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Tribes to gather water quality info during Canoe Journey for second year

Tribal canoes are participating in a water quality study in partnership with the USGS for a second year. Five canoes will tow water quality probes during the annual Tribal Canoe Journey, which culminates at Suquamish Aug. 3-8.

The Daily Herald:

To learn about what happens on and in the water, one of the best places to be is in the belly of a canoe — about a foot away from the surface, moving more slowly than most other vessels. That’s why federal scientists have asked tribal canoeists, for the second year in a row, to help them find out more about the health of the water in the Puget Sound region. (more…)

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Tribal leader tries to drum up federal funding for water pipeline

The (Everett) Herald has a story today about efforts to build a pipeline to pump 36 million gallons of water each day to the Tulalip Indian Reservation:

Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson and Tulalip Tribes Chairman Mel Sheldon were among a group that traveled to the nation’s capital recently in an effort to win financial support for the project, which was part of a 2005 legal settlement that forged a partnership between the two governments.

The pipeline will bring enough water to the 22,000-acre reservation so that residents there will no longer have to rely on the aquifer that lies beneath them, Sheldon said.

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