I read with interest the July 5 editorial, “Public can generate environmental action.” King County is looking at six sites in Snohomish to put a sewer plant. One is Thrashers Corner. North Creek with its salmon runs right through the site and the site is crisscrossed with other salmon bearing streams and creeks. It has a marvelous swamp, a virtual kidney for the land. Over half the acreage of the site is wetlands. Fifty-five acres are set aside by covenant for passive use only – our promised park in 1997. Upstream is Snohomish County’s beautiful North Creek Park and Tom Murdoch’s Adopt-a-Stream Foundation. If Thrashers Corner is trashed, what happens upstream?

Four of the five remaining sites are already industrialized with gravel pits, tank farms, auto wrecking contaminates and an asphalt plant. The fifth is a gun site. I ask Snohomish County residents to join in saving the whole of Thrashers Corner, as is, with the only impact being to develop the site for passive use. When I addressed the King County Council regarding this site, I challenged them not only to take it off the list but to join in efforts in trying to preserve it as is for future generations. I challenged the Snohomish County Council as well.

If enough kidney function is lost in a person, dialysis is required. If kidneys are not replaced, it can lead to death. What happens to the land and our water when kidney function is lost? Citizens, I ask your help in preserving Thrashers Corner as one step in creating what the editorial called “a truly sustainable lifestyle in the United States.” Take a step in “creating demand for protection of the environment.” Call your elected representatives and tell them this is not a suitable site. Call the elected officials in King County who will be making the decision and tell them this is not a suitable site.

If we can save this site and others like it, then we must all join in being caretakers which includes “creating demand for environmentally responsible practices.” I know this is just one very small piece of the whole, but it’s a start. Folks, it can happen if we demand it. Remember “Horton Hears a Who”? The effort of every last one of us is needed.

Start your calls!

Mill Creek