http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090423/news/304239995
Federal stimulus money will hasten removal of the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams by about one year after years of delays and will begin providing hundreds of jobs to the North Olympic Peninsula starting this summer, the National Park Service said Wednesday…
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090413/NEWS/304139998
Snowpack is below average in the Olympic Mountains, but forecasters won’t go so far as to call abnormally dry conditions a drought… Long-range models show most of Washington, including the North Olympic Peninsula, is likely to experience below-average temperatures and fairly average precipitation totals in the next month. Three-month models, however, show nothing to indicate anything other than normal temperatures and precipitation, Burg said. Conditions now are dry, compared to other years…
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009019590_apwaaprilsnowpack1stldwritethru.html
A cold, wet March has pushed Washington’s mountain snowpack to about normal, but some pockets of the state still face lower than average stream flows this summer… Water supplies from the Dungeness River on the Olympic Peninsula also are a concern. The stream flow forecast there is 79 percent of average…