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This Puget Sound Nutrient Watch looks at the importance of excess nutrients and how they affect Puget Sound.

We are evaluating an application requesting permission to use the pesticide Imidacloprid to control burrowing shrimp in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor.

Cooler and wetter conditions set the stage for a favorable supply of freshwater in June 2017.

Our draft environmental study reviews eight new chemicals, five alternatives for management, and updates information on other chemicals currently covered under the permits.

You are invited to attend the next planning meeting for updating the Recommendations for Managing Commercial Net Pen Aquaculture in Washington's straits and estuaries.

Riparian restoration experts face many challenges including poor seedling survival, slow tree growth, disconnected floodplains, livestock damage, and competition from noxious weeds.

This year, we’re proposing $188 million in financial assistance for 165 high-priority clean-water projects.

Washington's 30-year-old management guidelines for commercial, marine fish farms (net pens) are getting an overhaul.

Livestock producers, dry-land farmers, and forestry operations are encouraged to apply for financial and technical assistance to adopt conservation practices to protect and restore their property.

There are about a million privately-owned and operated septic systems across Washington and many are at risk of failing due to old age.