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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
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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
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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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Barnaby Reach Project to Focus on Infrastructure Removal and Possible Illabot Creek Connection 0
- Barnaby Project Information, Featured, News Items
- May 17, 2019
Here is a letter received May 17, 2019, from Cynthia Carlstad, consultant to the sponsors of the Barnaby Reach habitat restoration project. It summarizes the current state of affairs regarding the project. We’re pleased to see the sponsors taking what appears to be a sound direction toward meeting their habitat restoration goals while doing so
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You Have a Lot of Work to Do!0
- Barnaby Project, Featured, Letters
- February 11, 2015
Letter to the Skagit River System Cooperative following February 10, 2015, public meeting. We own a home and property adjacent to the False Lucas Slough, on Stafford Lane, off Martins Road in Rockport. Our property is west of the Barnaby Slough habitat restoration project area and may be at significant risk as a consequence of actions
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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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Write an article, news item or information piece for this site 0
- News Items, Pinned
- August 7, 2015
Skagit Upriver Neighbors are invited to write articles, news items or information pieces for this website. Constructively expressed submissions on topics relevant to our community are welcome. There’s a green box on the upper right of the home page. Click on it and you’ll be taken to the page on which you can submit your
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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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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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Well-Being of Private Citizens Must Come First 2
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Featured, Pinned
- September 23, 2015
By Pat Buller Alternative number four of the “Habitat Restoration Alternatives Assessment for the Barnaby Reach of the Skagit River” proposes diverting up to one-third of the flow of the mainstream Skagit River into Barnaby Slough. In the document there are a number of risk assessments given for different actions related to the project. Nowhere
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