Saving Our Farms
Grays’ River, Washington — Rerouting rivers, sloughs and drainage ditches, turning county roads into dams and making wing dikes, digging trenches through private properties, and stealing timber off these private property’s is the technique used by several “environmental groups that have descended upon the west end of Wahkiakum County. The unethical behavior and destruction of private property by these groups is beginning to raise a few eyebrows and turn a few heads. We have the opportunity to save our land from these groups. We must try or our farms, homes, and land will be nothing but swamp.
Residents of
The rights of private property owners and the resident’s way of life need to be taken into consideration. The agencies do not know or care what’s right for our community and has proven these by the several “projects” done that are causing havoc and damage in our community.
Ordinance 10989 states WHEREAS, the Board of County commissioners of
Wahkiakum County, Washington does find and declare that it is necessary for the protection and preservation of
the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare in regard to control of the
The ordinance prohibits the intentional flooding to private properties which is what these agencies are doing. Such an ordinance is supposed to serve a valid public purpose and to otherwise serve to promote the prosperity, public health, safety and welfare of the residents of the county.”
Raven Webb, a local farmer and member CAPR, states the county cannot let the agencies under the guise of “environmentalists” overrun our lives and the production of food, destroy our farms, homes, property, and lives. There needs to be concern for the safety of the residents Webb says.
Section 1.4
(1) Restricting or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to
water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities;
(2) Requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be
protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
(3)Controlling the alteration of natural flood plains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel flood waters
(5) Preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally
It is unlawful for any person, firm or entity to cause flooding upon other people’s property within the boundaries of
Wahkiakum County Sheriff, DANIEL L. BARDSLEY, Prosecuting Attorney DANIEL BIGLOW, and the Wahkiakum County Commissioners refuse to uphold the
The federal and state governments need to look at what the agencies are doing to people in rural areas; Webb also states that livestock are killed by the enhanced flooding caused by these agencies.
Redirecting, rivers, streams, sloughs, building obstructions in floodways has been allowed to continue since 2004 through present and had caused an uncountable economic hardship to the residents of Wahkiakum County. This is not been about Salmon recovery it about the large amounts of grant dollars given to these agencies our tax dollars. In a time when schools and parks are being closed, lack of funds for health care and elder care this year in Washington State the “environmentalists” were granted an extra 45.6 million to destroy rural America. Farm lands are becoming a thing of the past. Will we import all our food and how safe is that?
Wahkiakum County Commissioners have done nothing to protect their constituents. Wahkiakum County Commissioners have aided and abided and just allowed these agencies to ruin the lives of people trying to live in
Let your voice be heard contact a commissioner today and every day. Let them know you do not support the taking of private property.
Join CAPR, be a bigger voice. Help yourselves before your property rights are just a memory. Join us to protect your property and ours. Be part of the solution. You have an opportunity to affect change, one must try!
