Article: SEATTLE FIRM CANCELS PLANS FOR METHOW VALLEY RESORT DEVELOPER CRITICAL OF PERMIT DELAYS.(News)

A developer is giving up on a proposed mountain resort in north-central Washington's upper Methow Valley, saying delays in obtaining state permits have doomed the project.

Seattle-based R.D. Merrill Co. accused state Department of Ecology officials on Tuesday of dragging their feet in considering water-rights applications for the Arrowleaf Resort.

The project was to have featured about 500 vacation homes, a 100-room lodge, a golf course, and other amenities on a 1,200-acre site outside Mazama on the Cascades' eastern slopes.

The Ecology Department's ``refusal to give us a final decision on our water rights - which they've promised to us time and ...

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