Carlsborg: Report, three years in the making, calls for PUD water rights, improved septic systems

CARLSBORG — After nearly three years of work, the Carlsborg Community Advisory Council has released a report to Clallam County commissioners calling for public utility district acquisition of water rights, and pursuing grant dollars to help improve flagging septic systems.

The report lists those as the community’s top two priorities.

The document by the six-member advisory council also recommends county assistance with traffic and pedestrian improvements along and around the U.S. Highway 101 commercial corridor.

The advisory council asks the county commissioners to adopt its recommendations.

“We are at a point where we need to implement some of these recommendations,” said Commissioner Steve Tharinger, D-Dungeness, whose District 1 includes the unincorporated community.

Tharinger asked that county Department of Community Development staffers, including Associate Planner Bruce Emery, to work with other regional and state agencies to bring implementation of the priorities.

Those on the Carlsborg council are Chairman Jim Rosenburgh, Carlsborg Industrial Park representative; Joyce Horner, Carlsborg Historic Village representative; Troye Jarmuth, resident and urban growth area representative; Jerry Walker, Parkwood manufactured home community representative; Mark Smith, vice chairman and representative at large; and Judy Duff, representative of highway corridor business owners.

The county commissioners in December 2000 designated the 560-acre central Carlsborg community as an unincorporated urban growth area under the state Growth Management Act.

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