Video showing Chum salmon successfully managing to pass an obstruction in Shell Creek.
Video courtesy of Karen Barnes
November 22, 2024
Month: November 2024
Scene in Edmonds: Finding passage for salmon
My Edmonds News
Posted: November 20, 2024
It is salmon migration season and significant numbers of chum salmon are actively making their way up Shell Creek. As is always the case, they need to pass many obstacles along the way. This year they were presented with a new and unexpected challenge.
Continue reading “Scene in Edmonds: Finding passage for salmon”Reader view: Edmonds’ growth plan should reflect realistic household data, not inflated targets
By Janelle Cass
Posted: November 12, 2024
The 2044 Comprehensive Plan update for Edmonds calls for 9,069 new housing units, based on an assumed future household size of just 1.4 people per new unit of housing, which would bring the citywide average household occupancy down to 2.11. This assumption risks causing the city to overshoot its true housing needs and invites the kind of overdevelopment that could significantly strain city resources and negatively impact the environment.
Continue reading “Reader view: Edmonds’ growth plan should reflect realistic household data, not inflated targets”Letter to the editor: Chevron must be required to complete Unocal cleanup
By Laura D. Walls
Posted: November 11, 2024
Editor:
The Edmonds Marsh needs your help! Will Chevron be required to complete the Unocal cleanup of the Marsh, or allowed to walk away with the job unfinished?
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: Chevron must be required to complete Unocal cleanup”Letter to Council – Comments, Draft Comp Plan
November 11,2024
By Joan Bloom
Council,
Council, the final Comp Plan will affect Edmonds for 20 years to come. I beg you to consider all of the concerns that so many respected and involved long term residents of Edmonds have presented to you. Please do not ignore the serious concerns that have been expressed.
Continue reading “Letter to Council – Comments, Draft Comp Plan”It’s salmon ‘SEEson’ in Meadowdale Beach Park
Posted: November 10, 2024
By Joe Scordino
The Edmonds Stream Team, working with adult and student volunteers from Meadowdale and Edmonds-Woodway High Schools, has been surveying local creeks for salmon – – and the team reports many adult salmon are returning to Shell and Lunds Gulch Creeks.
Continue reading “It’s salmon ‘SEEson’ in Meadowdale Beach Park”Letter – Proposal for Edmonds Marsh Near-Shore Estuary restoration plan using a Public/Private Partnership Business Plan
By Diane Buckshnis
November 8, 2024
Proposal for Edmonds Marsh Near-Shore Estuary restoration plan using a Public/Private Partnership Business Plan
Background:
In 2021-2022 WRIA 8 Salmon Recovery Manager Jason Mulvihill Kuntz, Edmonds City Council Member and WRIA 8 delegate Diane Buckshnis, and Edmonds citizen Jack Faris were tasked by Puget Sound Partnership (PSP) Salmon Recovery Council to work on establishing a public/private partnership (PPP) with high wealth donor foundations and/or citizens to obtain a private funding strategy to fund all the delayed costs which was estimated at $35M.
Continue reading “Letter – Proposal for Edmonds Marsh Near-Shore Estuary restoration plan using a Public/Private Partnership Business Plan”Letter in support of “Environmentally Sensitive” Zoning
By Joan Bloom
November 7, 2024
Council, Mayor Rosen, Shane Hope,
I am in total support of Joe Scordino’s suggestion. Especially in light of the results of the national elections. The urgency of protecting our critical areas and our air and water for future generations couldn’t be more important than it is right now.
Continue reading “Letter in support of “Environmentally Sensitive” Zoning”Letter to Mayor Rosen – THE REST OF THE STORY – Excess sediment in Shell Creek impacting salmon
By Joe Scordino
November 2, 2024
Mayor Rosen;
As you may know, this is the time of year when I’m out with Edmonds Stream Team volunteers (students and adults) in/along the “salmon-bearing” creeks in/near Edmonds (i.e., Shell Creek and Lunds Gulch Creek in Meadowdale Park) to survey adult salmon returns and spawning. Besides the salmon occurrence data, we also collect habitat condition data (and have been doing that each fall since 2017).
Continue reading “Letter to Mayor Rosen – THE REST OF THE STORY – Excess sediment in Shell Creek impacting salmon”From tires to nail polish, we’re studying a new round of consumer products with toxic chemicals
Draft report open for formal public comment
by Cathy Hamilton-Wissmer
November 1, 2024
In May 2024, our Safer Products for Washington team identified a new set of toxic chemicals in everyday consumer products. That’s important because it gives us an opportunity to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals and prevent their release into the environment. We want your feedback on the products we’ve identified as significant sources of these toxic chemicals.
Continue reading “From tires to nail polish, we’re studying a new round of consumer products with toxic chemicals”Letter to Planning Director and Mayor – Establishing a new “Environmentally Sensitive” Zone in the Comp Plan Update
By Joe Scordino
November 5, 2024
Director Hope – Is it possible to incorporate an “Environmentally Sensitive” Zoning in the Comp Plan Update to address areas of Edmonds that either should not be further developed or would have additional development restrictions to address environmental degradation and protection issues?
Continue reading “Letter to Planning Director and Mayor – Establishing a new “Environmentally Sensitive” Zone in the Comp Plan Update”