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May 2nd, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, largest bottling plant in North America, Sandra Spargo, Tethys Enterprises, Turners Bay Salmon Pocket Estuary | Category: Defending Water Newsletters, Feature, News, Resources, Rights of Nature, United States, Washington | Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin By Sandra Spargo
Turners Bay Salmon Pocket Estuary
In 2009, a $671,000 grant was spent to restore the Turners Bay Salmon Pocket Estuary.
Chinook salmon now have access to a nearly 60-acre tidal channel estuary and marsh complex.
The estuary is located at the northeast end of Similk Bay, in the Whidbey Basin of Puget Sound, one of 12 pocket estuaries that had been identified as a high priority restoration site in […]
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March 7th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, CEO Steve Winter, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Fidalgo Island, food-grade bottling plant, giant unit trains, Sandra Spargo, Skagit River, Tesoro Bakken shale oil, Tethys, UGA, urban growth area, Washington | Category: Anacortes, Defending Water Newsletters, Feature, News, Resources, United States, Washington | 
Defending Water in the Skagit Basin, an arm of Defending Water in Washington presents this March 2013 newsletter featuring a Tethys Enterprises Beverage Bottling Plant Site Update. We hope this information provides insight to the impact that the plant will have on Fidalgo Island and surrounding Skagit County Communities. […]
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December 15th, 2012 | Tags: Anacortes, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Just Water Alliance, lawsuit, Sandra Spargo, Skagit County, Skagit River Basin, Swinomish | Category: California, Defending Water Newsletters, Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, Maine, News, Oregon, Resources, United States, Washington | Sandra Spargo, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Dec. 15, 2012 Please find below an article in the Skagit Valley Herald that is entitled, County suggests Swinomish dismiss its lawsuit. The Swinomish lawsuit (supported by the City of Anacortes without citizen input), if successful, could lead to all rural and agricultural landowners in the Skagit River Basin losing access to well water if they had drilled their well in 2001 or after, Ecology officials have said.
Moreover, if the […]
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December 13th, 2012 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Everett, Mayor Ray Stephanson, Sandra Spargo, Skagit Valley, Steve Winter, Tethys, western United States, William Dietrich | Category: Anacortes, California, Defending Water Newsletters, Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, Maine, Oregon, United States, Washington | Sandra Spargo, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Anacortes, Wash.
Dec. 12, 2012
Will Anacortes’ push for manufacturing jobs on Fidalgo Island take us back to the future, when mills of many kind lined the Anacortes waterfront in the 1900s? A town in-between by local author William Dietrich was published in the Seattle Times’ Pacific Northwest Magazine on Feb. 20, 2005. The article’s excerpts include the following: With its industrial legacy and recreational future, Anacortes remains confused about where […]
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