The City of Tacoma, in partnership with Western Washington collaborators, will characterize stormwater and stormwater sediment concentrations for several Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC). They ...

With a new wetland mitigation bank being approved in Vancouver, Wash., private and public sector developers can now purchase mitigation credits to offset unavoidable impacts from their building ...

Water from Lake Osoyoos is flowing over the Zosel Dam weir near Oroville. Watch for high flows down the Okanogan River. Communities along the Okanogan River from Oroville to Brewster are likely to ...

MOSES LAKE – Landowners near Moses Lake have been fined for illegally pumping more than 500 million gallons of groundwater from the declining Odessa aquifer. In June, the Washington Department of ...

Electron Hydro LLC will pay a reduced penalty and contribute to a water quality and fish habitat improvement project under a settlement agreement with the Washington Department of Ecology. The ...

How Washington invests cap-and-invest auction revenues to prepare for climate change will be captured in public reporting that the Department of Ecology is responsible for publishing under the Climate ...

The Washington State Department of Ecology has issued an administrative order and $21,600 civil penalty to Greg Newmarch of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, for unauthorized shoreline construction ...

The water year begins Oct. 1 and ends Sept. 30. Three months before the calendar year changes, hydrologists and other water scientists mark the start of the new water year. Starting the water year in ...

Teens ages 14-17 can apply to Ecology Youth Corps by April 3 to pick up litter and keep WA clean Each year, Youth Corps teens help pick up over 1 million pounds of litter across the state. Nearly ...

After two decades in the same office, the Washington Department of Ecology’s field office in Vancouver, Wash., is moving to a new location within the city. Ecology is moving to 12121 NE 99th St., Ste.

The Washington Department of Ecology has fined WestRock CP, LLC $52,500 for failing to adequately treat hazardous air pollutants at their Tacoma mill. The company’s air quality permit requires them to ...

The Washington Department of Ecology has fined Port Townsend Paper Corporation (PTPC) $56,250 for exceeding an air quality limit at their Port Townsend mill. On July 6, 2022, emissions measured from ...