Lake Whatcom & Lake Samish

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Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on April 24, 2013 at 5:44am

Thank you very much for your continued efforts and for keeping us informed, Joe. I know I speak for us all when I say it is greatly appreciated.

Permalink Reply by Joe Boyd on April 24, 2013 at 7:57am

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/04/24/2980069/whatcom-council-...

Here's a link to the story.  I think this was planned ahead of time.  Even after I showed the council the AIS decontamination forms, one of the council persons said bass boats posed a threat because they're coming from out of the area.  I don't think this is a liberal vs conservative agenda; someone has effectively brainwashed our local government into thinking that a bivalve in Utah poses a threat to our drinking water.

Permalink Reply by Matt Krumdiack on April 24, 2013 at 8:49am

I say throw some zebra muscles in the lake and be done with the whole thing!!!! LAKE SAMISH now to this is a joke, they can expect a call from my phone to open the gate at whatcom at around 4 a.m. everyday while im sitting at work laughing like hell!!! Im tired of all the tree hugging liberal BULL****!!!!!!!!! I cant wait to run the hell out of my 2 stroke at whatcom, and i plan on pissing in bellinghams finest drinking water, so to all the liberal spineless turds who call bellingham home; DRINK UP!!!!!!! 

Permalink Reply by AaronW on April 24, 2013 at 12:26pm

Wow, what a cluster. So are they going to have someone at Lake Samish making sure boats have been inspected before people launch? That one came out of nowhere...

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on April 24, 2013 at 1:25pm

No one will be there to inspect boats. You will have to already have your sticker or drive all the way to Whatcom and back before you launch from what I understand. I'm tempted to just get a ticket on Samish and fight it in court since this won't hold up. I think the more court money they have to waste on this the better chance they won't implement county wide. Also, as much as I hate saying this, if Lake Whatcom is ever completely closed to boats, I would almost be tempted to dump some smallmouth in the Skagit. Luckily, I don't think they are capable of closing a navigable waterway in the state of Washington.

Permalink Reply by Sam Williams on April 25, 2013 at 8:10pm

Ridiculous....it's all that comes to mind....ridiculous.

Permalink Reply by AaronW on April 26, 2013 at 3:24pm

I just got off the phone with county councilwoman Barbara Brenner and she said they will not enforce the inspection on Lake Samish this year.

She is definitely on our side and is looking to amend some of the issues in the ordinance. She called the whole thing a "money grab" and thinks her fellow council members were spineless and intimidated by the city to go along with everything.

Permalink Reply by Joe Boyd on April 27, 2013 at 2:13pm

Thanks Aaron.

AaronW said:

I just got off the phone with county councilwoman Barbara Brenner and she said they will not enforce the inspection on Lake Samish this year.

She is definitely on our side and is looking to amend some of the issues in the ordinance. She called the whole thing a "money grab" and thinks her fellow council members were spineless and intimidated by the city to go along with everything.