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Road: Residents share concerns about losing road access
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county, road money or with state
matching money in Both al-
ternatives improve the-area environ-
mentally for fish passage, but alterna—
tive two provides the potential for fu-
ture benefits related to the Campbell
Creek structure.
“Alternative two would achieve the
project goal at a significantly lower
cost compared to alternative one,” the
Alternatives Evaluation Summary
states. “Alternative two will save an
estimated $2.7 million over alterna-
tive one in near-term project costs and
has additional benefits over a longer
term.” '
V Smith said the county met with the
State Department of Fish and'Wild—
life before the open house and WDFW
prefers alternative two. .
Robert Meacham, who lives on
East Sunset Road near the culvert
and bridge, said he sees “a problem
being created by county bureaucrats.”
“They want to terminate our Ag-
ate Loop Road, which is our prima-
ry way, and they say, well you can
merely drive around,” Meacham told
the Journal. “It didn’t go over well
with myself and obviously, it has not I
gone over well with a number of other
people here. What they want to ac-
tually do is terminate the road just
beyond the bridge that’s "there, sim-
ply cut the road off so there’s a nat-
ural crook running through there. I
can’t see any advantage to thisat all.
They’re saying they have to take the
culvert out thatis there right at the
moment and replace it with a big-
ger culvert and a bridge? This is not
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nicely? Meacham said the county is
saying the money that could be saved
on this project could go to other proj-
ects, including the Belfair sewer. He
said it will take him five more min-
utes to drive around to a place he’s .
lived for years. .
“My opinion is that the culverts
there are adequate,” Meacham said.
“If they can prove to me that they’re
being forced to put a larger culvert in
there, I might buy it. I’ve done some
research on this and it’s a vague area.
Since the salmon are going through
there right at this time, if it ain’t
broke, don’t fix it.”
Meacham said a lot of the people at
the open house agree with him to keep
the road intact. '
One of those people who does not
agree with Meacham is Willie Kick.
“I’m for the fish,” Kick told the
Journal. “I want the fish to live.” V
Kick said he lives 200 yards from
Uncle John Creek and there are a few
fish on the creek behind his house, .
but he was told years ago, there was
a very good run of salmon. Kick said
it’s a problem that needs to be solved.
“It floods a lot, it’s a big mess and
I’d like to see it removed,” Kick said.
Smith said the next steps are to
take the comments fromthe commu-
nity received at the open house and
identify all the issues that were raised
and put it into a spreadsheet and pres-
ent it to the commissioners to decide.
Commissioner Randy Neatherlin at—
tended the open house and spoke with
many people about the project.
The public comment period on the
project ended Tuesday, and all com-
ments will— be considered in the de-
partment’s final recommendation to
the county commissioners. ’
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