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Aquatic Plants and Fish Pamphlet
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For more information, please write to:
Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife
Habitat and Lands Program
600 Capitol Way N
Olympia WA 98501-1091
(360) 902-2534

Happy New Year!

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Please read and act on the linked items that have been sent to our representatives, officials and media. Due to your overwhelming response to the denial of the boat wash for Diamond Lake, the Board of Directors of DLIA developed this request for support of our project.

Governor boat wash letter--this is the letter that went out to everyone
A, B, C, D are attachments listed in the letter
List of reps & officials & media, some were mailed, the rest emailed--please use this list to send your own letter
Resident support letter--now you may use this letter or make changes to it to suit yourself. My entire family will send this letter by adjusting the fact that they are not members or residents but they use the lake often and support this endeavor. Please feel free to write your own letter requesting support using any and all of the attachments here.

With all of our effort to get some attention and hopefully some investigation into the matter of the denial of use of the upper parking area, maybe someone will see how desperately we are in need of this project to protect our precious lake.

Please pass this information to anyone that you know who is also concerned.

Geri Guinn, President

On Behalf of the Board of Directors and Members of

Diamond Lake Improvement Association

Governor boat wash letter

list of reps & officials

resident support letter

A: Pozzanghera support letter

B: Trickel denial letter

C: draft of parking lot improvement

D: view of boat launch & parking lot

After lake residents continually requested help from the County regarding the high water in the spring, Sam Castro, Public Works Director, Diane Wear, County Commissioner and Jeff Lawler, Fish & Wildlife Biologist, went to the site and came up with findings that, “There are no plugged culverts impacting the flow. There is no culvert on the property just south of the lakes outfall. Jeff Lawler walked the private road and found that the channel was not obstructed and appeared to be twenty feet wide and about five feet deep. The conclusion is the area is saturated and this is the results of a high ground water table. Diamond Lake residents should consider performing a survey to determine the outfall elevation in relationship with the culvert on North Shore Rd.”

Please read the resulting letter sent by DLIA

Quagga & Zebra Mussels

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Quagga Mussel

Warning:

Prepare for High Water

Sand and sand bag availability

sand & bags now available

at the fire station

instead of the parking lot

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IMPORTANT NOTICES

Burglary Arrests

Water Quality report

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PEND OREILLE COUNTY

PLANNING COMMISSION

REGULAR MEETING AGENDA

Community Center—Cusick, WA

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MISSION STATEMENT:

To Protect & Preserve the Water,

Enhance the Quality of Life

on Diamond Lake

through Planning,

Visionary Leadership,

& Dedicated Volunteers

for the Benefit of

Current & Future Generations.

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Shoreline Master Program

If you have questions or comments please contact

Mike Lithgow

Next Workshop combined with

regular planning agenda

Dec. 20th, 6-8PM

Cusick

Please check out the links below for more info on the update

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/shorelines/smp/index.html

http://www.pendoreilleco.org/county/shoreline_master_program_update.asp

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In the air

Diamond Lake

is one of many natural lakes of northeastern Washington.

It lies in the southern part of Pend Oreille County,

about 7 miles southwest of Newport.

Diamond Lake appears to have been formed by a dam

of sand and gravel washed out from a glacier,

blocking the valley in which the lake is now found.

Size (acres)                                             800

Maximum Depth (feet)                              58

Mean Depth (feet)                                     27

Lake Volume (acre-feet)                      21600

Drainage Area (square miles)               17.40

Altitude (feet)                                       2340

Shoreline Length (miles)                        7.0

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