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What is 6PPD-quinone?

Environmental protection Agency
November 26, 2024

Vehicle tires contain the chemical known as 6PPD to prevent tires from breaking down due to reactions with ozone and other reactive oxygen species in the air. When 6PPD reacts with ozone in the air, it forms 6PPD-quinone. Tires wear down through contact with roads, releasing particles into the environment. When it rains, stormwater from hard surfaces like parking lots and streets washes these particles into streams and other water bodies. As a result, 6PPD-quinone may be present and aquatic organisms can be exposed to it.

PFAS Explained

Environmental Protection Agency
Updated October 3, 2024

EPA is committed to providing meaningful, understandable, and actionable information on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – known as PFAS – to the American public. The information provided here is intended to explain some of the important background information needed to understand the details of specific actions EPA takes to address PFAS, and other emerging events related to PFAS.

What EPA Has Learned So Far

Scene at Meadowdale Beach Park: Students helping salmon

May 20, 2025
Edmonds Stream Team

Link to My Edmonds News article

Christopher Erwert checks coho fry before release. (Photos courtesy Edmonds Stream Team)

Students from Meadowdale High School’s Eco Club joined community volunteers with the Edmonds Stream Team and Sound Salmon Solutions in releasing several thousand baby coho salmon into Lunds Gulch Creek Sunday.

Edmonds Stream Inventory and Assessment

July 29, 2002
Pentec Environmental

The attached report was prepared for the City of Edmonds to establish baseline information on stream conditions in order to support work toward meeting National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit and ESA requirements. This report covers all of the appropriate significant streams under the City’s jurisdiction.

Joe Scordino, ‘the environmental conscience of Edmonds,’ is Edmonds Citizen of the Year

by Larry Vogel
Posted: May 7, 2025

Longtime Edmonds resident, retired fisheries biologist and tireless advocate for preserving the city’s salmon-bearing streams, creeks and wetlands, Joe Scordino has been selected as Edmonds Citizen of the Year by the Edmonds Kiwanis Club.

Citizen of the Year: Joe Scordino

Joe Scordino of Save Our Marsh, in front of Edmonds Marsh, with the 22 acres owned by WSDOT in the far background: Making this area into a wildlife sanctuary would have extensive benefits to our community and to our planet.

Posted Monday, May 5

By Brian Soergel
Edmondseditor@yourbeacon.net

Joe Scordino is the Kiwanis Club of Edmonds’ Citizen of the Year for 2024.

King County detects PFAS in wastewater, fertilizer program

May 3, 2025
By Conrad Swanson
Seattle Times climate reporter

1 of 2 | Wastewater is treated at King County’s South Treatment Plant in Renton in January. The plant was one of three in the county that tested for “forever chemicals.” (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
2 of 2 | After waste is treated and much of the water is removed, the solid material is collected for further processing at King County’s South Treatment Plant. The material can be turned into fertilizer for the state’s… (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Link to Seattle Times article

Scene in Edmonds: WSDOT helping Edmonds Marsh restoration volunteers.

Posted: April 30, 2025

Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) crews were out Wednesday mowing vegetation along State Route 104 to help prepare the Edmonds Marsh Restoration site for upcoming volunteer work coordinated by the Edmonds Stream Team. See our previous story for a complete description of the project.

Link to My Edmonds News article

Juvenile salmonids traverse coastal meta-nurseries that connect rivers via the sea

Stuart H Munsch1*, Todd R Bennett2, Jimmy Faukner3, Madison J Halloran4, Karrie M Hanson2, Martin C Liermann2, Michael L McHenry 5, John R McMillan6, Raymond E Moses5, Bob Pagliuco7, George R Pess2, Katherine R Stonecypher4, and Darren M Ward4

Baby salmon head out to sea. Then they do something unexpected, new research shows

April 30, 2025
By Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times environment reporter

Link to Seattle Times article

Coho salmon smolts are collected in a fish trap as researchers assess local salmon populations in an Olympic Peninsula stream. (Karrie Hanson)

Letter to the editor: Citizen’s Planning Board public hearing – are you listening?

Posted: April 29, 2025
Larry Williamson
on behalf of Alliance of Citizens for Edmonds

Link to My Edmonds News article and comments:

Editor:

The hearing concerning Residential Zoning (4/23/25) drew a full house with 18 diverse, longtime residents who spoke passionately about the negative residential impacts (increased building heights, lot coverages and density) of the proposed code update. The first, Kim Bayer-Augustavo, chair of the Architectural Design Board, became a de facto keynote for the hearing. Sixteen presenters, including former Planning Board and Housing Commission members, strongly endorsed her comments.

Letter to the editor: Stop planned overdevelopment of our neighborhoods

Posted: April 29, 2025

Link to My Edmonds News Article
Note – There are several excellent comments in the article.

Editor:

Last week’s Planning Board meeting was a packed house, with speakers requesting that the board and staff only implement the state’s minimum requirements to comply with housing legislation due June 25. Citizens clearly voiced they want to prevent negative environmental impacts and overdevelopment of our neighborhoods.

EEC proposed Critical Areas Program amendment to Comprehensive Plan

PREAMBLE

Because the critical areas regulations must be consistent with the comprehensive plan, each comprehensive plan should set forth the underlying policies for the jurisdiction’s critical areas program. [WAC 365-196-485(1)(e)]

Scene in Edmonds: Salmon fry released in Yost Park

Posted: April 13, 2025
My Edmonds News

Link to article

Edmonds Stream Team’s Maya LaBelle, Emma Roberts and Maija Jinneman net baby salmon from the Willow Creek Salmon Hatchery.

Coho fry released in Shell Creek

On Saturday, April 12th, Megan Moran from Sound Salmon Solutions and Joe Scordino released several thousand Coho fry with the help of volunteers and local residents. These “baby” salmon were released in Yost Park near Olympic Avenue and near Holy Rosary parish in Edmonds.
It was great fun.

Here are a few photos:

Student volunteers release coho frye into Shell creek near Holy Rosary in Edmonds — Student volunteers release coho frye into Shell creek

Joe Scordino describing the release process Yost parl — Student volunteers release coho frye into Shell creek

Coho fry released into Shell creek