Our dam safety guidelines provide dam owners, operators, and design engineers with information about activities, procedures, and requirements involved in the planning, design, construction, operation, ...

Lawn mowers, flashlights, and e-bikes — these days, people depend on batteries to power nearly every aspect of their lives. However, while battery-powered devices have become ubiquitous, programs to ...

Storage tanks that house hazardous chemicals onsite are in poor condition, posing a risk for chemical spills that could harm human health and the environment. The tanks rest near a river, which ...

Two Thurston County property owners were fined $204,000 by the Washington Department of Ecology for unpermitted shoreline development along the Deschutes River near Yelm. Chuck and Austin Rogers ...

A new legal designation establishes the boundaries for a future groundwater co-management agreement in the Pasco Basin. Water in eastern Washington is a scarce resource, and tracking groundwater ...

Since we started tracking cleanup site data, we’ve listed over 14,000 contaminated or formerly contaminated sites. While over half of them have been cleaned up, that still leaves more than 6,400 ...

Did you know that May is American Wetlands Month? As we celebrate Washington's wetlands, join us in learning more about these important places and the ways they help make our lives better and richer ...

2024 intern Bella Aguirre implements a full flow meter project at host business Valence Surface Technologies. Sustainability isn't just about environmental responsibility — it's also about innovations ...

We partner with local city and county organizations to provide pollution prevention assistance (PPA) to businesses and organizations in their community. Click the video to learn how PPA can help your ...

Arsenic and lead in play-area soil can pose a risk to children. Through our Soil Safety Program, we provide free soil sampling and soil safety actions for qualifying public and private schools, ...

The water year begins Oct. 1 and ends Sept. 30. Three months before the calendar year changes, hydrologists and other water scientists mark the start of the new water year. Starting the water year in ...

350 acres of new streamside vegetation is improving water quality The Hangman Creek watershed is changing, and we don’t mean changing from summer to fall. After five years and $9 million in state ...