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Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe: 



• Hired Wafer Quality Technician, increased the number of tribal staff 

 working on water quality issues, and created a tribal Water Quality 

 Office. 



• Identified existing tribal resources; conducted needs assessments and 

 review of reservation watersheds. 



• Assisted in establishing a public environmental education program. 



• Assisted in establishing the Adopt-A-Stream program within the tribal 

 Summer and After School Program. 



• Completed Phase I of a drinking water survey and conducted several 

 water supply workshops for tribal members. 



• Worked to establish a Comprehensive Watershed Monitoring Plan. 

 Lummi Tribe: 



Collected Nooksack River Basin data 

 sources on water quality hydrology 

 and drainage; conducting analysis of 

 man-made modifications and quality 

 to flow. 



Identified and conducted initial 

 assessment of reservation water 

 resources; drainage and groundwater 

 studies underway. 



Draft water code under review, initial 

 work begun to develop reservation 

 infrastructure including water quality 

 standards. 



Verne Johnson, Lummi Tritje Environmental Policy 

 Representative, examines a water sanple. 



• ARC/lnfo System in place and 

 operating. A Geographic Information 



Specialist was hired and currently is working on application of state 

 Department of Natural Resources (DNR) data. 



• Acquired spatial coverages for streams, wetlands and anadromous fish 

 resources for the tribe's Geographic Information System (GIS) 

 database. 



Makah Tribe: 



• Hired Senior Water Resources Planner. 



• Developing an existing conditions section of a sewage treatment plant 

 siting plan. 



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