Since 1937, Ballard Oil had been a fixture on Seattle's Lake Washington Ship Canal, providing fuel and a few parts to commercial fishing boats headed for Alaska waters, among other vessels. Via seattletimes
The Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1995. Ballard Oil Co. is to the right of the locks.
“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Aakervik as he stands with his grandson, Brandon Millard, on the company’s now-deserted fueling dock. “You keep on, keep on, keep on — and then finally, you just say, ‘Why am I beating my head against the wall?’” It also adds to a string of losses in Seattle’s freshwater marine industry, including the Foss Maritime yard, the Jensen Motorboat Co., Vic Franck’s Boat Co. and Dunato’s Boatyard.
By the end of the war, Ballard Oil was one of a dozen marine fueling companies on the canal and Lake Union, along with 15 boatbuilding companies, according to a 1943 state report. Most were focused on a commercial fishing fleet with hundreds of vessels and a big appetite for oil. The company put in the new dock and added trucks to deliver heating oil and haul diesel up from wholesale suppliers on Harbor Island. In 1997, Aakervik’s daughter, Debra Ann Millard, began working at the company. Brandon and his brother, Spenser, began working part-time as high school students in the mid-2000s.Commercial and industrial activity on Lake Union and the canal had been falling for decades.
Other challenges were appearing. Because most fuel tankers are banned from using tunnels, the replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct with the Highway 99 tunnel in 2019 roughly doubled the round-trip time for a load of diesel from Harbor Island. “With the amount of industry that’s here, there’s no safe way to build it,” Aakervik told The Seattle Times in 2009, shortly after local business filed suit to stop the project. Aakervik said his insurance company had warned him that Ballard Oil “could literally become effectively uninsurable” if the trail was built and one of his drivers hit a cyclist. In a tragic turn, Aakervik’s grandson Spencer, who had been working at the company, died in a car accident in 2010.
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