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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Runoff turns Elliott Bay into murky stew

Elliott Bay is brown with runoff from days of heavy rain and high water releases from Howard Hanson Dam, 65 miles upstream on the Green River. "I've never seen it this muddy before," said Chris Wilke, of the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance.