EXH0230018918

PCHBPollution Control Hearings Board of the State of Washington

,Ecjlick,Peter J., . II EXHIBIT,0, 29° r-- From: BRozeboom@nhc-sea.com I _" 5"° ;_' I Sent: Wednesday, February 16. 2000 4:22 PM To: eglick@helsell.com _ M. Green Jl Cc: MLeytham@nhc-sea.com Subject: Lagoon Expansion - Fitzpatrick email Peter - As requested, here are my initial thoughts for your follow-up to the email sent Jan 13, 2000 9:50 am from Kevin Fitzpatrick to Tom Luster. There is some truth to what Fitzpatrick is saying. However, given the information available to us, we would take issue with some of the points made. Fitzpatrick implies that the major work being proposed is simply a water quality improvement and that any additional work to accommodate the future 3rd runway is incidental and minor. We would need to see the engineering studies behind the proposed expansion before accepting that explanation. It seems to me that the major element of the work--which is the excavation needed to increase Iws system pond volume by 46 million gallons (or 141 acre-fee') above the current volume of 26 million gallons--is driven primarily by the need to accommodate proposed Master Plan Improvements __ which include the 3rd runway. Note that the ratio of increased volume to existing volume (46/26) is 1.77 and that the expansion will produce roughly a threefold increase in total available volume. Table 4-I on page 4-12 of the airport's 11/99 version of the Stormwater Management Plan provides data which are relevant to the proposed IWS storage expansion. According to Table 4-1, there are now (as of 1994) 272.5…
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