PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County officials are expected to seek an injunction this week in Superior Court to halt a homeland security training center’s operations on the western shores of Discovery Bay.
“Something could happen this week,” said Al Scalf, county director of community development, who two weeks ago filed a stop-work order against Security Services Northwest’s Fort Discovery Training Center.
Four notices have been issued against Joe D’Amico, Security Services Northwest president.
They include a July building stop-work order, an environmental stop-work order, a notice that D’Amico has 60 days to present more information, and Scalf’s stop-work order based on the county code.
The latter two notices were issued two weeks ago.
Scalf said all orders but the environmental notice can be appealed by D’Amico through the county hearing examiner.
The environmental stop work order would have to be appealed through the county Board of Health, Scalf said.
Noise complaints
The controversy pits neighbors organized at the Discovery Bay Alliance and county planning and zoning officials against Security Services Northwest’s training center.
The training facility has seven shooting and explosives ranges on Discovery Bay Land Company’s 3,400-acre property. The site extends from the bay’s western shore into the Olympic foothills.
Discovery Bay Alliance, which its members say represents about 900 residents around the placid bay, protests the sounds of gunfire and other explosions from training bomb blasts.
