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1 JOHN VLASTELICIA 



2 concluded that these waste levels are damaging to a wide 



3 variety of important marine life found in the affected 



4 portion of the Port Angeles study area, including damages 



5 to crabs, clams, sole, cod, anchovy, so forth. 



6 The waste assimilation capacity of Port 



7 Angeles study area is seriously limited by the presence 

 g of a large slow-moving predominantly anti-clockwise eddy 

 9 circulation of water between Port Angeles Harbor and 



10 Dungeness Spit. This eddy tends to confine Fibreboard 



11 and Rayonier mill wastes to shallower waters along shore 



12 before eventually dispersing them into the Strait of Juan 



13 de Fuca. This results in harmful concentrations of sulfite 



14 waste liquor throughout the eddy. Inadequate depth in the 



15 eddy area precludes a reasonable relocation of th e mill 



16 outfalls within the eddy system in order to secure 



17 acceptable waste dilution. This is particularly true of 



18 the Rayonier mill, because of its large volume of waste 



19 discharge. 



Therefore, to prevent further damage to the 

 marine resources of the Port Angeles study area it will be 

 necessary to significantly reduce sulfite waste liquors 



23 j at the source. Minimum protection of the marine biota 



24 during their most sensitive life stages requires that sulfite 

 waste liquor concentration again not exceed 10 parts per 



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