CMZ Information

Hi Bart, Thanks for the invitation to blog and I will be glad to keep everyone updated. I have attended most of the 12 member Citizens Advisory Committee meetings that the county has convened as an observer only, but we do have an Alpine resident on the committee. Jeff Barney purchased the Palmer place and he was appointed to the Citizens Committee along with 4 other Ashford residents so we are strongly represented. I will be attending a meeting tonight and a recommendation may be made on how to define CMZS. This is a very slow process to say the least. My personal belief is that a CMZ will put in place in some form and that will also entail restrictions. The committee will make recommendations to the County in all of these areas. There is also a County web site to see all the past and future Committee meeting notes and agenda. So this is really the best place to get a feel for the whole process and get a feel where this is all going. I will be in touch.

Marla

http://www.piercecountywa.org/pc/services/home/environ/water/cip/cmzcac.htm

water system information

here are some water system sites for you to review. it's a lot of information, so maybe with a number of sets of eyes - we can muddle through it.


http://www.epa.gov/water/funding.html This is a pretty good link for various types of water funding.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/funding.shtml Quote from my brother from Paradise Estate: We got the best information from our enginnering firm (Gibbs & Olson - Olympia area) They are the guys that know the end-to-end story. Brett

http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwsrf/pdfs/dwfact.pdf
This is about the State Revolving Fund. We got a low interest loan through this body.
Mentions grants (which we also got) but not much. Will keep looking.

http://www.tpchd.org/files/library/9a48d75790e734b8.pdf
Here's a good thing to know about if you are considered a Group B system.

http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/smallsystems/index.html Good EPA link too.

http://www.highvalleycc.org/issues.htm lastly this one relates what's going on in Packwood. Pay special attention to the December 10th 2008 judges ruling - stating the law only applies to municipalities.

DOH page

Here is the DOH web page for RCW's and WAC's for the water system http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?dispo=true&cite=248 here is also a web site to further see what we are up against. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/sdwa/30th/factsheets/understand.html