Duwamish cleanup plan less murky
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition head BJ Cummings unveiled her organization’s final “vision” map to dignitaries and press on the river she hopes to clean. Seattle City Councilmember Richard Conlin, and Port Commission President John Creighton spoke.
While the river is plagued with polluted soil to be cleaned by Superfund dollars, Cummings’ organization’s wish list of ecological improvements has become less murky with the release of the map.
This map is the end result of DRCC’s Duwamish Valley Vision Project. It recommends habitat, and green industrial and transportation improvements along the Duwamish Corridor. It is a culmination of ideas collected from a diverse area population, including University of Washington students, Georgetown and South Park area homeless people, Cambodian and Vietnamese residents, and attendees of eight meetings over 2008, as well as 10 stakeholders the DRCC represents.
They include the South Park Neighborhood Association, the Georgetown Community Council, the Environmental Coolition of South Seattle, or ECOSS, and the Duwamish Tribe.