Lake Cavanaugh resident outlines Red Rock roadway and rock-wall restoration plan

A Lake Cavanaugh resident presented a project proposal during the Feb. 3 Skagit County public comment period calling for repair of a failing roadway and construction of a rock wall at Red Rock as part of a North Shore restoration effort.

Bridal Humble (who identified herself as “Tweety” and a Lake Cavanaugh resident) described a contractor-based proposal that would include vegetation clearing, erosion control, excavation to bedrock where necessary, stockpiling materials for wall backfill and reusing ground asphalt concrete as roadway access gravel. “Description, repair a failing roadway at Lake Cavanaugh and construction of Red Rock Rock Wall,” Humble read during her remarks.

Her presentation included technical details such as building the wall upon a twelve-inch foundation and excavating to bedrock or to the bottom of wall construction as required; Humble said the contractor’s proposal was based on dry-weather conditions and called for archaeological monitoring in areas with known tribal artifacts. The clerk moderated the remote presentation after Humble’s feed intermittently cut out; commissioners did not take formal action on the proposal at the Feb. 3 meeting.

Humble’s comments were part of a longer North Shore restoration presentation and the county did not provide a staff response on whether the project would proceed through permitting or require further county review during the meeting.