Washington State Gathers Info For Implementation Of TMDL Plan To Address High Water Temperatures In Columbia, Lower Snake Rivers
March 15th, 2025
The Washington Department of Ecology is hosting a public meeting March 17 to discuss how it will implement a long-awaited Total Maximum Daily Load plan for temperature in the Columbia and lower Snake rivers. The two rivers are included in Washington’s 303(d) list of impaired bodies of water due to their persistent high water temperatures that pose a threat to salmon and steelhead. The fish rely on the rivers for migration and spawning and some of the populations are listed under the federal Endangered Species Act. The temperature TMDL had been developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by court …
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Washington State Formally Bans Net Pen Aquaculture Seven Years After Net Pen Collapse Released Atlantic Salmon Into Puget Sound
January 19th, 2025
Commercial net pen aquaculture was outlawed last week in Washington state, some seven years after a net pen collapsed, releasing thousands of Atlantic Salmon into Puget Sound, and two years after the last commercial net pens in the Sound lost their leases and were removed.
Washington State Industrial Sites Have New Requirements To Protect Water Quality; Must Sample For PFAS, Tire Chemicals Lethal To Salmon
December 9th, 2024
Washington's Industrial Stormwater General Permit, which covers nearly 1,200 facilities, has new requirements to ensure cleaner stormwater is flowing into local waterways, and is less harmful to salmon.