Barnaby Project

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Queries Seattle City Light About Our Complaint 0
- Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Featured, Letters, Pinned
- December 15, 2021
In July, 2021, we sent a letter to the sponsors of the Barnaby Reach project expressing our opposition to any project feature like the dangerous channel originally envisioned by the sponsors. For the past eight years we’ve demanded that the idea of constructing a long, wide and deep channel to divert substantial Skagit River flow

By Dave Hallock
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Barnaby Reach sponsors declare “no intention” to harm or risk increased flooding or erosion 0
- Barnaby Project, Featured, Letters, Pinned
- December 15, 2021
In what we hope is not just a public relations move but a genuine commitment to our community’s well-being, the three powerful organizations sponsoring the Barnaby Reach project have declared their intention not to harm our community or put us at risk of increased flooding or erosion. We are writing to you in response to

By Dave Hallock
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No Support Here for Diverting the Skagit 0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Featured, Pinned
- July 20, 2021
Seattle City Light and its sponsoring partners of the Barnaby Reach Project have begun work dismantling old hatchery infrastructure in the vicinity of Barnaby Slough. We are not opposing this work, and as we’ve repeatedly made clear, we support fisheries resource recovery. However, it’s evident to us that Seattle City Light and the other sponsors

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What A Two-Year Flood Event Looks Like 0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Flood Events
- November 13, 2018
As part of its research work in support of the Barnaby Reach Project, the consulting firm Natural Systems Design studied water levels in the Skagit and Sauk Rivers and within the project area under flood conditions. By measuring water levels at various points, they developed models of what future floods might look like. Measurements from

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Conversation With Dr. Jon Riedel About Barnaby Project Concerns 0
- Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Featured, Pinned
- August 17, 2018
By Dave Hallock Recently several neighbors with homes adjacent to the Barnaby Reach Project area had the opportunity to visit with Dr. Jon L. Riedel, a member of the Barnaby Project’s “Technical Advisory Group.” Dr. Riedel is a geologist at North Cascades National Park and an expert on the geological history of our area. His areas

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What the Skagit Upriver Valley Floor Looks Like 0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information
- July 30, 2018
Here are two images of the same Skagit Upriver area, one showing what we’d see flying overhead and the other what we’d see if all the trees and other vegetation was removed. The second image was produced using Lidar a technology which reveals the actual ground elevations of the area. We can see in the

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December, 2017, Community Meeting Summary Documents 0
- Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information
- January 10, 2018
Here are four documents provided by Skagit River System Cooperative summarizing the community meeting of December 12, 2017, at Howard Miller Steelhead Park, Rockport, Washington. These are notes compiled by the meeting facilitator, Cynthia Carlstad, as well as images and slides used by presenters. Thanks, Cynthia Carlstad, for providing this information. Click on the links

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South Rockport Culverts Should Be Replaced 1
- Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Featured
- January 8, 2018
By Dave Hallock There was a good turnout of concerned neighbors for a meeting December 12th in Rockport regarding the “Barnaby Reach Project,” an initiative spearheaded by the Skagit River System Cooperative. The primary focus of the meeting had to do with recent study work on drainage related flooding in the Martin Road neighborhood area

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WSDOT, YOUR LOGJAM PROJECT DID THIS!1
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Featured
- November 29, 2017
By Lisa Fenley, WSDOT, your project created the pooling of water that undermined highway 20 east of Rockport. You can’t put that much debris in a body of water and not expect water pressure to build elsewhere, like right in front of (at the upstream end of) the man-made logjam. The debris got caught up

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LiDAR in Washington State 0
- Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Uncategorized
- November 16, 2017
The Washington Department of Natural Resources has just published an informative “Story Map” on the use of LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) technology by geologists to study the earth’s surface. This technology is being used in the development of computer simulation models for the Barnaby Reach project. To view the story map, “The Bare Earth,” and

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