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Vol. 29 No. 8 • August
2012
Port wants dredging at Appletree Cove Sediment is causing problems for boats at low tide By MEGAN STEPHENSON Staff Writer
KINGSTON — Local
environmentalists say the Carpenter Creek bridge project is great for the local flora and fauna in the Kingston estuary, but it has had some unintended consequences for the Port of Kingston. The bridge project,
completed in February, opened up Kingfisher and Carpenter streams back to their natural flow into Appletree Cove. Years of sediment buildup, however, has poured out and caused problems for boats at low tide at the boat launch and
the ends of B and C docks. The port is applying for permits to perform a maintenance dredge to remove the extra silt. Port Manager Kori Henry said a dredge is a long time coming — the effect of the opened estuary See DREDGE, Page 3
Silt washing out of the Carpenter Creek estuary is causing problems for boats at low tide. Megan Stephenson / Staff
$6.8 million for land acquisition, habitat restoration hatcheries, beach enhancement, a research facility, and up to $3.5 million to help acquire shoreline along Port Gamble Bay, south of the former Pope Resources mill site. “For this particular issue, [the agreement] is as fair as it could By MEGAN STEPHENSON be,” Tribal Chairman Jeromy Staff Writer Sullivan said. He said the negotiaLITTLE BOSTON — The Port tions were specific to the affected Gamble S’Klallam Tribe has been area, and the Tribe did not get to awarded approximately $6.8 mil- discuss past issues that may have lion as compensaviolated its treaty tion for the planned rights. expansion at Naval However, Sullivan MORE LAND Base Kitsap-Bangor. said he apprecin Port Gamble The Navy and Port ated the work of S’Klallam reservation Gamble S’Klallam the Navy and other is growing by 390 Tribe signed a mitiTribes, includacres. gation agreement ing Jamestown — Story, Kingston May 4 but news of S’Klallam and Lower CommunityNews.com the compensation Elwha Klallam. wasn’t revealed until “Our relationship late July. with the Navy has The Navy plans to build a sec- improved dramatically,” Sullivan ond explosives handling wharf said. at Bangor. In its environmental All told, the Navy reached a impact study, the Navy found that $9 million agreement with Port several endangered and threat- Gamble S’Klallam and Skokomish ened wildlife species will be tribes. S’Klallam’s share was $6.8 affected by the waterfront con- million, but both Tribes — which struction. The mitigation plan have treaty-guaranteed fishing calls for improvements to Tribal
Awarded to Port Gamble S’Klallam to offset impacts from weapons handling wharf
Canoe pullers from the three S’Klallam bands — Elwha, Jamestown and Port Gamble — await permission to come ashore July 21 at Suquamish, during the 2012 Canoe Journey/Paddle to Squaxin. Pullers from several Northwest Coast indigenous nations visited Port Gamble S’Klallam and Suquamish before departing for points south enroute to the territory of the Squaxin Island Tribe, July 29 to Aug. 5. Megan Stephenson / Staff
Love, honor are part of the Canoe Journey experience By RICHARD WALKER
Editor
T
he song arrived first, carried over the water, as Joe Waterhouse watched
for the first canoes to come in against the tide and wind July 20 at Point Julia on the Port Gamble S’Klallam reservation. The Canoe Journey has
inside Photos of the visit to Point Julia. — Pages 16-17. n
brought history around full circle for the 81-year-old military retiree and Klallam historian. He grew up in Port Hadlock — which he knew as Tsetsibus, which means “Where the sun rises” See JOURNEY, Page 2
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