On a sunny July afternoon, Gov. Jay Inslee visited Tukwila Park to learn about our Washington Conservation Corps, one of the ...

As part of our ongoing effort to reduce exposure to PFAS in consumer products, we’re conducting a new rulemaking under the ...

SepticSmart Week is an annual event that occurs the third week of September, and is a great reminder to do a check up on your ...

The Washington Department of Ecology is proposing to adopt the federal water pollution limits intended to protect human health – formally adding the existing federal limits into state rules. This ...

A community's cultural and historic resources tell the distinct story of its past. From lumber mills to schools, sacred landscapes to archeological sites, rustic cabins to office towers, these ...

In 2017, the Washington Legislature passed Senate Bill 5939 to promote a sustainable, local renewable energy industry through modifying tax incentives. One portion of the bill created Chapter ...

As of January 2017, we are no longer involved in authorizing or managing ILF programs. However, we do allow the use of ILF programs to compensate for unavoidable impacts to waters of the state as ...

The Public Trust Doctrine is a legal principle derived from English common law. The Public Trust Doctrine protects public ownership interests in certain uses of navigable waters and underlying lands.

For the past few summers, neighbors along French Creek in Snohomish County have been noticing an unusual orange hue in the ...

Waters of the state belong to the public and can't be owned by any individual or group. Instead, a person or group may be granted a right to use a volume of water, for a defined purpose, in a specific ...

Low Impact Development (LID) is a stormwater and land-use management strategy that tries to mimic natural hydrologic conditions by emphasizing the following techniques: Conservation Use of on-site ...

Comment on the study outlining cleanup options for the remaining contamination at the Unocal Edmonds cleanup site ...