Why are folks beautifying this Cemex and Calportland facility? Is any agency making sure their emissions are safe? If not, why not? What can we do to find out the answers?

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Meeting Thursday March 23 6-7pm – Learn how to display your environmental “hot buttons” on public map

Dear All,

Share your updates about the greater Lake Washington environment!

THURSDAY March 23 6-7pm
Kenmore Library Meeting Room
Short but sweet!

Bring your updates! We can compile our communication about our community projects. Then we will put the information on our Rose Foundation PERK interactive map!

Learn how!

If you have an update to share, please send to me at:

Elizabeth.mooney and follow up with a phone call to my cell 206-979-3999 -by March 21- and we will have a collection of updates to share at the meeting.

RSVP is appreciated but not required.

Thank you.

Elizabeth Mooney
President
PERK-People for an Environmentally Responsible Kenmore
Perkinkenmore.org
206-979-3999

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17-002 Petitioners revised legal issues

As requested in the pre-hearing conference Friday February 3, 2017 petitioners have revised their list of legal issues.

The revised list and Declaration of Service is attached.

As Ecology and WSDOT have taken the position that our appeal was not timely filed, in spite of meeting the City of Seattle’s noticed deadline, we are unable to support Ecology’s withdrawal at this time.

Respectfully,

Carl Stixrood for Petitioners

Attachments

17-002 Dec of Service Petitioners legal issues rvsd Feb 7 2017
17-002 Petitioners revised List of proposed Issues Feb 7 2017

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Asphalt Fumes Bill Hearing

On behalf of PERK, at the Washington State Legislature hearing in Olympia yesterday, I testified in favor of HB 1028 regarding the asphalt fumes issue in Kenmore.

I delivered our letters of support, authored by PERK members, to the Committee.

The mayor of Kenmore was there to testify “PRO” along with Representative Gerry Pollet who coauthored the bill with Representative Jessyn Farrell.

Here is a video of that session (Our suppporting testimony starts about 11 minutes in).

Please take the time to submit your comments to our reps on this bill

We hope to have a citizen meeting in the next 3 weeks to talk with our community and decide what actions to take next.

Thank you.
Elizabeth

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Jan 5 St. Edward Lease meeting at Bastyr

Please attend the meeting on Jan 5 at Bastyr University and please ask Park Commissioners to stop any and all significant adverse environmental impacts to St. Edward State Park’s natural habitats, by either Mr. Daniel’s hotel project or the other project by City of Kenmore to replace the grass field with artificial lighted ballfield, something that would eliminate the darkness needed by birds/amphibians, plants to stay natural.

We must protect our nature by assessing the cumulative impacts of the hotel+the artificial ballfield. Thanks to John Hendrickson, we proved the city did not utilize best available science in promoting the artificial lighted ballfield, but we need to hold strong to protecting nature by not letting the hotel be accepted without first requiring the Daniels project require protection of the natural habitat surrounding the hotel project.

Further info available at Citizens For St. Edward State Park web site.

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Letter from Greg Wingard to Rob Karlinsey

Dear All,

See attached PDF letter.
And please attend Dec 12 2016 Council meeting at Kenmore City Hall to learn more.

Thank you.

Elizabeth Mooney

KGMLtrRobK102716F.pdf

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Hendrickson, et al. v. City of Kenmore – 16-3-0002

From: Eccles, Lynn (ELUHO) <lynn.eccles> on behalf of CPSGMHB (ELUHO) <Central>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 2:43 PM
Subject: RE: Hendrickson, et al. v. City of Kenmore – 16-3-0002

Dear Parties,

Per the request below, attached is the Final Decision and Order. This order went out in the mail yesterday.

Lynn Eccles │Administrative Assistant

Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office

PO Box 40953 Olympia, WA 98504

360-664-9172 | www.eluho.wa.gov

From: Christine Stern [mailto:CStern]
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:44 AM
To: CPSGMHB (ELUHO) <Central>
Subject: Hendrickson, et al. v. City of Kenmore – 16-3-0002

Ms. Eccles,

It is our understanding, according to the previously issued schedule, the Final Decision was due yesterday, November 28, 2016, in the above-referenced matter. Dawn Reitan, attorney for the City of Kenmore, is wondering if it is possible to email the decision to all parties, provided it was issued yesterday. We have not yet received a copy. Any information or assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Christine M. Stern | Legal Assistant

Skyline Tower, Suite 1500 | 10900 NE 4th Street | Bellevue, WA 98004
P: 425.450.4228 | F: 425.635.7720

cstern

16-3-0002 FDO.pdf

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Please share your environmental knowledge on interactive map!

Help us bring all the scary 520 bridge demolition evidence to a tipping point by making it plain to see by all on an interactive map.

There are essentially two types of data that are helpful to populate in the map:

REPORTS

Reports are user submitted input, that is shared directly on the map. E.g. Questions, Ideas, Observations, Complaints, Comments, Photos, etc.

To add a report, go to http://lakewashington.us/place/605 and hit the big orange button that says “PUT A COMMENT ON THE MAP”.

Mark your location (by dragging the map), fill out the form, upload a photo if you can, and hit “SUBMIT”.

LANDMARKS

Landmarks highlight key areas and provide general information. An example of a landmark is the dioxin report from Army Corps of Engineers here.

Landmarks give you more power for customization, so we can embed YouTube videos in them, make photo galleries, include special buttons and hyperlinks etc.

Currently only map administrators can add landmarks. We are working on a self service editor, but for now we are using a simple Google Doc system. All you have to do is add the information you want into this spreadsheet.

As landmarks entries are added to the table, they will be periodically imported into the map.

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520 Bridge demolition press release

Shortcuts in the demolition project are unfair to public health and safety, federally protected species under the ESA and our environment. The demolition of the old 520 bridge is not being conducted in a proper manner. It appears now that our citizens, our legislators, our media and our Governor’s staff were all given false information on July 14, 2016 as well as in other meetings and discussions. We need support from our leaders at the highest levels to prevent our environment from being bombarded with toxins and we need Governor Inslee and WSDOT and DOE to understand the citizens have justified concerns. There are economic as well as environmental consequences to a poorly planned demolition of this old Floating Bridge. Since the hidden costs of a poorly executed demolition could harm our economy in the future, taking time to pause and rethink the sites for the rubblization seems justified. Since KGM could have leased a site in Tacoma (Concrete Tech) that is far from residential areas, despite it costing them more now, it may be the right way to do this demolition. If KGM took the large parts of the bridge out the Locks, it might cost them more now, but it may prevent a bigger mess in the future for the State of Washington, if toxins, like arsenic, are dispersed in Lake Washington. Additionally, the dioxins are also in the Kenmore Navigation Channel, so barging through that area is detrimental to our environment, economy and public health and safety.

Attachments

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Video – Demolition of old 520 bridge

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