Snowden Community
Fire Danger Today: LOW
Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87118778087?pwd=p9Cpd4AE6FwuE8Jqjx2K6UAkbGvyAb.1
THANK YOU KLICKITAT COUNTY ROAD DEPARTMENT
for Hearing Us and installing Reflectors
along a section of Bates Road!
Good start to making our Snowden roads safer!
COMMUNITY SERVICES
- WAGAP (Washington Gorge Action Programs)
- 24-hour crisis line for domestic violence/sexual assault: 844-493-1709
- Bingen office: 800-755-1192 or 509-493-2662. Services include: Food Bank, Emergency Housing, Housing Assistance, Domestic Violence Assistance, Youth Center, Financial Programs.
Latest News:
URGENT – Your input is needed on the Klickitat County Road Safety Plan. The plan includes a Road Safety Plan survey for sharing your feedback, and includes an Additional Comments section where you can describe the issues most important to you. The Public Works Department would like to receive comments by 21 January.
If you weren’t able to attend the Snowden Road Scoping Project Open House in White Salmon on 17 December, you can review details of the Locke Hill proposed design options. Please register your choice of the options in the Citizen comment form by 15 January, if possible.
Comment forms should be sent to:
Kevin Leis
Klickitat County Public Works Dept., 115 W. Court, MS303, Goldendale, WA 98620
Email: kcpublicworks@klickitatcounty.org
Phone: (509) 773-4616
CENTURYLINK CUSTOMERS: Have you received a confusing phone call from CL or its agents? Some Snowden neighbors have recently received disturbing calls announcing they would lose their landline phone service, then asking questions about their options for alternative internet service. This action doesn’t comply with the 2025 agreement between CenturyLink and the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC), which guarantees continued landline phone service unless a customer has at least two affordable, high-speed internet access alternatives available to them.
If you or someone you know has received a similarly disturbing message, please contact the WUTC Customer Complaint Department. This website contains information on different ways to file a complaint, and categories of complaints, including “notice of termination, or threats of termination of service”.
The SCC doesn’t know if the call our neighbor received was an isolated incident, or if CenturyLink, and their new partner AT&T, are beginning some kind of underhandedness. If you are comfortable sharing your experience, please let the SCC know about any such calls you may receive by emailing snowdencouncil@gmail.com. We will respect your privacy.
Last year the Klickitat County Planning Department began a two-year process to update its outdated 1979 Comprehensive Plan for the county (link to current plan). The Comprehensive Plan is “the primary land use document to implement the community’s vision for future growth and development.” The SCC Land Use Committee has been reviewing the Comp Plan work plan to ensure it reflects the interests of the Snowden Community.
The KC Planning Department has put the Spring Short Plat Application SPL 2025-22, and SEPA Determination 2025-22 on hold. For more information see the Letter sent by the Planning Department to one of the property owners concerning code violations on the property.
Klickitat PUD has launched a community survey to find out the public’s views, and get community engagement on the subject of clean energy, prior to updating their Clean Energy Implementation Plan (CEIP).
Click on the link below to learn more about the survey, and find a link to the actual survey. Scroll down the page until you see the heading CETA Introduction and Survey. https://klickitatpud.org/2025/09/12/ceta-introduction-survey/
Snowden Homeowner’s Insurance Survey
The Snowden Community Council is asking residents to help us collect data on recent changes in or cancelations of Homeowner’s Insurance. By collecting Snowden-specific data we’ll be able to map out the impacts, as well as know which insurers are more likely to increase cost or drop residents completely. The survey is super quick. We’re asking that folks try to keep it to one response per household. The survey will be open for the next month, and results will be shared once we’ve had a chance to tabulate and map them.
Link to Homeowner’s Insurance Survey
Adopting a Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO) is a WA State requirement for all cities and counties, under the Growth Management Act. Its purpose is to establish local regulations to protect critical areas, which are defined as “critical aquifer recharge areas, fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas, frequently flooded areas, geological hazardous areas, and wetlands.” A proposed revision to the CAO for Klickitat County is being considered.
The CAO seems to be “on hold” while under appeal from the Yakama Tribe. The Land Use Committee will keep watch for any activity.
Check out the new Emergency Preparedness page
Recommended Ways to Monitor Wildfire Status: Sign up to receive Klickitat County Alerts via phone, text or email, or all three, from Smart911. Facebook Groups for monitoring the latest wildfire info: Columbia Gorge Wildland and Fire Information Page, Klickitat County 911 Dispatch / Emergency Management Page, and Klickitat County Facebook Page. Free iPhone or Android app, and website, for monitoring latest wildfire info: Watch Duty. Another website for monitoring wildfire activity: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/. The KC Department of Emergency Management web page also includes information about wildfires and other emergency situations.
Information about upcoming community events can be found on the GorgeCurrent Events Calendar and also on the Mt. Adams Chamber of Commerce Events Calendar.
Gorge MakerSpace offers classes for youth and adults in wood working and woodturning, laser cutting, 3D printing, blacksmithing, art, sewing, embroidery, painting on fabric, DIY & home repair, and robotics. For more info and to sign up see: Gorge MakerSpace.
