2012 Projects Funded - Puget Soundkeeper Alliance

In 2012, Puget Soundkeeper won five Clean Water Act settlements against New West Gypsum, King County International Airport, Manke Lumber Company, Skyline Electric, and BNSF Railway Company. In addition to being required to implement new pollution controls, a total of $1,590,175 was awarded to conservation, restoration, citizen science, environmental justice, shoreline access, and envionmental education projects including:

$64,175 — Squaxin Indian Tribe, Restoration Project in Oakland Bay
$11,000 — Skyline Stormwater Feasibility Infiltration Study
$10,000 — Citizens for a Healthy Bay, Puyallup River Pollution Patrol Project
$5,000 — Rose Foundation, Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund
$4,500 — Hazel Valley Rain Gardens
$10,000 — Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve Citizen, Cherry Point Stewardship
$10,000 — Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team, Watershed Health and Youth
$9,000 — Fidalgo Bay Aquatic Reserve Citizen, Fidalgo Bay Science and Stewardship
$6,232.86 — Killer Whale Tales, Kids Making a Difference NOW/Whale Scouts
$4,250 — Smarter Cleanup Coalition, HeyDuwamish.org
$10,000 — Sno-King Watershed Council, Water Watches
$10,020 — Stillwaters Environmental Center, Carpenter Creek Estuary Restoration and Monitoring Program
$5,200 — Cascade Environmental Science Center, Experiential Learning in Environmental Sciences
$5,000 — Chico Creek Task Force, Clear to the Sound Project
$40,000 — Coastal Watershed Institute, Long-term Fish Use of the Elwha River
$10,000 — Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team, Volunteer Program Implementation
$60,000 — Duwamish Alive! Coalition, Duwamish Alive! Watershed Habitat Restoration & Community Stewardship Project
$60,000 — Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, General Support
$30,000 — Earth Corps, Puget Sound Stewards
$5,226.31 — Environmental Coalition of South Seattle, Puget Sound Spill Kit Program
$35,000 — Friends of the Earth, Puget Sound Clean Shipping Project
$1,400 — Friends of Newberry Hill Heritage Park, Water Mapping Project
$7,500 — Friends of North Creek Forest, Building Grassroots Help to Restore North Creek Watershed
$60,000 — Western Environmental Law Center, Puget Sound Salmon Resiliency Project
$2,500 — Whale Scout, General Support
$8,000 — Whidbey Watershed Stewards, Whidbey Island Impaired Waters
$20,100 — YMCA of Greater Seattle, Youth Voices, Youth Choices, Youth Action
$10,000 — Horses for Clean Water, Down on the Farm: Least Toxic Solutions for Snohomish County
$5,000 — Killer Whale Tales, Kids Making a Difference NOW/Stormbusters
$10,000 — Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, General Support
$40,000 — Nisqually Land Trust, Riparian Forest Restoration Inititative
$9,500 — Nisqually Reach Nature Center, Aquatic Reserve Project
$8,000 — Northwest Toxic Communities Coalition, Safer Wastewater Treatment Plant Technologies, Safer Puget Sound
$50,000 — RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, Citizen Stewardship for Clean Water
$5,000 — Sierra Club, South King County Group, Soos Creek Park Restoration Project
$10,000 — South Sound Estuary Association, Inspire Stewardship of Puget Sound Waters
$10,000 — Stillwaters Environmental Center, Carpenter Creek Estuary Restoration and Monitoring Program
$40,000 — Sustainability Ambassadors, Bog to Bay: Stormwater Pollution Solutions in My Neighborhood Project
$10,000 — Sustainability Connections, Legacy Watersheds
$6,000 — Vashon Nature Center LLC, Shinglemill Creek Stormwater Project: Community Science for Clean Waters and Healthy Salmon
$35,000 — Washington Environmental Council, Clean Water and Green Infrastructure Agenda
$30,000 — Washington Toxics Coalition, Toxic-Free Legacy Campaign
$3,000 — Conservation Stewards/Garden Life Group, Bio-filtration Swale and NGPA Restoration Project
$10,000 — Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team, Volunteers for Estuary Restoration
$7,500 — Friday Creek Habitat Stewards, Silver Creek Habitat Enhancement Demonstration Project Phase II
$5,000 —Killer Whale Tales, Kids Making a Difference
$10,000 — Middle Green River Coalition, Lower Soos Creek Green River Watershed Project
$9,700 — Nisqually Reach Nature Center, Nisqually Reach Aquatic Reserve Project
$1,626.03 — Olympic Environmental Council, Funding to Review and Interpret Technical Materials for Hazardous Waste Clean-ups on the Sound
$5,000 — Protect the Peninsula’s Future, LOSS for Sequim Bay
$5,000 — RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, Education, Engagement and Cooperative Solutions to Water Quality
$5,000 — Skagit Conservation Education Alliance, Art for Learning Watershed Science
$5,000 — South Sound Estuary Association, Connecting People to Our Marine & Estuary Waters Project
$6,000 — Whidbey Watershed Stewards, Whidbey Island Impaired Waters
$244.80 — Wild Steelhead Coalition, Skagit River Juvenile Steelhead Migration/Mortality Study
$55,000 — Adopt a Stream Foundation, Puget Sound Streamkeepers Program
$29,500 — Citizens for a Healthy Bay, Puyallup River Pollution Patrol Project
$50,000 — EarthCorps, Nearshore and Riparian Restoration Project
$60,000 — Environmental Coalition of South Seattle, Stormwater Pollution Prevention Outreach Program
$10,000 — Friends of North Creek Forest, Building Grassroots Help to Restore North Creek Watershed
$10,000 — Horses for Clean Water in Snohomish County
$30,000 — King Conservation District, Bothell Streamside Landowner Outreach Project
$50,000 — King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, Restoration of Riparian Zone of Newakum Creek
$40,000 — Pierce Conservation District, Industrial Retrofitting Project
$60,000 — RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, Education, Engagement and Cooperative Solutions to Water Quality Problems in North Sound
$60,000 — Seattle Tilth, Water Smart at Rainier Urban Farm and Wetlands Project
$60,000 — South Park Area Redevelopment Committee, South Rose Greenstreet and Duwamish Riverfront Revival
$5,000 — South Sound Estuary Foundation, Meet us on the Beach Project
$5,000 — Surfrider Foundation, Seattle Chapter, Puget Sound Ocean Friendly Garden Outreach and Installations
$37,500 — Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Coastal Bulkhead Removal Project
$22,000 — Veterans Conservation Corps & the Duwamish Alive! Coalition, Green/Duwamish Watershed Restoration
$35,000 — Washington Environmental Council, Clean Water and Green Infrastructure Agenda