The full version of the Settlement Agreement is now available, here: http://www.ci.dupont.wa.us/files/library/1acefa165d30f3f1_o.pdf We hope you will read the document and become familiar with it before June 30, when the first of several public meeting to be held by the city. Please write with your questions and comments: http://nisqually-sequalitchew.com/contact-forms/
NEWS RELEASE 11-174 For Immediate Release: June 24, 2011 For Information Contact: Sally Toteff, regional director, Department of Ecology – (360) 407-6307 Pete Stoltz, manager, Permitting, CalPortland – (206) 764-3000 Tom Skjervold, president, Nisqually Delta Association, (360) 357-3792 Agreement reached on plan to help restore Sequalitchew Creek, allow new gravel mining proposal Environmental Caucus; CalPortland [...]
Dear citizens of DuPont, We oppose dewatering of the Vashon Aquifer from the proposed south parcel mine expansion site because of its negative, adverse effects on Sequalitchew Creek, Edmond Marsh and our watershed. Do you? What is dewatering and why do we oppose it? If the mining were to expand into the south parcel, according [...]
From the city administrator: “It is anticipated that a press release regarding a tentative settlement agreement negotiated during confidential settlement discussions between the Department of Ecology, CalPortland, the City of DuPont, and an environmental coalition will be released in mid-June. A public meeting to hear presentations from the parties involved regarding the tentative agreement is [...]
There is a sign posted by Strickland Lake in DuPont, (located at Powderworks Park), that answers this question, “What is a wetlands?” Wetlands are nurseries of life – providing habitat and food for a variety of birds, mammals, reptiles, fish and amphibians. Fish and amphibian life flourish within the wetland’s standing water, while reptiles and [...]
DuPont’s attorney, Bob Sterbank announced at the City Council meeting on May 24 that a new, tentative 1994 Settlement Agreement is expected by June 17. What happens now? The DuPont City Council was tasked with determining the process the Council wishes to utilize to obtain public input and review, deliberate, and decide whether to approve [...]
Yes! We have Orca Whales in the South Puget Sound! Here are details of sightings off Nisqually River (next door to Sequalitchew Creek), Anderson Island and a video captured near Gig Harbor. This is great example of why the health of Puget Sound is so important…to give these mammals a clean place to swim [...]
Discussions are occurring behind closed doors and you haven’t been invited. Now is the time for your voice to begin to be heard by the DuPont City Council, and City Leadership about whether an agreement made is an agreement to be kept. Very soon, our City Council will be deciding on your behalf if the [...]
Article originally posted by The Home Town Clipper, February, 2007. This creek has history. Its waters once were home to cutthroat trout, Coho and chum salmon. It was once capable of providing hydroelectric power. It has been investigated by countless committees, state agencies and local corporations. In the past 100 years, its banks have [...]
Please come and show your support during the DuPont City Council meeting on April 12 in favor of our community finally joining the Pierce Conservation District (PCD). The PCD supports farmer markets, native plant sales, volunteer stream team monitoring, removal of invasive plant species, and a number of other conservation programs in the area. Joining [...]
