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Posts about development issues in Edmonds
- Responding to concerns about drinking water protection, Edmonds Council approves critical areas ordinance 01/07/2026
- Council mulls middle housing code updates, hears report from Keep Edmonds Vibrant 05/28/2025
- Letter to the editor: Citizen’s Planning Board public hearing – are you listening? 04/29/2025
- Letter to the editor: Stop planned overdevelopment of our neighborhoods 04/29/2025
- Letter to the editor: Hummingbird Hill Park supporters not ‘misinformed’ 04/03/2025
- Edmonds residents show up for Hummingbird Hill Park, Frances Anderson Center 04/02/2025
- Parks, trees, zoning: 250 fill Edmonds Council chambers Tuesday to have their say 04/02/2025
- Council April 1 set to review priorities for Comprehensive Plan amendments 03/30/2025
- Walk & Talk tours begin — starting with Westgate neighborhood center 03/27/2025
- Council hears plan for engaging community in centers, hubs and middle housing concepts 03/12/2025
- Edmonds Planning Board to continue discussion of neighborhood centers and hubs Feb. 26 02/24/2025
- Comments from a packed council chambers set tone for Tuesday meeting 12/11/2024
- Reader View: The myth of affordable housing 12/08/2024
- Reader View: Let’s extend the deadline for finalizing the Edmonds Comprehensive Plan 12/01/2024
- Letter – Environmentally Sensitive Zoning and ‘Staggered’ approach to housing density zoning over 20-year Comp Plan 11/25/2024
- Reader View: A better idea for Edmonds Comprehensive Plan update – ‘Environmentally Sensitive’ zoning 11/23/2024
- City publishes revised draft Comprehensive Plan; public hearing Dec. 10 11/22/2024
- Reader view: Edmonds’ growth plan should reflect realistic household data, not inflated targets 11/12/2024
- Letter to Council – Comments, Draft Comp Plan 11/11/2024
- Letter in support of “Environmentally Sensitive” Zoning 11/07/2024
- Letter to Planning Director and Mayor – Establishing a new “Environmentally Sensitive” Zone in the Comp Plan Update 11/05/2024
- Letter to Council – Council should require Herrara provide a FREE rewrite of their “woefully inadequate” DEIS 10/29/2024
- Letter to Edmonds Hearing Examiner Olbrecht regarding Denial of Reasonable Economic Use Variance for 963 Main Street 10/28/2024
- Letter to Mayor and Council from EEC regarding inadequacies in DEIS 10/28/2024
- Public invited to city open house Oct. 28 to discuss draft environmental impact statement, Comp Plan 10/23/2024
- Reminder: Public hearing on draft EIS for Comprehensive Plan update Oct. 16 10/15/2024
- Drafts of Edmonds Comprehensive Plan, environmental impact statement now available for review 10/03/2024
- Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 09/28/2024
- Edmonds’ draft Comprehensive Plan, draft EIS to be issued next week 09/27/2024
- Edmonds Council supports retaining property tax dollars; learns city likely to miss Comp Plan deadline 09/17/2024
- Reader View: Comprehensive Plan — Adopt minimum state requirements to retain Edmonds’ charm 08/28/2024
- Reader view: Time to speak up about the city’s Comprehensive Plan process 03/17/2024
- City council set March 28 to discuss Edmonds housing growth targets, document guiding Unocal property purchase 03/26/2023
- Letter to the editor: The role of citizens in Edmonds’ Comprehensive Plan 10/31/2022
- Letter to the editor: We must engage all residents in updating Edmonds’ Comprehensive Plan 06/08/2022
Posts concerning critical areas protection in Edmonds
- Edmonds issues moratorium on development in Deer Creek aquifer 02/22/2026
- Responding to concerns about drinking water protection, Edmonds Council approves critical areas ordinance 01/07/2026
- Delay on Critical Areas Ordinance update draws criticism from groups 01/03/2026
- Critical Areas Ordinance Update – EEC Press Release 01/02/2026
- EEC Engagement on the Critical Areas Ordinance Update 12/29/2025
- Is development in Edmonds more important than safe drinking water? 12/26/2025
- Readers view: Is development in Edmonds more important than safe drinking water? 12/22/2025
- Reader view: Updated critical areas ordinance threatens water quality 12/15/2025
- State issues temporary permit for limited flood control work on Perrinville Creek 11/20/2025
- Wetlands through the seasons 07/24/2025
- EEC files complaint on blocking of Perrinville fish passage 07/17/2025
- Edmonds Environmental Council files complaint against city regarding fish passage at Perrinville Creek 07/15/2025
- Public workshop on Edmonds critical areas July 18 07/14/2025
- Public Workshop on Critical Areas in Edmonds 07/14/2025
- PRESS RELEASE: Edmonds Environmental Council Requests Legal Action to Restore Salmon Passage at lower Perrinville Creek 07/10/2025
- EEC proposed Critical Areas Program amendment to Comprehensive Plan 04/23/2025
- Edmonds Hearing Examiner decides on Perrinville Creek saga 04/02/2025
- Excerpt from: Council OKs Boys and Girls Club design; discusses legislative agenda, Comp Plan 11/26/2024
- Letter – Environmentally Sensitive Zoning and ‘Staggered’ approach to housing density zoning over 20-year Comp Plan 11/25/2024
- Reader View: A better idea for Edmonds Comprehensive Plan update – ‘Environmentally Sensitive’ zoning 11/23/2024
- Ecology: Edmonds school needs to find source of PFAS 08/27/2024
- Open letter to Olympic View Water customers concerning your water 08/20/2024
- Letter to the editor: City must reverse critical aquifer recharge area decision 06/29/2024
- Council approves city code regarding critical aquifer recharge areas, hears fire service options 04/17/2024
- Letter to the editor: We must engage all residents in updating Edmonds’ Comprehensive Plan 06/08/2022
- Water district concerned Madrona School’s wells could contaminate customers’ water source 06/07/2018
Posts about PFAS contamination in the Deer Creek Springs Critical Aquifer Recharge Area (CARA)
What are PFAS?
- Edmonds issues moratorium on development in Deer Creek aquifer 02/22/2026
- Concerns over “forever chemicals” pose biosolids challenge for treatment plants 02/13/2026
- A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells 02/02/2026
- Is development in Edmonds more important than safe drinking water? 12/26/2025
- Readers view: Is development in Edmonds more important than safe drinking water? 12/22/2025
- Visualization and Modeling of Groundwater Pollution 12/21/2025
- Reader view: Updated critical areas ordinance threatens water quality 12/15/2025
- Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Urban Stormwater Runoff: Insights from a Roadside Rain Garden 12/11/2025
- Ecology seeks public input on Paine Field PFAS cleanup agreement 08/19/2025
- Olympic View Water and Sewer District sues Edmonds School District 07/31/2025
- Olympic View Water and Sewer sues Edmonds School District over Madrona forever chemicals 07/29/2025
- Federal Citizen law suit filed against Edmonds School District to protect the Deer Creek Drinking Water Aquifer 07/28/2025
- Letter to the editor: Edmonds School District must address PFAS contamination near Madrona School 07/13/2025
- News Release – State proposes restrictions on toxic “forever chemicals” in common consumer products 06/04/2025
- KOMO News reports on PFAS in stormwater at Madrona K-8 School 06/03/2025
- Water district says it intends to sue over chemicals found in Edmonds school’s stormwater system 05/30/2025
- Olympic View may sue Edmonds School District over PFAS at Madrona K-8 05/29/2025
- Sewer district notifies Edmonds schools of intent to sue 05/28/2025
- Notice of Intent to sue Edmonds School District over PFAS contaminated stormwater being injected into Deer Creek Springs Aquifer 05/28/2025
- Press Release – Olympic View Water and Sewer District Issues Intent to Sue Edmonds School District Over PFAS Pollution at Madrona School 05/28/2025
- PFAS Information 05/26/2025
- Edmonds Environmental Council, city reach agreement on appeal of critical aquifer regulations 02/03/2025
- Press Release: Settlement Reached with City of Edmonds on EEC’s Appeal 01/31/2025
- Settlement reached on appeal of Deer Creek regulations 01/31/2025
- Settlement Agreement: Deer Creek Springs CARA 01/28/2025
- How can I get ‘forever chemicals’ out of my life? 10/13/2024
- Source of forever chemicals in Madrona K-8 School stormwater a mystery 09/21/2024
- Ecology: Edmonds school needs to find source of PFAS 08/27/2024
- Open letter to Olympic View Water customers concerning your water 08/20/2024
- PFAS found near Edmonds school sparks concerns about wells 08/06/2024
- Letter to the editor: City must reverse critical aquifer recharge area decision 06/29/2024
- Local drinking water ranks among the best, exceeding new federal standards for contaminants 05/16/2024
- Council approves city code regarding critical aquifer recharge areas, hears fire service options 04/17/2024
- Washington will move to tougher federal limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in tap water 04/10/2024
- Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes First-Ever National Drinking Water Standard to Protect 100M People from PFAS Pollution 04/10/2024
- WA’s public water systems would need $1.6 billion for initial PFAS cleanup, state officials say 04/10/2024
- Revised Final Results of Supplemental Stormwater Monitoring for PFAS 02/13/2024
- Reader view: Protecting our drinking water supply 11/27/2023
- Recommended State Action Levels for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Drinking Water: Approach, Methods, and Supporting Information 11/01/2021
- Madrona negotiations remain in stalemate, school district finalizes plans to move to Alderwood MS 06/26/2018
- Water district concerned Madrona School’s wells could contaminate customers’ water source 06/07/2018
- Madrona School Stormwater Management System Assessment 06/01/2018
Posts about preservation and restoration of the Edmonds Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary
- Reader view: Dead coho in Shellabarger Creek — was stormwater runoff to blame? 12/08/2025
- Stream Team volunteers at work at Edmonds Marsh 08/21/2025
- Scene in Edmonds: Marsh restoration volunteers back to work 07/27/2025
- Scene in Edmonds: WSDOT helping Edmonds Marsh restoration volunteers. 05/01/2025
- Letter to the editor: A request to continue Edmonds Marsh work 03/30/2025
- Letter – Proposal for Edmonds Marsh Near-Shore Estuary restoration plan using a Public/Private Partnership Business Plan 11/08/2024
- Edmonds Marsh restoration project volunteers plant more than 80 trees 10/13/2024
- Volunteers complete Edmonds Marsh and creek restoration work 10/10/2024
- Edmonds Marsh Volunteer Restoration Project hosting tree planting event Oct. 12 10/07/2024
- Edmonds Marsh and Shellabarger Creek restoration complete 09/30/2024
- Edmonds Marsh volunteers conclude their restoration work for the year 10/05/2023
- Reader view: Community volunteers dig in to restore Edmonds Marsh 09/17/2022
- Restoring the Edmonds Marsh: Volunteers making a difference 08/10/2022
- Volunteers making a difference at Edmonds Marsh 08/25/2021
- Volunteers making progress on Edmonds Marsh restoration 08/05/2021
- Scene in Edmonds: Volunteers help restore the Edmonds Marsh 07/31/2021
- Edmonds Marsh restoration volunteer work parties set for July 29, 31 07/26/2021
Posts about cleaning up the contaminants in the Chevron/Unocal site at the south end of the Marsh
- Letter – Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal 0178 cleanup 11/26/2024
- Public Comment – Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal 0178 11/23/2024
- Letter to the editor: Chevron must be required to complete Unocal cleanup 11/11/2024
- Letter – Proposal for Edmonds Marsh Near-Shore Estuary restoration plan using a Public/Private Partnership Business Plan 11/08/2024
- Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal Cleanup Site – Public Comment Period Extended 10/11/2024
- Comment deadline extended on proposed cleanup plan for Unocal Edmonds site 10/11/2024
- ‘A cleanup, not a coverup’: Marsh advocates challenge Ecology’s preferred alternative for Unocal site cleanup 09/18/2024
- Letter to the editor: ‘No’ on Alternative 6 for Unocal site cleanup 09/14/2024
- Cleaning up remaining contamination at the Unocal Edmonds site 09/09/2024
- Ecology invites public comment on cleanup next to Edmonds Marsh 09/09/2024
- Feb. 13: Online meeting to provide update on Unocal Edmonds cleanup site 02/10/2024
- Letter to the editor: Change Unocal property zoning to protect Edmonds Marsh 09/20/2022
- Environmental Cleanup of Chevron’s Unocal site 01/01/2018
- Cleanup work gets underway at former Unocal fuel terminal in Edmonds 08/24/2017
Posts concerning Edmonds area creeks and salmon run restoration efforts
- Study finds juvenile coho salmon at risk from deadly tire chemical 01/12/2026
- Reader view: Dead coho in Shellabarger Creek — was stormwater runoff to blame? 12/08/2025
- Perrinville Creek: Critics accuse Edmonds of skirting environmental law 11/27/2025
- State approves Edmonds permit to do flood mitigation work on Perrinville Creek 11/20/2025
- State issues temporary permit for limited flood control work on Perrinville Creek 11/20/2025
- Edmonds Waterfront Center Environmental Series Sept. 11: ‘Caring About Our Roads, Car Tires and Coho Salmon’ 08/31/2025
- Stream Team volunteers at work at Edmonds Marsh 08/21/2025
- Perrinville Creek: A sad case of politics and wasted taxpayer money 08/08/2025
- Scene in Edmonds: Marsh restoration volunteers back to work 07/27/2025
- Edmonds Environmental Council files fish passage complaint 07/22/2025
- EEC files complaint on blocking of Perrinville fish passage 07/17/2025
- Edmonds Environmental Council files complaint against city regarding fish passage at Perrinville Creek 07/15/2025
- U.S. Rep. Larsen briefed on federal funding cuts threatening Sound Salmon Solutions operations 06/30/2025
- Scene at Meadowdale Beach Park: Students helping salmon 05/20/2025
- Edmonds Stream Inventory and Assessment 05/16/2025
- Scene in Edmonds: WSDOT helping Edmonds Marsh restoration volunteers. 05/01/2025
- Baby salmon head out to sea. Then they do something unexpected, new research shows 04/30/2025
- Scene in Edmonds: Salmon fry released in Yost Park 04/13/2025
- Coho fry released in Shell Creek 04/13/2025
- Yost Park: Volunteers help save Shell Creek salmon 04/13/2025
- Edmonds Rotary, Perrinville neighbors help repopulate streams with salmon 04/07/2025
- Edmonds Hearing Examiner decides on Perrinville Creek saga 04/02/2025
- Letter to the editor: A request to continue Edmonds Marsh work 03/30/2025
- Bolstering Shell Creek’s salmon population 03/20/2025
- Examiner to decide route of Perrinville Creek 03/18/2025
- Press release: Bolstering Shell Creek’s Salmon Population 03/12/2025
- The State of Edmonds Waters: Part 2 — Edmonds streams 02/02/2025
- Stream Team report: Record number of salmon in Shell Creek 01/12/2025
- 2024 surveys show record number of salmon in Shell Creek 01/01/2025
- Letter to Shell Creek residents 11/23/2024
- Letter to Edmonds Stream Team 11/23/2024
- Guest View – Perrinville pipe under tracks could spell disaster 11/23/2024
- Video of salmon getting over the Shell Creek blockage 11/22/2024
- Scene in Edmonds: Finding passage for salmon 11/20/2024
- It’s salmon ‘SEEson’ in Meadowdale Beach Park 11/10/2024
- Letter – Proposal for Edmonds Marsh Near-Shore Estuary restoration plan using a Public/Private Partnership Business Plan 11/08/2024
- Letter to Mayor Rosen – THE REST OF THE STORY – Excess sediment in Shell Creek impacting salmon 11/07/2024
- Edmonds Marsh restoration project volunteers plant more than 80 trees 10/13/2024
- Volunteers complete Edmonds Marsh and creek restoration work 10/10/2024
- Edmonds Marsh Volunteer Restoration Project hosting tree planting event Oct. 12 10/07/2024
- Edmonds Marsh and Shellabarger Creek restoration complete 09/30/2024
- ‘Give them a chance’: The fight to bring salmon back to Edmonds stream 09/21/2024
- Future stewards lend a hand to baby salmon 05/27/2024
- Perrinville Creek SEPA DNS – Bernhoft- PLN2024-0020 SEPA DNS 05/14/2024
- Salmon fry released into upper Perrinville Creek 04/28/2024
- Edmonds Marsh volunteers conclude their restoration work for the year 10/05/2023
- Reader view: Can we stop the demise of Edmonds salmon streams? 08/23/2023
- Saving Washington’s salmon from toxic tire dust 01/25/2023
- Reader view: Community volunteers dig in to restore Edmonds Marsh 09/17/2022
- Restoring the Edmonds Marsh: Volunteers making a difference 08/10/2022
Blog posts related to 6PPDq
- 6PPD Update – January 2026 02/01/2026
- Report reveals how urban runoff continues to threaten coho salmon health 01/28/2026
- Reader view: Dead coho in Shellabarger Creek — was stormwater runoff to blame? 12/08/2025
- New Test Measures Toxin from Tires in Marine Life, Helping Understand Risk to Marine Species and Ecosystems 09/19/2025
- Scientists discover ‘potential breakthrough’ in protecting salmon from urban killer 03/28/2025
- Why are so many Coho salmon dying? The answer might be in your tires 11/20/2024
- From tires to nail polish, we’re studying a new round of consumer products with toxic chemicals 11/07/2024
- Tire anti-degradant (6PPD) and 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ) 01/02/2024
Posts about volunteer efforts to monitor and improve our creeks and nearshore wetlands
- Stream Team volunteers at work at Edmonds Marsh 08/21/2025
- Scene in Edmonds: Marsh restoration volunteers back to work 07/27/2025
- Scene at Meadowdale Beach Park: Students helping salmon 05/20/2025
- Scene in Edmonds: Salmon fry released in Yost Park 04/13/2025
- Coho fry released in Shell Creek 04/13/2025
- Yost Park: Volunteers help save Shell Creek salmon 04/13/2025
- Edmonds Rotary, Perrinville neighbors help repopulate streams with salmon 04/07/2025
- Letter to the editor: A request to continue Edmonds Marsh work 03/30/2025
- Bolstering Shell Creek’s salmon population 03/20/2025
- Stream Team report: Record number of salmon in Shell Creek 01/12/2025
- 2024 surveys show record number of salmon in Shell Creek 01/01/2025
- Letter to Shell Creek residents 11/23/2024
- Letter to Edmonds Stream Team 11/23/2024
- It’s salmon ‘SEEson’ in Meadowdale Beach Park 11/10/2024
- Future stewards lend a hand to baby salmon 05/27/2024
Posts about the Edmonds Environmental Council
- Critical Areas Ordinance Update – EEC Press Release 01/02/2026
- Edmonds Environmental Council Update 08/31/2025
- Public Workshop on Critical Areas in Edmonds 07/14/2025
- Citizen of the Year Joe Scordino honored by Edmonds Chamber, Kiwanis 06/11/2025
- Citizen of the Year Joe Scordino to be honored at June 11 Edmonds Chamber event 06/04/2025
- Joe Scordino, ‘the environmental conscience of Edmonds,’ is Edmonds Citizen of the Year 05/08/2025
- Citizen of the Year: Joe Scordino 05/06/2025
- Edmonds Environmental Council, city reach agreement on appeal of critical aquifer regulations 02/03/2025
- Press Release: Settlement Reached with City of Edmonds on EEC’s Appeal 01/31/2025
- Settlement reached on appeal of Deer Creek regulations 01/31/2025
- Settlement Agreement: Deer Creek Springs CARA 01/28/2025
- EEC Introduction Newsletter 11/19/2024
- New nonprofit challenges City’s aquifer regulation 07/13/2024
- PRESS RELEASE – Edmonds Environmental Council 07/09/2024
- Edmonds, Woodway residents form nonprofit Edmonds Environmental Council 07/09/2024