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Manufacture's recommended services can be performed Ayers Automotive, keeping your newer vehicle's warranty current. 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. OPF, NMON; rFRI~:::8~ SP~ 325 Page A-2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal -Thursday, January 26, 2012 f~ The card is nice... but he really wants a GROWLER from The Journal