Town Council digging into ring dike options
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June 5, 2019
PLANNING FOR A FUTURE FLOOD - Citizens joined Councilmembers and Mayor Ramon Hayes and town staff to get a first hand look at where a ring dike would be built as protection against a Skagit River flood from the north. - Photo by Ken Stern
Town Council members have received their summer reading assignments.
They’ll start with the next chapter in the ongoing saga on how to protect La Conner from potential catastrophic Skagit River flooding. Council will study design options for a proposed ring dike at the northeast edge of town.
This after a field trip and sit-down Council session last Tuesday.
About two dozen people met for a site tour intended to provide a visual perspective of where a new dike section would be located and its planned elevation.
“The worst of the challenge,” said Evan Henke of CHS Engineers, who led a...
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