I own a home and rural property in Kitsap County and I get my water from my well.  My property has a stream that helps replenish the well water and up until 2014/15 the stream ran most of the year. The stream is listed by the county maps as a fish stream and my property is listed as Rural Restricted. In 2015 I noticed the stream had diminished in flow and now most of the year has no flow until after heavy rains. Kitsap County publishes a Stream Brochure #34 explaining the laws governing streams and how they are to be treated. I investigated the stream bed upstream from my property in an attempt to determine the reason for the changed flow conditions and found the stream had been modified and trees removed in and around the stream banks.  I reported these conditions to Kitsap County in mid 2016 and they have been in the process of investigating since. To be cont.
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