| WAGLEY
LID-97: Construction, Stop Work, Restoration Chronological correspondence between the city and government oversight agencies |
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WDFW =
Wasington State Department of Fish & Wildlife Note: Letters in RED indicate communication of notable significance. |
MAP
of LID AREA 3 Letters to B. Trippett re estimated cost overruns BEFORE the Wagley construction debacle occurred: 12/1/98: from Gary Bourne; 4/1/99 from D. Nordin, ET; 9/1/99 from D. Nordin, ET WDFW
HPA permits:WDFW
4/99 HPA original permit, STOP WORK ORDERS: from WDFW, DOE, Army Corps of Engineers |
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| NOTE: What is included here is a complete representation of what the city sent us in compliance of our two public information requests dated 2/7/02 (finally fulfilled 3/8/02), for documentation on discussions with the various government agencies related to restoration and offsite mitigation for damages done during construction of the LID 97-1. The file had obviously been "cleaned" of any informal emails, internal memos, etc., but it is enlightening reading, nonetheless. | ||
| 4/6/00 | Earth Tech Memo to City of Sultan, Berryman & Heniger, Jones & Stokes,and Thomco; confirmation of 4/3/00 meeting and brief summary of events leading up to it. | |
| 4/17/00 | Jones & Stokes Memo to various; confirmation of field visit w/WDFW | |
| 4/20/00 | Earth Tech (Nordin) Letter to Thomco, clarifying responsibility for permit fees | |
| 4/25/00 | Earth Tech (Bourne) Fax to Nordin, transmitting copy of NPDES permit | |
| 4/26/00 | DWFW (Opperman) Letter to City of Sultan, placing HPA in abeyance, pending resolution | |
| 5/4/00 | Earth Tech (Nordin) Letter to Foster, Pepper & Shelfelman, Transmittal of NPDES permit. | |
| 5/4/00 | Earth Tech (Nordin) Letter to city attorney Grant Weed, giving brief update of events (a sort of "stay tuned" advisory letter. | |
| 5/18/00 | DOE (Jeanne Summerhays) letter to City of Sultan (Connie Dunn), issuing Notice of Correction (NOC), i.e., an order to stop work. | |
| 5/24/00 | Jones & Stokes (Jonathan Ives) to B & H (Bourne), a detailing of the tasks to correct sewer line installation. | |
| 5/25/00 | ET (Schaefer) Letter to J & S, approval to begin authoring the restoration plan | |
| 5/26/00 | City of Sultan (Rowe) Letter to DOE (Suggs) regarding the economic realities of the importance for the timely completion of the LID sewer line, accepting responsibility for providing resolution of the problem, and requesting a meeting a meeting with DOE. | |
| 5/30/00 | J&S (unsigned) Letter to ET (Nordin), gives task framework and cost esimate for completing a restoration plan ($67,593). | |
| 5/31/00 | ET (Nordin) Fax to Gary Bourne re meeting schedule; list of attendees at the 6/8/00 meeting. | |
| 6/8/00 | Army Corps of Engineer (James Rigsby) Letter to City Administrator (B. Trippett, who had been gone from city employ since early November '99), STOP WORK ORDER | |
| 6/16/00 | City of Sultan (Rowe) letter to DOE (Suggs), recognizing and confirming the problems, detailing city actions, confirming a June 23rd meeting, and transmitting the draft restoration plan. | |
| Undated Agenda for 6/19/00 meeting | Agenda for a 6/19/00 meeting between B&H, city, city attorney Weed and Foster, Pepper & Shefelman (re all LID issues, i.e., Bethany, LID 97-1, North Wagley's, as well as a PUD/Everett Water contract) | |
| 6/20/00 | Faxes between Bourne and Nordin re "Parcels affected outside of easement area | |
| 6/22/00 | B & H (Bourne) letter to Col. Rigsby (Corps) re the Corps' stop work order | |
| 7/12-7/14/00 | Exchange via email between Bourne (B&H), Nrodin (E.T.) and Snohomish County's Lorna Smith, city's "independent" liaison on restoration project. | |
| 8/3 - 8/15/00 | An Exchange initiated by Mayor Rowe, between the Corps, DOE and WDFW. The Mayor's 8/3/00 letter is a "We-can-take-it-from-here-but-thanks-anyway" letter, which had to be clarified by Gary Bourne to Maryann Baird of the Crops in a letter dated 8/15/00. | |
| 8/9/00 | WDFW HPA Revised Permit (Authorization) for creek crossing conduit work in eight locations | |
| 8/25/00 | Corps of Engineers (Col. Ralph Graves) letter to City Administrator B. Trippett (who left city employ early November, 1999), reiterating stop work order and instituting compensatory mitigation for wetland damage. | |
| 9/1/00 | City of Sultan (Gary Bourne) Letter to DOE (Suggs) re offsite (or compensatory) mitigation, which includes map of proposed offsite mitigation areas | |
| 11/22/00 | Jones & Stokes Letter to DOE (Sarah Suggs) outlining certain specifics of offsite compensatory mitigation for destroyed wetlands (We assume this was written by Daniel Jones, because of the fax cover sheet which transmitted this letter, but the letter itself was unsigned.) | |
| 12/7/00 | Jones & Stokes (D. Jones) letter to DOE (Sarah Suggs), advising of a "notable change" in the previous impact analysis for restoration, revising acreage of direct impacts to wetlands from a previous 2.36 down to 1.81. | |
| 5/23/01 | DOE (Suggs) Letter to City of Sultan (C. Dunn) re DOE's May 18, 2000 Notice of Correction; accepting J&S' 12/7/00 reduced impact assessment, but pointing out their lack in addressing the compensatory offisite mitigation. | |
| 5/29/01 | Army Corps of Engineers' Col. Graves letter to City of Sultan (addressed to City Administrator B. Trippet, who left the city's employ in early Nov. '99), concurring conceptually with restoration and off-site mitigation plan, but requesting specifics in form, and reminding the city that their stop work order was still in effect. | |
| 7/25/01 | City of Sultan (C. Dunn) letter to DOE (Suggs), suggesting realignment of final sewer line northward to avoid wetland corridor. Map of new alignment is attached, with a new "unnamed wetland"shown. | |
| 8/13/01 | Army Corps of Engineers (Col. Graves) Letter to City of Sultan, authorizing sewer line work in uplands only. | |
| 8/14/01 | DOE (Suggs) to City of Sultan (C. Dunn), Response to city's 7/252/01 letter. Concurs in principal to new alignment, but wants to review for presence of wetland resources. Also, DOE "is dismayed" at city's delay in submitting offsite compensatory mitigation plan. | |
| 9/27/01 | J&S (D. Jones) Memo to DOE (Suggs) re off-site mitigation plan | |
| NOTE: The 9/27/01 J&S Letter shown above was the last item in the file given to us by the city. As of 4/1/02, DOE had not yet signed off on the offsite mitigation plan. | ||