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Retaining Rain On-Site

Another great way to use nature for your benefit is to collect rain to water your landscaping using rain cisterns. Rain gardens or permeable paving…

Keeping a Buffer along the Water’s Edge

One of the ways you can put nature to work is to maintain a buffer of native vegetation along your bluff or shoreline. Buffers provide…

Designing with Nature

Nature can work for you! By working with nature you can cool your home, save energy, provide privacy, reduce your water bill, save time, avoid…

How to know when water is polluted

Bacterial pollution monitoring is conducted by the Washington Department of Health, the Washington Department of Ecology, and by some counties, tribes, and local municipalities. In…

Discovering how Waste Affects Human, Shellfish & Marine Life

Shellfish, such as oysters, mussels, and clams are filter feeders that subsist by eating tiny particles floating in the water. Bacteria found in the feces…

Eliminating Medical, Chemical, 
& Microplastics Waste

Whether you live in a house connected to a sewer or you use a septic system, it’s very important to limit what you flush down…

Disposing of Yard Waste

Dumping yard waste over a bluff, into a lake or stream, or into the marine water for the tide to take away was once a…

Managing Livestock Waste

To protect the quality of our fresh and marine waters, it’s very important for livestock owners to pick-up, store, and utilize or dispose of manure…

Scooping pet waste

Preventing contamination from dog waste in our yards, streams, and Puget Sound is a simple task: Scoop the poop. Place it in a plastic bag…

Signs of a failing septic system

Septic systems are designed to have a lifespan of 20 to 30 years, although many last longer. The most common cause of early failure is…
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