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July 24, 2003
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Al Scalf, Director
Department of Community Development
621 Sheridan St.
Port Townsend, W A 98368
RE: Port Ludlow Development Impact Monitoring
JEFFERSON COUNTY
DEPt OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Dear AI:
As you know, Port Ludlow sub-division approvals subsequent to the 1993 Environmental
Impact Statement contain conditions related to monitoring of several potential
development impacts. Port Ludlow Associates is required to conduct annual monitoring
of these impacts. The report submitted to Jefferson County in March 2003 represents the
ninth year of such monitoring.
In recent years, our consultants have recommended modifications to certain monitoring
elements in response to their findings. We feel that it is appropriate to modify the scope
of monitoring accordingly to make the findings more meaningful and cost effective.
Therefore, we would like you to consider the following changes.
Traffic - The conclusions of the traffic monitoring have remained essentially the same
since the inception ofthe program. As noted in the "Conclusions" ofthe 2002 report, our
consultant, Geralyn Reinart, P.E., recommends that the monitoring ''be scaled back to a
less frequent interval such as every other year or every third year".
Non-point Monitoring - Certain elements of this program aren't producing meaningful
results;The consultant, Aquatic Research, Inc., recommends the following modifications.
1) Continue the ambient monitoring program on its current schedule. Standard
deviations for flow and fecal coliform are much higher than the means. If the
number of samples is reduced it could result in apparent changes in water quality
that are the result of small sample size.
2) Eliminate sediment sampling, as all metals were greater than an order of magnitude
below WSDOE sediment standards at all stations for four sampling events since
1995.
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Al Scalf
July 24, 2003
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3) Eliminate stormwater and golf course sampling. Metals and total petroleum
hydrocarbons have been consistently low. No pesticides have been detected in golf
course samples. Elevated copper concentrations on the golf course do not affect
Golf Course Creek, indicating that copper applied to the course is retained there.
Nutrients are more of an issue in the summer than when the storm events are
monitored. If nutrients remain a concern they could be added to the ambient
monitoring program at the beginning and end of summer.
Mark Dorsey, PLA project manager, will be contacting you in the near future to arrange a
meeting to discuss these items. We look forward to meeting with you.
Sincerely,
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Larry Smith
Support Services Manager
Cc: Greg McCarry
Mark Dorsey, P .E.
70 BREAKER LANE
PORT LUDLOW, WA 98365
(360)437-2101. FAX(360)437-2522
WWW.PORTLUDLOWASSOCIATES.COM