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Saving wetlands: a broken promise

Retaining walls — the tallest of their kind in the world, towering as high as 135 feet — hold back 14 million cubic yards of fill dirt trucked in, then leveled, to create the third runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Part of the runway sits on what once was a wetland.

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