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HARBOR AREA PLANNING PROJECT State of Washington by Irene Christy Intern, The Evergreen State College October, 1979 HE 554 .W2 Department of Natural Resources C47 Public Lands Building 1979 Olympia, Washington 98504 HARBOR AREA PLANNING PROJECT State of Washington by Irene Christy Intern, The Evergreen State College U S - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NOAA COASTAL SERVICES CENTER 2234 SOUTH HOBSON AVENUE CHARLESTON , SC 29405-2413 October, 1979 Department of Natural Resources Public Lands Building Olympia, Washington 98504 PREFACE The Washington State Constitution provides for a method to set aside a small portion of aquatic lands specifically for conveniences of navigation and commerce. These narrow rim areas, called harbor areas, serve as funnelling agents for trade and shipping activities. To determine whether these harbor areas were becoming clogged with uses not conforming to Washington State's constitutionally defined constraints, a review of present uses in harbor areas was made. This report on salt water harbor areas was prepared for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources on a year-long internship contract while I was a student at The Evergreen State College. The study topic was an outgrowth of a long-standing interest in aquatic land management, fostered by activities in the League of Women Voters. The study as eventually formulated went beyond this original concern and dealt with a broadened review of aquatic land uses in harbor areas. During the year I have worked on this study project, I have had the help and encouragement of many people. My thanks go especially to: Dr. Peter B. Taylor, Marine Biologist at The Evergreen State College, who serves as my faculty sponsor; Dr. David W. Jamison, Assistant Supervisor of Marine Land Management and Director of the Marine Research and Development Center, Department of Natural Resources, who guided me throughout the project; Dr. Marc Hershman, Associate Professor of Marine Studies and Adjunct Professor of Law, and Dr. Alyn Duxbury, Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Marine Studies, University of Washington, who taught the class in comprehensive planning of estuaries; Frank Hansen, Harbor Area Manager, Department of Natural Resources, who shared his knowledge of harbor area management. My gratitude also goes to the Honorable Bert L. Cole, Commissioner of Public Lands, and to William A. Johnson, Supervisor of Marine Land Management, Department of Natural Resources, who saw the value of this study and made it possible. The purpose of this study was to review present uses in harbor areas to see if changes need to be made in Department of Natural Resources policies, in laws relating to harbor areas, or in the constitutional mandate; and to estimate future demand. The infor- mation provides a foundation for assessment of available space in existing harbor areas for constitutional uses. Diagram 1. Harbor area Illustration Harbor lines exist only in front of incorporated cities and towns. Inner Harbor lines- are located to provide adequate space for piers, wharves, streets, landings and other conveniences of commerce. It was assumed that the area between ordinary high tide and the inner harbor line could or would be deckd over or filled in eventually. Outer Harbor lines- are ordinaily located at a sufficient depth to accommodate the maximum draft of anticipated commerce. Between the inner and outer harbor lines is the harbor area which is provided for loading and unloading ships and for other navigational purposes. First class tidelands- are beds and shores of navigable tidal waters, lying within or in front of the corporate limits of any city or within one mile on either side, between the line of ordinary high tide and the inner harbor line, and within two milesof the corporate limits on either side between the line of ordinary high tide and the line of extereme low tide. Second class tidelands- are lands over which the tide ebbs and flows, which are more than tow miles outside the corporate limits of any city. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No. Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Materials and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Harbor Area Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Harbor Areas . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Land Use and Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Public Use and Public Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Article XV, Washington State Constitution . . . . . . . . 33 Article XVII, Washington State Constitution . . . . . . . 34 Bed Lease Law, 1953 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Riparian Rights Law, 1881 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Law Authorizing Changes in Harbor Lines . . . . . . . . . 37 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Individual Harbor Area Reports Follow the Main Report Aberdeen Anacortes Bellingham Blaine Bremerton Charleston Cosmopolis Edmonds Everett Gig Harbor Hoquiam Ilwaco Kalama LaConner Marysville Olympia Port Angeles Port Orchard Port Townsend Poulsbo Seattle Shelton Snohomish Steilacoom Tacoma Vancouver TABLES Tab I es Page No. I State Harbor Area Locations & Dates Established . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Projections of Foreign Exports from Washington State for 1985 6 3. Total Number of Acres Leased . . . . * * ' * * " * * * * * ' 15 4. Income Collected by Department of Natural Resources . . . . . . . 5. Rental Fees and Acreage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6. Rental Fees and Value Per Acre - Log Booming . . . . . . . . . . . 32 7. Income Listed by Land Use Classifications for Individual . . . . . 28 Harbor Areas 8. Acres in Harbor Area, Number and Percentage Leased by Land . . . . 30 Use Classification Diagrams 1. Harbor Area Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii 2. Disbursement of Aquatic Land Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Graphs 1. Income by Harbor Area and Rent Per Acre . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 2. Total Acreage by Harbor Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3. Ferry Landings - Rental Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 MATERIALS AND METHODS Source materials which served as the basis for accomplishing the study are: photographs, files, maps, the approximately 420 leases of harbor area sites, lessees' exhibits illustrating location of improvements on ]eased sites; local and county comprehensive plans for each area; photographs of harbor areas enlarged to a scale of I" to 400' and readings on aquatic land management and related topics. Interviewed on overall harbor area management were Lewis Holcomb, executive director of the Washington Public Ports Association; Tom Hynes, Department of Commerce and Economic Development; Marc Hershman and Alyn Duxbury, professors in Coastal Resource Manage- ment programs at the University of Washington; and the staff of the Department of Natural Resources. Personal visits were made to each harbor area to view current uses and to interview representatives of all public port districts having harbor areas within their jurisdiction to discuss antici- pated,uses. In addition, most city and county offices were visited to talk to planners or public works directors. Because of a need for more information, the manager of a local Chamber of Commerce was interviewed, and in a few cities, the local marina managers. The information for each harbor area is given at the end of this report. Individual harbor area reports for each harbor area are divided into six sections: introduction, present uses, physical characteristics, future demands, analysis, and various methods of stating rent by land use classifications. INTRODUCTION Article XV of the Washington State Constitution requires the Harbor Line Commission to locate and establish harbor areas where such harbor areas have not heretofore been located and established.1 The following table lists where harbor areas have been established, when they were established and when changes were made. Name of city Year harbor area Year changes were with harbor area was established made in harbor lines] Aberdeen2 1906 1977 (relocated) Anacortes 1893 Bellingham3 1891 1912, 1971 (additions and relocated) Blaine 1891 Bremerton 1911 Charleston4 1913 Cosmopolis 1891 Edmonds 1891 1972 (relocated) Everett 1913 1913 (relocated), 1978 (revised, eliminated and reestablished) Gig Harbor 1974 Hoquiam 1913 1977 (relocated) Ilwaco 1892 Kalama 1922 1975 (relocated) LaConner 1893 Marysville 1892 Ocosta 1892 1917 (disestablished) Olympia 1891 1953, 1976 (relocated), 1978 (relocated, eliminated and reestablished) Port Angeles 1892 1935 (relocated and extended), 1971 (relocated) Port Orchard5 1892 1975 (relocated) Port Townsend 1891 Poulsbo 1916 1969, 1978 (relocated) Seattle 1894 1894 (Ballard added), 1927 (extended), 1969, 1976 (relocated) Shelton 1892 Snohomish 1892 Steilacoom 1891 1965 (relocated) Tacoma 1894 & 1976 1961, 1973 (relocated) Vancouver7 1892 1944 (extended) IThis column does not include tideland, street ending or waterway changes unless a harbor line was relocated, too. 2First harbor lines adopted in 1892 were declared invalid. 3Called Fairhaven and New Whatcom when first established. 4Now in West Bremerton. 5Was called Sidney when harbor area was established. 6First harbor lines were adopted in 1890, but were not legal. 7Filed in 1893, adopted in 1906. Table 1. Harbor Area Locations, Dates Established --------------------- I.Article XV, Washington State Constitution, see Appendix 2. The first Harbor Line Commission (1890) was composed of five disinterested people appointed by the Governor. Over the years, changes in the compositon of the commission have been made periodically by the legislature. In the 1960's, the Harbor Line Commission was composed of the Commissioner of Public Lands, State Treasurer, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction. Today (1979), the Board of Natural Resource3, which acts as the Harbor Line Commission, is composed of the Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commissioner of Public Lands, Dean of the School of Forestry of the University of Washington, and Director of the School of Agricultural Sciences of Washington State University. There is no one in the aquatic lands or coastal resource management field represented on the Harbor Line Commission. Harbor areas are established essentially for three purposes: (1) to reserve areas to satisfy the needs of navigation and commerce, (2) to maintain state control of harbor areas, and (3) to limit the seaward extent to which the water column may be encumbered by structures. Laws and policies have been added over the years for direction in management of harbor areas. The outer harbor line is located by the Harbor Line Commission at the maximum distance seaward that it is desirable to have improvements extend. The inner harbor line is then established a sufficient distance shoreward to provide adequate space for piers, wharves, landings, streets and other conveniences of navi- gation and commerce. The distance between these two lines is called a harbor area. Harbor area width can vary from 50 to 2000 feet, depending on the depth of the water. This limit is set by the constitution. When establishing a harbor area, the Commission plats or lays out streets dedicated to public use and the Commis- sion establishes one or more public waterways to be reserved for use by watercraft as public access. Not every city situated on navigable waters has a harbor area located there. There are approximately 155 running miles of harbor area in Washington with approximately 2700 miles of marine shoreline. The Department of Natural Resources manages 1100 miles of the marine shoreline. There are approximately 6700 acres of harbor area ang approximately two million acres of beds of navigable waters. This amounts to about one third of one percent of bedlands designated as harbor areas and set aside specifically for certain uses. ------------------------ 2Washington Marine Atlas, June 1977; statistics on acreage leased in harbor areas, Division of Marine Land Mangement, Department of Natural Resources. 3. The establishment and management of harbor areas are complex tasks. There is a lack of public understanding of the purpose for which harbor areas were set aside. Moreover, no visible harbor lines are drawn, except on maps. Certain restrictions are placed on the use of harbor areas. Some harbor lines are located close to shore and others are hundreds of feet off shore. When the inner. harbor line is close to shore, conflicts may arise from shoreline management plans and harbor area land use cla ssifications. Conflicting uses are potential problems. When the inner harbor line is too far from shore, then benefits from establishing a h@rbor area 'are lost. A growing interest in management of aquatic lands is illustrated by an article on "Harbor Lines and the Public Trust Doctrine" in a recent issue of the Washington Law Review. A-1979 Senate Resolution also reflects th'is interest and concern. The rnlution established a Senate Select Committee on State Aquatic Lands to review the laws governing management of aquatic lands.and the manner in which the Department of Natural Resources has interpreted and administered these laws. A demand for sites in harbor areas is developing for a number of reasons. Waterfront parks and fishing piers are being established in harbor areas to serve recreational interests. Trade with the Pacific Rim nations is increasing; requirements for handling cargo is changing; and an oil transshipment point is being considered. Expansion of marinas and development of new marinas and support services require more shoreline development. The bottomfish industry, if fully developed, could generate 10,000 direct jobs and 100,000 direct and indirect jobs resulting from the 200-mile economic zone.5 This would have an effect on how much space is needed in harbor a.reas for moorage of commercial fishing vessels and the piers needed to unload the catch going to fish processing plants. ------------------------ 3 Ralph W. Johnson, Eileen M. Cooney, Harbor Lines and the Public Trust Doctrine in Washington Navigable Waters, Washington Law Review, Volume 51@:275, 1979 4Senate Resolution 1979-144 5Tom Hynes, Department of Commerce and Economic Development, in interview, July 16, 1979 4. A conference on the impact of the 200-mile economic zone on the bottomfish industry6 brought out the need for new boats and new methods of processing the fish. Because of this need in Alaska, that state established a $20 million bond improvement program for development or expansion of harbors. The major trend now in Washington's harbor areas is to be prepared for the new bottomfish industry by expanding present marinas to allow for the larger commercial fishing vessels, such as the Cap Sante Marina in Anacortes, and to find space for the fish processing plants that will be needed. Anacortes, Bellingham, Grays Harbor, Ilwaco, Tacoma and Port Angeles are all planning for the i9flux of the larger fishing vessels and fish processing plants. A Smallcraft Harbors Research Advisory Grou (SCHRAG) 8 has inven- toried moorage and launch facilities availaEle in Washington and Portland, Oregon. An assessment of the magnitude of the economic impact of the recreational boating industry on Washington State's economy will soon be out. The Northwest Marine Trade Association foresees a large rise in demand for new slips, with more dry land storage for smaller boats. The trend now seems to be to purchase a slip in a marina, somewhat like a condominium, instead of renting a slip for a year or by the month. Demand for harbor area space may lessen for one commodity.9 Logs are presently exported, stored or transferred In-harbor areas. Eventually, due to economic reasons and environmental laws,.dry land storage will be used to store or warehouse the logs, which will free up some harbor sites for other uses. Grays Harbor, Marysville, Shelton and Port Angeles may be affected by such changes in log storage methods. The export of logs'is a major issue in the state. Any changes in the law to limit the exporting of logs would also lessen demand for harbor area space for that commodity. -------------------------- 6 Northwest/Alaska 200-Mile Fisheries Impact Conference, Feb. 27-28, 1979, Olympic Hotel, Seattle, sponsored by the Washington State Department of Commerce and Economic Development, U. S. Department of Commerce, Pacific Northwest Regional Commission, and the Washingtpn Public Ports Association. 7See individual harbor area reports 8SCHRAG includes representatives from Sea Grant, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute of Marine Studies and the School of Forestry at the University of Washington, Northwest Marine Trade Association, Department of Ecology and the Department of Natural Resources. 9Henry Soike, Manager, Port of Grays Harbor, on log storage in Grays Harbor, in interview, April, 1979 5. 10 A projection of foreign exports from Washington State shows an annual growth rate of 4.5 percent to the year 1985 as illustrated in table 2. Demands for shipping facilities may grow as a result of this anticipated growth in foreign exports. Annual Percentage Industry of Origin 1976 1985 Growth Rate Commodities $2129 $3101 4.3 Aerospace $1120 $1810 5.5 Field crops 241 267 1.1 Logging 221 235 0.7 Pulp and paper products 158 '21`0 3.2 Food products 88 119 3.4 Machinery 61 115 7.3 Other agriculture 71 94 3.2 Primary and fabricated metals 56 72 2.8 Wood products 39 63 5.5 Chemicals and petroleum 39 55 3.9 Other commodities 33 61 7.1 Services $ 518 $ 837 5.5 Trade 312 495 5.3 Transportation services 190 320 6.0 Other services 16 22 3.6 Total $2647 $3938 4.5 Table 2. Projections of Foreign Exports from Ylshington State for 1985 (millions of 1972 dollars) -------------------------------- 10 Foreign exports refer to the value of goods and services produced in Washington State and sold outside the United States. Currently, one out of every six jobs in Washington State is directly or indirectly related to foreign exports. Only one of .15 Washington jobs was related to foreign demand as recently as 1963. "Washington State Department of Commerce and Economic Development, International Trade and the Washington State Economy, The Impact of Foreign Exports, 1963-199-5,-J-une, 1978. 6. Harbor area management is complicated by a piecemeal accumulation of laws and policies. The ability to establish but not abolish harbor areas was granted through the Washington State Constitution in 1889. Riparian rights were established by the Territorial Government. Court decisions state that the aquatic lands were given to the state to be disposed of so riparian rights seem to be cancelled. Streets and waterways were located in each harbor area to be used for public use and public access. Local communi- ties have not always taken advantage of this grant. 7. Harbor Area Planning Project August 20, 1979 TABLE 2. RENTAL FEES AND ACREAGE Average Annual Average Annual Total Leased Rents Paid Rent Paid To Rents Charged Rent Charged City Acres Acres to.DNR - 1978 DNR Per Acre DNR _- .1.978 Per Acre Aberdeen 235 231.14 $ 31,70.7.04 $ 137.26 $ 37,'709.20 $ 163-14 Anacortes 66o 163.24 34,414.14 210.50 40,981.04 252.92 Bellingham 620 159-72 59,186-12 370-56 71,308-00 446.45 Blaine 240 14.98 8,056.00 537-00 10,08.0.00 672.89 Bremerton 105 27.40 10,011.18 365-35 11,451-18 417.92 Charleston 20 .23 100.00 471-32 100.00 471-32 Cosmopolis 50 .19 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Edmonds 320 56.28 16,918-76 302.10 22,128-77 393-19 Everett lf5 45.87 16,725-00 364.61 24,675-76 537.94 Gig Harbor 30 7.27 4,267-00 586.93 4,267-00 586.93 Hoquiam 415 131.44 18,S44.20 14T.68 22,8o4.20 173.49 Ilwaco 1.95 - - - - - - - - - - - Kalama 125 39-55 4,ooi.28 101-17 4,923.60 124.49 LaConner 30 15.86 16,194.49 1,021.00 17,140-05 i,o80-70 Marysville 10 8.15 1,789.oo 219-50 1,789.00 219-50 Olympia 320 148.oo 57,898.94 391.20 65,493.40 442-52 ,Port Angeles i,46o 492-7@ 150,071-99 394.50 163,523.44 381-58 Port Orchard 200 35-15 20,485-14 583-00 22,927-50 652.27 Port Townsend 390 123.02 18,355-76 149.21 19,266.8o 156.61 Poulsbo 70 18-36 2,117-00 115-30 3,065-00 166.94 Seattle 950 177.04 382,123J6 2,158.00 490,879.67 2,772-70 Shelton 80 42-74 6,787-30 158.8o 8,233-30 192.63 Snohomish 20 .23 63-00 273-00 63-00 273-00 Steilacoom 235 15-65 3,124-70 19q.66 3,124-70 195.29 Tacoma 56o 166.00 69,89o.38 421.00 71,440.27 430-36 Vancouver 85 43-70 13,333.64 305-00 26,586.00 608-37 Totals 7,540 2,163-93 $946,1615.J.21 $41T.96 $1,143,960.88 1 $ 492.21 Note: Salt Water Harbor Areas Only. IDifference in figures reflects money retained by ports for Harbor Improvement Funds. Approximate Acreage to-be added due to relocation of harbor lines Aberdeen 15 acres Everett 45 acres Hoquiam 5acres Olympia 40 acres Poulsbo 15 acres HARBOR AREA MANAGEMENT Harbor Areas Only three of the salt water harbor areas in the State of Washington were established after 1922. The three harbor areas were established to provide space for marinas and commercial fishing vessels in Gig Harbor in 1974 and in City Waterway in Tacoma in 1976. The policies adopted by the Harbor Line Commission in 1972 restrict the establishment of deep draft harbor areas. Certain conditions need to be met before a harbor area can be established: a national need must be shown, a request comes in from the local community, usable space in present harbor areas is filled, and a need is demon- strated for a harbor area. These criteria may be changed if a study of national need for space in Washington is completed and a statewide harbor development plan is made. Harbor lines can be changed only for the reasons that harbor areas are originally established. Harbor areas have been relocated or extended in about half of the harbor areas; namely, Bellingham, Port Angeles, Olympia, Steilacoom, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver, Poulsbo, Port Orchard, Edmonds, Everett, Hoquiam, Aberdeen, and Kalama. Harbor areas can be eliminated and reestablished elsewhere in the same harbor area. That has happened in Everett and Olympia. Once established, there is no method in which to vacate harbor areas, even though it is impossible to use some portions for the purpose for which they were established. One exception is Ocosta, where the city was disincorporated. This harbor area desig- nation was vacated. Statutory laws address exchanges of land in tide and shorelands but not exchanges of land in the harbor area designation. Seventy three percent of the total land in the harbor area designation is unused. This would lead to the conclusion that most harbor areas have space left when in fact many of these areas are impractical for such use. Residential or park use or geographic features may render the areas unsuitable for navigation or commerce. Vacation of these areas would keep development out of the beds of navigable waters, if that is what the local community desires, when the area is unusable for conveniences of navigation and commerce. A precedent was set in Tacoma to not establish harbor area where not desired by the community when harbor areas were established in small sections along City Waterway. It appears that the City of Tacoma is now contemplating requesting more harbor area space along the waterway. A Use and Occupancy fee is charged when improvements are built out past the outer harbor line, when built into a waterway, or when placed on publicly owned aquatic lands without authorization. 9. In some cases, such as where structures have been built past the outer harbor line at Vancouver and LaConner, fees have not been paid. Even when fees are paid, charging and collecting such use and occupancy fees indefinitely may appear to be sanctioning an unauthorized use. Both Vancouver and LaConner are taking corrective action. Vancouver will request an outer harbor line relocation from the Harbor Line Commission soon. LaConner is planning to have a seawall built to protect the historic buildings along the waterfront. When a decision is made on where the seawall is to be located, a decision can then be made on whethe @2 or not it will be necessary to relocate the outer harbor line. Cosmopolis and Snohomish make little or no use of the harbor area and coule be considered for vacation of harbor lines if this were possible. The City of Blaine has only one section of harbor area leased. The shallowness of Drayton Harbor, where Blaine is located, might call for vacating most of the harbor area. Ilwaco presently has no leases in the harbor area. Their plans call for extending the marina complex into the harbor area so portions of it will be used. The Charleston harbor area should be placed in the Bremerton harbor area map now because Charleston has been annexed to Bremerton. Charleston, Cosmopolis and Snohomish each have less than one quarter of one acre of harbor area leased. Acreage varies in the harbor areas. Port Angeles has the most, amounting to 1,460 acres, with approximately one third of the acreage leased. Marysville has the smallest amount with 10 acres, of which 8.15 acres are leased. The Marysville harbor area located in front of the Tulalip Indian Reservation is not included in these figures because it is not leased by the state.13 The harbor area with the most leased space is Aberdeen, with 231.14 acres leased out of a total of 235 acres in the harbo @4 area designation. This is primarily because of log storage. Rates differ because lessees pay different percentage rates on the value of the leased sites. For instance, all leases now written carry a 7.6 percent rate on value as the economic, or fair market value, rent to be charged. Earlier leases were based on a rate varying over the years from 2 percent to 6 percent of the true and fair value of the land. A lease applicant ma,p appeal a Department of Natural Resources' decision on valuation, not to the Washington State Board of Tax Appeals, but -------------------- 12S-ee individual harbor area reports 13 See individual harbor area report 14See individual harbor area report 10. to a board comprised of local elected officials. When inter- viewing port personnel, several changes in rental rates were proposed: free rent for a public use such as fishing piers and marinas, grant lower rent when public access is available on a portion of a site ]eased for another purpose, rent could be a percentage of either net or gross income of lessee, and higher rents should be charged for non-constitutional uses such as hotels, restaurants and shops. The constitution limits harbor area leases to a term of 30 years. Several lessees have stated this is too short a period of time. The constitution also limits the seaward extent of structures to 2000 feet of harbor area plus the tidelands at the site. Leases for beds of navigable waters do not limit the length of structures out into the waters. Lease terms for bed leases are limited to 30 years with the exception of log booming leases, which can be no longer than 10 years. Log booming leases can be granted for longer periods of time within harbor areas.15 Harbor areas, located on-the beds of navigable waters, have been available for lease, but not for sale, since statehood. In 1953, a law was passed granting authority to the Department of Natural Resources to lease the beds of navigable waters. Owners of structures had built in the beds without authorization and did not pay rent for using the aquatic lands, prior to this 1953 law. Custom seemed to continue the practice of riparian rights. An example of bed leases being used in lieu of harbor area leases is in the City of Longview. Without a harbor area designation, the city and public port district manage a waterfront that fulfills the demand of navi- gation and commerce. This city waterfront is in a highly industrialized area. An example of a site that could be designated a harbor area is where the pier is proposed for the log and wood products facility at the City of DuPont. The new longer pier is to be built on privately-owned tidelands and on state-managed bedlands. The Department of Natural Resources may grant a bed lease fo 'r this property. On the other hand, a request could be placed before the Harbor Line Commission to consider establishing a harbor area. ---------------------- 15See Table 4, Harbor Area Log Booming Lease Information I]. A number of old rotting piers may constitute improvements (structures) that belong to the state. These old pilings and piers present problems A study is being done now at the , 16 University of Washington. The study should give direction toward the solution of the problem of when the state asserts ownership of improvements. Improvements in bed leases belong to the lessee.17 The Washington State Supreme Court in the Edgewater Inn case,18 decided that improvements in harbor areas belong to the state. This was reaffirmed in 1978 in Pier 67, Inc. v. King County, as follows: "Plaintiff corporation leased the Seattle harbor land in question from the State of Washington for a period of 30 years. It improved the existing pier by building on it a motel hotel known as the Edgewater Inn. The hotel is permanent in nature and any attempt to remove it would result in its destruction. The buildings permanently erected became a part of the realty. The state owns both the fee and the improvements, subject to plaintiff's contractual right of user.'' To date, no improvements have been turned over to the state and the time for such action is not delineated because the legislature did not specifically address the issue of ownership of structures built in harbor areas. Present waterfront sites continue to be developed for conveniences of navigation and commerce. Leases for beds of navigable waters, not the traditional harbor area leases, have been used in cities not having harbor areas, such as Westport, Longview, Pasco and Friday Harbor, and sites outside cities such as March Point, near Anacortes, and Cherry Point, near Bellingham. These examples illustrate that piers, wharves, and other structures are built wherever deemed desirable, and are not restricted to harbor areas. Land Use and Allocation Harbor areas are a small but very important part of the aquatic lands. Harbor lines are not only property lines. A harbor area designation denotes a management activity. ------------------------- 16Urban Waterfront Enhancement Through The Reuse of Obsolete Port Facilities, by Marc J. Hershman and Claudio Arenas, project investigators. 17RCW 79-16-540 18 Pier 67, Inc. 'V. King County, (71 Wn. 2d 92, 426 P.2d 610 (1967) 19 Pier 67, Inc. 'V. King County, (78 Wn. 2d, 48, 49; 469 P.2d 902) 12. The Department of Natural Resources is responsible for all salt water harbor areas and public port districts are responsible for all fresh water harbor areas. Planning for harbor areas is done at the local level, through the Shoreline Management Act and the comprehensive land use plan required of the public port districts. Through the leasing program and a land use classifi- cation system, the Department of Natural Resources has the final approval on what structures are placed in harbor areas and what the use may be. The Department of Natural Resources established a land use classi- fication system for managing harbor areas in 1972. The current system consists of: Water Dependent uses, which include transportation services, terminal facilities, ferries, marinas and tug and barge companies; Water Oriented uses, which require water transport, usually of raw materials, such as pulp from paper mills, fish processing and petroleum; Other water dependent and water oriented uses; which are aquariums, parks, beaches, restaurants, resorts; All Other Uses; which clearly do not conform to uses which require waterfront, such as apartment houses, taverns, private residences. A fifth category of use is called "Withdrawn", or "Reserved from use." This does not refer to unused harbor area, but to areas specifically set aside for non-use. A different system of land use classification is proposed in this study. It is similar but has a different emphasis than the system presently in use. Water.Dependent-Primary uses, which include terminal and shipping facilities, tug and barge companies. Water Dependent-Secondary, which include marine construction and marinas. Water Oriented, Public Uses, to provide access to the public in highly used areas, waterfront parks, aquariums, public beaches. Water Oriented, Industrial, uses such as mills, log booming and rafting, warehousing for short term purposes. All Other Uses; which do not require waterfront but are enhanced by location on the water, such as restaurants, hotels, office buildings, retail sales outlets. 13. A Withdrawn category could be used with this system. Slightly less than one percent of the total harbor area is leased for restaurants, office bui.ldings, hotels and other non-con5titU- tional uses. Three percent of the leased harbor area is in non- constitutional, or interim, uses, with 10 percent of harbor area income derived from this use. Approximately four percent of leased harbor area is-in public use with five percent of the income collected from such public use. Parks, fishing piers, and transient moorage are considered public use. Slightly more than one percent of the total harbor area is now in public use, almost all of it in waterfront parks. The Harbor Line Commission recently established an addi onal land use classification called "Commercial Waterfront,' .16 to be used with the present system. It would take in some of the present classifications: (3) Other water dependent and water oriented uses and (4) All other uses. The Commercial Waterfront classification is similar to that recommended by Noel Curtis Welch in his yaper ''Harbor Area Use Controversy, Fishing Pier Case Study."2 Welch recommended the classification "Recreation Waterfront" be used for recreational uses in harbor areas. This introduces the possibility of new land use classifications to be used in aquatic land management, such as Industrial Waterfront, Residential Waterfront, as well as Commercial and Recreation Waterfront. ---------------------- 20 This new classification is now being challenged in court. 21 Noel Curtis Welch, Harbor Area Use Controversy, Fishing Pier Case Study, University of @ia-shington, 1979 14. Harbor Area Planning Project by Irene Christy 1979-1980 Abstract The ability to create harbor areas in Washington State was granted by the State Constitution. Harbor areas are established by the Harbor Line Commission in front of cities located on the water and include areas one mile on either or both sides of the cities. Harbor areas serve a beneficial use in the structure of our society. Limiting certain uses to specific areas preserves some shorelines from heavy development and contains such development in specific areas where transportation centers are located and where a number of people live who might be available for working in those industries sited in harbor areas. Since the Constitution was written, many laws have been passed regard- ing management of harbor areas, tidelands and shorelands. Some of these laws have eroded or negated the need for continued establishment of harbor areas. Use of harbor areas should be reemphasized for shipping and water dependent industries. Laws that make it beneficial to place industries and piers outside of harbor areas need to be repealed. The following study details uses in the state's harbor areas and lists laws that defeat the purpose of harbor areas. Conclusions and recommendations are made at the end of the study. 3120 Hawthorne Place Olympia, WA 98501 May 10, 1980 Eileen Mulaney, Regional Manager Coastal Zone Management 3300 Whitehaven Street, N. W. Washington, D.C. 20235 Re: Harbor Areasin Washington State Dear Ms. Mulvaney: In March 1979 you were in Washington State reviewing coastal zone management planning being done. I attended serveral meetings yuo and your staff held. After the meetings, I sent you a copy of the 1972 study on harbor areas prepared by the Washington State Dept. of Ecology, Attorney General, and the Harbor Line Commission. I also told you about a project I was working on, one of harbor area planning in Washington State, and you asked that a copy be sent to you when the study was completed. The project has been completed with information given on each harbor area in Washington plus consulsions reached and recommendtions given for future use of harbor areas. A copy of the study is enclosed as requested. Your interest in this project is appreciated. I would like to discuss with you possible opportunities of a professional nature in the field of coastal resources management. As soon as I return from South America the last part of May, I will try to phone you in the morning. Sincerely, Irene Christy (206) 357-4684 (telephone) Following is a table listing the acres in harbor area that are ]eased, listed by both the present and proposed classifications, followed by a ]is--.ing of the present and proposed classifications by income. Similar information on individual harbor areas is given in the Appendix. Table 3. TOTAL NUMBER OF ACRES LEASED listed by present and proposed classifications Classifications Present Proposed Water Depend(!nt 1,092.43 Water Dept!ndent-Primary 796.47 Water Depe!ndent-Secondary 297.04 Water Oriented 556.43 Water Oriented-Public 86.og Water Oriented-industrial 974.68 Other Water Cependent or Water Oriented 456.90 All Other Uses 116.82 All Other Uses 68-30 Total Acres Leased 2,222-58 2,222-58 Table 4. INCE)ME COLLECTED BY DNR listed by present and proposed classifications Classifications Present Proposed- Water Dependent $498,575 Water Dependent-Primary $299,336 Water Dependent-Secondary 200,509 Water OrienteJ 149,385 Water Oriented-Public 51,669 Water Orieited-Industrial 292,683 Other Water Dependent or Water Oriented Uses 213,347 All Other Use3 83,844 All Other 'Jses ioi,945 Total Income $9,@_6_,151 $946,]ZF2 Disbursement of aqu3tic land revenue is given in Diagram 2. A portion of the rents received from first and second class tidelands, when located within a public port district, and from harbor areas are allocated to the local community for harbor improvements. 15. The Shoreline Management Act emphasizes coordinated planning for the shoreline. In the Urban Environment classification of local master plans, where harbor areas are generally located, emphasis is given to development within an already developed area, particularly to water dependent industrial and commercial uses requiring frontage on navigable waters. Some local master plan zones go out to the inner harbor line, in others to the outer harbor line, and some plans include the whole water area fronting the city. Priority is also given in local master plans to planning for public visual and physical access to the water in an urban environ- ment. The Shoreline Management Act recommends that port facilities be designed to permit viewing of harbor areas from viewpoints, waterfront restaurants and similar public facilities, which would not interfere with port operations or endanger public health and safety. Exemptions are given, though, to this requirement. For example, the City of Seattle wanted public access to the Port of Seattle's new container terminal. Instead, the port agreed to 22 build a public observation tower on a pier adjacent to the site. Only 27 percent of the total land in the harbor area designation is leased, with 97 percent of that land leased used for conveniences of navigation and commerce. Interim uses comprise the other 3 percent, usually with non-renewable leases or with leases granted for short periods of time with the area being vacated when needed for a constitutional use. On the other hand, piers, wharves and landings can be built outside of harbor areas with fewer restrictions. The lessee can build further out into the water outside of harbor areas. Ownership of structures built on leased bed- land is retained by the lessee, but ownership of structures in the harbor area goes to the state. No preference right is granted to a lessee of a harbor area site but a preference right to lease adjoining lands is granted to an upland or a tideland owner. Limited waterfront and foreseen development make long range comprehensive planning more important now. Washington State is growing and so is the demand for use of aquatic lands. 22Marc Hershman, Robert Goodwin, Andrew Ruotsala, Maureen McCrea, Yehuda Hayuth, Under New Management, Port Growth and Emerging Coastal Manage;-ent P-rograms, A Washington Sea Grant Program, W97-8 16. Public Use and Public Access When harbor areas were first established, provision was made to locate street endings and waterways in harbor areas. The intent was to allow the public to have access to the waterfront as well as to allow certain public uses. Public places have been included in some harbor areas, also. Waterways or portions of waterways have been vacated at Anacortes, Bremerton, Ilwaco, Port Angeles, Port Orchard, Poulsbo, Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia when they were no longer needed for public access. One question of public use arises from the public port districts' interpretation of their role under Washington state law. Ports provide a service to commercial enterprises and thereby stimulate the economy of the state. Ports believe they should be given virtually rent-frEe use of harbor area sites because they are public agencies. They believe a harbor area would have little value unless the ports developed the areas. The public port districts would like to see rents lowered for public marinas, which provide a service to the public by providing space to moor boats. Marinas are not a money-raising commercial operation; they are a break-even service provided by public port districts. This is true, too, of some of the state harbor area leases which the ports sublet to commercial operations for the same rent the ports are charged. Some public marinas set aside sections of piers to rent to commercial interests or private yacht clubs and hence are not a public use on a first-come, first- served basis. Edmonds marina is an example. No distinction is made in rent on these marina leases. Private and county ferry landing lessees pay rent while some of the state ferry leases are rent-free. The Department of Transportation pays for a permanent right-of-way for a ferry terminal. It does not pay for an easement when the site reverts to the state when the site is no longer needed and when such areas are or have been approved by the Harbor Line Commission as public places for public landings, wharves or other public conveniences of commerce and navigation.23 In Hoquiam a railroad company has challenged, by a court suit, the need for railroads to pay rent for a right-of-way on state land, as they believe they are exempt under state law. ----------------------- 23See Graph 3 - Ferry Landings, Rental Fees 17. Definitions of public use and public access may be needed. A distinction between use for a public purpose and use by a commer- cial enterprise that is open to the public, such as a restaurant, may need to be made. A new trend in public use of harbor areas is the establishment of fishing piers and artificial reefs for recreational use. A 19-acre underwater park with an artificial reef was established north of the ferry terminal at Edmonds. This underwater park is considered the most popular i@ Central Puget Sound, according to the Department of Fisheries .2 The inner harbor line was re- located to permit the underwater park to be established in first class tidelands. A lease of 20 years was signed at the direction of the Harbor Line Commission, at an annual rental rate of $10 per year. A fishing pier and artificial reef was also established at Edmonds in the harbor area seaward of the public marina breakwater. The artificial reef is located north of the fishing pier to encourage the propagation of fish in a portion of vacated waterway. The vacated waterway, retained by the state, was leased to the Depart- ment of Fisheries at no charge. The adjoining fishing pier in the harbor area is leased to the Department of Fisheries for 30 years at I percent of the value of the property, which amounts to $220 annually. A fishing pier and underwater reef were located in Seattle in front of the Myrtle Edwards Park near the grain elevator. This 5.084- acre site is leased to the Port of Seattle for 30 years at 6 percent of the value of the property, amounting to $4,500 annually. A law recently passed 25 encourages public use and public access in harbor areas by reducing the rent charged for the value of the leased site to the extent to which the lessees encourage public access to and use of the leased property and any improvements thereon. This law adds a new dimension to the constitutional demand for setting aside streets and waterways for public use and public access in harbor areas. ------------------------ 24 Letter dated February 17, 1979 from Department of Fisheries to the Department of Natural Resources 25SSB 2284 18. CONCLUSIONS The data gathered ii this study of harbor areas have shown: 1. There will be an increase in demand for development in the tidelands and in deeper waters, whether harbor areas or beds of navigable wa:ers. 2. A review of potential locations is needed to enable the estab- lishment of new harbor areas. 3. There are large amounts of harbor area not used or ]eased. Methods are needed to vacate harbor areas or portions of harbor areas beiause the locations are unusable for consti- tutional uses. 4. Harbor areas are being used for constitutional uses. Improve- ments for similar uses are constructed in beds of navigable waters with few restrictions placed on the lessee. Lessees of harbor area sites should not be penalized for locating within harbor areas. 5. The use of harbor areas should be encouraged by not allowing new leases for beds of navigable waters. Rental income from harbor area leases and bed leases should be allocated to the same accounts, with a state-level Harbor Improvement Fund established for disbursing Sirants to encourage development in harbor areas. 20. RECOMMENDATIONS Locate and establish new harbor areas throughout the state, as needed. (Article XV, State Constitution) Provide methods tD vacate harbor areas or portions of harbor areas. (state la,4) Relocate harbor lines as needed, e.g., Vancouver, Seattle, and LaConner. (Article XV, State Constitution) Change composition of Harbor Line Commission to include a director of marine studies at a state college or university, a member of the public with 2 knowledge of aquatic land management, and/or the director of the Department of Ecology. (RCW 79-01.044) Repeal the 1953 law granting authority to lease beds of navigable waters for many u3es which duplicate constitutional harbor area uses. (RCW 79.16.540) This would restrict development of piers and shipping terminals to harbor areas. Establish a state-level Harbor Improvement Fund which will provide seed money and/or matching funds to encourage the placing of publicly owned and operated piers, wharves and shipping terminals in harbor areas. (RCW 79-16.18o) Chatige allocation of bed lease rents and harbor area rents from East Capitol Campis site and local harbor improvement funds to proposed state-level Harbor Improvement Fund, deducting management cost to be allocated to the Resource Management Cost Account for DNR management. (RCW 79.24-580) Collect the full rent charged for leases. (RCW 79-01-508) Establish periodically a percentage rate of true and fair value to be charged on harbor area leases. (RCW 79-01-504) Establish criteria for charging rental fees when charging for only a portion of a harbor area site. (RCW 79-01-504) Establish criteria on when public agencies pay rent or do.not pay rent. (RCW 79.08.1072) Repeal the 1881 Washington Territory Law on riparian rights, (Rcw 88.24.010) 21. Request the Washington State Board of Tax Appeals to hear appeals on valuations established in harbor areas. (RCW 79.01-520) Use street endings and waterways in harbor areas for public use and public access. (RCW 79-01.432) Define and establish criteria for public use and public access. (DNR policy) Retain all vacated waterways to the state with the exception of street endings in the vacated area. (RCW 79-01.472) Set aside a portion of management funds for costs of removing old pilings, and structures no longer considered safe, where the Department of Natural Resources has asserted ownership to the improvements. Use the same lease documents for all harbor area leases. (RCW 79-01-508) Now public port district leases vary from the standard harbor area lease. Retain 30 year lease term limit. (Article XV, State Constitution) Put management of fresh water harbor areas under Department of Natural Resources management. (RCW 53-32.010) Change designation of a single harbor line, when it is used as a construction limit line, to construction limit line to avoid confusion. (Lake Whatcom is an example) Redefine the use classifications, using the proposed classifi- cations for DNR policies and on work sheets such as the data processing print-outs for the sake of consistency. (policy) Integrate upland, tideland and harbor area use classifications. (policy) 22. GLOSSARY Bed Lease Income. Bed lease income is allocated in a different manner than harbo- area income. Bed lease income is divided one half for management costs and one half for the east capitol campus site in Olympia. (See Diagram 2) Commercial Waterfront. This harbor area management classification is to accommodate the needs and objectives of a local community for uses not rela@,ed to navigation and commerce on urban water- fronts which presently need not be reserved to serve statewide navigation and corimerce purposes. Maximum term is 30 years but contains provisions limiting renewal. Harbor Area Income. Income from harbor area leases is divided three ways: one portion for management (20 percent), a second portion for harbor improvements (either 20 or 80 percent), and a third portion (60 percent when applicable) to the Capitol Purchase and Development Account, to be used for purchasing, improving and managing the buildings on the east capitol campus site in Olympia. (See Diagram 2) Harbor Areas. Becs of navigable waters were granted to the state by the federal government at the time of statehood in 1889. The State Constitutior set aside a portion of the beds as harbor areas, to be used specifically for landings, wharves, streets and other conveniences of n8vigation and commerce. The Washington State Department of NatLral Resources manages the salt water harbor areas and the public port districts manage the fresh water harbor areas. Harbor Line Commission. The State Constitution assigns to the 'Rarbor Line Commission ''the duty to locate and establish harbor areas in navigable waters of all harbors, estuaries, bays and inlets of this state, wherever such navigable waters lie within or in front of the corporate limits of any city or within one mile thereof on either side." The Harbor Line Commission may change, relocate and reestablish existing harbor lines at the direction of the legislature. The legislature has authorized the commission to relocate any inner harbor line if it was erroneously established. Staff functions for the commission are provided by personnel of the Division of Marine Land Manage- ment, Department of Natural Resources. 23. Improvements. Any structure built or placed in the harbor area. This inclu;Te-s fill or sunken materials. Improvements built on leased harbor area sites belong to the state. Improvements built on leased bedlands do not revert to the state but ownership stays with the lessee. (RCW 79.16.540) If a lessee wants to extend a harbor area lease because of construction or extension of improvements, a new lease may be written for UP to 30 years. The department has 90 days to respond with new terms and conditions and the lessee has 90 days to decide to accept the proposed lease. Time limits are not set for acceptance of new leases. On a re-lease, the applicant has 60 days to accept the terms of the re-lease, with an extension of 90 days possible. If the applicant does not accept the proposed terms, or if he decides to withdraw his application, the application is considered rejected. (RCW 79.01-524) The legislature was authorized by the State Constitution to provide for the building and maintenance of wharves, piers and other structures in the harbor area or they could provide for the leasing of the right to build such structures in the harbor areas. Lease Terms. The constitutional limit on length of leases for sites in harbor areas is for 30 years. Extension of this limit has been considered, but no action taken by the Harbor Line Commission. An amendment to the constitution would be needed for an extension of lease terms. Leasehold Tax. Publicly owned property is exempt from a property tax unless it is leased to a private party or corporation. There had been no attempt to put a tax on the leasehold interest of harbor areas prior to the 1970 Edgewater Inn case. This was because previous Washington State Supreme Court decisions stated that rents were to be deducted from the value of the property for taxing purposes, which in most cases resulted in zero value. A value was put on the harbor area leasehold interest of the Edgewater Inn and the full value of the property was taxed, including the leasehold interest. This taxing method was challenged in court. The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that the full value of the lease was subject to taxation. Subsequently, the legislature enacted a 12 percent leasehold tax to be collected on the economic rents placed on publicly owned land. The Department of Natural Resources collects the leasehold tax annually on many harbor area leases (and on many other leases of state land.) The tax monies are transferred to the Department of Revenue for distribution to local governments on a percentage formula in lieu of property taxes. 24. Preference Rights. The upland owner has preference rights to lease the tide and shorelands. (RCW 79-01.448) There is also a prefer- ence right to lease bedlands for the abutting tide or shoreland owner. (RCW 79-16-530) No preference rights are created or renewed in harbor area leases. The Commissioner of Public Lands has the authority to grant or reject an application to lease as the public interest may require. In every lease granted for harbor area, a provision reserves to the state, public port district, county, city or other public agency the right to assume such lease upon acquiring the abutting tidelands without any value for the lease except for the improvements. (RCW 79-01.5o4) Public Use and Public Access. Provision was made to locate street endings and waterways in harbor areas when harbor areas first established to provide public use and public access to the water- front. Riparian Rights. The Territorial Government of Washington granted riparian rights of wharfage to persons owning land adjoining any navigable water or watercourse, and the right to extend the wharves into the bed as far as required for convenience of navigation and shipping. (RCW 88.24.010) At the time of statehood, the State Constitution asserted ownership to the beds and tide and 5horelands. The United States Supreme Court reiterated that the state obtained full title and rights to dispose of tide and shorelands and the beds of navigable waters as they saw fit. (Eisenbach v. Hatfield, 2 Wash. 236, 26 P. 539 (1981) Unauthorized Use. A Use and Occupancy fee is charged under certain conditions: when improvements are built out past the outer harbor line, when built into a waterway, or when the structures are placed on publicly owned aquatic lands without authorization. This fee is levied when such use is brought to the attention of the Department of Natural Resources. Vacations. The legislature calls for at least one waterway to be established (RCW 79-01.428) when harbor areas are established. Waterways may be vacated when no longer needed to be left open and navigable for watercraft. When waterways are vacated, cities may select parcels of land for street purposes. Vacated waterways, with the exception of street endings, are deeded to public port districts. If there is no public port district in the harbor area where the waterway is located, title vests in the state. (RCW 79-01.472) Valuation Board. The value of a harbor area lease is based on the true and fair value of the land. If a lease applicant is dis- satisfied with the valuation established by the department, the applicant may appeal to a valuation board consisting of the county commissioners, county treasurer, and county assessor In the county, in which the site is located. (RCW 79-01-520) 25. Diagram 2. Disbursement of AQUATIC LAND REVENUES RMCA a Resource @Ianagement Cost CPD Capitol Purchase and Development Account HIF Harbor Improvement Fund - I I I I BEDS OF ALL HARBOR NAVIGABLE AREAS TIDELANTS SHORELANDS WATERS .0, PORI O%NED NON- I MPROVED, IMP. PRIOR PRIVATE IMP. TO 1967 & OR FIRST S@@OND FIRST SECOND FRESH WATER PORT OWNED CL%SS CLASS CLASS CLASS PORTS IMP. AFTER 1967 _w. 26% 25% 50% 2 5% 56% RMCA RMCA RMCA RNCA RMCA RMCA RMCA WITHIN \O WITHIN NO PORT PORT PORT PORT DISTRICT DISTRICT DISTRICT DIStj1ICT _>O?@ 18-75% 113 55 1 Y. 5?. 12. 55 POR! DiSr. PORT DIST. PORT DIST. CITY PORT DIST. CITY HIF IIIF IIIF Oil HIF OR COUNTY COUNTY 6@6 56 506 56.'93% 37.5% 37 5% 7;)% 5&- CPD CJID CPD C I'D CPD CPD C14) 100`0 1 100,0 1005 1 10010 100oo @100% 10M 1001.@ e-,%-_NDs 26. Harbor Area Plannir..g Project August 20, 1979 Graph 1. Income* by Harbor Area and Rent Per Acre Cities $ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Seattle ........ ....... ............. ....... . ..... ........ i....... I....... A ....... Port Angeles . . ........ -ra c Ra Bellingham Olympia ---@nacortes 16was.... I Aberdeen Van-couver I .......... ...... --Zv-er e ft -- - I -Fo -rt7or-c-h- a r -d I ..................... -Hoquiam Edinonds ........ -i0--rt--T--o-w--nse-nd ....... 6....'- LaConner we ..... ;7 .. ........ ............... ......................... ....... Bremerton ............. 0.67 ............. -�-h -el to--n ...... Kalama Gig Harbor ........ ----------------- -------- ........ ...... Steilacoom ........ Poulsbo Marysville .......... Charleston- ........ ........ ........ I........ ...... Snohomish Cosmopo s Ilwaco 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 Rent received plus share of rent retained by public port districts, to give a true picture of income. Total Rent ($ x 10,000) uwmmn@ Rent per Acre ($ x 100) ............... 27. Irene Christy August 17, 1979 Table 7. INCOME COLLECTED BY DNR, LISTED BY LAND USE CLASSIFICATIONS - PRESENT AND PROPOSED for The Harbor Area Planning Project Present Use Water ependent Water Oriented Other Used All Other Uses Total Proposed Use Prinury I Secondary PubZic I IndustriaZ AZZ Other Uses TotaZ $ $ $ Aberdeen 5,979 24,416 1,161 150 '31,706 5,519 460 592 24,561 574 31,706 Anacortes 28,722 5,662 30 34,414 21,951 6,770 5,692 34,413 Bellingham 23,645 15,076 2,192 18,27,2 59,185 5,551 18,678 1,560 32,255 1.,. 140 59,184 Bremerton 9,579 372 60 10,011 4,183 4,908 216 156 546 10,009 Blaine 8,056 8,056 8,056 8,056 Charleston 100 100 100 100 Cosmopolis No income from leases in harbor area Edmonds 16,578 340 16,918 13.1706 3,212 16-1918 Everett 14,554 2,145 1 25 16,724 14 2 145 25 16,724 554 Gig Harbor 3,560 417 290 4,267 417 3.,560 290 4,267 Hoquiam 2,663 15,695 100 85 18,543 43 2,663 15,795 85 1835 J 28.1 Irene Christy August 17, 1979 INCOME COLLECTED BY DNR, LISTED BY LAND USE CLASSIFICATIONS - PRESENT AND PROPOSED for The Harbor Area Planning Project Present Use W ter de endent Water Oriented Other Uses[ All Other Uses Total y Proposed Use Primar Secondary PubZic IndustriaZ AZZ Other Uses TotaZ Ilwaco No Leases in harbor area Kalama 2,448 1,553 4,001 2,448 1,553 4,001 La Conner 8,450 6,985 759 16,194 2,518 6,402 3,333 3,939 Z6,192 Marysville 1,789 1,789 1.@ 789 1,789 Olympia 39,460 17,338 100 1,000 57,898 4,594 34,866 17,438 1,000 57,898 Poulsbo 1,937 180 2,117 515 1,422 80 100 2,117 Port Angeles 24,873 2,409 120,927 1,862 150,071 23,626 672 1,521 122,390 1,862 150,071 Port Orchard 14,298 59 6,128 20,485 70 14,227 59 6,128 20,484 Port Townsend 18,355 18,355 18,128 227 18,355 Seattle 235,708 18,244 72,666 55,503 382,12t 154,884 80,823 41,395 18,244 86,774 382,120 Shelton 541 6,175 70 6,786 180 361 6-9245 6,786 28.2 Irene Christy August 17, 1979 INCOME COLLECTED BY DNR, LISTED BY LAND USE CLASSIFICATIONS - PRESENT AND PROPOSED for The Harbor Area Planning Project Present Use -Water epend,ent Water Oriented Other Us'esAll Other Uses Total Proposed Use Primary I secondary PubZic dustriaZ AZZ Other Uses TotaZ Steilacoom 2,824 300 3,124 2,446 378 300 3,124 Tacoma 3 7,3!L.I_ 3, 4-4 6-9, . -8 9 Q 14,986 12,514 1 2-5850 37,207 2,332 69,891) Vancouver 8,845 525 3,963 13,,)33 8.1845 525 295 3,668 13,333 Snohomish 63 63 63 63 INCOME COLLECTED BY DNR listed by present and proposed classifications Classifications PresenL Proposed Water Dependent $498,575 Water Dependent-Primary $299,336 Water Dependent-Secondary 200,509 Water Oriented 14g,385 Water Oriented-Public 51,669 Water OrienLed-industrial 292,683 Other Water Dependent or Water Oriented Uses 213,347 All Other Uses 83,844 All Other Uses 101,945 $9 Total Income 46,151 $9 6,IT2_ 28.3 Harbor Area Planning Project August 20, 1979 Graph 2. TOTAL ACREAGE by Harbor Area S A 2 3 5 6 nge I OS Seattle .......... ............ Anacortes ................... Bellingham . ............ .......... Tacoma ........... -@oquiam Port Townsend Olympia Edmonds Aberdeen Blaine SteLlacoom Port Orchard Ilwaco Evei@@tt Kalama Bremerton Poulsbo Vancouver Shelton Cosuopolis Gig Harbor LaConner Charleston Snohomish Marysville- 2 5 rP'o r t "A Tital Acres (A x 100) Acres Leased (A x 100) . ........ 29. Tab] e 8. ACRES IN HARBOR AREA AND PERCENTAGE OF ACRES LEASED BY LAND USE CLASSIFICATIONS Present Use Water evendent -Water Oriented Other Uses Al 1 Other Uses Total Proposed Use Primary Secondary PubZic IndustriaZ AZZ Other Uses Leased Lea s.--. G' 66.50-26% 156-93-63% 7-71-3% --- 250 Aberdeen 64.48-26% 2.02-1% 3.90-2% 157.67-62% 3.07-1% 231.,14 92% 121-59-21% 37-05-6% 4,.6o-1% --- 660 Anacortes --94.63-17% 26.96-4% --- 41-65-7% --- 163.24 25% 86.90-14% 27--2.0-5% 32.71-'% 13.44-2% 620 Bellingham 72.94-12% 16.99-3% 30.56-5% 36.60-7% 3.16-1% 160.25 2 1 @@ b 0 14.16-15% --- .72-0% --- 1-05 Blaine 14.16-15% --- --- .72-0% --- 14.98 14.0/ 20.91-9% --- 6.36.-4% .13-0% 240 Bremerton 7.42-3% 11.88-5% .36-0% 6.00-3% 1.74-1% 27.40 11 % 20 Charleston --- --- .23@1% --- .23 1% .19-0% --- --- 50 Cosmop9lis --- --- --- --- .19 Less than 1% 45.15-14% --- 11.11-3% --- 320 Edmonds 21.40-7% 23.84-7% 10.50-3% .52-0% --- --- 56.26 18% 34.11-21% 5.97-4% 2.79-2% 160 Everett 34.11-21% --- --- 5,97-4% 2.79-2% 45.87 29% 6.36-21% .32-1% .56-2% --- 30 Gig Harbor .32-1% 6.36-21% --- .56-2% 7.27 24% 42.62-10%- 84.07-20% .67-0% 4.08-1% 420 1 Hoquiam 42.62-10% --- --- 84.74-20% 4.08-1% 131.44 31% 30.1 . ACRES IN ILARBOR AREA AND PERCENTAGE OF ACRES LEASED BY LAND USE CLASSIFICATIONS Present Use Water Depenclent Water Oriented Other Uses All Other Uses Total llrop').'@Cd lloc Ji,imary "3)e(?()nda-r3 I'ziblic [nduo tria Z /111 otlu"r U6-es Leased % Leased 195 Ilwaco No Leases in Harbor Area 18.25-15% 17.44-14% 3.86-3% --- 125 Kalama --- .8.25-15% 2.72-2% 18.58-15% --- 39.55 32% 12.58-42% --- 3.09-10% .19-1% 30 La Conner 2.29-8% 10.69-36% 1.50-5% --- 1.38-5% 15.86 53% --- 8.15-82% 10 Marysville* --- 8.@5-82% --- 8.15 82% 47.16-13% 99.08-28% .85-0% .19-0% 360 Olympia 17.78-5% 29.38-8% --- 99.93-28% .19-0% 148.00 41% 132.41-9% 8.60-1% 333.96-.. % TY-36-5% 1,460 Port Angeles 102.57-7% 28.00-2% 7.03-o% 4oi.85---% 5.88-0% 545.33 37% 29.54-15% --- 1.57-1% 4.04-2% 200 Port Orchard .47-0% 29.07-15% .41-0% 1.16-1% 4.04-2% 35.15 ff - - -- ---- -L- -- i - --i-- I-8.%. 113.37-29% --- 10.02-3% --- 390 Port Townsend 105.43-27% 7.94-2% 9.65-2% .37-'0% --- .723.02 32% 17.63-21% --- .73-1% --- 85 Poulsbo 1.30-2% 16.33-19% .53-1% .20-0% --- 18.36 22% 133.80-14% 8.37-17% 22.93-2% 16.10-2% 950 Seattle 86. 72-9% 47.08-5% .13.43-1% 8.37-1% 25.60-3% 177 .04 19% 3.87-5% 38.66-48% .02-0% --- 80 Shelton 3.50-4% .37-0% --- 38.68-48% --- 42-74 53% Not total Harbor Area, only State managed Harbor Area. 30.2 ACRES IN HARBOR AREA AND PERCENTAGE OF ACRES LEASED BY LAND USE CLASSIFICATIONS Present Use Water Dependent Water Oriented OLher lises All. Other Usc-,, Total Proposed Use Primary Secondary Public Industrial AZZ oth"'r Use's Leased % Leased --- --- .25-1% 20 Snohomish --- --- --- .23-1% --- .23 1% 15.18-6% .27-0% --- --- 235 Steilacoom 13.96-6% 1.22-1% --- .27-0% --- 15.65 7% 93.03-17% 63.21-11% 9.98-2% 560 Tacoma 73.06-13% 19.97-4% 5.50-1% 61.39-11% 6.30-1% 166.22 30% 37.31-44% .69-1% 5.20-6% 5.50-6% 85 Vancouver 37.31-44% .69-1% --- .63-1% 10.07-12% 43.70 5!% TOTAL ACRES IN HARBOR AREA NUMBER OF ACRES LEASED TOTAL PRESENT PROPOSED Water Dependent 1,092.43 Water Dependent - Primary 796.47 Water Dependent - Secondary 297.04 Water Oriented 556.43 Water Oriented - Public 86.09 Water Oriented - Industrial 974.68 Other Water Dep. or Water Or. 456.9o All Other Uses 116.82 All Other Uses 68-30 Total Acres Leased 2,222-58 2,222-58 30.3 Harbor Area Planning Project August 20, 1979 Graph 3. FERRY LANDINGS, Rental Fees Cities Lease Anacortes 1873 1118 Bremerton 1879 2310 WOMEN* Edmonds 1570 Port Angeles 1551 Port Orchard 229- Port Townsend No lease Seattle 1007 Steilacoom 2241 $ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rent Per Acre ($ x 100) F Annual Annuel Rent Acreage Lease Lessee -Rent Per Acre Leased 1873 Skagit County $ 693-00 $ 165-00 4.20 1118 Dept. of Transportation 0 0 15-00 1879 Dept. of Transportation 1,881,00 900.00 2.09 2310 Bremers, Inc. I'o8o-00 720.00 1.50 1570 Port of Edmonds* 2,28o.oo 423-00 5.39 1551 Port of Port Angeles 64o.oo 250-00 2.56 2288 Horluck Transportation 70-50 150.00 .47 Dept. of Tr 1007 ansportation 0 0 1.33 2241 Pierce County 618.00 200.00 3.09 *Sublet to Washington Toll Bridge Authority 31. Harbor Area Planning Project August 21, 1979 Table 6. Rental Fees and Value Per Acre LOG BOOMING LEASES Length Rent Rent DNR's of Lease Charged Charged Value Lease and Lessee in Years Per Lease Per Acre Acreage Per Acre* Kalama 2212 Port of Kalama 30 $ 501.60 $ 66.00 7.60 $ 1,100 Olympia I 2343 Port of Olympia 10 1,075.00 251.75 4.27 4,200 2417 Delson Lumber Co. 16 5,280.00 265.33 19.90 4,400 2060 Buchanan Lumber Co. 30 4,896.00 311.85 15.70 5,200 2259 Westside Log Dump 10 4,195.00 113.38 37.00 1,900 Port Angeles 2434 Crown Zellerbach 10 1,466.00 759.59 1.93 10,000(7.6%) 2411 ITT Rayonier 10 11,935.50 150.00 79.57 2,500 2463 ITT Rayonier 2 9,500.00 494.79 19.20 6,500(7.6%) 2455 Crown Zellerbach 2 46,930.00 494.00 95.00 6,500 (7.6%) 2233 Foss Launch and Tug 10 6,634.50 150.00 44.23 2,500 Hoguiam 2270 Mayer Bros. 10 132.00 209.53 .63 3,500 2364 ITT Rayonier 10 570.00 120.26 4.74 2,000 1993 ITT Rayonier 15 120.00 240.00 .50 4 9 000 2473 ITT Rayonier 5 9,082.00 167.26 54.30 29200 (7.6%) 2115 ITT Rayonier 15 558.00 209.78 2.66 3,500 2188A Anderson-Middleton 10 2,205.00 149.59 14.74 2,500 Aberdeen 2344 Weyerhaeuser 10 936.00 120.00 7.80 2,000 2167 Boise Cascade 30 3,578.40 210.00 17.04 39500 2145 Daniels Forest Products 15 183.60 120.00 1.53 2,000 2254 ITT Rayonier 15 7,905.00 149.97 52.71 2,500 2154 ITT Rayonier 15 2,010.00 150.00 13.40 2,500 2165 Saginaw Mill 15 150.00 8.40 2,500 2398 Allman-Hubble 5 2,220.00 210.02 10.57 3,500 2189 Weyerhaeuser 15 336.00 120.00 2.80 2,000 2013 Miller Cedar Lumber Co. 15 222.00 180.48 1.23 3,000 2144 Miller Cedar Lumber Co. 15 40.80 240.00 .17 4,000 2160 Miller Cedar Lumber Co. 15 451.50 150.00 3.01 2,500 2041 Weyerhaeuser 30 852.00 179.74 4.74 3,000 Anacortes 2408 Publishers Forest Products 5 4,680.00 150.04 31.19 2,500 Everett 2403 Port of Everett 30 2,262.00 590.50 3.77 9,850 142*** Scott Paper 0 336.00 152.72 2.20 1,275(12%) (Continued) Based on 6% true and fair value except where noted. Use and Occupancy Charge 32.1 Harbor Area Planning Project Log Booming Leases August 21, 1979 Length Rent Rent DNR's City of Lease Charged Charged Value Lease and Lessee in Years Per Lease Per Acre. Acreage Per Acre* Marysville 2277 Welco Lumber Co. 10 $ 174.00 $ 207.14 .84 $3,450 2476 Garka Lumber Co. 10 390.00 228.07 1.71 3,000(7.6%) 2361 Georgia-Pacific Co. 10 358.20 187.53 1.91 3,125 2480 Georgia-Pacific Co. 7 136.80 228.00 .60 3,000(7.6%) 2481 Georgia-Pacific Co. 5 380.00 233.12 1.63 3,050(7.6%) 2482 Georgia-Pacific Co. 5 350.00 239.72 1.46 3,150(7.6%) Shelton 2204 Simpson Timber Co. 10 316.80 120.00 2.64 2,000 2468 Simpson Timber Co. 5 3,990.00 189.81 21.02 2,500(7.6%) 2126 Simpson Timber Co. 10 819.00 138.81 5.90 2,300 2304 Simpson Timber Co. 10 1,050.00 115.38 9.10 1,925 Tacoma 2425 Puget Sound Plywood Co. 10 3,420.00 760.00 4.50 10,000 (7.6%) Based on 6% true and fair value except where noted. Use and Occupancy Charge Total rent collected for log booming in Harbor Areas: $143,738.70 Total acres leased: 613.83 Average annual rent charged per acre: $259.57 Average annual rent collected per acre: $234.17 Average value per acre: $3,500 32.2 CONSTITUTIONAL MANDArIE Harbor area management as set forth in the Washington State Constitution. I Slill-I C(AllstilliLion Arl. 15 Art. 16 1 State C:fj its( ittitioil Ili of file state voling off that queliti(in. at a general ulec- See. -1. Leasing and Maintenance of Wharves, Docks, tion. at which lite question of location of the seat of Etc.-The legislature shall provide general Jaws for the ilOvel'oollent sh:dl have beef) wanitted by the legis- leasing of the right to build and maintain wharves. AtUrt'. 1GOVeYnIoUiltal ('011tioUlty durmig emergency (locks and other structures, upon the arcio; menlioned fit See Art. -1. See. [email protected] so-ction (,lie of this article, but it(, 1c,4m- sh;ill be inadt, S(-(,. :I. Resiriclions ou Appruprialions for Capitol Im' ;mv tcrio lonver than thirty y,-;,r,, of lhe k-gislature 'it uj,!tljjjig liall joi,ke it,, appi,,prialo'lls by gencral 1;,ws for tht- building and main- .1. \ IVII(IMM'S for Capitol k1oldilu:N or gl(JUMIN, (_'XCVj)I lailli g upo I bucil area wharves. (luckh, and other Struc- It) kve,, lhe Tcrr,lmud capo,d bud(Imigs @ .... I g Is in tures. FC-11.1jr, ;o1d rot. ninking :.If noct-s'arv addition, thereto. See :1. I-Ateiisitin tif Streets Over Tide Land.-Munici- M Y. .: 11) N )a Ia J)A vorporatiolis shall have tit(! right to ..xl,nd their Ma file poblic Ire crect-, over intervening tide landi, It, and acr-,ss lite tit p,Irm;i;%enI',-:;.I),I:.l III ptu'looict ,I law. ..roz. leservud its herein providud. 'XitTICI.J.: XV-AlAIMORN AND TIDE' WATERS ARTICLE' XVI-SC11001. ANO GRANTIA) LANDS v- L I I arl ... r Lim- Conmus,ioa mid 11e,tr;'lhl1, on Sec. 1. Disposition f-All the public lands gianteil "i't ... sitioll-The Icl!jljjtjjj'c hall piuvide for Ilic a 1) - It, UIC state 'ire held in trust for all the people and none )ointnivot (if a coniiiiis:,i,m whose iluty it h@dl be to of such lands. nor any estate of' ioterv:A thervin, . -! atid est;ildish liarbut, Iineb tit the oavigable w@,tcrs -er be dispused of unless life full iworket vAue of the a -ttoirl-.. ha%s and 1111cls of 111is slat. l.-su,tv (,I, interest disposed of, to be ascertained fit such wher vel, Stit. I atcr, lie %villull or in I mimner as may be provided by law, Ile Imul (if, safety (it ill(! [';Ile limits of all. I . . . I mile evored to the stme; nor shall any lands wiuch the state thereof (Ili cither side. Any harbor line so located or holds by grant from the United States (in any case in established may thereafler be changed. relocated of, Which the MaDner of disposal and niminium price are re-establiAwd 1) v lliv coiojios@jon puisuant to uch pro- so prescribedl be disposed oficxcept Ili the manner and visit)[) as n1aY be nimle therefor bY lite legislature. The for at least the price preser bed Ili the grant thereof, stato Aiall nevvi, give, s,oll or lea@,- to @.ny private person, without the consent of the United States- colporalioll, or Doy rights whatever Ili the See 2. Manner and Terms of Sale-Nono ,f the lioid:i waters beyond !@Ijch harbol" hjw@, n"r shall ;oly of the vrarlied to the state for educatiomd purpos,-s shall tit, area lYinq, betwevii any harbor ]lite and lite line of @;--Id othcrwise th;m .,I Public auction to tit(: highest ordinary hitzli water, and woluo not less thwl lifiv feet bidder. lite value thereof, le,s lite i,nl)r,,vt!jo,_-nts shall. nor more thall two thous:ind feet of such harbor line I,cfore any sale, be appraised by a board of appraisers las the coninussion, hall determinei be suld or gr;irltc(j III be provided UY law. the terins tit payint-ril, also to by the state, nor its rights to control the same relin- be prescribed by law, and no sale shall be valid unless quished. but such area shall Ile forever reserved for the surn bill be equal to the appraised value of said landings. wharve@. strvcl@, and other convt-ruences of land. Ili estimating life value of such land.@ tt)r do@po-l navig:itioji and c(,o)jnvrc(-. (L. 1!1:11, 1). 417. See 1.) thc value (If the Improvements thereon shall lie ex- AME.NDMENT 15. Appiuved November, l!):i:L il'idc cluded: ProuideU, That the sale of' all school and lands. sce infra. Art. 17.) university latid herettifure ni;ide by the t-wooto,sluners of ally county of- the university conimi.sioners when Original text -- Art. 15@ (I'm C'r association al.y the purchase prit-e has been paid in ou(,d faith. may Set'. 1. 11AR11011 LINE CUM- raphis whatever tit the I)c confirmed lj\, the legislature. XIIShI0.N AND HESTRAINT ON waters beyond such har- See. 3. Limitatiuns on Sales-Nu inore than one- Disi-osiTio.N op Crirrm.N Tiijk: lior hoes, vGr shall any fourth tit the land granted to the state for educational LANDS - The legislature (,f ow area lilhol between utoposes shall be @old prior to January first. eighteen shall provide ft-r lite tit,-- any harb(r hill, and the hundred and ninety-five, and not more than one-half 1H,111071i'lli! $If a CI1f)41oiS- 111tV (If I T(h)MY11 hi(jh fill(-. prior to January first. runcteen hundred and live: Pro- N11171 Whose (11011 It 111(ill ond wilhill not less floan maed, That nuthijig herein shall lie so construed its I)e 1" locate ami establish fifty feet ncr more than it, prevent the state from selling tht: timber of, stune harl,or lities in tit,, i,,ivi- six hundred feet (if site), (flf (If any of the state lands fit such manner and oil mthle waters (if (ill liar- harb'r lble [as file Com- iicli teralls ;Is III;,y lie prescribed by law: And provided bcrs. estuaries, bays ami missirii shall deferminc) further. That 11 o s le of timber lands shall be vali(i inlefs of this st'it". wher- 1- s,,ld i.r jr(oited by the 'I'lless the full value of such lands is paid of, secured ever SUCh 71t1VifjUl)lC IV0- stale, iicr its ripht to cou- to the state. ters lie within or in frovt frol file suale reliliquished, See. 4. flow Much May be Offered ill Certaiu Cases- of the corporate 117711ts but sze-h arca shall be for- Platting of-No more than one hundred and sixty acres of ally ritil (.r within one ever rvserred for laiidings, of ariv granted lands of the state shall be offered for mile thereo f o7t either wharves. streets an(i other hale in (,lie parcel. and all lands within the thrifts of mile. 'I'll" state shall riever cwtvcni vnces of llaviga- any incorporated city or within two njiles of the bound- itive. sell or lease to wi?) til.)z ('I'll commerce. ary of any incorporated city where the valuation of private person. eurporti- 33. 120 State Constitution [Art. 27 Art. 27) State Constitution 121 Third. The debts and liabilities of the Territory of be prosecuted in the name and by the authority of the Washington and payment of the same are hereby as- State of Washington, with like effect as though such sumed by this state change had not taken place: and all penalties incurred Fourth. Provision shall be made for the establishment shall remain the same as if this Constitution had not and maintenance of systems of public schools free from been adopted. All actions at law and suits in equity sectarian control which shall be open to all the children which may be pending in any of the courts of the of said state. Territory of Washington. at the time of the change from a territorial to a state government, shall be continued, ARTICLE XXVII-SCHEDULE and transferred to the court of the state having juris- Ill order that no inconvenience may arise by reason diction of the subject matter thereof. by a change from a Territerial to a State government, it See. G. Retention of Territorial Officers-All officers is hereby declared and ordained as follows:-- now holding their office under the authority of the See. 1. Existing Rights, Actions and Contracts Saved United States, or of the Territory of Washington, shall -No existing rights, actions, suits. proccedings, con- continue to hold and exercise their respective office, tracts or claims shall be affected by a change in the motif they shall be superseded by the authority of the form of government, but all shall continue as if no state. such change had taken place; anti all process which may, See. 7. Constitutional Officers When Effected-All of- have been issued under the authority of the Territory ficers provided for in the Constistution including a of Washington previous to its admission into the Union county clerk for each county when no other time is shall be as valid as if issued in the name of the state, fixed for their election, shall be elected at the election Sec. 2. Laws in Force Continued-All laws now in to be held for the adoption of this Constitution on the force in tile Territory of Washington. which are not re- first Tuesday of October, eighteen hundred and eighty- pugnant to this Constitution, shall remain in force nine. until they expire by their own limitation. or are altered See. 8. Change of Courts-Transfer of Causes--When- or repealed by the legislature: Provided. That this ever the judge of the superior court of tiny county, section shall not be so construed as to validate any act elected or appointed under the provisions of this Con- of tile legislature of Washington Territory granting stitution shall have qualified. the several causes then shore or tide lands to any person, company or any mu- pending in the district court of the territory except nicipal or private corporation. such causes as would have been within the exclusive See. 3. Debts, Fines, Etc, to insure to the State-All jurisdiction of the United States district court had such debts, fines, penalites and forfeitures, which have ac- court existed at the time of the commencement of such cused, or may hereafter accrue, to the Territory of causes, within such county, and the records, papers and Washington, shall inure to the State of Washington, proceedings of said district court, and the seal and See. 4. Recognizances-All recognizances heretofore other property pertaining thereto. shall pass into the taken, or which may be taken before the change from a jurisdiction and possession of the superior court of such territorial to a state government shall remain valid, county. And where the same judge is elected for two and shall pass to, and may be proscecuted in the name of or more counties it shall be the duty of the clerk of the State, and all bonds executed to file Territory of' the district court having custody of such papers and Washington or to any county or municipal corporation, records to transmit to tile clerk of such county or or to any officer or court in his or its official capacity, counties, other than that in which such records are kept, shall pass to the state atithuritics and their successors the original papers in all cases pending in such district in offce for the uses therein expressed, and may be court and belonging to the jurisdiction of such county success for and recovered accordingly and all the estate, or counties together with transcript of so much of the real, personal and mixed and all judgements decreased. records of said district court as relate to the same; and bonds specialties, choses in action, and claims or debts, until the district courts of the Territory shall be super- (of whatever description, belonging to the Territory of seded in manner foresaid, the said district court, and Washington, shall inure to and vest in the State of the judges thereof, shall continue with the same juris- Washington and may be sued for and recovered in the diction and flowers, to be exercised in the same judiction same manner, and to be the same extent, by the state of districts respectively, as heretofore constituted under Washington, and may to the forcould have been by the Terri- the laws of the Territory. Whenever asgiorum of the tory of Washington. See 5. Criminal Prosecutions and Penal Actions-All Judges of the supreme court of the state I live been elected and qualified, the causes then pending In the criminal prosecutions and penal actions which may have supreme court of the Territory, except such causes as arisen or which may arise, before the change from a would have been within tile exclusive jurisdiction of the territorial to a state-government, and which shall then United States, circuit court had such court existed it be pending shall be prosecuted to judgement, and exe- the time of the commencement of such causes, and the cution in the name of the state. All offenses committed papers records and proceedings of said court and the against the laws of the Territory of Washington, before seal and other property pertaining thereto, shall pass the change from a territorial to a state governement, and into the jurisdiction and possession of the supreme which shall not be prosecuted before such change may court of the state, and until so superseded. the supreme 34 Title 79: - Public Lands Tidelands, Shorelands, And Harbor Areas 79.16.540 79.16.530 Lease of beds of navigable waters. The 79.16.550 Lease of beds of navigable waters-- commissioner of public lands may lease to the abutting Improvements--Federal permit- -Forfeiture- - tide or shore land owner or lessee, the beds of navigable Plans and specifications. The applicant for a lease under waters lying below the line ofextreme low tide in waters the provisions of RCW 79.16.530 through 79.16.560 where the tide ebbs and flows, and below the line of shall first obtain, from the United States army engineers navigability in lakes and rivers claimed by the state and or other federal regulatory agency, a permit to place defined in section 1, Article XVII of the Constitution of structures or improvements in said navigable waters and the state, or in case the abutting tide or shore lands or file with the commissioner of public lands a copy of the the abutting uplands are not improved or occupied for said permit. No structures or improvements shall be residential or commercial purposes, may lease such beds constructed beyond a point authorized by the United to any person, firm or corporation for a period not States army engineers or the commissioner of public exceeding ten years for booming purposes. Nothing in lands and anv construction beyond authorized limits will RCW 79.16.530 through 79,16.560 shall change or work a forfeiture of all rights granted by the terms of modify any of the provisions of the state Constitution or any lease issued under the provisions of RCW 79.16.530 laws of the state which provide for the leasing of harbor through 79.16.560. The applicant shall also file plans areas and the reservation of lands lying in front thereof. and specifications of any proposed improvements to be 1953 c 164 � 1.1 placed upon such areas with the commissioner of public Construction--- 1953 c 164: "Nothing in this act is intended to lands, said plans and specifications to be the same as modify or repeal any existing statutes providing for the leasing of the provided for in the case of the lease of harbor areas. beds of navigable waters of the state for oyster cultivation or cxtrac- [1953 c 164 � 3.] tion of minerals or petroleum and gas.* 1195.1 c 164 � 5.1 This applic% to RCW 79.16.5.10 through 79.16.560. 79.16.560 Lease of beds of navigable waters-- Preference right to re-lease. At the expiration of any 79.16.540 Lease of beds of navigable waters-- lease issued under the provisions of RCW 79.16.530 Terms and conditions of lease- -Forfeiture for nonuser. through 79.16.560, the lessee, his successors or assigns, The commissioner of public lands shall, prior to the shall have a preference right to re-lease the area covered issuance of any lease under the provisions of RCW by the original lease or any portion thereof if the com- 79.16.530 through 79.16.560, fix the annual rental and missioner of public lands deems it to the best interest of prescribe the terms and conditions of the lease: Provided, the state to re-Icasc the same. Such re-lease shall be for That in the fixing of such annual rental the commis- such term as specified by the provisions of RCW 79.16- sioner shall not take into account the value of any .530 through 79.16.560 and at such rental and upon improvements heretofore or hereafter placed upon the such conditions as may be prescribed by the commis- lands by the lessee. No lease issued under the provisions sioner of public lands. If such preference right is not of RCW 79.16.530 through 79.16.560 shall be for a exercised, the rights and obligations of the lessee, the longer term than thirty year.% from the (late thereof if in commissioner of public lands, and any subsequent lessee front of second class tide or shore lands, or a longer term shall be as provided in RCW 79.01.548 relating to fail- than ten years if in front of unplatted first class tide or ure to re-Icase tide or shore lands. Any person who shore lands leased under the provisions of RCW 79.01- heretofore has occupied and improved an area subject to .536. Any lease of the bed of navigable waters in front of lease under RCW 79.16.530 through 79.16.560 and has unplatted first class tide or shore lands, shall be subject secured a permit for such improvements from the United to the same terms and conditions as provided in the lease States army engineers or other federal regulatory of such unplatted first class tide or shore lands. Failure agency, shall have the rights and obligations of a lessee to use any lands leased under the provisions of RCW under this section upon the filing of a copy of such per- mit together with plans and specifications of such 79.16.530 through 79.16.560 for booming purposes for a improvements with the commissioner of public lands. period of two years shall work a forfeiture of the said [1953 c 164 � 4.] lease and the land shall revert to the state without notice to the lessee upon the entry of a declaration of forfeiture 79.16.570 Sale of rock, gravel, sand and silt. The in the records of the commissioner of public lands. [ 1953 commissioner of public lands, upon application by any c 164 � 2.] person, firm, or corporation, may enter into a contract or lease providing for the removal and sale of rock, gravel, sand and silt located upon beds of navigable waters and any tidelands and shorelands owned by the state and providing for payment to be made therefor by such roy- alty as the commissioner may fix. [1955 c 386 � 1.] ITitle 79--p 671 I'litle 79--p 4,81 35. Chapter 88.24 Title 88: Navigation Harbor Improvements Chapter 88.24 the county commissioners, conditioned that such person WHARVES AND LANDINGS will erect said wharf within the time therin limited, to Sections be fixed by the county commissioners, and maintain the 88.24.010 Right of owner to construct Rates same and keep said wharf according to law; and if de- 88.24.020 County may authorize wharves and prescribe rates. fault shall at any time be made in the condition of such 88.24.030 City or town may authoriz3e warves Rates undertaking damages not exceeding the penalty may be liability. recovered by any person aggrieved before any court 88.24.040 Construction requirements of wharves When deemed having competent jurisdiction, then said county com- incomplete. 88.24.070 County acquisition by condemnation of right of way. missioners shall authorize such owner of the land to Burning wharves, second degree arson: RCW 9.09.020. erect and keep such wharf. (4) If such owner of the land Powers of cubes and towns relative to docks and other appurtences does not apply as aforesaid the commissioners may au- of harbors and shopping: RCW 35.22.28O,35.24.290, 35.23.440, and uthorize the same to be erected and kept by such appli- ASA. 11.020. cant upon this entering into an undertaking as required Powers of port districts as to wharves, landings, etc.: Chater 53.08 of such owner of the land, 11893 c 49 � I ;Code [88]� RCW 3272: 1863 p. 531 � 1854 p. 537 � ; RRS � 9614.] Whartangers and wathousement: Chapter 81.94 RCW. 88.24.010 Right of riparian owner to construct- 88.24.030 City or town may authorize wharves------ Rates. Any person owning land adjoining any navigable Rates-------Liability. Whenever any person or persons waters or watercourse, within or bordering upon this shall be desirous of erecting a wharf at the terminus of state, may erect upon this own land ally wharf or any street of any incorporated town or city in the state, wharves, and may extend them so far into said waters he or they may apply to the municipal authorities of of watercourses as the convenience or shipping may re- such town or city who, if they shall be satisfied that the quire: and he may charge for wharfage such rates as public convenience requires said wharf, may authorize shall be reasonable: Provided, That lie shall at all times the same to be erected and kept in repair for any length leave sufficient room in the channel for the ordinary of time not exceeding ten years, and every person purposes of navigation. [Code 188: � 3271. 1863 p 531 building, owning or occupying a wharf in this state, � 1: 1860 p 326 � 1: 1854 p 357 � I : RRS � 9613.1 Upon Which wharfage is charged and received, shall be held accountable to the owner or owners, consignees or 88.24.020 County may authorize wharves; and pre- agents, for any and all damage done to property stored scribe rates. (I) Whenever any person shall be desirous upon, or passing over said wharf, in consequence of the of erecting any wharf at the terminus of any public unfinished uncomplete or insufficient condition of said highway, or at any accustomed landing place, he may wharf: and every such person shall post or cause to be apply to the county commissioners of the proper coun- posted in a consicious place on said wharf the estab- ty who, it they shall be satisfied that the public convc- fished rates of wharfage, noting passengers and their nience requires said wharf, may authorize the same to baggage free. [Code 1881 � 3273, 1863 p.531 � 3; RRS be erected and kept up for any length of time not ex- 9615.1 ceeding twenty years. And they shall annually prescribe the rates of wharfage and charges thereon, but there 88.24.040 Construction requirements of wharves---- shall be no charge for the landing of passengers, or their When deemed incomplete. All wharves now standing, or baggage. (2) No such authority shall be granted to and herafter to be built, in this state, shall be deemed in person other than (the owner of the kind where the sufficient, uncomplete and unfinished unless they have Wharf, Is proposed to be erected, unless such owner shall good and substantial banisters or railing on the sides neglect to apply for such authority; and whenever ap- thereof, or a strip of hwen timber at least eight by ten plication shall be made for such authority by any per- inches square, well secured all around said wharves son other than such owner, the board of county within ten inches of the outer edge therof, except at commissioners shall not grant the same unless proof the ends.[Code [88] 3274; 1863 p 532 4; 1860 p 327 shall be made that the applicant caused notice in writ- 2;RRS 9616.] ing of his intention to make such application, to be giv- en by posting up at least three notices in public places 88.24.070 County acquisition be condemnation of in the neighborhood where the proposed wharf is to be right-of-way. In cases where a person or persons, firm erected and one notice at the county court house or corporation has acquired a right, title or interest in twenty days prior to any regular session of the board of and to the tidelands or other lands over which it is pro- county commissioners at which application shall be posed to build, construct or maintain such wharf or made and by serving a copy of said notice in writing landing, whether such interest be a title in fee simple or upon such owner of the land, if residing in the county, at lessee or under contract of purchase or otherwise. at least ten days before the session of the board of and the board of county commissioners shall be unable county commissioners at which the application is made. to agree with the person, persons, firm or corporation (3) when such application is heard, if the owner of such claiming such interest or title as to the compensation to land applies for such authority and files his undertaking be paid for the taking of such strip of tidelands or other with one or more sureties to be approved by the county lands, then and in that case such board of county com- commissioners in a sum not less than one hundred dol- missioners may be an order direct proceedings to pro- dars nor more than five hundred dollars, to be fixed by cure a right of way over said tidelands or other lands [Title 88----p 12] 36. Law Directing Changes in Harbor Lines WASHINGTON LAWS, 1979 Ch. 20 CHAPTER 19 [Senate Bill No. 2366) LAKE WASHINGTON HARBOR LINES-RENTON, LAKE FOREST PARK AN ACT Relating to harbor lines! and amending section 1, chapter 139, Laws of 1963 (un- codified) as last amended by section 1, chapter 124, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. (uncodified). Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: Section 1. Section 1, chapter 139, Laws of 1963 (uncodified) as last amended by section 1, chapter 124, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. (uncodified) are each amended to read as follows: The commission on harbor lines is hereby authorized to change, relo- cate, or reestablish harbor lines in Guernes Channel and Fidalgo Bay in front of the city of Anacortes, Skagit county; in Grays Harbor in front of the cities of Aberdeen, Hoquiam, and Cosmopolis, Grays Harbor county; Betlingham Bay in front of the city of Bellingham, Whatcom county; in Elliott Bay, Puget Sound [email protected] Union within, and in front of the city of Seattle, King county, and v4thin one mile of the limits of such city; Port Angeles harbor in front of the city of Port Angeles, Clallam county; in Lake Washington in front of the ((eity)) cities of Renton and Lake Forest Park, King county; Commencemcnt Bay in front of the city of Tacoma, Pierce -county; and within one mile of the limits of such city; Budd Inlet in front of the city of Olympia, Thurston county; the Columbia River in front of the city of Kalama, Cowlitz county; Port Washington Narrows and Sinclair In- let in'front of the city of Bremerton, Kitsap county; Sinclair Inlet in front of th e city of Port Orchard, Kitsap county; the Columbia River in front of the city of Vancouver, Clark county; Port Townsend Bay in front of the city of Port Townsend, Jefferson county; the Swinomish Channel in front of the city of La Conner, Skagit county; and Port Gardner Bay in front of the city of Everett, Snohomish county, except no harbor lines shall be established west of the easterly shoreline of Jetty Island as presently situated or west of a line extending S 37* 09' 38" W from the Snohomish River Light (5). Passed the Senate February 20, 1979. Passed the House February 28, 1979. Approved by the Governor March 7, 1979. Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 7, 1979. CHAPTER 20 (Senate Bill No. 24861 APPLE ADVERTISING ASSESSMENT-ANNUAL RATE INCREASE AN ACT Relating to apple assessments; and amending section 15.24.090, chapter 11. Laws of 1961 as last amended by section 27. chapter 240, Laws of 1967 and RCW 15.24.090. t (139) 37. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bascom, Willard, Waves and Beaches, 1964, Doubleday Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution, Environmental Consensus, paper, University of Washington, Seattle, 1978 - James Cole, Michael Brainard, Science Applications, Inc., Technical Report D-78-55, Dredged Material Resource Program, 1978 Department of Commerce and Economic Development, International Trade and the Washington State Economy, The Impact of Foreign Exports, 1963- 1 9T5 _,I 9 77 Cooney, Eileen M., Protection of the Public Interest in the Shorelines of the Tidal Waters in Washington_State, Paper for Environmental Problems Seminar, University of Washington School of Law, 1978 Department of Ecology, State of Washington, Coastal Zone Atlases of Washington, 1978, 1978 Fitts, James Leonard, The Washington Constitutional Convention of 1889, a thesis for a Master of Arts degree, University of Washington, Seattle, 1951 Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General and Department of Ecology, State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the 43rd Legislature, 1972 Marc Hershman, Robert Goodwin, Andrew Ruotsala, Maureen McCrea, Yehuda Hayuth, Under New Management, Port Growth and.Emerging Coastal Management Programs, A Washington Sea Grant Publication, Universit7 of-was gton Fress, 1978 Ralph W. Johnson, Eileen M. Cooney, Harbor Lines and the Public Trust Doctrine in Washington Navigable Wat rs, Washington Law Review Article, Volume 54:275, 1979 Little, Arthur D., Inc., Foreign Deep-Water Ports: Lessons for America, Critical Issues in Urban Management, Gryphon House, Washington, D. C., 1973 McHarg, Ian, Design With Nature, 1969, Nature History Press (Doubleday) Department of Natural Resources, Washington Marine Atlas, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 1977 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching. and Moorage Facilities in Washington, 1978, @eattT_e, Washington Policies and Attorney General Opinions on harbor lines and harbor area management compiled by the Attorney General's Office, State of Washing- ton, 1978 Proceedings from a symposium held at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, March, 1977, The Use, Study and Management of Puget Sound 38.1 Puget Sound Leagues of Women Voters, Puget Sound's Public Port Districts, 1974, Seattle Reid, Middleton and Associates, Inc., Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State and Portland, Oregon-, 1975, @d@_o_nds, Washington Shipley, Quentin, The Journal of the Washington State Constitutional Con- vention, 1889, wit@_An`alytical Index, Book Publishing Co., Seattle, 1962. Portions relating to aquatic land laws. Sam Sumner, Frank Goss, W. J. Hughes, Report of Committee Appointed Under Substitute for House Concurrent Resolution No. 7, 1913 (House Investiga- tion of Management of Harbor Areas) U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alternative Sites, West Coast Deepwater Port Facilities Study, Public Information Brochure, 1973 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Ports of Coos Bay and Astoria, Oregon, Longview and Vancouver, Washington, and Ports on Columbia River, Port Series No. 33, Revised 1975 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Port Series No. 35, The Ports of Tacoma, Grays Harbor and Olympia, Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 197- U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Port Series No. 36, The Port of Seattle, Washington, Revised 1975 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes, and Bellingh , Washington, Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976 Noel Curtis Welch, Harbor Area Use Controversy, Fishing Pier Case Study, Paper for Institute for Marine Studies, 1979 Williams-Kuebelbeck and Associates, Inc., Washington Public Ports Economic Study, Redwood City, California, Volumes I and 11, 1977 38.2 REPORTS on INDIVIDUAL HARBOR AREAS Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy April 19, 1979 ABERDEEN HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Aberdeen is located, in Grays Harbor County in southwestern Washington. The deepwater entrance to Aberdeen from the Pacific Ocean lies between Point Brown on the north and Point Chehalis on the south. This entrance is 40 nautical miles north of the'm.outh of the Columbia River. The harbor area at Aberdeen was established by the Harbor Line Commission on February 2, 1392. However, the harbor lines so established were declared invalid and ineffectual by the Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for Chehalis County and also by an act of the legislature in 1903 due to loss of survey monuments and discrepancy between the field notes and filed plats.1 A new harbor area was established at Aberdeen on April 2, 1906. The outer harbor line wa s located on each side of the Chahalis River in water having a depth of approximately 16 feet at mean lower low water. The inner harbor line was drawn parallel with and landward of the outer harbor line some 50 to 300 feet. The variation is apparently an attempt to keep the inner harbor line coincident with or below the line of low tide.2 At Aberdeen the federal pierhead line was modified a number of years ago for developing facilities. The outer harbor line had been coexistent with the pier- head line so structures were built within the pierhead line but outside the outer harbor line. Action by the Harbor Line Commission in 1977 relocated the outer harbor line to include the suructures within the harbor area. Aberdeen's harbor activities fall under the jurisdiction of the Port of Grays Harbor, which is a county-wide public port district. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds 32 leases and several easements in the harbor area fronting the City of Aberdeen. Acres of harbor area leased amount to 231.14 acres. Total acres included in harbor area are approximately 235 acres. This is almost 100% of the harbor area leased at this time. Rent collected by the Department of Natural Resources from these leases amounts to $31,707.04. This amounts to approximately $137.25 annual income per acre of leased harbor area. Approximately two thir(Is of the harbor area is leased for log storage. and rafting with an averabe annual rent of $154-50 per acre. Total rent charged amounted to $37,709.20. --- --------------------------------- lHarbor Area Study, 1972. 21bid. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 Aberdeen's harbor area is used mainly for log rafting and storage with several piers and port terminals for shipping logs and lumber, wood pulp and chips. Two piers are used for incoming oil shipments - one for an oil company receiveing petroleum products at their pier and another for a mill for plant consumption. Terminal 4, most of Pier 2, and about half of Slip 2 is in Aberdeen. Pier 1, Slip I and half of Slip 2 is in Hoquiam. Terminal 4 was built originally as a log export terminal. It was recently expanded and rebuilt to accommodate containerized cargo as well as logs. It now consists of a 1,400 foot wharf with two berths and has a large storage area designed for fast handling of cargo. Two old Liberty ships are now used to load ships instead of piers or wharves.3 An old steam schooner, the M/S Sierra, is tied to dolphins in the bed of navigable waters in front of a wharf located in the harbor area. The wharf appears to be partially outside the outer harbor area and in the bed, according to a January, 1976, Corps of Engineers map. The new lessee of this stretch of harbor area purchased the uplands and developed the Wishkah Mall, a shopping center there. Now a lawsuit is in progress trying to remove the old schooner from its location. The owner of the ship won't move it until he finds another place to tie it up. The schooner was placed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 1978.4 The Coast Guard has declared it a navigational hazard. The Corps of Engineers wants it moved and so does the harbor area lessee. The lawsuit has not been decided as of this date. Depart- ment of Natural Resources has not charged rent because rent is not normally charged for ships moored at a dock unless it becomes a permanent structure. The Grays Harbor Estuary Management Plan was initiated in 1975 to coordinate planning and public participation requirements of the Shoreline Management Act after the Corps of Engineers proposed deepening the 30-foot channel to a 40-foot channel in the Chehalis River. A model master projram was developed and all par- ticipating local governments subsequently adopted it with minor revisions. The Grays Harbor Regional Planning Council is the lead agency in the Estuary Management Study. All affected parties, including the regulatory agency representatives, were included in the planning process. The resulting plan will bind all parties to specific land and water use allocations and should facilitate processing of permits reauired for site-specific projects.5 -------------------------------- 3The companies using the ships are Anderson-Middleton Company & Weyerhaeuser, Bay City 2 facility. 4office of Archeology & Historic Preservation, State of Washington, by telephone, on April 16, 1979. 5Marc Hershman, Robert Goodwin, Andrew Ruotsala, Maureen McCrea, Yehuda Hayuth, Under New Management, A Washington Sea Grant Publication, University of Washington Press, 1978. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Physical Characteristics Grays Harbor is roughly pear shaped, diverging from the Chehalis River at Aberdeen into a broad shallow bay. When the tide goes out, more than half the estuary is in mud flats. Streams and rivers flowing into the estuary, besides the Chehalis River, are the Humptulips, Hoquiam, Wishkah, Johns and Elk Rivers. The present channel is now maintained at a 30-foot depth and 350 feet wide from deep water in Grays Harbor to Cow Point, which is located in the west portion of Aberdeen at Terminal 4. From Cow Point the channel is 30 feet deep and 200 feet wide, suitable widened at the bends in the Chehalis River to a point 4 1/8 miles upstream from the Union Pacific Railroad bridge. The Corps of Engineers proposes to dredge a 40-foot channel up the Chehalis River to provide better access to marine terminals for anticipated growth in trade. A turning basin 30 feet deep, 600 feet wide, and 1,000 feet long is just down stream from the Union Pacific Railroad b *ridge. Another turning basin 30 feet deep, 550 feet wide and 1,000 feet long is at the upstream end of the 30-foot channel near Cosmopolis. No specific areas in Grays Harbor have been designated for anchorages. Future Demands The comprehensive planning done for the Grays Harbor Estuary Management Plan has looked at future needs. The activity that will have a great effect on the estuary for the people living in the surrounding area, for the fishery resource and the economy of Grays Harbor is the channel deepening and realignment proposed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. More use of Grays Harbor is planned when the channel is deepened. A large question arising from the channel dredging is where to dump the spoils. Two major sites have been designated. One site taking most of the spoils would be an area around Bowerman Field on Moon Island in Hoquiam. The other site is the South Shore Site in South Aberdeen near the city limits. Both areas once filled, will be used for industrial development locations. Piers may be constructed to expand the shipping facilities presently available. Many of the logs now stored in the river are transported by train to Aberdeen for unloading into the water for future use by the mills. Transporting logs by truck instead of train is anticipated within the next few years. If logs are brought in by truck, log storage would be by dry land storage. Many leases will expire and will not be released. The present oil shortage may slow down the changeover from rail transport to trucks, but log storage in the water will not continue for too long in the future. Other uses can then be considered for harbor area.5 ------------------------------ 51nterview with Henry Soike, Manager, Port of Grays Harbor. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 The shift in methods for storage of logs will present an opportunity to decide how boomsticks and pilings for log races will be removed. Public access and a view area of the activities along the Chehalis River are being worked out by the City of Aberdeen. This riverfront park, along the train tracks, covers a narrow strip of land, tidelands and harbor area. Some fill will be needed for this project. A hotel/restaurant complex will be built in an area between the Wishkah Mall Shopping Center and the Wishkah River. The public port district owns the uplands and leases the harbor area for this project. What use will be made of the harbor area fronting this commercial development has not yet been determined. A new pier for shipping logs is planned by a company presently leasing harbor area for log storage in front of their log sorting yard. The firm presently is shipping their logs from Terminal 4. Permits were granted by the Corps of Engineers and by the city for this shoreline development.6 ------------------------------- 61nterview with Stan Lattin, Planner, Port of Grays Harbor. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. Realignment of the channel and channel deepening should be reviewed by Department of Natural Resources personnel to see if the project will encroach into the harbor area. Relocation of harbor lines may be needed. 2. There is a need to consider action desired by Department of Natural Resources to have boomsticks and pilings used in log storage removed from the harbor area with the advent of dry land storage. 3. Boundaries for the fill for the new Aberdeen Riverfront Park are not definite at this time, but fill could be intended for harbor area. If Department of Natural Resources has a policy regarding fill in harbor areas, now would be the time to work with the Aberdeen Park Department. Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 6 Various Methods of Stating Rent in Aberdeen Harbor Area Rent to DNR from harbor area leases $31,707.04 By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $30,206-50 #26 20% of rent to DNR) 1,500-54 #27 80% of rent to DNR) ------ #19 (beds in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) ------ $31,707-04 By Present Classifications Water Dependent Commerce $ 5,979-12 Water Oriented Commerce 24,416-32 Other Water Dependent & Water Oriented Commerce 1,161.60 All other Uses 150-00 $31,707.04 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary $ 5,519-12 Waller Dependent Uses, Secondary 46o.oo Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses 592.00 Water Oriented Uses., Industrial 24,561-30 All Other Uses 574.62 $31,707-OT By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites $ ------ 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites 627-90 0160 Marina Services 46o.oo 0180 Transportation Facilities 4,ooo.82 0181 Processing, Mfg. Uses 4,824-30 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use ------ 0190 Log Booming & Rafting 21,444.02 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 75-00 0252 Sewer Lines & Outfalls 75-00 4032 Materials Removal 200.00 $31 707.0'4' Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 7 Interviews: Henry E. Soike, Manager, Port of Grays Harbor Stanley L. Lattin, Planner, Port of Grays Harbor Materials in file on Aberdeen Harbor Area Maps by DNR, DOT, COE Resolution No. 227 relocating harbor lines in Aberdeen, November 1977 Harbor Area Study, 1972, information on Aberdeen harbor lines Inventory Sheets Data Processing Sheets Rents detailed by classifications Port Series, Series #35, Revised 1975, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Specific information on Aberdeen Port of Grays Harbor, information from Port System Study for the Public Ports in Washington State & Portland, Oregon, 1975 Port of Grays Harbor brochure Summary of Grays Harbor Estuary Management Plan Bibliography U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Port Series No. 35, Revised 1975, The Ports of Tacoma, Grays Harbor, & Olympia, Wash. Reid Middleton & Associates, Inc., Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State & Portland Oregon, olume 1, Techni.cal Supplement/ Part 2, 1975, Edmonds, Wash. Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching & Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, Wash. 1978 Marc Hershman, Robert Goodwin, Andrew Ruotsala, Maureen McCrea, Yehuda Hayuth, Under New Management, Port Growth & Emerging Coastal Management Programs, University of Washington Press, 1978 Grays Harbor Estuary Management Plan Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy July 6, 1979 ANACORTES HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Anacortes is located on the northern portion of Fidalgo Island in Skagit County about 17 nautical miles south of Bellingham and 66 nautical miles north of Seattle. Fidalgo Bay is east of the city, Guemes Channel on the north, with Burroughs Pass and Burroughs Bay on the southwest. The harbor area was established at Anacortes in January, 1893. The harbor area extends from Burroughs Bay, around Fidalgo Head, all the northern portion of Fidalgo Island, and a portion along the northwest side of March Point. The outer harbor line was located in water 20 to 30 feet deep at mean lower low water until it approached Fidalgo Bay, where it was established at a maximum distance of 1,600 feet offshore, which was considered to be the maximum distance any structure should be allowed to encroach on the bay. The inner harbor line was then placed at a distance varying from a minimum of 50 feet to a maximum of 600 feet landward from the outer harbor line, depending on the characteristics of the bottom, of the water and of the abutting tidelands. In Fidalgo Bay the inner harbor line was drawn parallel with and 600 feet landward from the outer harbor line. Three waterways established at the time the original harbor area was established have been vacated. Lagoon Waterway in the southwest portion of the city in Flounder Bay was vacated in 1922. A portion of the west arro of the Fidalgo Waterway was vacated in 1959. The Cap Sante Waterway was vacated in 1964. All were vacated by order of the Commissioner of Public Lands.1 The public port district, the Port of Anacortes, includes the City of Anacortes, Fidalgo Island and several of the San Juan Islands. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources has 33 leases in harbor areas fronting the City of Anacortes and within one mile beyond the city limits. Total acres in harbor area at Anacortes amounts to 660 acres, with 163.24 acres ]eased. This amounts to approximately one fourth of the harbor area ]eased with leases generally clustered along the northeast and eastern shoreline. Rent collected by the Department of Natural Resources for harbor area leases amounts to $34,414.14. This would average out to $210.50 per acre annually for Anacortes harbor area. The state ferry to Friday Harbor pays no rent for the ----------------------------- 11972 Harbor Area Study. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 use of the harbor area and bed while the county ferry to Guemes Island does pay rent for the use of the harbor area. Three easements in the harbor area have been granted with no rent charged. Total rent charged amounts to $40,981.04. TJ)e Port of Anacortes leases three areas that total one fourth of the leased harbor area. One area along Guemes Channel is 25.60 acres which is not used for any reason. The port has a series of leases at the northeastern end of Anacortes totalling 12.21 acres where piers, warehouses, log rafting and storage and port offices are located. Logs are shipped over the port piers. The port stores canned salmon in their warehouse but the salmon comes in and goes out by truck, not across their piers. Then a few blocks south and east of there, the port leases half an acre of land for a section of breakwater for the Cap Sante Boat Haven. A small section of breakwater juts out into the harbor area. Most of the breakwater and the whole boat haven are located in the tidelands and a va- cated waterway. The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers recently completed dredging a barge navigation channel to -18 feet mean lower low water along the east shore of Anacortes. Some of the fill from the new channel was put on the new City Industrial Park Urban Renewal Project Area and the balance was dumped in the bed west of the city. The Scott Mill, which had a wharf for loading barges in the tidelands along the east shore of Anacortes, has closed. The millsite is being split with the public port district purchasing a portion on the north and Snelson-Anvil Company buying the balance on the south. Snelson-Anvil has been building and barging pipe for the Alaska pipeline and the company is expanding. Snelson-Anvil will have a barge terminal and will use the newly dredged barge navigation channel. Several fish canneries have piers in the harbor area along Guemes Channel to unload cargo. One lease is to a pet food cannery using their pier to unload cargo for their cannery. Several marinas are in the harbor area. The largest marina, Cap Sante, is inside the harbor area with only a small portion of the breakwater for the marina in harbor area. There are a number of commercial fishing vessels mooring in Anacortes. A portion of the pier servicing one of the oil refineries on March Point is located in the harbor area. There are two large oil refineries on March Point. Each company has its own pier for receipt of crude oil, shipment of petroleum products, and for fueling large vessels. Both refineries connect with petroleum products pipeline between Ferndale, Washington and Portland, Oregon. About 1,200 feet in the middle of the 7,150-foot long pier is located in harbor area.2 ------------------------------ 2The 1,200-foot figure is an approximation. The 7,150-foot figure is the length of the pier given by the Corps of Engineers listing in Port Series No. 37, Revised in 1976. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Physical Characteristics The City of Anacortes is on the northern portion of Fidalgo Island, 17 nautical miles south of Bellingham and 66 miles north of Seattle. From the Pacific Ocean to Anacortes, vessels come by way of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Rosario Strait through Guemes Channel. Gumes Channel, which separates Guemes Island from Fidalgo Island, is about three miles long and has a controlling depth of 58 feet at mean lower low water. Fidalgo Bay is on the east side of Anacortes and separates the city from March Point where refineries are located. Berthing facilities for the refineries, east of Fidalgo Bay, are located at the 48-foot depth.3 Fidalgo Bay is generally shallow with depths ranging from about eight feet in the central part and sloping gradually to one to two feet on the tideflats near shore. The western portion of the harbor area fronts a large park and residential area and none of the harbor area is leased. The Friday Harbor ferry terminal at the northwest tip of Fidalgo Island is the first section of harbor area under lease, with the leased sites clustered at the business and industrial area of Anacortes at the northeast part of Fidalgo Island. Future Uses One mill has closed with the possibility of a second mill closing or cutting back on their workforce. Employment is a community concern now. To encourage economic development, a barge navigation channel was dredged recently by the Corps of Engineers to serve a company presently barging material and future barge traffic anticipated with development of the newly-filled City Industrial Park Urban Renewal Project Area. The City of Anacortes holds the harbor area lease for access to the channel and a portion of the filled harbor area. Two new marinas are at the permit stage of development, both on the eastern side of Anacortes, in Fidalgo Bay. One major marina located in the Cap Sante Waterway and mooring basin is expanding to take in more recreational and commercial fishing boats. The U. S. Coast Guard moors vessels in this boat basin, too. A very small portion of the breakwater is under a lease but the harbor area in front of the marina is not leased to insure access. The Port of Anacortes has warehouses at their main terminal that are used for both transient and long-term storage. Canned salmon is stored there now and is trucked in rather than crossing the dock.4 Some members of the Anacortes Chamber ------------------------------ 3West Coast Deepwater Port Facilities Study, COE Public Information Brochure, 1973. 4Telephone conversation with Bill Hodgson, Auditor, Port of Anacortes, June 29, 1979. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 of Commerce believe there is a need for more cold storage facilities for fish, fruit and vegetables and they would like to see the port take the lead in ful- filling this need, possibly by converting some of their warehouse space to cold storage use. They would like to see more such products shipped from Anacortes.5 There is a possibility of condominiums being built along the shore near the bird sanctuary west of the Friday Harbor ferry terminal. Such residential use might restrict use of the harbor area but there is no demand at this time for use of this section of harbor area. ----------------------------- 51nterview with Maria Petrish, Manager, Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, June 26, 1979. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. The Department needs to review the need to establish a policy on leasing or setting aside harbor area for access rights. a. With the new barge navigation channel, more barge traffic will be using harbor area to reach the channel even though the loading arid unloading of barges is done in the tidelands. One lease was cancelled because no structures were in the harbor area but this same company requested that the harbor area be left in an open condition for load- ing and unloading barges. b. The Cap Sante Boat Haven leases only a small part of harbor area where their breakwater juts out into harbor area. Access is needed to deep water but no lease is held for that purpose. If the harbor area is to be kept open for access to deep water, some form of agreement should be reached. 2. About 1,200 feet of the 7,150-foot long pier leading to one of the oil refineries on March Point is located in harbor area. No portion of the rent paid is included in the total rent receipts given nor is the leased acreage shown in the total harbor area leased figure because the lease is designated as a bedland lease in the file and on the computer information sheet. An accurate reflection of the use of bed and harbor area should be made for the rent money to be allocated to the proper accounts. Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning ProjecL Page 6 Various MeLhods of Stating Rent in Anacortes Harbor Area RenL to DNR from harbor area leases By Trusts: #25 (100'/. of rent to DNR) $29,511.0h #26 20'/,, of rent to DNR) 1,424-30 #27 80% of rent to DNR) 3,478-80 #19 (beds in front of harbor area, 1002, to DNR) --------- $34,414 1-4 By Present Classifications A Water Dependent Commerce $28,722.09 B Water Oriented Commerce 5,662.05 C Other Water Dependent & Water Oriented Commerce 30-00 D All Other Uses --------- $34,414.14 By Adjusted Classifications: I Water Dependent Uses, Primary $21,951.27 2 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 6,770.82 3 Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses --------- 4 Water Oriented Uses, Industrial 5,692.05 5 All Other Uses --------- $34,4i4_74- By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites --------- 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites 281.40 0160 Marina Services 4,847.20 0180 Transportation Facilities 23,666-36 0181 Processing, Mfg. Uses 909.18 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use --------- 0190 Log Booming & Rafting 4,68o.oo 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 30-00 0252 Sewer Lines & Outfalls --------- 4032 Materials Removal --------- $34,047iT Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 7 Interviews: Jack Smith, Port of.Anacortes William J. Hodgson, Auditor, Port of Anacortes Maria Petrish, Manager, Anacortes Chamber of Commerce Ken Kintsel, Community Development, City of Anacortes Material on file: Maps by Department of Natural Resources, Dept. of Transportation, Corps of Engineers, City of Anacortes Inventory Sheets Data Processing Sheets Rents detailed by classifications Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers - information on Anacortes Port of Anacortes, WPPA Port System Study for the Public Ports, 1975 Anacortes, Harbor Area Study, 1972 Alternative Sites, West Coast Deepwater Port Facilities Study, Corps of Engineers, Public information brochure, 1973 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities, Anacortes Sites Northwest Boat Travel brochure, May-June, 1979 Bibliography: Reid, Middleton Associates, Inc., Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State and Portland, Oregon, Volume 11, Technical Supplement/Part 2, 1975, Edmonds, Washington Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes and Bellingham, Washington, Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alternative Sites, West Coast Deepwater Port Facilities Study, Public Information brochure, 1973 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy July 27, 1979 BELLINGHAM HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Bellingham, the county seat of Whatcom County, is situated on the easterly shore of Bellingham Bay. The City of Bellingham is a few miles south of the Canadian border in the northwest corner of Washington State. The Port of Bellingham covers all of Whatcom County. Bellingham Bay is about 12 miles long and three miles wide. The bay varies in depth from 36' to 90'. A general anchorage and an explosive anchorage are located in the bay. A spoils disposal site is also located in Bellingham Bay. Harbor lines are drawn in the southeastern half of Bellingham Bay in front of the present City of Bellingham and southward to a middle point in Chuckanut Bay. Harbor lines in Fairhaven, later Bellingham, were established in 1891. These harbor lines run south from South Bellingham along the shore to the middle of Chuckanut Bay. Harbor lines were also established just north of Fairhaven in an area called New Whatcom, now Bellingham, from the end of Fairhaven harbor lines north to one mile outside the present city limits. Harbor lines were relocated and extended in this portion of Bellingham in 1912. Harbor lines were relocated seaward in 1971 in much of the leased harbor area. This action widened the harbor area from 600' to approximately 1000' on the east side of Bellingham Bay. It also widened the harbor area on the south side of the bay. The Bellingham harbor area comes under the jurisdiction of the Port of Bellingham. Present Uses There are 20 leases in the harbor area in front of the City of Bellingham or one mile beyond the city limits. Total acres leased amount to 160 acres out of a total of 620 acres in the harbor area in Bellingham. This is approximately one fourth of the harbor area. The balance of the harbor area is unused. Net rent collected by Department of Natural Resources from these leases is $59,186.12. With 160 acres leased, this amounts to $370 per acre annual income for harbor area leases in Bellingham. Rents charged amount to $71,308-00. Bellingham harbor provides marine terminal facilities for receiving and shipping general and dry bulk cargo. Major commodities handled by the two Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 main piers--the North and the South Terminals--are logs, pulp, aluminum ingots, salt, general cargo and chemicals.1 Leases in the harbor area are for log storage, a portion of the waste treatment ponds for a pulp mill, waste and sewer outfalls, public parks, railroad tracks, marinas, fish cannery with dock, railroad barge landing, access to tidelands from owner's property, cement, pipeline, oil pipeline, both floating and sunken barge breakwaters. Five waterfront facilities are equipped to handle petroleum products. Three facilities are located in the City of Bellingham, two receive fuel oil for plant consumption and one receives petroleum products for local distribution. The other two waterfront facilities handling petroleum products are at Cherry Point, and are not included in the Bellingham harbor area. Mobil Oil Company and Atlantic Richfield Company operate refineries there. Their wharves are equipped for receipt of crude oil, shipment of petroleum products, and for f,u.e'ling vessels.2 The area south of the South Terminal to the end of the harbor area in Chuckanut Bay is not used for harbor area uses, except for one lease where railroad tracks cross over a small bay. The area is residential. This is reflected in the Shoreline Master Program and is projected to be only residential. No industrial development is foreseen.3 Physical Environment The saltwater coastline of Whatcom County is roughly 100 miles long. It includes outstanding natural beaches at Birch Bay and Point Roberts, harbors at Bellingham Bay and Semiahmoo Bay and supertanker capability at Cherry Point.4 Bellingham Bay, approximately 12 miles long and three miles wide, is open to the south and southwest. Bellingham harbor has a deepwater approach ranging from 96 feet in depth in the outer part to 24 feet near shore, except in the northerly portion, where tidal flats extend about 1/4 to 1/2 mile from shore, and where the bottom slopes gradually to deep water. ---------------------------- Washington Public Ports Association Port System Study, Volume 11, Technical Supplement/Part 2, March 1975. 2U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes, and Bellingham, Wash., Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976, U. S. Government Printing Office. 31nterview with Roger Almskaar, County Planner, Whatcom County, on January 9, 1979. 40verall Economic Development Plan for Whatcom County, 1978. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Heavy impact industry often requires large amounts of flat land, rail access, arterial road access, deepwater access for ocean shipping, adequate power supplies and utilities, fresh water of sufficient quality and quantity, well drained land, and a location remote from conflicting uses.5 These criteria are met in an area of about seven square miles north of Bellingham. The area is owned by major industrial users needing shipping facilities. This area called the Mountain View Industrial Area is in the county. Second class tidelands front this industrial area so no harbor area is or can be established for this commercial and navigational use. There is artificial fill along much of the tidelands bordering the City of Bellingham. The shorelines, where not modified, are considered stable. Sandy outwash of the Sumas Stade underlies the surface of an outwash plain and associated meltwater channels that extend westward across Whatcom County. There are important biological areas along most of Bellingham Bay for Bufflehead, Greater Scamp and the Northern Bald Eagle.6 Future Demands Future demands involving harbor area at Bellingham Bay are listed below. An Economic Development Administration grant has been applied for to give direction on modernization and development of the South Terminal. There will be an evaluation of the feasibility of developing the Port of Bellingham's South Terminal for seafood processing facilities. Such facilities will allow Whatcom County to take advantage of opportunities afforded by enactment of the 200-mile fishing limit, in terms of year-round employment in a traditionally seasonal resource industry.7 No industrial, commercial or navigational uses are planned South of the South Terminal to the Whatcom County line. The area is zoned in an interim use plan for residential use only. It is presently residential. Railroad tracks cross the harbor area three times but that is the only lease for the whole area. Chuckanut Bay is in this residential area and the city has adopted a resolution stat ng that an estuarine park will be developed in the northern tip of the bay.@ A small portion of harbor area is involved in the estuarine park. ---------------------------- 5Comprehensive Plan for Whatcom County, Washington, Whatcom County Planning Commission, 1970, Fourth Draft revision, January 12, 1977. 6Coastal Zone Atlas of Washington, Volume 1, Whatcom County', 1977. 70verall Economic Development Plan for Whatcom County, 1978. 8interview with Tom Glenn, Manager, Port of Bellingham on January 8, 1979. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 Boulevard Park is,in the planning stage and in the process of being developed for several blocks along the shore between the North and South Terminals.9 No industrial development is planned for the harbor area. One possibility being considered between the proposed Boulevard Park and the North Terminal is the placing of a ship to be used as a hotel/restaurant/tourist complex. No decision has been made on whether the developer will go ahead with his plans or whether it will be put in the harbor area. The Port Manager recommends a site seaward of Hilton Avenue and next to the Georgia Pacific sewage lagoon for the ship.10 Whatcom County has submitted a grant application to the Office of Coastal Zone Management, Coastal Energy Impact Program, for a resource management planning program to direct the expansion and enhancement of energy-related industry at Cherry Point. This area is north of the City of Bellingham and not included in a harbor area, but it could have an effect on harbor area in Bellingham Bay. Elaboration of plans follows because it illustrates the changing needs of navigation and commerce. One proposal for further development in the Mountain View Industrial Area is the establishment of a bulk cargo terminal on 100 acres waterfront for shipment of coal and other bulk commodities. Preliminary estimates suggest five to six million tons per year within the first decade. It represents an effort to divert a major quantity of energy-related cargo currently going through the Panama Canal to one major West Coast port. Shoreline at Cherry Point includes approximately 1001 of shallow shore with an abrupt drop to a 90' MLLW depth. Seven miles fronting the shoreline with six square miles of uplands, with a rail spur and nearby airport facilities, make Cherry Point the most desirable deepwater port site still available for development on the West Coast of the United States." An offshore oil rig fabrication facility to be located at Cherry Point to build drilling rigs and platforms is in the planning state. Other possibilities suggested for a deepwater port terminal at Cherry Point are the shipping of aluminum ingots presently shipped from the North Terminal and cement now being shipped by pipeline in the northern part of the harbor area. The Port of Bellingham anticipates a renewed potential for container shipping. With the upland acreage available at Cherry Point and natural depths offshore, it is felt that the Cherry Point area is a prime location for such terminal facilities. ----------------------------- 913oulevard Park Proposed Use Areas, City of Bellingham map portion, 1978. IOLetter from Port of Bellingham, 2/6/79. "Overall Economic Development Plan for Whatcom County, 1978. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 An application was received by Department of Natural Resources in early 1977 to lease 162 acres of bed near the eastern tip of Orcas Island, to be used as an offshore oil terminal. The lease has not been finalized but the possibility is still there. If developed, this could have an impact on Bellingham harbor. Also, the port manager talked about another oil refinery in Whatcom County, possibly at Cherry Point. Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. Place harbor area south of Marine Park, which is next to the South Terminal, into a withdrawn category, excepting the railroad crossing. 2. Expect redevelopment and expansion at the South Terminal for commercial fishing boats and cannery needs. 3. Be aware of development of a city park along the south shore of Bellingham Bay. 4. Expect major expansion of industrial development with resulting over-the- water construction at Mountain View Industrial Area located at Cherry Point. This area is not in the Bellingham area but is nearby. 5. Expect, sometime in the future, transferral of some cargo; probably aluminum ingots, cement and logs, from North Terminal to Cherry Point. 6. Another large oil refinery in Whatcom County, either at Cherry Point or an offshore terminal, might be built. 7. Harbor area designations are only drawn in front of incorporated cities and towns or up to one mile thereof. The original constitutional mandate might not be fulfilling the state's need for areas to be kept open for navigational and/or commercial use. Deep draft needs, large amounts of land needed for back-up space, and the enormous amounts of water used by major industrial uses such as oil refineries, aluminum plants and pulp mills, has demanded placement in areas other than harbor areas. A final recommendation on this issue will be made in the final report of all harbor areas. 8. Consider leasing the harbor area located between the dock and the pipeline to Columbia Cement Company. The configuration of the two structures blocks use to the public so a rental fee should be charged. The easements to Columbia Cement extends beyond the outer harbor line. The Department of Natural Resources should consider charging a U & 0 fee for the structure. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy 1/29/79 Various Methods of Stating Rent in Bellingham Harbor Area By Trusts #25 (100% of rent paid to DNR) $35,788-75 #26 ( 20% of rent paid to DNR) 1,711-37 #27 ( 80% of rent paid to DNR) 21,105.60 #19 (100% of rent paid to DNR) 58o.4o $59,186.12 By Present Classifications Water Dependent $23,645-13 Water Oriented 15,076.84 Other Water Dependent or Water Oriented Uses 2,192.00 All Other Uses -18,272.15 $59,186.12 By Revised Classifications Water Dependent, Primary $ 5,551.25 Water Dependent, Secondary 18,678.88 Water Oriented, Public Use 1,560.00 Water Oriented, Industrial Use 32,255-99 All Other Uses 1,140.00 $59,186.12 By Data Processing Categories 0140 Non-commercial Aquatic Uses $ 660.00 0160 Marina Services 3,386.oo 0180 Transportation Facilities 23,547.-97 0181 Processing, Manufacturing Uses 360.00 0182 Aquatic Non-water Related Uses 30,6oo.15 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 632.00 $59,186.12 IC/nr Interviews: Tom Glenn, Manager, Port of Bellingham 1/8 & 1/9/79 Bill Lausch, Harbor Master, Port of Bellingham 1/8/79 Roger Almskaar, Planner, Whatcom County Marilyn Vogel, Short Range Planner, City of Bellingham Materials on file: DNR- Maps 1& 2 Bellingham Harbor, 1971 Supplemental map DNR- Maps & description of harbor areas from 1972 harbor Area Study by Department of Ecology, DNR and Attorney General Summary of Inventory Sheets (work sheets) of Bellingham harbor area leases Overall Economic Development Plan for Whatcom County, 1978 Boulevard Park Sketch, City of Bellingham Bellingham Bay, NOAA map #18424, U. S. Dept. of Commerce Bellingham & vicinity, Department of Transportation Map 1977 Shoreline Management Master Program, City of Bellingham, 1974 Urban Area Map of Bellingham, Department of Transportation, 1977 Whatcom County Comprehensive Land Use Plan Map 1978 Western Whatcom County offical road map, 1975, County Engineering Dept. Whatcom County Comprehensive Plan- text, updated 1978 Marina Locations, Zone 6, Survey of Marine Boat Launching & Moorage Facilities in Washington, 1978 Bellingham, Corps of Engineers, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes & Bellingham, Washington, Port Series #37, Revised 1976, U. S. Govt. Printing Office Reid, Middleton & Associates, Port of Bellingham, Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State & Portland, Oregon, Vol 11, Technical Supplement/ Part 2, March, 1975 Rents detailed by classifications Bibliography: Port Series No. 37, U.S. Army Corps of Engneers, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes & Bellingham, Washington, 1976, U.S. Government Printint Office. Harbor Area Study, A Report to the 43rd Legislature, 1972, by the Harbor Line Commission, Department of Ecology, Attorney General, & Department of Natural Resources. Survey of Marine Boat Launching & Moorage Facilities in Washington, by Oceano- graphic Institute of Washington, Seattle, Wash., August 18, 1978. Reid, Middleton & Associates, Inc., Port System Study, Vol, 11, Technical Supplement/Port 2, Edmonds, Wash., March. 1975. Washington Marine Atlas, Vol 1, North Inland Waters, Dept. of Natural Resources, 1977. Photo of Bellingham, on scale of 1"= 400' with overlay illustrating where harbor lines are. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy August 6, 1979 BLAINE HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Blaineis located on Drayton Harbor in the northwest corner of Whatcom County. It is situated on the U. S.-Canadian border. Harbor lines were established in front of the town of Blaine in 1891. The harbor area runs along a portion of Semiahmoo Bay from the Canadian border south to a point midway in the southern part of Drayton Harbor. Drayton Harbor has long tideflats with a drop-off encircling the bay. The harbor area is located just beyond the line of extreme low.tide in water 18 feet deep in the portion of Semiahmoo Bay that follows the coastline and the northern part of Drayton Harbor. The pierhead line and the outer harbor line are the same. The inner harbor line was drawn 600 feet landward of these lines. No bulkhead line was established. The Blaine harbor area comes under the jurisdiction of the Port of Bellingham. Present Uses There is one lease in the harbor area in Blaine. The leae is to th(h Port of Bellingham for a breakwater and a portion of a boat basin. The lease covers 14.16 acres. Two easements have been granted. One easement is for a 46 foot wide strip of harbor area for the city's sewer outfall. The second easement is for a 20 foot wide strip of harbor area for a submarine telephone cable. There are approximately 240 acres in harbor area in Blaine. Fifteen acres are under lease or easement. The Port of Bellingham paid $8,056 in annual rent for the portion of boat basin in harbor area. The City of Blaine paid a lump sum of $50 for the easement while a telephone company paid a lump sum of $100 for their easement. Income from present lease amounts to $8,056 annually. With 14 acres under lease or easement, this amounts to $537 an acre income for harbor area leases in Blaine. Total rent charged amounted to $10,080.00. Physical Environment Drayton Harbor is a 2500 acre basin. The Burlington Northern Railroad and the City of Blaine ownmost of the original shoreline and it is used for transportation right-of-ways. The five waterways are both federal and state- established waterways. Most locations along the shoreline are undergoing erosion. Several salt marshes represent rare sites within the county-1 ---------------------------- ]Master Plan, Blain City Waterfront Study, 1972. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 Artificial fill has been placed over the years along the main pier. The area is now several blocks wide and approximately half a mile out into the tideflats at the northern part of Drayton Harbor. From the fill to almost as far south as the city limits the sandy outwash of the Sumas Stade underlies the surface of an outwash plain and associated meltwater channels that extend westward across Whatcom County.2 Only the southeastern shoreline is subject to flooding. Tideflats, consisting of sand/silt/clay, go far out into the Harbor at a gradual grade.3 The whole of Drayton Harbor is considered an important and/or critical faunal area for the Northern Bald Eagle, Canvasback, Black Brandt, Western Grebe, Red Necked Grebe and the Dunlin. The tidelands consist of beach substrates with seagrass, kelp, and other algal communities growing there.4 Drayton Harbor is an important spawning area for Pacific herring and the eelgrass beds provide a rearing ground for Dungeness crab. Commercial oyster beds are located in Drayton Harbor.5 Water qual ity in Drayton Harbor is I isted as "extraordinary" in the Department of Natural Resources Washington Marine Atlas. Future Demands Future demands are not coming from constitutionally mandated navigation and commerce uses. Applications pending are for oyster cultivation and a water- front park. Plans have been made and permits have been granted for a marina on the northwest shore of Drayton Harbor where no harbor area has been established. Many marinas have been built in harbor areas but locating in a harbor area is not a requirement. Two leases are in the pending file. A company leasing tidelands for oyster cultivation submitted an application to lease 1109 acres of harbor area for more oyster cultivation. Another application to lease is for a small portion of harbor area to be part of a 23 acre waterfront park. The park is anticipated to be built on fill from materials to be dredged for expansion of the boat basin. ----------------------------- 2Coastal Zone Atlas of Washington, Volume 1, Whatcom County, 1977. 31bid. 41bid. 5Department of Natural Resources, Washington Marine Atlas, Volume 1, North Island Waters, 1977. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Another proposed use of the Blaine tidelands is the bringing in of a ship to be used as a hotel/restaurant tourist facility. Dredging will be needed through the harbor area and the tidelands if this proposal goes through. It is questionable whether the harbor area serves the purpose for which it was originally established. Disestablishment of the harbor area should be considered. Oyster cultivation is an unusual harbor area use. Because there is no demand for the shallow harbor area with long tideflats for constitutional uses, the requested application for leasing the harbor area should be considered. It is recommended that the boundaries of the proposed waterfront park be adjusted to omit harbor area from the proposed fill site. Only a small portion of harbor area is to be included in the waterfront park and omission of this area would not change the purpose of the park or most of the shoreline of the 23 acre park. The Tri-Agency Park Committee is in the process of getting permits. Harbor Area-.Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. Disestablishment of the harbor area needs to be considered. 2. The requested application to lease harbor area for oyster cultivation should be considered. Dave Bateman, Assistant Attorney General, stated there were three options available to Department of Natural Resources: 1. Lease the area as a non-conforming use on an interim base subject to present and future needs of navigation and commerce. 2. Vacate the harbor area because it is unsuitable now for commerce and navigation. 3. Move harbor lines waterward thereby creating first class tidelands available for leasing. Since harbor lines cannot be moved or relocated except for the purpose for which they were established - namely for conveniences of navigation and commerce - this last option probably is the least likely to happen. 3. Request the Tri-County group to change the proposed waterfront park boundaries so it will not fall within the harbor area. If the harbor area is disestablished, this action will not be necessary. 4. There are several heavy industrial uses requiring shipping facilities at Cherry Point, a few miles south of Drayton Harbor, the Blaine harbor area. There are two refineries and an aluminum plant with plans for more major industries there. A bulk cargo terminal and an off-shore rig fabrication plant will need structures on the second class tidelands and bed. The shoreline features of Cherry Point include approximately 100 feet of shallow shore which drops abruptly to a 90 foot MLLW depth. These features, combined with a six square mile, industrially zoned area necessary for a shipping terminal development as well as a rail spur, nearby international airport facilities and a nearby interstate freeway make Cherry Point a most desirable deepwater port site.6 No harbor area has been established at this site because this area is not located within an incorporated city or town or within one mile thereof. This use of second class tidelands demonstrates a need for redefinition of a harbor area. ----------------------------- 6Whatcom County Overall Economic Development Plan, 1978; plus talks with Tom Glenn, Manager of the Port of Bellingham. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 Interviews: Bill Lausch, Harbormaster Tom Glenn, Manager, Port of Bellingham Roger Almskaar, Planner, Whatcom County Blaine Harbor Area File: DNR Orthophoto Map of Drayton Harbor DNR Harbor Area Map Master Plan, Blain City Waterfron Study Data Processing sheets on each DNR lease Marine Locations, Survey of Marina Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, Aug. 18, 1978, Oceanographic Institute, Seattle Summary of Inventory Sheet for Blaine Harbor Area Harbor Area Study, 1972, A Report to the Legislature, by the Harbor Line Commission, Dept. of Ecology, Attorney General, and Dept. of Natural Resources Rents detailed by classification U. S. Engineer Office Map dated 12/22/39 Bibl iography: Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, by the Harbor Line Commission, Dept. of Ecology, Attorney General, and Dept. of Natural Resources, 1972 Master Plan, Blaine City Waterfront Study, 1972 Whatcom County Overall Economic Development Plan, 1978 Comprehensive Land Use Plan for Whatcom County Washington Marine Atlas, Volume 1, North Inland Waters, 1977 Coastal Zone Atlas of Washington, Volume 1, Whatcom County, 1977 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VARIOUS METHODS OF STATING RENT IN BLAINE HARBOR AREA By Trusts: #27 (80% of rent to DNR) $8,056. By Present Classifications: Water Dependent Commerce 8,056. By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 8,056. By Date Processing Categories: 0181, Processing, Manufacturing 8,056. Activities Requiring Waterfron Location Harbor A;-ea Planning Project Irene Christy July 18, 1979 BREMERTON HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Bremerton Harbor is located in Kitsap County on Sinclair Inlet and.can be reached via Rich Passage from Puget Sound. Rich Passage is south of Bainbridge Island, north via Agate Pass and the Port Orchard Channel. Dyes Inlet runs northwestward from Sinclair Inlet.1 The harbor area at Bremerton was established December 1, 1911. The outer harbor line was located 200 or more feet offshore. The inner harbor line was located at the boundary line between the state-owned tidelands and uplands. Where the tidelands had been sold by the state, the inner harbor line was located coincident with the outer boundary of tidelands. The Supplemental Map of Bremerton approved December 7, 1914 revised the boundaries of the Public Place and waterways. A portion of the waterway lying northeasterly of Public Place No. I was vacated on December 23, 1921. The waterway lying southwesterly of and adjacent to Public Place No. I was vacated September 5, 1941. This waterway lay between the inner and outer harbor lines, and upon vacation became harbor area subject to lease under the harbor area leasing statutes. The waterway lying west of and adjacent to the Public Place formed by the projection of Dock Street was vacated on July 9, 1945. This waterway lay between the inner and outer harbor lines and upon vacation became harbor area subject to lease. The 1958 Supplemental Map eliminated the Public Place and the waterway lying southerly thereof, in the vacinity of First Street. Thi map was filed in the office of the Commissioner of Public Lands on July 2, 1;558.2 The public port district boundaries for the Port of Bremerton comprise roughly of the southern two thirds of Kitsap County on the west side of Puget Sound. The Port of Bremerton includes two cities that have harbor areas: Bremerton and Port Orchard. There are three harbor areas in the Port of Bremerton jurisdiction - one being Charleston harbor area, but Charleston was annexed to Bremerton. -------------------------------- lReid, Middleton & Associates, Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State and Portland, Oregon, Volume 11, Technical Supplement/ Part 2, March, 1975. 21972 Harbor Area Study. Harbor Are-a'.Planning Project frene. Christy.- Page 2 Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds 16 leases and 5 easements in the harbor area fronting the City of Bremerton. Acres of harbor area ]eased amount to 27.40 acres. Total acres included in harbor area are approximately 105 acres. This is about.one-fourth percent of the harbor area ]eased at this time. Rents collected by the Department of Natural Resources from these leases amounts to $10,011.18. This amounts to approximately $365-35 annual income per acre of ]eased harbor area. Total amount charged for Bremerton harbor area leases was $11,451.18. The Port of Bremerton has no deepwater commercial shipping activities. The U. S. Naval Shipyard has deepwater docking facilities in Bremerton, but the Bremerton harbor area extends only as far as the Navy Shipyard so there are no harbor area leases with the federal government. There are two ferry landings in Bremerton, one is the ferry to Seattle and the smaller ferry is a 10-minute ride across Sinclair Inlet to Port Orchard. Three public marinas are in the harbor area. One boat moorage has overhead pipelines for unloading oil. This pipeline runs 15 feet past the outer harbor line. An apartment complex with private moorage is going to be built in the harbor area. The Harbor Line Commission approved the 30-year lease on September 17, 1977. A few of the apartments and some parking stalls would also be constructed in the harbor area, so approval by the Harbor Line Commission was needed. An oil company tank farm leases a small portion of the harbor area for a pier. Physical Characteristics The City of Bremerton is almost surrounded by water. The shorelines are subject to less than one percent chance of flooding during any year. The slopes are stable with the shoreline modified with riprap and the high water line has been modified. There are varying quantities of sand and gravel which are of limited quality.3 Future Demands A barge terminal is in future plans for the Port of Bremerton. Presently this i s planned for the area southwest of the city of Sinclair Inlet, outside the harbor area. This would not be developed in the 25 acres set aside to be kept undeveloped at Gorst but northeast of the undeveloped area. An apartment complex is contemplated on the uplands of a presently ]eased boat moorage site. ---------------------------------- 3Coastal Zone Management Atlas, 1979. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. The harbor area does not extend one mile beyond the city limits on either side. 2. The port manager believes Department of Natural Resources appriasals, or rent, aren't consistent. He recommends a sliding scale of charging rent in harbor areas- with non-constitutional uses high and port uses, such as marinas and terminals, low. The public versus private, or commercial use. 3. The port manager recommends that the department use the term "granted land" rather tha aquatic lands. He belives that's a more accurate description. 4. Consider need for a U & O charge for the 15- foot extension into the harbor area on HA 2396. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 METHODS OF STATING RENT IN BREMERTON HARBOR AREA Total Annual Income to DNR from harbor area leases $10,011.18 By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $9,651.18 #26 ( 20% of rent to DNR) 360.00 #27 ( 80% of rent to DNR) -------- #19 (bed in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) -------- $10,011.18 By Present Classifications: Water Dependent Commerce 9,579-18 Water Oriented Commerce -------- Other Water Dependent and Water Oriented Commerce 372.00 All Other Uses 6o.oo $10,011.18 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary 4,183-90 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 4,908.42 Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses 216.00 Water Oriented Uses, Industrial 156.00 All Other Uses 5146-86 By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites 1,198.92 0160 Marina Services 2,651-36 0180 Transportation Facilities 5,704.90 0182 Aquatic Non-water Related Use 360-00 0190 Log Booming and Rafting -------- 0210 Waste Treatment Outfalls 96.00 $10,0011.18 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 Interview: Joe Baier, Industrial Development Director, Port of Bremerton Materials on file on Bremerton Harbor Area: Maps by DNR, Dept. of Transportation, Kroll Map Company Harbor Area Study information on Bremerton harbor lines Inventory sheets Data Processing sheets Rents detailed by classifications Bibliography: Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching & Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978 University of Washington Cartographic Laboratory, Coastal Zone Management Atlas Kitsap County 1979 I r(,ne Ch r i s ty Harbor Area Planning Project July 18, 1979 CHARLESTON HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction -Charleston is located on thp north side of Sinclair Inlet and is situated between Navy Yard City and the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. It was once a city but has been annexed to the City of Bremerton. The harbor area at Charleston, now Bremerton, was established in January, 1913. The outer harbor line was located in Sinclair Inlet in water approximately 30 feet deep at mean low water. The inner harbor line was then drawn parallel to and 150 feet landward from the outer harbor line.] Charleston's harbor area activities would fall under the jurisdiction of the Port of Bremerton now because the area has been annexed to the City of Bremerton. Present Uses - The Department of Natural Resources holds one lease in the Charleston harbor area. This is for a waste treatment outfall for@ the City of Bremerton. There are approximately 20.4 acres in the harbor area with .10 acres leased. The lease covers both harbor area and bed with .13 acres of bed leased for the same outfall pipe. Rent charged is $100.00 annually with the sum divided $56.00 to bed accounts and $44.00 to the harbor area account. There are no other leases granted. Physical Environment - The shorelines are subject to less than one percent chance of flooding during any year. The slopes are stable with the shoreline modified with riprap and the high water line has been modified. There are varying quantities of sand and gravel, which are of limited quality.2 Future Uses - The northeast portion of the harbor area is located within and in front of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Any development would be a con- tinuation of those uses. Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. Reassess need for a harbor area at Charleston. --------------------------- lHarbor Area Study, 1972 2 Coastal Zone Management Atlas, 1979 Ir-one Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Paqe 2 Interviews: Joe Baier, Industrial Development Director - Port of Bremerton Material on file on Charleston Harbor Area Maps by DNR, Dept. of Transportation, Kroll Map Company Harbor Area information on Charleston from the 1972 Harbor Area Study Inventory sheet Data Processing sheet Rent detailed by classifications Bib] iography: Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, @ Report to the Legisl4ture, 1972 Coastal Zone Management Atlas, Kitsap County, 1979 Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 3 VARIOUS METHODS OF STATING RENTS IN CHARLESTON HARBOR AREA Total Annual Income to DNR from harbor area leases $100.00 By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) 44.oo #19 (bed in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) 56.00 By Present Classifications: Other Water Dependent and Water Oriented Uses 100-00 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Oriented Uses, Industrial 100.00 By Data Processing Categories: 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 100.00 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy April 19, 1979 COSMOPOLIS HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction: Cosmopolis is located in Grays Harbor County in southwestern Washington. The deepwater entrance to Cosmopolis from the Pacific Ocean lies between Point Brown in the north and Point Chehalis on the south. This entrance is 40 nautical miles north of the mouth of the Columbia. River. Cosmopolis is southeast of Aberdeen on the Chehalis River. Cosmopolis harbor areas fall under the jurisdiction of the Port of Grays Harbor, which is a county-wide public port district. The harbor area at Cosmopolis was established in December 1891. The outer harbor line was located on the Chehalis Rever generally parallel with and 100 feet riverward as measured at right angles from the government meander lines on either side of the Chehalis River. The inner harbor line was then generally located coincident with the government meander lines. The Cosmopolis harbor line joins with the Aberdeen harbor lines. No changes have been made in Cosmopolis harbor lines. Present Uses - The Department of Natural Resources presently holds no leases and one easement in the Cosmopolis harbor area. The easement is for a water line to transport water from Lake Aberdeen to a pulp m'll in Cosmopolis. A charge of $75 was made in 1957 for an easement (4 the right of way for the water line.) Physical Characteristics - The U. S. Armu Corps of Enginoers maintains a channel up the Chehalis River through Hoquiam and Aberdeen. The dredged channel ends before Cosmopolis city limits. No ships travel to Cosmopolis. Future Demands - There appear to be no plans for future use of the harbor area in Cosmopolis. Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) - The harbor area is not used. ---------------------------- Total acreage in the easement is .19 acres with a total of 50 acres in harbor area. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy April 6, 1979 EDMONDS HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction The City of Edmonds is located on Puget Sound in the southwestern corner of Snohomish County. It is directly north of the town of Woodway in Snohomish County and a few miles north of Seattle in King County. The harbor area at Edmonds was established in 1891. The outer harbor line was located in water having a depth of approximately 30 feet at mean low tide. In some places, though, the outer harbor line is located in water having a maximum depth of nearly 70 feet and a minimum depth of approximately 15 feet at mean low tide. The inner harbor line was located parallel with and 600 feet landward from the outer harbor line. One change has been made in harbor lines in Edmonds. The inner harbor line north of the ferry terminal was relocated in 1972 to change a site from harbor area to first class tidelands. This was done to accommodate a municipal under- water park, an artificial reef and for park purposes. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds nine leases and several easements in the harbor area in Edmonds. Total acres leased amount to 56.27 acres. This is approximately one sixth of the 320 total acres available for use. The balance of the harbor area is either withdrawn or not now leased. Rents collected for leases in the Edmonds harbor area total $16,918.76. Total rent charged amounts to $22,128-77. With 56.27 acres leased, this amounts to $300 per acre annual income for harbor area leases in Edmonds. Total rent charged amounts to $22,128-77. Edmonds has a recreation - oriented water front with two oil refineries south of the city limits. One refinery is in the harbor area and the other refinery, farther south, is not. The underwater park with artificial reef is located directly north of the ferry landing. A public fishing pier is located next to the park with no development or structures in the harbor area north of that point. A larger, newer public fishing pier was recently constructed just north of the breakwater. The fishing pier crosses the breakwater and extends into the harbor area in front of a portion of the breakwater, which was built to protect the marina. In 1977, an Inter Agency Committee agreement was signed establish- ing an artificial reef and park next to the fishing pier. The Edmonds harbor area comes under the jurisdiction of the Port of Edmonds. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 The Union Oil Company pier is partially outside the outer harbor line and has been for some time. A Use and Occupancy file was established to charge for this use of the bed, but it was never completed. The Edmonds Yacht Club does not have its own moorage. The public port district sets aside two hundred berths for club members in its marina. Physical Environment Railroad Tracks are laid all along the Edmonds shoreline. Highway 1-5 is approximately three miles from the Edmonds waterfront. The shoreline in Edmonds where the marinas, the parks and the ferry landing are located is relatively flat. Bluffs are the norm in the north half of the harbor area and the area is almost completely in residential use. Future Demands No development is anticipated north of the underwater park and the old fishing pier. Some development is planned in the underwater park. This area is now in first class tidelands with a strip of harbor area in front of the park that prob- ably should be put into the withdrawn classification. The public fishing pier north of this underwater park is on old rotting pilings. Some new lumber has been put into the fence on the walkway of the pier. More work will need to be done if it will be used as a fishing pier for the balance of the 30-year lease term. The Port of Edmonds is planning on future expansion of thier marina in the area between the two marina sites, behind and to one side of the Edmonds Yacht Club. The port authorities plan to dredge 60,000 cubic yards of material from the site. This will enable them to put in an additional 96 marina berths. The City of Edmonds owns portions of a narrow strip of tidelands and uplands between the ferry landing south to the public fishing pier near the breakwater. The city would like to make this strip of shore into a city park to make more of the waterfront available to the public. If the land is purchased and the strip is designated a city park, any use of the harbor area will probably be restricted and the Department of Natural Resources should consider placing it in a withdrawn classification. The area would be abutting a public beach which is one criterion for the withdrawn classification. The City of Edmonds is now negotiating with Union Oil Company for a park site on company-owned land along the shore and across the railroad tracks for a large area for a minimal fee, hopefully a dollar a year. Union Oil's harbor area lease would front on this site so no structures or use of the tidelands or harbor area by the public is anticipated. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) I. The Department of Natural Resources should be aware that the City of Edmonds is trying to purchase some land for a strip park along the water's edge, which will call for establishment of a withdrawn classification. 2. The Union Oil Company pier is partially outside the outer harbor line south of the Port of Edmonds marina. In 1977 a U and 0 file No. 0275 was established but it was never completed so no rent has been paid for the use of the bed of navigable waters under the U and 0. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 VARIOUS METHODS OF STATING RENT IN EDMONDS HARBOR AREA Rent to DNR from harbor area leases $161918.76 By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $13,590.00 #26 ( 20% of rent to DNR) 1,167.42 #27 ( 80% of rent to DNR) 2,161.34 #19 (beds in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) ------ $16,918.76 By Present Classifications: Water Dependent Commerce $16,578.76 Water Oriented Commerce ------ Other Water Dependent and Water Oriented Commerce 340.00 All Other Uses ------ $16,918.76 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary $13,706.00 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 3,212.76 Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses ------ Water Oriented Uses, Industrial ------ All Other Uses ------ $16,918.76 By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental recreation Sites $ 220.00 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites 120.00 0160 Marina Services 2,812.76 0180 Transportation Facilities 13,766.00 0181 Processing, Mfg. Uses ------ 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use ------ 0190 Log Booming and Rafting ------ 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls ------ 0252 Sewer Lines and Outfalls ------ 4032 Materials Removal ------ $16,918.76 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 Interviews: Leo Torvinen, Manager, Port of Edmonds (March 29, 1979) James Jessel, Recreation Planner, City of Edmonds Dan Smith, Shoreline Planner, City of Edmonds Jerry Hann, Reid, Middleton and Associates, Port Planners Materials on file: Edmonds DOT city map, 1973 DNR map of harbor area leases Edmonds city map of Environmentally Sensitive Areas Edmonds Harbor Small Boat Basin Map, 1973 Edmonds Shoreline Master Program Inventory Sheets Data Processing Sheets Marina Locations, Zone 2, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington_, 1978 Rents detailed by classifications Edmonds, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the 43rd Legislature, by the Harbor Line Commission, Department of Ecology and Attorney General, 1972 Bibl iography: Harbor Line Commission, Department of Ecology and the Attorney General, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, 1978 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy May 23, 1979 EVERETT HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Everett is located on the east side of Port Gardner Bay at the mouth of the Snohomish River. Everett is situated 28 miles north of Seattle and 105 nautical miles from the Pacific Ocean. The harbor area at Everett was established by the Harbor Line Commission on May 31, 1913. The outer harbor line was located in Port Gardner Bay approximately 700 feet seaward of the line of mean low water. The inner harbor line was drawn parallel to and 500 feet landward from the outer harbor line for about 1,900 feet along the southwesterly line. The inner harbor line for about the northerl.y 2,200 feet of the harbor area was drawn parallel to and 600 feet landward as measured at right angles from the outer harbor line. The inner harbor line between these two areas was made coincident with the outer boundary of tidelands previously sold by the State. The outer harbor line in the vicinity of the northern terminus of Everett Harbor was relocated in July 16, 1943 to be coincident with the federal pierhead lines. The inner harbor lines were located coincident with the boundaries of tidelands previously sold and those established by a new survey. The Port of Everett appar- ently filled in a portion of Port Gardner about 1930 beyond the outer harbor line established in 1913. Then during World War 11, a shipyard was built on this fill plus additional fill was added. The legislature in 1943 authorized and directed the Commissioner of Public Lands to resurvey and relocate the harbor line and authorized the Harbor Line Commission to approve such resurvey and relocation in order that certain tidelands could be conveyed to the Port of Everett., In 1958 that portio n of the waterway lying southerly of the established public place fronting Hewitt Avenue and easterly of the inner harbor line was vacated. The 1977 Supplemental Map of Everett Harbor Area showed the outer harbor line, waterways and public place as revised, eliminated and reestablished. This was adopted on February 7, 1978, by the Harbor Line Commission in Resolution 230. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds six leases, one Use and Occupancy permitted use, three easements and one materials purchase agreement ----------------------------- 11972 Harbor Area Study. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 in the harbor area at Everett. The acres used in the harbor area amount to 45.87. Total acres set aside for harbor area amount to 115 acres. This means approximately 40 percent of the harbor area is leased. Rent collected by the Department of Natural Resources from these uses amounts to s16,725.00. Total rent charged amounts to $24,675.76. This amounts to approxi- mately $365.00 annual income per acre. Everett's harbor area is used mainly for handling alumina, logs and wood products. The Everett harbor area comes under the jurisdiction of the Port of Everett. Physical Characteristics The harbor extends southward from Preston Point at the mount of the Snohomish River. The northerly 2 1/2 miles of the harbor are essentially on the river delta. This northerly portion is shallow and generally bare at low tide except for a dredged channel through which the flow of the river is partially diverted southward to Port Gardner by means of a training dike. The Snohomish River flows north through and along the east side of the City of Everett and west along its northern limits to a natural outlet at Preston Point. Smith Island is a delta formation on the north side of the river at its mouth.2 A number of projects have been completed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Everett harbor. A training dike 12,550 feet with a spur dike of 400 feet was built. This is now called Jetty Island. The channel has been maintained at 30 feet in Port Gardner Bay and a channel eight feet deep is maintained a dis- tance of about 6.3 miles up the Snohomish River to the head of Steamboat Slough. The tidal range between mean lower low water and mean higher high water is 11.1 feet with a mean range of 7.4 feet.3 Jetty Island presently consists of 230 acres of uplands and 1,650 acres of wetlands and tideflats stretching in front of the city. Port officials viewed Jetty Island as a major piece of port-owned porperty, ripe for development. A group of Everett citizens organized to protect the island from development. Two lawsuits were filed by citizen activists which resulted in preventing two fills - one in the Snohomish River and the other in the estuary which was proposed to create a land bridge to Jetty Island. The recreational potential of the west edge of the island is recognized by the city's Park and Open Space Plan and its Comprehensive Plan. The island is becoming a nesting and feeding grounds for many species of birds. A well-protected harbor and shal- lows lying behind Jetty Island provide a good storage and handling area for the many log rafts in the Everett harbor. ----------------------------- 2Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, Corps of Engineers, Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes and Bellingham, Washington, Government Printing Office. 31bid. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Future Demands In 1977 an agreement was signed between the public port district and the citizen activists after mediation services were provided by the office of Environmental Mediation at the University of Washington. It was agreed that there will be development of the port area beginning with areas adjacent to present development with no development of Jetty Island until there is a regional demand and financial feasibility. The port would not develop or encourage development north of Preston Point. With development, an equal amount of land on Jetty Island would be set aside for conservation purposes. Development at the south end of Jetty Island is considered to be a possibility in the distant future. Mediation has helped the Port of Everett and the community to plan jointly for long term needs of the economic growth of the community and for preservation of environmentally sensi- tive areas. Plans call for filling in Western Gear Extension with possibility of a fishing pier on the river side of the area. Fill also is planned between Piers I and 3 and the Scott Paper leased site to make a wharf, Harbor lines were changed in 1978 to make this development possible. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 Analysis (Conflict/Needs) 1. No leases have been signed for the new harbor area created by the Harbor Line Commission in February 1978. Log rafts are being stored there at the site before any filling is done. Log rafts have been stored there for a long time so possibly another type lease is in effect at this time. No record of such leases have been found. Irene Christy Harl)or Area Planning Project Page 5 Variou@, MeLhods of Stating Rent in Everett Harbor Area Rent to DNR from harbor area leases s16,725.00 By Trusts: #25 (100. of rent to DNR) $12,653.40 #26 ( 20% of rent to DNR) 1,926.00 #27 ( 80% of rent to DNR) 1,809.60 #19 (beds in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) 336.00 $]C-,725.00 By Present Classifications Water Dependent Commerce $14,554.40 Water Oriented Commerce 2,145.60 Other Water Dependent & Water Oriented Commerce ------- All Other Uses 25-00 $16,725.00 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary $14,554.40 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary ------- Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses ------- Water Oriented Uses, Industrial 2,i45.6o All Other Uses 25-00 $16,725-00 By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites ------- 0140 Non-Commerciai Aquatic Sites ------- 0160 Marina Services ------- 0180 Transportation Facilities 14,554.40 0181 Processing, Mfg. Uses ------- 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use ------- 0190 Log Booming & Rafting 2,i45.6o 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls ------- 0252 Sewer Lines & Outfalls - ------- 4032 Materials Removal 25-00 $16,725.00 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 6 Interviews: Ken Kirkland, Port of Everett, Marine Terminal Manager Materials on file on Everett Harbor Area: Maps by Department of Natural Resources, Department of Transportation, Corps of Engineers, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, City of Everett Auto- mobile Club of Washington Harbor Area Study, 1972, information on Everett harbor area Data Processing Sheets Inventory Sheets Rents detailed by classification Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, information on Everett Port of Everett, information from Port System Study for the Public Ports in Washington State and Portland, Oregon, 1975 City of Everett, Shoreline Master Program, 1976 Article from Everett Herald, February 11, 1978, on changing harbor lines Article from Environmental Consensus, December, 1978, RESOLVE, Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution Port of Everett brochure Bib) iography: Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes and Bellingham, Washington, Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976 Reid, Middleton and Associates, Inc., Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State and Portland, Oregon, Volume 11, Technical Supplement/ Part 2, Edmonds, Washington, 1975 City of Everett, Shoreline Master Program, 1976 RESOLVE, Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution, Environmental Consensus, December 1978 Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, Sea ttle, Washington, 1978 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy December 11, 1978 Gig Harbor Area Report Introduction Gig Harbor is located in Pierce County northwest of Point Defiance, which is located within the City of Tacoma. The harbor area was established in 1974 by the Harbor Line Commission upon the request of the mayor of Gig Harbor. The harbor area at Gig Harbor comes under the jurisdiction of the Port of Tacoma. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources holds 25 leases in the harbor area in Gig Harbor. Rent collected for those leases amounts to $4,267.00. Total acres leased amount to 7.27 acres. A number of leases are still not finalized since the harbor area was established so the acreage and the rental income will be higher than shown on the attached sheet. Approximately one fourth of the total 30 acres in harbor area is leased. The average annual income per acre amounts to $586.00. Most leases are for private docks for fishing boat moorage, with some leases for marinas and an oil fueling dock. One site is leased for floating herring nets. The upland owner had leased this area for this purpose when the new harbor area was still a bed of navigable waters and is a continued use. Physical Characteristics Gig Harbor is on the west side of Colvos Passage across from Point Defiance, which is located in the City of Tacoma. It is a small bay into which the North Creek and Crescent Creek empties. Future Demands Gig Harbor is being developed as a colorful tourist area with many fishing vessels at piers leased for private use and with boats tied up in marinas. No more development is planned. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. There is a need to finish changing over bed leases to harbor area leases. This process has been slowed due to questions of accuracy of survey lines. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Various Methods of Stating Rent in Gig Harbor Area Rent to DNR from harbor area leases By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $4,222.00 #26 ( 20% of rent to DNR) ------ #27 ( 80% of rent to DNR) ------ #19 (beds in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) 45.00 $4j267.00 By Present Classifications: Water Dependent Commerce $3,560.00 Water Oriented Commerce 417.00 Other Water Dependent and Water Oriented Commerce 290.00 All Other Uses _$42267-00 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary $ 125.00 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 3,560.00 Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses ------ Water Oriented Uses, Industrial 290.00 All Other Uses $4,267.00 By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites $ ------ 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites ------ 0160 Marina Services 2,660.00 0176 Floating Herring Nets 240.00 0180 Transportation Facilities 1,317.00 0181 Processing, Mfg. Uses ------ 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use ------ 0190 Log Booming and Rafting ------ 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 1 50iOO 0252 Sewer Lines and Outfalls ------ 4032 Materials Removal ------ $4t267-00 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 Interviews: Don Mosman, deputy executive director, Port of Tacoma Gary Kucinski, planner, Port of Tacoma Gig Harbor file, available for perusal: Map by DNR Summary' of Inventory Sheets (Work Sheets) Rents detailed by classification Data processing Sheets on each DNR lease Marina locations Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy April 30, 1979 HOQUIAM HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Hoquiam is located on the Chehalis River in Grays Harbor County in southwestern Washington. The deepwater entrance to Hoquiam from the Pacific Ocean lies be- tween Point Brown on the North and Point Chehalis on the South. This entrance is 40 nautical miles north of the mouth of the Columbia River. The City of Aberdeen is situated east of Hoquiam. Hoquiam harbor activities fall under the jurisdiction of the Port of Grays Harbor, which is a county-wide public port district. Hoquiam harbor lines were established in January, 1913.1 At Hoquiam there are three channels in Grays Harbor - the North, the South, and the Middle Channels. Harbor areas were established on each side of the North Channel and along the shoreline south of the South Channel. It appears that outer harbor lines were located as nearly as practical in waters having a depth of 10 feet at mean low tide. The inner harbor lines were then drawn parallel to and 300 feet from the outer harbor line, except on the north side of the North Channel where the inner harbor line was drawn at the line of mean lower low water. This action resulted in a harbor area width varying from a minimum of 50 feet to a width of 300 feet directly in front of the City of Hoquiam. The harbor line at this north side of the North Channel extends a distance up the Hoquiam River. The outer harbor line on the north side of the North Channel was relocated in 1977 for an area about six blocks long running from a point where Ontario Street would extend to the outer harbor line to the city limits. The harbor area expanded from 300 feet to 435.444 feet wide at the Hoquiam/Aberdeen city limits to join Aberdeen's relocated outer harbor line. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds 11 leases, a number of easements for pipelines and outfalls, and twoleases for materials purchase in the Hoquiam harbor area. Total acres leased are 131.44. Total acres in Hoquiam harbor area are approximately 415 acres. This means that slightly less than one ---------------------------- lHarbor Area Study, 1972. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 third of the harbor area is under lease. There are no leases in the South Channel harbor area. Portions at the west end of the harbor area on both sides of the North Channel are not leased. Rent collected from leases of the Hoquiam harbor area is $18,544.20.2 This averages out to $141.00 per acre annual rent. Most of the income is from log storage with approximately two thirds of the leased harbor area used for that purpose. With 84-07 acres leased for log storage, the average annual rent per acre amounts to $186.00. Total rent charged amounts to $22,804.20. Hoquiam's harbor area is presently used mostly for log storage. It is anticipated that this use will be eliminated within the next five years or so. Longs will be stored on dry land as most of the logs will be coming in by truck.3 The Grays Harbor Estuary Management Plan, which includes Hoquiam and the harbor area, was initiated in 1975 to coordinate planning and public participation requirements of the Shoreline Management Act after the Corps of Engineers proposed deepening the 30-foot channel to a 40-foot channel in the Chehalis River. This deepening of the channel would include the North Channel fronting the City of Hoquiam. A model master plan was developed and all participating local govern- ments subsequently adopted it with minor revisions. The Grays Harbor Regional Planning Council is the lead agency in the Estuary Management Study. All affected parties, including the regulatory agencies' representatives, were included in the planning process. The resulting plan will bind all parties to specific land and water use allocations and should facilitate processing of permits required for site-specific projects.4 Physical Characteristics Grays Harbor is roughly pear shaped, diverging from the Chehalis River at the Hoquiam/Aberdeen city limits into a broad shallow bay. When the tide goes out, more than half of the estuary is in mud flats. Streams and rivers flowing into the estuary besides the Chehalis River, are the Humptulips, Hoquiam, Wishkah, Johns and Elk Rivers. ---------------------------- 2This figure includes using the latest figure, for 1976-77, for HA 2385. The area is again being leased but the lease has not been finalized as of this writing so the new rental figure is not available. Also, the use is given as "log storage," which is how it has been used. This use will be changing, too. 31nterview with Henry Soike, Manager, Port of Grays Harbor. 4Marc Hershman, Robert Goodwin, Andrew Ruotsala, Maureen McCrea, Yehuda Hayuth, Under New Management, a Washington Sea Grant Publication, University of Washington, 1978. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 During the past 75 years it is estimated that 100 million cubic yards of sediments have been dredged, redistributed within or removed from the estuary.5 The present channel, which is the North Channel fronting the City of Hoquiam, is now maintained at a 30-foot depth and is 350 feet wide from deep water in Grays Harbor to Cow Point, which is about where Terminal 4 is located in Aberdeen, not far from the Hoquiam city limits. From Cow Point upriver, the channel is 30 feet deep and 200 feet wide to a point 4 1/8 miles upstream from the Union Pacific Railroad bridge. The present channel will be deepened from 30 feet to 40 feet, if the present plans are carried out. A big issue is where to put the dredge spoils, with two major sites pinpointed for filling and future industrial development. It is es- timated that initial dredging will produce about three million cubic yards of material.6 One site to be filled in Hoquiam and just west of Hoquiam, is the area around Bowerman Field on Moon Island. Most of the fill would be north of Bowerman Field with some filling south of the field. The airfield will be relocated and the field and the newly filled area are to be used for water dependent uses. Only "T" piers or other structures will be permitted at the navigational channel, with very limited filling permitted. This area i5 planned to be one of the major areas of new economic expansion in Grays Harbor.7 Destruction of a highly pro- ductive estuarine environment is seen as necessary. The other site is the South Shore site in South Aberdeen, near the Hoquiam/ Aberdeen city limits. It too, is planned for industrial development. The channel is approximately 10 feet deep at that site and it is not on the main navigation channel so harbor area use will be limited. Future Demands The Grays Harbor Estuary Management Plan has looked at future needs. The activity having a great effect on the estuary for the people I iving in the surrounding area, for the fishery resource, and for the general economy of Grays Harbor, is the channel deepening and realignment proposed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. This project will allow for more shipping with bigger and deeper draft ships able to use the facilities. The Port of Grays Harbor is planning on expanding their industrial sites available for leasing, using much of the dredged materials as fill. This provides a benefit from the dredging as well as a cost factor. It ----------------------------- 5u. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Maintenance Dredging and the Environment of Grays Harbor Washington, Summary Report, January, 1977, p. 82. 6U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Maintenance Dredging and the Environment of Grays Harbor Washington, Summary Report, January, 1977, p. 82. 7Montagne - Bierly and Associates, Wilsey and Ham, Grays Harbor Estuary Management Plan, Preliminary Draft, January, 1978, pp. 46, 47, 48. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 will also provide a negative effect on a very productive estuarine environment north of Bowerman Field and Moon Island and on the South Side of the airfield because that is a migration route of fish. Most of the harbor area is ]eased for log storage, as stated earlier. With the changing method of log storage, from water to upland sites, many leases will expire and will not be renewed.8 Anticipated areas filled for industrial development along the Hoquiam shoreline, with new piers as the need arises, will increase the demand for the presently unused harbor area or the areas now '1eased for log storage. No leases are in force for the harbor area along the South Channel of Grays Harbor. The 10-foot depth is restrictive and there are no plans presently for deepening the channel. A landfill on the west side of the mouth of the Hoquiam River is in the works. The area is diked almost up to the inner harbor line. A permit was granted to a steel corporation for an offshore oil drilling rig assembly yard based on the assertion that the national offshore energy development policy superseded fisheries habitat protection.9 Plans fell through for that use but the port plans to use the site for water related and/or water dependent heavy industrial use. The harbor area will be used for piers to load and/or unload cargo after the site is developed. ----------------------------- 81nterview with Henry Soike, Manager, Port of Grays Harbor. 9LInder New Management, 1978. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. No leases are in force for harbor area along the South Channel of Grays Harbor. The 10-foot depth is restrictive and there are no plans for deepening the channel. Department of Natural Resources might question the need for this harbor area. 2. New piers will be built at the proposed industrial site at the present Bowerman Field and Moon Island. Another pier is intended at the west side of the mouth of the Hoquiam River. 3. A railroad company has challenged in court the need for railroads to pay rent for a right of way on State lands. The company believes they are exempt under State law. The outcome of this suit could have an effect on Department of Natural Resources management policies. 4. The old Hoquiam Fish Base juts into harbor area with a tip of the pier in the vacated waterway just east of the site. No lease on this dilapidated pier. Irene.ChrisLy Harbor Area Planning Project 4/30/79 Various Methods of Stating Rent in Hoquiam Harbor Area By Trusts #25 (100% of rent paid to DNR) $17,429.20 #26 ( 20% of rent paid to DNR) 1,065-00 #27 ( 80Z of rent paid to DNR) ------- #19 (100% of rent paid to DNR) 50-00 $1 5T4720 By Present Classifications Water Dependent $ 2,663.40 Water Oriented 15,695.80 Other Water Dependent or Water Oriented Use 100.00 All Other Uses 85-00 @_18,544.20 By Revised Classifications Water Dependent, Primary $ 2,663.40 Water Dependent, Secondary ------- Water Oriented, Public Use ------- Water Oriented, Industrial Use 15,795.80 All Other Uses 85-00 $19-,544.20 By Data Processing Categories 0140 Non Commercial Aquatic Uses $ 64.80 0160 Marine Services ------- 0180 Transportation Facilities 2,663.40 0181 Processing-Manufacturing Use ------- 0190 Log Booming & Rafting 15,6311.00 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 100.00 4032 Materials Purchase 85-00 $18,54T.20 IC/nr Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 7 Interviews: Henry E. Soike, Manager, Port of Grays Harbor Stanley L. Lattin, Planner, Port of Grays Harbor Materials in file on Hoquiam Harbor Area Maps by DNR, DOT, COE Resolution No. 228 relocating harbor line in Hoquiam, November 1977 Harbor Area Study, 1972, information on Hoquiam harbor lines Inventory Sheets Data Processing Sheets Rents detailed by classifications Port Series, Series No. 35, Revised 1975, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Specific information on Hoquiam Port of Grays Harbor, information from Port System Study for the Public Ports in Washington State and Portland, Oregon, 1975 Port of Grays Harbor brochure Summary of Grays Harbor Estuary Management Plan Bibliography U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Port Series No. 35, Revised 1975, Thg PoCt g_f_ Tacoma, GLO@Ls Harb , and Qlvmgia, Washington Reid Middleton and Associates, Inc., Cgr_t System allLdy fDX Ltw Puhli Pnrt-@ Q.L Washington State and- Cortland Oregori, Volume 11, Technical Supplement/ Part 2, 1975, Edmonds, Washington Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbo A= Study, 6.Report to Lhe Legislature, 1972 Marc Hershman, Robert Goodwin, Andrew Ruotsala, Maureen McCrea, Yehuda Hayuth, Unde New Management, Port Growth and Emerging Coastal Management Programs, University of Washington Press, 1978 Grays Harbor Estuary Management Plan Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy June 5, 1979 ILWACO HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Ilwaco is located on Baker Bay in Pacific County in the far southwestern portion of the state. A 10 foot deep channel in Baker Bay connects Ilwaco with deep water at the mouth of the Columbia River. The harbor area was established by the Harbor Line Commission on September 15, 1892. The outer harbor line was located in water having a depth varying from about 10 feet to 30 feet at low tide. The inner harbor line was then run par- allel to and 600 feet landward. At the extreme southern end the width of the harbor area was reduced to 100 feet, because of the shallowness of Baker's Bay. A portion of the Dalton Waterway and a small portion of the Holman Waterway were vacated by Commissioner's Order on July 11, 1974. Ownership of the vacated portions of waterway was not transferred to the Port of Ilwaco but state owner- ship was retained and the vacated areas leased back to the public port district. Vacation of the Seaborg Waterway as requested by the Port of Ilwaco was denied on July 26, 1974. Ilwaco's harbor area is in the jurisdiction of the Port of Ilwaco. Present Uses There are presently no leases for the harbor area. Two types of leases were held; one was for purchase as dredged materials, and the other was for drilling and sampling tests. There is a long mooring basin and breakwater inside the harbor area. The mooring basin and support facilities are used for recreational and commercial fishing boats. The harbor lines run south past the Town of Ilwaco past Fort Canby State Park and out to Cape Disappointment. The U. S. Coast Guard has a station there with a pier, building and a narrow strip of land about 600 feet long in the southernmost portion of harbor area. Physical Characteristics The Ilwaco harbor area is in the southwestern portion of the State of Washington situated in Baker Bay. Dredge spoils have been dumped from channel dredging and have made mud flats in places in this shallow bay. Extreme shoal conditions exist throughout Baker Bay. The East Channel was authorized in 1935 to provide a channel 200 feet by 10 feet from the east end of Sand Island to Ilwaco, a distance of five miles. Consideration is being given to dredging a new deeper channel east of the present channel or straightening the present channel. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 The Coast Guard Station at Cape Disappointment requires periodic dredging. The Coast Guard has lease rights to the land area east of Jetty A, which is at the southernmost tip of Cape Disappointment. Part of this area has the potential for use as a dredged material disposal site. Wetlands and water areas in the Baker Bay Unit of the Shoreline Management Master Plan are designated predominantly for resource protection due to their importance to the natural function of the estuarine ecosystem. While most biologically productive areas are protected, some primarily wetlands adjacent to the Port of Ilwaco are designated for potential fill to allow for port expansion. Future Demands Expansion of the mooring basin is in the discussion stage. As a part of C R E S T (Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce) plans are being made to expand the mooring basin into the present harbor area and beyond, quite a ways. The port is changing some berths over from holding 50-foot boats to 70-foot boats due to the expanding bottom fish industry. Processing plants are in operation and are expanding. This new demand plus greater recreational fish- ing is the basis for expansion. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. A request for moving the outer harbor line waterward will be forthcoming in the next few years if expansion goes as planned. 2. Rental increase by the Department of Natural Resources for port use of the Dalton Waterway has gone up approximately 70% this year. The port questions the need for such a jump. 3. The Port of Ilwaco had wanted to have the Dalton Waterway vacated five years ago to enable them to purchase the vacated waterway. The site is in the middle of the mooring basin. They were told by Department of Natural Resources personnel that it could not be purchased. They are not pleased to have their rent jump 70% this revaluation period. The waterway was vacated in 1974 but the title did not vest in the public port district in the method stated in RCW 79.01.472. The state retained ownership. 4. The U. S. Coast Guard has a dock, a building and a narrow strip of land about 600 feet long in the harbor area. No harbor area lease is on file for the site. The Coast Guard is challenging the Department's request to pay rent due to their right of navigational servitude in another harbor area. Even if this is the reason no rent is charged for the use of harbor area in Ilwaco, the Department of Natural Resources needs to keep a record of this use. Harbor Area Vlanning Project freLiu- GhrisLy Page 4 Interviews: Robert C. Petersen, Port of Ilwaco Clerk, City of Ilwaco Planner, Planning Dept.,, Pacific County, South Bend Materials on file on Ilwaco Harbor Area: Maps by DNR, DOT, CREST 1972 Harbor Area Study on Ilwaco Columbia River Land & Water Use Plan: Baker Bay Unit Dredged Material Disposal Plan, Baker Bay element Port of Ilwaco Comprehensive Marina Plan - 1970 Port of Ilwaco, Technical Assistance Preapplication, 1979 Bibliography: Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Marc Hershman, Robert Goodwin, Andrew Ruotsala, Maureen McCrea, Yehuda Hayuth, Under New Management, Port Growth & Emerging Coastal Management.Proqrams, UniversiTy-of Waghi "@ton Press, 1978 Dredged Material Disposal Plan, Baker Bay Element, 1979 Columbia River Estuary Land & Water Use Plan, Baker Bay Unit, CREST, 1977 Port of Ilwaco, Technical Assistance Preapplication, 1979 Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project March 8, 1979 KALAMA HARBOR AREA REPORT Kalama Harbor is located on the north bank of the Columbia River at its confluence with the Kalama River. Kalama Ha@bor is ten nautical miles south of Longview and 30 miles north of Vancouver. The Kalama harbor area falls under the jurisdiction of the Port of Kalama. The harbor area was established at Kalama February 16, 1922. The outer harbor line was located in the Columbia River in water having a depth of about 30 feet at extreme low tide. The depths actually range from a minimum of about six feet to a maximum of about 40 feet. The inner harbor line was then drawn parallel to and 100 feet landward for approximately the northerly three fifths of the harbor area and 50 feet for the remaining two fifths of the harbor area. The harbor area has been used as a spoil deposit site for sand dredged from the Columbia River in connection with navigation channel improvement. The toe of this spoil bank I along with protective riprap and groins, was beyond the outer harbor line. The outer harbor line was relocated in May, 1975, to include this area. The change is shown in the 1975 Supplemental Map of Kalama Harbor.3 Present Uses: There are six leases and one easement in the harbor area in front of the Town of Kalama and the constitutional one mile beyond the city limits. Total acres leased amount to 39.55 acres out of a total of 125 acres included in harbor area in Kalama. This amounts to slightly less than one third of the total harbor area leased. Net rent collected by Department of Natural Resources from these leases amounts to $4,ooi.28. With 39-55 acres leased, this amounts to $101.00 average per acre income. Rent charged amounts to $4,923.60. Major activities in the harbor area are the new marina, log booming, waterfront park, public boat launch, and a sewer outfall. Kalama Chemical has a large pier 680' long, but it is on first class tidelands so does not have a harbor area lease. The depth is about 40 feet. Kalama Chemical owns 120 acres of land -------------------------- Reid, Middleton & Associates, Inc., Edmonds, Washington Port Study System '6- 1 for the Public Ports of Washington State & Portland, Oregon, V lume 1, 1975 2Harbor Line Commission, The Attorney General, Dept. of Ecology, A Report to the 43rd Legislature of the State of Washington, 1972 Harbor Area Study, 1972 3Department of Natural Resources Supplemental Map of Kalama Harbor, 1975 Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 2 just north of the port industrial development property. This is at the north end of the harbor area. The company receives toluene by vessel and fuel oil by barge at their pier. Toluene is used in the making of glue for the plywood industry. Toluene is discharged from ships via pipeline to shoreside tanks.4 The area between the marina and Kalama Chemical is used for log rafts for the forest products industries situated there. A marina was recently built inside the spit in the center of the harbor area. The spit was partly outside the harbor area before the outer harbor line was relocated in 1975. The Port of Kalama has developed a park site in harbor area south of the marina. A copy of an unsigned Interagency Agreement dated 1975 was given to me by port officials when I asked about the site. The Agreement grants use of the site rent-free to the port for 30 years. A lease document found in HA 2349 lease jacket was not signed, either. The lease document shows an annual rental fee of $325 would be charged. Port of Kalama officials would like to have this transaction completed. South & outside the harbor area is the North Pacific Grain Growers Wharf. This large grain terminal is owned by the Port of Kalama and ]eased to the North Pacific Grain Growers Association. The terminal consists of a grain elevator, grain storage and a public dock. It is used to transfer grain from barges, trucks and railroad cars to storage and then to ocean going carriers for foreign trade.5 Physical Environment: The Columbia River main channel is dredged and maintained at a 40 foot depth and a 600 foot width. Dredged material has been put on port property and in the harbor area for some time. The spit protecting the marina is from dredged materials and is riprapped with protective groins. The dredged material presently is dumped on private property between the port office and the grain terminal. According to the port manager, the dredged spoil material is being sold. The grain terminal is 600 feet long, 805 feet long if dolphins are included. It is an offshore wharf with ship berth on waterside and barge berthing faci- lities on shoreside. Water depth is 35 feet. Burlington Northern railroad tracks are in rear of the grain elevator. Eighty percent of the grain arrives by rail car. All three major transcontinental railroads use the tracks jointly. These are the Burlington Northern, Union Pacific and the Milwaukee Road ------------------------- 4Reid, Middleton & Associates, Inc. Edmonds, Washington Port Study System for the Public Ports of Washington State & Portland, Oregon, Volume 11, 1975. 5Reid, Middleton & Associates, Inc. Edmonds, Washington Port Study System for the Public Ports of Washington State & Portland, Oregon, Volume 11, 1975. Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 3 Interstate 5 provides easy access to the Port of Kalama. Trucks carry grain to the grain terminal and lumber for the lumber industry. Easy access to the marina from 1-5 is provided. Future Demands: The new marina is now 64% filled. Its capacity is 222 slips. 6 Future expansion plans for the marina call for some dredging behind the spit near the road. In 1977 the marina and public launch area was dedicated with Governor Dixy Lee Ray participating in the ceremonies. A restaurant has been proposed next to the marina. The request to build a restaurant on fill next to the marina in harbor area was approved by the Harbor Line Commission in 1977. The restaurant has not yet been built. The port is still looking for a tenant. Virginia.Chemical, at the south end of the harbor area, has not expanded as planned. Expansion is still possible for Virginia Chemical at this indus- trial site. The Corps of Engineers is filling tidelands north of the harbor area and plans to build a revetment there. Some time in the future the port plans to build a pier and develop the site for industrial development.7 Weyerhaeuser has announced its plan to build a log mill on the Kalama water- front at a cost of $11 million. Weyerhaeuser is planning on building deepwater docking facilities to serve the mill in front of their site, north of the City of Kalama, with harbor area fronting much of the property. Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. There is a need to sign the interagency Agreement and the Department of Natural Resources lease document for harbor area file HA 2349 to complete the transaction for the park site. 2. Dredged spoils from the Columbia River are put on private property and are being sold, according to port officials. Department of Natural Resources personnel should check to see if we are charging for the material being sold, which is the normal procedure. 3. Any wharf needed in the future, either by port or private interests, should be built in the harbor area. A pier is presently being planned by Weyer- haeuser for the industrial area north of the city. ------------------------ 60ceanographic Institute of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Survey of Marine Boat Launching & Moorage Facilities in Washington, 1978. 71nterview with John Fratt, Manager, Port of Kalama, February 16, 1979. Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 4 4. There is a need to fill up the new marina. This should come in time. 5. A major industry for Kalama has closed its doors. Pope & Talbot used the harbor area for log storage through a lease granted to the port. In the Town of Kalama a loss of 350 jobs is catastrophic so the port is looking for some way to help Pope & Talbot or to find a new tenant. 6. Department of Natural Resources has two photos of the Kalama harbor area, one showing Kalama Chemical inside the inner harbor line and the other photo with about half of the dock in harbor area. A determination needs to be made where the lines are because if the dock is inside the harbor area, a lease should be written. .Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 Interviews John Fratt, Manager, Port of Kalama Dennis Burchett Jack Wicker Materials on file Maps by DNR and Port of Kalama Reid, Middleton and Associates, Inc., Edmonds, Washington, Port System Study for the Public Port of Washington and Portland, Oregon, Volume II, Technical Supplement/Part 2, 1975 Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, The Ports of Coos Bay and Astoria, Oregon, Longview and Vancouver, Washington, and Ports on Columbia River, Port Series No. 33, Revised 1975 Harbor Line Commission, The Attorney General and The Department of Ecology, Harbor Area Study for the 43rd Legislature, 1972 Data Processing Sheets on each lease Inventory Sheets Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, 1978 Bibliography Reid, Middleton and Associates, Inc., Edmonds, Washington, Port System Study for the Public Port of Washington and Portland, Oregon, Volume II, Technical Supplement/Part 2., 1975 Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, The Ports of Coos Bay and Astoria, Oregon, Longview and Vancouver, Washington, and Ports on Columbia River, Part Series No. 33, Revised 1975 Harbor Line Commission, The Attorney General and The Department of Ecology, Harbor Area Study for the 43rd Legislature, 1972 Data Processing Sheets on each lease Inventory Sheets Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, 1978 Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 6 Various Methods of Stating Rent in Kalama Harbor By Trusts #25 (100% of rent paid to DNR) $ 312.00 #26 20% of rent paid to DNR) ------ #27 80% of rent paid to DNR) 3,689.28 #19 (100% of rent paid to DNR) --------- $4,001.28 By Present Classifications Water Dependent $2,448.oo Water Oriented 1,553.28 Other Water Dependent or Water Oriented Use -------- All Other Uses --------- $T, 0 @01 . 2@ By Revised Classifications Water Dependent, Primary ---------- Water Dependent, Secondary 2,448.oo Water Oriented, Public Use --------- Water Oriented, Industrial Use 1,553.28 All Other Uses --------- $T,001.28 By Data Processing Categories 0140 Non Commercial Aquatic Uses $ 312.00 0160 Marina Services 2,448.oo 0180 Transportation Facilities -------- 0181 Processing-Manufacturing Use -------- 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use -------- 0190 Log Booming & Rafting -------- 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 1,241.28 0252 Sewer Lines & Outfalls -------- $4,0_0_1_._2T IC/nr Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy July 11, 1979 LA CONNER HARBOR AREA PROJECT Introduction La Conner is located in Skagit County on the east side of the Swinomish Slough, now called the Swinomish Channel since the channel has been dredged between Skagit Bay and Padilla Bay. The harbor area at La Conner was established in January, 1893. The harbor area is located on the east side of Swinomish Channel as is the Town of La Conner. The outer harbor area was located generally about 150 to 300 feet offshore and parallel to the shoreline. The inner harbor line was then drawn parallel and 100 feet landward. The width of the harbor area was reduced to 50 feet for about three blocks in the center of town, apparently for the reason that structures were already built out over the water and were to be excluded from the harbor area. The public port district having jurisdiction at La Conner is the Port of Skagit County. The port does not cover all of Skagit County but does cover the county eastward of Swinomish Channel and from the western end of Bay View Ridge. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds 47 leases in the harbor area at La Conner. Acres of harbor area leased amounts to 15.86 acres. This is slightly more than half of the harbor area leased at this time as there are 30 acres total in the harbor area fronting La Conner. Rent collected by the Department of Natural Resources from these leases amounts to $16,194.49. This amounts to approximately $1,021.00 annual income per acre of the leased harbor area. Total rent charged amounts to $17,140-05. There are no deep draft vessels coming in to La Conner because the channel is only 12 feet deep. The Port of Skagit County maintains a large marina along the channel with two boat basins. The port leases 6.60 acres for the marina structures. The approxi- mate 600 moorages are full and a waiting list is maintained by the port. Dry land storage facilities, about 4 stacks high, is new and rental rates include one free launch and retrieval per week by port personnel. The port marina adopted a strict policy on liveaboards at the La Conner Marina.1 ---------------------------- IPort of Skagit County, Resolution 77-11, July 13,1977. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 The Town of La Conner has established public areas at a number of street endings and has established public docks for visitors at those sites. A water hydrant will be installed soon at the end of Washington Street near the town's visitors' dock. There is a small industrial section near the southern end of the harbor area with a freight lines company and a cannery located there. A section with piers for moorage is next to this area. The area is leased by the town. This historic town is listed on both the state and national Historical Register including about five blocks of the buildings along the shore and partially in the harbor area included in that designation.2 Many of the structures extend beyond the outer harbor line, including some buildings listed on the national Historical Register, and little attention is paid to staying within the harbor area. The federal pierhead line is 15 feet waterward of the outer harbor line which might be a reason for discounting the outer harbor line as a construction limit line. Physical Characteristics The Swinomish Channel is generally from 400 to 600 feet wide with the recent channel dredged from 8 feet3 to 12 feet deep4 and 100 feet wide. This recent dredging plus eroding wave action caused unexpected problems to the pilings under the old buildings lining the east shore of the Channel. The Corps of Engineers, who did the dredging, replaced some of the pilings but townspeople now believe the final solution would be to build a permanent seawall. Because the center of the historic shopping district is on the state and national Historical Register, the town is applying to the Corps of Engineers, the state and the federal govern- ments for funds to build the seawail.5 Buildings in this area jut out past the outer harbor line. A problem can arise for Department of Natural Resources if the town wants to build the seawall out beyond the outer harbor line. The narrow, protected channel is used often by recreation and fishing boats as a time-saving short cut. The Swinomish Channel makes it unnecessary for the boats to go through Deception Pass and around Fidalgo Island to get to Padilla Bay and north. ---------------------------- 2Map of La Conner, City Map. 3u. S. Corps of Engineers Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976. 4U. S. Corps of Engineers File No. E-6-3-246, Swinomish Channel. 51nterview with George Lown, Public Works Manager, La Conner. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Future Uses The town will continue to develop its historic sites with the waterfront as a focus. A seawall is in the planning state for the eastern shore of the Swinomish Channel. Where the seawall is located and how much fill might be needed is a question the Department of Natural Resources will become involved in because the seawall probably will be built on State-managed harbor area and/or bedlands. The Port of Skagit County's marina is continuing to expand by building two piers, one of which will be a gas float 600 lineal feet to be located 50 feet beyond the outer harbor line. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. The new gas float to be built beyond the outer harbor line is a conflict of interpretation of uses allowed beyond the outer harbor line. 2. The location of the hoped-for seawall to protect some of the historic buildings in La Conner might need to be relocated to stay within Department of Natural Resources management guidelines of the harbor areas. If Department of Natural Resources encourages building the seawall along the outer harbor line, the continual encroachment beyond the outer harbor line could be stopped. The harbor area is only 50 feet wide along this area and was jogged apparently to avoid taking in the buildings.6 If some historical research is done on just which buildings were built at the time the harbor lines were drawn, where exactly the buildings were located, and when additions were made, the Department would have facts on which to base a decision on location of the seawall if it is to be placed on State-managed land. 3. Many structures are built beyond the outer harbor line. A continuation of this policy adds to the problem. Possibly this problem could be dealt with when reviewing aquatic land laws or when funds are obtained for building the seawall. 4. No Use and Occupancy agreements seem to be written for uses beyond the outer harbor line. Leases generally don't acknowledge any structures waterward of the harbor area. Some record should be kept of this bed use. ---------------------------- 61972 Harbor Area Study. Irciie ChrisLy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 5 Various MeLhods of Stating Rent in La Conner Harbor Area Rent to DNR from harbor area leases By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $12,412.25 #26 20% of rent to DNR) --------- #27 80% of rent to DNR) 3,782.24 #19 (beds in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) --------- $16,194.49 By Present Classifications Water Dependent Commerce $ 8-,450.09 Water Oriented Commerce --------- Other Water Dependent & Water Oriented Commerce 6,985.40 All Other Uses 759-00 $16,194.49 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary $ 2,518-35 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 6,402-74 Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses 3,333.60 Water Oriented Uses, Industrial --------- All Other Uses 3,939-80 $16,194.49 By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites $ 500-00 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites 2,741.40 0160 Marina Services 5,985.24 0180 Transportation Faci I ities 4,325.85 0181 Processing, Mfg. Uses 24o.oo 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use 2,402.00 0190 Log Booming & Rafting --------- 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls --------- 0252 Sewer Lines & Outfalls --------- 4032 MateriaJ5 Removal --------- $16,194.49 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 6 Interviews: John Anderson, Port of Skagit County George Lown, Public Works Manager, Town of La Conner Bob Graff, Marina Manager, Port of Skagit County Material on File: Maps by Department of Natural Resources, Corps of Engineers, Town of La Conner Corps of Engineers, Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes (includes La Conner)-and Bellingham, Washington Harbor Line Commission, the Attorney General and the Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, 1972, specific materials on La Conner Oceanographic Institute of Washington, @urvey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978, information on La Conner Port of Skagit County information on port activiti.es Port of Skagit County Resolution No. 77-11, 1977 Bibl iography: Port of Skagit publications Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, and Department of Ecology on the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, 1972 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes, and Bellingham, Washington Department of Natural Resources Unauthorized Use and Occupancy Policy, 1973 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy May 21, 1979 MARYSVILLE HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Marysville is located in Snohomish County north of the City of Everett and east of the Tulalip Indian Reservation. Marysville is situated on Ebey Slough which empties into Possession Sound. The harbor area at Marysville was established by the Harbor Line Commission in February, 1892. The harbor area is located on the north side of Ebey Slough. The slough's average width is about 600 feet. The outer harbor line was located parallel to and 50 feet from the government meander line. The inner harbor line was located coincident with the government meander line.1 There is no public port district in Marysville. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources holds six leases and one easement in the harbor area. Acres of harbor area leased total 8.15 acres, all for log storage. This figure does not show any leases or income from use of harbor area lying within the Tulalip Indian Reservation, which amounts to approximately half of the harbor area in Marysville. Department of Natural Resources does not show any leased areas in the reservation. I did not check the harbor area on the reservation because the Department of Natural Resources does not manage that portion of the harbor area. Total acres included in the Department of Natural Resources portion of harbor area amount to 10 acres. Rent collected by the Department of Natural Resources from the six leases in the Department of Natural Resources managed harbor area amounts to $1,789.00. This amounts to approximately $219.50 per acre. These sites are all leased for log storage. The easement is for sewer lines and outfalls. Total rent charged for harbor area leases amounts to $1,789.00. There was one section of harbor area near the Indian Reservation that seemed to be using harbor area but there was no indication that it was leased from Department of Natural Resources. Also, there were two companies (a mill and a boat sales and marina) using the Slough that don't seem to have a lease. The sites are located between Welco Lumber Company lease and the Garka Mill lease. I checked with Gary LaMarsh, Welco Lumber Company, who said the Marina was not on his lease. Going southeast from Welco was a slough, emptying into Ebey Slough, where the Geddis Marina was mainly located, then came the D & R Cedar Company. The D & R Cedar Company was located on Ebey Slough with an old boat ramp and an old gas pump between the two properties. Neither ramp nor pump looked used. ----------------------------- 11972 Harbor Area Study Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 Mr. Valerie of D & R Cedar said they rent some of the waterfront from Mr. Geddis. Mr. Geddis was not in the office or in the shop so he was not contacted. The Geddis Boat Sales & Marina Company has a small dock with two log rafting boats tied up there. A large sign on the south side of Ebey Slough, across from the D & R Cedar Company reads "cable crossing", but no easement or lease is shown in Marysville harbor area leases. Physical Characteristics Ebey Slough is a long, rambling slough with the Marysville harbor area near its entry into Possession Sound. It is just north of the mouth of the Snohomish River and seems to be a part of the estuarine environment that includes the Snohomish River and forms part of the natural drainage system, just north of the City of Everett. Future Demands The area will continue to be used for log storage. The marina and public boat launching ramp west of the Welco lease will continue to be needed. No other uses are anticipated. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. Department of Natural Resources should check further to see if a section of harbor area needs to be put under lease. 2. The cable crossing should be noted in the Department of Natural Resources records. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 Interview: Mr. Valerie, D & R Cedar Company Gary LaMarsh, Welco Lumber Company City Clerk, Town of Marysville Materials in File on Marysville Harbor Area: Maps by Department of Natural Resources, Department of Transportation Inventory sheet Data Processing sheets Portion of 1972 Harbor Area Study relating to Marysville Bibliography: Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 VARIOUS METHODS OF STATING RENT IN MARYSVILLE HARBOR AREA Rents by classification in Marysville harbor area: By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $1,789.00 By Present Classifications: Water Oriented Commerce $1,789.00 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Oriented Uses, Industrial $1,789.00 By Data Processing Categories: 0190 - Log Rafting & Booming $1,789.00 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy December 4, 1978 Olympia Harbor Area Report Introduction Olympia is located on Budd Inlet in Thurston County at the southernmost part of Puget Sound. Olympia is the state capital. The harbor area was established in Olympia in 1891. The outer harbor line was located 600 feet and from the line of low tide on the western side of Budd Inlet and 300 feet out on the eastern side.,. The inner harbor linewas then-located 600 and 300 feet landward and parallel to the outer harbor line. At the south- ern end the width of the harbor area was reduced to 100 feet. A portion of the Capitol Waterway was vacated and platted as first class tidelands in 1904. Another portion of the Capitol Waterway was vacated in 1926. A portion of the inner harbor line was relocated on the port peninsula in 1953. This relocation created a block of first class tidelands amounting to 61.9 acres which was then conveyed to the public port district. The Deschutes Waterway lying south of the north line of Fourth Avenue West was vacated in 1944. In 1976 the outer harbor line was adjusted waterward to include structures that had been built out past the outer harbor line. At the same time a public place was established in nearby harbor area for transient moorage. The outer harbor line along the west side of the port peninsula was relocated waterward in 1978 to include port improvements in the harbor area. At the same time, the Government Waterway was moved eastward in the East Bay to allow for filling of the port peninsula and for exchanging or relocating harbor area around the old Government Waterway for tidelands at the tip of the port pen- insula. The harbor area located at Olympia comes under the jurisdiction of the Port of Olympia. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources holds 26 leases in the harbor area fronting the City of Olympia. Leased acres in the Olympia harbor area amounts to approx- imately 40 percent of the harbor area with most of the port Peninsula and the west side harbor area ]eased. Rent collected by the Department of Natural Resources for harbor area leases amounts to $57,898.94. This averages out to approximately $393.00 annual income per acre. Total rent charged amounted to $65,493.4o. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 Almost the entire port peninsula consists of fill material. More filling will take place with the action taken by the Harbor Line Commission in 1978 to re- locate the waterway and the harbor area in East Bay at the request of the public port district. The expansion will make more cargo space for the port district and will provide for parking and support services for the new 800-slip marina to be built. The west side of the West Bay is devoted mainly to lumber mills, a large marina, a log dump, and a boat repair and welding shop. The Olympia Yacht Club is located at the base of West Bay. Transient moorage, several marinas and boat support service facilities line the west side of the peninsula next to the port district terminal area. Residences line the east side of the harbor area with an historic park along the shoreline. Physical Characteristics The County Shoreline Master Program designates the marine waters Conservancy to the mean sea level at which point the landward designation begins. Excep- tions are the waters beyond 10 fathoms which shall be Natural and waters in Budd Inlet south of a line due west from Priest Point Park which shall be Urban. Future Demands Presently predicted growth is for the port peninsula. For the long term future, the public port district would like to develop another deepdraft terminal on the west side of the bay. The port district has begun a land purchase program to accomplish that goal. Any industrial or commercial development will probably be restricted to presently leased harbor area because of steep banks, residential use or parks. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. Maps for the Olympia harbor area demonstrate that a newer method of mapping harbor areas is needed. There should be some way that all harbor lines drawn in a harbor area can be placed on one map, including any changes made in street endings or waterways. It is not only time consuming to check a number of maps, each located in a different drawer or cubby hole, but errors can occur. For instance, the Third Supplemental Map of Olympia is dated 1963. Another Supplemental Map for Olympia harbor area is dated 1976. The Fourth Supplemental Map of Olympia is dated 1978. A numbering system for keeping accurate records is needed. Two minor errors were noted on Plate I of the Fourth Supplemental Map of Replat of a Portion of Olympia Tidelands and Harbor Area, 1978. One incorrect original harbor line was drawn and the East Bay Road is marked West Bay, which is incorrect and could be con- fusing to anyone using the map. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 Various Methods of Stating Rent in Olympia Harbor Area Rent to DNR from harbor area leases $57,898.94 By trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $51,096.10 #26 20% of rent to DNR) 1,575-00 #27 80% of rent to DNR) 5,177.84 #19 (beds in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) 50-00 $57,898.94 By Present Classifications: Water Dependent Commerce $39,460.68 Water Oriented Commerce 17,338.26 Other Water Dependent & Water Oriented Commerce 100.00 All Other Uses 1,000.00 $57,898.9T By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary $ 4,594.68 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 34,866.00 Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses ------ Water Oriented Uses, Industrial 17,438.26 All Other Uses 1,000.00 $57 898 79_4' By Date Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites $ ------ 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites 2,748-78 0160 Marina Services 31,49i.oo 0180 Transportation Facilities 5,490.00 0181 Processing, Mfg. Uses ------ 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use 1,000.00 0190 Log Booming & Rafting 17,o6g.16 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 100.00 0252 Sewer Lines & Outfalls ------ 4032 Materials Removal ------ $57,898-79-4- ,rene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project 12/4/78 Interviews: Gene Sibold, manager, and Dick Malin, planner, Port of Olympia, 10/26/78 Randall Orth, planner, Thurston County Planning Department, 10/24/78 Olympia Harbor Area file, available for perusal: Maps by DNR, Corps of Engineers, City of Olympia Shoreline Master Program, Port of Olympia plan of proposed development, DNR Marine Atlas. Harbor Area Study, 1972, A Report to the Legislature, by the Harbor Line Commission, Dept. of Ecology, Attorney General, and Dept. of Natural Resources Summary of Inventory Sheets (work sheets) for Olympia Harbor Area Rents detailed by classifications Port Series #35, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, specific information on uses in Olympia Harbor Data processing sheets on each DNR lease Marina locations from study by Oceanographic Institute of Washington, 1978. Bibliography: Port Series No. 35, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Ports of Tacoma, Grays Harbor, and Olympia, Wash., 1975, U. S. Govt. Printing Office. Harbor Area Study, A Report to the 43rd Legislature, Dec. 1972, by the Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Dept. of Ecology, and Dept. of Natural Resources. Shoreline Master Program for City of Olympia Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, by Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Seattle, Wash., Aug. 18, 1978. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy June 25, 1979 PORT ANGELES HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Port Angeles is located in Clallam County on the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula. It is on the south side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, 56 nautical miles east of Cape Flattery. The original harbor area was established at Port Angeles on December 15, 1892, by the Harbor Line Commission. The outer harbor line was begun one mile east of the city limits in water about 20 feet deep at low tide, following this contour until the underwater slope began to be fairly steep. Then apparently a distance of 300 feet or more seaward from the line of low tide became the controlling factor. The inner harbor line was then located parallel to and 600 feet landward from the outer harbor line until the underwater slope became fa irly steep. The width of the harbor area was then gradually diminished to 300 feet. The harbor area was established along the shore of the City of Port Angeles around the base of Ediz Hook and approximately one third of the Hook. Three waterways were established. In 1935 a supplemental map of the Port Angeles harbor area was adopted. The original harbor area was widened. It was also expanded along the balance of the southerly portion of Ediz Hook, around Ediz Hook, then westerly in the Straits of Juan de Fuca to a point one mile west from the western city limits. In 1971 a supplemental map of Port Angeles harbor area was adopted relocating and widening a portion of the harbor area and extending waterways to the re- located outer harbor line. The outer harbor line in front of the City of Port Angeles was moved out approximately 1,200 feet into Port Angeles Harbor in 1971. This increased the harbor area in places to the maximum 2,000 feet allowed. A waterway was established on the underside or the south side of the Hook in an unusual configuration in this 1971 supplement. The Ennis Creek Waterway was vacated in 1918 and the Tumwater Waterway was vacated in 1946.1 The Port Angeles Harbor is under the jurisdiction of the Port of Port Angeles, which is countywide. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds 27 leases for harbor area in Port Angeles. Twenty five leases pay rent. A small portion of harbor area was applied for for the Northern Tier Pipeline Company in December, 1977, but ---------------------------- IHarbor Area Study, 1972. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 no rental agreement has been entered into yet and no rent has been paid. A lease number has been assigned. Another site not paying rent is an area of 64.48 acres set aside by the Department of Natural Resources for a deepwater disposal site. Total acres in the Port Angeles harbor area are approximately 1,460 acres, with 545,33 acres ]eased or set aside. Approximately 37 percent of the harbor area is ]eased. Almost two thirds of the ]eased land is used for log rafting and storage. I understand that the harbor line relocated in 1971, now used for log storage, is not shown in present leases. This means the total acres in harbor area and under lease are actually more than the acreage listed in this report. Rent collected by the Department of Natural Resources from these harbor area leases amounts to $150,071.99. This amounts to approximately $304-50 annual income per acre of ]eased harbor area. Total rent charged amounted to $163,523.44. Its proximity to forest lands makes this area a large-volume log and forest products exporting center. In fact, from 50 percent up to 80 percent of rafted logs to leave the Port Angeles area have gone to Canada.2 The public port district owns and operaties two shipping terminals. Several privately owned and operated piers are in the Port Angeles harbor area. A large mill on the east side of the city receives fuel oil by tanker for plant consumption, receives wood chips, hogged fuel, lime rock and bulk liquid caustic and chlorine by barge. The company ships out baled wood pulp. Another timber company's pier is used for the shipment and export of logs. A private wood pro- ducts firm receives fuel oil for plant consumption and for storage and ships out newsprint via barge and ships. A large public marina is located along the western shore of the city. The breakwater for the marina also serves as a log loading area with a log mar- shalling yard next to the marina. The Foss Launch and Tug Company has moved their harbor tugs to the Port Angeles Boat Haven and their site west of Oak Street is now ]eased by the port. This area plus the rest of the block along the waterfront is being considered for a possible fish process and cold storage area with unloading of cargo at the ----------------------------- 2Reid, Middleton Associates, Inc., Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State and Portland, Oregon, Volume 11, Technical Supplement/ Part 2, 1975, Edmonds, Washington. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 old Foss dock. In the meantime the dock is being used for transient tugboat traffic on an interim basis. When the new municipal pier is completed much of that transient traffic will be directed there.8 The City of Port Angeles states that it would be a violation of their zoning ordinance to transfer the tug operation to the Municipal Pier because that use would be incompatible with the relatively large numbers of people that will be using the pier.9 What the city response will be to transient tug traffic is not known. A 2 1/2 block, centrally located shoreline area is zoned Commercial Business District (CBD) in the Shoreline Master Plan. The Plan has not been officially adopted but is used as a guideline to plan. Leases for harbor area in the CBD Zone includes a ferry terminal, parking, fish unloading pier, tug and barge pier, an attorney's office, and an area being developed as a public park area. Port Angeles has a Coast Guard base, including both a pier and an airport, near the eastern end of Ediz Hook. A deepwater disposal site established by the Department of Natural Resources is partially in the harbor area on the north side of Ediz Hook and at the western base of the Hook. The original purpose in establishing a deepwater disposal site there was to allow the material to build up the end of the Hook. The site has never been used because an industrial firm, Crown Zellerbach, protested. The firm has leased a site there for an outfall. The dumping would have been too close to the diffusion area of the outfall. The site is about 1,000 feet offshore. A precedent-setting lawsuit is now being decided relating to ownership of fill in a harbor area site when the fill is placed on a leased site without Depart- ment of Natural Resources approval. This is the old Angeles Sand and Gravel Company site next to the ferry terminal. The Port of Port Angeles is now leasing the site. Physical Characteristics Port Angeles Harbor lies within the city limits of Port Angeles. The harbor is open to the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the east and is protected on the north and northwest by Ediz Hook - a low, narrow sandspit about 3 miles long, curving eastward from the mainland. The harbor is about 2.5 miles long and about 1.5 ------------------------------ 8Letter dated June 29, 1979 from D. G. Hendricks, Director of Operations, Port of Port Angeles. 9Letter dated June 28, 1979 from Kenneth S. Whorton, City Manager, Port Angeles. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 miles wide at the entrance, decreasing in width to its head. The depths are greatest on the north shore and decrease from 80,:to 9Q feet-Ah the middle)Of the harbor. The Olympic Mountains and mountains on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, protect this area from storms moving eastward over the ocean. Significant wave height is up to 3 feet. Future Demands A new ferry terminal structure is in the planning process. The area designated Commercial Business District (DNR's Commercial Waterfront) along the central shoreline will continue to be developed for those proposed. The ferry terminal will be the focus for the area with shops and restaurants to promote tourism. A major issue dividing the community is the possibility that Northern Tier Pipeline Company will be locating a deepdraft oil terminal on the south side of the eastern portion of Ediz Hook. This would be the western terminus of a transcontinental pipeline to carry oil to the midwest. If this proposal goes through, a relocation in harbor lines waterward will be necessary. A submarine pipeline would be laid under the Port Angeles Harbor to Green Point. The public port district has taken the position that the project as proposed would have a detrimental effect on the local industry. For that reason the port is opposed to the project. The city, the county and a number of local residents oppose this use, although that is the purpose for which harbor areas are established. The Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council has been hearing testimony and evaluating the proposal. The decision on establishing an oil port in Port Angeles might be made at the federal level, taking into consider- ation the community's concerns and balancing that against the national need for oil. If the oil terminal is established in Port Angeles on Ediz Hook as proposed by the Northern Tier Pipeline Company, there will be a shifting of uses in the harbor area. Log storage leases will have to be terminated or let expire in the harbor area on the south side of Ediz Hook. Other sites and possibly other methods of log storage will be needed. If an oil port is located on Ediz Hook, the Coast Guard Station will probably need to be moved to another location. Northern Tier's consultants are putting together proposals for alternate locations. These proposals will be given to the Coast Guard for review. One possible location for the Coast Guard facil- ities is on the south side of the Harbor. Another possible location for the Coast Guard facilities would be directly west of the Northern Tier Site. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 Relocation of the air facilities could be to William R. Fairchild Interna- tional Airport.3 The Port Angeles City Council has stated on several occasion4 that the Coast Guard should be maintained at its present base on Ediz Hook. The city comprehensive plan also recommends that public access on Ediz Hook should be @etained, enlarged and improved as recreational areas become available . There are no leases for public use in the harbor area on Ediz Hook. The City of Port Angeles has taken a strong position opposing the siting and operating of an oil pipeline terminal in or near @he city. Policies adopted May 1, 1979, state the city's opposition clearly. They believe there is no demonstrated need for an oil port at any point within the State of Washington. There are significant impacts and risks involved, the city believes, in the construction and operation of an oil port in Port Angeles, including loss of harbor area for timber rafting, possible loss of miles due to electrical shortages and increased air pollution, possibility of oil spills, and impacts on all city services. The Oil Port Task Force, created by joint action of the City of Port Angeles and Clallam County, was established to assure that all information is presented to the licensing authorities and to the people of the City of Port Angeles and the Sta e of Washington regarding the proposed Northern Tier Pipeline Company project. ------------------------------ 3Letter dated June 29, 1979 from D. G. Hendricks, Director of Operations, Port of Port Angeles. 4Letter dated June 28, 1979 from Kenneth S. Whorton, City Manager, Port Angeles. 5Port Angeles Comprhensive Plan, City of Port Angeles, 1978. 6Policies of the City of Port Angeles concerning the Northern Tier Pipeline Company's proposed Oil Port, 1979. 7Policies of the City of Port Angeles concerning the Northern Tier Pipeline Company's Poposed Oil Port, 1979. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 6 Analysis (Con-flicts/Needs) 1. There is no lease on file for the Coast Guard pier near the end of Ediz Hood. There is a need for such a document to keep a record of areas being used and those available for use. 2. Records show a deepwater disposal site in harbor area and bed northwest of Ediz Hook. It is not being used due to a conflict of uses. The file shows 64.48 acres in harbor area and 35.52 acres in the bed for the disposal site. If the area is unusable due to an outfall pipe location, the Department of Natural Resources should consider removing or declassifying the area. 3. If the Northern Tier Oil Port is located inside Port Angeles Harbor as proposed, the outer harbor line will need to be relocated to accommodate the required piers or wharves. Some leases now used for log storage will need to change hands and uses. The Coast Guard Station might have to be relocated if the oil terminal goes in. 4. Who owns the site where the new ferry terminal structure is to be built? A local attorney raised the question of ownership of the public street ending located in the harbor area. Presently the port leases the land from the Department of Natural Resources. 5. Several street endings within the Commercial Business District run out into the harbor area and are included in plans for future city development. Own- ership of this land whether claimed by Department of Natural Resources, vacated and turned over to the city or the public port district, needs to be considered by the Department. Harbor Area Planning Project .Irene Christy Page 7 Various Methods of Stating Rent in Port Angeles Harbor Area Runt to DNR from harbor area leases by Trusts: 925 (100% of rent to DNR) $131,981.20 #26 20% of rent to DNR) 2,386.00 #27 80% of rent to DNR) 15,629.79 #19 (beds in front of harbor area, 102U, to DNR) 75-00 150,071-99 By Present Classifications A Water Dependent Commerce $ 24,873-79 B Water Oriented Commerce 2,409.00 C Other Water Dependent & Water Oriented Commerce 120,927.20 D All Other Uses 1,862.00 6150,071-19 B/ Adjusted Classifications: 1 Water Dependent Uses, Primary $ 23,626-79 2 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 672.00 3 Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses 1,521.20 4 Water Oriented Uses, Industrial 122,390-00 All Other Uses 1,862.00 6150,071-99 by Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites -------- 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites 211.20 0160 Marina Services 672.00 0180 Transportation Facilities 71,543-79 0181 Processing, Mfy. Uses -------- 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use 1,079-00 0190 Log Booming & Rafting 76,466.00 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 100.00 0252 Sewer Lines & Outfalls -------- 14032 Materials Removal -------- $1540,071-99 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 8 Interviews: Jerry Hendricks, Director of Operations, Port of Port Angeles Paul D. Carr, Planning Director, City of Port Angeles Material on file on Port Angeles Harbor Area Maps by DNR, Corp of Engineers, Department of Transportation Inventory sheets Data Processing Sheets Rents detailed by classifications Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Specific information on Port Angeles Port of Port Angeles, Port System Study, by Reid, Middleton Associates, 1975 City of Port Angeles Comprehensive Plan, 1978 Port of Port Angeles Comprehensive Plan, 1973 Northern Tier Pipeline Project brochure Letter from D. G. Hendricks, Director of Operations, Port of Port Angeles, 6/29/79 Letter from Kenneth S. Whorton, City Manager, City of Port Angeles, 6/28/79 Bibliography: Reid, Middleton Associates, Inc., Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State & Portland, Oregon, Volume 11, Technical Supplement/Part 2, 1975, Edmonds, Washington Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes & Bellingham, 1@a-s@Cin`gton, Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976 Swan Wooster Engineering, Inc., Port of Port Angeles Plan, 1973. Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project July 16, 1979 PORT ORCHARD HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction - Port Orchard is the largest city in the South Kitsap area, and the second largest city in Kitsap County. Port Orchard overlooks the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard with the Olympic Mountains in the background, across Sinclair Inlet. Port Orchard is the county seat for Kitsap County. The public port district having jurisdiction in the Port Orchard harbor area is the Port of Bremerton. The harbor area at Port Orchard (called Sidney at that time) was established by the Harbor Line Commission in February, 1892. The outer harbor line was generally located in water having a depth of 20 to 30 feet at mean low tide. It appears the engineers attempted to follow the 30 foot contour as long as it did not get too far from shore. The inner harbor line was then located parallel to and 600 feet landward. Maple Street Waterway, one of four waterways established in 1892, was vacated by order of the Commissioner of Public Lands on November 14, 1956. The outer harbor line was revised (see 1973 Supplemental Map of Port Orchard) and adopted by the Harbor Line Commission in March, 1975. This expanded the harbor area from 600 feet to 925 feet at the greatest point in the expansion to allow for expansion of the Port Orchard Marina developed by the Port of Bremerton. Present Uses - The Department of Natural Resources holds ten leases and three easements for use of the harbor area in Port Orchard. There are 35.15 acres leased out of a total of 200 acres available for lease. This is about one sixth of the harbor area that is leased. Total rent collected by the department for the harbor area at Port Orchard amounted to $20,485-14. This averages out to $583-00 of rent collected per acre. Total rent charged amounts to $22,927-50. One public marina and a yacht club lease'the harbor area for moorage purposes. These two sites total 23.03 acres, two thirds of the total acreage leased in the harbor area. There are no deepwater piers serving industrial needs in Port Orchard. A ferry landing is located next to the public marina with filled harbor area behind both leases used for parking. A sidewalk runs along the waterfront to provide access and safety. Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 2 This is a water-oriented community using the harbor area for recreational uses. Several encroachments of the business services have taken place in the harbor area. A bank has built part way in the harbor area in the central shopping area. The parking lot services the marina, the ferry landing and the shopping center. This area would be considered "Commercial Waterfront." Physical Characteristics - Almost all of the Port Orchard and the South Kitsap area is surrounded by water. The area is subject to less than I percent chance of flooding during any year. Slopes are stable with artificial fill along the shoreline. The beach materials are sand/silt/clay, with the shore- line modified with riprap and the high water line has been modified. There is a critical faunal area at the western end of the harbor area with a critical surf smelt biological area in the fall and winter located at the center of the critical faunal area. Future Demands - An application to lease 1.72 acres for a boat re@air service including a boat lift, float and launching ramp, drydocking and parking has been filed almost two years ago. This site, located east of the DeKalb Waterway, now has only a derelict pier on it. Transient moorage is being considered. This would probably be developed next to the ferry terminal. Analysis - (Conflicts/Needs) 1. The public marina and the yacht club leaseholders are appealing the rental charges set by the department. The new law limiting increases in rent to 6 percent per year doesn't affect these leases because the rents were raised before the law went into effect. Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 3 Interviews- Joe Baier, Industrial Development Director, Port of Bremerton Materials on file on Port Orchard Harbor Area Maps by Department of Natural Resources, Dept. of Transportation, Corps of Engineers, South Kitsap Chamber of Commerce Harbor Area Study information on Port Orchard harbor lines Inventory Sheets Data Processing sheets Rents detailed by classification Welcome to Port Orchard paper by Chamber of Commerce Bibliography: Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, @@ Report to the Legislature, 1972. Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching & Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, Wash., 19797- - Department of Ecology, Coastal Zone Management Atlas Kitsap County, Volume Ten, 1979. Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 4 VARIOUS METHODS OF STATING RENT IN PORT ORCHARD HARBOR AREA Total Annual Income to DNR from harbor area leases $20,485-14 By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $10,715-70 #26 20% of rent to DNR) --------- #27 80% of rent to DNR) 9,769.44 #19 bed in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) --------- $20,485-14 By Present Classifications: Water Dependent Commerce $14,298.10. Water Oriented Commerce --------- Other Water Dependent and Water Oriented Commerce 59.04 All Other Uses 6,128.oo $20,485.1-4. By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary $ 70-50 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 14,227.6o Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses 59.04 Water Oriented Uses, Industrial --------- All Other Uses 6,128.00 $20,4F5--IT By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites --------- 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites --------- 0160 Marina Services 11,227.44 0180 Transportation Facilities 3,129-70 0182 Aquatic Non-water Related Use 6,128.00 0190 Log Booming and Rafting --------- 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls --------- $20,485-14 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy April 10, 1979 PORT TOWNSEND HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Port Townsend is located in the n'ortheast corner of Jefferson County, at the east end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, on Admiralty Inlet and Port Townsend Bay. The harbor area at Port Townsend was established in 1891. The outer harbor line was located in Port Townsend Bay 600 feet or more seaward from the mean low tide line in waters ranging from about 15 to 50 feet deep at low tide. The inner harbor line was then located parallel to and 600 feet landward when at right angles from the outer harbor line.1 The Port of Port Townsend includes all of Jefferson County. The only harbor area in Jefferson County is located in front of Port Townsend. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds nine leases plus easements for a telephone cable and a clarifier outfall line in Port Townsend. There are 123.02 acres leased out of a total of 390 acres available to lease. This is slightly less than one third of the area leased. Rent collected for the nine harbor area leases in Port Townsend was $18,355-76. With 123.02 acres leased, this averages out to $149.21 in annual rent per acre. Total rent charged for Port Townsend harbor area leases amounts to $19,266.80. Present uses of the harbor area include marinas, fishing boat unloading and servicing, unloading of petroleum products, ferry slips for railroad cars and for passenger vehicles, and shipment of paper and wood products. All structures are within the harbor area with the possible exception of two new dolphins by the passenger vehicle ferry slip. One industrial plant, Crown Zellerbach, has one 450-foot long irregularly shaped wharf to handle five differ- ent activities. These activities include shipment of paper products, receipt of fuel oil for plant consumption, receipt of mill supplies and equipment, black liquor for the plant, wood chips, sawdust and hog fuel. Logs are also brought into the plant from log rafts at the south end of the wharf. Two marinas are managed by the public port district. Four facilities in the harbor area are equipped to receive petroleum products. ----------------------------- 11972 Harbor Area Study Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 Two docks are extending into the harbor area that do not appear to have a lease agreement with Department of Natural Resources but other forms of agreement might have been entered into by the Department. City Dock, south of the Union Oil dock at the foot of Mad,ison Street, is a fishing and viewing pier about 30 feet wide near to the ferry landing. The Washington State Ferry Dock, south of the City Dock, is located at the foot of Quincy Street. Due to the breaking up of the Hood Canal bridge, much more ferry traffic is being handled than previously han- dled. A larger ferry was expected to be put on the ferry run the first part of the month of April. Large dolphins were recently installed in front of the ferry landing in anticipation of the larger ferries. A fishing pier extends over the southeastern breakwater in Port Hudson Marina. This fishing pier is not shown in the harbor area lease. An agreement might be located in another form in Department of Natural Resources files. It should probably be shown as in the harbor area. Physical Environment The mean range of tide at Port Townsend is 5.1 feet. The range between mean lower low water and mean higher high water is 8.3 feet with an extreme range of approxi- mately 16.5 feet. Because of the large daily inequality in this area, there may be only one high and one low water a day.2 The usual anchorage in the Port Townsend area is approximately one half mile south of the railcar ferry dock and slightly north of the Crown Zellerbach wharf. In southern gales, better anchorage is afforded off the north end of Marrowstone Island or near the head of the bay. Two explosive anchorages are available nearby.3 The shallow depth of the harbor restricts shipping to barge traffic, recreational and commercial fishing vessels, and the ferry slips. Future Demands The Washington State Ferry Commission is planning to move the passenger vehicular ferry landing because loading and unloading facilities are inadequate.4 Cars are lined up in nearby streets blocking off several streets while waiting to load onto the ferrieg. Two sites are being debated now in Port Townsend. The port officials would like to see the new ferry landing go in just south of the Point Hudson Marina and would like to have the Union Oil Company dock be used. Many townspeople prefer that it is located south of the railca-r ferry where lots of park- ing space would be available. No decision has been reached at this time. ----------------------------- 2Corps of Engineers, Port Townsend. 3Corps of Engineers, Port Townsend. 41nterview with George Randolph, Manager, Port of Port Townsend. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 The port officials would like to expand marina services at the Port Townsend Boat Haven. Dredging would be needed. They would like to develop the land south of the railcar ferry landing as a part of the same project and want to include the Hill Street Waterway, too. The port would like to have the waterway vacated as they are interested in exchanging, purchasing or leasing that land. The port manager will be contacting the Marine Land Management Supervisor to reopen that discussion. A small Marine Interpretive Center is planned for the abandoned Army pier at Fort Warden. An artificial habitat is located there now under an agreement with the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission at no charge. The Port of Port Townsend offers excellent anchorage for large vessels so there is a potential in Port Townsend for Lighters Aboard Ship (LASH) operations.5 ------------------------------ 5Reid, Middleton and Associates Inc., Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington and Portland, Oregon, Volume 11, Technical Supplement/Part 2, Edmonds, Washington 0975. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 Analysi (Conflicts/Needs) 1. Expansion is planned for the Port Townsend Boat Haven as a part of a larger project which would include vacation of the Hill Street Waterway. 2. A check should be made on the two docks jutting into the harbor area because no leases were found. One is a city dock for recreational purposes and the other is a ferry landing. Agreements may have been signed but not out into harbor area lease form. 3. The Washington State Ferry Commission will be moving the passenger vehicle landing. Department of Natural Resources might want to have input into the decision-making process as harbor area will be used. 4. The port manager wanted to know why there was a harbor area in front of Port Townsend. He would prefer to lease the land as beds as the port does at Hadlock Bay. He believes the rental charges would be less. In fact, he questions the need for the port to pay rent at all for their leases because the port is a public body and is providing services to the community. Irene Christy 4/6/79 VARIOUS METHODS OF STATING RENT IN PORT TOWNSEND HARBOR AREA Total Annual Net Income to DNR from harbor area leases $18,355-76 By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $18,128.oo #26 (20% of rent to DNR) 227-76 #27 (80% of rent to DNR) ------- #19 (bed in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) ------- $18,355 79' By Present Classifications: Water Dependent Commerce $18,355-76 Water Oriented Commerce ------- Other Water Dependent and Water Oriented Commerce ------- $18,355-76 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Shipping related $18,128.oo Water Dependent Uses, Marinas and boat repair 227-76 Water Oriented Uses ------- All Other Uses ------- $18,355-76 By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites ------- 0160 Marina Services 227-76 0180 Transportation Facilities 18,128.oo 0182 Aquatic Non-water Related Use ------- 0190 Log Booming and Rafting ------- 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls ------- $18,355.7C Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 6 Interviews: George Randolph, Manager, Port of Port Townsend Port Townsend Harbor Area file: Maps by DNR, Corps of Engineers, Dept. of Transportation Harbor Area Study, 1972, A Report to the Legislature Copy of section on Port Townsend Inventory Sheets Data Processing Sheets Marina locations from study by Oceanographic Institute of Washington, 1978 Rents detailed by classifications Port Series, Series No. 37, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1976, specific information on Port Townsend The Port of Port Townsend, from Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State and Portland, Oregon, 1975 Bibliography: U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Ports of Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Everett, Anacortes, and Bellingham, Washington, Port Series No. 37, Revised 1976- Reid, Middleton and Associates, Inc., Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State and Portland, Oregon, Volume 11, Technical Supplement/ Part 2, 1975, Edmonds, Washington Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy June 20, 1979 POULSBO HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction The City of Poulsbo is located in Liberty Bay, in Kitsap County. The harbor area at Poulsbo was established on April 12, 1916. The outer harbor line on the westerly and northerly side of Liberty Bay was located in water having a depth of about 10 feet at mean low tide. The inner harbor line was then drawn parallel to and 200 feet landward. On the easterly side of Liberty Bay, the outer harbor line was located in water having a depth of about 20 feet at mean low tide. The inner harborline was then drawn parallel to and 100 feet landward from the outer harbor line. Three waterways were established at that time. A public place was established on the northeasterly side of Liberty Bay for use for slips, landings, wharves and other conveniences of navigation and commerce, and not otherwise. That portion of waterway No. 3, lying northeasterly of the inner harbor line was vacated and set aside as a public place on August 11, 1922. The second supplemental map of Poulsbo relocated a portion of the outer harbor line on May 6, 1969. A waterway and the public place were eliminated at that time. The outer harbor line from the northeasterly line of waterway No. 1 and easterly about 2,100 feet was moved out into the water to be about 600 feet from the inner harbor line rather than the original 100 feet width. In 1978, the relocated outer harbor line was extended southeastward another 1,300 feet with the harbor area 600 feet wide. Poulsbo's harbor activities come under the jurisdiction of the Port of Poulsbo. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds 8 leases for harbor area in Poulsbo. Total of harbor area leased amount to 18.36 acres. Total acres in the harbor area designation are approximately 70 acres. This is approximately 26 percent of harbor area leased in Poulsbo. Rents collected by the Department of Natural Resources from these leases amounts to $2,117.00. This amounts to $115.30 annual income per acre for the leased harbor area. Total rent charged amounts to $3,065.00. Most of the harbor area is leased for marina purposes. Two oil company piers offload petroleum products. The exhibit for one of these piers (Lease #2426) shows the face of the pier outside the outer harbor line. A third pier that had been used for offloading petroleum products was assigned to the Poulsbo Yacht Club several months shortly after a 30-year lease was signed. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 one area leased to the port for marina purposes has had about one-fifth of the harbor area, or almost one acre, filled to establish a park and parking lot which is part of a larger parking area and shopping center on the uplands. The outer harbor line was relocated in this section of the town. The North Kitsap School District has a Marine Science Center leasing a small portion of harbor area. A number of school districts from the Seattle area also use this facility. Physical Characteristics The harbor area at Poulsbo is located in Liberty Bay with state oyster reserve lands located at the upper end of the bay. Liberty Bay is not far from and is due east of the U. S. Navy Trident Submarine Base at Bangor. It is located north of Bremerton and the Navy Yard. A critical biological area fronts much of the Poulsbo shoreline with surf smelt important in the spring, summer and fall. A critical faunal area for river otter is located at the eastern end of the harbor area and the adjacent tidelands. Future Demands Growth will come from expansion of recreational boating use. This is a quiet bay that is centrally located in Puget Sound and is accessible as a transient moorage site. The area attracts many boaters. The public port district anticipates the need for another pier in Lease #2247. The pier would run along the shore with two finger piers jutting waterward. This would be in front of the IAC-funded park. The port believes the marina development will require an additional three acres of bed presently waterward of the current outer harbor line, so a relocation of the outer harbor line will be needed. The Poulsbo Yacht Club has purchased some land and has had an assignment of a harbor area lease with plans for developing their own site. South of the leased harbor area is a large cove that is owned by the upland owner. At this time plans are to build apartments or condominiums on the upland site across the road with water access. This area might also be included in a larger marina facility. Possibly a private docking facility will be developed there with access needed in the harbor area. There is discussion locally of having a breakwater built from the Kitsap School District lease coming past the above-mentioned cove and over to the yacht club harbor area lease to give protection for the planned development. The cove area would be used for marina purposes. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. Anticipate a request for relocating the outer harbor line to allow for expansion of the marina in front of a portion of the American Legion Park. 2. A conflict might arise in expanding the marina in front of an IAC-funded park. Criteria established by DNR for use of the water in front of a shoreline park might prove helpful. The question that might come up is whether part of a marina can be located in front of an IAC-funded park. 3. The exhibit for Harbor Area Lease #2426 shows the face of the pier out past the outer harbor line approximately 15 feet. There is no separate U & 0 charge for this use of bedlands. A U & 0 charge could be included in the lease, although it doesn't so state, because the lease fee amounts to approximately $725.00 for one acre of harbor area and the lease next door for the same use comes to $480.00.for one-.,acre of@harbor area. The variance in rent could be because of the different years the leases were renewed. 4. Anticipate development of a yacht club and attendant piers in the south- eastern part of town. 5. Anticipate a request for building a breakwater approximately 1,500 feet long in harbor area if plans go through for development of the planned yacht club. The port might take over the Engman Lease #2358 and develop a marina needing the breakwater to include the marina and the proposed developments. Irene Christy Harbor Area Planning Project Page 4 Interview: Lowell Swearingen, Poulsbo Harbormaster MaLerials in file on Poulsbo harbor area. Maps by Department of Natural Resources Inventory sheets Data Processing Sheets Rents detailed by classifications Information on Poulsbo, 1972 Harbor Area Study Bibliography: Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching & Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, Wash. 19 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 Various Methods of Stating Rent in Poulsbo Harbor Area Rent to DNR from harbor area leases By Trust #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $ 845.00 #26 ( 20% of rent to DNR) 840.00 #27 ( 80% of rent to DNR) 1,380.00 #19 (beds in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) $3,065.00 By Present Classifications Water Dependent Commerce $1,937.00 Water Oriented Commerce other Water Dependent & Water Oriented Commerce 180.00 All Other Uses $2,117.00 By Adjusted Classifications Water Dependent Uses, Primary $ 515.00 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 19422.00 Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses 80.00 Water Oriented Uses, Industrial 100.00 All Other Uses $2,117.00 By Data Processing Categories 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites $ 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites 80.00 0160 Marina Services 1,272.00 0180 Transportation Facilities 665_00 0181 Processing, Mfg. Uses 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use 0190'Log Booming & Rafting 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 100.00 0252 Sewer Lines & Outfalls 4032 Materials Removal $2,117.00 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy May 16, 1979 SEATTLE HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction The City of Seattle is located in King County on Puget Sound, 124 nautical miles from the ocean entrance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. There are two types of harbor areas in King County. The tidal, salt water harbor area starts at a point just north of Meadow Point southward past Brace Point, almost to the southern Seattle city limits. This includes Elliott Bay and the face of Harbor Island. The non-tidal, fresh water harbor area includes sections of Lake Washington and Lake Union. The non-tidal, fresh water harbor area is not included in this report because they are managed differently than tidal, salt water harbor areas. The majority of uses in the tidal, salt water Seattle harbor area are concentrated in Elliott Bay. The Port of Seattle boundaries are the same as King County so both types of harbor area fall under port jurisdiction. Harbor lines were established in front of the City of Seattle with the outer harbor line in water approximately 50 feet deep at low water. The inner harbor line was located at a distance between high and low water in some places and on the meander line for a considerable distance. This original harbor area included Railroad Avenue, which had been built on pilings, for about two miles and also an area that included about 35 structures extending from Railroad Avenue out to deep water. These structures were built in an area the State claimed should have been reserved for public use. Litigation delayed implementing the resolution on Seattle harbor area until after the term of office had expired for which the Harbor Line Commission was appointed. The original harbor lines therefore were adopted by the Harbor Line1Commission but were never used as the established lines due to the litigation. The plats were not filed. 'Until the plats are filed, the harbor lines are not legally established. Harbor lines were then established in July, 1894, beginning at a point on the center of King Street at a depth of approximately 45 feet for the outer harbor line, running north to a point opposite the center of the channel of Salmon Bay. The inner harbor line was established at a line running parallel to the outer harbor line creating a width of 300 feet from Salmon Bay to King Street, then proceeding west to a point one mile west of the city limits. The Ballard harbor area was established on July 3, 1894, and was a continuation northerly of the Seattle harbor area. The outer harbor line was located in water ------------------------- lHarbor Area Study, 1972 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 generally 30 to 40 feet deep at low tide. The inner harbor line was then drawn parallel and 300 feet landward at right angles to the outer harbor line. In May, 1927, harbor lines were established west then south of the above described lines. This harbor area went around Duwamish Head and Alki Point to a point that was one mile south of the south city limits. In the vicinity of Alki Point the inner harbor line was drawn parallel with and 400 feed landward from the outer harbor line until the vicinity of Lincoln Beach. South of Lincoln Beach the width of the harbor area varies from 50 feet to 400 feet. In 1969 the outer harbor line was relocated waterward in front.of.llarbor.Island and also from a point at the end of Pier 37 on the east side of the East Waterway to a point where Madison Avenue would extend to the outer harbor line. In November, 1976, the inner harbor line was relocated waterward in front of Piers 50 and 51 leaving a narrow strip of harbor area in front of this section. Anchorages located in the Seattle Harbor are: in front of Harbor Island, an area west of Harbor Island anchorage, all along Magnolia Bluff and an area located in front of the grain elevator and the Elliott Bay Park. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds 46 leases and a number of easements in the salt water harbor area in Elliott Bay. Total acres in harbor area that are leased amount to about 177 acres. Total acres in the salt water harbor area in Seattle are approximately 950 acres, which leaves 773 acres not leased. This amounts to slightly less than 20 percent of the harbor area leased. The other 80 percent is not leased. Rent collected by Department of Natural Resources from the leases amounts to $382,123.16, which amounts to approximately $2,158 annual rent per acre. Total rent charged amounted to $490,879.67. The Port of Seattle is the largest port in Puget Sound and in the State. Seattle has a Foreign Trade Zone where commodities in transit can be stored, processed and reshipped without paying duty at the time of arrival in Seattle. The most advanced computer systeri in the maritime industry for handling cargo and planning ship movements is here.2 Leading imports for Seattle are limestone, lumber, gypsum, newsprint, sand, cars, --------------------------- 2Reid, Middleton & Associates, Inc. Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State & Portland, Oregon, Volume II, Technical Supplement, Part 2, 1975. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 metal sheet and plate, and electronic equipment. Major exports are grain, flour, wood pulp, logs, plywood, veneer, dried peas, hay, tallow, and pressed board.3 Harbor area leases are used for a grain terminal, receipt of oil, fish products, containerized cargo, a Coast Guard facility, tug and barge terminal, ship building and ways, rail car barges, a wood processing firm, marinas, parks, public fishing piers, hotel, restaurants, offices, retail shops, parking lots, harbor tours, ferry terminals, and aquariums. A new rail car barge facility is located on the western part of Elliott Bay. Rail cars are rolled on board by use of two tracks on a pontoon bridge. Piers 36 to 46 have had finger piers. The 88 acre area located between the finger piers and some of the old pier sites, has been filled in to make a quay-type wharf with several berths for container ships. The originally planned development for Piers 37 to 42 was scheduled as a base for a roll-on, roll-off shipping service.4 It will now be used for containerized cargo for the Pacific Rim trade. This will provide the back-up space needed for handling containerized cargo. The Port of Seattle states that at least 15 acres of back-up land is needed for each berth plus land for parking.5 Piers 48 through 70 are also old finger piers that have been developed in a different way. The area is set aside for uses "not related to navigation and commerce on urban waterfronts which presently need not be reserved to serve navigation and commerce purposes."6 The area is being developed under the new "Commercial Waterfront" classification allowing 30 year lease terms for retail shops, restaurants, and other people-oriented uses. Leases in this classification call for a facade of water dependent uses whenever possible. A question resulting from this action is: Do present lessees now reapply for 30 year leases or do they finish out their present terms (most of them already granted for 30 years) and then have the 30 year terms apply. The Harbor Line Commission Resolution called for limited renewals as well as the full term length of lease allowed by the State constitution. A lawsuit is pending that challenges this new use classification, stating that the constitutional mandate for harbor area is being contravened. ------------------------------- 3Ibid 4Noel Curtis Welch, Harbor Area Use Controversy, Fishing Pier Case Study, 1979. 5Port of Seattle Position Paper, for Seattle Central Waterfront Review Committee, December 1, 1977. 6Harbor Line Commission Resolution 249, adopted in February, 1979. Harbor Area. Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 An old finger pier in the harbor area located in the area of Elliot Bay designated Commercial Waterfront was ]eased in 1958 for the purpose of building a three story hotel on the site. The Edgewater inn was started in 1962 and finished in 1963. A 30 year lieu lease was signed in 1962. A fourth floor was later added on to the hotel. The company stated they needed more time for financing purposes so another 30 year lieu lease was entered into in 1968. The inner harbor line runs right along the sidewalk by Alaskan Way in this area for a short distance. This has presented problems in using harbor area for the constitutionally-mandated uses of navigation and commerce. Pier 71 is the Union Oil Company dock. Oil is unloaded at pierside but the tank farm is located inland, which keeps visual access open. This is especially appreciated because it is located between the Myrtle Edwards Park and the Commercial Waterfront area set aside for retail shops, restaurants, a park, a hotel and offices. Pier 86 is a large grain terminal built approximately ten years ago. A mitigation measure to reduce the harmful environmental effects of the project was the establishment of the Elliott Bay Park, now renamed the Myrtle Edwards Park. This is a narrow stretch of shoreline blocks long bounded by the bay and the railroad tracks and Pier 71 and Pier 86. Now being developed in harbor area Jn front of the Myrtle Edwards Park is a public fishing pier. A submerged artificial reef at the end of the pier is being installed to attract fish to the location. This public fishing pier was requested by the Washington State Department of Fisheries as a compensation measure for the Port of Seattle's filling in between finger piers to form the new Terminal 37.7 Piers 90 and 91, sometimes called the Pier 91 complex, encompassing 198 acres, is operated for both commercial and military shipping. In 1975, five federal agencies were based at the terminal. Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command, Military Traffic Management Command, Defe 9se Personnel Support Center and the U. S. Army Seattle Veterinary Branch. The port uses it for roll-on, roll-off cargo, with ------------------------------ 7Marc Hershman, Robert Goodwin, Andrew Ruotsala, Maureen McCrea, Yehuda Hayuth, Under New Management, Port Growth & Emerging Coastal Management Programs, A Washington Sea Grant Publication, University of Washington Press, 1978, Page 65. 8Port of Seattle Facilities Handbook, 1975. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 many major private lessees using the facilities, which include a number of ware- houses. Title to a portion of the harbor area in front of Piers 90 and 91 and the Smith's Cove Waterway were acquired by the federal government through con- demnation proceedings in Case,No. 469An U.-S.-District Court, Northern Division of Western Washington. A Commissioner's Order dated September 17, 1946 granted the land to the federal government. There is no record that the inner harbor line was relocated at the time of the grant. There are several sections in the Seattle harbor area for which Department of Natural Resources does not collect rent for management costs. 1. The East and West Waterways of the Duwamish River, alongside Harbor Island, have sections of harbor area that provide funds for the public port district only. The pierhead line is not coexistent with the state-established water- way but is out in the waterway 125 feet on each side of the two waterways. Structures were built between the State waterway line and the pierhead line. The law states that if such waterway is within a public port district and the port has built the structures, the entire 6ental from such improved strip of waterway goes to the public port district . Department of Natural Resources usually collects a Use & Occupancy Fee if structures have been built out past the waterway line or outer harbor line. 2. Another section of harbor area that the Department of Natural Resources does not collect rent on is the ferry terminal at Piers 52 and 53. The Washington State Department of Transportation maintains that a right-of-way is granted for public highway purposes.10 This raises the question of whether or not rent will be charged for Piers 50 and 51 when acquired for expansion of present ferry services. This last year the annual rent for Piers 50 and 51 amounted to $15,736 with $3,147.20 to Department of Natural Resources for management costs, $3,147.20 to the local Harbor Improvement Fund, and $9,441.60 to the State Capitol Campus Purchase and Development Fund for buildings on the East Capitol Campus. 3. The Department of Natural Resources receives no rent from vacated Pike Street, now a part of the aquarium, under an Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation Agreement. Rents are charged for leases on either side of this section and for the Central Waterfront Park. There are no notations on why one lease should be granted rent-free.11 ----------------------- 9RCW 79.16.190 10 RCW 47.12.020 11 See file on lease #HA 2372 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 6 4. The Coast Guard leases a small section of harbor area at Pier 36. They have not been paying rent because the Coast Guard contends they are exempt because of the right of navigational servitude that applies here. Physical Characteristics The Seattle Harbor is a natural deep water harbor with water depths over 175 feet. There are three channels in Elliott Bay - the East Waterway, the West Waterway and the Duwamish Waterway. These channels are deepened and maintained by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Seattle is served by three transcontinental railways, the Milwaukee Road, Burlington Northern and Union Pacific. Burlington Northern has rail yards north of Piers 90 and 91 and in the Duwamish Basin. The Union Pacific and Milwaukee Road have a rail yard east of the Duwamish Waterway facilities. A large rail yard in the rear of the East Waterway terminals, jointly used by all three lines, provides rail access to all port docks. The Alaska Hydro-Train rail-car barge operation connects with the Alaska railway system. Seattle is served by two major freeway systems - Interstate 5, a north/south six lane freeway and Interstate 90 serving eastern Washington and the Midwest states. Future Plans The area between the finger piers called Piers 36 to 46 is being filled in and the project is nearing completion. Terminal 37, as it will be called, will be used for containerized cargo.12 Some time in the future the Port of Seattle might want to fill in between Piers 46 and 48. Development is going on up the Duwamish River but this area is not in the harbor area. The port eventually would like to see the oil tanks and oil deliveries moved from Harbor Island to make way for other industrial uses. Filling in around Piers 90 and 91 is looked at as a possibility to create more land when needed.13 ------------------------------ 12 Staff Report, Background Analysis of the Port of Seattle Development, Capital Improvement Requirements and Financial Review, 1978. 13Glenn Lansing, Deputy General Manager, Port of Seattle, Interview. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 7 The Port of Seattle has kept development of the harbor area confined to Elliott Bay. The harbor area runs north just past Meadow Point but there is no develop- ment between the Pier 91 complex and Meadow Point except for the Shilshole Marina. Also, the harbor area runs from Duwamish Head, around Alki Point, and to the Lincoln Beach area but no harbor area leases have been granted for this section of harbor area. LASH type of service to Seattle was seen as not economically R asible for trans-pacific travel so probably will not be used in Seattle. ----------------------------- 141bid Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 8 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. In December, 1974, the Port of Seattle purchased the Pier 91 complex from the federal government, including a portion of harbor area and the Smith's Cove Waterway. The inner harbor line in front of this section of Elliott Bay should be relocated by the Harbor Line Commission because the State Constitution forbids the sale or grant of land within a harbor area. It also forbids relinquishing the State's right to control harbor areas. This action would remove the partion of granted land from the harbor area designation. 2. In the Pier 67 issue, the King County Assessor stated that buildings become the property of the lessor (in this case, the State) upon construction. (See letter in file #HA 2096.) Department of Natural Resources has not claimed buildings when first built but has stated that they become the property of the State at the end of the lease period and then only when the harbor area is not re-leased. There needs to be a policy established on conditions to be met when the State takes over. Criteria to be considered might include what responsibilities both the lessee and the lessor have. 3. When the 30 year lease term begins on Commercial Waterfront - designated leases - the criteria for granting renewals, should be specified. 4. Criteria to qualify for rent-free leases should be established. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 9 VARIOUS METHODS OF STATING RENT IN SEATTLE HARBOR AREA By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $255,478.52 #26 ( 20% of rent to DNR) 20,558.76 #27 ( 80% of rent to DNR) 106,085.88 #19 (bed in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) ---------- $382.123.16 By Present Classifications: Water Dependent Commerce $235,708.13 Water Oriented Commerce 18,244.80 Other Water Dependent and Water Oriented Commerce 72,666.64 All other Uses 55,503.59 $382,123.16 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary $154,884.23 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 80,823.90 Water Oriented Public Uses 41,395.60 Water Oriented Industrial Uses 18,244.80 All Other Uses 86,774.63 $382,123.16 By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites $ 19,877.40 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Use - Single Use Dock 2,346.80 0160 Marina Services 6,492.50 0180 Transportation Facilities 236,124.46 0181 Processing, Activities Requiring Waterfront Location 72'742.80 0182 Aquatic Non.Water Related Use 109,539.20 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls -------- $382,123.16 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 10 Interviews: Glenn Lansing, Deputy General Manager, Port of Seattle Linda Christopherson, Office of Economic Development, City of Seattle Randall McGreevy, Office of Environmental Management, City of Seattle Seattle Harbor Area File, available for perusal: Maps by DNR, Corps of Engineers, Department of Transportation, Port of Seattle, City of Seattle Harbor Area Study, 1972, A Report to the Legislature, by the Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, and Department of Ecology Inventory Sheets for Seattle Harbor Area Data Processing Sheets for Seattle Harbor Area Rents detailed by classifications Marina locations from study by the Oceanographic Institute of Washington, 1978 Seattle Shoreline Master Program, 1976 Reid, Middleton & Associates, portion on Port of Seattle, Port Systems Study, 1975 Harbor Line Commission Resolutions 249 & 250 Public Shellfishing Sites in Seattle, Department of Fisheries Staff Report, Background Analysis of the Port of Seattle Development, Capital Improvement Requirements & Fianacial Review, 1978 Reclaimed Tidelands in Elliott Bay (Map), from Shoreline Utilization in the Greater Seattle Area, A. E. Hall, et al, 1968 Goals for Seattle 2000, 1968, portions of Water Uses, Seattle Shoreline Inventory, 1973 Port of Seattle Facilities Handbook Bibliography: Reid, Middleton & Associates, Inc., Port Syste Study, Vol. II, Technical Supplement/Part--2, Ednond.s, Washington,, March., 19.75.' Port Series No. 36, Revised 1975, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, U. S. Government Printing Office Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, and Department of Ecology, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the 43rd Legislature, 1972 Oceanographic Inst.ftute'@f Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching @Inj Moorage Facilities in Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978 Shorelit,e. Master Program, City of Seattle, 1976 Marc Hershman, Robert Goodwin, Andrew Ruotsala, Maureen McCrea, Yehude Hayuth, Under New Management, Port Growth & Emerging Coastal Management Program , Washington Sea Grant Publication, University of Washington, Seattle, 1978 Noel Curtis Welch, Harbor Area Use Controversy, Fishing Pier Case Study, Paper for Instit@u-tefor Marine Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, 1979 Ralph W. Johnson, Eileen M. Cooney, Harbor Lines & the Public Trust Doctrine in Washingto Navigable Waters, Washington Law Review article, Vol. 54; 275, 1979 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy April 6, 1979 Shelton Harbor Area Report Introduction Shelton harbor area is situated in front of the City of Shelton in Mason County. The harbor area was established in Shelton in 1892. The outer harbor line was located in water having a depth of 30 feet or more. Hammersley Inlet, east of Shelton, slopes to water having a depth of 30 feet rather quickly. The inner harbor line was then located 600 feet landward from the outer harbor line until it intersected the government meander line, and then the inner harbor line was located coincident with the government meander line.1 No changes have been made in the harbor lines since they were established. The Shelton harbor area comes under the jurisdiction of the Port of Shelton. Present Uses There are seven leases in the harbor area in Shelton in front of the City of Shelton or in the constitutional one mile beyond the city limits. Total acres leased amount to 42.74 acres out of a total of 80 acres in harbor area designation. This amounts to slightly more than 50 percent leased out. Net rent collected by the Department of Natural Resources from these leases amounts to $6,787.30. With 42.74 acres leased, this amounts to approximately $158.80 per acre annual income for harbor area leases in Shelton. Total rent charged for Shelton harbor area leases amounts to $8,233.30. Shelton Harbor is used mainly for log booming and rafting with 36.26 acres leased by Simpson Timber Company for that purpose. There appears to be more log storage in Oakland Bay and Chapman Cove, Northeast of Shelton harbor area, than is stored in Shelton waters or harbor area. After the orthophoto arrives and harbor lines are drawn on an overlay, a check should be made to see if some log rafts north of the port marina are outside the outer harbor line. Highway 3 runs along the northern shore and is to be widened by the State Department of Transportation. There is presently very little land between ------------------------------ lHarbor Line Commission, The Attorney General, The Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, 1972 Harbor Area Study. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 the road and the water now and there will be less when the road is widened. This area is not seen as desirable or suitable for industrial development.2 Two oil piers at the north end of the harbor area have not been used in several years.3 These piers are in the harbor area and had been leased from the Department of Natural Resources. Union Oil Company still pays rent for the land where their pier is located. The other company has not paid rent since the lease was terminated by Shell Oil Company in 1972. Shell Oil Com- pany continues to use the uplands but has not been leasing the harbor area. The dock, located in harbor area, is old and is in poor condition. The Port of Shelton has a public dock that juts out slightly into the harbor area for berthing boats. The Shelton Yacht Club has a clubhouse adjacent to the port dock, but not within the harbor area. Yacht Club members lease some of the berths from the Port of Shelton. A new sewage treatment plant was built south of the city. The city does lease a portion of harbor area and bed for a waste treatment outfall. Physical Environment Goldsborough Creek empties into the shallow bay. Harbor lines are drawn at the mouth of the bay where the outer harbor line is located in water having a depth of 30 feet or more. Future Demands A park is contemplated quite a distance inland from the harbor area in front of the City of Shelton. No changes are anticipated unless it would be expan- sion of the port marina. --------------------------- 21nterview with Mr. Delphi, engineer, Town of Shelton. 31nterview with Mr. Roselle, B & R Oil Company, also with Mr. Delphi. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. Check to see if some log rafts north of the bay are outside the harbor area. 2. The Department of Natural Resources should consider action to be taken on the old Shell Oil Company pier. The Department of Natural Resources should either charge rent or lay claim to the pier. The old pier probably should be removed. The Department of Natural Resources needs a policy . which sets criteria on when structures are no longer leased, if insurance is needed, or under what circumstances structures should be removed. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 VARIOUS METHODS OF STATING RENT IN SHELTON HARBOR AREA Total Annual Income to DNR from harbor area leases $6,787.30 By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $6,425.80 #26 ( 20% of rent to DNR) 361.50 #27 ( 80% of"rent to DNR) ------ #19 (bed in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) ------ @6,787. By Present Classifications: Water Dependent Commerce $ 541.50 Water Oriented Commerce 6,175.80 Other Water Dependent and Water Oriented Commerce 70.00 All Other Uses ------ $6,787.30 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary $ 180.00 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 361.50 Water Oriented, Public Uses ------ Water Oriented, Industrial Uses 6,245.80 All Other Uses $6,787*30 By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites $------ 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites ------ 0160 Marina Services 361.50 0180 Transportation Facilities 180.00 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use ------ 0190 Log Booming and Rafting 6,175.80 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 70.00 $6,787.30 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 Interviews: Bill White, Manager, Port of Shelton Mr. Delphi, Engineer, Town of Shelton Mr. Roselle, B & R Oil Company, Shelton Materials in the file: Maps by DNR, DOT Data Processing Sheets Inventory Sheet Rents detailed by classifications Information and map of Shelton Harbor Area from the 1972 Harbor Area Study Information from Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington Bibliography: Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General and Department of Ecology. Harbor Area Study, A Report to the 43rd Legislature, State of Washington, 1972 Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, 1978 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy May 21, 1979 SNOHOMISH HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction - The City of Snohomish is located in Snohomish County on the Snohomish River. It is southeast of the City of Everett. The harbor area at Snohomish was established by the Harbor Line Commission in May, 1892. The harbor area at Snohomish is located on the north and the east side of the Snohomish River. The outer harbor line was located parallel to and 50 feet from the high tide line. The inner harbor line was then drawn 50 feet landward as measured at right angles from the outer harbor line. There is no public port district in Snohomish. Present Uses - The Department of Natural Resources holds one lease and one easement in the Snohomish harbor area, both lease and easement are with the City of Snohomish. The leased area is used for a boat launch and the easement is for a water pipeline. The boat launch uses .21 acres of harbor area and the easement uses .02 acres of harbor area. There is no charge for the easement and there is a charge of $63.00 annually for the boat launch ramp. There are 20 acres in the Snohomish harbor area. Physical Characteristics - The city of Snohomish is located at a bend in the Snohomish River. The area around the harbor area is designated flood plain in the 1995 Community Development Policy Plan for the City of Snohomish. I Future Demands - The 1995 Plan for the City of Snohomish states: "The City should encourage the private development and/or the use of available federal and state grants and revenue to construct and maintain wharfs, piers and a boat launch or marina along the Snohomish River." The boat launch area will be built in the southwest corner of the City of Snohomish. Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) 1. Little use will be made of the Snohomish harbor area. 2. The Harbor Line Commission might need to consider disestablishment of the Snohomish harbor area. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 Interviews: Tim Motzer, Planner, City of Snohomish Materials in file of Snohomish harbor area Maps by Department of Natural Resources, Department of Transportation inventory sheet Data Processing sheets 1995 Community Development Policy Plan for the City of Snohomish Portion of 1972 Harbor Area Study relating to Snohomish Bibliography: 1995 Community Development Policy Plan for the City of Snohomish Harbor Line Commission, Attorney General, Department of Ecology of the State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the Legislature, 1972 Rents by Classifications in Snohomish harbor area By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $63.00 By Present Classifications: Other Water Dependent or Water Oriented Uses 63.00 By Adjusted Classifications: Water Oriented, Public Uses 63.00 By Data Processing Categories: 071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites 63.00 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy December 13, 1978 STEILACOOM HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction - Steilacoom is located in Pierce County situated south of the City of Tacoma and the Tacoma Narrow Bridge. Harbor lines were established at Steilacoom in 1891. The outer harbor line was located in water deeper than 30 feet and parallel to and 400 feet off- shore in Puget Sound from the government meander line, except for approx- imately the northerly 5,000 feet where it was moved out to 600 feet from the meander line. The inner harbor line was then located coincident with the government meander line. The inner harbor line was relocated and first class tidelands were created in front of the Town of Steilacoom in 1965. The widest point in the relocation was approximately 200 feet and the relocation ran for almost 1,400 feet. The Steilacoom harbor area comes under the jurisdiction of the Port of Tacoma. Present Uses - There are seven leases and one easement in the harbor area in front of the City of Steilacoom and one mile beyond the city limits. Total acres leased amount to 15.65 acres out of a total of 235 acres included in harbor area at Steilacoom. A small portion of harbor area is used with approximately 220 acres unleased. Net rent collected by the Department of Natural Resources from these leases is $3,124.70, with 15.65 acres leased, this amounts to $199.66 annual average income per acre. Total rent charged for the harbor area leases is also $3,124.70. Major activities in the harbor area are the Washington State Ferry Terminal, which includes a ferry to McNeil Island, a marina and a sand and gravel operation. New pilings were being placed at the terminal in December, 1978. The harbor area was expanded, in 1977, to include this improvement at the ferry terminal. Physical Environment - Railroad tracks run along the coastline the length of the harbor area with residences and wooded area upon the hillsides above the train tracks. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 Future Demands - There are no plans for new development at this time. Analysis (Conflict/Needs.' - None. Interviews: Don Mosman, Deputy Executive Director, Port of Tacoma Gary Kucinski, Planner, Part of Tacoma County Planner, Pierce County Planning Department Materials on File: Maps by Department of Natural Resources Harbor Area Study, 1972, information on Steilacoom Inventory Sheet Rents detailed by classifications Data processing sheets on each lease Marina locations in Steilacoom, Oceanographic Institute of Washington, 1978 Bibliography: Harbor Line Commision, Attorney General and Department of Ecology, State of Washington, Harbor Area Study, A Report to the 43rd Legislature, 1972. Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities, Seattle, 1978 Harbor Ar ea Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 Various Methods of Stating Rent in Steilacoom Harbor Area Rent to DNR from harbor area leases $3,124.70 By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) 3,124.70 #26 ( 20% of rent to DNR) --- #27 ( 80% of rent to DNR) --- #19 (beds in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) --- 3,124.70 By Present Classifications: A Water Dependent Commerce 2,824.70 B Water Oriented Commerce --- C Other Water Dependent & Water Oriented Commerce 300.00 D All Other Uses --- 3,124.70 By Adjusted Classifications: 1 Water Dependent Uses, Primary 2,446.70 2 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 378.00 3 Water Oriented Uses, Public Uses --- 4 Water Oriented Uses, Industrial 300.00 5 All Other Uses --- 3,124.70 By Data Processing Categories: 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites --- 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Sites --- 0160 Marina Services 378.00 0180 Transportation Facilities .1,196.70 0181. Processing, Mfg. Uses 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use --- 0190 Log Booming & Rafting --- 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 200.00 0248 Roads, Bridges, Ferry Terminals 1,250.00 0252 Sewer Lines & Outfalls 100.00 4032 Matrials Removal --- 3,124.70 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy 1/2/79 TACOMA HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Tacoma Harbor is located in Pierce County on Commencement Bay. Commencement Bay is approximately two miles wide with a water depth of 560 feet at the entrance. Seven waterways and the mouth of the Puyallup River have been dredged in this tidal plain with dredged spoil material used for reclamation of adjacent land areas.1 This deepwater port is served by three transcontinental railroads and connects with both north - south and east flowing freeways. Harbor lines extend from just south of Day's Island, north past Point Defiance Park, down into Commencement Bay. The harbor area ends at Blair Waterway rather than extending to the city limits because county lines have moved north around Dash Point. The land north of the present harbor area is used for harbor area - designated purposes - log rafts, marinas and storage of barges. The harbor area was established on September 5, 1894. The outer harbor line was located in water having a depth of 45 feet at low tide. The inner harbor line was then drawn parallel to and 300 feet landward to the outer harbor line except for a length 11-4 miles on the southwest side of Commencement Bay. There the width of the harbor area was reduced to 100 feet and then increased to 600 feet for the remaining area. The harbor area was relocated waterward in the vicinity of the Town of Ruston and Point Defiance Park in 1961. The state, the Metropolitan Park District and the Tacoma Yacht Club became aware of the fact that the area leased to the yacht club by the Park District, including a spit formed by slag dumped by the Tacoma Smelter,was waterward of the outer harbor line. The Harbor Line Commission re- located the harbor area and created new tidelands over which the state had full ownership and included previously developed improvements within the newly created harbor area. Portions of Blair Waterway, formerly called the Port Industrial or Wapato Water- way,werc@vacated in 1953. A portion of the Puyallup Waterway was vacated in 1949. Approximately 1,100 feet of Day Island Waterway was vacated in 1919. A portion of the Puyallup Waterway was vacated in 1949. Wilton Waterway was vacated in 1931. Harbor lines were relocated in front of the grain terminal on Bayside Drive in 1973; mapped in 1977. A Supplemental Map of City Waterway, Tacoma Tidelands, shows two harbor areas were established in portions of City Waterway in 1976. A public place was established at the same time and shows on the same map. A corrected Supplemental Map of City Waterway, Tacoma Tidelands, was drawn in 1978. Harbor line corrections were made at that time. - - - - - - - - - - IU.S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Ports of Tacoma, Grays Harbor, & Olympia, Washington, Port Series No. 35, Revised 1975, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975. p.l. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 The Tacoma harbor area comes under the jurisdiction of the Port of Tacoma. Present Uses The Department of Natural Resources presently holds 30 leases in the harbor area in Commencement Bay and around the shoreline past Point Defiance Park, City of Tacoma, County of Pierce. Total acres leased are 166 acres. Total acres included in harbor area are approximately 560 acres. This is approximately 33 percent of the harbor area. The balance of harbor area is withdrawn from use or is unused. Net rent collected by Department of Natural Resources from these leases is $69,980.38. With 166 acres leased, this amounts to approximately $421.00 per acre annual income for harbor area leases in the Tacoma harbor area. Total amount charged for harbor area leases amounts to $71,440.27. The Port of Tacoma, which has the responsibility to provide space for shipping facilities and industrial use, is the second largest public port district in Puget Sound and in the state. The port has facilities to handle any kind of cargo from containerized general cargo to break bulk as well as logs, grain, dry and liquid bulk commodities. Tacoma's facilities provide for the discharge of alumina into two large domes and for the discharge of bulk ores for shipment via rail. The grain terminals are located in Commencement Bay; one along Bayside Drive and the other on Blair Waterway. A large smelter is situated on Ruston Way. The smelter is one of the few copper refineries on deep water so they receive ore from many parts of the world. Uses within the harbor area include grain terminals, smelter, a herring pen, boat- houses, sewer lines and outfalls, portion of a paper mill, log pond, oil handling, several marinas, boat repair, log rafting, restaurant, fire boat dock and station, and a public ferry dock. Physical Environment Shoreline designation for the shorelines of the City of Tacoma is "urban" from the smelter, in the Town of Ruston, north and east through the industrial area to the northern city limits. This includes the area north of the Hylebos Water- way along Marine View Drive where there is no harbor area. It was designated urban because of its close proximity to existing 2rban 'development and because of its potential for deep draft terminal facilities. At Point Defiance Park from the northern edge of Salmon Beach housing to the present northern limit of beach fill at Owens Beach is designated a "natural" environment. This area consists of beach and steep bluffs. The remaining areas of Owens Beach and Point Defiance Park are designated "conservancy" because of the public oriented recreational nature. This area contains a public beach, - - - - - - - - - - 2Tacoma Master Shoreline Program, Revised August, 1976. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 boathouse, restaurant and shops, a public ferry landing, and a private yacht club.2 The area from the southern extent of Titlow Park (6th Avenue extended) to the northern end of Salmon Beach is an area of steep slopes. Railroad tracks occupy nearly the entire length of the area at the water's edge. The harbor area from Day's Island to the commercial uses in Point Defiance Park is withdrawn from use by action of the Harbor Line Commission. Tacoma has a deepwater harbor with water depths in excess of 100 feet within 1,000 feet of the periphery of the Commencement Bay shoreline. Vessels are authorized to anchor outside of the outer harbor line in Commencement Bay. However, the bay is considered too deep for convenient anchorage. Future Demands When discussing long range plans - up to 50 years - Port of Tacoma personnel stated that they would be interested in filling in and developing harbor area between Blair, Sitcum and the Puyallup River because the tidelands and uplands are-port owned property. The area directly landward of the harbor area south of Puyallup River is not port owned. The port would like to fill between the Hylebos and Blair Waterways, which is not harbor area. They would also like to fill, some time in the future, the Milwaukee Waterway and out in front of that site, which is harbor area. The possibility of extending harbor lines north in front of Hylebos and up past there was discussed with port personnel. The state grants leases for bedlands for log rafts, marinas and storage of barges in the area. The port is not inter- ested in the establishment of a harbor area for that area. A portion of the north side of City Waterway is leased for bulk terminals and oil handling facilities. If the oil terminals are moved or the leases are given up, the port would consider buying the land. They would not be interested in estab- lishing harbor lines here either even though two harbor areas recently were established in portions of City Waterway. The desirability of changing the constitutional restriction of 30 years on leases of harbor area land was discussed. Port officials believe extending length of leases could be beneficial. A two-year baseline study of Commencement Bay has begun by a committee of local, state and federal agencies. The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers will act as the lead agency. The information will be put on the City of Tacoma's data processing system so the information can be used by many planning agencies.3 - - - - - - - - - - 2Tacoma Master Shoreline Program, Revised August, 1976. 3Commencement Bay Study Meeting, March 22, 1979, at U. S. Corps of Engineers office, Seattle Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 Analysis (Conflicts/needs) 1. The port would like to fill in some areas included in the harbor area designation eventually. 2. Extension of the harbor area north might be deemed desirable. Present uses coincide with harbor area uses and it would limit the extent to which barges could be moored and marinas could be built. County and city lines were moved but harbor lines were not extended at that time. 3. A National Guard pier was located between Blair and Hylebos Waterways. The port purchased the land. If harbor lines were extended past that area, the lines would have to be moved waterward because the port owns most of that property. Only the tip of the pier is located on state land and that is leased from Department of Natural Resources. 4. Harbor lines are not always consistent with pierhead or bulkhead lines. An attempt might be made to coordinate these lines. Inner and outer harbor lines often serve a similar purpose; that is, to restrict filling to the bulkhead and inner harbor lines and to extend piers to the pierhead and outer harbor lines. 5. The baseline study of Commencement Bay will include studying the effects of the two disposal sites in the harbor and consideration of relocation of the City Waterway Channel. If the channel is to be relocated or abolished, it will have to be presented to Congress in the form of a study resolution. The city is considering requesting extending the new harbor areas in City Waterway or establishing more harbor areas there. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy VARIOUS METHODS OF STATING RENT IN TACOMA HARBOR By Trusts: #25 (100% of rent to DNR) $61,392.22 #26 ( 20% of rent to DNR) 2,756.00 #27 ( 80% of rent to DNR) 5,692.16 #19 (bed in front of harbor area, 100% to DNR) 50-00 $69,89073-9 By Present Classifications: Water Dependent Commerce $27,500-70 Water Oriented Commerce 37,940-93 Other Water Dependent and Water Oriented Commerce 3,448-75 All Other Uses -------- $69,89_0_.__3T By Adjusted Classifications: Water Dependent Uses, Primary $14,986-30 Water Dependent Uses, Secondary 12,514.40 Water Oriented Public Uses 2,850-00 4 Water Oriented Industrial Uses 37,207-93 All Other Uses --------- $69,890-.3-9- By Data Processing Categories 0071 Other Governmental Recreation Sites $ 2,850-00 0140 Non-Commercial Aquatic Use - Single Use Dock 4,700.16 0160 Marina Services 12,514.40 0180 Transportation Facilities 23,531.89 0181 Processing, Activities Requiring Waterfront Location 18,135-00 0182 Aquatic Nonwater Related Use 498-75 0190 Log Booming and Rafting 7,560.18 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 100.00 $69,89073T Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 6 Interviews: Don Mosman, deputy executive director, Port of Tacoma Gary Kucinski, planner, Port of Tacoma County Planner, Pierce County Planning Department City Planner, Tacoma Planning Department Tacoma Harbor Area file, available for perusal: Maps by DNR, Corps of Engineers, City of Tacoma Shoreline Master Program, DNR Marine Atlas Harbor Area Study, 1972, A Report to the Legislature, by the Harbor Line Commission, Dept. of Ecology, Attorney General, and Dept. of Natural Resources Summary of Inventory Sheets (work sheets) for Tacoma Harbor Area Rents detailed by classifications Port Series #35, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1976, specific information on the uses in Tacoma Harbor Data processing sheets on each DNR lease Marina locations from study by Oceanographic Institute of Washington, 1978 Master Program for Shoreline Development, Portion from Tacoma, Wash., revised 1976 Reid, Middleton & Associates, portion on Port of Tacoma, Inc., Port Systems Study, Vol.11, Technical Supplement/Port 2, Edmonds, Wash., March, 1975 Bibliography: Port Series No. 35, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Ports of Tacoma, Grays Harbor, and Olym2ia, Wash., 1975, U. S. Government Printing Office Harbor Area Study, A Report to the 43rd Legislature, 1972, by the Harbor Line Commission, Dept. of Ecology, Attorney General, and Dept. of Natural Resources Shoreline Master Program for City of Tacoma Survey of Marine Boat Launching and Moorage Facilities in Washington, by Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Seattle, Wash., Aug. 18, 1978 Reid, Middleton and Associates, Inc., Port System Study, Vol. 11, Technical Supplement/Part 2, Edmonds, Wash., March 1975. G. R. Haab, Refinery Manager, Sound Refining Co., Tacoma. Speech given at Oil Forum 3/24/79. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy February 23, 1979 VANCOUVER HARBOR AREA REPORT Introduction Vancouver is located on the north bank of the Columbia River just above the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. The harbor is 97 nautical miles from the Pacific Ocean and 13 nautical miles north of Portland, Oregon.1 Harbor area was established infront of the City of Vancouver in 1892. The outer harbor line was located in water having a depth of about 10 feet at low tide. The inner harbor line was then located parallel to and 150 feet landward. The harobr area varies from a minimum of 50 feet to a maximum of approximately 250 feet. The map extending harbor lines one mile beyond the westerly and the easterly city limits was adopted in 1944. The outer harbor line needs to be relocated to meet the federal pierhead line along portions of the harbor area to cover existing improvements built in the 1930's and 1940's plus a new dock presently being built. This area is west of the railroad bridge. An addition to the law granting authority to the Harbor Line Commission to relocate harbor lines was enacted by the Legislature in 1977 enabling the Commission to relocate harbor lines at Vancouver. Harbor lines need to be relocated east of the railroad bridge at the same time to include two structures built out past the outer harbor line. One structure is used for receipt and shipment of bulk cement and receipt of petroleum pro- ducts. The other is a floating offshore wharf for receipt of wood pulp and fuel oil for plant consumption.2 City limits were extended by annexing land west of the city up to the end of the present harbor area. --------------------------------- 1 Reid, Middleton and Associates, Inc., Edmonds, Washington. Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State & Portland, Oregon. 1975 - The Port of Vancouver, in their brochure Port of Vancouver, Washington, USA states it is 106 river miles from the Pacific Ocean. The Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, in The Ports of Coos Bay & Astoria, Oregon, Longview & Vancouver, Washington, & Ports on Columbia River, Port Series No. 33, Revised 1975, states that Vancouver is 92 nautical miles from the Pacific Ocean. 2. Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, The Ports of Coos Bay.@ Astoria, Oregon, Longview & Vancouver, Washington, & Ports on Columbia River, Port Series No. 33, Revised 1975. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 2 Present Uses There are 17 leases in the harbor area in front of the City of Vancouver. Total acres leased amount to 43.70 acres out of a total of 85 acres in the harbor area of Vancouver. This is about half of the harbor area. The balance of the harbor area is unoccupied. The outer harbor line will be relocated in front of port leased aquatic land up to the railroad bridge. The area orig- inally proposed to be relocated amounts to 23.65 acres. Additional acreage will be added with extension of the relocation of the outer harbor line east of the railroad bridge. Net rent collected by the Department of Natural Resources from the leases is $13,333.64. With 43.70 acres leased presently, this amounts to approximately $305.00 per acre annual income for harbor area leases in Vancouver. Total rent charged amounts to $26,586.00. The Port of Vancouver has become the cargo exchange terminal for river barges and ocean vessels because it is the farthest deep-water port upstream on the Columbia River. No ocean vessels go past the railroad bridge but there is barge traffic to the river barge ports on the Columbia and Snake Rivers as far inland as Lewiston, Idaho. The Port of Vancouver handles the following cargo: alumina, cement, dry bulk material, grain, logs, paper products, petroleum products, steel products and modules, and wood pulp. The harbor area is leased for the loading of dry bulk cargo, cement and fuel, for a turning basin and moorage area, for access, barge loading and unloading, ways for launching offshore drilling rigs, restaurant and hotel, transmission lines, sewer outfalls and effluent discharge pipelines. Terminal 2 is a multi-purpose terminal 1,640 foot long which can provide berthing space for four ocean going vessels. A grain elevator is on the east side of Terminal 2 and an oil dock on the west side. Downstream from the oil dock a new dock is being built to handle ocean-going vessels. The oil dock facility is leased and operated by three oil companies. It is used for receipt and shipment of petroleum products by multi-use river barges which carry wheat downstream and oil upstream on the Columbia River. Pipelines extend from the dock to storage tanks. The grain elevator dock3 has two berths just west of the railroad bridge. Facilities at the grain elevator complex store grain transported by rail, truck or barge and loads into ocean-going vessels. Surface railroad tracks connected to the Burlington Northern railway system serve a car dumper and car pits. -------------------------------- 3 Reid, Middleton & Associates, Inc., Edmonds, Washington, Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State & Portland, Oregon, Volume 11, 1975. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 3 No marinas are in Vancouver harbor area and the port has no plans for building any at this time. The new dock, conveyor system and rail spur will serve a dry-bulk facility. The facility will handle primarily ammonia sulphate, a variety of fertilizers, alumina, bauxite and zircon sand.4 Physical Environment The main Columbia River Channel is dredged and maintained at a 40 foot depth and a 600 foot width. At Vancouver the channel widens to form an 800 foot wide and one mile long waterway, called the Lower Turning Basin just downstream from the railroad bridge. This basin provides deep-water access for ocean- going vessels to Terminal 2 and to the grain elevator. This Lower Turning Basin has a maintained minimum depth of 40 feet. Tides have a range of about 2 feet. A second widening, the Upper Turning Basin, is downstream from the Interstate 5 bridge. This has served Terminal 1, which is no longer used as a marine ter- minal but rather is used as commercial waterfront for a restaurant and a hotel. The main deep-water channel ends here. Anchorages generally used are Vancouver Lower and Upper Anchorages. The Lower Anchorage is in the Columbia River just southeastward of the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers and to the southwest of the dredged channel. The Upper Anchorage which can hold eight to ten vessels, is in the Columbia River just northwest of the railroad bridge and to the southwest of the Vancouver Lower Turning Basin. Anchorage is in the Willamette River at Portland and is available in case of emergency or during inclement weather.5 The Vancouver harbor is served by three transcontinental railway systems; Burlington Northern, United Pacific and the Milwaukee Road. Vancouver is the transfer and switching center for the three major rail lines and can hold in excess of 1,500 cars. The rail yard is located just north of the Port's Terminal 2. The Port of Vancouver intersects or is near three major highways. Interstate 5 runs north and south, and Washington State Highway 14 and Oregon State Highway 80 go east. ------------------------------------ 4 Regional Planning Council of Clark County OEDP Subcommittee, Overall Economic Development Plan, 1978 Update. 5 The Port System Study, prepared by Reid, Middleton and Associates, Inc., 1975, states: No defined areas have been designated as anchorage grounds at the Port of Vancouver. Anchorage may be obtained near the outer edge of the chan- nel providing the center of the fairway is not obstructed. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 4 There is a 20 minute drive from the Port of Vancouver to the Portland International Airport. Future Demands A new 500 foot wharf is being built now in the Terminal 2 complex. This should be completed in the next few months. Long term future plans call for expansion of this new wharfing area another 1,500 feet toward the railroad bridge. Relocation of harbor lines will encompass this expansion in the harbor area. Further plans for future expansion of Terminal I call for continuing the present non-water oriented uses. The Port is considering purchasing farmland along the Columbia waterfront for future development for navigation and commerce including a pier. This area would be outside the harbor area even when the harbor area is extended to one mile outside present city limits. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 5 Analysis (Conflicts/Needs) Certain actions need to be taken to legalize structures already built or presently being built that are outside the outer harbor lines. 1. Relocate the outer harbor line from the east line of harbor area Lease #2147 to the present northwesterly end of the harbor area to coincide with the federal pierhead line with one minor exception. 2. Extend the harbor area to the constitutionally designated one mile past city limits on the northwestern limits of the City of Vancouver. 3. Charge a Use & Occupancy fee for the structures being built and those already built in past years. 4. Charge the U & 0 fee from February 7, 1979, up to the time the harbor line is relocated and the leases are signed and takes effect. February 7, 1979, is suggested because that is the date Bill Johnson, Frank Hansen and I met with Bill Clocksin, Port Manager, and Art Klosterman, port auditor, in port offices to discuss the problem. 5. The port is contemplating buying waterfront property northwest of the city for future terminal and back up space. Consider the advisability of recommend- ing to the port that they seriously consider building a new pier in a harbor area rather than in the proposed site. Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Various Methods of Stating Rent in Vancouver Harbor By Trusts #25 (100% of rent paid to DNR) $ 6,456.80 #26 ( 20% of rent paid to DNR) 3,108.84 #27 ( 80% of rent paid to DNR) 3,668.oo #19 (100% of rent paid to DNR) 100.00 $13,333.64 By Present Classifications Water Dependent $ 8,845.64 Water Oriented 525-00 Other Water Dependent or Water Oriented Use 3,963-00 All other uses -------- $13,333.61T By Revised Classifications Water Dependent, Primary- $ 8,845.64 Water Dependent, Secondary 525-00 Water Oriented, Public Use -------- Water Oriented, Industrial Use 295-00 All Other Uses 3,668.oo $13,333.'.64- By Data Processing Categories 0140 Non Commercial Aquatic Uses $ 296.64 0160 Marina Services --------- 0180 Transportation Facilities 9,269.oo 0181 Processing-Manufacturing Use --------- 0182 Aquatic Non-Water Related Use 3,668.oo 0231 Waste Treatment Outfalls 100.00 @13,333.6 Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 7 Interviews: Bill Clocksin, Manager, Port of Vancouver Art Klosterman, Auditor, Port of Vancouver Richard Gorini, Planner, Port of Vancouver Rich Hines, Planner, Clark County Planning Department Materials on File: Reid, Middleton and Associates, Inc., Edmonds, Washington, Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington & Portland, Oregon, Volume II, Technical Supplement/Part 2, 1975, Material on Vancouver Department of Natural Resources map of proposed harbor line relocation, 1979 Department of Natural Resources map on proposed harbor line relocation, 1978 Corps of Engineers map of federal harbor lines, Vancouver, 1977 Inventory sheets Data processing sheets on each lease Department of Natural Resources unauthorized Use and Occupancy policy, 1973 Harbor Line Commission Resolution authorizing relocation of harbor lines - 1978 Financial Statement, Port of Vancouver, December 1978 Port of Vancouver, Washington, USA, brochure The Ports of Coos Bay & Astoria, Oregon, Longview & Vancouver, Washington, and Ports on Columbia River, Port Series No. 33, Revised 1975, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Corps of Engineers map of port facilities at Vancouver, 1975 AAA road map of Vancouver Map by Port of Vancouver of proposed harbor line relocation Harbor area map and information on Vancouver harbor lines from the Harbor Area Study, 1972, Harbor Line Commission, Department of Natural Resources, Attorney General and Department of Ecology Corps of Engineers map of Vancouver Turning Basins, 1974 Clark County Overall Economic Development Plan, 1978 Update Clark County Shoreline Management Master Plan, 1974 Bibliography: Department of Natural Resources Unauthorized Use & Occupancy Policy, 1973 Port of Vancouver, Washington, USA, brochure The Ports of Coos Bay & Astoria, Oregon, Longview & Vancouver, Washington, and Ports on Columbia River, Port Series No. 33, Revised 1975, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Clark County Overall Economic Development Plan, 1978 Update Clark County Shoreline Management Master Plan, 1974 Harbor Area Study, A Report to the 43rd Legislature, 1972, by the Harbor Line Commission, Department of Ecology, Attorney General, and Department of Natural Resources Harbor Area Planning Project Irene Christy Page 8 Bibliography: (cont.) Reid, Middleton & Associates, Port System Study for the Public Ports of Washington State & Portland, Oregon, Volume II, Technical Supplement/Part 2, March, 1975 Survey of Marine Boat Launching & Moorage Facilities in Washington, Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978 DATE DUE GAYLORD No. 2333 PRINTED M U S A 3 6668 14107-543A