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ues & CoUectibles
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncounty.~om
The Shelton Metropolitan Parks Dis-
trict and:the City of Shelton Commis-
sion made sLx appointments to citizen
boards on Monday.
The metropolitan park district board,
made up of Shelton City Commissioners
Dawn Parmell, Gary Cronce and Mike
Olsen, appointed citizens Lee Stahl,
Marilyn Vogler and Bill Young to the
Parks and Recreation Advisory Com-
mittee during its meeting at 1:45 p.m.
on Monday.
Pannell will serve as president of the
board for 2012. Former City Commis-
sioner Mike Byrne served as president
in 2011. the first full year of the park
district board.
Pannell thanked Byrne, who was not
in attendance at the meeting, for his ser-
vice as president of the board.
"I believe parks are vital for the com-
munity ... I think that the citizens of Shel-
ten [voting] for the park district shows
that they believe that as well," she said.
The Shelton Metropolitan Park Dis-
trict has existed since mid-2010 after
Shelton residents voted to create it. The
district collects a 55-cent per $1,000 levy
from property taxes to fund park main-
tenance and updates.
The Shelton City Commission also
made three appointments to citizen
boards on Monday.
The comnussmn appointed Elinor
Lindquist to the Shelton Arts Commission.
Mark Ziegler, director of parks and
recreation and city staff for the Arts
Commission, said Lindquist has a large
presence in the local art community.
She has been a member of the commis-
sion since 2008.
There is still one opening on the art
commission that must be filled by a
Shelton resident, Ziegler said.
The commission also agreed to ap-
point Patricia Kevin to the Shelton Tim-
berland/William G. Reed Library Board
of Trustees. Ke~n has been a member of
the board for one year.
The commission then appointed John
Wiechert to the Civil Service Commis-
sion. The commission has three appoint-
ed members. The other two positions are
held by Jim Tostevin, whose term runs
through 2014 and Scott Hillburn, whose
term runs through 2016.
County works with Ecology to close dump
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@mc~oncou n~.com
The Mason County Com-
mission approved a Memo-
randum of Agreement on
Tuesday, Jan. 17, to allow
the Department of Ecology to
take over the process of clos-
ing a wood waste dump in
Dayton.
The Simpson Lumber
Company stopped using its
Dayton Limited Purpose
Landfill in 1999, but the
Mason County Environmen-
tal Health Department has
struggled to officially close
the facility.
"Simpson has been try-
ing over the years to properly
close the sites that aren't be-
ing used anymore, said Mason
County Director of Environ-
mental Health Debbie Riley.
'~rhis one was a little more
complex so it needed a little
more work ... Simpson wants
to get it taken care of, we want
to get it taken care of."
Chuck Matthews, envi-
ronmental specialist at the
Department of Ecology, said
Ecology will assume the per-
The permit, Matthews
said, is to accept Simpson's
plans for closure and post-
closure monitoring of the site.
The facility was used to
dispose of wood waste, de-
fined in Washington Admin-
istrative Code (WAC) 173-
350 as "solid waste consisting
of wood pieces or particles
generated as a by-product
or waste from the manu-
facturing of wood products,
construction, demolition,
handling and storage of raw
materials, trees and stumps.
This includes, but is not lim-
ited to, sawdust, chips, shav-
ings, bark, pulp, hogged fuel,
and log sort yard waste, but
does not include wood pieces
or particles containing paint,
laminates, bonding agents or
chemical preservatives such
as creosote, pentachlorophe-
nol, or copper-chrome~arse-
nate."
However, these aren't the
only things stored at the site.
Creosote coated material
from the old Goldsborough
Creek Dam are stored in a
separate chamber. Because
of the various kinds of mate-
rial stored in the landfill, the
mitting responsibilities that process of closing it has been
the county would normally lengthy, Riley said.
handle. 'Where's layers there, it's
'~I~ere will be a closure like an onion," she said.
plan developed and submit- Specifically, under the
ted by Simpson for review," agreement, Ecology will han-
he said. dle the "development and ap-
proval of closure plans for the
facility and issuance of sohd
waste permits to Simpson te
provide for implementation
of those plans."
Part of the post-closure
plan will involve finding a
new home for some of the
wood waste disposed there,
Riley said.
"If it's not too degraded it
could be shredded and used
for landscaping bark," she
said.
The agreement won't cost
the county anything, Riley
said.
The county could do this
work itself, and has tried
in the past. After Simpson
closed the facility in 1999,
the county began the process
of officially closing it.
However, in February
2003, newregulations for sol-
id waste permits interrupted
the county's process and it
had to start all over again.
Before that date, landfills
like this one were subject to
WAC 173-304, and now they
fall under the new code WAC
173-350.
"There was a time period
for facilities permitted un-
der 304 to close under those
... or come into compliance
with current regs," Maf~hdws
said. "The wood waste land-
fill just sat in limbo."
Riley said there isn't any-
thing wrong with the landfill
that is complicating the pro-
cess.
"It's not that it's a bad
site or a bad situation it's
just that the rules changed
in the middle of the work,
sometimes that's not the
best for anybody involved,"
she said. "Bringing the new
person up and getting all
the new trainings has been
a steep learning curve."
Rather than spend the
time and money putting new
Environmental Health Spe-
cialist 3 Jess Mosely through
the necessary training, the
county decided to have Ecol-
ogy do the work for free.
Mosely, who started work-
ing with Environmental
Healths Solid Waste Pro-
gram m Aug. 2011, will be
assisting Ecology, thereby
getting training to handle
such a situation in the future,
Riley said.
"It just seemed like a win-
win all around," she said. "I
think the next time we talk
about this it will be every-
thing's done and the plan is
in place."
Riley hopes the closure
plans will be completed in the
next several months.
Once the agreement with
Simpson is finalized, Mat-
thews said, 'Ecology will meet
with the county to* discuss
future steps to close the land-
fill.
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