25TH YEAR, NO. 49
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2016
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Midday bus service returns to city BY LIZZ GIORDANO
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Beginning late next year, midday bus service is returning to Sammamish. Commuters will be able to return to Sammamish during
the middle of the day using King County Metro Transit route 269, which can be accessed from the Overlake Transit Center in Redmond or at either park-andride in Issaquah. “The addition of midday service should also make the South
Sammamish Park-and-Ride a more attractive option and may relieve some of the pressure on neighboring park-and-rides, “ said City Councilmember Kathleen Huckabay. She said most of the people driving to the park-and-ride
in the Issaquah Highlands are Sammamish residents. According to Katie Chalmers, supervisor of service planning for Metro, route 269 buses will run every 30 minutes during nonpeak hours. “Bringing back midday
BY LIZZ GIORDANO lgiordano@sammamishreview.com
A young girl gets to pet a friendly camel up close at the temporary petting zoo set up on the plaza during the Very Merry Sammamish festivities Dec. 2 held at Sammamish Commons Plaza at City Hall. View more photos from Very Merry Sammamish festivities and from the Skyline High School Holiday Bazaar on Page 12. GREG FARRAR | gfarrar@sammamishreview.com
Neighborhood overflows with stormwater BY LIZZ GIORDANO Even after three rainless days, a steady stream of water still runs across the front of Jeeta Sahota’s property in the Tamarack subdivision. The yard of Sahota’s downhill neighbor Todd Southwick has several sinkholes not far from the foundation of his home, while another neighbor had to remove a playground that began leaning to one side,
becoming unsafe. The culprit: accumulated stormwater runoff. Tamarack residents say stormwater wasn’t a problem until more and more homes were built uphill from them, many of which were not required to perform a drainage review. Now stormwater runs for nearly eight months of the year and overflows onto many streets in the neighborhood. “They gave us the houses, now we need the city to step up
SEE BUSES, PAGE 2
PFOS levels could rise in Issaquah
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service back is something we have been hoping we could do,” Chalmers said. And beginning in 2018, the 269 will also operate on the weekends, Chalmers said, but
and do their jobs,” Tamarack resident Mary Wictor said. Wictor has trudged through almost every City Council meeting since March 2015, often with a fresh PowerPoint
presentation, to remind councilmembers the project needs to get done. “They know it’s a lot of SEE TAMARACK, PAGE 8
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Levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate, also known as PFOS, will likely increase at a City of Issaquah production well, according to experts hired by the city, after high concentrations of the chemical were found in a newly drilled monitoring well. After soil samples taken Eastside Fire & Rescue from were found to contain trace amounts of PFOS, the city drilled monitoring wells north and south of EFR’s headquarters at 175 Newport Way NW in early October. Results from Monitoring Well No. 6, located near the junction of Newport Way Northwest and Northwest Dogwood north of EFR, detected PFOS at a level of 2,200 part per trillion — more than 30 times higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s lifetime advisory benchmark of 70 parts per trillion for PFOS and perfluorooctanoic acid, also known as SEE PFOS, PAGE 6
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