Council member: Bellingham protects Lake Whatcom water with land purchases

For more than 20 years, the City of Bellingham has undertaken various efforts, rule changes, education programs and outright land purchases to limit development in the Lake Whatcom watershed, all in an effort to reduce the harmful impacts on water quality in the lake and to safeguard the health of our drinking water. This is widely known to most of you, and good evidence of these efforts has appeared in this newspaper several times recently. That is why I was dismayed and disappointed to r