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2 from rail! influence to exceed 30,000 tons per year of 



3 fine suspended combustible solids. This estimated load 



4 is exclusive of the heavy load of organic debris removed 



5 by fine traveling screens at the sample source. Data 



6 on sludge deposits covered in this report were, as pre- 



7 viously indicated^ obtained prior to the installation of 



3 clarification facilities by Scott Paper Company, prior to 



9 the installation of woodroora clarification by Weyerhaeuser 



Sulfite, and during the period when the City of Everett 



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11 was discharging domestic wastes into Everett Harbor. 



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It is our opinion that the sludge problem 

 in Everett Harbor which has had a deleterious effect only 



14 on waters immediately adjacent to the effluent discharge 



site under limited conditions of tide and weather has 

 largely yielded to the previously described improvements and 



lY does not support application of sweeping generalized 



13 requirements. 



19 Since the basic benthic studies of this 



20 report have been made obsolete by the changes described, 



21 Everett Mills Technical Committee is currently re-evaluating 



22 conditions in Everett Harbor in a study scheduled for com- 



23 pletion this fall. 



24 The second generalized requirement in the 



report quoted from pages XIV, XV and XVI is: 



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