Essays on Puget Sound

The purpose of the memo is to evaluate the documentation of the Superfund site from the EPA website. The site provides information about the superfund data and about the site location which is south shore of Elliott Bay in Puget Sound on Terminal 5 at Seattle, Washington. The investigation has developed a good remedy to the problem that the site is experiencing. Contamination in the site requires a solution since there are health concerns to the people living within the town. The units of the superfund site include upland unit and marine sediments unit. The site has an area ...

Puget Sound Economic District is a federally designated Economic Development District (EDD) covering King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties. This economic region is recognized by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) an arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce tasked with promoting regional economic development across the nation through grants and awards as mandated by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Puget Sound Economic District, its economy and demographics. In what follows I shall compare district level to and state wide data on business clusters and industry presence, population ...

Starting out from downtown and heading towards the University District provides a sampling of much of what Seattle’s landscape has to offer. Initially, the landscape is almost entirely constructed of human imprints. There are tall and taller office buildings that cut off almost any view of the horizon; literally a concrete jungle. However, as one walks to the higher numbered streets such as Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Avenues; the landscape has a dramatic change. Through the space between the buildings, on one side, you can see the Puget Sound and the islands, and mountains the face the city ...