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WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
Natural Resources Committee
May 26, 2009
Committee Chair Carl Weimer called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m. in the Council
Chambers, 311 Grand Avenue, Bellingham, Washington.
Present: Absent:
Seth Fleetwood None
Bob Kelly
Also Present:
Sam Crawford
Barbara Brenner
COMMITTEE DISCUSSION
1. DISCUSSION WITH ACME /VANZANDT SUBZONE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
REGARDING JONES CREEK (AB2009 -265)
Chris Hatch, Acme /Van Zandt Subzone Advisory Committee Chair, stated the
Advisory Committee held meetings with the community to update them on the hazards of
Jones Creek and inform them of mitigation option. He submitted a handout (on file). He
described the community's wishes for mitigation. They include a deflection berm, pond,
redesign of Turkington Road bridge, land acquisitions, and pursuing additional funding
sources.
The risk mitigation recommendations were categorized into immediate, short -term,
and long -term activities to increase mitigation for the identified hazard. Some immediate
activities are already accomplished or ongoing. He described the immediate, short -term,
and long -term proposed projects. The challenge of fixing or altering the Turkington Road
bridge is that it ranks low on the County transportation improvement program (TIP).
Consider the hazard when the Council updates the TIP. The community wants an approach
to mitigation that is active, not passive.
Discussion included community concern about this issue; Flood Control Zone District
Advisory Committee review of these items; Kerr Wood Leidal review of its 2004 plan; the
grand total cost for all these projects; Army Corps of Engineers participation; the timeline of
these potential projects; ranking these projects on the coordinated water resource
integration process (CWRIP); how this project would compare to a deflection berm built
years ago at Canyon Creek; the stage gauge; video monitoring of a big landslide;
developing projects for more frequent events instead of a 500 -year event; development in
the highest hazard areas; how the Flood Control Zone District Advisory Committee
prioritizes the projects, and; how the river would be diverted onto Turkington Road and in
other areas.
The following people answered questions:
• Paula Cooper, Public Works Department
• Jon Hutchings, Public Works Department
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3 There was no other business.
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8 The meeting adjourned at 10:20 a.m.
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WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Carl Weimer, Committee Chair
Natural Resources Committee, 5/26/2009, Page 2