Another nearly $1.8 million will be divvied up among seven counties including Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit to offer assistance in helping landowners to reduce shoreline armoring.
Preparations include temporary coffer dams installed at the site, which will collect rainwater in order to be pumped out to tanks if needed.
Under the ordinance, healthy trees that are at least 36″ in diameter cannot be cut down and violators can be fined between $800 and $5,000 for each instance.
Some of the solutions the transportation commission came up with include supporting zero-emission transportation, flexible transit systems and cross-jurisdictional partnerships.
The city told My Bellingham Now that some of the trees had become unhealthy or completely dead.
The 25-foot skiff had two people aboard when it began to take on water near the red can buoy of the coast of the exclave.
According to the listing, the fine dining restaurant is currently equipped with a Michelin-level kitchen as well as two fire elements in the 3,500 sq ft-space.
My Bellingham Now previously reported testing at the cove in late July noted high levels of enterococcus bacteria, causing Whatcom County’s health department to issue the swimming advisory.
The acquisition comes in partnership with the state Department of Ecology, totaling roughly $5.5 million in funding through the Streamflow Restoration Grant program.
The report says that more people are sleeping in unsheltered spaces which mean tents, doorways, vehicles and other locations.
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