Water Resources

Our Water Quality Programs provide research-based water resources information and educational programs to the public. Our goal is to promote responsible land and water stewardship to protect aquifers, streams, rivers, wetlands, marine waters and the resources that these water bodies provide.

We offer the following services:

• Education for real estate professionals designed to help real estate professionals understand water resource issues as they relate to homeowners and property development. These courses provide clock hours for license re-certification.
  • Course Schedule information

 

• Shoreline Management

Resources and Plants

Videostream: Shoreline Living: Protecting Our Shorelines and Puget Sound RealPlayer | WindowsMedia

• Onsite Sewage System Education

  Publications & Web Links
  

• Hood Canal Resource Links
  • Hood Canal News
  • Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program
  • Neighbors of Hood Canal
  • Hood Canal Watershed Pledge
  • Shore Stewards
    
    
• Specific educational programming assistance to watershed groups.
  

• Watershed planning in the Oakland Bay/Kennedy Creek Region (WRIA 14)
• Kitsap Peninsula Watershed (WRIA 15)
• Skokomish Dosewallips Basin Watershed Assessment (WRIA 16)
• Chehalis Basin Watersheds (WRIA 22/23)

 

• Technical assistance to area residents on specific water quality and water resource protection questions. Contact your local office or e-mail Robert Simmons, Water Resource Faculty.

• Additional information regarding water quality protection in Washington can also be obtained from:
• WSU Washington's Water Web Page
• Rain Garden Handbook for Western Washington Homeowners
• Other Water Resource Links