programs.[1] [2] While historical monitoring has reported low concentrations of heavy metals over the past decade (2010-2020), the presence of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (cPAHs) in Mytilus tissues should be considered by recreational and subsistence consumers. PAH concentrations in Puget Sound have been highlighted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as being the highest in the nation and cPAH regulatory thresholds for Washington State consumers have been calculated by the Washington State Department of Ecology.[3] [4] The following table provides Washington State cPAH thresholds (current as of 2020) for general fish consumption and available historical tissue burdens at the Port of Illahee.
| POPIPD* cPAHs (ng g−1 ww) | |||||||||
| MSL-ID | Collection Year | Benzo(a)anthracene | Chrysene | Benzo(b)fluoranthene | Benzo(k)fluoranthene | Benzo(a)pyrene | Indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene | Dibenz(a,h)anthracene | |
| TECC† | 0.63 | 63 | 0.63 | 6.3 | 0.063 | 0.63 | 0.063 | ||
| 3106-200 | 2010 | 5.93 | 13.8 | 6.42 | 2.85 | 2.13 | 1.64 | ND | |
| 3106-788 | 2012 | 5.70 | 8.05 | 5.59 | 2.70 | 1.79 | 1.56 | 2.23 | |
| 3431-7 | 2014 | 14.5 | 35.5 | 17.0 | 6.51 | 3.07 | 2.16 | 0.758 | |
| 3538-6 | 2016 | 16.6 | 22.8 | 11.9 | 6.31 | 4.70 | ND | ND | |
| 3538-70 to 72 | 2018 | 23.9 | 41.5 | 27.3 | 10.6 | 7.51 | 4.74 | 2.82 | |
| 3538-112 | 2020 | 3.03 | 6.64 | 2.06 | 1.96 | 0.540 | ND | ND | |
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| †TECCs (tissue exposure concentrations with carcinogenic effects) based on 10−6 risk level, 80 kg body weight, and 175 g d−1 tissue ingestion | |||||||||
See main article: Illahee State Park. 75acres Illahee State Park, located north of eastern Bremerton, is part of the Washington State Park System. The waterfront land for the park was acquired between 1934 and 1954. The park offers camping, hiking, a boat launch, and a dock.
The 460acres Illahee Preserve and the 110acres Rolling Hills golf course are both in Illahee as well.