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Edmonds Marsh and Shellabarger Creek restoration complete
My Edmonds News
Posted: September 30, 2024
‘A cleanup, not a coverup’: Marsh advocates challenge Ecology’s preferred alternative for Unocal site cleanup
Posted: September 18, 2024
Updated Sept. 19 with the audio recording.
To aid our readers who were unable to attend, My Edmonds News recorded the full session on audio, linked here. Readers may wish to listen and follow along with the DOE PowerPoint (linked here) to mirror experience of being in the room and see the visual aids as they are being discussed.
Continue reading “‘A cleanup, not a coverup’: Marsh advocates challenge Ecology’s preferred alternative for Unocal site cleanup”Letter to the editor: ‘No’ on Alternative 6 for Unocal site cleanup
Posted: September 14, 2024
Editor:
Out of an original list of six alternatives for the Unocal site cleanup, the Washington State Department of Ecology narrowed the list to two: Alternative 4 would call for the most thorough cleanup by excavation and removal of contaminated soil that still remains on the site. Alternative 6 leaves the remaining contaminated soil in place. Chevron, the parent company of Unocal, has selected Alternative 6 as the preferred option.
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: ‘No’ on Alternative 6 for Unocal site cleanup”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.”
Continue reading “Reader View: Comprehensive Plan — Adopt minimum state requirements to retain Edmonds’ charm”Open letter to Olympic View Water customers concerning your water
Letter to the editor: City must reverse critical aquifer recharge area decision
Posted: June 29, 2024
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.
Continue reading “Future stewards lend a hand to baby salmon”Reader view: Time to speak up about the city’s Comprehensive Plan process
By Joe Scordino
Posted: March 17, 2024
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”?
Continue reading “Reader view: Time to speak up about the city’s Comprehensive Plan process”Reader view: Protecting our drinking water supply
Posted: November 27, 2023
Edmonds Marsh volunteers conclude their restoration work for the year
Posted: October 5, 2023
Reader view: Can we stop the demise of Edmonds salmon streams?
By Joe Scordino
Posted: August 26, 2023
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.
Continue reading “Reader view: Can we stop the demise of Edmonds salmon streams?”Letter to the editor: The role of citizens in Edmonds’ Comprehensive Plan
Posted: October 31, 2022
Letter to the editor: Change Unocal property zoning to protect Edmonds Marsh
Posted: September 20, 2022
Editor:
It is my understanding that the Unocal property is currently zoned MP2. I would like to urge the City Council to change that zoning and designate the property to be used for public use land. It would be very sad to see such a wonderful property, situated next to the marsh and the beach, turned into a housing development, even if it were to include low-cost housing. Due to its proximity to the marsh and coastline, maintaining the open, pristine nature of this land is crucial to the long-term preservation of the quality of the marsh.
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: Change Unocal property zoning to protect Edmonds Marsh”Reader view: Community volunteers dig in to restore Edmonds Marsh
By Joe Scordino
Posted: September 17, 2022
After 500 hours of hard labor on 18 days this summer, over 50 community volunteers relished in their success in restoring stream flows in the Edmonds Marsh that had been blocked by chain-link fencing and a huge, spreading mass of an invasive plant called bittersweet nightshade.
Continue reading “Reader view: Community volunteers dig in to restore Edmonds Marsh”