A $7.2 million effort to cover polluted near-shore areas adjoining Point Ruston with clean fill is due for completion this week.
A $7.2 million effort to cover polluted near-shore areas adjoining Point Ruston with clean fill is due for completion this week.
The pollutants are a legacy of the decades when the site hosted the Asarco copper smelter, which closed in the mid-1980s.
Pacific Pile and Marine is doing the work, and the state Department of Natural Resources is paying most of the cost of the remediation project.
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Samish Bay has been closed to shellfish harvest for the second time this spring after test results showed high levels of pollution entering the bay from the Samish River.
The latest closure ends the bay's chances of graduating to an "approved" classification by the state Department of Health this year, according to a news release.
The bay is "conditionally approved," which means shellfish operations there can be temporarily suspended each time the Samish River rises and the possibility of pollution increases. Once water tests show levels are satisfactory, the bay is reopened.
A stage 1 burn ban has been lifted in Pierce and Snohomish counties, according to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
BLAINE - The Washington state Department of Health reopened Drayton Harbor to commercial harvesting Wednesday, April 17, because fecal coliform pollution has dropped to safe levels.
It was closed Friday after water samples taken earlier in the week - following heavy rain and polluted runoff - from where California and Dakota creeks empty into Drayton Harbor showed very high levels of fecal coliform bacteria.
Water samples taken Monday, April 15, showed that the harbor was once again safe for shellfish harvesting.
The burn ban in place for Pierce, King and Snohomish counties has been lowered to a Stage 1 burn ban, according to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
Because of cold weather and rising air pollution, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency announced Thursday it is changing Pierce County’s burn ban back to the more restrictive Stage 2 until further notice.
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