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PROJECT: Des Moines Creek Basin Restoration Projects APPLICANT: Des Moines Creek Basin Cornmittee (city of SeaTac, city of Des Moines, Port of Seattle, King County, Washington State Department of Transportation) CONTACT: City of SeaTac: Michael Scarey, Senior Planner at (206) 241-1893/TDD (206) 241-0091 . Corbin Loch, Planning Manager for the City of Des Moines at (206) 870-7576 David Masters, Project Coordinator at (206) 354-9749 [E-mail: mikes(@seatac.wa.gov City of Des Moines: Basin Committee: LOCATION: Des Moines Creek Corridor, and Wetlands South of Sea-Tac Airport Runways, East of Des Moines Memorial Drive, (see attached map). PROPOSAL: The proposal involves the construction of several coordinated surface water management facilities to improve existing water quality conditions and to reduce existing flooding conditions within the Des Moines Creek basin. The irnprovements were identified in the Des Moines Creek Basin Plan which was published in 1997. More specifically, the proposal includes improvement of in-stream conditions by reduction of high flows, reduction in stream erosion, improvement of water quality, and improvement of in-stream fish habitat. The proposal includes numerous mitigation measures recommended by state, regional and local agencies to prevent and/or minimize potential adverse impacts. Projects include a new detention facility near the headwaters of Des Moines Creek, a high flow bypass pipe along Des Moines Creek, improving fish habitat conditions within Des Moines Creek, and low-flow augmentation to maintain fish-friendly water flows during dry summer months. These improvements are inter-related and operate in a coordinated fashion to reduce existing impacts to Des Moines (-"reek. The projects…

The proposal to build a conveyor belt across the Des Moines Beach and up through Des Moines Creek is back. Des Moines residents protested this proposal several years ago, and in 1999 the City Council voted unanimously to reject it. What's changed? Back in 1999, Wescot Industries proposed the following - barge arsenic-laden fill material from Maury Island to the Des Moines Beach, where it would be transferred to a conveyor belt and moved up to Sea-Tac Airport for the Port's Third Runway project. Have the people of Des Moines changed their minds about this misguided project? Have they decided that they would like a conveyor belt running through the heart of the community, putting Des Moines Creek at risk, turning Des Moines Beach Park into an industrial area? Why would a City Council, on record opposing the Third Runway project, give the green light to a project whose sole purpose is to facilitate construction of the runway? What To Do? Call (or e-mail) your Des Moines City Council members and tell them not to allow this project to proceed. Tell them it was a bad idea then, it's a bad idea now. No conveyor belts through Des Moines! "No" means "No". Don Wasson (Mayor) Richard Benjamin Maggie Steenrod Gary W. Petersen Susan White Bob Sheckler Scott Thomasson 206.878.1022 206.824.2971 206.991.3487 206.824.4679 253.941.4112 206.870.1904 206.824.5233 Normandy Park Temporary Barge Transfer F acilitv .-~-- dwasson@cityofdesmoines.com rben j amin@cityofdesmoines. com msteenrod@cityofdesmoines.com gpetersen@cityofdesmoines.com swhite@cityofdesmoines.com bsheckler@cityofdesmoines.com sthomasson@cityofdesmoines.com Des Moines

King County Department of Natural Resources, Water and Land Resources Division: David Masters, M.U.R.P. - Project Management, Land Use Planning David Hartley, Ph.D., P.E. - Hydrology, Modeling Alan Johnson, M.S. - Fisheries, Stream Ecology Aquatic Resources Consultants Clint Loper, P.E. - Engineering Derek Booth, Ph.D. - Geology Susan Kaufman-Una, M.S. - Water Quality Kenneth Ludwa, M.S. - Water Quality, Field Sampling Katie Morrill - Editing, Report Preparation Wendy Gable - Graphics PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM: Don Monaghan - City of SeaTac Tim Heydon - City of Des Moines Loren Reinhold - City of Des Moines Tom Hubbard, - Port of Seattle Gary Minton - Port of Seattle COOPERATING AGENCIES: Ken Kase - Midway Sewer District Roy Moore - Tyee Golf Course ADDITIONAL SUPPORT: Phil Schnieder - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Rod Malcom - Muckleshoot Indian Tribe

+ G 4 The Seattle Times Wednesday, April 9, 1980 Proposal for airport on Eastside pops up again by Charles Brown Times suburban reporter EAST KING COUNTY - After more than a year o[ dormancy, the specter of a new small-craft airport somewhere on the East- side has surfaced again. Revived by the Federal Avi- ation Administration, the airport proposal is being looked at by the state Department of Transporta- tion's aeronautics division, county planners and Port of Seattle officials. A Washington Airport Systems Plan has determined a need for eight new general-aviation air- ports in the Puget Sound region by the year 2000. And from the state's point of view, one of those airports is need- ed on the Eastside to fill a de- mand for aviation facilities, caused in part by closure of the Bellevue Airfield and encroach· ment on other regional airports. William H. Hamilton, assistant secretary for state aeronautics, emphasized that a new airport on the Eastside is still in the proposal stage. · "Nothing is concrete yet," he said. "We are merely talking in concepts at this point." He also acknowledged that'the airport idea has received an un- friendly reception by some East- side residents, who "do not want to see an airport in their backyards." Hamilton and representatives from the F.A.A., county and Pmt have fonned a task force to deter- mine how the airport could be im· plememed and financed, and where it ultimately shou!d be located. Out of an area which reaches…