TO THE HEARING EXAMINER Please, protect the water at the heart of our community—The Spanaway Marsh may mean little to some, but not to us. It is our arterial blood,our breath, our home. We are done with the hundred-year destructionof filled-in wetlands, re-routed streams,toxic human pollution and buildings too closeto these arteries of life. We are done with…
Category: wetlands
Saturday walk at Spanaway Marsh
By Marianne Lincoln Spanaway Concerned Citizens is raising money to fight a Pierce County Executive’s project to build a village of tiny homes to house homeless individuals with drug, alcohol and mental health problems. These are the hardest people to bring into a stable housing situation. There is a plan. (You can see it at…
Historical road from Nisqually to Spanueh Station
Historical information on Spanaway, Spanueh Station of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, and native uses of the area Testimony for the Hearings Examiner on Pierce County Village, April 29, 2024 To local Indians, the area was referred to as “spáduwe” – “where [camas or fern] roots are plentiful”.[1] Multiple tribes used the area for hunting…
Village deadline for written comments April 22
Regarding the April 29 hearings on the Tiny Home Village, Pierce County Village, or whatever they are calling it this week…. All written comments & concerns should be submitted in writing to the Hearings Examiner by Monday April 22nd, for his review to: pchearingexaminer@piercecountywa.gov If you have no idea what I am talking about, read…
April 20, 9am, Clover Creek cleanup
And they meant it when they said, boots on the ground. The Clover Creek Restoration Action Alliance (aka The Clover Creek Council) will hold its first creek cleanup this year. The Saturday before Earth Day, April 20, they will meet at 9 a.m. at Yakima Ave and Tule Lake Road, the Parkland Prairie Nature Preserve…
Lakewood, what have you wrought?
Don Anderson (Mayor/City Council), followed by Steve O’Ban (State Senator), both attorneys and officials from Lakewood, worked on County Executive Bruce Dammeier’s proposal to put a community of tiny homes in the watershed above Spanaway Lake. The city recently voted to contribute $1,000,000 to the effort. On the other side of the military base, lake…
Caring for Clover Creek, March 7, 6:30pm
Clover Creek, from Steilacoom Lake to Frederickson, is a mess. It’s dry much of the year from the asphalt ditch in Parkland to Waller Road. It is also sadly, full of trash, weeds and other debris. It is subject to contaminants from the military base and other businesses and roadways around it. If you live…
To our local governments
Author: Marianne Lincoln A year ago, I testified against lowering a setback from a waterway in Summit from 80 feet to 20 feet. This Lakewood proposal is for a variance to 15 feet from Clover Creek. I am not impressed. This was written to the City of Lakewood February 22, 2024, but it holds for…
Spanaway? Concerned? Yep. March 2nd
If you live in Spanaway, there is a lot to be concerned about. From a tiny home village being proposed in a wetland, to a local lake that is toxic part of the year, to a concern for infrastructure like sidewalks and inadequate roads, Spanaway has many untended issues. You might know by now, groundwater…
Clover Creek setbacks issue in Lakewood project, hearing Feb. 21, 11am, Lakewood City Hall
Sean ArentOrganizing Committee for Clover Creek Restoration Action Alliance Dear Residents of the Clover-Chambers Creek Watershed and Allies, We are the Clover Creek Restoration Action Alliance, watershed residents and allies who are fed up with the destruction of our natural resources and are organizing to fight back. Here are three things we could use your…
It’s About Our Water
Co-Authored by Kirk Kirkland & Al Schmauder. [Republished from the Suburban Times] In the face of escalating urbanization in Pierce County, a concerning lack of oversight exists in monitoring drinking water usage and assessing evolving trends. The repercussions are evident, with increasing water pollution, diminishing well levels, and the cessation of winter flow in Clover…
Frigid weather is freezing the lake and creek
Clover Creek and Spanaway Lake resister the first day or so, but now that this weather has been dipping below 15 degrees F for several days, the north part of Spanaway Lake, known as the cove is starting to freeze. It is truly thin ice that no one can stand on, but it has frozen…
Pierce Prairie Post 