My Edmonds News – Page 2 – Edmonds Environmental Council

Letter to Shell Creek residents

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).

Letter to Edmonds Stream Team

From Joe Scordino
November 23, 2024

Students – Linked below is a news article on the Edmonds Stream Team “coming to the rescue” to resolve a fish passage problem for spawning salmon in Shell Creek.

The stream habitat and salmon abundance data collected by students was used to justify an emergency permit from the WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife to make changes to a blockage DURING the salmon run. Normally, such instream work would not be allowed during salmon migration – – but I had the data (collected by students) to justify the emergency action.

So… THANK YOU for participating in the Stream Team. You have made a big difference for our local salmon population!

Joe bypassing Shell creek salmon barrier

City publishes revised draft Comprehensive Plan; public hearing Dec. 10

My Edmonds News
November 22, 2024

The revised draft 2024 Comprehensive Plan for the City of Edmonds has been published and is available for review online here.

The revised plan updates the initial draft that was published Oct. 3. This new draft reflects public input during the comment period, as well as input from the Edmonds Planning Board and City Council. It also includes state agency guidance and other information.

Scene in Edmonds: Finding passage for salmon

My Edmonds News
Posted: November 20, 2024

Joe Scordino on the scene. (Photo courtesy Karen Barnes)

It is salmon migration season and significant numbers of chum salmon are actively making their way up Shell Creek. As is always the case, they need to pass many obstacles along the way. This year they were presented with a new and unexpected challenge.

Reader view: Edmonds’ growth plan should reflect realistic household data, not inflated targets

By Janelle Cass
Posted: November 12, 2024

The 2044 Comprehensive Plan update for Edmonds calls for 9,069 new housing units, based on an assumed future household size of just 1.4 people per new unit of housing, which would bring the citywide average household occupancy down to 2.11. This assumption risks causing the city to overshoot its true housing needs and invites the kind of overdevelopment that could significantly strain city resources and negatively impact the environment.

Letter to the editor: Chevron must be required to complete Unocal cleanup

By Laura D. Walls
Posted: November 11, 2024

Editor:

The Edmonds Marsh needs your help! Will Chevron be required to complete the Unocal cleanup of the Marsh, or allowed to walk away with the job unfinished?

It’s salmon ‘SEEson’ in Meadowdale Beach Park

Posted: November 10, 2024
By Joe Scordino

The Edmonds Stream Team, working with adult and student volunteers from Meadowdale and Edmonds-Woodway High Schools, has been surveying local creeks for salmon – – and the team reports many adult salmon are returning to Shell and Lunds Gulch Creeks.

Public invited to city open house Oct. 28 to discuss draft environmental impact statement, Comp Plan

My Edmonds News
Posted: October 23, 2024

Public invited to city open house Oct. 28 to discuss draft environmental impact statement, Comp Plan

Reminder: Public hearing on draft EIS for Comprehensive Plan update Oct. 16

My Edmonds News
Posted: October 15, 2024

Reminder: Public hearing on draft EIS for Comprehensive Plan update Oct. 16

Edmonds Marsh restoration project volunteers plant more than 80 trees

Story and photos by Chris Walton
Posted: October 13, 2024

Volunteers for the Edmonds Marsh Volunteer Restoration Project on Saturday planted over 80 trees near Shelleberger Creek, which runs along Highway 104 and eventually into the marsh.