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Re: Anchorage Regulations; Port Ludlow Harbor
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Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners
Jefferson County Courthouse
P.O. Box 1220
Port Townsend, Washington 98386
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Dear County Commissioners: nr~r~juT[~':~(Hj COlJr,/i;-J .
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The Port Ludlow Village Council recognizes that Port Ludlow Harbor is one of the
great natural assets in Jefferson County. As such it can never be replicated in the
event of an environmental disaster. We are specifically concerned with the insidious
erosion of the water quality within the harbor through the harmful and illegal effluents
being pumped over the side by a live aboard anchored in the harbor, as well as those
boats that might follow him here. We are equally concerned with the eventual
possibility of some type of derelict being anchored and abandoned in the harbor to
escape moorage costs. These unseaworthy craft, by necessity, are constantly
pumping contaminated bilge water into the harbor, or even worse, sinking at their
moorings due to a lack of attention by the owners. Additionally, the long term
anchoring of unattended pleasure boats with integral fuel tanks pose the problem of
these vessels coming adrift in strong winds and grounding on the shore causing the
eventual spillage of fuel oil and other contaminants.
We are asking the B.O.C.C. to use their influence with the appropriate governmental
agencies to establish Port Ludlow Harbor as a short term anchorage zone. While
active boaters are most welcome to anchor in Port Ludlow, we recommend a limit of
fourteen days in anyone month for anchored vessels meeting the above criteria. The
fourteen day stay is contingent upon the vessel pumping out on the seventh day or
when their holding tank is full, whichever comes earlier. Ninety nine percent of all
anchoring vessels fit within the desired profile, unfortunately it is the other one percent
who require that we have some type of proactive enforcement measures in place. We
simply do not have the luxury of waiting until the damage is done to create an effective
enforcement action, which should include the authority to remove the vessel from the
harbor at owner's expense.
Your support of this measure will not only be greatly appreciated by the current
residents of Port Ludlow. but also by all those who follow us to Jefferson County to live
nearby one of the great small boat harbors in the United States.
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