Dwight | January 28, 2011
Are you a Henry—or a Henri? Whenever I meet with new clients, we get to know each other by talking about an array of topics. In the course of our conversations we explore taste and preferences, lifestyles and budgets. And we discover who is a Henry, and who is a Henri. The Henry is an [...]
Dwight | November 16, 2010
I think electric cars are fascinating. I love the idea of using home grown fuel to run our cars. As I understand it there is extra capacity in our generation and electrical grid to charge a bunch of cars at night. This is an efficient use of our capacity to generate and of our electrical [...]
Dwight | September 23, 2010
At the end of August I was invited to a Small Business Roundtable with Governor Christine Gregoire. We had a very productive discussion about the issues builders are facing in this economic environment–and how the state can help lower some of the barriers to doing business. This was a wonderful opportunity for me to tell the Governor how much [...]
Dwight | September 2, 2010
The inlet from Lake Sammamish to the Sammamish River is being mowed to permit adequate water flow.
Dwight | August 20, 2010
It’s a rare and wonderful thing when concerned citizens, noted experts, and members of Federal, State and Local government sit down together and take concrete steps to fix a big problem. Yesterday was one of those meetings. Followers of this blog know that I’ve been actively involved in a variety of issues concerning Lake Sammamish. [...]
Dwight | August 19, 2010
Approved: The City of Kirkland’s Shoreline Master Plan (SMP) has been approved by the State Department of Ecology. It includes regulations for a number of new uses as well as general performance standards, and you can see the highlights of the plan by clicking here. Seeking Local Approval: The City of Bellevue’s proposed SMP is [...]
Dwight | July 22, 2010
It appears to me that work which was done at the Sammamish weir in 1998 may have had the unintended consequence of plugging the outlet to Lake Sammamish. It is clear to me that the vegetation below the weir is now the critical factor for draining the lake, this vegetation is more restrictive than the [...]
Dwight | July 3, 2010
Dwight | June 26, 2010
The above graph shows that we had some very high winter lake levels this year, but we were trending down to typical seasonal levels. Then Lake levels really spiked in April and June, quickly rising and slowly falling. The blue line is this year, the brown line is an average of the previous four years, which [...]
Dwight | June 18, 2010
It’s not every day that we see an island floating on Lake Sammamish. While kayaking last weekend we spotted this clump of land, complete with grass and a tree, bobbing along the lake. Apparently the unusually high water level saturated a section of the shoreline. Then the wind—which usually comes out of the south—shifted to [...]
