Strengths of CLIPA’s Watershed and Dredging Plan
- CLIPA White Paper (part 2)

1. Addresses the number one cause of pollution in Puget Sound: Toxic runoff.

2. Addresses septic tank leakage, advocating for the highly successful Woodland Creek/Woodard Bay type approach.

3. Avoids the very real economic risks to Olympia’s working waterfront associated with allowing sediment to pulse freely into Budd inlet.

4. Avoids serious risk of degradation to downtown Olympia and to the desirability of urban living here.

5. Is consistent with the wishes of a great majority of the public-at-large.

6. Employs the most cost efficient method of sediment removal as it uses the northern basin as a sediment trap. (CLIPA’s dredging plan is approximately 1/3 the cost of dredging under CLAMP’s managed lake alternative.)

7. Adheres to the architectural principles of capitol campus designers Wilder and White and the historic City Beautiful Movement concepts.

8. Addresses head-on the greatest impediment to Deschutes watershed clean-up with a thoughtfully constructed, more representative coordinating board under a multijurisdictional framework.

9. Drastically reduces initial and long term costs associated with this issue. Adequately dredging Budd inlet long term is unsustainable.

10. Avoids a "mud bay" visual effect and hydrogen sulfide odor in Washington’s capitol city.

11. Improves fish habitat for the vast majority of Deschutes watershed acreage.