Using coastline for sewage plant is a waste

Published 9:00 pm Friday, May 10, 2002

As residents of Edmonds, we feel sick to hear of King County’s plan to turn the beautifully reclaimed Edmonds waterfront property into a sewage treatment plant called Brightwater.

Edmonds already has two sewage plants. These plant facilities serve Edmonds and four other cities in Snohomish County and King County. The state Growth Management Act says that no city shall have an aggregation of essential public facilities. The people of Edmonds currently support more than their share of such public facilities.

One of the most beautiful assets and resources that Washington has is its shoreline. It is easy to take this for granted living in a coastal state, but to people in most of the Continental U.S., a shoreline is a rare treasure. Using such a unique setting for a sewage treatment plant seems like a poor investment of property that could promise much better use.

Edmonds