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These common chemicals could affect your health all over your body, expert says

CNN — 
There are chemicals in cookware, food, water, clothes and furniture that could cause problems for people’s health.

These PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — sometimes called “forever chemicals” because they don’t fully break down in the environment — have been used in consumer products since the 1950s.

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN
Mon September 9, 2024

Link to article and video:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/health/pfas-explainer-wellness/index.html?cid=ios_app

Reader View: Comprehensive Plan — Adopt minimum state requirements to retain Edmonds’ charm

By Karen Haase Herrick
Posted: August 28, 2024

As previously stated by the Alliance of Citizens for Edmonds (ACE), repeatedly stated by Edmonds residents and the chair of the city’s Architectural Design Board (MEN comment), “the City should not be allowing anything in the Comp Plan that is not required.”

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Ecology: Edmonds school needs to find source of PFAS

EDMONDS — The state Department of Ecology is advising the Edmonds School District to “take immediate corrective action” to reduce dangerous forever chemicals in Madrona K-8 School’s stormwater management system, after local water officials and a consulting firm both found contamination.

Link to full article:

Ecology: Edmonds school needs to find source of PFAS

PFAS found near Edmonds school sparks concerns about wells

EDMONDS — The state Department of Ecology is investigating contamination near Madrona K-8 School, after a consulting firm found so-called “forever chemicals” in the school’s stormwater management system.

Full article:
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/pfas-found-near-edmonds-school-sparks-concerns-about-wells/

Madrona K8 School under construction

New nonprofit challenges City’s aquifer regulation

Posted Posted 7/13/24

By Brian Soergel
Edmondseditor@yourbeacon.net

Because of the risk of contaminated drinking water in Woodway and south Edmonds, a newly formed nonprofit says its first action is challenging the recent City of Edmonds’ Critical Aquifer Recharge Area (CARA) regulation…

Full article:
https://www.edmondsbeacon.com/stories/new-nonprofit-challenges-citys-aquifer-regulation,90558?

Future stewards lend a hand to baby salmon

My Edmonds News
Posted: May 27, 2024

Last week marked the final releases this year of “baby” coho salmon from Edmonds’ Willow Creek Salmon Hatchery into local streams to help the salmon populations in Puget Sound. On hand to help were community volunteers including future stewards of the environment and even Edmonds Mayor Mike Rosen.

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Reader view: Time to speak up about the city’s Comprehensive Plan process

By Joe Scordino
Posted: March 17, 2024

Joe Scordino
Joe Scordino

Do the citizens of Edmonds really want changes made to the city’s Comprehensive Plan (which dictates municipal operations in the city) so that we become known as “Edmonds – Where the Sewer Meets the Sea”?

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Reader view: Can we stop the demise of Edmonds salmon streams?

By Joe Scordino
Posted: August 26, 2023

Joe Scordino
Joe Scordino

First it was Perrinville Creek and now it is Shell Creek that is losing its natural functions and salmon habitat — this time because of neglect and inaction by city administration in Edmonds’ Yost Park.

In the case of Perrinville Creek, the loss of salmon is due to both inaction to implement a watershed restoration plan (as promised by Mayor Nelson in a press release over two years ago), and an apparent illegal action the city took in January 2021 to totally block salmon access to Perrinville Creek.

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