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• No person shall remove, fill, dredge or alter any bank, riverfront area, fresh water wetland, coastal wetland, beach, dune, flat, marsh, meadow or swamp bordering on the ocean or on any estuary, creek, river, stream, pond, or lake, or any land under said waters or any land subject to tidal action, coastal storm flowage, or flooding, other than in the course of maintaining , repairing or replacing, but not substantially changing or enlarging, an existing and lawfully located structure or facility used in the service of the public and used to provide electric, gas, water, telephone, telegraph and other telecommunication services, without filing written notice of his intention to so remove, fill, dredge or alter, including such plans as may be necessary to describe such proposed activity and its effect on the environment and without receiving and complying with an order of conditions and provided all appeal periods have elapsed.

• Protection of public and private water supply
• Protection of groundwater supply
• Flood control
• Storm damage prevention
• Prevention of pollution
• Protection of land containing shellfish
• Protection of fisheries
• Protection of wildlife habitat

Solutions
Protecting Wet lands
Legally protect existing wetlands
Steer development away from existing wetlands
Use mitigation banking only as a last resort
Require creation and evaluation of a new wetland before destroying an existing wetland
Restore degraded wetlands
Try to prevent and control invasions by nonnative species

Natural Capital
Ecological Services of Rivers
• Deliver nutrients to sea to help sustain coastal fisheries
• Deposit silt that maintains deltas
• Purify water
• Renew and re-nourish wetlands
• Provide habitats for wildlife

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Solutions
Rebuilding Salmon Populations
Building upstream hatcheries
Releasing juvenile salmon from hatcheries to under populated streams
Releasing extra water from dams to wash juvenile salmon downstream
Building fish ladders so adult salmon can bypass dams during upstream migration
Using trucks and barges to transport salmon around dams
Reducing silt runoff from logging roads above salmon spawning streams
Banning dams from some stream areas