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SARC: Now what? Officials consider options, cut hours to keep facility open by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
Multiple changes at the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center are planned in an ongoing effort to maintain the public exercise facility and only public pool within the City of Sequim. A reduction in hours is among the changes and projected to keep the facility open until Sept. 30, 2016. Additionally, annual passes are no longer available for purchase and the discontinuation of six-month passes are assumed to eventually follow. “I’m sorry it has come to this,” Scott Deschenes, SARC executive director, said. “We’re trying to serve the most people we can with the limited amount of resources we have.”
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Options
To keep SARC open, officials are considering a joint MPD with the City of Sequim and lease to Clallam County Family YMCA
95.5 to 49 Reduction in weekly hours, beginning in October
$261,000
$580,065
Approximate reserves SARC has to date
Approximate cost of outdated air-handling unit (required to operate pool)
Sept. 30, 2016 Estimated date to close the facility
County officials are seeking cause for lower Dungeness pollutants Grants could help homeowners with failing septic tanks by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette
No immediate answers are available as to where pollution is coming from in the Golden Sands Slough area near Three Crabs Road in Dungeness. For the past three months, Streamkeepers of Clallam County has performed trend monitoring of streams as part of the Pollution Identification and Correction (PIC) Plan’s pilot project to find and correct non-point pollution. Andy Brastad, Clallam County Health and Human Services Environmental Health director, said “They haven’t
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Kattie Hoffman of Sequim and her horse dig deep during the barrel racing portion of the 2014 Clallam County Fair rodeo. Sequim Gazette file photo by Matthew Nash
Herd ‘em up, head ‘em out to the Clallam County Fair County’s 96th annual event runs Aug. 20-23
Health officials continue to investigate bodies of water in and around the Golden Sand Slough near 3 Crabs Road for possible pollutants so they can trace its source. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash
Staples of local music, the rodeo, carnival rides, artistic offerings, top-notch animals, sugary treats and more are just a few of the highlights for folks from Forks to Sequim to gather on Aug. 20-23. Sequim Gazette staff As is tradition, all-day carnival ride bracelets Tradition reigns at the Clallam County remain available through today, Aug. 19, for Fair as Clallam’s main event continues into See FAIR, A-2 its 96th year.
Juan de Fuca plate is making moves Community preparing for expected magnitude 9.0 earthquake by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
Big changes are coming. Paralleling the western coastline for about 800 miles from northern California to southern British Columbia, the heavy Juan de Fuca plate is slipping beneath the North American plate. Through a variety of methods, modeling and ongoing research, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, lasting 4-10 minutes is projected to occur at any moment and impact Sequim, along with all other nearby coa stal communities as a result of the plate’s movement. That reality has local and regional emergency management officials preparing for the worst. “There’s no easy way to swallow the pill really,” Command Sgt. Maj. Steve Saunders said. Historically, earthquakes have occurred along the fault every 300500 years. The last recorded earthquake and corresponding tsunami was in January 1700. Secondary effects expected with a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami are landslides, avalanches, gas leaks, fires, flooding, hazardous material release, low level contamination in inundation areas, lack of food and water and disease. Officials with Washington State National Guard anticipate nearly all hospitals, schools and senior centers within Region 2 (Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties) to be destroyed and the event to leave thousands of people with little to no communication, electricity or means of transportation as all bridges are to be impassable.
See EARTHQUAKE, A-7
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