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NOT WHATIS PRODUCEDBY THE MONITORINGREPORTSREQUREDBYTHE PORT'SNPDES PERMIT .....4 PRE-FILEDDIRECTTESTIMONYOF FOSTER PEPPER _.dSHEFELMANPLLC KEITHSMITH- i 1!11THIRDAVENUE,SUITE3400 SEA'rrLE, WASHINGTON 98101-3299 206-447-4400 50309741.02 ORIGINAL THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE PORT IS VIOLATING WATER QUALITY CRITERIA ..................................... 4 THERE IS NO LACK OF STORMWATER SAMPLING DATA .......................................................................................... 4 THE PORT'S STORMWATER DISCHARGES ARE CLEANER THAN TYPICAL URBAN STORMWATER ............... 5 THE HARDNESS DATA REPORTED BY THE PORT IN ITS ANNUAL STORMWATER REPORTS IS AN ACCURATE REFLECTION OF CONDITIONS AT THE AIRPORT ................................................................................... 5 DR. WILLING AND DR. STRAND ASSERT CONCLUSIONS THAT ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY THE DATA .......... 6 CONCLUSIONS BASED ON THE HERRARA REPORT ARE SPECULATIVE AND UNSUBSTANTIATED ............... 7 USEOFDEICINGCHEMICALSAND THEMANAGEMENTOFDEICERS...................................................................8 IWS IMPROVEMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 8 OPINION ................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 PILE-FILED DIRECT TESTIMONY OF FOSTER PEPPER _' SHEFELMAN PLLC KEITH SMITH - ii 1111Trln_ AVENUE,SUITE3400 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101-3299 206-447-4400 50309741 02 AR 016631 1. I have personal knowledge of the facts stated in this testimony and would be competent to testify to those facts. 2. Summary and Overview of Testimony. The Port's sampling ofstormwater discharges comply with the Port's NPDES permit. The Port's NPDES Permit is a BMP-based permit; consequently, the purpose of the stormwater monitoring undertaken by the Port is to determine the effectiveness of the BMPs, not necessarily to determine compliance with numeric water quality standards. Ecology has consistently stated that implementation and monitoring of BMPs is what is necessary to comply with the permit. 3. Because sampling and monitoring is done to assess compliance with BMPs, most of the sampling…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]