The county is proposing code revisions related to septic and certain other on-site sewage systems.  The state has updated its requirements, and part of that process is that local governments update their standards to, at a minimum at least meet the state requirements.  In addition to that King County is looking at updating this area of the county code. Recently the public outreach/input … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]