Marie McKinseyNov 6, 20222 min readGive Your Lawn an Environmental Make-over From an environmental point of view, what it takes to maintain a typical lawn is a nightmare.
Marie McKinseyJun 5, 20212 min readThe Alki 11 Row House Project: Density Done WrongIn 2013, a developer announced plans to replace these three beach houses with an 11-unit row house project in the Alki Beach neighborhood.
Marie McKinseyMar 6, 20212 min readHow to Calculate Storm Water Run-off from Your PropertyThe EPA estimates that over 770 cities in the US combine waste water and stormwater in the same pipe and send it to sewage treatment...
Marie McKinseyOct 1, 20152 min readWere Sewer Breaks on Wickstrom Place Caused by Development?During the weeks of controversy over the permitting of the Alki 11 rowhouses that now face 55th Ave SW and Wickstrom Place SW at Alki Beach,
Marie McKinseyJul 13, 20134 min readThe Sustainable Alternative to the Alki 11I wrote this when I had become tired of pointing out the problems with this project. Our protests fell on deaf ears anyway. It was clear tha
Marie McKinseyJun 29, 20135 min readWill the Alki 11 Rowhouses Cause Flooding?If you've been following these posts for a while, you are familiar with the math: for every inch of rainfall, nearly 5500 gallons of stormwa
Marie McKinseyJun 27, 20132 min readOver One MILLION Gallons of Waste Water - Where's It All Going to Go?In my last post, I explained how the Alki 11 rowhouse project on 55th Ave SW will add more than one million gallons of combined waste and st