This is a "sad day". After 35 years of failed maintenance of Capitol Lake by the State DES, and over $6 million and fifteen years of study by the "local study team", they have decided which governmental agency will be responsible for some simple maintenance items---if those boardwalks are ever built. What few people understand is that Capital Lake has become the only "success story in the Puget Sound Water Quality Improvement program during the last ten years. Capital Lake removes most of the nitrogen contaminants from the upper Deschutes River and from the failing septic tanks in the Deschutes Watershed. It also captures the contaminated runoffs from the 1-80 and State/County/City Road systems and provides a natural treatment system with essentially no cost to the taxpayers---the State has chosen to ignore most of the maintenance in the Lake since the mid 1980's. If you think the Estuary will "look better than the Lake"---just look at East Bay near the Port's Marina. That is what the North Basin tidal urban estuary will look like---unless expensive annual maintenance is done. See the results of the State's maintenance program for the Lake. It is good that the State Legislature will be asked to provide the $500 million required for the new Estuary Plan. Amazing things can be planned when someone else will pay for it.
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