OVERVIEW:
illuminating local history
One of the basic benefits of civilization is that we can see and know more,collectively, than we can see and know individually. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is the physical reality that we do not get to live long enough to see, let alone understand, the long term effects of our actions as they unfold over time. In an attempt to overcome the limitations of our short lives, people have created libraries and archives, in which history can be stored and stories saved.
We all know that "history" is really just "his story" - the story told and recorded after the fact, by the survivor(s) and that there may well be a lot of critical information that was lost in translation. Someone else's story. Failures. Ideas that were tried but that did not acheive the desired objective. Whole collections of field notes that were lost, or simply not published.
So the idea of this WIKI is to provide a chance to collectively expose what we have individually uncovered in our local history to illustrate our ituation.
And since it is interactive, it provides a chance for each of us to show one another what we have found useful in the facts and fictions that we have collected.
Around Discovery Bay
Discovery Bay Watershed includes significant population along shoreline and in the uplands with views of Discovery Bay
Geology:
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hydrograph |
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USGS data |
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well profiles |
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Water:
| number of inches annually |
5-10 inches/year
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| pipes, hydrants, reservoirs |
Unlooped system extends from 4 corners to Beckett Point
__ MG Reservoir PUD Ocean Grove Water System
__ MG Reservior PUD Beckett Point Water system
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service area boundaries
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Established in CWSP
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exempt wells
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water rights
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conservation efforts
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Salmon:
Life Cycle
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Species
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Year of the cycle
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ESA listings
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Restoration Efforts
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Stewardship
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Community:
Challenges |
Opportunities |
- Failing septic systems along shorline
- Dramatically rising Real Estate prices over past 5 years
- Siginificant "aging" of the community
- Fire protection
- Sea Water intrusion
- Lack of infrastructure - distance to food supplies
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Real Estate may still be undervalued ;)
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ANCIENT HISTORY
Tribal History
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Indian Village at Beckett Point
Chemakum and S'Klallam
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Federal Water
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State Water
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County Water
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Coordinated Water System Plan
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City Water System
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City built system to serve Tukey Addition and Adelma Beach
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PUD Water System
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PUD built parallel system to Ocean Grove
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RECENT HISTORY
Agriculture/Permaculture/Sustainability
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GMA Planning History
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Historical Photographs
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Local Hisory Archives
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Habitat Restoration
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Affordable Housing
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- Cape George Salmon Fisherman's Assocaitin at Beckett Point with elaborate scheme of leased homesites to keep taxes low and enforce CC&R
- Several Planned Unit Developments, beginning with Cape George Colony, Cape George Village
- The shoreline area has passed the point of afordable housing and is seen primarily as a retirement community
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Future:
Future Drawings and Plans
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Future Population Projections
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Buildable Undeveloped parcels
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Voices of Kids
Kid's vision
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Kid's Projects
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What an individual can do?
Individual Stewardship Opportunities- conservation, rain water collection, Get out in the watershed (Track the Dragon) when can you see
salmon?
| conservation |
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| rain water collection |
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| Get out in the watershed (Track the Dragon) |
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| where and when can you see salmon? |
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| Individual Stewardship Opportunities |
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Data collection: rainfall, returning fish, indicators
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What a community can do?
| Institutional Stewardship Opportunities |
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LUD - Community Storage, Community Sewer
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Ad Hoc improvement groups
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Resources:
What are your thoughts?
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| What are your neighbors thinking? |
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| Discussion group/Surveys on line? |
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How to get involved?
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Let others hear your voice?
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| Ideas we need to add here? |
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