WMP in Kitsap Sun Article #2: Protecting & preserving natural resources in Kitsap

READ the full Article by the WMP team on the Kitsap Sun

The Waterman Mitigation Partners team is pleased to have published a 2nd article in the Kitsap Sun. Our aim with these articles are to directly engage + inform the public on the issues of ecological restoration and environmental impacts as they relate to life in on the Kitsap Peninsula.

***EXCERPT from KS Article***

At low tide, Ross Creek weaves its way through the grassy estuary and the 100-year-old creosote pilings rotting in the tidal muck. At high tide, the pilings and grasses disappear under the combined waters of the creek and the Sinclair Inlet. This ‘pocket estuary’ on the Port Orchard waterfront is only half the size that it once was. Historic logging activity and nonexistent planning principles degraded the estuary to what we know it as today. Dustin Haydock, site specialist for Waterman Mitigation Partners (WMP), stands before a bay window overlooking the estuary as the tide slowly rolls in.

“I remember seeing the Port Orchard City Limits sign as a kid in the 80’s - it read population eight thousand-something. We drove by that sign nearly every day to go town, and from time to time that number went up. The number now reads well over 15,000. But that growth is just in Port Orchard.”………..READ FULL ARTICLE

The Ross Creek estuary at low tide