TagThird Runway(1098)

These draft meeting notes from March 28, 2001 document a technical meeting regarding the 401 Permit Decision-Making process for Sea-Tac International Airport's Third Runway project. The meeting covered feedback on stormwater management deliverables, including corrections to hydrological modeling tables and figures, as well as scoping discussions for upcoming deliverables related to vault structural feasibility and maintenance documentation. Representatives from the Department of Ecology, King County, Port of Seattle, and several consulting firms attended, with follow-up meetings scheduled for early April 2001.

Draft meeting notes prepared by Rachel McCrea of Floyd & Snider Inc. for a 401 Permit Decision-Making Technical Meeting held March 26, 2001, regarding the Sea-Tac International Airport Third Runway. Attendees included John Drabek and Ann Kenny (Dept. of Ecology), Keith Smith (Port Of Seattle), Kelly Whiting (King County), Paul Fendt and Tom Atkins (Parametrix),

Memorandum from Michael Bailey, P.E., Hart Crowser, Inc. to Jim Thomson, P.E., HNTB Corporation, dated March 26, 2001, documenting post-earthquake reconnaissance at the Sea-Tac Airport (STIA) Third Runway Project site (project J-4978-06) following the February 28, 2001, Nisqually earthquake. Two reconnaissance visits on March 1 and March 2, 2001 by Hart Crowser engineers Doug Lindquist

Email from Ann Kenny to Raymond Hellwig, Erik Stockdale, and Katie Walter (cc: Jeannie Summerhays, Kelly Whiting), dated March 21, 2001, transmitting Floyd & Snider Inc. Meeting Notes Summary (AR 034794, ECY00012495, Exhibit 2208) covering Sea-Tac Airport Third Runway 401 Permit negotiations on wetland issues only, October 2 through December 8, 2000. The summary documents

In this March 20, 2001 email, Ann E. Kenny, a Senior Permitting Specialist at the Washington Department of Ecology, contacts Elizabeth Leavitt while working on a three-month Coastal Zone Management (CZM) status letter. Kenny requests copies of two key documents: a shoreline exemption letter issued by the City of Auburn on 8/9/00, and air quality compliance documentation including a Governor's Certification from 6/30/97 and a PSCAA permit from 9/21/99.

Transmittal form dated March 19, 2001 from Parametrix, Inc. (James C. Kelley) to Gail Terzi and Muffy Walker, US Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Branch, for Port Of Seattle project number 556-2912-01(03A), POS-Master Plan Update. Transmits responses to comments by Amanda Azous and Dyanne Sheldon, map and aerial photographs of a stream relocation project on

Draft meeting notes from March 16, 2001 Technical Meeting on 401 Permit Decision-Making for Sea-Tac Airport Third Runway, prepared by Rachel McCrea of Floyd & Snider Inc. Attendees included John Drabek and Ann Kenny (Dept. of Ecology), Keith Smith (Port Of Seattle), Kelly Whiting (King County), Paul Fendt and Tom Atkins (Parametrix), and Felix Kristanovich

A March 15, 2001 laboratory report from Columbia Analytical Services sent to John Strand of the Airport Communities Coalition, summarizing water quality test results from samples submitted on February 28, 2001. The report, assigned service request number K2101434, confirms all analyses were conducted under the laboratory's quality assurance program. It includes reference sheets defining technical acronyms and data qualifiers used in interpreting inorganic, metals, and organic test results.

This is a March 15, 2001 deposition of James Clayton Kelley, a Senior Wetland Ecologist at Parametrix, taken in connection with a King County Superior Court case involving the Port of Seattle and the Sea-Tac Airport third runway project. Kelley, who holds a doctorate in plant ecology from Michigan State University, describes his role leading wetland delineation studies and 404 permit work for the project, including the identification and mapping of wetlands and prior converted croplands on properties such as the Vacca Farm. He testifies that wetland delineation reports prepared in August 1999 remained current with no significant changes, and that a 404 permit from the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of Ecology was still pending at the time of the deposition.

Following the Nisqually earthquake of February 28, 2001, GeoSyntec Consultants wrote to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Washington State Department of Ecology raising serious concerns about the seismic safety of the proposed Third Runway expansion at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The letter highlighted that the earthquake caused damage to mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls and widespread liquefaction despite being only a moderate event, reinforcing earlier warnings about flaws in the project's seismic design criteria and ground motion analysis. GeoSyntec argued that the airport's role as a regional emergency lifeline demands higher safety standards than those applied to ordinary residential structures.