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	Encyclopedia: Thea Foss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thea came to the United States as a newly married immigrant from Norway.
		Henry Foss (1891-1986) was a civic leader in Tacoma, Washington.
		Thea Foss was the name given eventually to the USS Amber (PYc-6), which had served as a patrol vessel in World War II.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thea-Foss (346 words)

	Tacoma, Washington: America's #1 Wired City - Thea Foss
		In 1991, the City of Tacoma and the Metropolitan Park District purchased nearly 27 acres of property on the western side of the Thea Foss Waterway for $6.8 million.
		And the Foss agreement set another new national trend – the Washington State Department of Ecology would allow upland cleanup to be delayed until development took place.
		The City-owned Chihuly Bridge of Glass is a 500 foot pedestrian bridge which links the Washington State History Museum, Union Station, the University of Washington and downtown with the Thea Foss Waterway and Museum of Glass, opened to foot traffic in July 2002.
	www.ci.tacoma.wa.us /econdev/2Opportunities/TheaFoss.htm (1181 words)

	Go Boating America
		Thea Foss Waterway is the epicenter of a $150-million project that is turning a rundown industrial district and an underused waterway into a revitalized downtown core.
		Thea Foss Waterway is now in the final stages of completing an environmental cleanup from end to end -- including dredging and installation of new docks, according to the city’s master plan for the waterway.
		The Thea Foss Waterway Development was created thanks to the vision of a group of Tacoma planners, who in the early 1990s decided that the city needed a new future -- one that invites Northwest boaters to share in a destiny reborn.
	www.goboatingamerica.com /main/article.asp?id=3483 (1987 words)

	Foss Maritime Company History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thea Foss, a Norwegian immigrant, and Andrew Foss, a carpenter, fixed up the newly acquired rowboat and sold it for a profit.
		Arthur Foss passed away in 1937, but his sons, brothers and nephews, Fred and Charles Berg, continued the business which eventually drifted into towboating.
		Foss today operates the largest, most modern fleet of tugs on the West Coast and provides a full range of marine transportation services, including Harbor Services, Regional Towing, Environmental Services, Shipyard and Terminal Services.
	www.foss.com /history.htm (316 words)

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		Thea’s Landing, designed by Mithun, is the first speculative housing project under construction on the Thea Foss Waterway, the core of Tacoma’s downtown waterfront.
		Thea’s Landing is an important connection for all the other cultural and civic projects in the city.
		Thea’s Landing is helping with another issue that plagues Tacoma: the city’s connection between the downtown core and its waterfront that is divided from each other by a major elevated freeway.
	www.djc.com /news/ae/11127683.html (1393 words)

	He carried on family tradition on waterfront \| TheNewsTribune.com \| Tacoma, WA
		Foss, grandson to Thea Foss – the inspiration for “Tugboat Annie” and co-founder of the tugboat company that is now Seattle-based Foss Maritime, died Wednesday after a hard-fought battle with cancer.
		The ocean and boats framed Foss’ life, from the legacy he was born into, to the impetus for the years he spent as a prisoner of war during World War II, to the friends he recently swam with off the shores of Hawaii.
		Foss’ grandmother’s legacy was never far from his mind, though she died when he was young.
	www.thenewstribune.com /news/local/story/5181048p-4710075c.html (842 words)

	NWsource: Outdoors: Paddling: Commencement Bay
		Thea Foss Waterway is the hub of recreational boating in the bay, so there are plenty of yachts to view in the many marinas along both shores.
		Thea Foss Waterway: In downtown Tacoma, the waterway is accessible via the floats at the city dock.
		Thea's Park: This park (also known as Northwest Point Park) at 405 Dock Street, just at the north end of the Thea Foss Waterway, has a ramp and approximately twenty-five parking spaces.
	www.nwsource.com /outdoors/scr/of_detail.cfm?category=Paddling&rt=58 (1107 words)

	Thea Foss Waterway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		With the dubious distinction as one of the most polluted waterways in the country, the historic Thea Foss Waterway in Commencement Bay is now the focus of a major environmental cleanup as well as home to new retail outlets, condominiums, marinas and an internationally renowned glass museum.
		When the City of Tacoma decided to purchase contaminated property along the western shore of the Thea Foss Waterway in 1991 and take the lead in 1994 to clean up the waterway, people thought we were crazy.
		Thea’s Landing, which opened last fall next to the Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, sold all 47 condominiums almost before they were finished and this year leased most of its 188 apartments.
	www.cityoftacoma.org /21review2003/Thea_Foss_Waterway.asp?redir=no (1234 words)

	Tugboat Annie and Other Famous Washington Women
		Thea and her family, who emigrated from Norway, lived on an old houseboat in Tacoma waters; she had a fear of water but was used to life afloat.
		Her husband was gone a lot earning money on construction projects at other places, so in her desire to help with the finances Thea Christiansen Foss bought a rowboat from a passing sailor for $5.00 with the intent to rent it out for supplemental income.
		Soon Thea Foss expanded her business and transported logs on towboats flying her green and white flag, the color she painted her first rowboat, under the name of Foss Launch and Tug Company.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/washington_state/34950 (491 words)

	Henry Foss was born in 1891 in a small float home at the foot of Tacoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Henry Foss was born in 1891 in a small float home at the foot of Tacoma's 11th Street Bridge and died in April 1986.
		Foss was active in a number of civic projects.
		Foss was the first local resident in Tacoma's history to have a senior high school named in his honor.
	www.tacoma.k12.wa.us /schools/hs/foss/aboutfoss/HenryFoss.htm (252 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Thea Foss launches the future tugboat firm on the Tacoma waterfront in the summer of 1889.
		HistoryLink Essay: Thea Foss launches the future tugboat firm on the Tacoma waterfront in the summer of 1889.
		Thea's husband Andrew Foss, a carpenter, is up in the valley building a shed at the time.
		During World War I, the Fosses were able to buy into a Seattle tugboat firm, and the Foss Launch and Tug Company became a Seattle concern.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=5045 (543 words)

	Spacial and Temporal Trends in Contaminant Levels in Settling Particulate Matter: Thea Foss Water (Commencement Bay) - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To evaluate the effectiveness of efforts to control sources of problem chemicals to Thea Foss Waterway, samples of settling particulate matter (SPM) and in-place bottom sediments were collected between June 1989 and November 1992.
		Chemical analyses focused on "problem" metals and organics, which were identified for Thea Foss Waterway during the Commencement Bay Nearshore/Tideflats Remedial Investigation (Tetra Tech, 1985).
		The data collected suggest that concentrations of most problem chemicals in Thea Foss Waterway sediments have not decreased since the Commencement Bay Remedial Investigation was conducted in 1984.
	www.ecy.wa.gov /biblio/93e44.html (278 words)

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		Now, after having been retired by Foss in 1968 and fully restored by non-profit Northwest Seaport, the old Arthur still is chugging faithfully with its 80-ton, 700- horsepower Washington diesel that was installed in 1934 for Foss.
		Although Annie Brennan bore no resemblance to the late Thea Foss, Wedell's recollections of how his mother played a major role in the Foss company's early success inspired Raine to write his series of articles on Tugboat Annie.
		With Spies and the rest of the Foss crew still on board, the Arthur continued in service in the Pacific, including within the Hawaiian islands, until the middle of 1942 when the Navy took over the tug.
	home.att.net /~AIRBOY/foss.html (1576 words)

	ilwu.org : The daughters of Tugboat Annie
		He was living there when Thea Foss died.
		Foss was the matriarch of the tug and barge company that bears her name.
		But the Foss sons gave Raine story ideas, describing their tugboat operations around the Puget Sound.
	www.ilwu.org /dispatcher/2004/03/2004-03-daughters-tugboat-annie.cfm (2267 words)

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		Thea Foss Waterway’s industrial roots will be dramatically changed by the Museum of Glass.
		Erickson’s exceptional ability to design large-scale contemporary buildings in response to their environment is exemplified in the museum’s horizontal profile, which ascends in a series of platforms from the banks of the Thea Foss Waterway to a rooftop plaza.
		One distinctive aspect of the museum is that it will not only display glass and other contemporary art, but also have a resident team of glassmakers transforming molten glass into sculptural objects and vessels both traditional and contemporary.
	www.djc.com /news/ae/11127705.html (888 words)

	A look at City of Tacoma news for the week of August 24, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Major environmental cleanup of the Thea Foss and Wheeler-Osgood waterways is underway.
		Cleanup plans call for the City to lead work in 80 percent of the Thea Foss Waterway-an area extending from near the SR 509 Bridge to the mouth of the waterway.
		The City completed earlier cleanup work in February at six sites along the Thea Foss and part of the Wheeler-Osgood waterways, including removing old pilings, capping some of the less-contaminated sediment with several feet of clean sand, installing a sheet-pile bulkhead and restoring wildlife habitat along the banks.
	www.cityoftacoma.org /11News/2003/NR_8_29_03.htm?redir=no (681 words)

	Tidepool \| Features
		Business and retail in the central core had fled, voters repealed a city law requiring 1 percent of public construction projects be spent on art, and the polluted Thea Foss waterway along the downtown shoreline was designated a Superfund site.
		The current boom in downtown arts construction began in 1994, when internationally renowned glass artist and Tacoma native Dale Chihuly, local patrons and the Tacoma Art Museum partnered with the federal government to present a free, permanent exhibition in the renovated Union Station.
		Collaboration was also evident in the city's approach to the ongoing environmental cleanup of the Foss Waterway, the catalyst for Tacoma's revitalization efforts.
	www.tidepool.org /original_content.cfm?articleid=84516 (1036 words)

	Browfields.com
		Built in 1904, the decrepit brick eyesore was right in the middle of Tacoma, Washington’s ambitious redevelopment of the Thea Foss Waterway; next door to the bold new Museum of Glass with its soaring metal cone; and within sight of the burgeoning cultural district of the revitalized downtown core.
		Don Meyers is the executive director of the Thea Foss Waterway Development Authority (FWDA), the agency responsible for redevelopment of the waterway.
		In 1999, as plans for the redevelopment of the waterfront moved forward, Meyers was convinced the dilapidated structure had to come down.
	www.brownfields.com /BrownfieldsSpotlight/2004/2004_April_Eyesore.htm (1033 words)

	Welcome to Thea's Landing, Tacoma's Premier Residential Community
		Right before our eyes, Tacoma is bursting into the 21st century with flair, innovation and a celebration, not only of its incredible heritage, but of its future as well.
		Thea's Landing, located on the Thea Foss Waterway, is downtown Tacoma's signature residence.
		Just like the resurgence of culture, history, and commerce that is sweeping the city, Thea's Landing is creating a wave of distinction, honoring its heritage and striking out with a bold and creative vision.
	www.theaslanding.com (161 words)

	TacomaScene.com - New Convention Center and Museum Buildings for Tacoma
		The Thea Foss Waterway bears little resemblance to the industrial inlet where Gary Gerontis began working in 1963.
		The $10.8 million project will be in the former Puget Sound Freight Building on the western side of the Thea Foss Waterway north of the 11th Street Bridge.
		The Thea Foss Waterway Development Authority is seeking buyers for land near the 11th Street Bridge.
	www.tacomascene.com /newbuildings.html (1794 words)

	Tacoma Washington CVB : Hotels, Attractions, Travel and Vacation Planning
		Downtown Tacoma's urban waterway, the Thea Foss, is rapidly becoming a vibrant part of
		The wide Esplanade on the western side of the Thea Foss is enjoyed by joggers and walkers, with plenty of benches for watching the sail boats cruise through the waterway.
		The Tacoma Dragon Boat Association practices on the Thea Foss and offers for free instructional sessions on the art of Dragon Boat racing for visitors.
	www.tpctourism.org /static/index.cfm?contentID=259 (224 words)

	Sara Nilsen Vanderbilt
		Sara Vanderbilt was born on July 9, 1905 in Trondheim, Norway to Olav Moxness and Sara Petrine Kristensen Moxness.
		In August 1923, Andrew Foss sent Sara a ticket to America, and Sara lived with his family upon her arrival.
		She was going to pay back the Foss' for the ticket they had given her to come over.
	www.plu.edu /~archives/sie/oral/interviews/t115.html (1162 words)

	#133: 03-03-03 U.S. LODGES CONSENT DECREES AT THE THEA FOSS SUPERFUND SITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Together, the consent decrees contain commitments for 100% of the clean up at the Thea Foss and Wheeler Osgood Waterway Problem Areas in the CB/NT site.
		Under the two decrees, four settling defendants, comprised of the City of Tacoma and a group of utility companies, will perform the cleanup of the two waterways under separate obligations.
		There will be a 30 day public comment period during which the United States will accept comments on the settlements before it is presented to the court for entry.
	www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/2003/March/03_enrd_133.htm (307 words)

	Stormwater Sediment Trap Monitoring of Discharges to Thea Foss Waterway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In-line sediment traps were successfully deployed between September 1996 and January 1997 in three major stormwater discharges to Thea Foss Waterway (Foss Waterway) located in Commencement Bay, Tacoma, Washington.
		The primary objective of this investigation was to determine contaminant concentrations associated with particulates entering the waterway.
		The greatest number of exceedances (20) were measured in the 15th Street drain which discharges to the central portion of the waterway.
	www.ecy.wa.gov /biblio/97322.html (262 words)

	TacomaScene.com - Tall Ships Tacoma 2005 - June 30 through July 5
		Foss Waterway Development Authority Executive Director Don Meyer thinks the figure may be too high and that there may be ways to get the price down.
		The city, the port, the Foss Waterway development authority and the local convention and visitors bureau have contributed funds to begin working with the sail training association.
		The tall ships will be moored in the Thea Foss Waterway near downtown Tacoma and most will be open to the public for a $10 boarding fee.
	www.tacomascene.com /tallships/articles.html (8756 words)

	Face-lift on the Foss \| TheNewsTribune.com \| Tacoma, WA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Located near the head of Tacoma’s Foss Waterway, the former wheat warehouse now accommodates the Working Waterfront Museum, and will, as funds are raised, become what backers hope will be an educational and recreational centerpiece.
		This week, the Foss Waterway Development Authority, the agency that essentially owns the building, approved a memorandum of understanding with the Commencement Bay Maritime Association concerning a major rehabilitation.
		The news: The Foss Waterway Authority has approved the plan, and the backers are ready to begin a capital campaign.
	www.thenewstribune.com /business/story/4609298p-4283008c.html (685 words)

	Tall Ships® offers art activities
		Live music, artisan and vendor booths, art exhibitions, art-making activities, and demonstrations of traditional maritime skills are all part of this five-day event.
		The figureheads represent historic ship adornments of good luck and prosperity and serve as guardians of the Tall Ships® festival in the same way the ancient sculptures were guardians of the vessels they adorned.
		More than 30 vessels, including Tall Ships® and other historical boats, will be available for public viewing along the Thea Foss Waterway from July 1 through 4.
	www.co.pierce.wa.us /cfapps/internet/news.cfm?node_id=30610&media=PC (671 words)

	The Annual International Conference on Contaminated Soils, Sediments, and Water
		Molecular Characterization of Anthropogenic PAHs in sediments of the Thea Foss/Wheeler Osgood Waterways, Tacoma, Washington
		The character of anthropogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in surface and near-surface sediments of the Thea Foss and Wheeler-Osgood Waterways in Tacoma, Washington, were investigated with the objective of determining the general source(s).
		It was apparent that the PAH in sediments throughout the Thea Foss and Wheeler-Osgood Waterways were overwhelmingly derived from
	www.umasssoils.com /abstracts2002/Thursday/envforensicsII.htm (2244 words)

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