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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS October 30, 2014 | 75¢
Port Angeles-Sequim-West End
Risen from the depths
Dane Duben, who says his vehicle was carjacked by sex offender Kenneth Johnson during a car chase Saturday, and Duben’s daughter, 10-month-old Daira.
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Workers with Global Diving & Salvage pull the 65-foot pleasure craft Avalon out of Pleasant Harbor in Brinnon on Tuesday.
Area man recalls theft amid chase
Avalon recovered, towed to Port Townsend marina State confiscates 65-foot boat, plans to dismantle craft BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
BRINNON — A 65-foot pleasure craft that sank near a Pleasant Harbor shore last month has been raised from the water and taken to Port Townsend. Divers commissioned by the state Department of Natural Resources pulled the boat from the water at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday after about three
hours of work. The Avalon, a 1929 wooden purse seiner, was attached to a barge in Pleasant Harbor and towed to the Port Townsend Boat Haven on Wednesday. There, it will be dismantled and disposed of, according to DNR spokesman Joe Smillie.
Snag-free work There were no difficulties in raising the vessel, and the operation went smoothly, he said. The cost of the salvage was about $70,000. DNR may go to court to recover the amount, according to Smillie.
BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The Avalon sank as it was being towed by a 14-foot skiff in the early morning hours of Sept. 14. DNR had given the vessel’s owner, Randy Schleisch of Brinnon, 30 days to come up with a suitable salvage plan that would satisfy the Coast Guard. At the time, Schleisch said he wanted to pay damages and take possession of the vessel, but when he failed to do so, the state confiscated it Oct. 24. “The owner, despite willingness to act, was unable to salvage his vessel, and the period of time provided for him to act expired,” Ecology said in a news release. TURN
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CARLSBORG — A man who said his Mazda Miata was carjacked by convicted sex offender Kenneth S. “Tiny” Johnson shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday thought law enforcement officers were after him and not Johnson. Dane Duben thought Johnson was an undercover officer with a shotgun who was yelling at him to get out of his 1990 Miata while he was surrounded by law enforcement vehicles.
‘What did I do?’ “I saw the gun and was thinking, ‘What did I do?’ ” Duben, 30, of Carlsborg recalled this week. The carjacker did not seem desperate, he said. “He seemed in a hurry, but he didn’t seem that frantic,” Duben said. “He wasn’t shaky.” TURN
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Clallam, Sequim to mull wastewater deal has been planning a sewer for the unincorporated community west of the Sequim. It intends to build a pump station in Carlsborg to collect wasteMeanwhile, public comments water and pipe it to the city of are being accepted through Nov. 12 Sequim’s water reclamation facilon the county’s independent envi- ity. ronmental review of the longawaited sewer project, which is ‘Key right’ detailed in a 410-page facilities “The key right that the county, plan available at www.clallam.net. as the owner of the Carlsborg sysComments on the “mitigated tem, has is the right to discharge determination of non-signifi- wastewater into the city’s syscance” can be submitted to county tem,” said consultant Gordon WilPlanning Manager Steve Gray at son of FCS Group, who drafted sgray@co.clallam.wa.us. the interlocal agreement with County officials hope to build county Public Works Administrathe collection system next year and tive Director Bob Martin and city have it up and running by 2016. Public Works Director Paul Clallam County for decades Haines.
Agreement aimed at lasting plan for treatment of Carlsborg sewage BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Officials with Clallam County and the city of Sequim will consider next month a pact that secures longterm wastewater treatment for Carlsborg homes and businesses. County commissioners and the Sequim City Council each discussed the draft interlocal agreement in separate Monday meetings and will consider adopting a final version in a date-to-be-determined joint meeting in November.
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“The key right that the city has demand,” Wilson told county comis to get paid for that. That’s the big missioners Monday. Carlsborg waste is expected to picture of the overall agreement.” account for 1.71 percent of the Interlocal agreement effluent entering the Sequim treatment plant in 2016 and rise to 6.3 According to the proposed percent of the system by 2036. interlocal agreement, initially, the Clallam County’s share of capicounty would pay the city a tal improvements to the system 0.98-cent-per-gallon metered rate would be based on the amount of for operations and maintenance, capacity used by Carlsborg cuswhich includes a 15 percent tomers. markup. “If we have 6.3 percent of the Fees would be revised as long- capacity, and we have to make term forecasts change. capital improvements to the “Throughout the agreement, treatment plant, they take 6.3 we envision a kind of five-year percent of that and assess a bill,” planning process to look at the Wilson said. forecasts, both the city’s forecast “Of course, there’s communicaof the available capacity of the tion between the two parties.” treatment plant and the county’s forecast of the Carlsborg system TURN TO SEWER/A4
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