EXH0239018972

PCHBPollution Control Hearings Board of the State of Washington

Subject: Preliminary Comments (Set 1) on August 2000 Stormwater Management Plan for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Master Plan Update Improvements. Northwest Hydraulic Consultants (nhc) has been retained on behalf of the Airport Communities Coalition to provide a technical review of stormwater facilities and related streamflow impacts from the proposed 3rd runway development at SeaTac airport. By a letter dated November 24, 1999, we provided our initial comments from our technical review of the November 1999 version of the Stormwater Management Plan (SMP) for Master Plan Update Improvements at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Substantive follow-up concerns were presented in our email of 4/4/2000 and letters of 5/3/2000, 7/31/2000, and 9/7/2000. Our technical comments and concerns have been consistently corroborated by King County and Pacific Groundwater Group under separate contracts to Ecology. The purpose of this letter is to provide our first set of preliminary comments on the August 2000 version of the project Stormwater Management Plan (SMP). Our comments are being provided on an incremental basis because of delays in our being provided the SMP and the lack of adequate time to provide comprehensive review comments. We were advised by Ray Hellwig during a meeting on September 6, 2000 that a decision on the Port's 401 Certification application ." might be made by Ecology at any time after September 15, 2000. Please take the time to consider this letter and the subsequent letters which will follow in this series. The August 2000 SMP is a half-foot thick, 17-pound document. An incomplete version of…
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