The Regional Commission on Airport Affairs is a citizens'
group in the greater Seattle, Washington, metropolitan
area. Our primary focus is to
Protect our communities from the
impacts
of expansion at Sea-Tac Airport
We pledge our
best efforts to compel the Airport to obey the environmental
rules that are supposed to govern the construction
of the third-runway embankment. Construction work & ordinary
operations at the Airport continue to contaminate the
streams that flow from its campus through neighboring
communities & into Puget Sound, in violation
of the permits that supposedly protect us. Safe, clean
water is a vital concern to the communities near the
Airport.
Trucks bringing
fill to the runway embankment are a clear & well-documented
safety hazard. They are conspicuously speeding,
tailgating, clogging intersections, running yellow
and red lights, and operating far above legal
maximum weights, with loads that are not secure. Safety
on the roads is critical.
There is nothing
being planned to deal with the new noise that will
be felt under the flight path for the third runway
(if it is completed). Planning for noise mitigation
is needed NOW, especially for the schools that will
experience major overflight noise for the first time.
Property values
continue to be hammered by the Airport; a new runway
flight path will make a bad situation worse. This issue
needs to be addressed soon, & responsibly.
