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...first trouble encountered by the barges since they left Puget Sound in July for the 3,500-mile voyage. Of the 47 vessels in the original convoy-the largest in peacetime maritime history-ten made it through to Prudhoe. Another 19 turned back for southern Alaska ports: they encountered the worst ice conditions in 77 years. One barge was beached and is being repaired. The 15 that turned back last week contained, among other items, modular buildings, without which oil production cannot begin...
...Trident submarines. To support these su-persubs*-which are designed to replace the Polaris and Poseidon as nuclear deterrents-the Navy planned a $600 million complex with an estimated population of as many as 55,000 people. But the tract borders Hood Canal, a deep marine estuary leading off Puget Sound, and the more that local environmentalists learned about the Navy's plan the more convinced they became that the base would destroy the area's natural beauty...
Teakbird, Bolero and Walloon, seen here scudding across Puget Sound, are all from the board of Veteran Designer William Garden. A boat by Bill Garden, says one of his admirers, "always seems to fit into the tradition of the Grand Banks fishing schooner and the opium clipper." Odd combination? Not for the offshore sailors to whom Garden has given long-keeled boats that are easy on the helm. Not on ocean passages, when a snug Garden rig teaches the enjoyment of what the designer calls "chasing off before the wind under boisterous conditions...
Washington state is offering voters the choice of picking one of two separate shoreline management proposals or of rejecting both. Each of the measures would protect coastal areas and wetlands and forbid oil drilling in Puget Sound, but one has stricter provisions and turns greater responsibility over to the state. The weaker measure is already law, but it will cease to be effective if it is not approved by the voters. Floridians will have to decide whether to authorize a $200 million bond issue to purchase lands that the state has decreed to be "environmentally endangered," and another $40 million...
Though Washington has its success story-the cleanup of Seattle harbor with $145 million worth of sewage-treatment plants-Puget Sound is still being polluted by discharges from pulp and paper mills. Indeed, the mills have been granted up to eleven years to comply with federal and state water-quality laws, mainly to avoid straining the state's already depressed economy...