interesting comments.
1. The gravel is moving into the river right now. Therefore anything to stop it will be worthwhile. But maybe as part of the conditions of permit other identified problem areas could also be identified and resolved, thereby improving the overall basin.
2. of course they won’t be allowed to remove gravel from tributary streams, its all the surface runoff thats accurring as we speak, you see hundreds of them all along the upper road just count the number of culverts that cross the road.
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Surface mining, will remove vegetation which prevents erosion large amount of sand, soil, pables, rocks will all be exposed. Gravel will need to be washed, and a settling pond need to be created. All these during high rain will get washed into Chehalis. Why do you think it will not effect the river? The general area around Statlu is still well within Chehalis River Watershed
Too late its already happened, I would think that as part of the granting of any right to mine there would have to be engineering designs done that would hand all flood and rain conditions to stop any of the material being worked, exposed. Moved etc from entering the river system. This will most likely be handled in the full environmental impact study including all engineering designs and studies. I’d think they’d design for the 200 year and even 1,000 year flood events, thereby preventing any runoff going to the river. I understand that was the problem over on the Coquitlam river, where there was no engineering design. If there wasnt a proper design within the plan teh I wouldnt support it either!!
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I smell a rat
ah back to name calling again i see!!
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Topic: CHEHALIS RIVER GRAVEL PIT COMMING SOON ON THE UPPER RIVER-DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN! (Read 27999 times)