Champion was allowed to fill out the necessary permits 

 months after they had done the logging. 



The citizenry should be involved to help in monitoring 

 efforts on the Clark Fork. Monitoring of tributaries, 

 logging practices, etc., is needed. 



Jean Morrison, Citizen 



• Do discharge permits have stipulations that take low 

 streamflows into account? Are the permits reviewed and 

 made more stringent? A recommendation is needed to 

 change that bottom 7-day, 10-year low flow. It should be 

 lifted, because the river has been lower the last 3-4 

 years. The basis should be adjusted. 



Response: Adjustments in the 10-year low-flow values 

 are made as new data are available. It is a long-term, 

 ongoing process. 



• Didn't Flathead County instigate a regulation whereby 

 people were not to use detergents in water that would go 

 into Flathead? 



Response: Flathead and Lake counties have implemented a 

 ban on the sale of phosphate-based detergents. 



• Local and county government should participate in 

 monitoring, e.g., the local sanitarian. Local citizens 

 should be involved, particularly those who have similar 

 job duties. There is a need to hire somebody who could 

 report it when people dump certain kinds of things into 

 the river that aren't to go to the river. Shouldn't there 

 be a tax assessment that could be used to support such an 

 effort? Matching local/state funds might be one way to 

 obtain support. 



Response: Local and county government should have a role 

 in water quality monitoring. A cooperative monitoring 

 program to aid in organizing this effort has been 

 recommended (pages 5-19 to 5-21) . 



• The burial of old asphalt and highway debris associated 

 with the highway project in Plains is a concern. It is to 

 be buried on the Pack River property with a well and 

 stream nearby, and none of it is very far from the river. 

 Is it necessary to obtain a permit from the EPA for such 

 disposal? Years ago there were alot of problems with 

 illegal dumping of material in the river from the industry 

 that was there. 



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