Is there a Critical Shortage of Water in Eastsound, or the Eastsound Aquifer?
Eastsound Water Users Association (EWUA) claims there is a critical problem with the recharge of the Eastsound. The EWUA claim is that The Dept. of Ecology has already issued water rights that exceed the sustainable recharge of the aquifer by a factor of two. However when DOE reviewed EWUA’s data, they allowed wells to be moved around in the Eastsound aquifer and made the observation that significant sources of recharge were not taken into account by EWUA’s analysis. EWUA has paid a great deal for several engineering reports that they waive around as proof of the shortage. The reports are stamped by professional engineers and impressively thick (passing the “poundage test” as one county commissioner described.
