Three new Bellevue entries document movement at Onni 606 this week: soil is being exported under the issued early-grading permit, and fire reviewers approved narrow reviews for the heavy-equipment fuel cube and the project's utility extension. None of the entries issues the still-pending shoring, below-grade, fuel or utility-extension permits.
The field evidence is the most direct. On July 28, Bellevue completed a third preconstruction/job conference under early clear-and-grade permit 21-133872-GD with the note: "Maintain mechanical street sweeper while exporting soils." That is the first city inspection entry to state explicitly that soil is leaving the block. It also records a road-cleanliness control intended to limit soil tracking from haul traffic.
The inspection note does not identify the soil's destination, volume or environmental classification. The site is separately performing state-supervised soil characterization for a known PCE plume, but the city entry does not say the material exported July 28 was contaminated. It should not be used to collapse ordinary early-grade soil and cleanup soil into the same category.
On July 29, Bellevue approved the Revision 3 fire review of utility-extension permit 24-104273-UE. The reviewer referenced a June 29 meeting about protecting connections and the hydrant/fire-department-connection layout, then required a fire jobsite preconstruction inspection before work begins, a separate permit for the underground private fire line and a future operational permit for private hydrants. The utility-extension permit itself remains Pending, and its Revision 3 utility review remains open.
The same day, the first fire review of fuel permit 26-116729-FR was approved with operating conditions. They include a separate electrical-grounding permit, required grounding, construction-fire-safety rules, flammable-liquid labeling, setbacks from buildings and public ways, extinguishers, and a requirement that the unit be empty before it is moved. The filing still does not publish the fuel cube's capacity, and its overall status remains Pending.
Taken together, the entries show an early worksite becoming more operational: hauling is documented, while fire reviewers are clearing parts of the fuel and utility packages needed around a major excavation. They do not release the deep phase. Dedicated mass-excavation and shoring permit 21-134212-BV and below-grade structure permit 24-104362-BB remain Pending, so the accurate project status is still early excavation and soil characterization with full shoring pending.
A full-week check found no newer project document in Washington Ecology's public cleanup file—the latest remains the June 11 Q2 progress report—and no new direct project announcement from Onni or credible newsroom report. For this week's update, Bellevue's live permit and inspection records are the primary new evidence.
Sources
- Bellevue inspection activity — early grading permit 21-133872-GD
- Bellevue permit 21-133872-GD — issued early clear and grade
- Bellevue review activity — utility extension 24-104273-UE
- Bellevue permit 24-104273-UE — utility extension
- Bellevue review activity — fuel cube 26-116729-FR
- Bellevue permit 26-116729-FR — heavy-equipment fuel cube
- WA Ecology — cleanup site 14996 public file
- City of Bellevue permit records — parcel 154410-0214
Independent and unaffiliated with Onni Group. Written from the public City of Bellevue record; corrections via the contact form.