Skagit Upriver Neighbors

Spread the Word and Stop this Project 0
- Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Letters
- December 3, 2015
By Beth Easterday Here is the flyer that is regarding the meeting at Howard Miller Park; post these wherever you think folks with an interest in diverting the Skagit River may gather. I personally am not interested in seeing what will happen when the river flows downhill into Martin Road and straight towards the Sauk.
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Rising Temperatures Likely to Cause More Flooding 0
- Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, News Items, Pinned
- November 19, 2015
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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Skagit County Historic Flood Article Archive 0
- Barnaby Project Information
- November 15, 2015
Here is a very fine resource of articles relating to floods in Skagit County, the “Historic Flood Articles Archives.” http://www.skagitcounty.net/
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Advisory Committee Minutes for September 28, 2015 0
- Barnaby Project, News Items, Pinned
- November 13, 2015
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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“Too Many Unknowns,” Howard Stafford Tells King 5 News 3
- Barnaby Project, Featured, News Items, Pinned
- November 5, 2015
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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Interview With Howard Stafford 0
- Featured
- 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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