All about the West Seattle neighborhood around Beach Drive
This message is from a Beach Drive neighbor regarding a set of keys she lost:
I lost them sometime around Jan 7 – 14, on or near Beach Dr, near the Emma Schmidt Memorial Lookout park or close by. I had a car key, 4 diff kinds of door keys (one with a fancy print on it), 1 mail key. I just now thought to post it on this blog. Thanks for your help.
If you’ve found a set of keys, please comment on the blog or send me an email so we can reunite them with the owner.
KOMO 4 news picked up the petition to repave Beach Drive a couple days ago.
In KOMO’s coverage, they state that “Beach Drive, according to SDOT, does not have a major bus route, and traffic volumes are not as heavy as other roads that are in need of paving”.
Beach Drive neighbor, Jim Unland provided us an update as well:
“I spoke with Sue Byers from SDOT this morning. She is the Acting Manager of the Pavement Engineering Management Section (PEMS). She said that she expects the City to do the repaving work on Beach Dr. from Orleans St. to Andover St. sometime this summer.
Besides waiting for the weather to improve, they also have to coordinate the installation of curb ramps at the affected intersections in compliance with the American’s with Disabilities Act.
They are unable to repave the area around La Rustica (Beach Dr./Carroll St.) at this time because of bid limit laws. The work this summer will be done as an “in-house” job and the budget only allows for this Orleans St. to Andover St. section to be done. I asked her to put the La Rustica intersection on the wish list and I am very hopeful that it too will get repaved as the budget and calendar permit.
One last thing, if the City has any sense, they will remove the word “Acting” from Sue Byers’ title. She has been helpful, courteous, informative and responsive throughout my contacts with her. She exemplifies what we want in our public employees. If you can give her a plug in your blog, it would be a nice way of saying ‘thank you’.”
Consider that done, Jim!
By the way, you can report potholes to SDOT. They even have an app for that! Click here for more info.
There was a sewer line leak reported two days ago at the pump station located near Constellation Park (also referred to by neighbors as “Constipation Park”). It is unknown the amount of sewage that was released into Puget Sound.
King County utility crews are working quickly this morning to repair a sewer line leak near the 63rd Avenue Pump Station, which is located at 3535 Beach Drive S.W. in Seattle.
The small leak was detected last night in a 42-inch pipeline that pumps wastewater from homes and businesses in West Seattle to King County’s West Point Treatment Plant in the Magnolia neighborhood.
An undetermined amount of wastewater overflowed out of the pipe and into Puget Sound. To protect public health and safety, crews quickly initiated cleanup and posted warning signs to keep people away from affected areas.
Construction workers will be on site this morning to repair the pipeline.
King County reported the overflow to health and regulatory agencies and will monitor water quality over the next several days.
A Beach Drive neighbor, Jim Unland, wants Beach Drive to be repaved. He is looking for 100 signatures on his on-line petition to repave pot-hole riddled Beach Drive. Whether your drive or bike on Beach Drive, you’re probably very aware of sad state of our street.
From Jim’s emails:
“Here is the link to a petition I created. I am hoping you can put it on your blog and promote it and convince people to sign it and share it. It is linked to Lisa Herbold’s email and Sue Byers (SDOT).
I have business cards ordered with the website on them and I will be walking the neighborhood giving them out. Between websites like yours and my walking, I’m hoping to get enough signatures to get some movement on this issue by the City.
…When someone signs the petition, our Councilmember, Lisa Herbold and the two “at-large” Councilmembers, Tim Burgess and Lorena González will be emailed a message simply stating “Please Repave Beach Drive” The other recipient of this message will be Sue Byers. She is in charge of repaving at SDOT.”
In 2011, someone with a sense of humor re-named “Pot Hole Drive”.
You can sign the petition by clicking this link: https://www.change.org/p/jim-unland-repave-beach-drive
Kevin getting the project started.
Chilberg neighbors have starting a volunteer landscape project in the to install 10 dwarf fruit trees on a public median. They are one of the West Seattle groups awarded a Seattle Department of Neighborhoods matching fund grant.
From the neighborhood announcement:
“Friends of the Chilberg Link will beautify a sloped median that leads to Emma Schmitz Park along the shoreline. The median is along Chilberg Ave SW between SW Carroll & SW Douglas. Friends of the Chilberg Link will remove invasives, prune vegetation, plant edible plants, and create an area for rainwater holding and a secured art piece. Work parties will be held in the winter and spring of 2016. Professional landscape firms will be hired to lead the community in landscape installation, including: Mariposa Naturescapes, Garden Cycles, and Black Lotus Landscaping LLC.
The neighborhoods desire is to honor a piece of West Seattle’s cultural and landscape history:
“The meadow at the northern end of the Schmitz property, a single lane dirt road wound down a hill through substantially uninhabited meadow to a dead end a block beyond Carroll Street.
When walking to and from the old Alki School [at Chilberg Ave. SW/59th and Caroll], we frequently preferred the trail along Chilberg Avenue, to enjoy some of the most beautiful wild flowers in the open fields and leading up into ‘The woods,’ the hillside forest.” Lillevand Papers, SWSHS.
If you would like to help out, you can join the Friends of Chilberg on:
Saturdays and Sundays from 10:30 to 12:30 until March 15, 2016.
Bring:
For more information, contact Janice at nymanarc@gmail.com
We have extra high tides (aka King Tides) predicted next week.
Hopefully it will be as sunny and calm as it is today. Although it was a spectacular sight along Alki with last month’s King Tide.
We have a high tide of 12.5 minutes away at 10:14 am this morning. There is a small craft advisory in effect until this evening with waves of 2 to 4 feet.
Our intrepid reporter, Scupper is on the scene at Mee Kwa Mooks and has just shared this video of the tides washing over the walkway.
We’re being deluged with rain and wind this week from sweet ol’ Mother Nature. This sewer drain is now a water feature by 5400 Beach Drive.
The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory until 3:00 pm today and we’re just at high tide as I write this post.
It’s a great evening to be hunkered in by the fireplace. 🙂
I woke up this morning to this beautiful moon setting over the Olympics.
Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours.
We have very strong northerly winds this afternoon along with higher tides. King Tides officially started this afternoon and continue through the 27th for November.
Late this afternoon, the King County Ferry opted not to dock at Alki after two attempts. Video credits to Scupper.
Passengers were waiting on the Alki dock hoping they’ll get a refund for not being able to board.
Thanks to Michele, a friend of Beach Drive Blog for sending us these pics!
And this photo of the seas crashing up to what is typically a sandy beach with a park, picnic tables and fire pits. Quite spectacular!
Here’s some videos I captured of this afternoon along Alki. Please pardon my shaky hands.
This north of the volley ball pits with the kite surfer.
This is by 61st and Alki.
This is at the end of the park as it heads towards Alki point, looking back towards Seattle.
This person braved the waves (see the person in the mist to the right).
I’m so glad that I was able to witness this event and hope the home owners along Alki weathered this okay and are safe.
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