Regarding the Sept. 27 editorial, “County keeps hearing ‘No’; Stormwater rules fight is being lost in the courts; it’s time to give up,” I think Clark County should narrowly focus on contesting the Department of Ecology rule regarding drainage at the rate of the pre-Euro-American settlement.
This rule, however conceived, appears to be the result of overzealous rule makers who have invoked a standard that defies logic and common sense. This rule attempts to overturn time and push history back to a period based on computer simulations.
How this rule passed committee hearings without challenge is mind-boggling. The county and its allies should see legislative relief to undo this rule and its impacts. The courts are not the arena to solve this problem. They are expensive and unfortunately do not have the expertise nor the desire to interject reasonableness into judgments.
No offense your honors, but you just exacerbate the problems. I am for reasonable regulations to clean stormwater but the Department of Ecology does not provide a reasonable starting point.
