From: mary moffat

Sent: Wed Mar 16 22:28:14 2011

To: ToxicsRuleMaking

Subject: new water quality standards

Importance: Normal

It does my heart good to hear we are finally going to start protecting our most basic resource, our water from these newer invisible toxins. Having been a member of the local watershed council, and living on a creek where I see salmon spawn, I've talk to old timers and they report seeing less and less spawning, even while we are doing all we can planting native trees and shrubs in the riparian zone. Fish, not to mention humans, are extremely sensitive to any toxins in the water. After runs of over 100,000 coho in the Siuslaw in the early 1900s our native coho are still endangered and this is after years of riparian zone enhancement. We have no dams, no fish hatcheries, but we do have lots and lots of aerial spraying. We must do more and these standards will help. Please adopt the draft human health criteria for toxics based on the accurate fish consumption rate of 175 grams per day, and please limit the variance rule only to standards that are affected by this rulemaking.

I and my friend and family are grateful for these new standards. Please do all you can so that they are not subverted.

Thank you.

Mary Moffat and David Webb

Land owners, Chickahomony Creek, Walton, OR

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