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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS February 10 10,, 2016 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Discussion on PT plan holds water
The votes are cast
City strategy talk touches on coming filtration plant BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Corvus Woolf of Port Townsend casts his vote on the city’s school district bond issue Tuesday. The latest results about that race and other elections are available today at www.peninsuladailynews.com.
Boiler Room boosted by pair of donations Event also might drop down debts BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Two substantial donations, along with anticipated proceeds from an upcoming auction, will make the Boiler Room solvent, said its executive director. “When I got here, we were in debt, owing $60,000 to vendors, $20,000 for a personal loan and $15,000 in back property taxes,” said Amy Smith Howard, who took over as executive director four years ago. “Now, all we owe is the mortgage.”
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The pressure’s off for Boiler Room executive director Amy Smith Howard and volunteer coordinator Tashtego Dutton after two recent donations. A 2013 “significant matching the vendors held large balances campaign” to commemorate the during the fundraising process, Boiler Room’s 20th anniversary according to Howard. wiped out the loan and taxes, and TURN TO FUNDS/A4
PORT TOWNSEND — Toxic lead, such as that reported in Flint, Mich.’s water supply, won’t happen from Port Townsend’s delivery system, according to the city public works director. “In Port Townsend, we don’t have lead in the water mains or the delivery system,” Public Works Director Ken Clow said Monday night during a council discussion on the strategic plan. “Using lead pipes is an East Coast practice. It never really caught on in the West.” Clow was responding to a question from Councilwoman Michelle Sandoval during a discussion about the city’s new water filtration plant, which is to open this fall. Sandoval said several constituents, having read about toxic lead in Flint’s water supply, had asked whether there is any lead in the Port Townsend water supply. Clow said there could be trace amounts of lead in the water but that they would most likely come from within the house. The interior pipes are not tested, he said. Such trace elements would appear only in older houses because new construction does not use lead in plumbing, Clow added. The question emerged at a workshop session to discuss the city’s 2015 accomplishments with regard to its strategic plan, an ongoing document that sets goals for government. The plan has five objectives. The water discussion was part of the public service and facilities section. The other objectives were:
“In Port Townsend, we don’t have lead in the water mains or the delivery system. Using lead pipes is an East Coast practice. It never really caught on in the West.” KEN CLOW Port Townsend Public Works director ■ Work on the comprehensive plan, which is due for completion in the spring. ■ Develop a strong education community culture by partnering the Port Townsend Library with the public school system. ■ Develop a healthy city organization, accomplished through training programs. ■ Develop the Howard Street corridor. According to a document distributed at the meeting, 49 of the 130 agenda bills in 2015 addressed one of the strategic plan’s categories. The Howard Street project was discussed by City Engineer David Peterson at the meeting. Project manager Samantha Trone added details in a Tuesday interview. The project is to link Sims Way at the Howard Street roundabout to Discovery Road, where a new roundabout will be constructed at the junction. Peterson said the city has acquired the necessary property from private owners, although a small section purchased by the city in 1994 needs to have its ownership clarified by the state Department of Transportation. TURN
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Temporary closure for span Railroad Bridge to get new decking PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM — Railroad Bridge will be closed beginning Monday for up to five weeks to allow ramp and redecking work. The action will close the segment of the Olympic Discovery Trail that travels across the bridge. A detour will be in place. The bridge across the Dungeness River was reopened to the public on Christmas Eve after the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe replaced a damaged trestle in a $1.53 million project. The bridge had been closed to the public since last February, when the western trestle was damaged by
weeks, but construction or weather problems could delay reopening by another week or two. The same detour used during trestle reconstruction will be posted. The detour route from east to west will leave the trail in Sequim at Fifth Avenue, go north on Fifth to Old Olympic Highway, turn west across the river on the Old Olympic Highway bridge, then south on Heath Road to rejoin the trail. In preparation to adequately support the anticipated concrete surface, volunteers with the Peninsula Trails Coalition spent about 100 volunteer hours reinforcing the structural integrity of the ramp.
a flood of the Dungeness River. Thanks to a $100,000 donation from the First Federal Community Foundation, officials with the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe are able to redo the decking on the bridge and adjoining ramp in Railroad Bridge Park at 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim. The often-slippery and weakening wooden deck will be replaced with concrete — mirroring the newly built 750-foot steel trestle that connects to the bridge. The length of closure will KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS depend upon the weather. ______ Bicyclist Mark Langeberg of Sequim takes a break on the If everything goes smoothly, project managers say, it could be Olympic Peninsula News Group original main span over the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Tuesday. reopened in as little as three sources contributed to this report.
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