404 Permit Maury Island Barging And Pier Comments Relevant To Sea-Tac Third Fill Dirt Ab Mx 2616n 20220823 171938

Subject: Maury Island Barging and Pier Comments relevant to Sea-Tac Third Runway 404 Permit Application 1996-4-02325 Enclosed you will find comments submitted to the Department of Development and Environmental Services regarding the new pier and barging related to the mining of ASARCO contaminated Maury Island. It's a potential source of fill for the Sea-Tac Third runway. It also has many of the same environmental issues since runway and construction pollution empty into the Puget Sound via the creeks and the sewer outfall by Des Moines creek. The week of November 18 Seattle Post-lntelligencer (PI) series titled "Our Troubled Sound" further substantiated my attached comments regarding the existing taxies, declining marine life, and the inability to wash taxies out with the tide due to deep areas just north of Maury Island. It provided information on a tanker with 13.5 million gallons of crude that travels to Tacoma whose path would intersect with the barge path. There is an obvious risk of collision considering there would be 8 barge crossings per day cutting across the path used by the tanker as well as other large ships going to Tacoma. The PI series showed graphs of declining fish populations that looked similar to the Southern Puget Sound whale population decline. The marine life declined at the same time that there was a dramatic increase in de-icer use as well as a shift to new types of de-icers as a result in a change in FAA protocols. The corresponding increase in the new propylene…

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