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Our community website was developed to serve as an informative resource for both our neighborhood and our local community. Please feel free to contact us with your comments and suggestions. Our mailing address is PPOA, PO Box 988, Goldendale WA 98620
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Firewise Work Party
Posted on May 16th, 2025
Thank you to all the neighbors who came out to the Firewise Work Party on May 3rd! A great job was done. A large pile for the chipper was produced. And the land looked much better and safer after being thinned and the brush removed.The Firewise view and Adar's yummy cookies were our reward. Thank you also to all those who have worked to set up piles for the chipper on their own lots.
Volunteers
Posted on May 16th, 2025
Rural 7, station 11 is always looking for new volunteers. You can get an application from LT Bill Bergthold at station 11 or at the main fire house in Goldendale, station 1. Thank you CPT Gerry Zager for all your years of service.
Water System Upgrade
Posted on May 16th, 2025
Klickitat PUD is finalizing plans to construct improvements to the Red Cedar water mains. The existing system has been plagued with frequent leaks over the last 20 years and needs to be replaced. The existing water main is adjacent to Juniper Dr. south of W. Ponderosa, then veers westerly cross country to the inactive Red Cedar Well and then continuing cross country to the existing Red Cedar water customers. We plan to construct the new water mains along the roadways, including Juniper, Red Cedar, and W. Ponderosa. The water meters will be located at the edges of the roads. New service lines will be constructed as needed.
In addition to using Ponderosa Park Water System cash reserves, this project is funded by a Landfill Gas Infrastructure grant and a loan/grant package from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. Washington State Dept. of Health is currently finalizing a cultural review and notification. When we receive the final cultural report, we will then publish the environmental impact statement for public comment.
Assuming that any comments are easily resolvable, we will then begin the process of bidding the construction work. This work is expected to be start in Q4 of 2025 and should be completed by late Q2 of 2026.
Potholes
Posted on Apr 8th, 2025
Many thanks to those who filled potholes in our roads at the Pothole Work Party over the weekend: Tobiah and Adar Israel, Dave Kincaid, Bill Reid, Sharon Carr, Brent Boykin-Hicks, Pete Burlock, Bill Bergthold, and Gerry Zager. Thanks also to those who have filled potholes on their own. Your community spirit is appreciated!
Firewise News
Posted on Mar 16th, 2025
Hey Firewise Ponderosa, here's some good news! We have been granted another DNR micro grant of up to $4000. This will be used for chipping and removal of dead hazard trees near the roads. So get your chipping piles ready, and put in a request for chipping in the Firewise section on the Ponderosa website. This will be done at no cost to the property owner. Work must be completed by June. Firewise and the Road Committee will be looking at the hazard trees. Contact Tobiah Israel if you have some good candidates. More good news! Our DNR Community Resilience Coordinator, Charlie Landsman, and our DNR Landowner Assistance Forester, Dustin Mutch, and Jaymison Cline, a Wildfire and Forest Health Specialist will be teaming up to help our community on March 26th. So when you see multiple DNR vehicles driving slowly down the roads, starting at about 9am, for a few hours on March 26th, wave and say thank you. They will be taking notes for our Community Wildfire Risk Assessment. (As they are doing for other communities in our county.) They will not take down any information that is personally identifiable to a single property. And they will not go on to anyone's property. They are collecting general information about the community, so that our wildfire risk, and what can mitigate it, can be assessed. This may lead to other help being made available for our community, like the Shaded Fuel Break Perimeter Project. By the way, phase 2 of the perimeter project has now been completed.! Finally, Charlie recommends that any residents who have issues with insurance reach out directly to The Washington State Office of Insurance Commissioner at insurance.wa.gov/contact-us. He says that they have resources and some control over the insurance industry. So let them know if you are having insurance problems. Being Firewise is one way to help keep insurance problems at bay. So thank you all for your continued help and participation!
Firewise Phase 2
Posted on Mar 6th, 2025
Good Firewise News! Dustin Mutch, our DNR Forester has notified your Firewise Committee that the work on Phase Two of The Shaded Fuel Break Project has begun! The Contractor's name is Eli Rad. So if you see Dustin or the workers in the neighborhood tell them "Thank You". We will be better prepared in time for fire season. Also Tobiah Israel has submitted our application for a DNR micro grant, and Charlie Landsman, our other forester, has received it and sent it on. So keep your fingers crossed!
Spring Firewise
Posted on Feb 3rd, 2025
Time to think Firewise! Snow is on the ground, but soon it will be spring and the contractor hired by DNR will start work on Phase 2 of the perimeter shaded fuel break project. And phase 3 is in the works also, with more sign-ups to come for those in the phase 3 perimeter. Individual cost share is also available to help you fund work on your own property. If you have questions, contact our DNR forester Dustin Mutch at 509-859-6437 or dustin.mutch@dnr.wa.gov. Your Firewise committee will also be working with the DNR to obtain another reimbursement grant. These funds can be used for fuel reduction like chipping, and hazard tree removal. Remember to get your piles ready for chipping with the piles accessible near the road with butts facing outward. Complete a chipping request on this website under Firewise. Chipping will be done for free as funds and weather allow. Firewise will also schedule a work party/education day in late spring. If you are in need of fuel reduction help and want your place to be the location of a work party contact Tobiah Israel at 509-773-6249. More information to come on all these projects. Many members of the community have been working on their places to make them safer from wildfire by thinning, limbing, burning slash, and creating defensible space. Thank you! Let's all keep up the good work.
DNR Reimbursement
Posted on Apr 17th, 2024
Ponderosa Firewise has been awarded a $4,000 DNR reimbursement grant! This means that we can be reimbursed up to $4,000 for monies spent from our Firewise funds on chipping and large dead tree removal, if the work is done before the cut off date in June, 2024. So get those chipping piles ready. Make piles accessible to the road, and stack branches butts out for the chipper. Don't forget to go to the Firewise section of this site and submit a chipping request. And if you have large dead hazard trees that are near the road or near structures, call Tobiah Israel at 1-509-773-6249. Chipping and dead tree falling can be done for free while our funds last. And if we run out of funds, you can be on the list for when more funds are available. The tree falling will be done by a professional contractor. The chipping will also be done by a professional contractor on or after the April 27th work party. So don't delay. Get your requests in and enjoy some free assistance.
Emergency Notification
Posted on Aug 15th, 2023
Ponderosa Park Firewise reminds all park residents to be sure to sign up for emergency notifications from Klickitat County Emergency Management. Just go to their website, and sign up for the new RAVE notification system. You can put in multiple phone numbers and other important information. We have heard from several people that they did not receive notification. The system works well, but just be sure they have all your pertinent information . (During the recent fire I had our home phone in the system but not our cell phones, and we were out of town. Our granddaughter was at our home and got the loud evacuation messages even though she did not answer the call.) Sign up! Be safe! Make us all safer!
Incident Reporting
Posted on Jul 11th, 2023
Please report speeders to ponderosatraffic@gmail.com or use the incident report of the website. Include a description of the car, license plate, date and time to help the sheriff's dept. identify the person.
Reporting information is used only by the board to address the situation. The gmail address is handled by the Traffic and Safety committee head. Incident reports are sent to ALL board members by the webmaster.
Please do not use the ponderosa-park.com news section for reporting any complaints or incidents.
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