Blog posts

^{Posts about PFAS contamination in the Deer Creek Springs Critical Aquifer Recharge Area (CARA)
What are PFAS?}

• 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

^{Posts about development issues in Edmonds}

• 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

^{Posts concerning critical areas protection in Edmonds}

• 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 preservation and restoration of the Edmonds Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary}

• 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}

• Scene at Meadowdale Beach Park: Students helping salmon 05/20/2025
• Shell Creek Waterfall Fish Blockage 05/16/2025
• 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
• Scientists discover ‘potential breakthrough’ in protecting salmon from urban killer 03/28/2025
• 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

^{Posts about volunteer efforts to monitor and improve our creeks and nearshore wetlands}

• 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