Watershed Restoration
Beginning in 2004, the DCC Coalition developed a comprehensive plan for definition of degradation of the Dry Creek and its associated watershed which has occured over a long period of time.
Problems included:
- wetland preservation of 113 acre Critchfield Property,
- major erosion damage of Dry Creek waterway and Steelhead Salmon habitat resulting from Port of Port Angeles extension of the Fairchild Airport runway in 1992/1993),
- chemical and bacterial pollution of Dry Creek and waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca resulting from leaching of City of Port Angeles landfill materials and stormwater runoff,
- monitoring water quality of Dry Creek from headwaters on Dry Hill to the mouth at Juan de Fuca.
This Web site will be updated with a large volume of correspondence, data and pictures resulting from the monitoring efforts of Coalition volunteers over the past 3 years. It will take an extended period of time to make this update. Stay tuned, it is a fascinating story of how degradation occurs slowly but surely until nature can no longer cope with the cumulative effects. The appended picture is that of Dry Creek erosion generated as a result of the runway extension, sending more than 200,000 cubic yards of gravel and debris down the one mile of Dry Creek spawning area.