[CPEO-MEF] NATURAL RESOURCES: "Navy to invest in the habitat project to address historical pollution to Everett’s Port Gardner" (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Settlement is ‘an elegant solution to a 100-year-old problem’
A court agreement requires the Port of Everett and the Navy to make up for past pollution. 

By Noah Haglund
Everett Herald *WA)
June 4, 2019 

EVERETT — A new federal court settlement outlines specific steps to restore salmon habitat in the Snohomish River estuary as a way of addressing the polluted legacy on Everett’s waterfront.

The consent decree that the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday focuses on the Port of Everett’s Blue Heron Slough project. The 353-acre area will be familiar to drivers who have noticed large earthen mounds off the east side of I-5 between downtown Everett and Marysville. The proposed agreement obligates the port and the U.S. Navy to invest in the habitat project to address historical pollution to Everett’s Port Gardner.

“The Blue Heron Slough project will benefit various threatened species, including the Chinook salmon, which is the primary food source of the Southern Resident killer whale (orca),” said Erik Gerking, the port’s director of environmental programs, in a prepared statement.

Lisa Lefeber, a deputy executive director with the port, called it “an elegant solution to a 100-year-old problem.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/settlement-is-an-elegant-solution-to-a-100-year-old-problem/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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