Your Oregon Coast Bed and Breakfast Just Got A Little More Green

They've finally arrived. Our new Sandlake Country Inn environmentally friendly water bottles! Now our "Certified Green" Oregon Coast bed and breakfast just got a little more green!

For years, we've been supplying our guests with store bought plastic water bottles for their convenience. We've always told our guests that after they drink the water in those plastic bottles, just fill them up with our wonderful spring water right from the tap. We would then recycle the used bottles. Getting our own water bottles has been something I've wanted to do for a long time, but other projects seemed to take over. Not anymore!

Each room at Sandlake Country Inn is now provided with 2 sanitized personal water bottles for your use during your stay. We opted to have clips on our bottles so you can take them with you on hikes and day trips. Our tap water is wonderful spring water. Our spring is located on Nature Conservancy land (originally part of the original homestead here) and we gravity feed it to our pump house. As a small water system, we are required to report to the Health Department and the State has us inject a very small amount of chlorine for safety. Our water is tested 5 times a year to ensure the quality. We've always had wonderful, clean fresh water for our guests. It just doesn't get any fresher than that!


Diane Emineth
Sandlake Country Inn 
 "Your Romantic Oregon Coast Getaway, near Pacific City Oregon"

Big Possibilities in 2010

I want to introduce you to this wonderful organization. North Coast Land Conservancy (NCLC) has been working since 1986 as a land trust with citizens, agencies and municipalities to preserve some of the most precious and sensitive land along the north Oregon coast. NCLC has more than 25 fee title (owned by NCLC) conservation lands, totaling over 680 acres are preserved in perpetuity. They also hold conservation easements on more than 349 acres.

We are very excited to have been in close communication with Neal Main who is the Conservation Director for NCLC, due to their interest in acquiring sensitive wetlands near Sandlake Country Inn. If the acquisition goes through, the land will be protected in perpetuity.

In 2009 North Coast Land Conservancy closed on four conservation properties totaling more than 250 acres that will be protected forever. These areas ranged from a 1.5-acre tidal marsh along the Necanicum River in Seaside—one of the last remaining undisturbed marshes on the Necanicum—to an 80-acre Sitka spruce forest in Nehalem Bay. Seventy acres of estuarine wetland forest, 100 acres of coastal prairie, and more than a mile of beachfront dunes and forests were added to the network of conservation and natural resource lands this year.

With all of our support, North Coast Land Conservancy can continue to protect some of the most sensitive areas of our wonderful and diverse coast. With your end-of-year gift, North Coast Land Conservancy will be poised to accomplish more in 2010 and will continue to take stewardship of these natural lands very seriously.