(a) Protect wetlands, shorelines and other water resources beneficial to fisheries, wildlife, recreation and public use. Achieve this policy through education and enhancement of resources and through regulation of appropriate uses, buffers and activities.

(b) Adopt and implement drainage and erosion control standards for new development in order to protect water quality and prevent impacts to water quantity (e.g., flooding).

(c) Encourage public acquisition of lands of outstanding habitat or open space value, particularly those lands that are threatened by encroaching development.

(d) Support development of the Miller Peninsula State Park, balancing between maintaining the environmental attributes of the site and surrounding properties with the need for active recreational opportunities, developing connecting links to the Olympic Discovery Trail for non-motorized access.

(a) In forested areas such as Diamond Point, limit the number of access points to County roads in order to maintain a greenbelt along the road.

(b) Encourage the beautification of development along the Highway 101 corridor through landscape guidelines and through the control of signage, including the prohibition of billboard construction and the eventual removal.

(c) Designate open space corridors that provide linkages for wildlife and fisheries and protect these corridors through education, enhancement and regulations. See Figure 8 for designated habitat corridors.

(d) Conserve and enhance the Dungeness River as a greenway corridor for the benefit of fish, wildlife, flood protection, people and open space.

(e) Conserve the corridors of Siebert’s Creek, McDonnell Creek, Cassalery Creek, Bell Creek, Johnson Creek, Jimmycomelately Creek, Gierin Creek, Matriotti Creek, Meadowbrook Creek, and Cooper Creek for the benefit of fish and wildlife.

(f) Encourage further development of non-motorized trails to link natural resource land and water to the Olympic Discovery Trail.

(a) Encourage further development of saltwater access points for recreation, such as trails, boating, and passive uses.

(b) Maintain existing access points for recreation, including the Dungeness Spit.

(c) Encourage further development of public access to freshwater areas, particularly the Dungeness River.

(d) Existing managed public access to public forest lands for recreation should be maintained.

(a) Minimize pollutants in drinking water, industrial, commercial, agricultural and stock water supplies. Focus efforts on sources of bacteria, chemicals, nutrients, and sediment.

(b) Protect and restore the natural ecosystem functions of aquatic and riparian areas.

(c) Maintain the harvestability of commercial and recreational shellfish and protect and/or improve shellfish habitat.

(a) [Policy No. 5] Ensure that land uses and densities allowed in rural areas are consistent with the need of area neighborhoods for open spaces, wildlife, peace and quiet, and the capacity of the land and water resource to handle development.

(b) [Policy No. 6] Minimize the public costs and potential dangers associated with inappropriate development in frequently flooded areas, geologic hazard areas, wetlands, fish and wildlife habitat, and areas with a critical recharging effect on aquifers.

(a) The quality and quantity of the shallow groundwater aquifer should be protected as it affects recharge of streams, estuaries and deep aquifer systems. The quality and quantity of the deep aquifer system should also be protected, especially for drinking water.

(b) Clallam County should work with State agencies to reduce the disincentives for establishing community water systems. Community water systems should be provided in areas with particular susceptibility to quality or quantity problems.

(a) [Policy No. 9] Municipal and residential water supplies should be directed to locations and depths so as to minimize the risk of hydraulic continuity, or where the water withdrawal does not cause impacts on in-stream flow requirements for fish.

(b) [Policy No. 10] Water should be used from the hydrologic unit from which it is derived, and water resources should be kept within the region.

(c) [Policy No. 11] Conservation and efficiency strategies for water resources should be developed and implemented region-wide to provide the most efficient use of all water resources.