Notes
Seattle Times news article (April 5, 1999, page B2) reporting community opposition in Des Moines, WA to a proposed temporary conveyor belt system to transport fill dirt for the third runway construction at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The conveyor belt, running approximately two miles from Puget Sound through Des Moines city parks and along a sewer-district maintenance road into the airport construction zone, was proposed by Henry ‘Hank’ Hopkins, president of Bellevue-based Wescot, as an alternative to dump trucks on South King County roads. Residents opposed both the conveyor belt and the third runway itself, packing City Council meetings; the third runway was scheduled for completion by 2005 and required more than 17 million cubic yards of fill.