The City of Port Townsend is developing a new contract to supply water to the Port Townsend Paper Corporation, and seeks your input by July 31, 2021. So far the City has released the first five of eight white papers that explore issues around a potential contract. The process will continue beyond that date, but …
FYI – MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2-3pm ONLINE. Background summary for this meeting Links to past water leases and more EngagePT’s Water Lease page with City’s discussion/process timeline and information Engage PT Discussion on Water Supply – Mill Agreement – Mon, Oct 26th *Online* The City of Port Townsend …
Mill’s year-by-year water usage charges, 1928-2020 This chart: City-PTPC Water Lease, Yearly Rental 1928-2020 (rev. 07/2021) shows year-by-year from 1928-2020, how much the City charged Port Townsend Paper for full use of the Olympic Gravity Water System and unlimited, unmetered water. It is based on the four leases, 1928, 1944, 1956 and 1983, between the City of Port Townsend …
PT AirWatchers has located and posted all four water leases between the City and the mill at http://ptairwatchers.org/data/documents/ so that you can read for yourself the evolving arrangement. They are dated 1928, 1944, 1956 and 1983, and take us through March 15, 2020, 1904. City completes the Snow Creek pipeline which had been started by the …
Port Townsend Paper’s plumbing is ancient and creaky, just like everything else there. But upon hearing that despite good work by the mill’s plumbing staff, something north of 10% of the water that comes to the mill is lost just through bad plumbing and system leaks, I was amazed. Given the mill’s usage of 400,000,000 …
Zero. That’s how much Port Townsend Paper has paid to the City since 1985 — the past 35 years! — for approximately 400,000,000 (400 million) gallons of water monthly plus use of the water system infrastructure, according to the terms of their contract with the City dated Apil 1, 1956 and on December 31, 1983, extended …