Edmonds Environmental Council Calls on Edmonds City Council to Follow “Best Available Science” in Critical Area Ordinance Update
December 30, 2025
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EEC Engagement on the Critical Areas Ordinance Update
Call to Action and CAO update status
By John Brock, EEC Board member
December 29, 2025
CAO Update
On July 18, 2025, the Edmonds Environmental Council (EEC) hosted a workshop at the Port of Edmonds to discuss how the organization should engage with the City of Edmonds. Participants expressed concern that the City was not adequately advancing the Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO) update required by the end of 2025. Based on that discussion, the EEC decided to engage constructively.
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August 31, 2025
It is time to renew your EEC membership and pay annual dues. Our membership cycle runs from July 1 to June 30 each year. Please follow the prompts on this form. Use the PayPal Giving Fund link to send your donation. If you have questions, please email us. Thanks! This seemed like an opportunity to update you on Project status.
Continue reading “Edmonds Environmental Council Update”Public Workshop on Critical Areas in Edmonds
July 18, 2025 (Friday)
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Port of Edmonds Administration Building
2nd Floor Meeting Room
471 Admiral Way
Edmonds, WA
The EEC is hosting a Workshop, open to the public, on the City’s Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO). The results of the Workshop will be used to provide public input to the CAO update that the City must complete by December 31st as well as recommendations for a Critical Areas Program Amendment to the City’s Comprehensive Plan.
Workshop attendees will:
- Explore what’s working and what’s not in protecting the City’s Critical Areas and the unique Edmonds environment.
- Develop recommended Code revisions for the Critical Area Ordinance Update.
- Develop recommended revisions to other City Code that affects implementation of the protective measures in the CAO.
- Develop recommendations for critical area policies and a Critical Areas Program Amendment to the City’s Comprehensive Plan.
The City’s current Critical Area Ordinance, which will be referred to in the Workshop, can be found at https://edmonds.municipal.codes/ECDC/23 .
Contact us at: Edmonds.Envir.Council@gmail.com
The Edmonds Environmental Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to bring balance between needed development, environmental protection, and compliance with State laws. The EEC was formed in response to a growing need for “informed” voices to help educate residents and City officials on the perils of ignoring the human and natural environment.
PRESS RELEASE: Edmonds Environmental Council Requests Legal Action to Restore Salmon Passage at lower Perrinville Creek
July 9, 2025
The Edmonds Environmental Council (EEC) is filing a complaint with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) on the City of Edmonds’ ongoing refusal to restore fish passage in lower Perrinville Creek. The EEC is alarmed that a City that touts support for salmon recovery in Puget Sound is allowing the eradication of salmon in one of its creeks. This is especially hypocritical because the blockage impacts the adult coho salmon that otherwise would be returning this fall to Perrinville Creek as part of a cooperative salmon restoration effort in Edmonds creeks.
Notice of Intent to sue Edmonds School District over PFAS contaminated stormwater being injected into Deer Creek Springs Aquifer
May 28, 2025
Today, Olympic View Water & Sewer District added a new “In the News“ page to track their Notice of Intent to sue Edmonds School District to protect the drinking water aquifer that is threatened by PFAS.
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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)]
Continue reading “EEC proposed Critical Areas Program amendment to Comprehensive Plan”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:
Press Release: Settlement Reached with City of Edmonds on EEC’s Appeal
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”Settlement Agreement: Deer Creek Springs CARA
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.
2024 surveys show 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.
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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.
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Letter sent to Edmonds Mayor Mike Rosen, Edmonds City Council, and Edmonds Planning Director
From: Edmonds Environmental Council
November 25, 2025
Please see the linked OpEd piece in My Edmonds News yesterday and the comments to it.
Link to My Edmonds News article
Continue reading “Letter – Environmentally Sensitive Zoning and ‘Staggered’ approach to housing density zoning over 20-year Comp Plan”Reader View: A better idea for Edmonds Comprehensive Plan update – ‘Environmentally Sensitive’ zoning
By Joe Scordino
Posted: November 23, 2024
Much of Edmonds shouldn’t be further developed because of inadequate or antiquated infrastructure, or the area is already overbuilt for the existing landscape or it has unique landscapes and critical areas requiring additional restrictions. But our state Legislature didn’t take this into account when it mandated every city to update their Comprehensive (Comp) Plan to allow for increased housing density.
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By Joe Scordino
November 23, 2024
Shell Creek Residents:
As many of you have noticed in your creek, we are having a banner year in the numbers of adult chum salmon returning to Shell Creek.
I want to THANK YOU for allowing the Edmonds Stream Team to continually access your property in the fall to collect data on the salmon run. We’ll be continuing our salmon surveys into mid-December when most of our observations will probably shift to just examining dead salmon to collect data on their spawning success (we’re currently still seeing ‘new’ arrivals as well as dead spawned-out salmon).
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