This month we'll have reports from our Clean Water Classic surfing competition in Westport, plans for our Yowkwala Beach cleanup on Saturday, and introducing new chapter officers. We're also devoting the chapter meeting to generating letters to stop approval for two crude oil terminals in Grays Harbor. If constructed, the ports would receive as many as 5 million gallons of North Dakota oil per day, carried by sixteen trains per week down a 60-mile century-old spur line along the Chehalis River from Centralia. The oil traffic across the estuary and through the hazardous bar at the mouth of Grays Harbor is projected to be as many as 638 vessels per year. In 1988 an oil barge passing the mouth of the estuary collided with a tug, releasing 231,000 gallons, which covered beaches in Ocean Shores and Westport. We have until 0ctober 29th to review the documents, and tell DOE of our concerns about turning Grays Harbor into an industrial zone. Tomorrow we are sponsoring a letter-writing workshop: 6:30 PM, Thursday 10/8, at The Copper Door <http://www.thecopperdoor.net/> tavern in the Stadium District of Tacoma. Come and help us stop the crude oil! The documents can also be reviewed at www.ecy.wa.gov/geographic/graysharbor/terminals.html -- South Sound Chapter Surfrider Foundation southsound@surfrider.org www.surfrider.org/southsound