TagPollution Control Hearings Board(1532)

Dr. John Strand, a fisheries biologist, submits this declaration to the Pollution Control Hearings Board addressing water quality violations in project streams near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. He disputes claims by the Port of Seattle and Washington Department of Ecology that metals exceedances (copper, lead, zinc) do not occur in Miller and Des Moines Creeks as

Washington State Department of Ecology Water Quality Certification Order #1996-4-02325 (Amended-1), dated September 21, 2001, issued to Port Of Seattle (Attn: Elizabeth Leavitt) for construction of a third runway and related projects at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (STIA). Certifies compliance with Clean Water Act Sections 301, 302, 303, 306, and 307; FWPCA Section 401; RCW 90.48.260;

Paper submitted to Water Environment Federation for Watershed 2002 conference by Port Of Seattle researchers. Describes a best management practice (BMP) screening study testing filtration media — including deciduous leaf compost (CSF®), soybean hulls (SBH), extra fine leaf compost (XFCSF), commercial polyamine sponge, and zeolite/perlite (ZP) — for reducing zinc concentrations and whole effluent toxicity

Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) Agreement and Order Re Rescission of 401 Certification, PCHB No. 01-150 and No. 01-133, involving Port Of Seattle and Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) as appellants against Washington State Department of Ecology. Ecology Order No. 1996-4-02325 issued August 10, 2001 included a Section 401 Clean Water Act water quality certification and

Washington State Department of Ecology Water Quality Certification Order #1996-4-02325 (Amended-1), dated September 21, 2001, issued to Port Of Seattle (attention Elizabeth Leavitt) for construction of a third runway and related projects at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (STIA). Certifies compliance with Clean Water Act Sections 301, 302, 303, 306, and 307, RCW 90.48.260, and WAC 173-201A.

A letter from Greg Wingard (via Smith & Lowney) to John Drabek, Permit Manager at the Washington Department of Ecology’s Northwest Regional Office, following up on a State Public Disclosure Request. The letter clarifies the scope of documents requested, including upstream/downstream construction monitoring data and turbidity discharge monitoring data from airport construction activities dating back

HartCrowser report prepared for Port of Seattle, September 21, 2001, project 4978-54. Topsoil Management Plan for Borrow Area 4 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (STIA), City of SeaTac, Washington, in support of third runway embankment construction. Documents arsenic contamination in topsoil from ASARCO copper smelter airborne emissions plume (Tacoma smelter plume), chemical analysis results, comparison to

Conference paper submitted September 21, 2001 to Water Environment Federation for Watershed 2002 conference, authored on behalf of the Port Of Seattle regarding Sea-Tac Airport stormwater best management practice (BMP) screening. Tests filtration media — deciduous leaf compost (CSF®), soybean hulls (SBH), extra fine deciduous leaf compost (XFCSF), commercial inorganic polyamine sponge, and zeolite/perlite (ZP)

Hart Crowser, Inc. subsurface conditions data report (project 4978-28) prepared for HNTB, dated September 21, 2001, covering Phase 5 Fill and Subgrade Improvement for the Third Runway Embankment at Sea-Tac International Airport, SeaTac, Washington. Report authored by Carsten Becker (E.I.T., Senior Staff Geotechnical Engineer) and Michael J. Bailey (P.E., Project Manager). Covers geologic and hydrogeologic

This Work Plan provides an alternative methodology for meeting fill suitability criteria under Ecology’s Water Quality Certification and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Biological Opinion for the Port of Seattle’s third runway embankment and other Port 404 Projects. It describes procedures for using the Synthetic Precipitation Leaching Procedure (SPLP) to determine the suitability of