Lake Tahuyeh hearing will decide public access
February 16th, 2010 by cdunaganI am live-blogging today from Kitsap County Superior Court, where I’ll be describing a hearing to determine if property that the state owns on Lake Tahuyeh gives it the right to allow public access.
This is a summary judgment hearing, meaning that the judge can rule if there are no substantial disagreements on critical facts in the case.
The key players in the case are Dennis Reynolds, representing the Tahuyeh Lake Community Club (TLCC); Matt Kernutt, representing the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife; and Superior Court Judge Jeanette Dalton
I outlined most of the major issues in a story in Monday’s Kitsap Sun.
This live-blog software, called Cover It Live, allows for questions and comments. I will approve the comments and answer the question as time allows during the hearing if there are pauses in the action.
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February 18th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Boy how I would love to be a witness in court against the Tahuheh community. In no way should that beat bog ever been damed up and made into a lake. I am not an environment whacko, but the damage from Tahuya as it was then and the daming of Big Beef for Lake Simington has ruined thousands of acers of pristine wet lands. Both the Tahuya River and Bib Beef are vertually wiped out. Both produced millions of salmon, birds, Eagles galore and more. Laugters (don’t know spelling) boat house was historic at the mouth of Big Beef, but soon went broke following the daming for Lake Simington. I was there, it makes me sick to this day. Big Beef started on our farm just below Tahuya Lake. My Grandmas farm, The Clough’s, was on Tahuya River. I was there to see the thousands of Salmon running in the clear and fast water. As a child of 11 I could go catch a whole string of nice sised trout in a few minites. Thank for letting air this out.
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:21 pm
I’ve been reading the court hearing and I want to comment on a few things. They talked about fish, I caught an 18 inch Cutthrout trout there in the 50s or so. I put my eight foot pram in the water, can’t remember if it was a private launch or not. I know I didn’t pay to put my boat in
I don’t believe the thing about the lake being lowered in the 50′s to cut peat. It was aroung the time of the late 30′s or early 40′s when my dad worked cutting peat at the Tahuya lake/bog. My reletives all live just down stream and I’ve never heard them talk about a lowering of the lake. I will ask them. I’m reasonably sure that it didn’t have to be lowered to cut peat when Johnny Hoar had his peat factory there.
I for the life of me can’t figure how the developers ever got permission to dam the lake and ruin the Tahuya River. I wish I had pictures of the wall to wall salmon heading up stream to spaun. But no more. a few chums at best because they are the latest run, some water then.
Any way I can be a witness in court?