Chris Dunagan reports on DSP found in Central Hood Canal.
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/jul/26/new-found-shellfish-toxin-raises-concerns/
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If people won’t approve new taxes, and the job of permitting needs, by law to be done, we best expect and get used to higher fees for everything. Welcome to the future that so many anti-tax people were selling us. (and this happening under a mostly Democratic legislature!) You thought that being anti tax would reduce your costs? Certain laws of nature are not going to go away.
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A permit for construction in and around state waters — free of charge since the program started in 1943 — will now cost $150 for processing. The permit, called a hydraulic project approval, or HPA, is used to ensure that construction projects adequately protect fish and shellfish. Christopher Dunagan reports.
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/jun/13/permit-fee-added-for-construction-near-state/
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Skanska’s U.S. unit will earn $149 million from a U.S. Navy contract for building an explosives handling wharf in Silverdale, Washington.
SILVERDALE, Wash., June 12 (UPI) — Skanska’s U.S. unit will earn $149 million from a U.S. Navy contract for building an explosives handling wharf in Silverdale, Wash.
Skanska is joining two other firms — American Bridge Company and Nova Group Inc. — in the project, which carries a value more than double what the U.S. unit of the Swedish construction joint will receive.
Read the whole story: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2012/06/12/Skanska-to-build-US-Navy-explosives-wharf/UPI-67381339534981/#ixzz1xg29g600
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A mitigation program that could bring millions of federal dollars to restoration projects in Hood Canal was approved Friday by the Hood Canal Coordinating Council. If approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Washington Department of Ecology, the new program would first be used to compensate for environmental damage from the Navy’s $715-million explosives handling wharf to be built at Bangor.
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/jun/01/hood-canal-council-oks-program-to-handle-federal/
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Some could look at this as a brilliant plan by the Navy to shut down environmental opposition to their plans to continue the militarization of the Hood Canal. Remember that with two sub bases we will have at least twice the closings of the Hood Canal Bridge, all unannounced. It’s already difficult to know when to leave for meetings and medical appointments in either Bremerton or Seattle. – Editor
5/9 Kitsap Sun
Hood Canal council could get millions from Navy for mitigation projects
By Christopher Dunagan
HOOD CANAL — Hood Canal Coordinating Council could be put in charge of environmental restoration projects worth millions of dollars, as the Navy moves forward with construction of an explosives handling wharf at Bangor.
Under federal law, the Navy must provide mitigation for environmental damage caused by the $715-million wharf, currently going through an environmental review process.
Instead of identifying its own mitigation projects, the Navy favors making payments to a government entity such as the Hood Canal Coordinating Council, which would ensure that restoration projects fit into the larger goals of restoring Hood Canal, said Lynn Wall, environmental planner for Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest, based in Silverdale.
More at
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/may/09/hood-canal-council-could-get-millions-from-navy/
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So do we really want double the amount of Navy subs and subsequent support staff? Everything is a secret, and everything is national security. Speak up now to stop expansion of the sub base, or forever hold your silence, and complaints – editor
5/6 Kitsap Sun
Navy’s floating acoustics lab doing work in Hood Canal
By Kitsap Sun staff
BANGOR — Residents have wondered for weeks, “What’s that white, windowless building being pushed up and down Hood Canal by a tugboat?”
It’s a floating Navy laboratory called M241, revealed Chief Dale Davis, Naval Base Kitsap spokesman. It provides an enclosed, protected structure with a moon pool — an opening in the floor — and a lift for placing test equipment in the water.
M241 is operated by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Detachment Puget Sound. The detachment provides management and logistic support for West Coast ship and submarine acoustic trials.
The M241 was brought to the Bangor waterfront in the summer of 2009 when facilities on Fox Island were closed. It will remain at Bangor as part of ongoing research, development, testing and evaluation projects.
What exactly it’s doing out there is secret.
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/may/06/navys-floating-acoustics-lab-doing-work-in-hood/
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– This supports the work People For Puget Sound and others did a few years back to help get inspections for septic (even self inspections). – editor
4/12 Kitsap Sun
Study confirms septic systems as prime suspect in Hood Canal fish kills
By Christopher Dunagan
SEATTLE — Septic systems in Southern Hood Canal appear to play a pivotal role in the massive fish kills that plague the waterway, according to a long-awaited report by a team of scientists.
The scientists’ general findings about what causes oxygen to reach deadly levels in Hood Canal vary little from a description they provided in 2008. Since then, the group has conducted an extensive analysis, offering more precise estimates about the sources of nitrogen entering the waterway.
Their final conclusion is that roughly 20 percent of the nitrogen in Southern Hood Canal during summer months comes from septic systems. That is enough nitrogen to push oxygen levels into a critically low range and set up conditions for a massive fish kill in the fall.
More at
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/apr/12/study-confirms-septic-systems-as-prime-suspect/
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