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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLog175 DOUGLAS M BENNETT PO BOX 166 NORDlAND, WA 983580166 JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC NOTICE OF TYPE III LAND USE APPLICATION MLA05-00276 ~~ 4 " If) cA[a:::;t ~ ~ jfrz Mfi ~c:t:::-~~~ :x;, , ~~~t?~<<~ ~:l1klZ ~~~~~.~ ~ ~~ ~d/1~;;. ~;O~ ~ fY"~~ 7.JIl-R . y;:~ ~ ~ ~J1P ~ a.- ~(l)1?~ W $.. t;....J2-,..p'~~_.p.;,...:~ .;.1'" 'I,:, Lt t ~.R,~l ~~~ RECEIVED f' r t" ~) t') 2.~~5 I.) :~ \,.. /.i lJ ~t\\t~~~~ t~~~\{ ~t\\ Please note the following: APPLICANT: PUD#1 OF JEFF COUNTY ATTN: JIM PARKER PO BOX 929 PORT HADLOCK W A 98339 Application Received Date: May 3, 2005 Application Complete Date: May 31, 2005 Application Notice Date: November 23, 2005 SITE ADDRESS AND PROJECT LOCATION: SR 116 Sections 4,5,8,9 & 16, in Township 29N, Range 01 East, WM and Sections 17, 18, 19,20,21,28,29,32 & 33 in Township 30N, Range 01 East, WM, Located on Marrowstone Island, Nordland, WA 98358 PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND REQUIRED PERMITS/STUDIES: Marrowstone Island water system: This proposal includes installation of 8, 6, 4 and 2-inch public water mains, with accoutrements, in and along the road ditches throughout Marrowstone Island. The Unified Development Code identifies water pipelines as minor utilities requiring a Conditional Administrative use subject to a Type II process. Proposed utilities within shoreline jurisdiction require a Shoreline Conditional Use and Substantial Development Permit subject to a Type III process involving noticing and a public hearing. The proposal is exempt from review under the State Environmental Policy Act pursuant to WAC 197-11-800(23)(b). The project will require approval from Washington State Departments of Transportation and Health. US Army Corp of Engineers and the Departments of I:::cology, Natural Resources and Fish & Wildlife will have the opportunity to comment and determine whether permitting is required through their departments. COMMENT PERIOD AND WHERE TO VIEW DOCUMENTS: The application and any studies may be reviewed at the Jefferson County Department of Community Development. All interested persons are invited to (a) comment on the application; (b) receive notice of and participate in any hearings; and (c) receive a copy of the decision by submitting such written comment(s)/request(s) to the Jefferson County Department of Community Development, Development Review Division, 621 Sheridan Street, Port Townsend, W A 98368, (360) 379-4450. Comments concerning this application should be submitted to the Department by 4:30 p.m. on December 23, 2005. If the last day of the comment period falls on a weekend or holiday, then the comment period shall be extended to the first working day after the weekend or hOlida.v'a~"\TEMubmitted after this date may not be considered in the staff report. L- .... . . Project Planner: D JOHNSON, 360-379-4450 p# { ~O- f ~_ age~ -..:+- For further information, please visit the Jefferson County Department of Community web page at www.co.jefferson.wa.us/commdevelopment/ L8\1:12- l{}1K l~ ~ TO: Jefferson County Department of Community Development Development Review Division - - ---- FROM: Dennis & Carol Burk 511 Griffith Point Road Marrowstone Island ON ~~~(\ A-??L\ <:.~ no~ DATE: November 25,2005 SUBJECT: Type II~se Application MLAO~ Marrowstone Island desperately needs a reliable, year-around supply of potable water and the PUD #1 's proposed Marrowstone Island water system does just that. The Island's long-standing problems with water supplied by private wells are very well known ifnot legendary. Island water has problems with (1) Salt Intrusion, (2) High Dissolved Mineral Content, (3) Microbial Contamination, (4) Low Delivery Rates, (5) Seasona'l Dry Periods and (6) Complete Failure. Many parcels have had to drill deeper wells to replace shallow dried-up wells, but still ended up with marginal supplies of poor quality water. (1) Salt Intrusion not only can be a taste problem, but more seriously it contributes to high blood pressure, a health problem that can shorten life spans. Salt water also accelerates corrosion of water heaters and all other metal plumbing components. Marrowstone residents compensate for this by buying bottled water from area grocery stores or by bottling water at friends and families who live in the Port Townsend/Port Hadlock area and enjoy a public water system. (2) High Mineral Content water can also have taste and health issues and damage plumbing components. High cost and high maintenance filtration systems can .' reduce troublesome mineral content, but people also haul water as an inadequate remedy. Reyerse Osmosis systems can remedy salt and other mineral contamination, but it is costly, high maintenance and wasteful in that systems commonly used in homes produce more waste water than potable water. (J) Microbial Contamination is an insidious problem because people simply do not have their wells tested frequently enough. People's health can be adversely affected by contaminated water and they don't know the source is in their back . yards. Whole-house mechanical filtration systems are ineffective for eliminating water borne microbes and electronic (UV) or chemical sterilization are high cost and high maintenance and are also ineffective for single family applications. It is difficult if not impossible in some cases to find the source (liyestock waste or septic systems) of microbial contamination and eyen then it may take more than a '~etime for natural processes to clean up the ground water. r4 ~r~ --' CI) 0> ~(tJ Q.. .. ~: . .- . (4) Low Delivery Rates can be compensated for by adding cost and complexity to the home water system. Instead of a demand system that draws directly from the well, a "smart" well pump and a thousand gallon cistern that draws and stores water slowly around the clock can be added to buffer the high cyclic demand of a , household. (5) Seasonal Dry Periods is primarily treated by hauling water from a public water system. Conservation and rain catchments are partial, but inadequate solutions at best. When the well is dry and the rain isn't falling, the bucket is dry. . '. (6) Complete Failure of wells may suggest drilling new ones at costs greater than your share of a public system, but on Marrowstone it is a risky wager that you could even find water much less find it free of problems listed in 1 through 5 above. In reality it means hauling water. doing laundry in town, taking showers at t~e State Park, letting your landscaping die, forgoing a vegetable garden, eating off paper plates and reducing your standards of personal hygiene. In short your .Quality oflife has gone into the toilet that you don't have water to flush! In this day and age, this is unacceptable even for so called homeless people. The time came long ago for Marrowstone to haye a public water system that meets modem standards and that water system should be constructed in the public rights-of- way. In the entire world, it would be difficult to find public rights-of-way that are not used for utility systems of all types in addition to vehicular and pedestrian traffic. How is Jefferson County, Marrowstone Island so different from the rest of the world that using the public rights-of-way for public water systems is not a fore-gone conclusion? It is ludicrous to think otherwise. cc: Jefferson County Commissioners Jefferson County PUD# I Commissioners Jefferson County PUD# I Director Vince & Joyce Zodiaco P. O. Box 77 7715 Flagler Road Nordland, WA 98358-0077 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 #l'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. Thank you, 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 LOG ITEM #~ Page_ ot~ lOG ITE~il # IS{ Page 'of ?- Addresses: Washington State Department of Health Denise Lahmann (Drinking Water) PO BOX 47890 Olympia, Washington 98504-7890 Washington State Department of Ecology Permit Assistant Department PO BOX 4700 Olympia, Washington 98504-7600 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Seattle District Regulatory Branch PO Box 3755 Seattle, WA 98124-2255 Senator James Hargrove 411 Legislative Building PO Box 40424 Olympia, WA 98504-0424 Representative Lynn Kessler 339A Legislative Building PO Box 40600 Olympia, WA 98504-0600 Representative Jim Buck 425B Legislative Building PO Box 40600 Olympia, WA 98504-0600 28 November 2005 Jefferson County Dept. of Community Development Development Review Division 621 Sheridan Street Port Townsend, W A 98368 Attn:: D. Johnson Subject: Type III Land Use Application MLA05-00276 We strongly support MLA05-00276 submitted by Jefferson County PUD #1 to bring public water onto Marrowstone Island. In 1936 the Heinzinger family including the writer first came to Marrowstone Island. Water was and is a topic of discussion and/or dissension. Seawater intrusion and dry wells have plagued the island for years. The need is real, one only has to reference "Geology, Water Resources, and Seawater Intrusion Assessment of Marrowstone Island, Jefferson County, Washington. Water Supply Bulletin No. 59, Washington State Department of Ecology Dated 1994". The only viable alternative source of water is public water supplied by PUD #1. Alternative sources such as catchment systems have potentially serious health problems and in addition fail to provide adequate water in view of the continuing drought. Year after year we have failed by a large margin to even produce our average rainfall of 20 inches. Conservation efforts can not succeed when many of the citizens do not have ANY water to conserve. The Jefferson County PUD #1 Commissioners unanimously approved LUD #14 (public fA. / I water for Marrowstone Island) in April 2004 as a result of majority support from island ~ I t'1f landowners. In May 2004 a very vocal anti-growth group Conserve Water First (CWF) ~ "^ () / filed a suit to stop LUD #14. The court completely dismissed this suit. The legislature in c; April 2005 approved a $2M Public Works Trust Fund construction loan for LUD#14. 0 CWF attempted to get this legislation stopped as it proceeded through the approval cycle. -J This same CWF group augmented by Port Townsend activists (not island landowners) continues to impede the implementation of this LUD by constantly challenging every action taken by the PUD. These challenges are frivolous or untrue. One example is charging that our local little general store has old buried gas tanks that were probably leaking. Trenching through the area could release damaging toxics. A simple call to the store would have revealed that the county required that the tanks be decommissioned and that it had been accomplished. Some of the government agencies are allowing themselves to be so distracted by these types of actions that they lose sight that their primary objective is to support those actions legally approved like a LUD #14. The people have spoken, a majority of the islanders want water, not only want but desperately need water. A long standing problem will be resolved. Think of the problem facing Jefferson County officials if public water doesn't come to Marrowstone Island. Our view of government is that government is there to serve the citizens and be directed by the majority. It is time government agencies establish priorities and not allow small vocal groups to distort the system to where the will of the minority rules, by saturating the system with meaningless, frivolous and erroneous challenges. The majority of landowners want water, the PUD recognized this by establishing LUD #14 and the legislature appropriated the funds. Please take the necessary steps to expeditiously process this application. If problems are encountered, that information must be forwarded to us so we can contact our representatives. Paul and Mary Lou Heinzinger P.O. Box 213 / 83 Heinzinger Road Nordland, W A. 98358 3603850772 cc: Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners Jefferson County PUD #1 Board of Commissioners U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Washington State Department of Health Washington State Department of Ecology LOG lTEM l-:rr; ~otL # Page