Mill’s year-by-year water usage charges, 1928-2020 This chart shows year-by-year from 1928-2020, how much the City charged Port Townsend Paper for full use of the Olympic Gravity Water System and unlimited, unmetered water. It is based on the four leases, 1928, 1944, 1956 and 1983, between the City of Port Townsend and the mill. Technically, the mill has never been charged …
Monitoring is the first thing that comes to mind when most of us get jazzed about taking action for cleaner air. I agree. To be sure, one powerful path to success is sharing our collective experiences and connecting them with exposure to the mill’s plume, and activists have been successful even without dedicated technologies. Yet! …
PT AirWatchers has located and posted all four water leases between the City and the mill at http://ptairwatchers.org/data/documents/ so that you can read for yourself the evolving arrangement. They are dated 1928, 1944, 1956 and 1983, and take us through March 15, 2020, 1904. City completes the Snow Creek pipeline which had been started by the …
This notice in the PDN came to our attention. The firms can answer questions about the well-known ongoing exposures to crumbling asbestos faced by past and current workers. From the Bergman “By 1930, the Crown Zellerbach Corporation was aware the dangerous of the asbestos used to insulate its paper mills. Reports show that it wasn’t …
Port Townsend Paper’s plumbing is ancient and creaky, just like everything else there. But upon hearing that despite good work by the mill’s plumbing staff, something north of 10% of the water that comes to the mill is lost just through bad plumbing and system leaks, I was amazed. Given the mill’s usage of 400,000,000 …
Zero. That’s how much Port Townsend Paper has paid to the City since 1985 — the past 35 years! — for approximately 400,000,000 (400 million) gallons of water monthly plus use of the water system infrastructure, according to the terms of their contract with the City dated Apil 1, 1956 and on December 31, 1983, extended …
============ Forwarded message ============ From: Davis, Nancy D. (ECY) <NADA461@ECY.WA.GOV> To: “Davis, Nancy D. (ECY)”<NADA461@ECY.WA.GOV> Cc: “Abbett, Marian L. (ECY)”<MABB461@ECY.WA.GOV> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:44:51 -0700 Subject: Port Angeles Rayonier Mill cleanup: Ecology EXTENDS Public Comment Period to Nov 26, 2019 ============ Forwarded message ============ Hello, This message is about the Port Angeles Rayonier …
This just in! If you have time this morning to sign onto the comment letter — NOON MONDAY OCTOBER 28, 2019, please send your name and address to the email address below (if signing for an organization, include organization name and your title). Support our neighbors in Port Angeles in their ongoing effort to get …
Public hearing: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 6:30pm at Fort Worden Commons Link to Ecology’s webpage for more information on this project. We learned late Monday that Ecology will indeed hold a public meeting for live q&a and public comments on Port Townsend Paper’s newest project. Port Townsend Paper’s pulper expansion will allow them to increase their …
Click below for full PDN article: Port Townsend Paper Corporation settles with EPA for violation of Clean Air Act According to a Peninsula Daily News report today, Sunday June 9, 2019, Port Townsend Paper has just been fined $346,000 by the EPA for toxic fumes that have been known to be escaping from …