EXH0044017588

PCHBPollution Control Hearings Board of the State of Washington

-Nov-Z6-OZ 04:4b_ nor;nwes; n_araUllC consu _UO *J_ _ " northwest hydraulic consultants inc. .-. sacramento 16300 ¢hriatensenroad, suite 350 seattle, washington 98188-3418 vancouver (206) 241-6000 - phone edmonton (206) 439-2420 - fax seattlewww.nhcweb.com November 26, 2001 Colonel Ralph H. Graves Ms. Muffy Walker Ms. Gall Ter-zi U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Seattle District P. O. Box 3755 Seattle, WA 98124-3755 Dear Colonel Graves, Ms. Walker and Ms. Terzi: Re: Corps Ref. No. 1996--4-02325: Port of Seattle Low Flow Mitigation As you know, Northwest Hydraulic Consultants has been retained on behalf of the Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) to provide a teclmicai review of stormwater facilities and streamflow impacts from development activities at SeaTac airport. The main purpose of this letter is to serve as a reminder that there are numerous substantive deficiencies and uncertainties in the Port's proposed plans for low flow mitigation in Miller, Walker, and Des Moines Creeks. This letter is also intended to identify an additional serious deficiency which we have not addressed previously, but which is evident from documents recently obtained by the ACC Our previous comments in this matter are already on record and remain unresolved. The most recent of those comments are in the form of legal declarations by William Rozeboom and are cited in Peter Eglick's letter to you dated November 16, 2001. Now, as then, public comment is forced to rely on incomplete draft documents. In the case of the Port's Low Flow Analysis, the documentation of the evaluation continues to be so…
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