Comment on Limits on Logging Proposal
COMMENT to the Regional Water Board on Proposed New Limitations on Pacific Lumber Logging The DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED to Monday, August 8, 2005. Write to: North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board 5550 Skylane Boulevard, Suite A Santa Rosa, CA 95403 or email to dkuszmar@waterboards.ca.gov or fax to 805-788-3579 The proposed Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs) are watershed-specific requirements designed to address the cumulative impacts from timber harvesting activities in the two watersheds–Freshwater and Elk River–whose rivers are already listed as impaired for sediment and temperature under the Clean Water Act. “Waste discharge” in this case is silt and sediments …