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Case Number:
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BLD2003-00524
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Received Date:
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7/3/2003
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Description:
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LOCATION: Fred Hill Materials Inc. (FHM) has submitted a proposal on 165 acres referred as the Wahl Extraction Area. The 165 acres in portions of Section 1, Township 27 North, Range 1 West, lying approximately 1.25 miles west of the existing Shine Hub operated by FHM. The permit area includes a proposed 137-acre mining/excavation area, 19 acres identified as regulated critical areas and/or required mining setback areas, and a 60 foot easement from the extraction area to the Shine Hub that would total 9 acres.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: The 165 acre area is designated Commercial Forest by the Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan. This area is also designated as Mineral Resource Lands Overlay (MRL) by Jefferson County's adoption of Ordinance 08-0706-04 on July 6, 2004, and is subject to 15 conditions of approval governing any activities conducted within the MRL.
CASE HISTORY: This proposal was received on July 3, 2003. The case was placed on hold to wait for the issue related to the Comprehensive Plan Amendment (CPA) for a MRL (MLA 02-235) to be resolved. On October 14, 2004 the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board determined that the CPA for a MRL was in compliance with SEPA and the Growth Management Act. The application was taken off hold after the Hearing's Board decision.
The application was routed on December 23, 2004 to agencies with jurisdiction and interested parties. A Threshold Determination of a Mitigated Determination of Non-Significance (MDNS) was issued on March 30, 2005. Based on comments received regarding impacts to the hydrology to Thorndyke Creek, the SEPA Responsible Official withdrew the MDNS in a Memo dated May 12, 2005. When the threshold determination was withdrawn, this in effect put the proposal at the very first step of SEPA, which is having to issue a Threshold Determination. The May 12, 2005 Memo also indicated that the current proposal would result in probable significant adverse impacts to groundwater movement, quality, and quality, which would result in a Determination of Significance. WAC 197-11-350(2) & (6) indicates that an applicant should be informed that a Determination of Significance is likely and be provided an opportunity to change a proposal to address the issues that consider a Determination of Significance.
On June 1, 2005 an on-site meeting was held with DCD, The Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, WA State Department of Fish & Wildlife and the applicant to examine issues related to impacts that mining would have on the hydrology of Thorndyke Creek and a unnamed tributary to. Part of the concern expressed was that there was no site specific data that documented the relationship between surface and groundwater to in-stream flows. Also, there was not field documentation on how long it took water to pass through the material found within the Wahl Extraction area. In addition, although the MRL was 500 feet from Thorndyke Creek, mineral extraction was proposed approximately 200 feet within the riparian zone of unnamed tributary to Thorndyke creek.
The applicant has modified their proposal to re-sequence the areas to be mined by starting near center of the MRL at the eastern edge instead of the southeastern corner (See Reclamation Sequence Map dated June 17, 2005). This would move the initial mining areas from 200 to 500 feet from the riparian fringe of the unnamed tributary. In addition, and would change the timing of when the area closest to the unnamed tributary from the first to the last area to be mined, contingent on the results from the monitoring data. Group 2 is not be part of this stormwater permit and would not occur for at least five years and would allow the review groundwater monitoring data that had been developed per condition 15.08-0706-04 The final area to be mined (Group 3) would be the area closest to the unnamed tributary and would not occur until approximately 10 years of monitoring data was collected. The groundwater monitorin
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Issued Date:
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7/19/2005
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Case Status:
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F
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Expiration Date:
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7/19/2006
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Final Date:
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5/1/2017
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Permit Applicant:
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FRED HILL MATERIALS INC
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Parcel No:
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701011001
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