Bear Creek Before and After the 1996/1997 Landslide

Point Sources and Logging Operations

On July 24, 2001 EPIC sued the Pacific Lumber Company under the Clean Water Act, alleging that the Company's discharges of sediment, herbicides and other pollutants through culverts, ditches and other discreet conveyances are in violation of section 402 of the Act.

Pacific Lumber owns 95% of the 5,500 acre Bear Creek watershed. In this relatively small watershed, Pacific Lumber has 39 miles of roads and at least 156 culverts. Many, if not all, of these culverts gather polluted water from ditches and route it to the creek.