Campaigning for clean water and a healthy environment for humans and wildlife
By Joan Bloom
Posted: December 8, 2024
When Edmonds councilmembers claim their draft Comp Plan, soon to be approved, includes “affordable housing,” are they lying or just ignorant?
Continue reading “Reader View: The myth of affordable housing”Story and photos by Chris Walton
Posted: December 6, 2024
On Thursday, a team of Sound Salmon Solutions volunteers processed this year’s batch of coho salmon eggs at the Edmonds Fish Hatchery located at the foot of Pine Street in Edmonds.
Continue reading “Salmon eggs begin Edmonds journey”By Joan Bloom
Posted: December 1, 2024
An open letter to the Edmonds City Council and Mayor:
I can’t imagine how stressful this holiday season has been for all of you, given the financial state of the city, biennial budget deliberations, the Regional Fire Authority issue, and the Edmonds Comprehensive Plan update.
Many of us are extremely concerned that council will finalize the draft Comp Plan by year end. Yet, xouncil has six months after the Comp Plan update deadline of 12-31-24 to finalize the Comp Plan before the State preempts local control and enforces housing mandates.
Continue reading “Reader View: Let’s extend the deadline for finalizing the Edmonds Comprehensive Plan”My Edmonds News
Posted: November 26, 2024
The attached letter was sent to Director Laura Watson, Washington State Department of Ecology, containing EEC’s comments requesting that the Feasibility Study be revised to include additional Alternatives and then re-submitted for public review and comment.
Continue reading “Letter – Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal 0178 cleanup”Letter sent to Edmonds Mayor Mike Rosen, Edmonds City Council, and Edmonds Planning Director
From: Edmonds Environmental Council
November 25, 2025
Please see the linked OpEd piece in My Edmonds News yesterday and the comments to it.
Link to My Edmonds News article
Continue reading “Letter – Environmentally Sensitive Zoning and ‘Staggered’ approach to housing density zoning over 20-year Comp Plan”By Joe Scordino
Posted: November 23, 2024
Much of Edmonds shouldn’t be further developed because of inadequate or antiquated infrastructure, or the area is already overbuilt for the existing landscape or it has unique landscapes and critical areas requiring additional restrictions. But our state Legislature didn’t take this into account when it mandated every city to update their Comprehensive (Comp) Plan to allow for increased housing density.
Continue reading “Reader View: A better idea for Edmonds Comprehensive Plan update – ‘Environmentally Sensitive’ zoning”By Joe Scordino
November 23, 2024
Shell Creek Residents:
As many of you have noticed in your creek, we are having a banner year in the numbers of adult chum salmon returning to Shell Creek.
I want to THANK YOU for allowing the Edmonds Stream Team to continually access your property in the fall to collect data on the salmon run. We’ll be continuing our salmon surveys into mid-December when most of our observations will probably shift to just examining dead salmon to collect data on their spawning success (we’re currently still seeing ‘new’ arrivals as well as dead spawned-out salmon).
Continue reading “Letter to Shell Creek residents”From Joe Scordino
November 23, 2024
Students – Linked below is a news article on the Edmonds Stream Team “coming to the rescue” to resolve a fish passage problem for spawning salmon in Shell Creek.
The stream habitat and salmon abundance data collected by students was used to justify an emergency permit from the WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife to make changes to a blockage DURING the salmon run. Normally, such instream work would not be allowed during salmon migration – – but I had the data (collected by students) to justify the emergency action.
So… THANK YOU for participating in the Stream Team. You have made a big difference for our local salmon population!
Posted Saturday, November 23, 2024
By Bill Lider
Lider Engineering
One of the most important duties of City government is to protect the health and safety of its residents. Besides the obvious police and fire protection, it is the Public Works department’s duty to assure the safety of its residents, too.
While potholes in public roads can be ignored or put off for a long time, or roads can be closed pending repairs, the rail traffic on the Edmonds waterfront cannot. Every day, tens of thousands of gallons of hazardous, toxic, and explosive materials move up and down the Edmonds waterfront.
Continue reading “Guest View – Perrinville pipe under tracks could spell disaster”By Joe Scordino – EEC President
November 23, 2024
The following Public Comment was submitted and received by WA Dept. of Ecology regarding the site cleanup of the Chevron/Unocal site below the Point Edwards condominiums.
Continue reading “Public Comment – Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal 0178”Video showing Chum salmon successfully managing to pass an obstruction in Shell Creek.
Video courtesy of Karen Barnes
November 22, 2024
My Edmonds News
November 22, 2024
The revised draft 2024 Comprehensive Plan for the City of Edmonds has been published and is available for review online here.
The revised plan updates the initial draft that was published Oct. 3. This new draft reflects public input during the comment period, as well as input from the Edmonds Planning Board and City Council. It also includes state agency guidance and other information.
Continue reading “City publishes revised draft Comprehensive Plan; public hearing Dec. 10”By Camila Domonoske, Jessica Yung, Rebecca Ramirez
November 20, 2024
For decades, Coho salmon were turning up dead in urban streams the Pacific Northwest. The salmon would stop swimming straight, and then die before they had a chance to spawn. Researchers worried that unless they figured out the cause, the species would eventually go extinct.
Continue reading “Why are so many Coho salmon dying? The answer might be in your tires”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”