The Bellingham Bay Foundation is a nonprofit community group dedicated to three principles: cleanup of the former G-P mill site and Whatcom Waterway, public ownership for long-term community-wide benefits, and a great redevelopment that includes excellent planning and economic development.
Cleanup Comes First
For the Whatcom Waterway, we have signed onto a statement of principles with ReSources, Washington Toxics Coalition, Conservation Northwest, People for Puget Sound, The Olympic Environmental Council, the Mt. Baker Sierra Club, the Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders, among other groups. We are asking for the removal of mercury from the marine environment and disposal in an approved upland disposal site. We remain committed to removing mercury from the uplands of the site all at once, before construction begins. We oppose a two-phase, land use-driven cleanup that will cap in place the chem-fix and the caustic groundwater plume. In a two-phase cleanup, the Port's only obligation is to the first phase of cleanup, which is industrial. We still insist that cleanup comes first!
Cleanup Comes First
For the Whatcom Waterway, we have signed onto a statement of principles with ReSources, Washington Toxics Coalition, Conservation Northwest, People for Puget Sound, The Olympic Environmental Council, the Mt. Baker Sierra Club, the Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders, among other groups. We are asking for the removal of mercury from the marine environment and disposal in an approved upland disposal site. We remain committed to removing mercury from the uplands of the site all at once, before construction begins. We oppose a two-phase, land use-driven cleanup that will cap in place the chem-fix and the caustic groundwater plume. In a two-phase cleanup, the Port's only obligation is to the first phase of cleanup, which is industrial. We still insist that cleanup comes first!
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Port of Bellingham requests the first of many permits required to construct a marina in the former Aerated Stabilzation Basin (ASB). The BBF reiterates its concerns about the marina in the ASB.
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Port of Bellingham requests the first of many permits required to construct a marina in the former Aerated Stabilzation Basin (ASB). The BBF reiterates its concerns about the marina in the ASB.
To learn more, click here.