Maritime High School

Why Maritime?

The Maritime industry is the third largest economic driver in the state with a current workforce that is retiring. The Maritime industry offers the following:

  • Good living wages

  • Jobs in & out of the water

  • Cool jobs with traveling

  • Advancement options

  • A growing market

Why a Maritime High School?

Maritime High School will prepare our students, who are rooted in and contributing to the community, with hands-on learning in classrooms and workplaces and on the water.

Read more information HERE

Link: https://highlineschools.zoom.us/j/92658955745?pwd=UmtnSUdYNWJ6YlB6TFFPNW9Pa1E3UT09#success

Background Information about the Duwamish Valley

The Duwamish river valley and the communities we now know as Georgetown and South Park have been inhabited for many generations. The Duwamish Tribe were the original inhabitants of the area, with white settlers arriving in the 1850's. Because of major transportation and industry so active in the area, air quality is greatly impacted - along with other environmental facets. As a result of nearly a century of industrial activity, the Duwamish River was designated a Superfund Site by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2001, identifying it as one of the nation’s most toxic hazardous waste sites. With this designation comes the mandate that it will be cleaned. A total of 5.5 miles of the Duwamish River and 412 acres was identified to be cleaned up. This led to two different groups being formed – the Lower Duwamish Waterway Group (LDWG), made up of potentially responsible parties (PRPs), and the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition/Technical Advisory Group (DRCC/TAG), to serve as the community advisory group in the cleanup of the Duwamish River.

Since then, EPA has worked with these groups, agencies, and a diverse range of communities to study pollution in the river, its effect on people’s health and the environment, and several possible alternatives for cleanup. Following a proposed cleanup plan released in 2013, the Final Cleanup Plan or EPA’s “Record of Decision” (ROD) was released in December 2014. This plan details what types of technologies will be used to clean up different levels of contamination as well as the extent of the river’s cleanup.

More information on Maritime:

  1. Why Maritime?

  2. Maritime Employment Resource Guide

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