Edmonds Environmental Council Calls on Edmonds City Council to Follow “Best Available Science” in Critical Area Ordinance Update
December 30, 2025
Continue reading “Critical Areas Ordinance Update – EEC Press Release”Author: Notification Email
Is development in Edmonds more important than safe drinking water?
By Joe Scordino
Edmonds Environmental Council
Posted Thursday, December 25, 2025
Link to Edmonds Beacon article
We have a serious human health issue brewing in Edmonds at the Deer Creek CARA (Critical Aquifer Recharge Area), which provides drinking water to south Edmonds, Woodway, and Esperance. The issue is accommodating potential development instead of avoiding contaminating our drinking water with PFAS – a pervasive, forever chemical known to have serious human health effects.
Believe it or not, the City actually wants to allow new development to inject potentially toxic stormwater (containing forever chemicals, PFAS, carcinogenic pollutants, etc.) into the Deer Creek drinking water Aquifer.
And why?
Continue reading “Is development in Edmonds more important than safe drinking water?”Reader view: Dead coho in Shellabarger Creek — was stormwater runoff to blame?
By Greg Ferguson and Jane O’Dell
December 6, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News article
On Oct. 16, a group of Edmonds-Woodway High School students with the Students Saving Salmon Club were performing routine water quality testing in Shellabarger Creek when they saw something disturbing: a young coho smolt swimming weakly on its side. On the shore nearby was another dead coho smolt.
Continue reading “Reader view: Dead coho in Shellabarger Creek — was stormwater runoff to blame?”State approves Edmonds permit to do flood mitigation work on Perrinville Creek
The permit is the latest controversy in the years-long saga over Edmonds’ management of the stream.
November 17, 2025
Link to Everett Herald article
EDMONDS — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife issued a new permit to the city of Edmonds on Friday, allowing flood-prevention work to commence at a controversial flow diversion structure on Perrinville Creek.
Continue reading “State approves Edmonds permit to do flood mitigation work on Perrinville Creek”State issues temporary permit for limited flood control work on Perrinville Creek
By Larry Vogel
November 19, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News article
There’s a new development in the decades-long tug-of-war between the City of Edmonds, the State Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW), environmental groups and adjacent property owners to balance flood control and fish passage on lower Perrinville Creek. The DFW has issued a limited temporary permit to allow the City of Edmonds to clear accumulated debris from the city’s existing sediment trap/overflow structures, with the aim of mitigating potential flooding during the upcoming rainy season. The permit expires on Jan. 13, 2026, and work must be completed by that time.
Continue reading “State issues temporary permit for limited flood control work on Perrinville Creek”New Test Measures Toxin from Tires in Marine Life, Helping Understand Risk to Marine Species and Ecosystems
NOAA Fisheries
September 17, 2025
NOAA scientists develop method to track toxic chemical in finfish, shellfish, and marine mammals.
Edmonds Waterfront Center Environmental Series Sept. 11: ‘Caring About Our Roads, Car Tires and Coho Salmon’
August 31, 2025
My Edmonds News
Link to My Edmonds News Article
The Edmonds Waterfront Center welcomes Edward P. Kolodziej, internationally recognized environmental chemist and the Allan and Inger Osberg Professor at the University of Washington (Tacoma/Seattle) as the featured speaker in Annie Crawley’s Environmental Speaker Series. The event takes place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11, the latest installment in a community-based science and conservation initiative focused on Puget Sound.
Continue reading “Edmonds Waterfront Center Environmental Series Sept. 11: ‘Caring About Our Roads, Car Tires and Coho Salmon’”Edmonds Environmental Council Update
August 31, 2025
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Continue reading “Edmonds Environmental Council Update”Federal Government Human Health PFAS Research Workshop: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief (2021)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are human-made substances used in thousands of products, from medical devices to fire-fighting foam to oil- and stain-resistant coatings on carpets and packaging. They help make these products resistant to heat, water, stains, and grease. However, research over the past several decades has found evidence that PFAS persist in the environment for long periods of time, potentially leading to harmful human exposures.
Continue reading “Federal Government Human Health PFAS Research Workshop: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief (2021)”Stream Team volunteers at work at Edmonds Marsh
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2025
By Beacon Staff
Link to Edmonds Beacon article
The Edmonds Marsh restoration volunteers were hard at work last week, spreading wood chips to prevent regrowth of invasive nightshade.
Continue reading “Stream Team volunteers at work at Edmonds Marsh”Perrinville Creek: A sad case of politics and wasted taxpayer money
Posted Friday, August 8, 2025 8:15 am
By Diane Buckshnis
Edmonds Resident, Former City Councilmember, EEC Vice President and Treasurer
Link to Edmonds Beacon article
Perrinville Creek was once a thriving, salmon-bearing stream that flowed through Edmonds and Lynnwood. Community groups like the Edmonds Stream Team used it as a teaching creek; it was a vibrant artery in our region’s watershed and a living example of environmental stewardship.
Continue reading “Perrinville Creek: A sad case of politics and wasted taxpayer money”Olympic View Water and Sewer District sues Edmonds School District
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
by Eliza Aronson
Link to Everett Herald article
EDMONDS — The Olympic View Water and Sewer District filed a citizen suit against the Edmonds School District on Monday, alleging the district has failed to eliminate pollution linked to the Madrona K-8 School.
Continue reading “Olympic View Water and Sewer District sues Edmonds School District”Olympic View Water and Sewer sues Edmonds School District over Madrona forever chemicals
July 29, 2025
By Rick Sinnett
Link to My Edmonds News article
The Olympic View Water and Sewer District is suing the Edmonds School District over chemicals found in the stormwater system at Edmonds’ Madrona K-8 School.
Continue reading “Olympic View Water and Sewer sues Edmonds School District over Madrona forever chemicals”Federal Citizen law suit filed against Edmonds School District to protect the Deer Creek Drinking Water Aquifer
July 28, 2025
Olympic View Water and Sewer District (OVWSD) has filed a federal Citizen Suit against the Edmonds School District to protect the Deer Creek Drinking Water Aquifer—a vital public water source—from PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) contamination originating at the Madrona K-8 School site.
Link to Olympic View “In the news” page
Continue reading “Federal Citizen law suit filed against Edmonds School District to protect the Deer Creek Drinking Water Aquifer”Scene in Edmonds: Marsh restoration volunteers back to work
July 26, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News article
The Edmonds Marsh Restoration Volunteers were back at the reopened Shellabarger Creek along Highway 104 Saturday controlling invasive vegetation using wood chips. The volunteers are working under a new four-year Adopt-A-Highway Landscaping Agreement between the Washington State Department of Transportation and the Edmonds Stream Team. The agreement supports continued community volunteer efforts to control invasive vegetation in the Edmonds Marsh and Shellabarger Creek and to plant trees and shrubs to preserve the new stream habitat.
Are you interested in volunteering too?
Email: Joe Scordino at: edmonds.envir.council@gmail.com