EXH 264: Low Streamflow Analysis Summer Low Flow Impact Offset Facility Proposal — STIA Master Plan Update

This December 2001 technical report, prepared for the Port of Seattle, analyzes low streamflow conditions around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and proposes a facility to offset the impact of airport Master Plan construction on summer low flows in nearby creeks. It includes hydrologic modeling, water quality design considerations, and an operation and monitoring plan for a stormwater storage and release system intended to maintain stream levels during dry summer months. Note that while archived alongside airport planning documents, this report focuses on water resources and stream impact mitigation rather than noise policy.

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Exhibit 264 (AR 019459), prepared by Parametrix, Inc. with Aqua Terra Consultants, Earth Tech, Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, HNTB, and Pacific Groundwater Group for Port Of Seattle, December 2001. Technical report analyzing summer low streamflow impacts from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Master Plan Update Improvements (STIA MPU), including HSPF hydrologic model calibration, embankment modeling, non-hydrologic impacts (cessation of water withdrawals, removal of septic tank discharges), HEC-RAS water level modeling, and net flow impacts to creeks. Proposes a summer low flow impact offset facility (reserve stormwater release vault), with vault sizing analysis, water quality design addressing turbidity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, and metals, plus a pilot program, operation and maintenance plan, biological monitoring (B-IBI), fill infiltration BMPs, and adaptive management. Filed with Washington State Department of Ecology; document is part of PCHB third-runway EIS administrative record.

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