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	<title>Rosemere Neighborhood Association &#187; Vancouver Lake</title>
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		<title>Alexandra Cousteau &#8212; Expedition Blue Planet 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Alexandra Cousteau onstage at the Bagdad Theatre for Expedition Blue Planet 2010
July 21, 2010, Bagdad Theatre, Portland Oregon

Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of Jacques Cousteau, continues her family legacy with another journey, a 138-day interactive tour of the US, Canada and Mexico, to explore critical water issues. Accompanied by a production crew who film, broadcast, blog, and edit on a biodiesel bus, Ms. Cousteau will travel more than 14,500 miles to film water problems and host community watershed programs. The tour includes coverage of the dwindling Colorado River, the Gulf Coast plagued by the BP Oil Spill, the Great Lakes that are experiencing hot temperatures and low levels, Chesapeake Bay suffering from stormwater pollution and sewage, and the Tennessee Valley where coal ash and mountaintop removal mining poison the water.

On Day 20 of the tour that started in Washington DC, the crew appeared at the Bagdad Theatre in Portland after traveling from Vancouver BC. The Portland stop was sponsored by Willamette Riverkeeper, where Ms. Cousteau discussed the project, showed film footage, and fielded questions from the audience. The Blue Legacy project was started in 2008 by Ms. Cousteau as a dedication to her grandfather's famous call, "You have to go and see."


Biodiesel bus used by the tour, parked outside the Bagdad theatre. The bus was formerly owned by Sir Paul McCartney
Last year, Blue Legacy traveled 100 days across five continents to study global water problems, discovering similar themes among various cultures: water is a source of spirituality, conflict, and the basis of agribusiness. From the Ganges in India, the plains of Botswana, the Jordan River in Israel and Palestine, and the Cajun lands of the lower Mississippi River, a universal statement recorded from people of all these cultures shows how humanity has common ties, regardless of age, status, or religion: "Water is life."]]></description>
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		<title>Toxics at Vancouver Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, October 22, marked the 5 year anniversary of the Vancouver Lake Watershed Partnership, created to address longstanding problems that prevent the lake from being swimmable and fishable, including toxic blue green algae.

Patty Boydon, Port of Vancouver Environmental Director, gave a presentation on the installation of an air stripping facility installed to remediate toxic groundwater plumes produced by Cadet/Swan Manufacturing. Groundwater plumes that have expanded into the Fruit Valley Neighborhood were caused by the use of industrial chemical solvents. The shallow groundwater plumes were first discovered in 1998 during road construction, marking the largest groundwater cleanup in Washington State.]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemere Neighborhood Association Honored with Public Health Community Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 22, 2009, Clark County's Board of Health (also known as the Clark County Commissioners) presented community awards to various organizations and individuals that have worked toward improving public health and safety.  RNA was awarded a certificate of honorable mention as a "Community organization advocating for health promotion, disease prevention, and social justice through water quality advocacy and monitoring and improving neighborhood livability." A total of ten community awards were given, including medical and dental caregivers, and health educators.  

Click here to view the 2008 Public Health Community Award recipients and RNA's  Health Award Certificate in full view (pdf format). ]]></description>
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		<title>State Studies Water Quality Failures on Burnt Bridge Creek &#8211; March 11, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 11, 2009, The Washington State Department of Ecology convened the technical advisory committee for the Total Maximum Daily Load study currently underway for Burnt Bridge Creek. This creek begins as a spring in East Vancouver, and flows 13 miles westward into Vancouver Lake. Monitoring stations have been established at various locations along the stream path. The study includes tributaries -- Cold Creek, Petersen Channel and Burton Channel. Burnt Bridge Creek suffers from failures of various water quality standards, and the purpose of this study is to determine how to remedy the problems and improve water quality.]]></description>
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		<title>Data Gathered for Vancouver Lake Superfund Assessment &#8211; March 4, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In August, 2007, RNA and Columbia Riverkeeper submitted a formal Citizen Petition for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a Preliminary Assessment to consider Vancouver Lake a superfund site due to contamination from substances like PCBs. The Citizen's Petition scored sufficiently for EPA to to move to the next step, which is a site inspection study. Contractors for the EPA arrived in Vancouver to gather around 30 sediment samples that will be shpped out of state for analysis at federally contracted laboratories.]]></description>
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		<title>Clams and Crayfish Used to Study Waterborne Contaminants &#8211; January 6, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asian clams collected at Frenchman's Bar, Vancouver
    Asian clams collected at Frenchman's Bar, Vancouver

Recent water quality monitoring efforts in the Columbia River have relied upon the analysis of clam tissue to determine the levels of dangerous toxins that have been absorbed by aquatic organisms. In Vancouver, high levels of PCBs, a cancer-causing agent, have been identified in clam tissues taken from samples in front of Alcoa at the Port of Vancouver, and downstream toward the mouth of the flushing channel to Vancouver Lake.]]></description>
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		<title>Local View: Stormwater Pollution is a Critical Issue for Clark County &#8211; Sunday, December 14, 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This editorial was published by the Columbian newspaper:

Sunday, December 14, 2008
By Dvija Bertish, Rosemere Neighborhood Association and Lauren Goldberg, Toxics and Conservation Director, Columbia Riverkeeper

The recent story regarding the City of Vancouver’s move to increase protections for our local creeks and rivers from the stormwater that carries thousands of pounds of heavy metals, pesticides, and oil from city streets should be welcome news to everyone who values clean water, salmon or the chance for your family to enjoy a swim in a local river or lake.
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		<title>Media Release: Groups praise cleanup action at Alcoa’s Vancouver site, but say more is needed &#8211; November 24, 2008</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For More Information, Call:

Dvija Michael Bertish
Rosemere Neighborhood Association
360-281-4747

Lauren Goldberg
Conservation Director,
Columbia Riverkeeper
541-965-0985
lauren@columbiariverkeeper.org

November 24, 2008

Groups praise cleanup action at Alcoa’s Vancouver site, but say more is needed

VANCOUVER, WA -- The Rosemere Neighborhood Association (RNA) and Columbia Riverkeeper (CRK) today called on the Washington Department of Ecology to require prompt cleanup of all toxic contamination caused by the Alcoa site in Vancouver. The Alcoa-Evergreen site is located on the banks of the Columbia River, inside Vancouver city limits, at the Port of Vancouver. The site is approximately 5000 feet from the mouth of the flushing channel to Vancouver Lake. As a former aluminum smelter site, the Alcoa property contributed significant quantities of toxic PCB contamination to the Columbia River. Toxic pollution from Alcoa continues to this day including TCE, PAHs and PCBs that are actively leaching into the Columbia just east of public recreation areas where local residents have direct contact with the river and also harvest shellfish.
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		<title>ROSEMERE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER &#8211; SEPTEMBER 2007</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 2007 NEWSLETTER

SEPTEMBER 2007 NEWSLETTER

PROPOSED COAL-BURNING POWER PLANT

On September 20, 2007, representatives of Columbia Riverkeeper, Willapa Audubon Society, and the Rosemere Neighborhood Association, along with a number of other concerned citizens, attended a public hearing held by Washington's Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council to voice their opinions about Energy Northwest's proposed Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant in Kalama, WA. The council took comments from the public on Energy Northwest's greenhouse gas "sequestration plan" (view the plan at http://http:www.esfec.wa.gov/pmec.shtml).
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		<title>Fish and Sediment Toxicity Levels at Vancouver Lake &#8211; April 18, 2007</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randy Coots, a water quality environmental specialist with the Olympia office of the Washington State Department of Ecology presented data to the Vancouver Lake Watershed Partnership today, relating the levels of specific toxins in fish tissue and sediment samples in Vancouver Lake and Lake River. Ecology has published another study entitled Vancouver Lake PCB's, Chlorinated Pesticides, and Dioxins in Fish Tissue and Sediment [March 2007]. Similar studies were conducted in 1992 and 2002, resulting in listing of Vancouver Lake for failed water quality standards in PCB's. Analyses from previous years showed that fish tissue samples exceeded National Toxics Rule thresholds for human health in both PCB's and DDT. ]]></description>
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