Port Angeles Harbor Ecosystem
left|500px|map by P. CereghinoThe greater Port Angeles Harbor Ecosystem is a group of Coastal Watersheds along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and includes Ediz Spit a massive Barrier Beach and the watersheds of Peabody, Tumwater, Valley and Ennis Creeks, some of which extend into Olympic National Park. The Elwha Watershed is to the West, and Dungeness Watershed is to the East. The Elwha Drift Cell landform is included because of its importance in sustaining Ediz Hook. Port Angeles Harbor itself is entirely within the City of Port Angeles, and so is governed by City shoreline master planning and comprehensive planning. It is also a Model Toxics Control Act cleanup site as well as a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act site under Natural Resource Damage Assessment. The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe has strong interest in the harbor, as well as the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.
Relationships
- broader: toxics
- located in: clallam county
- related to: Feeder Bluffs
- related to: Natural Resource Damage Assessment
- related to: Olympia Oysters
- related to: beach
- related to: city of everett
- related to: comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act
- related to: dungeness watershed
- related to: elwha dam removal
- related to: futurewise
- related to: galster & swartz 1990
- related to: haring 1999
- related to: heavy metals
- related to: jamestown s’klallam tribe
- related to: lower skykomish floodplain
- related to: mchenry & odenweller 1998
- related to: model toxics control act
- related to: mtca
- related to: pahs
- related to: pcbs
- related to: salmonids
- related to: smp
- related to: strait of juan de fuca
- related to: woo et al 2011