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3A GREENER, GREATER NEW YORK PLANYCFour years ago we asked.docxgilbertkpeters11344
3A GREENER, GREATER NEW YORK PLANYC
Four years ago we asked what we want our
city to look and feel like in 2030.
A growing population, aging infrastructure,
a changing climate, and an evolving economy
posed challenges to our city’s success and quality
of life. But we recognized that we will determine
our own future by how we respond to and shape
these changes with our own actions.
We created PlaNYC as a bold agenda to meet
these challenges and build a greener, greater
New York.
This effort has yielded tremendous results.
In just four years we’ve added more than 200
acres of parkland while improving our existing
parks. We’ve created or preserved more than
64,000 units of affordable housing. We’ve
provided New Yorkers with more transportation
choices. We’ve enacted ambitious laws to make
existing buildings more energy-efficient. And our
greenhouse gas emissions have fallen 13% below
2005 levels.
Now we must do more.
Today, we put forward an updated plan that
builds upon the progress and lessons of the
past four years.
PlaNYC complements other City efforts, such
as those we are making on crime, poverty,
education, public health, or social services.
The Plan focuses on the physical city, and
the functionality of its infrastructure in our
everyday lives: housing that is too often too
expensive, neighborhoods that need more
playgrounds, aged water and power systems
overdue for upgrade, congested streets and
crowded subways. If these challenges remain
unaddressed, we will undermine our economy
and our quality of life.
Our city’s history teaches us that investing in
our future is not a luxury, but an imperative.
In the 19th century, innovative and ambitious
investments in infrastructure like the Croton
water system and the Brooklyn Bridge, plus
an unprecedented influx of new people, firmly
established New York as the nation’s leading
city. In ensuing decades, the city’s dynamism
and ability to reinvent itself, exemplified by new
investments in subways, skyscrapers, sanitation,
and sewers all propelled New York’s status as a
global leader in infrastructure and innovation.
That’s the story of our city, century after century.
Times change, but New York City often leads
the change. The key to New York’s success has
always been our leaders’ foresight and courage
to boldly meet challenges and capitalize on
opportunities.
Those are our aims with PlaNYC.
Improve the
quality of our
waterways
to increase
opportunities for
recreation and
restore coastal
ecosystems
Waterways
62 WATERWAYSWATERWAYS
Water surrounds New York City, and the story of
our harbor in many ways reflects the history of
our city. The Hudson, East, Harlem, and Bronx
Rivers, Jamaica Bay, and the Upper and Lower
New York Bays have physically defined the city
and supported trade, industry, diverse ecologi-
cal communities, and recreation. Our water-
ways, as much as any other element of the city,
disting.
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1. From Mayor David King September 2014
2013 Audit
The State has completed its audit of the City for fiscal year 2013. The auditors found the City’s
financial condition to be improving and in compliance with our policies. There are no Findings or
Management Letters in this year’s report (hooray!)
In addition to the annual Financial Audit, we had an Accountability Audit this year that paid specific attention to
our travel and cost recovery policies.
Cost Recovery is how the City allocates centralized operational costs - facilities maintenance and payroll for in-
stance - to the City operations that use them. Though we don’t have a full year’s experience with cost recovery
the auditors were able to review our work to date, which they found thorough and proper. They’ll have a chance
to audit a full our 2014 performance next year but it was important to verify that we were on the right track be-
cause cost recovery has been a concern of prior audits.
Other topics included questions about the City’s bid process for capital projects and concerns that the City’s rent
subsidy of the KPTZ radio station and the Recyclery at Mountain View might be a gift of public funds (received
on the SAO website hotline.) In both cases the Auditors determined that the City was acting properly – the deter-
mination that we are providing public benefit at Mountain View being particularly relevant
to our efforts there.
Water Quality
There continue to be citizen concerns about our water quality stemming from notice that we will print quarterly in
these newsletters as part of our Health Department-approved plan to manage the watershed until secondary
treatment is in place in 2016. To clarify:
The quality and safety of the City’s water supply have not changed since the modifications that we installed in
the 1990’s to increase the contact time for chlorine. Chlorine protects us against all but one of the pathogens that
occur in our watershed - the oocysts of Cryptosporidium are highly resistant to chlorine disinfection.
Jefferson County Health Officer, Dr. Tom Locke, describes Cryptosporidiosis as an unpleasant, short-term illness
that usually clears up on its own in healthy individuals. However, for people that are immunocompromised, as
well as for the very young or very old, it can be a more severe and dangerous disease. We do know that people
are living longer and the numbers of those surviving with compromised or underdeveloped immune systems is
increasing significantly. This is the reason that federal drinking water standards related to water treatment have
become more stringent and why public water systems that rely on surface water sources that do not yet meet
those standards are required to notify customers with language that may be alarming to some.
We tested for the presence of Crypto from March 2008 through February 2010 and monthly from March of 2013
through February 2014 and quarterly since May. One sample in February of 2009 included a single oocyst of
Crypto. No case of Cryptosporidiosis has ever been traced to city water, and there is no indication of increasing
amounts of Crypto in the watershed.
The City will spend $12+ million to physically stop Cryptosporidium by adding filtration to our system. We will
continue to test for Crypto and run the required notice in our utility bill newsletters until filtration is in place in
2016.
A River Runs Through Us
Let’s stay on the river for a bit - our Olympic Gravity Water System (OGWS) is a wonderful thing. But though
gravity does the work its operation and maintenance are not without cost or complexity.
First of all we have to go a long way to get the water. It rains less in our dry corner than elsewhere on the Olym-
pic Peninsula, way less than where I grew up in Maryland for instance. And major rivers – the Elwha, Dose-
wallips, Dungeness, Duckabush, etc. don’t pass nearby.
So we take water from the Big Quilcene River via a “diversion” located in the National Forest 8.6 driving miles
from downtown Quilcene at 1023 feet elevation. The City and the Paper Mill working together built our current
29-mile pipeline in 1928 for $750,000. Since modernized with all steel pipe, much of it was originally built of
2. two-inch clear fir staving held together with iron band clamps. Last year the City spent $4 million just to install
new valves and 1400 feet of replacement plumbing at City Lake. In 2000 it was estimated that replacing the
entire OGWS pipeline would cost $54 million.
We must leave enough water flowing in the river to support salmon. As I’m writing this the stream flow in the
Big Quilcene River is 66 cfs (cubic feet per second). It averages about 120 cfs daily over the course of a year
but can vary from 24 cfs to over 3000 cfs during major floods. Though our state water right allows us to take up
to 30 cfs from the Big Quilcene our National Forest Service Permit – required for the OGWS to cross federal
land – requires that at least 27 cfs remain in the river.
This summer the City is using about 1.7 million gpd (gallons per day) and Port Townsend Paper is using about
10 million gpd (used to be 12, working towards 8). Flows in the river are measured as cfs, but in pipes as gpd.
(Very annoying. Pick one, why don’t they.) One cubic foot per second equals 646,317 gallons per day. So that’s
about 18 cfs for City needs, including the Mill. Consequently at stream flows lower than 45 cfs something has
to give.
We augment our capacity with a water right at a much smaller diversion on the Little Quilcene River (9.56 cfs
water right with 6 cfs minimum requirement for in stream flow) but even with that addition it is routine for stream
flows to drop low enough to require us to draw down our reservoirs and for the Mill to reduce water use for a
period (the lease terms require that the Mill reduce usage if necessary to keep the City supplied.) The system is
buffered by the reservoirs at Lords and City Lakes and there is usually ample water for our needs and for future
growth. But flow rates vary widely and have sometimes dropped below what is required for normal operation
during late summer and early fall when we are waiting for the start of our rainy season. We are truly tied to and
dependent upon our environment and the consequences of climate change in the watershed.
As a provision of their lease of our water system Port Townsend Paper maintains the pipeline and staffs City
Lake and the Big Quilcene diversion 24/7.
Run of the Mill
Wouldn’t it be nice to attract a major manufacturing operation to our community that maximizes the use of our
local resources like our water supply? Ideally it would provide family wage jobs for about 300 people. For sus-
tainability it should depend as much as possible on recycled or waste materials for manufacturing and energy
generation – say at least 90%. Maybe we could find one that recycles the water twelve times in its manufactur-
ing process, thereby reducing resource demand by more than 100 million gallons per day. And of course it
would need to treat and clean the wastewater until, under strict environmental controls, it could be discharged
into Port Townsend Bay. And we need businesses that export goods and services in order to generate the com-
munity’s wealth we work to retain by buying locally, so this business should sell nationally or internationally.
Port Townsend Paper does all this already.
It’s not just that I think the benefits of the Mill outweigh the negative impacts, though I do. Or that the Mill re-
mains an appropriate operation for our community due in part to the partnership on our water supply, though I
think that as well. I am also glad that we make something locally that is used all over the world – kraft paper in
this case. Certainly we must call for efforts to minimize impacts and improve sustainability – I’m no fonder of the
smell of sulfur dioxide than anyone else. And we can’t guarantee the Mill’s business success. But when I check
messages on my iPhone or ride my bike to work, or monitor the power generated by my solar panels I’m aware
that providing the things I constantly use impacts other communities that have the chemical plants, data farms
and giant warehouses that produce them. There’s less and less of “somewhere else” on our little blue planet
and being home to the Mill, and the opportunity to do so responsibly, is our portion of the global manufacturing
system that provides goods and services to humanity.
The Mill’s lease of the City water system is up for renewal in 2020.
Watch Some Television
The simplest and most accessible description of human contribution to climate change I’ve seen is episode
twelve of the 2014 television series Cosmos entitled “The World Set Free.” I think it should be translated into
every language and watched around the world. It’s fascinating, entertaining and, most importantly, not so much
a lament as a call to understanding and action.
At more than 7 billion population it is estimated that 6 to 10 percent of all the humans that have ever lived are
alive today. The national and international responses to the impact of the planet’s most adaptable species will
feature headlines and major policy decisions. The actual accommodation of those impacts is taking place in
millions of communities like ours through evolving accommodations of public and private interests as I’ve
described above.
3. 38th Annual Wooden Boat Festival
September 5, 6, and 7
For tickets and information visit
www.woodenboat.org.
Save $$ sort carefully!
Putting non-recyclables in the bin
contaminates the ‘right stuff’,
and costs more to remove it.
Save $$ … save the planet!
Jefferson County Public Health and Public Works
Questions? Call 379-4491
Please welcome back
American Cruise Lines.
The 2014 Fall Schedule
is: Sept. 4, 11, 18, 25 and
Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23. Mer-
chants are encouraged to
download a welcome sign
at www.ptmainstreet.org.
Port Townsend Pub Crawl is Monday September 29
Come out and celebrate
“Octoberfest”! For the low cost of
$10, participants will receive an
official “Port Townsend Pub Crawl”
souvenir glass, and a wristband
which earns them drink and appe-
tizer specials during the event. For more information,
visit www.ptmainstreet.org.
For Passes to the PTFF, visit www.ptfilmfest.com.
Passes are on sale now.
September 2014
Compost Sales at the
City of Port Townsend Compost Facility
Compost is available Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m.
The cost for the compost is $12.00 per cubic yard.
If you purchase 10 or more cubic yards at one time, the cost is $9.00 per cubic yard.
Please bring exact change. If you have any questions please call 385-7908 or 385-3193.
4. How to be a “Responsible
Recreationalist” in the City’s
Watershed
September is a great hiking month for many of us who
live on the Olympic Peninsula. Did you know that
some of the most popular hiking trails on the Olympia
Peninsula are located in our City’s drinking water wa-
tershed? Help protect our drinking water - please
follow these “leave no trace” tips to manage waste if
you’re exploring these trails:
Bury human and pet waste in “cat holes” dug 6
-8 inches deep and 200 feet away from open
water sources (rivers, streams, lakes, or
springs), trails, or campsites.
Store chemicals, including fuel, 200 feet away
from open water sources.
Wash your body and your dishes by carrying
wash water 200 feet away from open water
sources and use a small amount of biode-
gradable soap.
Protecting Drinking Water and
Natural Resources
The City of Port Townsend’s drinking water comes
from a 37,361 acre (approximately 60 square mile)
portion of the Big
and Little
Quilcene River
watershed in the
Olympic National
Forest. Surface
water sources
are susceptible
to contamination
by organisms
such as bacteria,
viruses, and par-
asites that can
cause illness
and disease.
Good housekeeping not only helps provide safe drink-
ing water but is essential in preserving the natural
resources visitors come to experience.
Want More Info on your Drinking Water? Visit our
“Current Projects” or “Water” pages on the City’s
website at www.cityofpt.us.
PT Watershed Hikes
These Olympic National Forest hiking
trails are located within the City of Port
Townsend’s municipal drinking water
watershed:
Lower Big Quilcene
Tunnel Creek
Upper Big Quilcene
Mount Townsend
Notch Pass
Deadfall
Little Quilcene
Dig a Cathole for
Human and Pet Waste
At least 200 feet away from any
open water source