Residents of Valley High Mobile Home Park gathered Oct. 1 in the Oak Harbor Library to voice frustration over what they feel is unsafe drinking water, a failing septic system and lack of help from the property owners.

Tenants called an emergency meeting with Island County Public Health after a News-Times article on Sept. 16 reported on an Island County commissioners’ meeting at which the mobile home park was identified as one of the high-priority properties with code violations, and Commissioner Jill Johnson spoke about the possibility of finding the residents alternative housing.

Many tenants at the meeting said they feared losing their homes and wanted county health officials to intervene. The residents generally own manufactured homes but rent property they sit on inside mobile home

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