PCC Markets Writes on Southern Resident Orca With Ecosystem Wide View

Get involved:  Tell your grandchildren

you helped preserve 

Southern Resident Orca

not

watched them go extinct.

A young orca and Chinook salmon near San Juan Island. 

Image: National Marine Fisheries Service permit #19091.

PCC Markets provides a piece penned by Anne Mosness on ecosystem wide impacts resulting in the endangered Southern Resident Orca population threatened with extinction in our lifetime. Impacts from development range from impassable culverts, dams and industrial level aquaculture activities threatening habitat for both forage fish and Chinook salmon, the former a food source for the salmon, the latter the food source for the Orca. The article ends with suggestions on actions to take, copied below.

WHAT WE CAN DO

• Dispose of unused drugs in garbage. Do not flush down the toilet.
• Don’t wash your car in the driveway or on the street. Wash your car on the lawn to filter oily chemicalrunoff — or take it to a car wash where suds and chemicals are diverted to a water treatment plant, away from storm drains that empty into Puget Sound. It is illegal to let detergents and contaminated waste enter storm drains in King and Snohomish counties. If you do, you could be fined.
• Switch to an electric car.
• Stencil “No Dumping — Drains to Sound” at your neighborhood storm drains. Contact public works or storm water maintenance in your city, or the following, for stencils, paint and guidance.

Seattle – carlton.stinson@seattle.gov or 206-684-7624

Bothell – christi.cox@bothellwa.gov or 425-806-6790

Burien – marye@burienwa.gov or 206-248-5511

Edmonds – steve.fisher@edmondswa.gov or 425-275-4801

Kirkland – wayers@kirklandwa.gov or 425-587-3859

Redmond – jcapis@redmond.gov or 425-556-2865

• Consider commenting to our U.S. senators and Gov. Inslee about the four lower Snake River dams. See wildsalmon.org.
• Join Sierra Club’s Water/Salmon Committee and learn more here.