Sadly, SCAN has dissolved as of November 2025

Dear Community Members,

It is with a heavy heart that we must share that we've decided to dissolve the Snoqualmie Community Action Network (SCAN) as a volunteer, non-profit organization in the Snoqualmie Valley as of November 2025. This decision was made after multiple years of struggling post-Mill Site activities to keep our engagement up, organize volunteer events and raise funds for past debts. 

We feel extremely grateful for all of the support from this community and beyond, and want to thank all of you for your contributions, no matter what size, to this organization. There is so much passion in the Valley, and it was great to be a part of fighting on behalf of that passion. 

Here are some highlights of SCAN's work over the past decade:

Snoqualmie Mill Site

• • Created an amazing video highlighting the history and impact of the Snoqualmie River and the Mill Pond area.

  • Successfully rallied our community to express feedback multiple times throughout the process of County permitting steps.

  • Continuing to express our concerns to City Leadership through thoughtful, data-based arguments.

  • Successfully submitted an enormous rebuttal to their SEPA appeal, in one week, with minimal legal support in the week leading up to Christmas 2021. 

  • Raised close to $30k in 3 months leading up to the appeal in March 2022. 

  • Spent almost a full week defending our position in front of a hearing examiner.

  • Successfully got the Mill Site onto the EPA's Superfund list, which ensures oversight of the necessary cleanup of the site.  

Take Back the Night events:

• • More than 5 events since 2017.

  • An amazing showing in 2024 of over 25 people with multiple speakers.

Snoqualmie River Water Testing

• Collaborating with the Orca Conservancy's efforts to protect salmon and our whale population. 

• Over 30 volunteers spending one Saturday per month, May to October, to do controlled temperature testing to understand the health of our rivers in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

We also elevated the voices of the Japanese Americans Citizens League (JACL) as part of the emergency resolution for an archaeological dig at the Mill Site, as well as presenting at the Northwest Nikkei Museum on the Nikkei Community at the Snoqualmie Lumber Mill, in support of the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington. 

And we can't forget the multiple garbage clean-ups in Snoqualmie and Fall City!

Our website, SCAN (Archived Home Page) will continue to live as a historical and educational reference for the Snoqualmie Mill Site. Many of us will continue to monitor the progress of the development and the EPA's oversight, since this will continue to impact our community. 

Although the City of Snoqualmie approved the PCI plan, construction was anticipated to begin in 2025 but that has yet to happen. Once that starts, its an estimated 17 year timeline to completion.

If you have any questions, please contact us at snoqualmieaction@gmail.com and again, THANK YOU for being active participants and supporters of Snoqualmie Community Action Network's efforts!

The primary objective of this informational website is to spread awareness with factual, scientific and historical information about the potential environmental risks posed by the Snoqualmie Mill site. As a group, we advocate for a safe, healthy and sustainable future for the Snoqualmie Mill site.