PROCLAMATION
10-03
The estimated cost to repair the damage is $1,000,000, and the
bridge repair project will restrict pedestrian and vehicle
traffic on 24th Street, interrupt traffic on SR 167, and cause
inconvenience affecting public health and safety; and
The Washington Department of Transportation is coordinating
resources to repair the bridge to alleviate the immediate
impacts upon the infrastructure and the public, is continuing
to assess the damage caused by this event, and is working to
implement damage repairs; and
The impact to the life and health of our citizens, as well as
the property and transportation infrastructure of Washington
State, is a public disaster that affects the life, health,
property and public peace.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Christine O. Gregoire, Governor of the state
of Washington, as a result of the above-noted situation and
under Chapters 38.52 and 43.06 RCW, do hereby proclaim that a
State of Emergency exists in Pierce County in the state of
Washington, and direct the plans and procedures in the
Washington State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan be
implemented. State agencies and departments are directed to
utilize state resources and to do everything reasonably
possible to assist affected political subdivisions in an
effort to respond to and recover from the event.
Signed and sealed with the official seal of the state of
Washington this 1st day of March, A.D. Two-Thousand and Ten at
Olympia, Washington.
| By: | |
| Christine O. Gregoire Governor |
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| BY THE GOVERNOR: Sam Reed |
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| Secretary of State |