Central Puget Sound

This interim update includes two new strategies:

• Updated sector maps
• New response strategies & priorities

View the draft Sector Maps and Response Strategies & Priorities section here: https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/ezshare/sppr/preparedness/CPS-GRP/coversheet.pdf.

Description of the planning area

The CPS-GRP boundary spans the marine waters between Norma Beach in Snohomish County to the north, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to the south, the Montlake Bridge to the east, and Dyes Inlet to the west. It shares borders with several other GRPs, including Admiralty Inlet, Hood Canal, Lake Washington, Green River/Duwamish, Puyallup/White Rivers, and South Puget Sound.

The larger communities include Lynnwood, Edmonds, Shoreline, Indianola, Poulsbo, Bainbridge, Bremerton, Port Orchard, Silverdale, Seattle, Burien, Vashon, Federal Way, Tacoma, and Gig Harbor, as well as portions of Snohomish County, King County, Kitsap County, and Pierce County.

What are Geographic Response Plans?

Geographic Response Plans (GRPs) are used to guide early response actions in the event of an oil spill. Ecology develops and updates GRPs in collaboration with state, local, and federal agencies and tribes. Each GRP is written for a specific area — for example, a river, a lake, or section of Puget Sound. Each GRP includes tactical response strategies tailored to a particular shore or waterway at risk of injury from oil.

GRPs have two main objectives:

• Identify sensitive natural, cultural, or significant economic resources at risk of injury from oil spills.
• Describe and prioritize response strategies in an effort to reduce injury to sensitive natural, cultural, and certain economic resources at risk from oil spills.

More information

• Learn more about GRPs
• See GRPs for the Northwest Area (Washington, Oregon, and Idaho)