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The March 2011 tsunami that hit Japan washed debris into the Pacific Ocean. While heavier materials sank close to shore, lighter material have been scattered by winds and ocean currents in the North Pacific. Items have already begun landing on the U.S. West Coast. See Japan Tsunami Marine Debris Joint Information Center and NOAA's Japan Tsunami Debris information and FAQs websites for more information and where to report tsunami debris.

http://disasterdebris.wordpress.com/

http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/japanfaqs.html

The second installment for 2012 of the quarterly GHCOG Public Funding Notification Alert is now available! GHCOG publishes the newsletter quarterly to assist our members with infrastructure funding research. See the link below for the newsletter in PDF format.

April 2012 Public Funding Newsletter

The GHCOG Grays Harbor Demographic Highlights brochure has been updated with current employment estimates, from Washington State Employment Security, and median age data, from the Office of Financial Management. See the link below for the brochure, in PDF format.

April 2012: Grays Harbor Demographic Highlights brochure

GHCOG is now able to provide street maps in PDF file format that the public may download for free. The community street maps were created utilizing BING basemaps available with ESRI GIS software. Street maps for all nine incorporated communities in Grays Harbor are available and a large number of smaller unincorporated places within the county. Links to the map pages are below.

Community Street Maps page

Unincorporated place Street Maps page

Now available - Voice of Washington Survey on Transportation, sponsored by the Washington State Transportation Commission. 100,000 adult residents of Washington State participated, see the results of what residents across the state had to say. See the Voice of Washington website link below.

Voice of Washington Survey

Grays Harbor Community Needs Survey: Who, What, Where, When, Why & How by Housing Grays Harbor, December 2010.

Grays Harbor Community Needs Survey

This beautiful, picture-filled plan is our corridor management plan for State Route 109. The route begins in historic Hoquiam, moves through the lowlands of the north harbor coast, past ocean-side tourist destinations, evergreen-studded cliffs and beach towns, and ends at Taholah, the center of the Quinault Indian Nation. The plan offers a host of ideas to enhance the highway as a visitor destination.

The plan is available via download, hard copy, or CD. To order a hard copy ($5.00 shipping & handling per copy) or CD ($3.00 shipping & handling per copy) please contact JoLynn at (360) 537-4386 or jdobney@ghcog.org.

Grays Harbor Hidden Coast Scenic Byway Plan

Washington State Olympic Peninsula's SR 109 Scenic Byway tour brochure.