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…
Local News/Park trail easement approved
By Rob Ollikainen
Peninsula Daily News
…The state wants to push back the dikes on a 1.8-mile stretch of the lower Dungeness River to help restore wildlife habitat. Commissioners Doherty and Chapman last week voted to move ahead with the $380,000 purchase, which will be reimbursed through state grants… See the full article at http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090226/news/302269990
Proposed water well curbs draw fire in Sequim forum
By Diane Urbani de la Paz
Peninsula Daily News
SEQUIM ¬– A plan to limit new wells in the Dungeness Valley drew a torrent of people to John Wayne Marina on Wednesday night. The state Department of Ecology hosted “Water for People, Farms and Fish,” a public workshop on how and why water from the Dungeness River must now be managed instead of allowed to flow freely into an unlimited number of households, lawns, gardens and fields… (full story at http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090219/news/302199989)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090210/news/302109996
By Diane Urbani de la Paz
Peninsula Daily News
SEQUIM — Limits on water use and steep fees for new wells may be on the Dungeness Valley’s horizon. The Dungeness River Management Team, an intergovernmental group that strives to solve water-related problems, will this Wednesday hear a presentation on the “instream flow rule,” a proposal aimed at keeping more water in the Dungeness River and surrounding streams. The rule, which could be finalized by May, could impose water metering and a 500-gallon-per-day cap on homeowners in the Sequim area. That allotment would include 150 gallons of water for in-home use plus 350 for watering gardens and grass, said Sarah Ferguson, the state Department of Ecology’s lead writer of the instream flow rule… (See link for complete story)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090204/news/302049993
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County’s three commissioners on Tuesday backed a resolution that will protect 38 acres of farmland indefinitely. Commissioners Mike Doherty, Steve Tharinger and Mike Chapman unanimously approved the resolution that authorizes a conservation easement for the Dungeness Valley Creamery Farmland Preservation project…
The NASA SNAP call is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 11th at 9:00 PST.
Agenda:
Discussion of funded tasks:
–Hybrid model & transition (Wigmosta/Coleman)
–Elwha FS (Ward)
–NOPSN Evaluation (Ward)
–RC&D Evaluation (Rome, Judd)
–Formulation Reports (Wigmosta, Coleman, Sehlke, Hruska, Ward)
Puget Sound Partnership- recent release of Action Agenda (Ward
Year 3 Work Plan (Ward)
The call instructions are new
This is a reminder for the NOP RC&D Council’s NASA Solutions Network Advisory Panel conference call this Thursday, September 11th at 9:00 PST.
Agenda
Progress on funded tasks
Hybrid model: Mark
Transition/dissemination: Mark/Andre/Dwight
Elwha FS: Jeff
NOPSN Evaluation: Jeff
National RC&D Evaluation: Kathleen
Formulation Reports: Mark/Jerry/Jeff
Elwha SNOTEL update: Clea
Year 2 Progress Report: Patti/Jeff
Watershed Grant: Dwight
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