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		<title>National Marine Fisheries Service Says Clark County&#8217;s Stormwater Plan is Deficient and Will Harm Salmon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under a lopsided deal reached in early January 2010, the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) agreed to allow Clark County to retain inadequate stormwater standards for new development in exchange for a promise to implement county-funded stormwater mitigation projects. In February 2010, Rosemere Neighborhood Association, along with Columbia Riverkeeper, and Northwest Environmental Defense Center, appealed Ecology's special deal with Clark County to the State Pollution Control Hearings Board in an attempt to repeal Clark County's faulty stormwater management plan. The three conservation groups also filed a 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue Clark County in federal court for violations of the Clean Water Act. Earthjustice, a public interest law firm, represents the three conservation groups in these legal challenges.

Local residents and clean water advocates argue Washington State authorized inadequate development standards in Clark County's stormwater permit that will generate illegal stormwater pollution, and that the stormwater pollution will also harm endangered species of salmon and their habitats.

Clark County's Phase I municipal stormwater permit is issued under the National Pollutant Discharge &#038; Elimination System program (NPDES) and is administered by the US Environmental Protection Agency. In turn, EPA defers management and enforcement of the federal stormwater management permit to Ecology. In the appeal, Rosemere et al cite that Ecology is not properly enforcing the federal stormwater permit.

In June 2010, The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association) issued public comments on Clark County's alternative municipal Phase I stormwater permit. Clark County is home to 15 endangered species of salmon, steelhead, smelt and sturgeon. NMFS states that Clark County's stormwater plan will not meet required goals to protect these fisheries and concludes that "adverse effects to listed (endangered) salmon will be significantly increased." Stephen W. Landino, the Washington State Director for Habitat Conservation, states that NMFS "strongly encourage(s) the EPA to object to the issuance of this (Clark County) permit."

To read the NMFS comment letter, please click here.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Elected Officials About Hanford &#8211; December 11, 2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted 6:30 PM PST, December 11, 2006

To: Various Elected Officials representing Southwest Washington

Maria Cantwell, Patty Murray, Brian Baird, Richard Curtis, Deb Wallace, Jim Moeller, Craig Pridemorem, Bill Fromhold

From: Rosemere Neighborhood Association

Hanford is considered to be one the nation's worst contaminated nuclear sites with cleanup expected to cost $60 billion and cleanup work to continue through 2035. The site is an environmental nightmare that includes groundwater contaminated with radioactive waste, and the salmon that spawn in the area are known to be reversing sexes due to contaminants in the Columbia River (which could cause the extinction of salmon runs in that area).
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		<title>Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery Plan &#8211; December 15, 2004</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Locke presents the State's First Regional Salmon Recovery Plan at the Clark County Hearing Room in Vancouver.

On December 15, 2004, Governor Locke arrived in Vancouver to sign and approve a plan to revitalize the endangered salmon population in the Columbia River Basin. This plan was presented to the federal government as the first locally developed regional salmon recovery plan for the State of Washington. This Salmon Recovery Plan was the product of collaboration among local, state, and tribal governments, community leaders and non-profit groups.
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		<title>RNA&#8217;s letter of commendation to prospectors who saved thousands of baby salmon &#8211; March 19, 2004</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[3/19/04
Mr. Bob Mote
President
Northwest Mineral Prospector's Club
P.O. Box 1973
Vancouver, Washington 98668

Dear Mr. Mote,
On behalf of the Rosemere Neighborhood Association, I would like to heartily congratulate you and your colleagues for coming to the aid of thousands of baby chum salmon in the Columbia River recently at such a crucial time in their development.]]></description>
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		<title>The Maitland Property &#8212; Developer May Harm Endangered Salmon &#8211; February 9, 2004</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chum Salmon are protected under the federal Endangered Species Act. These endangered salmon have been drawn to the warm waters of Josef Creek in Vancouver for thousands of years. The Columbia River once turned silver with the arrival of salmon every year, but now only about a thousand Chum find their way to Josef Creek, which is just east of I-205. The creek, one of the last remaining salmon runs in Southwest Washington, feeds into the Columbia River. ]]></description>
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