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Human-built beaver dams can restore streams.

Ecology received a rule petition from Northwest Environmental Advocates for us to engage in rulemaking to place wasteload allocations in a rule for an official water cleanup plan.

The new FundFinder.wa.gov is a clearing house for water quality and salmon project funding.

We explain how the Salish Sea Model and other scientific computer models help us better understand the world around us.

Our program was incredibly successful in its first year. It prevented 36 million gallons, equal to 55 Olympic-sized swimming pools, of wastewater from flowing into Puget Sound watershed.

Nitrate in groundwater is a concern because of the risk of methemoglobinemia, or “blue-baby syndrome."

Per- and poly- fluorinated alkyl substances (aka PFAS, PFCs, PFOS) are building up in waterways and fish, but phasing them out could decrease chemical exposure.

Late summer 2017 brings warm air temperatures and drier conditions throughout Puget Sound. Streamflows in the region's northern rivers are lower than rivers in South Puget Sound.

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.