Port of Camas-Washougal officials know securing reliable, substantial-speed net support is a trouble for numerous area citizens and organizations.
“We hear from the group that we have definite desires, not only for the economic improvement that we genuinely want to advertise,” Port Commissioner Cassi Marshall stated lately, adding that the area’s require for dependable internet services has only grown with the amount of individuals who have relied on their dwelling world-wide-web for every little thing from work to health and fitness treatment to remote schooling in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Jan. 19, the port commissioners listened to from Petrichor Broadband reps about how their Jap Washington-primarily based engineering corporation could establish east Clark County locations that deficiency significant-velocity world-wide-web access.
Petrichor associates Kara Riebold and Joe Poire reported they could aid officials in the region check out public-non-public partnerships and provide city-fee expert services and pricing to the increased Camas-Washougal region.
“The port is fascinated in doing the job with other nearby jurisdictions — Clark County, Clark General public Utilities, and the metropolitan areas of Camas and Washougal,” claimed the port’s chief government officer, David Ripp. “At this time, the port does not have any designs to direct a task, but we will search to see how we can hook up our area companies with (Petrichor Broadband).”
Petrichor — a public company fashioned in 2020 by the ports of Kalama, Ridgefield, Bellingham, Pasco, Whitman County and Skagit County — provides broadband consulting and network-management expert services for public organizations across Washington, together with other ports, tribes, counties, cities, community utility districts and industrial progress zones.
Petrichor also advocates for legislation that promotes publicly owned, open up-access, dark fiber infrastructure for the personal sector to market providers.
“We perform with all distinct entities that are fascinated in a dim fiber product or in search of partnerships to convey broadband to their jurisdictions,” Riebold stated.
Petrichor’s design has previously experienced achievements all over Washington. The enterprise reported it has aided make 28 personal-sector partnerships, control 435 miles of fiber and much better serve approximately 62,000 Washingtonians with dependable, superior-speed