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Simpson Lumber Co. has gifted land to the City of Shelton, including all
of its railroad right-of-way from First Street to us. Highway 101. Courtesy
map
Land: ‘Great opportunity’
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suggest recreational and other uses
for the land, City Manager Jeff Niten
said.
“This is a great opportunity for peo-
ple to have walking trails out of Knee-
land Park,” said council member Eric
Onisko. “I’m excited.”
The city’s report on the offer states,
“These properties will be considered
for potential recreational amenities
by advisory bodies or other alterna-
tives as those opportunities present
themselves. Other properties under
consideration are generally steep and/
or remnants that the city will likely
keep in an undeveloped state to pro-
vide open space.”
The report continued, “If rejected,
the rail line would likely remain in the
same or similar condition as it exists
today, and has the potential to carry
rail traffic if desired by a future poten-
tial buyer.”
Beginning Aug. 17, a cleanup crew
hired by the city spent a week clear-
ing debris from homeless camps on the
hillside above state Route 3 across the
street from the Shelton Yacht Club.
At the Aug. 18 meeting, Niten es-
timated the cleanup crews would fill
five or six large dumpsters with the
trash collected on the hillside. The city
states any collected items believed to
have monetary value can be picked up
at the Shelton Police Department un-
til about mid—September.
“It looks fantastic,” Niten said at
Tuesday’s meeting. “We hauled tons of
garbage out of there.”
In a letter to the city, Green Dia-
mond Resource Co. offered its support
for the city taking the offer. No one
from the public offered comments on
the offer at Tuesday’s meeting.
City directs lobbyist
to seek state funding
By Gordon Weeks
gondon@masoncounty. com
The City of Shelton’s wish list from
the state includes money to upgrade
its well No. 1, improve West Railroad
Avenue from Eighth Street to Pacific
Court, and build a roundabout at East
Wallace Kneeland Boulevard and
Shelton Springs Road.
Those are the instructions the Shel-
ton City Council On Tuesday gave the
city’s lobbyist, Troy Nichols of Phillps
Burgess Government Relations.
Nichols was also instructed to lobby
for state dollars for .such capital proj-
ects as ceramic plates for the city’s
wastewater plant, and a reclaimed
water tank.
Nichols told the council at the work
session the state is in dire financial
shape. A revenue forecast in June
projects a revenue reduction of $8.8
billion over the next three years, he
said.
Nichols gave a breakdown of the
makeup of the Legislature: 28 Demo-
crats and 21 Republicans in the Sen-
ate, 57 Democrats and 41 Republicans
in the House of Representatives. He
projected no changes in that balance
in 2021 in the Senate, and believes the
Republicans can gain two seats in the
House.
Nichols said state Reps. Dan
Griffey, R-Allyn, and Drew MacEwen,
R-Union, have “commanding double-
digit leads” in their races for re-elec-
tion. State'Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Pot-
latch, is in the middle of his term.
“I don’t expect much will change
come November 4,” Nichols said.
The city’s Western Gateway Project,
which stretches from Eighth Street
to Pacific Court, is the top project on
the city’s Six-Year Transportation Im-
provement Plan, City Public Works
Director Jay Harris wrote in an email
to the Shelton-Mason County Journal.
The project would replace a water
main, widen and repave the road, and
install sidewalks, Harris wrote. The
engineering consultant has prepared
60% of the design plans for the road-
way and waterline improvements and
the project design, and bid documents
should be completed early next year,
he wrote.
The 4,800 feet of steel pipe from
well No. 1 to the tank near Shelton
High School needs to be replaced, Har-
ris wrote. The proposed project replac~
es the pipes —— which measure 18 to 24
inches —— eliminates connections that
are no longer used, and pressurizes
the new system, he wrote.
The city’s wastewater treatment
plant near Sanderson Air Field uses
membrane filtration technology to
treat the wastewater, Harris wrote.
Each of the three filter tanks has 2,000
membranes, and two of the three
membrane filter tanks are almost 10
years old, he wrote. The aging filters
are starting to clog and tear, and need
to be replaced to keep the city in com-
pliance with its discharge permit with
the state, Harris added.
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