Everett Daily Herald, May 01, 2014

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Construction moratorium would be vast A now unlikely ban on building new homes within a half -mile of known landslide areas would have halted work across almost all of the county, according to a new map. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer

EVERETT — An emergency building moratorium drafted in the aftermath of the Oso

landslide, if passed, would halt new home construction in almost all of Snohomish County. And it’s probably not going to happen. The County Council had been

preparing to vote Monday on a temporary home-building ban within a half-mile of known landslide areas. They’ve reconsidered, now that they’ve seen a map of what that would look like. County planners created the map for next week’s meeting. The few areas in the county outside the half-mile landslide buffer are dominated by dangerously flood-prone river valleys,

a copy of the map detail>> Find ing the half-mile buffer area

on Page A4.

the new county map shows. The largest buildable upland area of unincorporated Snohomish County is a stretch east of Marysville, between Lake Stevens and Arlington. There’s also a stalk of land west of Marysville,

a patch along a three-mile stretch of Highway 9 in Clearview and some areas north of Stanwood. Council Chairman Dave Somers first suggested the moratorium. He now acknowledges his original idea is unrealistic. “Obviously, the half-mile mile buffer is overprotective and we will have to consider other See VAST, Page A4

Sale of mill site called off Kimberly-Clark and Saltchuk could not agree about who was responsible for cleanup

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Barbed wire surrounds Kimberly-Clark’s now vacant property along the Everett waterfront at sunset Wednesday evening. A proposed deal to sell the property to Saltchuck has fallen apart, both companies announced Wednesday.

EVERETT — Contaminated and unstable soil has sunk plans to move a Seattle-based shipbuilder to Kimberly-Clark’s former mill site on the Everett waterfront. Kimberly-Clark Corp. and Saltchuk could not agree to who was responsible for overseeing and paying for the site’s cleanup, representatives for the two companies said Wednesday.

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property has been vacant since Kimberly-Clark closed the mill about two years ago. When the companies announced in October that they had a deal, it seemed all that remained was to dot the I’s and cross the T’s. Then Saltchuk’s inspection of the land raised concerns about the cost, risks and time needed for site development. Kimberly-Clark agreed to give the company more time to do further site analysis. The two sides couldn’t resolve the issues

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in talks. “It was Saltchuk’s position that it should be Kimberly-Clark’s responsibility to clean up and prepare the site for the new owner,” said Emily Reiter, a Saltchuk spokeswoman. The land consists largely of fill dirt, and most of the buildings were on pilings. Most structures were demolished last year, but, as is common practice, pilings below ground level were left in place. Kimberly-Clark is removing petroleum-contaminated soil

uct names (Page D3). Bonus tip: Reserve at least one kitchen drawer to store all those Allen wrenches that come in every Ikea box. Might as well stay in Olympia: Seattle police say they’ll be on guard for acts of violence or vandalism at today’s May Day march in the Emerald City (Page B1).

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from the area, which has been in heavy industrial use for decades, while waiting for the state Department of Ecology to approve a site cleanup plan. The waterfront site, first developed more than a century ago, was primarily used for paper and pulp manufacturing from 1931 until the mill closed in 2012. Some of Saltchuk’s concerns had to do with dredging contaminated soil from the East Waterway. See SITE, Page A4

Married Dear Old Dad),” by Harry Von Tilzer featuring Will Dillon, was first published (Today in History, Page A2). Surprisingly, the unsubtle Oedipal subject matter did not get the song slapped with one of those “Parental Advisory Explicit Content” labels.

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“Despite the fact both sides worked diligently, they were unable to agree on the allocation of risks and responsibilities related to certain soil stability, seismic and environmental conditions as they relate to Saltchuk’s proposed use of the property as a shipyard and terminal,” Saltchuk said in a statement. The company had planned on buying the site for its subsidiary Foss Maritime Co., which operates a shipyard and maintains a fleet of tugs, barges and other specialty vessels in Seattle. The 66-acre mill

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