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News items in March 2002 are:
Mar. 29, 2002 As the result of a legal settlement, the Department of Ecology is preparing to revise and reissue stormwater permits for about 1,200 industrial facilities in Washington.
- Mar. 28, 2002The Chronicle reports: A county board created as part of a state experiment to speed up the state's snail-pace of water rights transfers has been expanded to five members in an effort to cut down on missed meetings and conflicts of interest.
- Mar. 26, 2002 A new Watershed Plan Implementation Committee is being formed at the request of the legislature and will be coordinated by the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology).
- Mar. 25, 2002 SEPA applications are updated an online - find out what is happening in your county in the Chehalis watershed.
- Mar. 21, 2002 The "Achieving Cleaner Water" conference, sponsored by the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology), is being held April 9-11.
- Mar. 20, 2002 The state legislature recently changed state law to allow homeowners to repair or reconstruct homes in floodways, and now the Department of Ecology is updating its criteria for implementing that law.
- Mar. 19, 2002 Materials for the March 19 Chehalis Basin Partnership (CBP) meeting are online now.
- March meeting agenda
- Instream overhead presentation
- Citizen Advisory Committee summary
- February meeting summary
- Steering Committee summary
- Chehalis Basin Level 1 Assessment
- Wa DOE Focus Fact Sheet
- Mar. 18, 2002 The Olympian asks the question: "Who regulates the rivers? An easier question might be, who doesn't regulate or watch over the rivers?"
- Mar. 16, 2002 An early copy of Drops of Water is online now! The articles for this early April edition are:
- Mar. 15, 2002 People either love them or hate them, but one citizen initiative adopted more than 12 years ago has generated good results for the state of Washington - with nearly 5,000 toxic sites being cleaned up across the state of Washington.
- Mar. 14, 2002 Today's mail brought a notice, from Grays Harbor Public Services, that the Chehalis Tribe/Anderson Road modfication meeting for April 1st has been postponed as shown in this updated announcement.
- Mar. 14, 2002 The Chronicle reports that nearly a half million dollars from a state tax on petroleum and waste materials will go to continued testing for cancer-causing chemicals in the groundwater beneath Forest, a rural community south of Chehalis.
- Mar. 13, 2002 Lewis County will get another $448,000 from the state Department of Ecology (Ecology) to help clean up a contaminated aquifer at a maintenance area on Napavine Road in Chehalis.
- Mar. 13, 2002 USGS provides a nationwide look at pharmaceuticals, hormones and other organic contaminants in U.S. Streams
- Mar. 11, 2002 Time again to let you find out what is happening in your part of the watershed.
- Mar. 10, 2002 Chehalis Basin Partnership (CBP) held the first of several public outreach meetings. This one, Feb. 26, was in Ocean Shores. Less than 40 folks attended.
- Mar. 09, 2002 The Aberdeen Daily World announces another public meeting of the Chehalis Basin Partnership (CBP) to be held in Montesano, March 19.
- Mar. 08, 2002The Olympian reports:A federal energy agency (FERC) ruled this week that a 49-mile natural gas pipeline from Rainier to Satsop could be built without significant environmental harm.
- Mar. 08, 2002 We've the problem here in our watershed but hazardous waste, home composting, illegal dumping and other solid- and hazardous-waste programs in seven Puget Sound counties have been awarded nearly $7 million in help from the Department of Ecology (Ecology).
- Mar. 07, 2002 -The public has until April 25 to comment on a proposal to increase annual permit fees for those who hold wastewater and stormwater discharge permits in the state of Washington.
- Mar. 05, 2002 Lots of things are planned in Washington. What is happening in your part of the watershed?
- Mar. 01, 2002 Grays Harbor County is telling us once again the Chehalis Tribe is planning to alter Anderson Road and install box culverts . In 1997 Thurston County was the lead agency on raising Anderson Road and that attempt appeared to fail.
- Mar. 01, 2002 Check this out: For several years, Surfrider Foundation has been following closely the dramatic erosion events on Washington's open ocean coast and adjacent bay shorelines.
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