TagThird Runway(1098)

Dr. John Strand, a fisheries biologist with over 25 years of experience, submitted this declaration in support of the Airport Communities Coalition's legal challenge to Washington State's water quality certification for Sea-Tac Airport's third runway expansion. Drawing on his own water quality sampling of Miller and Des Moines Creeks in 2000, Dr. Strand argues that the certification fails to adequately protect sensitive local waterways from stormwater runoff containing heavy metals, petroleum hydrocarbons, and other contaminants. He urges the Pollution Control Hearings Board to stay the certification until Clean Water Act compliance questions are fully resolved.

This document is a map from the Port of Seattle showing the comprehensive storm drainage system plan and drainage basins for the Seattle port facility. It identifies stormwater drainage basin color codes, outfall locations, and pump station locations across the property. The figure was entered as Exhibit 379A on February 18, 2002, in proceedings recorded by C. Mangio, RMR, CRR.

This document, marked as Exhibit No. 382 from the Bailey proceeding dated 2-18-02, contains a photographic image that appears to show an aerial or ground-level view of a landscape, likely related to environmental or noise impact evidence near Sea-Tac Airport. The photograph, originally a high-resolution JPEG (1360x1020x24b), depicts what appears to be a roadway or runway corridor surrounded by terrain. It is part of the administrative record (AR 021693) compiled in connection with Sea-Tac Airport noise policy litigation or regulatory proceedings.

This February 2002 supplement lists the technical documents relied upon by environmental scientist John A. Strand, Ph.D., when assessing the potential environmental impacts of proposed improvements outlined in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport's Master Plan Update. The documents primarily consist of laboratory analysis letters from Columbia Analytical Services and Analytical Resources, Inc., covering water quality sampling results collected between 2000 and 2002. An email regarding turbidity measurements in Des Moines Creek is also included, suggesting a focus on water quality impacts near the airport.

This document is a list of environmental and regulatory records relied upon by Greg Wingard, covering Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) operations from the 1980s through 2002. It includes NPDES discharge monitoring reports, stormwater management plans, groundwater contamination assessments, and industrial wastewater treatment evaluations involving the Port of Seattle (POS) and various airline tenants such as Alaska Airlines and Northwest Airlines. The records primarily address water quality, stormwater runoff, fuel spills, and environmental compliance at the airport.

Final report prepared by S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc. for Port Of Seattle, dated February 15, 2002, analyzing water quality and contaminant transport from embankment fill materials used in the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Third Runway construction. AR 053402. Covers embankment fill soil criteria, water-quality criteria, chemical analysis of soils, adsorption capacity, Synthetic Precipitation Leaching Procedure

In February 2002, Washington State Department of Ecology staff exchanged emails about resource constraints in reviewing the Port of Seattle's Low Streamflow Report related to Sea-Tac Airport's Third Runway project. Water Quality section chief Kevin Fitzpatrick warned that his team's resources were stretched to a breaking point and that senior staff could no longer participate in low flow analysis, leaving Ed Abbasi and John Drabek as primary contacts. Senior Regional Planner Ann Kenny explored options to offset costs, including billing staff time to an Interlocal Agreement with the Port and potentially contracting with the EPA for technical assistance.

This document, Appendix H from a National Research Council publication titled 'Compensating for Wetland Losses Under the Clean Water Act,' presents a comparative table of 40 common wetland functional assessment procedures. The table summarizes key attributes of each method, including habitat type, scale, functions assessed, and whether social values or weighting factors were applied. It serves as a reference for evaluating and comparing tools used to measure wetland functions in the context of Clean Water Act mitigation and compensation requirements.

A February 2002 letter from Marten Brown Attorneys at Law transmits Excel spreadsheets containing Elizabeth Clark's notes on fill sources related to the case ACC v. Port of Seattle. The attached spreadsheets provide a cumulative fill summary for the Draft Third Runway project at Sea-Tac Airport, detailing fill sources, suppliers, volumes, and placement locations across three construction phases spanning 1997–2001. Sources include borrowed pit materials, city transfers, and various property acquisitions used to build runway embankments and stockpiles.

This document is a February 2002 fax from Water Resources Consulting LLC addressing the effect of increasing water hardness on fresh water acute water quality standards, referencing WAC 173.201A.040. It contains tables calculating acute water quality standards for copper and zinc at varying hardness levels in fresh water. The document appears to be part of an administrative record (AR 021262) and was transmitted between consultants, though its connection to Sea-Tac Airport noise policy is not evident from the content.