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2 condition throughout the Bellingham-Samish Bay system. 



3 And third, they have been shown to damage 



4 English sole eggs which are seasonally present in the 



6 surface waters throughout this study area. Extensive 



5 damage would be expected at waste levels found in northern 



7 Bellingham Bay, with lesser damages expected in the remainder 

 g of the Bellingham-Samish Bay system. 



g The physical characteristics of the 



Bellingham-Samish Bay system severely limit its ability 

 to assimilate large inflows of waste products. To prevent 

 additional damages to the important marine resources, it is, 

 therefore, necessary that sulfite waste liquors discharged 



14 by Georgia-Pacific Corporation be reduced significantly 



at the source. Minimum protection of the organisms during 

 their most sensitive life stages requires that sulfite 

 waste liquor concentrations in the surface 50 feet of water 

 not exceed 10 parts per million beyond an initial waste 

 dispersion zone. The initial waste dispersion zone 

 suggested by the Project for Bellingham area is defined 

 as that area of Bellingham Bay north of an east-west mag- 

 netic line from Post Point to Lummi Peninsula. This encom- 

 passes about 16 square miles of the northernmost part of 



24 Bellingham Bay. 



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In other studies, bacterial studies demonstrated 



