Chimacum Creek

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Chimacum Creek is a stream in Jefferson County, Washington, United States. Located on the base of the Quimper Peninsula in the northeast of the larger Olympic Peninsula, the main stem (also known as West Chimacum Creek) originates from a series of springs and ponds in the forested hills south of Discovery Bay. It flows south from its source before turning east and eventually north, taking in many small tributaries before it enters the broad Chimacum Valley, an agricultural region where the stream has been extensively channelized. After taking in its largest tributary, the East Fork Chimacum, near the community of Chimacum, it enters a tight ravine where it meets the sea in the community of Port Hadlock-Irondale, creating a small estuary and an area of intertidal wetland as it enters Port Townsend Bay. The topography of the watershed was shaped heavily by the advance and retreat of the Cordilleran ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum, which deposited large amounts of glacial outwash...

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