09-0086 Appeal 052109As lawful water users, protected by the water laws of
Washington State, we are appealing the City of Yelm's actions.
Yelm City needs to withdraw the Mitigated Determination of
Non-Significance, file number ENV-OS-0397-YL.
The MDNS fails to adequately address the impacts and
affects on the groundwater resource and the environmental
impacts that will result from the applications including the
cumulative impacts of growth. Many of us are water right owners
through exempt well ownership and will be greatly impacted. The
MDNS provides no proposed mitigation of these. impacts.
The mitigation plan is wholly inadequate to provide an
environmental assessment for all local, private wells. This plan is
for impacts to in-stream water flows, but does not include local
ground water which will affect ull well owners.
Therefore, we request that no further actron be taken on
these water rights applications, No. G2-29084, No. 62-29085,
and No. G2-29086.
If any further action is taken, the Department of Ecology
must be the lead agency, the MDNS be withdrawn and a complete
Environmental Impact Study be required.