Legal challenge to potentially dangerous dredging at Kenmore Air Harbor
PERK and the Lake Forest Park Stewardship Foundation have filed a petition with the Washington State Shorelines Hearing Board requesting a review of the City of Kenmore’s permitting process for the planned construction by Kenmore Air Harbor of a pier on the Lake Washington shoreline. The petition argues that the City of Kenmore has not taken adequate account of the likelihood of potentially hazardous contaminants in the sediment.
Click to read the petition.
Plumes of potentially toxic sediment stirred up by barges and tugboats.
Read Representative Gerry Pollet’s email to Dept. of Ecology and NOAA officials.