The Cog agrees to refrain from further development in its right-of-way on state park land in return for the State’s support throughout the Lizzie permitting process. On May 20, the State and Cog signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) covering the Lizzie Project. In March, the Cog Railway, which has operated since 1869, proposed a new hotel development at 5,800-feet in elevation, a short walk from the summit. The State plans to build a new system with a 7,500 gallon a day capacity because it anticipates-and supports-increased visitor levels that will exacerbate congestion. The summit’s overtaxed waste water treatment plant, with a capacity of 5,000 gallons a day, is out of compliance with its permit. There are as many as 5,000 visitors on peak summer days. The Division of Parks and Recreation estimates that close to half a million visitors ride, drive, or hike to the summit annually. The State has no idea of how many visitors the summit can handle before overcrowding inflicts serious ecological and climatological damage to the fragile alpine tundra and its flora and fauna. Washington is a paved-over, debris-littered, congested disgrace. Washington State Park on the summit of Mt. One Abenaki name for this wild, dangerous peak was Maji Neowaska, where a demon, or bad spirit, was supposed to dwell on the highest peak. (Photo: Jamie Sayen.)įrom time immemorial, the Abenaki believed it a sacrilege to climb New England’s highest mountain. Coal burning Cog approaching the Lizzie Bourne Memorial.
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