Transcription Excerpt from City of Sultan March 8, 2007 Council Meeting

Re Sediment from construction at the top of the Sultan Basin Road and Timber flowing to Wagley Creek

Sultan Resident (excerpt):

….The only other comment I have about the construction going on is it seems like less [3 unintelligible words]  bringing in or taking out dirt, I can't remember which one it is, but they are bringing in mud onto the roadway, a considerable amount of mud, and what concerns me most is Wagley Creek there at the bottom, there's a lot of runoff from the rain, and that mud is going right down into that creek.  I don't know -- I--I don't see any sort of filtering devices or, uh, you know, to get rid of that silt that's pouring down into the creek, so....keep that in mind.  You know, salmon run in that creek and there's a lot of sludge going down there and I'm concerned about it filling(?) up. So that's all [two or three unintelliglble words].

Councilman Ron Weidiger's (request to Connie Dunn):

RW: Connie?  Can you get some of the people up on the hill to invest in a couple bales of straw? And filter [sounds like, "that up"] down, put them down at the bottom of the hill so that the [unintelligible; sounds sort of like, "fish will....to sure enough"]  make it to the river?

Connie: I definitely will look into that.

Loretta Storm:

And then this is a very serious subject here.  The runoff that--along Sultan Basin Road that a citizen mentioned earlier, I have been screaming about that for many months. And it has been an extremely serious problem, and that is why Wagley Creek has been running like Hot Chocolate since approximately August or September.  A couple of bales of...hay aren't gonna do it, and, in fact, the damage has been done for many, many months.  Thank you.

Councilman Ron Wiediger (closing comments):

And, Loretta, I believe that that is up to the contractors up on the hill to protect the creeks, and it's not a City problem, it's a...it's in their best interests if....if the Fisheries would get down on them for the--what they're doing to their cricks (sic), why they [sounds like he says, "made it" or "native", then trails the thought off into nothingness.]  But it is -- it's the -- it's a developer problem. It's....it's, that's maybe what (sic) they're pushing to get it done.