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by Eliza Aronson
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Closing arguments were submitted last week in a hearing that could determine if the creek will be passable for salmon in the next three years.
Continue reading “Examiner to decide route of Perrinville Creek”By Joe Scordino, Project Leader
Edmonds Stream Team
March 12, 2025
Photos by Clint Wright, Joe Scordino, and John Brock
The Edmonds Stream Team released 5,000 “baby” chum salmon into lower Shell Creek on Monday. These chum salmon “fry” were donated by the Suquamish Tribe to help the community effort to bolster salmon populations in local creeks that flow directly to Puget Sound.
Continue reading “Press release: Bolstering Shell Creek’s Salmon Population”by Teresa Wippel
Posted: March 12, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News Article
Two phrases — “neighborhood centers and hubs” and “middle housing” — are a major focus for the City of Edmonds this year as staff works to update the city’s development code. The Edmonds City Council Tuesday night learned more about those efforts, which follow the council’s adoption of the 2024 Comprehensive Plan update Dec. 17.
Continue reading “Council hears plan for engaging community in centers, hubs and middle housing concepts”Posted: February 24, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News Article
The Edmonds Planning Board during its Wednesday, Feb. 26 meeting is scheduled to continue its discussion of the city’s planned code updates for its neighborhood centers and hubs.
Continue reading “Edmonds Planning Board to continue discussion of neighborhood centers and hubs Feb. 26”Posted: February 1, 2025
My Edmonds News
Updated Feb. 3 with a comment from the City of Edmonds
The Edmonds Environmental Council (EEC) said Friday night that is has reached an agreement with the City of Edmonds to suspend the EEC’s appeal of city regulations related to the city’s critical aquifer recharge area (CARA) regulation approved by the Edmonds City Council in May.
Continue reading “Edmonds Environmental Council, city reach agreement on appeal of critical aquifer regulations”Posted: February 2, 2025
By Bill Derry
Edmonds resident Bill Derry is the president of the Pilchuck Audubon Society and a member of the Edmonds Marsh Estuary Advocates. He previously served six years on the board of directors for People for Puget Sound.
Part 2 of a 5-part series. You can read part 1 here.
In the first article on Edmonds’ waters, I discussed what happens when old growth forests are replaced by development and rain becomes contaminated stormwater runoff. This article looks specifically at Edmonds’ streams and how our choices are changing them.
Edmonds has four streams that could support salmon, in addition to several smaller streams (see map below). The four salmon streams are Willow, Shellabarger, Shell and Perrinville Creeks, all of which drain toward Puget Sound.
Continue reading “The State of Edmonds Waters: Part 2 — Edmonds streams”January 31, 2025
The Edmonds Environmental Council (EEC) and the City of Edmonds have reached agreement on suspending the EEC’s Appeal of City regulations pending results of a scientific study on stormwater infiltration and its risks of PFAS and other toxins polluting the drinking water aquifer. Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, the City will use the study results to make recommendations to the Edmonds City Council on the Deer Creek Aquifer Critical Area Regulations. The full text of the Settlement Agreement is available on the EEC website at https://edmondsenvironmentalcouncil.org
Continue reading “Press Release: Settlement Reached with City of Edmonds on EEC’s Appeal”Posted Friday, January 31, 2025
By Beacon Staff
The Edmonds Environmental Council (EEC) reports it has reached an agreement with the City of Edmonds on suspending the EEC’s appeal of City regulations pending results of a scientific study on stormwater infiltration and its risks of PFAS and other toxins polluting the drinking water aquifer.
According to the settlement agreement, the City will use the study results to make recommendations to the Edmonds City Council on the Deer Creek Aquifer Critical Area Regulations.
The full text of the settlement agreement is available on the EEC website.
Continue reading “Settlement reached on appeal of Deer Creek regulations”January 28, 2025
The following is the signed settlement agreement between the City of Edmonds and the Edmonds Environmental Council. This agreement is the result of several mediation meetings.
Posted Sunday, January 12, 2025 6:12 pm
By Joe Scordino
Edmonds Stream Team
There’s good news coming from the Edmonds Stream Team after completion of its annual adult salmon surveys last month in Edmonds’ Shell Creek and Lund’s Gulch Creek in Meadowdale Beach Park.
Continue reading “Stream Team report: Record number of salmon in Shell Creek”— Story and photos by Joe Scordino
Project leader, Edmonds Stream Team
January 1, 2025
The Edmonds Stream Team completed its annual adult salmon surveys in Edmonds’ Shell Creek and Lunds Gulch Creek (located in Meadowdale Beach Park) in December. The Stream Team documented the highest number of chum salmon spawners in November 2024 since surveys began in Shell Creek in 2017.
Continue reading “2024 surveys show record number of salmon in Shell Creek”By Teresa Wippel, My Edmonds News
November 11, 2024
Passionate comments about city planning, providing police and fire services, and protecting the character of downtown Edmonds dominated public testimony at Tuesday night’s Edmonds City Council meeting, as advocates for a range of viewpoints packed the council chambers to have their say.
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”