Friday, February 8, 2013
The Duwamish RIver Turning Basin - People for Puget Sound Tube. Duration : 9.18 Mins.


I love the Duwamish. I've always had a soft spot for industrial waterways, likely because I grew up on Bainbridge Island, playing across the bay from a future Super-Fund clean-up site. The Turning Basin is one of my favorite chunks of mud along the Duwamish River. Several years ago People for Puget Sound and the Port of Seattle combined forces to rework a place that brings me great joy, as much as it brings me sorrow. My personal mission, the work I take on most seriously at the Turning Basin, is causing death to blackberries and hauling out several hundred pounds of trash that some apparently think belong among the native plants and animals. I made this little video the last time I was out because I was pissed -- and wanted to share. If not for the ongoing air traffic and highway road noise, with the audio of the bird songs and careful cropping of the nearby apartments, you'd have no idea where in the wild you were -- well, except for the plastic bottles and Styrofoam washing up on the shore. If this was a site for a Bank branch, it would have been robbed by now. Turning Basin's location is wonderfully remote at the same time amazingly accessible to major highways, rendering it a perfect location for the flourishment of the outdoor dispersion of used condoms and donations of beer bottles, bags of trash, window panes, tires, TV's, and used marijuana grow-operation soil. I'm no law enforcement professional, but because of other fights I fight, I'm convinced that the condom ...

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