Two opportunities for civic involvement for you this Tuesday night: you’ll have to decide which is more important to you: raising the minimum wage to $15 / hour or keeping our waterways clean?
Does attending Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant’s discussion on the minimum wage and other civic topics on Tuesday, June 24 at 7 pm at St Andrew’s Church, 111 NE 80th St mean that you don’t care about the environment?
Does attending the Seattle Public Utilities open house and hearings on The Plan to Protect Seattle Waterways from sewage overflows at 6 pm on Tuesday, June 24 at the Lake Washington Rowing Club, 910 N Northlake Way mean you don’t care about wage inequality and the rights of the poor?
If you and your spouse agreed to each attend one, while keeping each other apprised of the progress across town via Skype on your Verizon iPhones, would that implicitly cast your vote against net neutrality?
Don’t be discouraged. Just because you can’t do everything doesn’t mean you should do nothing. Nor should you let the latest Bread and Soccers advertising and sponsorship distractathon keep you at home: games end by evening our time. Choose your issue, whether it be income equality, clean water, or something else that races your puluse, and go after it.
Some more details:
SPU seeks input on Plan to Protect Seattle’s Waterways
Proposed projects would prevent sewage overflows across the city
SEATTLE —The Plan to Protect Seattle’s Waterways from sewage overflows will be the feature of a public open house and hearing at 6 p.m., June 24 at the Lake Washington Rowing Club, 910 N. Northlake Way, Seattle.
In some parts of Seattle, stormwater combines with sewage in one pipeline and overflows to the nearest waterway when there is too much rain. This combined sewer system serves about two-thirds of Seattle’s population and was built before the federal Clean Water Act prohibited such overflows. The City of Seattle is under a consent decree with the federal government to prevent sewage overflows. The Plan describes the facilities that would be improved or built to do that by the 2025 deadline.
Seattle’s plan includes traditional sewage storage projects, as well as projects that would address polluted stormwater runoff without sewage in it. This option prioritizes projects that provide significant benefit to Seattle waterways by preventing polluted stormwater runoff. The stormwater projects would be implemented before some smaller sewage overflow projects. Those deferred projects would then have an extended deadline of 2030.
For those unable to attend the June 24 public hearing, comments may also be submitted by June 30 to Betty Meyer, Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle Municipal Tower, Suite 4900, PO Box 34018 Seattle, WA 98124-4018. Input can also be provided via e-mail to [email protected].
Learn more about the Plan to Protect Seattle’s Waterways at www.seattle.gov/cso.
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