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By ARLA SHEPHARD Local watershed planners have decided not to meet in the next couple months given the shaky future of watershed planning at the state level. The Department of Ecology has not yet figured out how it will fund watershed planning units like WRIA 16 in Hood Canal, said Ecology environmental plan- ner Tim Gates to WRIA 16 members in Hoodsport last week. "They [Ecology] can't promise me anything," Gates said. "The money that the legislature gave them is cut in half, and [the state] told Ecology that the priority should be to focus on the backlog of water rights [ap- plications]." The watershed planners authorized one of their members to write the initial grant for planning if the funding comes through. "I'm hoping we get the final answer right away," said Gates, who is optimistic that WRIA 16 will be among the units funded. "I know there's some that are just going to get lopped off, but I'm pretty sure this is not one of them." Ecology is expected to come to a decision in the first two weeks of July, Gates said. ADOPT-A-PET'S 18TM - ANNUAL 4 PAWS DOG WALK • June 25~ at the Huff-N-Puff Trail on , Shelton Springs Road from 9am - 2pro All dogs must be on a leash. You can also have our mascot walk for your contribution to all the dogs at the kennels. There are hot dogs & cake plus water for dogs & their humans. There will be a gift for each entrant, also vendors & raffles. Come and enjoy a walk while you support our no-kill dog rescue. rmy perm its geod uck nur ry at Spencer C By ARLA SHEPHARD The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit this month to Seattle Shell- fish for the installation and continued operation of a floating geoduck nursery in Spencer Cove. The project, which will add six 14-by-40-foot rafts and a 360-foot log boom to the company's existing geo- duck nursery, has been a source of conflict for shore- line homeowners along Case Inlet. "I think that decision was expected," said Curt Puddicombe, vice president of the Case Inlet Shoreline Association, which pursued and then dropped an ap- peal last year against a Ma- son County decision to al- low the geoduck operation. "There's no surprise there. At this point, I don't think there's much we can do." The association, made up of homeowners from Allyn to Vaughn in Pierce County, cited environmen- tal reasons for pursuing the appeal, but refocused its efforts earlier this year on the issue of aquatic tide- land ownership. The group hired a lawyer to argue that Seattle Shell- fish did not have geoduck planted in Spencer Cove prior to December 31, 2001 -- if true, the operation would be illegal under state law because that would mean the company had planted on lands reverted to the state. However, the state De- partment of Natural Re- sources (DNR), which man- Journal photo by Aria Shephard Homeowners along Case Inlet, as seen here from North Bay in Allyn, have taken issue in the past with Seattle Shellfish geoduck operations in Spencer Cove. The shellfish company recently received permit approval from the LT.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a geoduck nursey expansion in Spencer Cove. ages aquatic lands, accept- structure," wrote Patricia Puddicombe said, but that ed testimony from Seattle Graesser of the public af- at least the county did re- Shellfish that geoduck had fairs office in the Seattle quire that the project un- been planted before 2002. district of the Army Corps dergo five years of environ- The permit from the in an e-mail. "The structure mental monitoring. Army Corps was the last would be located approxi- "That was a good thing, step for Seattle Shellfish to mately 270 feet offshore but I guess it certainly is a expand its nursery, and run parallel to an ex- concern still because this is ~I"ne nursery is where isting intertidal geoduck the largest over-water float- geoduck seed is grown out planting area." ing structure in Case Inlet," to a suitable planting size Mason County does not he said. "We'll see how that and will replace an exist- regulate aquaculture asenvironmental monitoring ing smaller floating raft heavily as other counties, goes." your 426-4412 "We advertise with the Shelton Journal because e reat personal service we recegve from of th g_.._, o*,,ff! A ereat local paper that really me Journu® ' ° • ' keeps you aware of what's going on m our community !" .._ Dnitra Ayers • utomotive is conveniently located in downtown Ayers A . . l altnn - lust a little south Allyn, just a little norm ,,, ..... of Belfair and well worth the trip. Expert automotive service and oil changes while you wait. .--.- ee re ularly use The Journalgood results!f°r our employee recruTament needs with ..- Adele DuPon Shelton Health & Rehabilitation Center 153 Johns Court • Shelton 360-427-2575 Page A-2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal -Thursday, June 23, 2011 ,,Jill