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 …
2019 March 29 Today’s news in the Peninsula Daily News is important enough to quote at length. The current contract will not be renewed: a new one is in negotiation. Speak with our City Councillors and Manager about how these decades of considerations to the mill have shifted burdens onto other existing and potential businesses, and …
How much pollution does Port Townsend Paper spew? Has it gotten any better? The attached table, entitled 2008-2016 PTPC Pollution Indicators to Air-Water-Land presents Port Townsend Paper’s pollution track record for 9 years, from 2008-2016 in a file with easy totals, and a page for each year. More about it below, but first — In …
EPA’s ECHO database (Environmental Compliance History Online) yields some great information once you get exploring around in it. An EPA official showed me that by following the “Facility Search” link, it brought me to a page that combines annual pollution data for Port Townsend Paper that is collected through three EPA programs (TRI, NAAQS and GHG), …