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Jefferson County Department of Community Development
Attn: David Wayne Johnson
RE: Pleasant Harbor Master Planned Resort DSEIS
621 Sheridan Street
Port Townsend WA 98368
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On behalf of Sierra Club North Olympic Group and our hundreds of
members, activists, and supporters, we are writing to submit comments
on the Pleasant Harbor Master Planned Resort DSEIS. Please include
these comments in the administrative record.
Sierra Club feels there are serious omissions in this Draft Environmental
Impact Statement that must be corrected. Our comments on different
aspects are listed below.
GLOBAL WARMING:
An assessment needs to be done and presented on how this project will
affect global warming and the microbial soils community due to
extensive plant and soil removal. Appendix M doesn't quantify the GHG
releases and effects of the releases, and the mitigations are clearly
inadequate. It takes years to regain sequestration of carbon,and the
DEIS also fails to factor in how this would affect marine life.
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EFFLUENT:
Class A effluent discharge from the proposed seweruge treatment plant is
planned to be stored and recycled. This is a dangerous practice that
should not be used due to inevitable pathogen transfer to aquifers. There
are thousands of chemicals and many pathogens, (microbeads, MRSA,
antibiotics, fire retardants and chemicals of emerging concern) that
cannot be tested, nor are clearly known for their cumulative impacts, and
that will be introduced in a recycling system.
TRAFFIC: One of the most worrisome issues with this project is traffic.
Hwy 101 is a thoroughfare used by those traveling between Clallam
County and more southern points to Olympia. Additionally, the traffic is
greatly increased during the summer season. Roads are narrow. Much
of the route is on bluffs which fail, as some just have this December
2014 creating one way traffic for weeks. Landslides are common on this
route during the rainy season. Traffic accidents happen. This resort area
is an inhospitable site for a large resort.
WATER: Another very worrisome issue is the availability of water over
the long term and the effects on community water resources. Water will
become a key resource as weather warrns and snow levels are minimized
and rainwater runoff increases. The DSEIS does not address this truth.
SUMMARY
This comment can only cover some of the problems with the planned
resort and the DSEIS. Clearly, it is not appropriate to approve this
project.
Respectively submitted,
Monica Fletcher
Chair
North Olympic Group, Sierra Club
monicaflet@gmail.com