Subject: [Tweeters] Boating Day fireworks
Date: Apr 28 17:05:35 2006
From: Anna Kopitov - amk17 at earthlink.net



Does anyone know of a nesting Eagle within 3 miles of the fireworks site?
Or other trees used by eagles to perch? That may sway the permit
"approvers" or issuers.

> [Original Message]
> From: <cametobe at comcast.net (Rebecca Galloway & Richard Schmeck)>
> To: <>
> Date: 4/28/2006 12:16:58 PM
> Subject: [Tweeters] Boating Day fireworks
>
> Hi tweets

>

> I received the same response as already quoted from Nick Licata, and the
following from 2 other folks. My (admittedly simple) message is included
below. It was not run through a fact-checker :-) I think the
ornithologist who didn't think a fireworks show was a big deal might've
been grumpy.

>

> Councilmember Richard Conlin:

> Thank you for the message about the Permit approved by the Special

> Events Committee (SEC) for the Windermere Cup Fireworks Display event.

> The Parks Department has agreed to reconsider the application and the

> conditions given the concerns that have been raised about nesting season

> and other environmental issues. Since the permit has not actually been

> issued, the Department has a chance to review this, and has agreed to do

> this as quickly as possible.

>

> Ann Corbitt, Legislative Aid:

> The City's special events committee and the Fire Department handle

> these matters and review permit applications to make sure they are safe.

> We have received a few other contacts about this and one person is

> heading up an effort to get public records to determine whether

> fireworks displays have environmental impact studies. We directed her to

> the Fire Department and the Special Events Committee. They are most

> knowledgeable about this event, they review the permits and then decide

> as a group whether or not they will issue a permit.

>

> I hope that this helps. If you want more information about how the

> fireworks may impact the avian habitat, you can contact Virginia

> Swanson, the City's Special Events Coordinator at

> virginia.swanson at seattle.gov.

>

>

> >From Rebecca:

> I've just heard about the fireworks show planned for Union Bay for the

> opening of boating season. This is a really bad time! The birds are

> coming back and nesting, and it doesn't take much to make a nesting

> unsuccessful. The Union Bay Natural Area is on that bay, and is home to

> 4 kinds of swallows, several different warbler species, 3 or 4 sparrows

> species, and I've often seen peregrine falcons, osprey and bald eagles

> there as well. How can this kind of event take place so close to such

> an environmentally fragile area, and at such a crucial time? The emails

> I've seen even indicate that there was no environmental assessment,

> altho the law requires it.

>

> I understand the boaters want to have a big day, and I myself love

> fireworks. And I'd love to watch them from the UBNA. But NOT when so

> many species are trying to breed! Please stop this. Thank you.

>

> --

> Rebecca Galloway

> Northgate, Seattle

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--- Anna Kopitov
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