Posted: August 15, 2024
Tag: My Edmonds News
Edmonds, Woodway residents form nonprofit Edmonds Environmental Council
Posted: July 9, 2024
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A group of Edmonds and Woodway residents Tuesday announced the formation of the nonprofit Edmonds Environmental Council (EEC), which in its first action is challenging the City of Edmonds Critical Aquifer Recharge Area (CARA) regulation approved by the Edmonds City Council in May.
Continue reading “Edmonds, Woodway residents form nonprofit Edmonds Environmental Council”Letter to the editor: City must reverse critical aquifer recharge area decision
Posted: June 29, 2024
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Editor:
The City of Edmonds has just adopted a new critical aquifer recharge area (CARA) ordinance in spite of scientific evidence from the Olympic Water District about the presence of forever chemicals (PFAS) in stormwater. The changed CARA code will allow contaminated stormwater to infiltrate into the Deer Creek drinking water aquifer in southern Edmonds.
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: City must reverse critical aquifer recharge area decision”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
Posted: April 28, 2024
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Council approves city code regarding critical aquifer recharge areas, hears fire service options
Posted: April 17, 2024
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Two major pieces of business before the Edmonds City Council Tuesday night were whether to approve a city code amendment regarding critical aquifer recharge areas (CARAs) and to learn more about the city’s options for fire and emergency medical services.
Continue reading “Council approves city code regarding critical aquifer recharge areas, hears fire service options”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
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Has growth become more important than clean drinking water? Our government has a duty to protect us and especially our children, the elderly, and other vulnerable groups from exposure to polluted water sources. Clean water is finite and precious. We should not be reluctant to protect it.
Continue reading “Reader view: Protecting our drinking water supply”Edmonds Marsh volunteers conclude their restoration work for the year
Posted: October 5, 2023
Reader view: Can we stop the demise of Edmonds salmon streams?
By Joe Scordino
Posted: August 26, 2023
First it was Perrinville Creek and now it is Shell Creek that is losing its natural functions and salmon habitat — this time because of neglect and inaction by city administration in Edmonds’ Yost Park.
In the case of Perrinville Creek, the loss of salmon is due to both inaction to implement a watershed restoration plan (as promised by Mayor Nelson in a press release over two years ago), and an apparent illegal action the city took in January 2021 to totally block salmon access to Perrinville Creek.
Continue reading “Reader view: Can we stop the demise of Edmonds salmon streams?”City council set March 28 to discuss Edmonds housing growth targets, document guiding Unocal property purchase
Posted: March 26, 2023
Letter to the editor: The role of citizens in Edmonds’ Comprehensive Plan
Posted: October 31, 2022
Letter to the editor: Change Unocal property zoning to protect Edmonds Marsh
Posted: September 20, 2022
Editor:
It is my understanding that the Unocal property is currently zoned MP2. I would like to urge the City Council to change that zoning and designate the property to be used for public use land. It would be very sad to see such a wonderful property, situated next to the marsh and the beach, turned into a housing development, even if it were to include low-cost housing. Due to its proximity to the marsh and coastline, maintaining the open, pristine nature of this land is crucial to the long-term preservation of the quality of the marsh.
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