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JOHN VLASTELICIA 

 Corporation mechanical pulp and paper products mill, 

 located at the inner end of the harbor, discharges its 

 vaste directly into the Strait of Juan de Fuca . Except 

 for some transient local collection near the outfall, 

 these wastes generally are dispersed seaward by Strait 

 currents and thus are not predominant in the main study 

 area of the harbor. However, during past years the now- 

 discontinued Crown Zellerbach discharge of high solids 

 wastes into the harbor substantially contributed to a 

 large sludge bed still present at the inner end of the 

 harbor . 



Studies have shown that the wastes from 

 these mills are damaging to marine life in the Port Angeles 

 study area. The damages here, as in other areas, are of 

 two types: 



One, acute damages occurring within the 

 harbor adjacent to each mill, and mainly associated with the 

 concentrated sulfite waste liquors and settleable solids 

 in the mill effluents. 



Secondly, the chronic damages occurring 

 throughout the study area and associated with dilute 

 concentrations of sulfite waste liquor. 



Within Port Angeles Harbor waste discharges 

 from Fibreboard and Rayonier produce high waste concentrations. 



