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SUBJECT: Low Streamflow Analysis, Summer Low Flow Impact Offset Facility Proposal, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport This letter summarizes the Port of Seattle's evaluation of summer low streamflow impacts in Des Moines, Miller, and Walker Creeks calculated to result from proposed airport Master Plan Update projects. This letter also summarizes the Port's proposal to offset these impacts to maintain existing summer low streamflow conditions in these creeks post project. The methodology used to determine the effects and the plan to offset the impacts was developed and discussed in a series of meetings between the Port of Seattle (Port), Department of Ecology (Ecology), and King County, with staff from Floyd Snider McCarthy, Inc., acting as facilitators. The evaluation and low streamflow impact offset proposal is final, subject to potential conditions associated with your review during 401 permit deliberations. The Port plans to submit final documentation of the low streamflow evaluation and operational plan for mitigation facilities in the form of a detailed Low Streamflow Analysis Report and Summer Low Flow Impact Offset Facility Operational Plan, outlines of which are included as an attachment to this letter. Summary The Port's proposal is to detain stormwater in underground vaults and release the detained water continuously into each creek during the summer low streamflow period at a rate equal to the calculated summer low streamflow impact to that creek from planned Port projects. The summer low streamflow impacts in each creek were determined through detailed modeling analysis. The summer low streamflow periods were determined through statistical…

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