RCAA Truth in Aviation – April 29, 2004

Plans of the Port of Seattle to bring contaminated fill to the third-runway embankment site may result in a major delay in resuming work on the project. ...more Sea-Tac's New Water-Pollution Permit Plainly Unlawful, Citizens' Groups Tell Pollution Control Hearings Board Two citizens' groups have told the Pollution Control Hearings Board that the recently-issued water-pollution permit for Sea-Tac Airport is plainly illegal. They have asked the Board to make a finding to that effect as a matter of law, before the hearing scheduled for mid- July. ...more Temporary Closure of McChord AFB May Send Additional Flights to Boeing Field McChord Air Force Base plans to shut down its flight operations for the month of August to allow construction crews to complete repairs to the 10,100 runway, according to a news article in the News Tribune on April 15. An Air Force spokesman said that all “commercial aircraft will be redirected to Boeing Field for the duration of the project”. ...more Sea-Tac's North Terminal Project Shelved; Light-Rail Extension to Airport Garage Planned Sea-Tac Airport planners have abandoned the proposed $3 billion North Terminal project. Airport spokesman Bob Parker told Truth in Aviation , “You can quote me as saying that the north terminal is gone." ...more U.S. DOT Orders Demand Management At O'Hare To Reduce Delays On April 21, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta announced new reductions in United and Sea-Tac Airport August 2003 from the north The runway to the west is the new taxiway. Mounds of earth to…
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