public involvement
Involving the public means ensuring communities and project proponents learn, talk and listen; concerns are turned into solutions; and projects move forward. At EnviroIssues, we apply our communications and technical backgrounds to help clients effectively engage the public in complex and controversial projects. We profile community areas to define stakeholders, identify issues through interviews and research, and use diverse techniques to get people involved and learn how we can address their needs.
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Now Streaming: A Socially Distant Tour of the Burnside Bridge
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With local health guidelines limiting in-person gatherings, EnviroIssues’ Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge team was faced with the question of how to best invite stakeholders to the project area. … more
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A multimodal solution to a multimodal problem
Seattle’s Westlake community is a unique gem, home to a wide range of marine-based businesses, including float planes, cruise boats, electric boat rentals and even luxury superyacht facilities. There … more
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The biggest little tunneling machine in Fremont
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Sewer pipes have a long shelf life, but even sturdy cast iron pipes need updating. In Fremont, the two original siphons that carried sewer and stormwater from a 100 square mile area – sometimes as … more
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How’s my watershed doing?
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News flash – Portland gets a lot of rain. The soggy climate in the Northwest makes for some picturesque landscapes, but the combination of all that rain and decades of development have altered the … more
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Going through the Gorge, the easy way
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The Columbia River Gorge is easily one of the Pacific Northwest’s most beautiful landscapes and one of the area’s top tourist destinations. When the weather is nice, the Gorge registers as a 10 on … more
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What goes into opening the world's longest floating bridge to the public?
On the first weekend of April 2016, EnviroIssues staff joined WSDOT in holding a celebration on the new SR 520 floating bridge, with more than 45,000 people in attendance. Food trucks? Check. Ribbon … more
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The flexible, festive, and much improved Park Lane
Community residents, the Mayor of Kirkland, city staff and EnviroIssues gathered in late May at Kirkland’s newly designed Park Lane to cut the ribbon—giant scissors and all—and welcome the newly … more
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The South Park bridge carries a big responsibility
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The age-old saying that plagues old bridges rang true in the South Seattle neighborhood of South Park: old, deficient and seismically unsound. That’s the label King County placed on the South Park … more
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No waste left behind in West Seattle
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Transporting 22 million gallons of wastewater from the Barton St. Wastewater Pump Station in West Seattle, through a network of other pumps and miles of pipes and finally to a treatment plant in … more
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Comments on transit plans? We’ve got thousands.
Sound Transit is revisiting its Long-Range Plan to bring previous studies up-to-date and lay the groundwork for a potential regional transit ballot measure in the next few years. With … more
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“Lining” up to provide feedback
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When people flip a light switch, or plug in their iPad, or turn on the oven, they want those things to work…which they won’t, if the power supply is down. That’s why in 2009, … more
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Power to the people!
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Rocky Mountain Power and Idaho Power are working together to build approximately 1,000 miles of high voltage transmission lines across Wyoming and Idaho needed to supply customer power needs now and … more
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If you’re going to build a bridge…
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…make it the longest floating bridge in the world! Seattle has several floating bridges – and one of them, the SR 520 bridge, needs to be replaced. The bridge turned 50 in 2013, and is … more
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CSO: Seattle
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Just like a TV show...picture a lovely private park on the shores of Puget Sound. Surrounded by a residential neighborhood, the park is often full of people enjoying its beauty. What could be better? … more
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That’s a big hill and a long train…
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No man is an island, and no transportation project is either – particularly when that project concerns rail track through a city’s downtown core and will affect neighborhood businesses, … more