![]() The county originally ruled the projects would not have significant environmental impacts. In April, the county council reversed its findings for two rezoning requests, one in the Chelatchie Bluff Mineral Lands and the other at Cardai Hill Rock Quarry near Woodland. Temple said it’s going to take time to build the facilities needed to service the mine when it opens, so the railroad is starting work now to be ready on “day one.”īefore mining operations can begin, an environmental impact analysis must be completed. It’s very limited work space, really no area to handle loading that quantity of rock that the surface mine will create.” The Chelatchie yard is very landlocked,” Temple said. “To load that quantity of rock, we need some working space. In addition to the road, the railroad’s yard will also be expanded. The ruling of the hearings board was essentially that the probability that the mine was going to happen was virtually certain,” Temple said by phone Friday. “The mine … went through a quasi-judicial process, the growth management hearings board. ![]() But Temple says it’s only a matter of time and the work being done now will serve future mining operation. While Clark County has approved a surface mining overlay to more than 300 acres of land in the Chelatchie Bluff area, mining operations have not been approved yet. Our family rescued what we were able to, but the impact of (company’s) incompetent construction is obvious and irresponsible,” Brenna Collins said in the letter. ![]() At the urging of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, they caught as many fish as possible and took them to neighboring Chelatchie Creek. When they discovered that little water was left flowing into the stream, she said she and her neighbors first tried using a hose to keep water flowing and fish in the stream alive. Temple also claimed it’s not a fish-bearing stream.īrenna Collins said it’s Temple who is incorrect. There’s no water there at all,” Temple said by phone Friday, adding if there’s water in the creek now, then they didn’t cut the stream off. “The stream she’s referring to is a seasonal creek that is dry this time of year. Temple said Collins and her neighbors are “incorrect.” 7 letter to Eric Temple, president of Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad. “The lack of engineering, geological expertise, incompetence, and due diligence is astonishing,” Brenna Collins said in an Oct. The road was built over the stream with what Brenna Collins said has been “disastrous effects.” ![]() In late September, the railroad began building a road on property it leases from the county and on private property with permission from the landowner. Residents in the area say it is not because of lack of rain, but the work of Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad. For Brenna and Andrew Collins, a stream with fish and other aquatic wildlife meanders through their property before eventually reaching Chelatchie Creek.īut in the last few weeks, that stream had nearly dried up, leaving behind dead and dying fish. A quiet life with plenty of room for kids and dogs to play and pastures for horses and goats. CHELATCHIE - Residents in the Chelatchie Bluff area live in a place many can only dream of.
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