Skagit Upriver Neighbors

Seattle City Light, Eight Hundred Ton Gorilla With a Checkbook 0
- Articles
- February 8, 2023
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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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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Re-elect Peter Browning 0
- Articles, News Items, Pinned
- October 8, 2024
We support Peter Browning for re-election to the Skagit County Board of Commissioners. Commissioner Browning has demonstrated strong leadership on Skagit Valley environmental safety matters of great concern to us, notably in securing a flood protection agreement from Seattle City Light. As this article notes, Browning’s opponent Richard Brocksmith was, “the only elected official in
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County Commissioner Peter Browning Deserves Re-Election 0
- News Items, Seattle City Light
- September 27, 2024
As residents of Eastern Skagit County, we are very concerned about the extensive influence that Seattle has over our lives and lands. Seattle’s electric utility department, known as Seattle City Light, has long sought to avoid fish passage at its Skagit River dams, seemingly pushing risky habitat projects on Skagit farmland instead that seem unlikely
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Community Letter to SRSC Declaring Opposition to Diversion of Illabot Creek and/or the Skagit River into the Barnaby/Harrison Complex.0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Featured, O'Brian Reach Study Project
- June 1, 2023
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
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We Oppose Any Active Modification of Channel Hydrology!0
- Barnaby Project, O'Brian Reach Study Project
- February 18, 2023
Two 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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City of Seattle: DO THE RIGHT THING! BUILD FISH PASSAGE!0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, O'Brian Reach Study Project, Seattle City Light
- January 13, 2023
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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