The next monthly DCC Board of Directors Meeting is scheduled for January 13, 2010.
The DCC Board meets in the basement of the Dry Creek Grange beginning at 7 pm.
The general public and Coalition membership is invited to attend and to express opinions concerning Coalition issues.
Monthly meetings are normally scheduled for the second Wednesday of each month.
DCC received Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Tax Exempt Status on 13 September 2007
Department of The Treasury issued Tax Exempt Status (501 (c) (4) status on 13 September 2007. Contributions to DCC are not tax deductible under this tax exempt status.
U S Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) finds construction activities by City of Port Angeles violate Clean Water Act.
DCC has asserted this fact for over a year with no response from the USACE Now they respond after the damage is done.
DCC continues to maintain that the “old” unlined section of the landfill must be removed and placed in toxic landfill storage.
Current landfill has huge quantities of toxic materials leaching into Dry Creek and the Strait of Juan de Fuca and will continue
to do so for the forseeable future.
The USACE letter is attached.USACEltrDumpIllegalDec07.pdf A second letter was issued by the USACE to the City of Port Angeles contractor admonishing the contractor to check permits for work within the USACE jurisdiction>
The following is a conservative analysis of toxic materials in the “old” unlined City of Port Angeles landfill which has been falling into the Strait of Juan de Fuca during winter storms.AnalysisPADumpToxic.pdf This data was taken from core samples drilled into the dump under the supervision of City of Port Angeles contractor, PARAMETRIX and analyzed under City of Port Angeles contract with STL a Seattle laboratory during the year 2002. The quantities of materials available for ground water leaching from that unlined dump are enormous. The following is DCC Testimony presented to the City of Port Angeles Planning Commission in October 2005. DCC position at that time was that the dump had to be removed in its entirety. This remains the DCC position. This picture was taken in 2005 prior to start of the shoreline work on the “old” landfill near the mouth of Dry Creek.
AnalysisPADumpToxic.pdf
PlanningCityPA.pdf
DCC submitted a prelimanary letter to POPA regarding concerns for 113 acre Critchfield Property wetlands.
DCC sent a letter to POPA on 9 January 2007 disputing the results of the ALKAI Consultans, LLC report conducted for the POPA, dated 21 September 2006. The Alkai report delineated 2.7 acres of wetlands. DCC hired COOKE SCIENTIFIC of Seattle to conduct and independent wetland survey. This was done in January of 2007. Results of that survey showed 1/2 to 3/4 of the total 113 acres was legitimate wetland area. A full delineation was not done by DCC. Full delineation would likely have defined additional wetland area on the 113 acres.
DCC letter to POPA.
RMrazltrDOE.doc
Alkai Consultants Delineated Wetlands (Western Half of 113 acres)Figure_1a.pdf Alkai Constultants Delineated Wetlands (Eastern Half 113 acres)Figure_1b.pdf1994 City of Port Angeles Critical Areas Composite Map showing the Dry Creek Property (113 acre Critchfield property). Figure_2a.pdf. City of Port Angeles Critical Areas Map showing 113 acres.Figure_2b.pdfDescription of Photos for Phots 1-37 taken by Cooke Scientific.Photo_descriptions.pdf Cooke Scientific pictures 1-8. Phots1-8.pdf Cooke Scientific picture 9-16.Photos_9-16.pdfCooke Scientific pictures 17-24.Photos_17-24.pdfCooke Scientific pictures 25-32.Photos_25-32.pdf Cooke Scientific pictures 33-37.Photos_33-37.pdfFigure_2a.pdf
DCC acknowledged receipt of POPA study of 113 acre Critchfield wetlands. Study was done by POPA contractor ALKAI Consultants, LLC of Silverdale, WA.
Original Formal Request for Port of Port Angeles to Downzone 113 acre Critchfield Property from “Heavy Industrial” zoning to preclude heavy industry in the middle of our residential community. Port of Port Angeles (POPA) never responded.
Beginning in 2004, the DCC Coalition developed a comprehensive plan for definition of degradation of the Dry Creek and its associated watershed which has occured over a long period of time.
Problems included:
This Web site will be updated with a large volume of correspondence, data and pictures resulting from the monitoring efforts of Coalition volunteers over the past 3 years. It will take an extended period of time to make this update. Stay tuned, it is a fascinating story of how degradation occurs slowly but surely until nature can no longer cope with the cumulative effects. The appended picture is that of Dry Creek erosion generated as a result of the runway extension, sending more than 200,000 cubic yards of gravel and debris down the one mile of Dry Creek spawning area.
Attached is the minutes for the DCC Board dated 14 November 2007 and approved by DCC Board on 12 December 2007.DCCMin14Nov07.doc
DCC is registered as a Nonprofit Corporation with the Washington State Secretary of State
DCC is registered as Corporation Account # 3-64958-6 with Unified Business Identifier#: 602 429 731 with the Washington State Secretary of State.
Initial Incorporation occurred on 09/16/2004 and is renewed by 30 September of each calendar year with a filing of new Officers and Directors in an Annual Report to the Washington Secretary of State.
The Annual Membership Meeting is held in mid-September in-order-to provide the new Annual Report of Officers and Directors for submission to the Secretary of State by the 30 September deadline.