This community letter from over 100 landowners, farmers, business owners and residents of eastern Skagit County declares our community’s complete opposition to any diversion or redirection of the Skagit River and/or the Illabot Creek into the Barnaby/Harrison Complex. Thank you to our many upriver neighbors for your support. EXHIBIT A EXHIBIT B
READ MORETwo high risk habitat projects are now going on upstream of our Rockport neighborhood community. One is called the Barnaby Reach project, the other is called the O’Brian. O’Brian is in a study phase managed by WSDOT. We’ve become increasingly concerned because these two projects together represent considerable risk to our community. Here is our
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Seattle City Light has been an 800-ton gorilla recklessly throwing its weight around our valley for a long time. In 2014 City Light advanced an extremely dangerous initiative to divert the Skagit River directly toward our neighborhood through Barnaby Slough. And now it’s partially funding and providing study, political influence, and science support for a
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A contingent of concerned citizens including farmers, tribal leaders, Skagit County government leaders and others interested in preserving agricultural land, protecting our communities from flooding, and providing salmon with access to the 37% of the Skagit that exists above the dams, descended on the Seattle City Council chambers this morning, along with King5 News, to
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Tribal leaders together with Skagit County leaders have been pushing the City of Seattle and its electric utility department to commit to building fish passage at its dams to provide salmon with access to the 37% of the Skagit River upstream of the dams. Here is an excellent panel discussion that aims to educate folks
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