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Michelle Farfan
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David W. Johnson
Friday, May 28.20041 :13 PM
AI Scalf; Michelle Farfan
FW: comments and requests
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Lawson [mailto:thelaw@olypen.com]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 1:09 PM
To: David W. Johnson
Subject: comments and requests
To whom it may concern,
I request that you start this entire process over in order to include
pertinent information that has been excluded.
Dealing with drinking water there was a reference to the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement from the early 90's but the document
does not seem to be at hand, and is probably superseded anyway.
Statements of water rights are claimed but not verified nor is there a
County provided document showing essential figures of the total volume
of drinking water granted to all local users by DOE or allowed by
Jefferson County through historical usage. To reply to this current
DEIS the public needs to know of the total water allocated currently,
via the vehicles of water rights and historical usage. We also need to
know what the total available sustainable usage is in each of the
referenced aquifers, and the actual recharge rate. It is not ethical
and perhaps not even legal to have the company selling the water to
customers doing the verifications of aquifer health and recharge.
Shouldn't this be a County responsibility?
Even in the abbreviated version included within this DEIS one footnote
is missing. I question why there is a lack of open information provided
in useful format when the document is offered to the public for serious
comment? This is our home and these issues concern our future health
and well being.
The public finds ourselves in a vulnerable situation when our County
does not advocate for our community essentials. Water being one of the
most precious. Hearing only the focused concerns of a developer should
not be the primary purpose of a Government which is responsible to all
of it's citizens. But based on the previous DEIS process my impression
is that the County actually advocated for the allocation of public
resources into private use, including our water, without concern for
long term conservation. My cautions about the previous developer
abnegating their stated responsibility to maintain public services is
quite substantiated by the need to create a local drainage district.
Shoddy development causes the people of this County to pay for these
oversights in the future. A PUD is a tax supported venture to unravel
the disasters of poor planning. The requests by the proponent may be
valid and supportable but it seems the least the County can do is
require that all of their claims are proven and documented. In fact the
County should be responsible to the public to assure a continued supply
of healthy drinking water and even now be using an unbiased third party
to assure the level of water available in our aquifers. It only makes
logical sense to know what the limits of our public resources actually
are, before we approve utilization. Allowing a corporation to have
access to water may be taking it from current users, and the
information provided in this public DEIS is not adequate to sustain
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proponents requests.
Also, the County is our only agency able to manage oversight of all
events likely to effect future quality of environmental health. But
even today (May 28, 2004) there is a clear cut logging operation in
progress on top of the north aquifer, but no mention is made about the
effect on recharge into the future from this event or other types of
further development.
As stated above, this process needs to be started over with clear and
useful information so that all of us in this County are able to
understand what resources we are allocating to who, and how future
public use will be sustained. Citizens should not feel forced to take
legal action to protect our future health. The County should be the
public agency protecting our public resources.
Thank you for the invitation to respond by email.
Sincerely, Larry
Larry Lawson
10140 Oak Bay Road
Port Ludlow WA 98365
360 437 9143
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