
Rising temperatures or 2.9 to 5.4 F. over the coming decades are forecast to cause more flooding in our region. So says a significant new report on climate change just published by the University of Washington. It is called, “State of Knowledge Report – Climage Change in Puget Sound.” You can access the report at this University
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By Beth Easterday Minutes of the Barnaby Project stakeholder advisory committee meeting of September 28, 2015, in Marblemount have been published by the Skagit River System Cooperative. The notes and the overview of the meeting are thorough and pretty accurate. Three residents of the Martin Road area of Rockport participate on this committee: Howard Stafford,
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Seattle King 5 News visited Rockport this morning and talked with Howard Stafford about our opposition to the Barnaby Reach project plan to divert significant Skagit River flow into the Barnaby Slough upriver from our residential community. The channel would let the river move diagonally across our valley. The design intention is that about thirty
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- November 1, 2015
By Dave Hallock Howard Stafford is a life-long resident of Rockport. He is intimately familiar with our valley and the life of the Skagit River here. Howard owns and operates H. O. Stafford Trucking and Excavation, and he’s served our community for over forty years as a member of the Rockport volunteer fire department. Howard
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Here is the finalized version of “Reach Assessment for SR 530 and 20 near the Skagit River Rockport Bridge,” produced by Rob Schanz, Hydrologist, of the Washington State Department of Transportation’s Environmental Services Hydrology Program. What do you make of this report relative to the Barnaby project? 2015/09/sr530_skagitra_final.pdf An immediate concern we may have about
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By Beth Easterday The State Department of Fish and Wildlife is asking for the public’s support and assistance in identifying conservation and recreation areas. The initiative called “Washington’s Wild Future: a Partnership for Fish and Wildlife” is meant to increase the relationship WDFW has with the public, and increase support for conservation and recreation on
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We’ve sent email notifications regarding this website to individuals and organizations with significant roles relating to the Barnaby Reach project. Recipients include folks with the Washington Department of Recreation and Conservation, the Skagit Watershed Council, The Skagit River System Cooperative, The Nature Conservancy, City of Seattle (Seattle City Light), and the Washington Department of Fish and
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Here is a link to information on this project: https://secure.rco.wa.gov/…. “This request would be for a design only project to evaluate road abandonment at the site of a three foot pipe on Martin Slough. This culvert has been identified as a fish passage issue in the Barnaby slough feasibility study (09-1440P) and other documents and
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Here is the link to information regarding this project along the Skagit River and Bow and Martin Sloughs. https://secure.rco.wa.gov/prism/… “This project will restore 26 acres of riparian buffer adjacent to an established Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) along the Skagit River and Bow and Martin Sloughs near Rockport, on the left bank of the Skagit
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This website has been created to serve the sharing of information and viewpoints on issues of concern to our neighbors in the greater Rockport, Washington, area. It was inspired by concerns shared by many of our neighbors regarding a large, complex project under development by the Skagit River System Cooperative and it’s organizational partners: Seattle City Light,
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