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This article appears in the November 2, 2005 edition of the Port Townsend &

Jefferson County Leader, but does not appear in their online edition.

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Proposed water use limits on tap

By Kasia Pierzga

Leader Staff Writer

Local residents worried about the state Department of Ecology's proposal to

reduce the amount of water used by residents of the Quilcene-Snow
watershed

will have a chance to air their concerns before legislators next week.

Sen. Jim Hargrove (D-Hoquiam) and Reps. Jim Buck (R-Joyce) and Lynn Kessler

(D-Hoquiam) hold a public forum to talk about Ecology's plan to set

requirements for minimum instream flow in the
watershed.

The lawmakers decided to hold the forum after receiving a deluge of letters

and phone calls from local residents, said Je-Anne Rogers, an aide in

Kessler's Olympia office.

"We're kind of frustrated with Ecology too," she said. "We just
want to be

sure the citizens are being treated fairly."

Also on hand at the meeting will be several Ecology representatives,

including former water resources director Joe Stohr,
who is now special

assistant to the agency director, and Phil Wiatrak,
the planning lead for

the watershed.

Other Ecology representatives offer information on the relationship between

groundwater and instream flow and the science of
setting minimum flow

requirements.

Ecology officials want to clear up confusion about the plan and listen to

residents' concerns, DOE spokesman Curt Hall said.

"We need to take all the opportunties we can to
try to explain what we've

proposed in the past and what we still need to do," he said. "We
don't want

to go in there pretending like we know everything, because we don't."

Port Townsend resident and fruit grower Judi Stewart, who has been critical

of Ecology's plan to limit how much water some watershed residents use, said

she hopes lawmakers will find a way to rein in Ecology's watershed

management efforts.

"I think Ecology is worried," she said. "And they should be
worried."

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