Department of Ecology Will Not Amend Dungeness Water Rule
The state Department of Ecology has denied a petition to reopen the Dungeness Water Rule. The petition had been submitted by a local “property rights” organization, the Olympic Resource Protection Council.
posted by Tom Harper at 6:37 PM
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The petition had no legal merit, and it was a foregone conclusion that Ecology would deny it. The attorneys for the ORPC will no doubt be happy to take ORPC's money, though, to appeal the decision.
This is not surprising, as the "local property rights group", by their own definition, only care about their own property rights.
The Dept. of Ecology usually looks at the bigger picture. Things that will impact all residents of Washington State.
Not just the economic self interests of a few landowners.
I have a water problem, it's called, "Fucking rain."
Department of ecology = agenda 21
@ Anon 10:07
Yeah, and we see how well things are run with the current arrangements.
Agenda 21 is a problem? You REALLY think THAT is why things are SO screwed up here? Really?
they should have never let people build down there anyway
they should have never let people build down there anyway.
Tell that to a fucking real estate agent, or one of our insane leaders.
10:56 - Take a deep breath. Could possibly be sarcasm. I suspect that due to the brevity. We will never know, because sarcasm is so "yesterday" in Port Angeles. Personally, I prefer not knowing.
What was their legal argument? That the state didn't take the real estate and building industry's "over-riding" right to screw up everything in their efforts to make a profit, seriously enough.
As somebody else said, I'm sure that group's lawyers are going to be more than happy to take their money to litigate this one. Geezz.
Olympic Resource Protection Council". What a deceptive name. Selected, no doubt, to confuse their true mission: bullying regulatory agencies into allowing "council" members to enhance their personal resources at public expense.
Water belongs to the public. Ecology's job is to protect the public's water from degradation and depletion. "Council" members want to turn the regulatory system upside down, and force the agency to allow their individual desires to supersede all others.
Despicable goals,masquerading as "resource protection".
Yes, typical of why the area is declining.
You really think this kind of thinking will ATTRACT anyone to the area? " Screw everything and everybody but me. I don't care if their is water in the Dungeness River for future fish. I don't care if properties will have their wells dry up. I don't care about the future generations. I have "rights". I have a right to making profit on my land speculation that is more important than anything else".
Yeah. I can see how that is an attractive attitude for people looking into moving to the area.
Seeing that realtor-troll, and their incessant, confusing posts about water from the realtor-crook's point of view, at the PDN comment section, is enough to make someone not want to move here. Or vomit. But if one is wanting to move here, and is reading the PDN comment section, it's not like vomiting is going to make you feel better, and make you change your mind to move here, after you decided you wanted to move here, and then changed your mind, and moved elsewhere. You could always, after all, move to Aberdeen and walk around all day wearing thumbscrews (on each finger, toes too, if one has the money to purchase them), as that would approximate, what it's like to live in Clallam Co.
Well, as they say, the proof of how good the recipe is in how good the pudding tastes.
After all these years of meetings and talk, the areas' population continues to decline. Lots less jobs.
According to a recent article in the local paper, there are around 700 LESS employable people here than last year, alone.
People just can't afford what the city has done, and are moving away.
Fix that, Port Angeles United.
If I move away it won't make another job available here cuz I'm a bum and don't work. It will just mean I (and my money) moved to some place drier.
Speaking of water, I've been avoiding visiting the Manina/Holiday Get the Fuck out of Town Sidewalk(tm), but did today, pretty much to offer my review, not some fake snarky review, as I know everyone wants to know what I really think, before I'm outta here. Wow. The pictorial murals are very ugly. Not inspiring either. Downright depressing! Sure enough the damage looks bad. Even if they fix it, it's aging very quickly, and the damage is everywhere. The oozing is reminiscent of bird poop, and I must admit that is sort of genius if it were planned to be that color, as it does look natural and fits in with the area. There are many cracks in the tile, as reported, oh, no ten times more than reported, and on the regular cement paths too, which you'd think are unrelated. If I had a child, I would avoid the entire area, as the thin wire railing keeping the public away from the feces/dioxin soup mix, could hurt little hands. Or faces, necks, head not attached to body issues, if a child was running and didn't see it, because it's sort of invisible. The overall railing system is sturdy, but I'd imagine everyone who visits feels compelled to "test" it. LOL. Every bolt, nut I saw, were rusty. Some point up, and are in odd places, and the recess they sit in must create little pools of water, that the nut sits in. That's dumb. Perhaps they are like stitches, and meant to "dissolve" because these were especially rusty. Reminded me of why advanced yoga postures are illegal at most nude beaches in France now. Also, large sections of the flat, upper sections seem to be sagging, creating a gutter-like effect, I'd imagine, noticed if you were sitting on one of the benches when it was raining. The benches were a bit splattered with bird poop. Honestly, I was surprised the benches were nice. Probably have been repainted already. This sagging/gutter/run off area will require major renovation. Bet it all goes off limits right as summer starts! Watch! Hmmm, what else...no one was there, like it matters, ha ha. Noon on Saturday, not a soul. Oh, no, there was a couple in a very nice truck, eating Taco Bell yummies inside their truck. The market was dead too. I'm sure it will pick up in spring. SPRING 2022! Also, whomever designed the walk path to the nearest business (other than the hobby shop) is a total moron because there are all these visual breaks, and changes of surface, for no reason, except maybe to signal to pick ups that the parking extends onto the sidewalk? Perhaps? Is that for tailgating parties? I don't think the bricks they chose, were meant for busy sidewalks. If a surface is going to feel like cobblestones, why not just go with cobblestones? Oh, never mind, ha ha, it's not a busy sidewalk, makes sense. Also, being so quiet downtown, the beeping from the crosswalks, reverberating all over downtown, for the blind guy who is nearly deaf too, gave me a headache. The headache, which made me not look down an alley as I crossed it, and was not paying attention, almost got me killed! The one car downtown!
I had a similar thought as I drove through downtown earlier today. As I was waiting for the light to change, I had plenty of time to look in all directions. Nobody.
Saturday afternoon, and nobody downtown.
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