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Posts related to the multifaceted projects at Edmonds Mars, intended to restore salmon runs
The attached letter was sent to Director Laura Watson, Washington State Department of Ecology, containing EEC’s comments requesting that the Feasibility Study be revised to include additional Alternatives and then re-submitted for public review and comment.
Continue reading “Letter – Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal 0178 cleanup”By Joe Scordino – EEC President
November 23, 2024
The following Public Comment was submitted and received by WA Dept. of Ecology regarding the site cleanup of the Chevron/Unocal site below the Point Edwards condominiums.
Continue reading “Public Comment – Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal 0178”Ecology has received requests to extend the comment period. After considering the requests, the comment period for the Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal 0178 cleanup site will now close on Sunday, November 24, 2024, at 11:59 pm.
Posted: October 11, 2024
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”Once cleanup is done, Edmonds could purchase the Unocal property. Advocates say land could bring salmon back to the marsh.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/ecology-invites-public-comment-on-cleanup-next-to-edmonds-marsh
Posted: February 10, 2024
Posted: March 26, 2023
By Michon Scott AND Rebecca Lindsey Reviewed By Zac Cannizzo, Janine Harris, Veronica Lance, AND Alec Shub
NOAA
Published September 29, 2022
Blue carbon refers to carbon dioxide that is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored in the ocean. “Blue” refers to the watery nature of this storage.
Continue reading “Understanding blue carbon”King County noxious week fact sheet
June, 2018
Purple loosestrife is an invasive and competitive noxious weed that alters wetland ecosystems by replacing native and beneficial plants. Water-dependent mammals and waterfowl and other birds leave wetlands when their food source, nesting material and shelter are displaced by purple loosestrife
January, 2011
https://your.kingcounty.gov/dnrp/library/water-and-land/weeds/BMPs/purple_loosestrife-control.pdf
