September 23, 2003

Environmental Watch: Ecology adds 29 cleanup sites

OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Ecology added 29 properties to the list of contaminated sites that Ecology targets for cleanup.

Ecology named sites in Benton, Clark, Island, King, Kitsap, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lewis, Okanogan, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane, Stevens, Thurston and Whatcom counties.

The King County properties include 26930 262nd Ave. in Ravensdale, 12631 and 12633 N.E. Woodinville Dr. in Woodinville, and 9420 Rainier Ave. S. in Seattle.

The Pierce County properties include Shear Transport in Buckley and Woodworth Lakeview Gravel Pit in Tacoma. The Snohomish County properties include Cascade Cleaners in Snohomish, Bond Street/Kromer Avenue in Everett and the Upper Ridge Reservoir site.

Ecology also removed 12 sites from its list that have been cleaned up and no longer pose threats. Those sites are in Adams, Franklin, King, Kitsap, Klickitat, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane and Thurston counties. Visit Ecology's hazardous sites list at www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/tcp/mtca_gen/hazsites.html.

Farallon adds staff

ISSAQUAH -- Farallon Consulting added staff chemist Jeff Keller to its Issaquah office and geologist Brian D. Gouran to its Bellingham office.

Keller studied chemistry at Washington State University and has four years' experience with oil and hazardous waste spill responses, site investigations and assessments and analytical sampling and testing. He will do environmental monitoring and sampling, due diligence projects, environmental data interpretation, site characterization studies and will offer technical support on remediation systems.

Gouran studied Geology at Western Washington University and has more than four years' experience in surface and groundwater monitoring, site characterization, monitoring well installation, soil and groundwater sampling and contaminated site cleanup. He will provide project and technical support to Bellingham office manager Paul Grabau.

Marten Law Group grows

SEATTLE -- Marten Law Group added partners Allan Bakalian, Maggie Hall and Steve Jones and environmental lawyers Debbie Espinosa and Jeff Kray.

Espinosa worked for the U.S. Department of the Interior, where she represented federal agencies such as the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management on land management issues.

Kray left the Ecology Division of the Washington State Attorney General's Office. He has practiced before the state Pollution Control Hearings Board and before state and federal trial and appellate courts.

Marten Law Group attorneys are working on endangered species, air and water quality, waste cleanup and other environmental cases in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

O'Brien & Co. makes staff moves

SEATTLE -- Green-building consulting, education and research firm O'Brien & Co., Inc. added project associate Katherine Morgan to its Seattle headquarters.

Morgan studied environmental science at Barnard College and community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia and has more than 16 years' experience in planning, research, education, program development, policy, communications and public participation.

Project associate Rebekah Henderson earned a Sustainable Building Advisor certificate from Seattle Central Community College and LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Senior project associate Jane Simmons earned Construction Documents Technologist certification from the Construction Specifications Institute.

BPA names enviro VP

Lamb

Before Lamb started acting in the BPA position nine months ago, she was the administrator's special assistant for fish and wildlife strategy and manager of BPA's Power Operations Planning. She was BPA's lead negotiator for the hydro system portions of the National Marine Fisheries Service's 2000 biological opinion and was an economist in the agency's Office of Energy Resources' policy analysis, resource evaluation and product development groups.

Anchor adds staff

SEATTLE -- Anchor Environmental added geotechnical and coastal engineer Rebecca Desrosiers to its Seattle office. She will oversee engineering and construction services on geotechnical, sediment remediation, waterway and coastal projects in the environmental science and engineering firm's waterfront engineering group.

Library adds sustainability guide

SEATTLE -- Those who want to see the The Resource Guide for Sustainable Development in an Urban Environment can now find it in the Seattle Public Library's Seattle collection.

Performed under contract with the Urban Environmental Institute and funded by Vulcan Inc., the guide discusses how developers can use sustainable practices to create value. Mithun President Bert Gregory led the study's consultant team, who used the city's South Lake Union neighborhood as a case study.

The study used U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design criteria to help evaluate sustainable strategies. It addresses site issues, energy use, water resources and materials. To download a copy of the study, visit www.mithun.com.

Ferrier to speak at NEBC event

PORTLAND -- Grant Ferrier, president of Environmental Business International and editor of the Environmental Business Journal, will speak at the a Northwest Environmental Business Council Cascade Chapter event Oct. 2.

Ferrier co-wrote an assessment of America's environmental industry published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and is chairman and founder of the California Environmental Business Council. He will speak over breakfast in the 5th Avenue Suites Hotel at 506 S.W. Washington from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. .

Registration is $40 for NEBC members and $45 for non-members. For information, call (888) 609-6322 or visit http://www.nebc.org.

Worldwide water-quality tests start

OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Ecology is asking Washingtonians to join a month-long effort to test the health of lakes, streams and marine waters.

People around the world will test local waters to prepare for World Water Monitoring Day Oct. 18. Participants will test water for dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature and turbidity and will enter test results into an international database.

More than 75,000 people at 5,150 locations took part in the first National Water Monitoring Way last year. Washington ranked in the top five states, with 2,375 participants at 420 locations. To register or learn more, visit www.worldwatermonitoringday.org.