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Understanding the program and how we can help Issue #1 Print version If you own a home in Burien, Des Moines, Kent or SeaTac, and have a sound insulation system (called a Port Package), you may be experiencing problems such as mold and water damage to your windows, doors and ceilings. You may also have
Understanding the new program and how we can continue to help If you own a home in Burien, Des Moines, Kent or SeaTac, and have a sound insulation system (called a Port Package), you may be experiencing problems such as mold and water damage to your windows, doors and ceilings. You may also have just
2024-01-20
Two NTSB investigators in protective gear examine what appears to be aircraft debris or parts on grass in a residential area. The investigators are wearing blue coveralls with NTSB patches and are carefully handling what looks like a white aircraft component with a rectangular opening.
2024-01-09
Two NTSB investigators in the field examining what appears to be aircraft debris or wreckage in a residential neighborhood. The investigators are wearing official NTSB jackets and appear to be conducting a safety investigation.
2023-12-24
Alaska Airlines flight attendants are protesting with yellow signs reading ‘Alaska Makes $$$$ We Can’t Make Rent’ and ‘Pay Us or Chaos’. The workers are demanding better compensation, expressing that while the airline is profitable, employees struggle to afford basic living expenses.
2023-07-28
Image shows a commercial aircraft engine with significant damage and fire/flames visible from the engine cowling during flight. The aircraft appears to be experiencing an in-flight emergency with engine failure over what looks like desert terrain below.
As we’ve written many times, Port of Seattle Commissioner is the most consequential vote on any ballot for airport community voters. But it is also the most difficult choice because position information on the issues we care about most is so difficult to find. Candidates focus on issues of concern to every constituency except airport communities.
We wrote an article called Anatomy of An Air Quality Monitoring Network. This article explains why building that system is so important to the future of Sea-Tac Airport Communities. It also describes a far more generalized problem in obtaining environmental mitigation. History In the world of engineering there is an expression: “No data, no problem.”
2023-06-01
What we have now This is one portion of the current Puget Sound Clean Air Agency air quality monitoring network map. The stars belong to PSCAA. The dots are rando PurpleAirs that belong to members of the public, they are irrelevant to this discussion. Airport Scroll down on that map to the airport. Notice something
2023-04-03
This is our successful 2023 grant application from 4Culture.org Under The Flight Path: A community history of Sea-Tac Airport A documentary of the Airport Communities of Sea-Tac from 1959 until today: Tukwila, Normandy Park, Des Moines, Federal Way, SeaTac and Burien. This will be the first modern history of South King County and also the
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