April 30, 2004
Vol.11, No.3

Runway Opponents Discover Port Plan To Haul Contaminated Fill to Runway Project
Plans of the Port of Seattle to bring contaminated fill to the third-runway embankment site may result in a major delay in resuming work on the project. ...more

Sea-Tac's New Water-Pollution Permit
Plainly Unlawful, Citizens' Groups
Tell Pollution Control Hearings Board
Two citizens' groups have told the Pollution Control Hearings Board that the recently-issued water-pollution permit for Sea-Tac Airport is plainly illegal. They have asked the Board to make a finding to that effect as a matter of law, before the hearing scheduled for mid-July. ...more

Temporary Closure of McChord AFB May
Send Additional Flights to Boeing Field
McChord Air Force Base plans to shut down its flight operations for the month of August to allow construction crews to complete repairs to the 10,100 runway, according to a news article in the News Tribune on April 15. An Air Force spokesman said that all “commercial aircraft will be redirected to Boeing Field for the duration of the project”. ...more

Sea-Tac's North Terminal Project Shelved;
Light-Rail Extension to Airport Garage Planned
Sea-Tac Airport planners have abandoned the proposed $3 billion North Terminal project. Airport spokesman Bob Parker told Truth in Aviation , “You can quote me as saying that the north terminal is gone." ...more

U.S. DOT Orders Demand Management
At O'Hare To Reduce Delays
On April 21, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta announced new reductions in United and American Airlines flight schedules aimed at further reducing congestion and passenger inconvenience at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. ...more

Wescot Loses In Appellate Court
Court of Appeals Division I has denied the appeal of Wescot Corporation & Environmental Materials Transport in in Wescot v. City of Des Moines. Wescot proposes to construct a 4.8 mile temporary conveyor system to deliver fill material to Sea-Tac Airport during construction of the third runway.  The conveyor system would traverse City park land & would require City permits. The City of Des Moines had denied the permit application because it was not from the property owner, namely, the City of Des Moines. ...more

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Sea-Tac Airport August 2003 from the north
The runway to the west is the new taxiway.
Mounds of earth to the west of the
taxiway are third-runway fill.