PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners will meet with Sequim City Council members in a joint session at 1 p.m. today.
The conference will start with a tour of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., then shift to the commissioners’ hearing room.
Sequim’s proposed regional sewer project heads the agenda.
The proposal would enlarge the city’s wastewater treatment plant and run sewer service west to Carlsborg and east to Blyn and Sequim Bay State Park.
The county endorsed the $20 million project in principle in April but attached conditions, including formal needs assessments by the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe and the state parks department.
The county also wants Sequim to forswear annexing the Carlsborg Urban Growth Area, essentially setting the Dungeness River as the city’s westernmost boundary.
Also key to county cooperation is the project’s ability to recharge groundwater in the Dungeness and Jimmycomelately creek watersheds, not simply pump treated effluent into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
When Sequim sought support from the Port of Port Angeles in March because the project would extend sewer service to John Wayne Marina, City Manager Bill Elliott told Port commissioners, “Norm Dicks said that if we brought a big project back to him, he’d make it happen.”
Dicks, D-Belfair, is the region’s U.S. representative.