Dungeness Water Rule
"CREATING PAPER WATER"
The Dungeness Water Rule and Mitigation does not create more water, it simply creates "PAPER WATER", it's the same amount of water in the aquifers but now the county and state can charge users for it and restrict how it is used.
The purchase of water rights is nothing more than a transfer of ownership. If you sell or donate your water rights to the county or water trust you are simply giving up your rights to it and HOW YOU USE IT and allows the county or state to "mitigate" charge someone else a hefty price for it's use or use it themselves for stream augmentation. It does not "save" or "conserve" water or make more water for in-stream flows it simply restricts use of the water by people.
See also: http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2009/05/wet-water-vs-paper-water.html
The county may use "PUMP and DUMP" to increase in-stream flows. PUMP water from an "existing water system" (well/aquifer) and DUMP it into a nearby river, creek or stream. This is not "CONSERVATION" this is just a vicious cycle of empty and fill from the same water source and we get to pay and pay for this governmental act of futility.
See also: http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2009/05/wet-water-vs-paper-water.html
The county may use "PUMP and DUMP" to increase in-stream flows. PUMP water from an "existing water system" (well/aquifer) and DUMP it into a nearby river, creek or stream. This is not "CONSERVATION" this is just a vicious cycle of empty and fill from the same water source and we get to pay and pay for this governmental act of futility.
"Jill discussed mitigation with water rights / credits and pump and dump.
Pump and dump could be used with the existing water system and existing water rights
and might be particularly useful as part of the mitigation package at certain locations and
periods (e.g., Matriotti Creek)." Page 5, Paragraph 19.
Pump and dump could be used with the existing water system and existing water rights
and might be particularly useful as part of the mitigation package at certain locations and
periods (e.g., Matriotti Creek)." Page 5, Paragraph 19.
"The level of the river is determined by snow melt and precipitation".
"You can see over the last 50 years the snow pack is half of what it was". "The water in the aquifers has dropped 1.5 feet per year since 1996". according to Dave Nazy Department of Ecology hydrogeologist and others. http://www.sequimgazette.com/news/251091411.html Oct. 27, 2010.
So, as you can see, the county and the state has known about the diminishing aquifers for at least 50 years or more and yet with hubris and greed, or total cognitive dissonance, the county, state and realtors continue to push growth in this are beyond the "CARRYING CAPACITY OF THE LAND" (increasing nitrate/nitrite levels) and "OVER CAPITALIZATION OF RESOURCES" ("over appropriation") of water.
We, THE RESIDENTS of Carlsborg have been fighting the designation of Carlsborg as an UGA (Urban Growth Area) since it was first proposed in 1990 for the very reasons as stated above. The only way to truly "mitigate" "over-appropriation" and "pollution" of water is to DOWN ZONE and have fewer people per acre of land.
Our family is fourth generation (my wife), fifth generation (our children) and sixth generation (our grandchildren) on this farm and my wife's maternal grandfather was the Water Master for Clallam and Jefferson counties for about 50 years. Her father and his father the Slootmakers (LOCK MAKER as in water locks) were Master Plumbers from Holland where they moved and controlled water before they came to America. But hey, what do we know?
So, as you can see, the county and the state has known about the diminishing aquifers for at least 50 years or more and yet with hubris and greed, or total cognitive dissonance, the county, state and realtors continue to push growth in this are beyond the "CARRYING CAPACITY OF THE LAND" (increasing nitrate/nitrite levels) and "OVER CAPITALIZATION OF RESOURCES" ("over appropriation") of water.
We, THE RESIDENTS of Carlsborg have been fighting the designation of Carlsborg as an UGA (Urban Growth Area) since it was first proposed in 1990 for the very reasons as stated above. The only way to truly "mitigate" "over-appropriation" and "pollution" of water is to DOWN ZONE and have fewer people per acre of land.
Our family is fourth generation (my wife), fifth generation (our children) and sixth generation (our grandchildren) on this farm and my wife's maternal grandfather was the Water Master for Clallam and Jefferson counties for about 50 years. Her father and his father the Slootmakers (LOCK MAKER as in water locks) were Master Plumbers from Holland where they moved and controlled water before they came to America. But hey, what do we know?
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