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The painful cost of booming growth

A McCormick Woods development takes shape near Port Orchard, a mile upstream from Puget Sound. Trees were felled and topsoil scraped away, disrupting the natural flow of water through the ecosystem — a common process as homes are built, but one that's also harmful to the Sound.

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