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City hears grant pitch to use forest management to protect drinking water
Summary
A Sustainable Northwest consultant briefed Depoe Bay councilors on how timber management in the North Depoe Bay and Rocky Creek watersheds affects local water supply and outlined a federal grant opportunity to fund planting and forest-health work with timber owners.
Depoe Bay councilors heard on Aug. 19 from Daniel Weir of Sustainable Northwest about how forest-management practices in the city’s source watersheds affect water quality and availability and about a potential grant that could pay for planting and forest-health work. "The water rights that you have legally far exceed the water demand that you have," Weir said, but he warned that stream availability and post‑harvest runoff can interrupt supply.
Weir said the city’s three drinking‑water sources are North Depoe Bay Creek (the preferred intake), Rocky Creek (the larger secondary supply) and a small emergency supply at South Depoe Bay Creek. He gave several figures during the presentation: Depoe Bay’s population is about…
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