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Vince & Joyce Zodiaco
P. O. Box 77
7715 Flagler Road
Nordland, WA 98358-0077
RECE IVIED
NOY 3 0 2005
JEffERSON COUNTY DCD
November 29,2005
Jefferson County Department of Community Development
Development Review Division
621 Sheridan Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Subject: Type III Land Use Application - MLA05-00276: Marrowstone Island Water System
To our public employees:
We are writing to urge your prompt review and approval of Jefferson County PUD #1's
permit application so that this important project can finally go forward.
A majority of the property owners on the island, every public agency and most public
officials have come out in favor of installation of a public water system as the common sense
solution to the water quantity and quality problems experienced on this island that was once
attached to the Olympic Peninsula. The project has been well publicized, debated and finally
litigated. No credible argument has been raised in opposition.
This (most recent) effort to bring public water to the island began nearly 3 years ago. In
response LUD #14 was created by the PUD in April of 2004. Opposition litigation was dismissed
on summary judgment in February of 2005. The initial permit application was submitted the
following May. It is now the end of 2005 and given regulatory requirements yet to be satisfied;
construction is unlikely to begin before the summer of 2006. To add insult to injury: both
borrowing and material costs have more than doubled since April 2004.
The long, bureaucracy-induced delay in getting to this point is inexcusable. Further
delay will not benefit any legitimate cause and will only increase the cost of the system and the
burden on those without adequate potable water. These people have suffered for far too long
and deserve your best consideration and diligence.
We residents of Marrowstone Island are asking for your focus and assistance. Please
expedite the approval and installation of our water system.
J;~~
Joyce and Vince Zodiaco
Copy to:
Washington State Department of Health
Washington State Department of Ecology
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Senator James Hargrove
Representative Lynn Kessler
Representative Jim Buck
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