Protecting & Enhancing Puget Sound
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Puget Soundkeeper Alliance (Soundkeeper) has released an interactive Puget Sound SWIM Guide, a smart phone and web application that makes it easy for Northwest-area residents to find a safe beach for swimming and other recreation.
On July 26, 2012, Puget Soundkeeper’s pollution hotline buzzed with a report from a citizen that there was a huge refrigerator-sized chunk of solid foam on a private community beach on Hood Canal that was slowly breaking off into tiny pieces and washing away.
Today the Washington State Department of Ecology issued its stormwater permits for large and medium-sized cities throughout Western Washington.
During Earth Month 2012, Aveda stylists at over 40 salons in Greater Puget Sound asked their clients to give for clean water.
To celebrate and activate support for clean, fishable waters, and to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act which was enacted in 1972 to ensure fishable and swimmable waters around the nation.
“Our members are out on the water,” said Jody Kennedy, of the Surfrider Foundation. “They are on the front lines when it comes to pollution.”