RAYMOND GREEN ECO-INDUSTRIAL PARK
Raymond, WA

Managing Entity : City of Raymond
Contract Person's Name : Rebecca Chaffee
Address : 230 Second Street, Raymond, WA
Phone : (360) 942-3451 Fax : (360) 942-5616 E-Mail : N/A

Alternate Contact Person : Jim Neva
Phone : (360) 942-3422 Fax : (360) 942-5865 E-Mail : N/A

EIP's key features.
The Raymond Green Industrial Park will be developed within a second growth coastal forest that will continue to be selectively harvested. The site encompasses the entire upper drainage basin of Butte Creek. Thus, the water quality within the site can be uniquely managed. The park will not be linked to traditional offsite wastewater and solid waste infrastructure systems. Waste streams will be treated and recycled on the site.

What constitutes success?
This project will be successful if the natural biodiversity and productivity of the forest can be maintained while sharing the same site with environmentally sensitive manufacturing businesses which create jobs and expand the local natural resource-based economy.

EIP linkages.
This project had focused on waste handling both for manufacturing businesses within the park and for surrounding region. A basic premise of the project is that wastes generated will not be transported to already overloaded local wastewater and solid waste facilities.

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Recruiting process.
Firms will be targeted that make new uses of local natural resources with low impact manufacturing processes.

Resources available.
To date this project has been initiated through a local partnership between the City of Raymond, the Port of Willapa Harbor, Weyerhaeuser Company, Ecotrust, a non-profit corporation dedicated to developing a sustainable economic base in the coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest, and Shoretrust Trading Group. Planning resources and technical assistance have been provided by the State of Washington.

Strategy to continue progressing.
This green industrial park had been successfully kept on track through the efforts of an active local task force and frequent newspaper coverage. The task force is working with state and federal staff in a process created by President Clinton's timber initiative which focuses resources on priority community economic development projects. The green industrial park is the top ranked project in Pacific County.

What is missing?
This project requires additional technical and financial assistance to plan and develop the onsite infrastructure needed to support the resources processing businesses that will be located in this green industrial park.

Goals for the upcoming workshop.
Our goal for the workshop is to bring new ideas, information and resources home to help in our effort to build a viable sustainable economy in our rural Wills' community.


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Case Study Source: Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) Workshop, Cape Charles, Va., October 17-18, 1996.