Campaigning for clean water and a healthy environment for humans and wildlife
Parent category for reference posts applicable to several categories
By Dave Teitzel
September 29, 2019
Shell Creek is a natural, spring-fed creek that originates near the eastern boundary of Yost Park, a large city-owned park in Edmonds, Washington that has been preserved in a largely natural state.
Continue reading “Shell Creek Waterfall Fish Blockage”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.
Continue reading “Edmonds Stream Inventory and Assessment”May 3, 2025
By Conrad Swanson
Seattle Times climate reporter
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
Continue reading “Juvenile salmonids traverse coastal meta-nurseries that connect rivers via the sea”April 30, 2025
By Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times environment reporter
Who knew that baby salmon were such explorers?
The long-held understanding that baby salmon emerge from the streams where they hatched to head out to sea actually is missing a far more complex story — and a far more interesting one, scientists explain in a new paper.
Continue reading “Baby salmon head out to sea. Then they do something unexpected, new research shows”Posted: April 13, 2025
My Edmonds News
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:
Posted Sunday, April 13, 2025
By Joe Scordino, Stream Team Project Leader
A large crowd gathered at Yost Park to help release several salmon at a time. They used clear cups so everyone could see the baby salmon. (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino)
Continue reading “Yost Park: Volunteers help save Shell Creek salmon”by Joe Scordino
April 7th, 2025
The examiner revoked the city’s Determination of Non-Significance, forcing Edmonds to address infrastructure issues on the creek
By by Eliza Aronson
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Link to Everett Herald article
EDMONDS — The city of Edmonds has work to do on Perrinville Creek.
On Friday, City Hearing Examiner Phil Olbrechts decided city staff must address safety issues about a corroded pipe that connects the last few hundred feet of stream to Puget Sound, and consequently restore fish passage along the lower portion of the creek.
Continue reading “Edmonds Hearing Examiner decides on Perrinville Creek saga”March 28, 2025 at 6:00 am
By Amanda Zhou
Seattle Times staff reporter
For decades, toxic tire dust has choked coho salmon before they can spawn in their natal streams. Now, King County scientists say they have made a “potential breakthrough” in how to save them.
February 25, 2025
Beth Greenfield
Link to full Fortune article:
https://fortune.com/well/2025/02/26/drinking-water-hazardous-chemicals
Between the ongoing controversy around fluoridated water and the recent discovery of a chemical in our water systems that may or may not be toxic, the safety of American drinking water is murky, to say the least.
Continue reading “The truth about American drinking water: Report shows widespread presence of hazardous chemicals”By Andy Walgamott
Northwest Sportsman
February 4, 2025
A bipartisan group of Washington legislators has filed a bill in Olympia asking Congress and the Trump Administration to modify the Marine Mammal Protection Act to allow lethal removals of sea lions and harbor seals and other actions in more of the state to save ESA-listed Chinook and other salmon populations.
The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”
The author reviewed thousands of pages of decades-old documents to report this article.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
Dec. 27, 2024
In early 2000, scientists at 3M, the chemicals giant, made a startling discovery: High levels of PFAS, the virtually indestructible “forever chemicals” used in nonstick pans, stain-resistant carpets and many other products were turning up in the nation’s sewage.
Continue reading “The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago.”By Camila Domonoske, Jessica Yung, Rebecca Ramirez
November 20, 2024
For decades, Coho salmon were turning up dead in urban streams the Pacific Northwest. The salmon would stop swimming straight, and then die before they had a chance to spawn. Researchers worried that unless they figured out the cause, the species would eventually go extinct.
Continue reading “Why are so many Coho salmon dying? The answer might be in your tires”