Port spin: "Avoiding Wetlands"

The maps submitted to the Corps of Engineers to support their wetlands permit contains a nice example of Port spin. The Great Wall of Sea-Tac is labeled "MSE Retaining Wall Used to Avoid Wetlands and Miller Creek".

The photos below are of Miller Creek just beneath the proposed wall and of a wetland 25' away from the first photo at the base of the wall. (See the red dot on the map). The red stake on the wetland photo marks the location of the wall. We are sure that they can build a 120+' high rammed-earth wall while carefully "avoiding" the wetlands and the creek at its base. They are just going to tippy-toe on little CAT feet all around those delicate wetlands that nature took thousands of years to create. Sure they are…