Capitol Lake: The Great Community Hoax

Anyone willing to read the readily available research is free to verify the following, in fact, I am willing to guess that anyone ignoring verifiable science has other motives .

▪  Dam removal will seriously degrade downtown Olympia by destroying most of its shoreline enterprises, including the Port, all that river silt will go someplace. Why is this ignored? Dredge the lake or dredge the Port of Olympia, the lake will be cheaper

▪  For 39 years the groups advocating dam removal have opposed dredging Capitol Lake, allowing aquatic plants to grow This wasn’t the case when the lake was dredged. .

▪  Should the dam removal effort succeed the public debt incurred will likely be more than a quarter billion dollars.• Capitol Lake contains far more oxygen than either Budd Inlet or the Deschutes River.

▪  Capitol Lake has passed all bacteriological tests for well over a decade.

Please think and do a bit of research before you believe the supposed “natural” solution, or the rather silly “hybrid” solution. There is nothing natural about the lake or the downtown it is a part of. Ever notice all those brass plaques around town that indicate the original shoreline? Do the same people support returning to that old shoreline?

Maybe, but the citizens of Olympia decided a long time ago that the stink and ugliness were infamous.

Still not convinced? Take a look at Mud Bay at low tide and tell me that that is what you want for your city.

This story was originally published July 28, 2016 at 3:34 PM with the headline "Capitol Lake: The Great Community Hoax."