A second noise meter has been added to the roof of one of the new Pacific Raceways garages. The meter is live and streaming data, in accordance with the raceway’s IUP condition. Both noise meter data is available on https://pacificraceways.landaudashboard.com where you can click the green dots for either meter … [Read more...]
King County Comprehensive Plan 2024
This year King County will be completing a Comprehensive Plan which will affect our future. Roads, housing developments, parks and trails, agricultural and forest lands as well as commercial/industrial developments (ie rural businesses, gravel mines, asphalt plants, etc.) are all to be … [Read more...]
Tires Poisoning of Salmon
SCAR’s continuing efforts to make the public aware of ecological impacts by water pollution on the salmon populations and therefore the Soos Creek Salmon Hatchery, presents the following articles that appeared in the Seattle Times. PacRac has been generating hundreds if not thousands of pounds of tire wear particles around their race tracks for nearly 50 years with no effort to cleanup or … [Read more...]
Salmon – Impacts of Poisoning
The Seattle Times has two articles describing the impacts (poisoning) on salmon populations by a tire compound which is a major concern for the salmon hatchery located just downstream of Pacific Raceways where racing vehicles create significant quantities of this material. It would be very helpful if you would write a letter to or email King Co. officials about this problem suggesting that … [Read more...]
Building a New Airport
In keeping with SCAR’s pledge to inform and educate area residents of government actions that affect most all of us, this Seattle Time article may be of interest. [Read more...]