Sewage storage at Lincoln Park? Fauntleroy group’s next step

From tonight’s Fauntleroy Community Association meeting: Topic A remains the recently surfaced suggestion that the south parking lot of Lincoln Park might be the best place for a storage facility to reduce combined-sewer overflows (CSO) from the Murray Pump Station at Lowman Beach. As noted in previous coverage, the idea came from a citizens’ advisory group made up mostly of people who live outside Fauntleroy, which already is in line to get a CSO-reduction project for the area feeding the Barton Pump Station next to the ferry dock. Tonight, FCA members decided they’ll seek to meet with King County Wastewater Treatment Division‘s Linda Sullivan to talk about their ongoing concerns, many of which were expressed at last week’s community meeting about the proposal (WSB coverage here, including video of the entire meeting). They also want to talk about what might be done to mitigate the effects if the site is chosen. The comment deadline is November 15th, and King County – according to what spokesperson Annie Kolb-Nelson told us a few days ago – expects to decide on its “preferred alternatives” for Murray and Barton in mid-December, so there’s some urgency. Main issues for the FCA regarding the parking lot: Where would people park during construction? How would local businesses be affected? (For more information on the CSO proposals, go here for the Murray process, and here for the Barton process.) One other item of business tonight: March 15, 2011, is the date chosen for the FCA’s annual Food Fest membership-drive event.

The FCA meets the second Tuesday of each month, 7 pm at The Hall at Fauntleroy (in the schoolhouse).

1 Reply to "Sewage storage at Lincoln Park? Fauntleroy group's next step"

  • old timer November 9, 2010 (11:49 pm)

    NIMBYS UNITE!
    They offshored our jobs, lets offshore our sewage!
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    Understandably, no one wants the overflow tank in their neighborhood.
    And, regardless of the chosen spot, a provision will have to be made to allow the random 100 or 500 year storm, which would fill any thing short of an infinite tank, to overflow into the Sound.
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    I don’t know why they just don’t moor a big tanker out there and pump the overflow stuff into it. The tanker could power itself to a sewage treatment plant when it’s almost full, dump the load, and return to it’s station.
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    Maybe the top of it could be made into a sort of park, with trees and seaside plantings with access and places for recreational boats to tie up for a few hours.
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    Sounds like a lot more fun than having our communities dug up for a half of a decade, and it would give local engineers and naval architects a challenge.
    Local jobs to build and maintain it.
    Maybe some kind of Federal ‘eco-innovation’ grant could aid funding.
    Oh well…

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