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Oil spill threatens Puget Sound wetlands.(The Seattle Times)
Byline: Lynn Thompson
SEATTLE _ A pristine, 400-acre marine estuary on Suquamish tribal land on the Kitsap Peninsula has been badly fouled by oil drifting across Puget Sound after a 4,800-gallon marine-fuel spill near Richmond Beach.
Oil-blackened Dungeness crab lay heaped on a beach used by the tribe for sacred gatherings and family picnics. Frantic efforts to hold a protective boom in place around the mouth of a freshwater lagoon failed when high tides, whipped by rising southerly winds, washed the heavy fuel oil over the boom.
"Everyone's pretty sick about it. They're pretty devastated," said Rob Purser, fisheries director for the Suquamish ...
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