Posted: September 21, 2024
Tag: My Edmonds News
‘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”Edmonds Council supports retaining property tax dollars; learns city likely to miss Comp Plan deadline
The council also learned during Tuesday’s remote meeting that due to planning and development department staffing shortages and other factors, Edmonds is likely to miss the state-mandated deadline for completing its 2024 Comprehensive Plan update.
September 17, 2024
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”State sets new limits for toxic chemicals in water
Posted: August 15, 2024
Edmonds, Woodway residents form nonprofit Edmonds Environmental Council
Posted: July 9, 2024
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.
Local drinking water ranks among the best, exceeding new federal standards for contaminants
Posted: May 16, 2024
Salmon fry released into upper Perrinville Creek
Council approves city code regarding critical aquifer recharge areas, hears fire service options
Posted: April 17, 2024
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”Feb. 13: Online meeting to provide update on Unocal Edmonds cleanup site
Posted: February 10, 2024
Reader view: Protecting our drinking water supply
Posted: November 27, 2023