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How Clean is Your Water?  New Water Quality Mapping Tool Unveiled by Puget Soundkeeper Alliance

See how oil spills, toxic cleanup sites, salmon runs, shellfish areas, and other environmental measures relate to locations around Puget Sound important to you.  How clean is my water?

Puget Soundkeeper Alliance’s Efforts to Stop Pollution in Puget Sound Were Featured on the Front Page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and Sue Joerger take on the worst polluters in a race against time to save the Sound.

Under a citizen lawsuit provision of the Clean Water Act, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance's litigation has resulted in many cases of marked pollution reduction.  There is still a lot of work to be done. Read the article.

Jim Lehrer Features Municipal Stormwater Permit Ruling

Copper, Zinc and other toxics washing down our storm drains from our streets and developed land account for close to 70% of Puget Sound's pollution.  These heavy metals are a threat to the longevity and health of our salmon.  Watch the Jim Lehrer report.  A Washington state appeals board recently ruled that the current requirements governing our cities' and counties' stormwater runoff fail to protect sockeye, king and coho salmon, all protected under the Endangered Species Act.  Puget Soundkeeper Alliance was the lead appellant.

VIDEO: Saving Puget Sound

Alliance. See what's at stake in Puget Sound and what we are doing about it!

Watch the video

VIDEO: The Hood Canal Dead zone

Join us and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for an underwater tour of the Hood Canal dead zone during a low dissolved oxygen event at Sund Rocks on September 19th, 2006. Watch the video.