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WATER QUALITY THREATENS SHELLFISH
By Dave Wilkins :: 49 Views
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The state Health Department released its annual Shellfish Growing Areas water quality report this week. The report notes that many sources, natural and man-made, can contribute to water problems--in Grays Harbor, in particular, flooding in the Chehalis River is a major factor.
The worst areas of Grays Harbor were right in the middle, at a sampling station just off Sand Island, and near the South Channel at another station several hundred yards off the mouth of the Johns River at Markham. Grays Harbor's threatened areas don't compare to Pacific County, however, where portions of the Naselle River have now been closed to shellfish growers for failing state water quality standards, and the rich Bay Center shellfish areas are threatened much like Grays Harbor... and if you like to indulge in a little schadenfreude, consider this: the report shows that Puget Sound pollution levels are continuing to increase, especially in areas bordering King and Pierce counties. |
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China quake death toll could rise to 50,000
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Myanmar junta warns people not to hoard aid
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Bush envisions a democratic Middle East free of oppression
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Official: Suicide bomber kills 12 in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber wearing a burqa attacked a police patrol at a crowded market in western Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 27 others, officials said....
Iraqi forces on al-Qaida hunt in Mosul
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Government troops began house-to-house searches for al-Qaida in Iraq militants in Mosul on Thursday, part of a major security operation to cleanse Iraq's third largest city from cells of the terror network....
Palestinians mark 1948 uprooting
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Hezbollah says it will return Lebanon to normal
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Hezbollah's deputy leader said Thursday that the militant group will return things to normal in Lebanon after the government reversed key decisions that triggered days of bloody conflict....
UN: Most schools ravaged in Myanmar's cyclone zone
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Children in Myanmar may be forced to attend school in relief camps and tents because 85 percent of the educational buildings have been destroyed or damaged in a cyclone-ravaged region, the U.N. said Wednesday....
Chavez tells Colombia not to build base for US
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday warned Colombia not to allow a U.S. military base on its border with Venezuela, saying he would consider such an act an "aggression."...
Latin American, European leaders gather for summit
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- European and Latin American leaders gathering for their fifth summit in a decade this week plan to tackle climate change, high food prices and poverty....
More rain, thunderstorms hitting soggy Louisiana
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- A line of drenching thunderstorms moved across the state from west to east Thursday after record rainfall caused flooding in water-logged parts of Louisiana....
Pa. woman, brother separated by Nazis to reconnect
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Holocaust survivor who lives in Philadelphia is preparing for a reunion with a brother she hasn't seen in 66 years....
Firefighters get upper hand on Florida wildfire
PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) -- Firefighters made major gains against a wildfire that has charred thousands of acres along the Atlantic coast as police questioned a man seen tossing a Molotov cocktail into nearby woods....
Immigrant workers in New Orleans start leaving
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Josue Vega was one of thousands of immigrant workers who flocked to New Orleans in 2005 in hopes of finding a rebuilding job in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....
California's top court to rule on gay marriage
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Both sides in the gay marriage debate will be watching California's highest court Thursday to see if the nation's biggest state goes the way of Massachusetts and legalizes same-sex marriage....
NY prosecutor wins big with Spitzer investigation
NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Garcia's predecessors as U.S. attorney in Manhattan took on all five mob families, the titans of Wall Street, Osama bin Laden and even Martha Stewart. So it was largely unnoticed when Garcia wanted to attack public corruption....
HIV-positive man sentenced 35 years for spitting at officer
DALLAS (AP) -- An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison....
Scandal-plagued Ohio attorney general resigns
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio's attorney general resigned Wednesday under threat of impeachment because of a sexual harassment investigation in his office and his extramarital affair....
NJ woman vanishes after fall from cruise ship
BORDENTOWN, N.J. (AP) -- A woman taking a cruise with her boyfriend plunged into the sea off New Jersey from a balcony attached to her room, and the FBI is investigating whether a crime occurred....
Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics
DALLAS (AP) -- In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers....
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