鈥淲hen humans make changes, anything that kinda disturbs the watershed, those activities have the potential to release sediment, that can run off into the lake. That sediment often contains pretty high levels of phosphorus,鈥 Angela Strecker, director of the Western Washington University Institute鈥
Washington State鈥檚 Emergency Management Division calculates that nearly 90,000 people live or work in the outer coast鈥檚 inundation zone, and there are another 86,000 more along inner waterways that the waves will take longer to reach. On a summer day, they could be joined in the danger zone by鈥