Skagit Upriver Neighbors

“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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WE FINALLY ARE BEING HEARD!0
- Letters
- October 8, 2015
By Beth Easterday The Skagit Valley Herald has put us on the front page today! And they acknowledge our letter and our concerns; as well as the concerns of WSDOT! We don’t need to mess with Mother Nature near homes and land. We can save the Skagit River from logjams and flooding homes! Keep up
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Letter to FEMA Region X 2
- Barnaby Project, Letters
- October 5, 2015
I’m trying to touch base with agencies who we think should be familiar with the Barnaby Reach project as it develops. This afternoon I spoke with Mark Eberlein of the Bothell office of FEMA, then followed up with this email message to him: Dear Mark Eberlein, Thank you for talking with me this afternoon. I
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Letter From Upriver Neighbors Demanding Extra-Conservative Flood Hazard Evaluation of Barnaby Reach Project 1
- Articles, Featured, Letters, Pinned
- September 28, 2015
Following is the text of a detailed letter signed by residents and property owners in the greater Rockport area expressing the expectation that the Barnaby Reach habitat restoration project be subjected to risk assessment criteria commensurate with its high risk location adjacent to a residential and farming community. Hard copies with signatures were given to project sponsors
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Reach Assessment for SR 530 and 20 Near the Rockport Bridge 0
- Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, News Items
- September 23, 2015
Here is the finalized version of “Reach Assessment for SR 530 and 20 near the Skagit River Rockport Bridge,” produced by Rob Schanz, Hydrologist, of the Washington State Department of Transportation’s Environmental Services Hydrology Program. What do you make of this report relative to the Barnaby project? 2015/09/sr530_skagitra_final.pdf An immediate concern we may have about
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