Environment Archives

Comprehensive Sewer Plan Update

Project Overview The City is beginning the process of updating the Comprehensive Sewer Plan. The Comprehensive Sewer Plan Project (EU203) aims to identify deficiencies and opportunities for improvements to support the City’s continued commitment to maintaining our sewer infrastructure. This plan will guide long‑term wastewater system planning and future capital investments. Throughout the planning process, ... Read more

Lower Squalicum Water Quality Retrofits

Project Overview The City is improving stormwater treatment along Squalicum Way, a major truck route that runs along Squalicum Creek. Right now, rainwater runoff (or stormwater) from the road flows directly into the creek over land or through a pipe without treatment. The creek is identified as an impaired water body on the Department of ... Read more

Padden Creek at 12th and 14th Streets Fish Passage Improvements Project

This project will remove fish passage barriers in Padden Creek at two interurban trail crossings.

McKenzie Street – Contaminated Site Cleanup Project

Background The site at 210 McKenzie Street, next to the Post Point Wastewater Treatment Plant, is reserved for the facility’s long-term future expansion. Existing buildings on the site currently support maintenance and operations for the treatment plant. This property has a long history of soil and groundwater contamination. Since purchasing the site in 2006, the City has ... Read more

Post Point Emission Control Upgrades

Project Overview The Emission Control Upgrades Project (EU199) aims to enhance air quality controls for the incinerators at the Post Point Wastewater Treatment Plant. This facility provides wastewater treatment services for the City of Bellingham through a series of advanced processes. Here, we treat and disinfect the liquid effluent before discharging it into Bellingham Bay. ... Read more

Squalicum Creek at West Street Fish Passage Improvements Project

The Squalicum Creek at West Street Fish Passage Improvement Project is part of a coordinated, strategic approach to fish barrier removal in Bellingham, and one of many projects completed or in the works in the Squalicum Creek watershed. This project will replace two partial fish passage barriers in the main channel of Squalicum Creek adjacent ... Read more