It can be tough sometimes to maintain a plethora of social media, so after analyzing how most people get their Port of Bellingham news, we have found that most people are doing so from Facebook and Twitter, so we're going to stop updating the blog and instead feed our information directly to these two social media sites. Follow us at www.facebook.com/portofbellingham and www.twitter.com/portbellingham

If you pick up today's Bellingham Herald, or any of the community newspapers this week, you'll find the Port of Bellingham's Spring Newsletter.
The quarterly newsletter includes information about airport improvements and airport planning, as well as news about completed environmental cleanups and economic development efforts.
You can also find the newsletter on our website at:
 http://portofbellingham.com/archives/47/Newsletter_Spring 2012FINAL.pdf
We will be publishing another issue this summer. Please let us know what you think at info@portofbellingham.com

Environmental investigations resumed this week at the I & J Waterway cleanup site in Bellingham Bay.

Contractors working for the Port of Bellingham collected sediment samples from the bay and the beach Tuesday, April 24, and Wednesday, April 25, 2012. They expect to collect samples from storm drains the following week.

The I & J Waterway cleanup site is about 2.5 acres in Bellingham Bay, between Hilton Avenue and Bellwether Way.  The port and the state of Washington own property within the site. The work is being done according to the state's voter-approved cleanup law, the Model Toxics Control Act, and is overseen by the Department of Ecology

Portions of the site were used for lumber mill operations from the early 1900s through 1972. Other industries within the site boundaries included a rock-crushing plant and frozen food processing plant. A seafood processing plant has been in operation there since 1959.

I & J Waterway is one of the 12 cleanup sites in the Bellingham Bay Demonstration Pilot - a multi-agency, collaborative effort to cleanup pollution, control pollution sources, restore habitat and carry out land use plans throughout the bay.

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