Waterfront Trail Still Not Open through Rayonier Mill Site
The part of the Waterfront Trail that goes through the former Rayonier mill site is still not open. Public Works officials are waiting for more input from the state Department of Ecology. City Engineer Mike Puntenney said:
“We're waiting for the response. Hopefully, we'll get it next week.”
As of last Friday afternoon, the Ecology Department could not be reached for comment.
“We're waiting for the response. Hopefully, we'll get it next week.”
As of last Friday afternoon, the Ecology Department could not be reached for comment.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:14 PM
23 Comments:
The only path that matters to people is the one leading out of Port Angeles. It's a dying town, and those who can flee, are doing so. The ones who are left behind don't really give a rat's ass about any waterfront trails - they're just waiting to die.
Typical city, blaming Ecology for a delay in opening the trail. Rumor has it that Ecology and the city cannot agree on displaying warnings to trail users telling them that they are traversing a toxic waste site. Guess which party doesn't want to post them?
Whine and complain all you want, but the Max Mania memorial Esplanade is open! So take a walk, enjoy the view and let your fevered brains be cooled by the sea breezes.
Cheer up, 'chucks!
Just take a walk on the wild side. :(
Worried about health effects from walking through toxic waste? Then definitely avoid walking the trail through the Nippon mill. Gag! Yuck!
Fuck the department of ecology, just move the shit out of the way, that is how we did things in the good old days when everyone wasn't trying to squeeze our nuts and telling us how to do things.
And to top all that off the cat got put down. It couldn't have been that toxic if a cat lived there for eighteen years.
Oh, come on! A little toxic waste never hurt anyone!
Ten thousand indians are buried under that site, all the city well ever be able to do with it is pave over paradise and put up a parking lot.
Don't roll around on the ground or eat the dirt and you should be fine. Is there such a thing as immaculate contamination?
Correction, ten thousand indians and a cat. :-)
"Typical city, blaming Ecology.."
It was only a week or so ago the City Finance Director was blaming Ecology for putting the City at its' "financial limits" because of "the unfunded mandate" to deal with sewage overflows.
So, unpack that view, espoused by the City!
Ecology is to blame for making the City stop polluting the areas' waters (as much), and this is a bad thing?
Ecology told the City what to do, in an "unfunded mandate"? As if it wasn't the City that came up with the most expensive way to deal with the problem?
Ecology created the City's current financial problems because the "unfunded mandate"? How many millions in "grants" did the City get in pursuing the project they did?
Don't get me wrong, Ecology deserves blame for a lot of things. But the staff of Port Angeles have demonstrated they deserve suspicion and blame, too.
I hate the staff!
Have you seen staff's position on the tsunami threat to Port Angeles?
Even though the fault right off our coast produced a tsunami 300 years ago that killed people in JAPAN, and has generated 41 major quakes, regularly over the last 10,000 years, Port Angeles staff say there is no significant threat to Port Angeles!
The natives out at Neah Bay are getting their town moved inland and to higher ground because of the threat, but Port Angeles spends millions to build right on the waterfront.
Smart. Very smart!
Speaking of detestable people on the city's payroll --- has anybody heard what Kent Myers and Mark Madsen are up to these days?
So, Inslee bailed out. Ya think he saw the potential for bad photos and articles with protesters along Marine Drive?
Of all the so-called liberal commenters on the stupid, terrible PDN website, Zac Garripoli is the most clueless. He just doesn't seem to get that the local political "leaders" are bought and paid for by industry, and thus make decisions that HARM Port Angeles and Clallam County. But he is a great representative of the many other well-meaning-but-clueless voters in Clallam County who keep electing crooks and dopes like Chapman, McEntire, Kidd, etc. (Not to mention the now-bailing out Inslee...) No wonder things are in such a sorry state!
11:30 - You are an idiot. The guy has balls. Repeat, you are an idiot.
When commenting on current affairs, it's more important to have a brain than balls. Garripoli may have balls (in your opinion), but he ain't got the brains.
Maybe Cherie Kidd can click her ruby slippers together and get the Wizard (Harold Norland) to give Zac some...
Really? You think Zac has balls?
Hope in one hand, shit in the other and see which one fills up faster.
Keep up the fine work.
BBC
I believe the post is referring to the other mill, on the other side of the harbor ?
Faking a disability to get benefits and avoid working does NOT mean you have balls. It means you're a liar and a cheat.
"I believe the post is referring to the other mill, on the other side of the harbor ?"
Actually, Billy is right. This is yet another example of how stupid the "leadership in Port Angeles is. Why, you might ask if you haven't been around here very long?
Under the former Rayonier mill site ( the topic of this thread) is the former First Nations village of Y'Innis. It is a well documented site that up until the late 1800s had one of the areas largest longhouses. Emplyees of the former Rayonier mill speak of digging up human remains while doing work there, years ago.
AFTER going through the horror and heartache of digging up over 300 intact bodies, and tens of thousands of pieces of remains, that project (Graving Dock) was stopped. This was about 7 years ago.
Shortly afterthe community went throught that experience, the very wise leadership of Port Angeles decided to spend millions of taxpayers money to pursue building a residential, retail and commercial development RIGHT ON TOP of the known village of Y'Innis!!
This was called "HarborWorks.
As if that wasn't totally brain-dead irresponsible enough, learning absolutely nothing from the experience only months earlier at Graving Dock, these smart business leaders in Port Angeles decided the biggest financial collapse in modern times was the BEST time to try to get such an ill-advised and problem prone development going!
So, millions were spent, and nothing was achieved. Other than to once again demonstrate what a bunch of insensitive morons run Port Angeles.
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