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Elwha sediment issue could lead to lawsuit River muck information to be saved BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES — Department of Interior officials are preparing for possible legal action because they say alleged design flaws have led to Elwha River sediment clogging the Elwha Water Facilities, which treat industrial and drinking water. The $79 million Elwha Water Facilities, which consist of the Elwha Water Treatment Plant and the Elwha Surface Water Intake, have “not functioned as designed in removing sediment and large and small woody debris� from the water released by dam removals, the Department of the Interior’s Office of the Solicitor said in an email sent Wednesday to federal officials, telling them to keep information in case of a lawsuit. “This has caused significant damage and delay,� the eight-

The signs are right MANY SIGNS ARE pointing to an economic recovery in the housing market, helped by bargain prices, a healthy inventory and continuing low interest rates. So it’s the right time for “open house� signs to appear across the North Olympic Peninsula today, the final day of Open House Weekend. Scores of houses are open today for you to examine, whether you’re a first-time homebuyer, a homeowner or simply considering an investment. The Peninsula Daily News on Friday distributed a 24-page section showing the more than 100 houses shown Saturday and today by local Realtors during Nationwide Open House Weekend. Don’t have Friday’s paper? No worries. Go to www.peninsuladailynews. com on the Internet. Click on the blue Realtors banner at the very top of the home page, and that will take you to an interactive map that shows you the location and photo of each open house. And then follow all the good signs!

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Silt-laden water is pumped from an intake channel for the industrial water treatment plant on the Elwha River.

Ailing lake set for study Sediment flows through, clogs plant BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES — Work to replace six intake screens on the Elwha River water treatment plant has stopped while plant staff deal with sediment flowing into the facility and clogging its inner workings, an Olympic National Park spokeswoman said.

page email obtained by the Peninsula Daily News says. “It is unclear how much more will be needed to keep the EWF [Elwha Water Facilities] operational, and it is possible in the near or distant future that EWF will not be able to function,� the document says.

The Port Angeles city drinking water supply remains clear and safe, Public Works Director Glenn Cutler said Friday. Removal of dams on the Elwha River, which began in September 2011, has created the largest sediment release seen in such a project, said Tim

Randle of the Bureau of Reclamation. Scientists have said the river has moved at least 6 million of the estimated 34 million total cubic yards of sediment that had built up behind the dams.

The city continues to have clean water, Public Works Director Glenn Cutler said Friday. Construction crews with Lakewood-based Macnak Construction have been ordered to stop work after having replaced two of the six screens on the water intakes of the Elwha Surface Water Intake with mechanically cleaned screens, Olympic

National Park spokeswoman Barb Maynes said Friday. The intake screens were intended to stop large river debris from getting into the Elwha Water Treatment Plant after work began to remove two dams on the river, Maynes said. But Elwha plant staff have been working long hours to clear sediment from the facili-

ty’s internal parts, she said. “The overall summary is, sediment is entering areas of the plant it was not intended to enter,� she said. “The plant has a lot of pumps, screens, filters and clarifying tanks — none of which BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ were intended to have sediment PENINSULA DAILY NEWS moving through,� she added. PORT TOWNSEND — Anderson Lake, TURN TO PLANT/A7 which has the dubious distinction of setting a poisonous world record in 2008, is under a microscope. The goal: to try to find out Port why one of the Townsend North Olympic Peninsula’s Port Townsen most popular Bay fishing spots has been plagued since Irondale 2006 by soaring Anderson Port Lake Hadlock levels of anatoxin-a, a potent nerve toxin proChimacum duced by bluegreen algae. KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS In June 2008, the 60 acres of lake within Anderson Lake State Park near Port Townsend contained the highest level of anatoxin-a ever recorded in the world: 172,640 micrograms per liter. The safety threshold for the toxin, which can kill in four minutes after ingestion, is 1 microgram per liter. With funding in part from the state Department of Ecology and water sampling help from Jefferson County Public Health, researchers at Oregon State University are scrutinizing types of blue-green algae that live in Anderson Lake.

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