Community input sought: "What are your priorities for Capitol Lake?"
Reminder: Capitol Lake/Deschutes Estuary workgroup to meet April 22
The Department of Enterprise Services is currently seeking community input on long-term goals and objectives for Capitol Lake. Input can be provided by completing the online survey on the Capitol Lake webpage. This survey will be open until April 28, 2016.
Recurring themes on long-term goals from past input include:
- Maintain recreational opportunities
- Consider long‐term costs and economic impacts
- Improve sediment management
- Improve fish and wildlife habitat
- Improve water quality
- Reduce flood risk, and more
Upcoming meetings
Community input meeting: (facilitated discussion with community dialogue)
When: Wednesday, April 27, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Where: 1500 Jefferson Street building, Presentation Room
What: Discuss goals and objectives for long-term management of Capitol Lake
Executive workgroup meeting: (community invited to observe)
When: Friday, April 22, 2016, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Where: 1500 Jefferson Street building, Presentation Room
What: Work session. The public is welcome to observe; no comment will be taken.
The 1500 Jefferson Street building is located between 14th Avenue SE and Maple Park Avenue SE in Olympia, just south of the roundabout. Get directions.
The executive workgroup, which is made up of local and tribal government representatives working on long-term planning for Capitol Lake/Deschutes estuary, will receive a briefing at the April 22 meeting on how the long-term goals and objectives for Capitol Lake evolved from 1999 to 2009. The workgroup will then have a chance to discuss how those goals might be articulated today. A summary of past input on goals and objectives can be found on the Capitol Lake webpage.
The goals and objectives identified in 1999 were gathered as part of public feedback on a programmatic Environmental Impact Statement conducted by the state at that time. The 2009 input was gathered by the Capitol Lake Adaptive Management Plan (CLAMP) Steering Committee for the final Alternatives Analysis report for the Capitol Lake Basin.
The complete April 22 meeting agenda is posted on the Capitol Lake webpage.
Enterprise Services manages the 260-acre reservoir known as Capitol Lake as part of the 486-acre Capitol Campus.
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