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Ecology provides the high-quality science that is the foundation of Washington state environmental policy. Our monitoring, assessment, and modeling services provide a data-rich understanding of our state’s land, air, and water. We provide access to that data through reports, databases, maps and user-friendly online tools.

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Online tool: Well Construction (login required)

(SAW account required)

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Well-Construction

Online tool: Water use reporting (login required)

Review your metering account and submit your metering data (log-in required).

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Water-use-reporting

Online tool: Water Right Tracking System - Contractor Gateway

(log-in required)

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Water-Right-Tracking-System-Contractor-Gateway

Online tool: Well Construction and Licensing System

Search Ecology well records including: Notice of Intent to Construct or Decommission a well and state licensed well operators and drilling companies.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Well-Construction-and-Licensing-System

Online tool: Ecology's Well Report Gateway (login required)

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Ecology-s-Well-Report-Gateway

Online tool: Water Right Tracking System (login required)

(SAW account required)

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Water-Right-Tracking-System

Columbia River Policy Advisory Group

The Columbia River Policy Advisory Group helps the Washington State Department of Ecology identify policy issues and priorities for developing water supply.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Columbia-River-Policy-Advisory-Group

Water and Resource Protection Wells license study Guide for Written Exam

This is the full license, written exam study package for Water and Resource Protection Wells

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Wells-license-study-Guide-for-Written-Exam

Map: Streamflow restoration law (ESSB 6091)

A map that describes the areas in the state where the new streamflow restoration law applies.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/ESSB-6091-map

Consolidated rock llst

A comprehensive description of rock types found when drilling wells.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/consolidated-rock-list

Data model: rTemp

A simple model written in Excel/VBA to predict a time-series of water temperatures in response to heat fluxes determined by meteorological data, groundwater inflow, hyporheic exchange, and conduction

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Research-Data/rTemp-zip

Publication index: Water Supply Bulletin

Series of reports authored in cooperation with USGS. These are historical studies on many aspects of surface and groundwater.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Water-Supply-Bulletin

Publication index: Yakima River information

List of links to documents and posters about the Yakima River

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Yakima-River

Online tool: Water Rights Search

Use this tool to search records by: location, document/record number, name of the person to whom the water right was issued, or name of the claimant, if it is a water right claim.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Link-Assets/Water-supply/Water-Rights-Search

CR-101 Form (WAC 173-201A) 08/16/2017

This is a rulemaking announcement (CR-101) to update the recreational use criteria in WAC 173-201A Water Quality Standards for Surface Waters of the State of Washington

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Doc-Assets/Rulemaking/WQ/WAC-173-201A/CR-101-Form-(WAC-173-201A)-08-16-2017

Rulemaking Announcement (WAC 173-557) 01/21/14

This is a rulemaking announcement (CR-101) for WAC 173-557 Water Resources Management Program (WRMP) for the Spokane River and Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie (SVRP) Aquifer and amendment to WAC 173-555-010.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Doc-Assets/Rulemaking/WR/WAC-173-557_-13-11/Rulemaking-Announcement-(WAC-173-557)-01-21-14

Rulemaking Proposal (WAC 173-557) 09/17/14

This is a rulemaking proposal (CR-102) for WAC 173-557 Water Resources Management Program (WRMP) for the Spokane River and Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie (SVRP) Aquifer and amendment to WAC 173-555-010.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Doc-Assets/Rulemaking/WR/WAC-173-557_-13-11/Rulemaking-Proposal-(WAC-173-557)-09-17-14

Rulemaking Adoption Notice (WAC 173-557) 01/27/15

This is a rulemaking adoption (CR-103) for WAC 173-557 Water Resources Management Program (WRMP) for the Spokane River and Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie (SVRP) Aquifer and amendment to WAC 173-555-010

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Doc-Assets/Rulemaking/WR/WAC-173-557_-13-11/Rulemaking-Adoption-Notice-(WAC-173-557)-01-27-15

Rulemaking proposed language (WAC 173-557) 09/17/14

This is proposed rule language for WAC 173-557 Water Resources Management Program (WRMP) for the Spokane River and Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie (SVRP) Aquifer.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Doc-Assets/Rulemaking/WR/WAC-173-557_-13-11/Rulemaking-proposed-language-(WAC-173-557)-09-17-1

Rulemaking proposed language (WAC 173-555) 09/17/14

This is proposed rule language for amendment to WAC 173-555 Water Resources Program in the Little Spokane River basin, WRIA 55.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Doc-Assets/Rulemaking/WR/WAC-173-557_-13-11/Rulemaking-proposed-language-(WAC-173-555)-09-17-1

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