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The proposed Olympic Line Harvest unit activity in the Jetty Creek watershed represents a significant additional threat to the water supply for the city of Rockaway Beach. During the last week local residents and the author measured stream buffers and photographically documented the Olympic line Harvest Unit in the Jetty Creek Drainage, the main source of drinking water for the city of Rockaway Beach. Fundamental to any consideration of logging Olympic Line are the significant tributaries of Jetty Creek within the area planned to be clearcut. This logging will further exacerbate water quality and quantity issues for the town of Rockaway Beach. Natural forest ecosystems absorb Oregon’s heavy winter rains like a sponge and release that water during the dry summer. This means that a heavily logged watershed like Jetty Creek creates a pattern of stream flows that are elevated in the winter (thus increasing erosion and siltation which water treatment has to remove) and also very

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