Commentary: We Wish To Be At The Table

North Olympic Peninsula, WA –

WE ARE THE VICTIMS OF THE APPOINTED DOE [Dept. of Ecology] DUNGENESS WATER RULE

“If you are not at the table/banquet, you are on the menu” … Commissioner Mike Chapman.

We wish to be represented at the table

I am requesting that our elected Clallam County representatives with due diligence, for we the people, find a way to place or appoint a……
VESTED AMERICAN CITIZENS ON THE WATER TRUST AND Dungeness water ADVISORY COMMITTEES

VESTED AMERICAN CITIZEN
we shall not be called AD HOC citizens,
by definition done or set up solely in response to a specific situation or problem, without considering wider or longer-term issues

We are not simply stakeholders
by definition, a person or group with a direct interest, involvement, or investment in something, e.g. the employees, stockholders, and customers of a business concern

WE ARE VESTED stake holding, stock holding AMERICAN CITIZENS
vested by definition, having an unquestionable right to the possession of property or a privilege. (including the right to riparian water property rights)

We purchased and paid for property that included valuable riparian water rights, as recorded on the title to our land. Water rights that included indoor use, watering our crops and livestock.

WA State DOE has taken the value of our riparian water rights from our private land
They intend to mitigate, sell and trade our water, including mitigating and selling our OWN WATER RIGHTS back to us, at an exorbitant price.

We have NOT been compensated BY WA State or the APPOINTED WA State DOE. for THE VALUE OF WATER RIGHTS TAKEN NOR FOR THE LOSS OF PROPERTY VALUE DUE TO THE TAKING OF OUR RIPARIAN WATER RIGHTS.