A company report, accepted by state regulators, said that in late November a hole opened within the bowels of a pulp and paper mill and, briefly, poured a small stream of untreated wastewater into the city’s bay.
Within a few minutes of its discovery, crews slowed the spill to a trickle and four hours later sealed the hole, the Port Townsend Paper Co.’s environmental manager wrote. In all, he figured about 150 gallons of waste and pulp spilled into Puget Sound.
Washington’s Department of Ecology didn’t investigate…