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Seattle s $3.9M Superfund Cleanup Settlement Gets Final OK
Law360 (May 10, 2021, 2:01 PM EDT) Seattle can resolve its liability for releasing oil and other hazardous substances at a Superfund site by funding roughly $3.9 million in remediation after a settlement with tribes as well as the federal and Washington state government was approved.
U.S. District Judge James L. Robart entered final judgment on the consent decree Friday, nearly five years after a version of the settlement was first filed between Seattle, federal agencies, the Washington State Department of Ecology, the Suquamish Tribe and the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, which are trustees for the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund site.
Fish travel through this ladder before entering two holding ponds.
Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. recently finished a $112 million contract that built the country s largest trap-and-haul fish passage facility, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The facility is adjacent to an existing hatchery on the White River that is owned by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, about 6 miles downstream from Mud Mountain Dam and near the city of Buckley.
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Colleen Echohawk, a Native American woman and key advocate in Seattleâs homelessness crisis, is running for mayor of the Pacific north-west city and laying the groundwork for it to potentially elect its first indigenous mayor.
Echohawk, an enrolled member of the Kithehaki Band of the Pawnee Nation and a member of the Upper Athabascan people of Mentasta Lake, is a progressive Democrat, but one, she said, âwith strong roots in pragmatismâ.
Her success in the race would be truly distinctive. It would mean the city that over 150 years ago approved an ordinance expelling the Native community, would be run by an Indigenous woman.