The proposed site of the reservoir is widely used by local outdoors recreationists. On a hot sunny morning, Jeff Becker and her horse, Vinnie, enjoyed a trail ride in a place that could one day be under water.
“I can see the point of maybe making a reservoir if it will help the situation with the water. It’s probably going to get drier in the future years, not wetter,” Becker said, adding that the DNR will eventually log the land anyway. “That may be a very good use for that land once all the trees come down.”
Proponents of the project hope to have the design completed by the end of 2016 with construction starting in 2017.
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/As the drought wears on, water levels in the Dungeness River on the Olympic Peninsula are setting daily records, heightening interest in a new water storage project.
