For weeks Camano Island residents have been curious about those pipes being laid beside Highway 532 at Land’s Hill on Camano Island a few miles from Stanwood. The answer came not from a news article, but from a concerned individual in her letter to the editor in the Nov. 15 Stanwood-Camano News.
This apparently is the first step in the planned construction of motels, restaurants, business offices, stores, etc., from a construction site that will not perk to an area five miles away along roadsides that is being prepared to handle this business wastewater. This is a proposed fix to the business sites’ drainage problem.
A development of this size and complexity is being pursued in an area that does not perk and where water cannot penetrate the underground barrier and reach the aquifer, the source of all drinking water used by islanders. This is counter to long-standing regulations that prevent even a house from being built in a no-perk area.
Since the planning department has cited “no significance” to this huge project, it does not seem likely that residents can successfully petition the disastrous effects of the deletion of the aquifers and of the island’s problem of saltwater intrusion to the county. And our environmental concerns of air quality, noise pollution and traffic problems.
M. ELLEN FRAZIER
Camano Island
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