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- Interactive: Licensed to pollute Puget Sound
- Graphic: Stormwater runoff and Puget Sound
Nitrogen contributes to algae growth | More about nutrients | Stratification | Causes of low oxygen in Hood Canal | The human factor | Oxygen levels in Hood Canal | How water circulates in Hood Canal | Geology
Big money, big goal: $220 million infusion to aid in cleanup
Compared with 2007, the Puget Sound agenda for this year's state Legislature is small potatoes.
A conversation with David Dicks
David Dicks, a Seattle attorney and son of Congressman Norm Dicks, D-Wash., was appointed executive director of the Puget Sound Partnership by Gov. Chris Gregoire in August 2007.
‘Our last, best chance’ to save Puget Sound
All eyes are on the Puget Sound Partnership, the new state agency viewed by many as the last chance for saving Puget Sound.
• Part 1: Toxic runoff silent killer
• Part 1: Toxic runoff silent killer
About this series
Today's fifth installment in The Olympian's Saving Puget Sound series examines the pollution problems caused by stormwater runoff, and ways to curb them.
Puget Sound's future depends on drastic change
OLYMPIA — Measures to tame stormwater runoff into Puget Sound will require new ways of developing land and major lifestyle changes for the residents of the region — not to mention the 1.4 million headed this way in the next 15 years.
Air pollutants also have effect on area's water quality
Everything from cars motoring along Interstate 5 to coal plants in China contributes to air pollution that settles into Puget Sound.
What you can do now to help Puget Sound
Individuals, families and businesses can play a role in reducing stormwater runoff.
Toxic runoff — silent killer
Every time it rains, pollution pours into Puget Sound.
• About this series
• Puget Sound's future depends on drastic change
• Air pollutants also have effect on area's water quality
• What you can do now to help Puget Sound
• Graphic: Stormwater runoff and Puget Sound
• Previous coverage
• About this series
• Puget Sound's future depends on drastic change
• Air pollutants also have effect on area's water quality
• What you can do now to help Puget Sound
• Graphic: Stormwater runoff and Puget Sound
• Previous coverage
Puget Sound struggles against tide of toxins
Every day, industry and municipal sewage treatment plants dump 1 billion gallons of wastewater tainted with toxic chemicals and oxygen-robbing nutrients into Puget Sound and its tributaries.
Ways to change: Ideas to slow the toxic flow
The newly-formed Puget Sound Leadership Council has until September 2008 to develop a Puget Sound cleanup plan that includes ways to reduce the flow of toxic chemicals into Puget Sound. Here are ideas for approaching the pollution problems caused by the nearly one billion gallons of treated wastewater discharged into Puget Sound every day by industry and municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Drugs, household chemicals are a risk ‘we haven’t fully begun to understand’
It’s a connection that few people make, but the medicines and personal care products that are part of daily life also are part of the Puget Sound pollution problem.
The future: ‘Taking the pulse’ of the Sound
WASHINGTON —Five hundred times a day, Washington state ferries depart from terminals in such places as Point Defiance, Mukilteo, Fauntleroy and Friday Harbor, crisscrossing Puget Sound and other inland waters while traveling a combined 2,500 miles before being tied to the dock at day’s end.
LOTT treatment plant is complex piece of water quality puzzle
OLYMPIA — At the southern end of Budd Inlet — a shallow, poorly-circulating arm of Puget Sound with its fair share of water quality problems — sits a $300 million community investment called the LOTT Alliance wastewater treatment plant.
Eelgrass (South Sound marine life)
Eelgrass (Zostera marina)
Fried egg jelly (South Sound marine life)
Fried egg jelly (Phacellophora camtschatica)
Sound's health shows decline
The health of Puget Sound continues to show serious signs of decline, according to a State of the Sound report released today by the Puget Sound Action Team.
Puget Sound panel details daunting cleanup endeavor
A blue-ribbon panel charged with restoring the health of Puget Sound by 2020 outlined ambitious priorities Thursday, including reducing toxic chemicals and sewage, improving shorelines, reducing stormwater runoff, restoring and preserving habitat and getting people involved.
Shoreline barriers hurt Sound's web of life
BELFAIR STATE PARK - Environmental engineer Pat McCullough grinned as a bulldozer chewed away at a boulder-studded dike he can't wait to tear down.
Nisqually project helps reverse decades of decline
The Nisqually River Delta is where the action is when it comes to estuary restoration work in Puget Sound.
Puget Sound's future in peril
From a distance, Puget Sound shimmers pristine blue in the sunlight, framed by beaches that look clean and inviting.
