Cynthia Carlstad, consultant to the Skagit River System Cooperative for its Barnaby Reach project called me in response to a letter I wrote to the SRSC leadership. She confirmed that the project proponents and their sponsors are very aware of our steadfast opposition to the channel feature in the current project design. No alternative approach
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The Barnaby Reach Project area, as described by the Skagit River System Cooperative, extends from the mouth of Illabot Creek downstream to the Sauk River near Rockport. The most complete set of information on this project is available on the Washington Department of Recreation and Conservation’s website. Here is a link to the page for
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The Barnaby Reach Project imagines four possible alternatives. The most ambitious one is referred to as “Alternative #4.” Alternative #4 directs a portion of the Skagit River into Barnaby Slough. It would involve cutting connecting channels to link the Skagit River with Barnaby Slough, as well as Harrison Slough and Lucas Slough, so that a portion of
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Letter to the Editor Concrete Herald By Artie Olson January 2016 After attending the December 10th Skagit River Systems Cooperative (SRSC) meeting on the Barnaby Reach “construction” project (NOT “restoration” project, as they insist on calling it), I noticed a number of changes from their last meeting, many months before. Most noticeably changed were their
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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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Op-Ed – Concrete Herald, May 2015 (by Christie L. Fairchild) We’ve heard of “moving mountains”, but what about moving RIVERS? That’s precisely what the Swinomish and Sauk-Suiattle tribes want to do. A dangerous plan to excavate a huge, 300 foot wide channel from the Skagit River into Barnaby Slough has been conjured up by the
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