EPA Puget Sound Recovery National Program Funds (commonly known as NEP Funds) are aimed at investing in traditionally difficult-to-fund actions that catalyze greater opportunities for future recovery progress.
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We work closely with each of our Strategic Initiative advisory Teams to select a suite of actions to invest in that advance Puget Sound recovery goals described in the 2022-2026 Action Agenda for Puget Sound. These investments build capacity, enable approaches to be replicated in other parts of Puget Sound, create commonly used tools, and learn from our collective experience. Download a summary of our work from 2016 to 2020 here!
Habitat, Stormwater, and Shellfish 2.0 Funded Project List
Below is the current list of projects that have been funded through the Puget Sound Recovery National Program with Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2021 to 2025 funds. You can use the fields at the top to filter the results.
| Project Number | Project Title | Project Owner | Funding Source | Total Award Amount | Project Description | Resources | WRIA Information | Status | Funding Year | Implementation Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HSIL22-20395 | Mitigating Contamination to Nearshore Habitat from Creosote Pilings | San Juan County | Habitat SIL | $100,000 | San Juan County will complete a county-wide assessment of in-water creosote pilings. The assessment will include completing a pilings inventory, calculating estimated mitigation credits associated with their removal, and producing a roadmap for permitting, design, and contracting. This assessment will facilitate and reduce the overall costs of removing publicly-owned and potentially privately-owned creosote pilings throughout San Juan County. | Click to view resources | 2 | Open | 2021-22 | Marine Vegetation |
| HSIL22-20526 | Nooksack Chinook Life Cycle Modeling | Nooksack Indian Tribe | Habitat SIL | $100,000 | The Nooksack Indian Tribe will work with Cramer Fish Sciences to complete Phase 3 of a Nooksack Chinook Salmon Life Cycle Model. Phase 3 work includes technical review, data collection, model refinements, and scenario development to support salmon recovery planning. | Click to view resources | 1 | Open | 2021-22 | Floodplains and Estuaries |
| HSIL22-23907 | Puget Sound Land Use Mapping for Local and Regional Land Use Planning | Washington State Department of Commerce | Habitat SIL | $275,000 | This project will update the Puget Sound planned land use mapping layers in each of the 12 Puget Sound counties and 113 cities. The subrecipient will complete an analysis between the original maps and the updated maps to look at how land use trends have changed over the past decade, which areas are seeing high or low levels of growth, and where growth is occurring relative to urban growth areas, critical areas, working lands, climate change risks, priority watersheds, and/or other natural resource concerns. | Click to view resources | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 | Open | 2021-22 | Land Development and Cover, Floodplains and Estuaries |
| HSIL23-22439 | Application of the Shoreline Monitoring Database to Address Restoration Effectiveness and Protection Evaluation | University of Washington | Habitat SIL | $797,275 | The subrecipient will complete data analysis to better understand shoreline management needs and assess restoration effectiveness to provide management and design recommendations for future restoration and protection. Three new protocols will also be added to the Shoreline Monitoring Database. The project also increases support for engagement of additional user groups to learn how to use the database with a focus on engaging high school students in monitoring activities. | Click to view resources | 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 ,17, 18, 19 | Open | 2021-22 | Shorline Armoring |
| HSIL23-22470 | Carbon Credits Regional Operator | Bonneville Environmental Foundation | Habitat SIL | $384,870 | This project develops and implements a pilot ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂcarbon credits regional operatorÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàprogram to guide restoration practitioners through the process to submit habitat restoration projects into a carbon registry and certification program to generate carbon credits that can be sold in private sector markets to secure funding for long -term stewardship of restoration projects. The long-term vision of this program is to develop a new funding mechanism to support stewardship of habitat restoration sites. | Click to view resources | 1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 13 | Open | 2021 | Land Development and Cover, Floodplains and Estuaries |
| HSIL23-23154 | Regreen Everett Behavior Change Campaign | City of Everett | Habitat SIL | $443,715 | This project will engage urban property owners at the headwaters of Lake Washington (Sammamish River Watershed) to increase vegetation in riparian management zones in two city of Everett basins thereby improving water quality and watershed resilience to climate change. | Click to view resources | 8 | Open | 2021-22 | Land Development and Cover |
| HSIL23-23401 | Tidal Channel Geomorphology and Within-Channel Juvenile Salmon Distributions | Skagit River System Cooperative | Habitat SIL | $379,890 | This project addresses several applied ecology questions relevant to tidal marsh habitat restoration design for the recovery of threatened salmon, particularly Chinook salmon. It is focused on tidal marshes in the Skagit, Snohomish, and Stillaguamish deltas, which all empty into the Whidbey Basin. Information will be collected to inform several restoration design questions that are frequently asked by civil engineers and project planners that relate to the shape of blind tidal channel networks (BTCN). | Click to view resources | 3, 5, 7 | Open | 2021-22 | Floodplains and Estuaries |
| HSIL23-23447 | Restoring Coastal Estuaries and Embayments Impacted by the Railroad | Tulalip Tribes | Habitat SIL | $375,970 | The goal of this project is to advance regional restoration planning of priority coastal stream mouths (i.e., pocket estuaries) and embayments (i.e., nearshore habitat) impacted by the BNSF railroad that occurs along 73 miles of the Puget Sound shoreline between Olympia and Canada. This project will complete estuary restoration feasibility assessments and prepare conceptual habitat restoration designs for 20 priority sites with input from BNSF and other stakeholders. | Click to view resources | 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 12 | Open | 2021-22 | Shoreline Armoring, Floodplains and Estuaries |
| HSIL23-23550 | Identifying Factors Associated With Patterns in Floating Kelp Loss | Washington State Department of Natural Resources | Habitat SIL | $799,870 | Through coordinated monitoring, research, and synthesis of existing data by a coalition of organizations, this project will build on current understanding of bull kelp stressors by selecting a network of sites across a wide range of conditions to assess environmental and ecological conditions and bull kelp response to these differences. | Click to view resources | 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19 | Open | 2021-22 | Marine Vegetation |
| HSIL23-23591 | Forest Stewardship Expansion Project | Snohomish Conservation District | Habitat SIL | $799,990 | This project provides forestry services across 11 counties and supports long-term viability of working forests by providing direct funding to the 11 counties to provide more effective delivery of services to forest landowners and increase understanding of the benefits of forest management. By expanding forest management education and direct technical assistance to forest landowners, the outcome of this project will be a reduction in forest conversion to non-forest uses, improvement in forest management, and on-the-ground increases in forest cover. | Click to view resources | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 | Open | 2021-22 | Land Development and Cover |
| HSIL23-23612 | Strengthening Restoration Tools for Rebuilding Kelp Beds in Puget Sound | Puget Sound Restoration Fund | Habitat SIL | $803,430 | Building on years of testing and successes regrowing bull kelp in central Puget Sound, this project will assess the restoration practice of outplanting kelp by producing twine seeded with kelp and outplanted to structures on the seafloor to support kelp propagation, with the goal to understand the propagation, reproduction, and restoration success of outplanted kelp lines using seeds harvested from local versus non-local kelp. Restored kelp sites will also be compared to wild kelp sites. Findings will be used to develop new restoration guidance for outplanting kelp in Puget Sound. | Click to view resources | 14, 15 | Open | 2021-22 | Marine Vegetation |
| HSIL23-23650 | Essential Conservation Areas | Washington State Department of Natural Resources | Habitat SIL | $598,730 | This project aims to identify Essential Conservation Areas (ECAs) by compiling, identifying, and surveying rare species and ecosystems in the Puget Sound Basin, and identifying data gaps of where rare species and ecosystems have not been located in Puget Sound. The project will also incorporate climate change vulnerability assessments to help inform prioritization of ecologically important lands for protection and restoration based on threats posed by climate change. | Click to view resources | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 | Open | 2021-22 | Land Development and Cover |
| HSIL23-23658 | Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and Scientific SCUBA Divers: A methods comparison to optimize bull kelp conservation and restoration in Puget Sound | Seattle Aquarium | Habitat SIL | $354,605 | In collaboration with the Port of Seattle and Puget Sound Restoration Fund, the Seattle Aquarium is proposing to scale up recent research that customized a small Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) for bull kelp survey operations and compare these methods against traditional SCUBA diver surveys. Seattle Aquarium will also test the capabilities of the ROV to assess substrate and species information to support the development of a habitat suitability model for future bull kelp restoration outplantings. | Click to view resources | 6, 8, 15, 18 | Open | 2021-22 | Marine Vegetation |
| HSIL23-23660 | Habitat Restoration Project Development and Implementation | Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians | Habitat SIL | $755,985 | This funding supports staff capacity for the Stillaguamish Tribe, a disproportionally impacted community, to continue to participate in habitat restoration and protection planning and prioritizing and scoping projects to implement their vision for salmon and watershed recovery. The overarching goals of this project are to prepare restoration projects to be shovel-ready and implement construction by providing funding for staff time to manage restoration and protection activities. | Click to view resources | 5 | Open | 2021-22 | Floodplains and Estuaries |
| HSIL23-23665 | Flexible State Funding Sources Convening | Bonneville Environmental Foundation | Habitat SIL | $155,365 | An approach authorized and encouraged by the Growth Management Act (and RCWs 43.362 and 39.108) is transfer of development rights (TDR). This voluntary, market-based real estate tool allows landowners to sell development potential from farms and forests, thereby permanently conserving them. There is an opportunity to promote TDR program participation with lands purchased using state funds and to increase the impact of state funds for conservation by using the proceeds from the sale of development rights to fund additional acquisition or stewardship. The subrecipient will convene partners to analyze challenges and develop grant guidelines and/or policy solutions to create more flexibility around TDR credit opportunities. | Click to view resources | 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 | Open | 2021-22 | Land Development and Cover |
| HSIL23-23723 | Thurston County Working Lands Conservation Strategy | Thurston County | Habitat SIL | $385,400 | The goal of this project is to develop an actionable working lands conservation strategy that provides incentives for habitat protection and restoration on working farms and forest lands. This effort will expand Thurston County's voluntary land conservation incentive programs, thereby redirecting development pressure to urban areas and protecting working natural resource lands. | Click to view resources | 11, 13, 14 | Open | 2021-22 | Land Development and Cover |
| HSIL23-23870 | Shore Friendly Partnership Landowner Strategic Engagement | Washington State Recreation & Conservation Office | Habitat SIL | $805,685 | This project aims to accelerate the work of the Shore Friendly program by investing in a social media campaign, influencer trainings, and a community engagement and outreach strategy that will lead to an increased demand and capacity for state capital-funded armor avoidance and removal incentives to private landowners. | Click to view resources | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 ,17, 18, 19 | Open | 2021-22 | Shoreline Armoring |
| HSIL23-23879 | Kitsap Natural Resource Asset Management Program (KNRAMP) | Kitsap County | Habitat SIL | $789,155 | This project will refine, pilot, and implement the Kitsap Natural Resource Asset Management Program (KNRAMP). The KNRAMP is a new framework to manage natural assets (such as forests, streams, and shorelines) using the same asset management and capital improvements principles that municipalities use to manage built infrastructure. The KNRAMP provides a mechanism to incorporate nature-based solutions and green infrastructure practices into traditional infrastructure planning. | Click to view resources | 15 | Open | 2021-22 | Land Development and Cover, Floodplains and Estuaries |
| HSIL23-23880 | Advancing Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) and Land Conservation and Local Infrastructure Programs (LCLIP) in the Puget Sound | Washington State Department of Commerce | Habitat SIL | $583,865 | Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) is a market-based mechanism that supports the voluntary transfer of development rights from areas where a community would like to discourage development (ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂsending areasÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ) to places where that community would like to focus new growth (ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂreceiving areasÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ). If a developer purchases development rights from a rural landowner in a sending area, they can use those rights to build a development with increased units, floor area, height, or similar metric in an urban ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂreceivingÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàarea. Land Conservation and Local Infrastructure Programs (LCLIP) provides a financial incentive for cities to participate in TDR. LCLIP allows cities to receive a portion of future county property tax revenue from areas that receive development rights through TDR. Cities use this revenue to fund infrastructure to support the increased growth associated with this transfer of development rights. This project will build on previous work by providing additional feasibility assistance and policy and political guidance for local governments as next steps to successfully promote and implement TDR and LCLIP in the region. | Click to view resources | 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 | Open | 2021 | Land Development and Cover |
| HSIL23-23962 | Clayton Beach Eelgrass Restoration Feasibility and Design | Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Foundation | Habitat SIL | $701,039 | This project will investigate feasibility and design to restore 13 acres of native eelgrass located within a historic dredged area at Clayton Beach, Samish Bay. The data collection and investigation will inform a feasibility study and design report and provide necessary background information to support submission of permit applications for future implementation. | Click to view resources | 1 | Open | 2021-22 | Marine Vegetation |
| HSIL23-23963 | Eelgrass Restoration Through Large Scale Seeding | San Juan Islands Conservation District | Habitat SIL | $280,301 | This project will work to develop a large-scale, low-cost eelgrass meadow restoration program to demonstrate that the practice of restoring eelgrass meadows with seeds is scientifically sound, economically efficient, and that principles associated with the practice are simple, affordable, effective and have the capacity to be implemented in other regions. | Click to view resources | 2 | Open | 2021-22 | Marine Vegetation |
| HSIL23-24027 | Capacity to Expedite WRIA 1 Culvert and Fish Barrier Prioritization, Design, and Implementation | Whatcom County | Habitat SIL | $798,579 | The purpose of this project is to expedite fish barrier removal projects that are priorities for implementation across Water Resource Inventory Area 1 (WRIA 1), the Nooksack Basin and adjacent independent streams, in order to restore access to historically available habitats deemed necessary for recovery of threatened and at-risk salmon populations. | Click to view resources | 1, 3 | Open | 2021-22 | Floodplains and Estuaries |
| HSIL23-24088 | Coastal Habitat Protection through European Green Crab Early Detection, Management Support, and Monitoring | University of Washington | Habitat SIL | $794,789 | This project will 1) maintain Washington Sea Grant Crab TeamÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs critically important core early detection and monitoring network in support of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's (WDFW) green crab mandate, 2) enhance Crab TeamÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs ability to provide scientific expertise to WDFW and partners in green crab response and management in Washington and British Columbia and 3) expand both public engagement and early detection with a new early detection program area focused shoreline surveys for crab molts. | Click to view resources | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 | Open | 2021 | Floodplains and Estuaries, Marine Vegetation |
| HSIL23-24113 | Parcel-scale Sea Level Rise Vulnerability for Puget Sound: Phase 2 | University of Washington | Habitat SIL | $798,785 | This project implements a second phase of the project Prioritizing Sea Level Rise Exposure and Habitat Sensitivity Across Puget Sound (Near Term Action 2018-0685) funded between 2019-2022 by the Habitat Strategic Initiative Lead. In phase 1, a quantitative sea level rise vulnerability framework, designed to identify vulnerabilities to coastal flooding and erosion exacerbated by sea level rise, was developed and applied to ~111,000 parcels in Puget Sound. This project builds upon that work by (1) integrating new data to improve the framework and expand the spatial footprint of the analysis west to the mouth of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, (2) re-calculating exposure, sensitivity and vulnerability scores for the entire study area, and (3) publishing the results in an online interactive format as well as implementing other communications actions to facilitate the use of the analysis in restoration, land use, and hazard mitigation planning. | Click to view resources | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 | Open | 2021-22 | Shoreline Armoring |
| HSIL23-24285 | Expediting South Fork Nooksack Projects in Response to Chinook Crisis | Lummi Nation | Habitat SIL | $799,047 | The purpose of this project is to expedite the ongoing efforts to recover Chinook salmon in the South Fork Nooksack River. The South Fork Chinook salmon population experienced an unprecedented pre-spawn mortality event that began in early September 2021 and coincided with record returns of Chinook to the South Fork Nooksack River. This project will allow both Lummi Nation and Nooksack Indian Tribe to improve coordination within the South Fork, help build capacity for the tribes to lead planning and design for key projects, and increase project efficiency. | Click to view resources | 1 | Open | 2021-22 | Floodplains and Estuaries |
| HSIL23-PSSH-WDFW | Puget Sound Starts Here | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife | Habitat SIL | $799,075 | Stormwater ponds are a common stormwater best management practice used to manage runoff from impervious surfaces in Puget Sound. The creation of habitat is seldom incorporated into stormwater pond design, implementation, and management as a priority. To better understand stormwater pond habitat opportunities, the subrecipient will survey stormwater ponds around Puget Sound and assess habitat and land cover characteristics to determine which stormwater pond conditions promote species diversity and abundance. | Click to view resources | 1, 7, 8, 11, 13,15 | Open | 2021-22 | Land Development and Cover, Floodplains and Estuaries |
| HSIL24-25730 | Ecological Restoration Permitting Efficiencies and Tehnical Assistance | Bonneville Environmental Foundation | Habitat SIL | $490,725 | This project will build capacity to address evolving regulatory challenges to habitat restoration efforts by providing facilitation, technical assistance, and resources to advance nature-based solutions urgently necessary for salmon recovery and flood resilience. Complex and redundant permitting processes can result in fewer, less impactful ecological restoration actions advancing at a slower pace and with unnecessary expense. This project will convene agency, Tribal, local government, and NGO partners with technical experts to develop resources and policy frameworks to create efficiencies in permitting to advance habitat restoration. Improved permitting pathways will simplify the process and reduce time and cost for regulatory agencies and project proponents while ensuring environmental protection and flood risk management. | Click to view resources | 7;8;9;10;13;15;16;17 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL24-25731 | Advancing Land Protection in the South Puget Sound | Capitol Land Trust | Habitat SIL | $292,340 | This project, Advancing Land Conservation the South Puget Sound, leverages funding through HSIL to increase staff capacity with the intention to strengthen the organizationÃÂÃÂs ability to achieve land protection goals within the South Puget Sound region. | Click to view resources | 13;14 | 2024 | Land Development and Cover | |
| HSIL24-25732 | Increasing EarthCorps' Capacity for Restoration in the Puget Sound Region | Earth Corps | Habitat SIL | $323,975 | The project seeks to enhance EarthCorps' ability to deliver essential ecological restoration services, such as riparian planting, bank stabilization, and developing localized project plans, by creating and funding a new Restoration Ecologist position. The Restoration Ecologist role is pivotal for expanding EarthCorps' restoration efforts, allowing the organization to offer longer-term, larger-scale site project plans for ecological sustainability, including specialized services such as habitat monitoring, ecological restoration planning, data collection and research (especially around carbon sequestration), and mapping of vital habitats. | Click to view resources | 5;8;9;10 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL24-25733 | Expand Capacity to Reduce Armoring Impacts in Northern Puget Sound | Friends of the San Juans | Habitat SIL | $499,345 | The primary goal of this project is to build capacity for Friends of the San Juans and coalition partners to conduct shoreline armoring reduction and shoreline restoration work in northern Puget Sound. This project will send staff and coalition members to trainings, provide technical assistance to regional shoreline public landowners, and build Tribal relationships to achieve the goal of increasing shoreline habitat restoration actions in northern Puget Sound. | Click to view resources | 1;2;3 | 2024 | Shoreline Armoring | |
| HSIL24-25734 | Puget Sound RFEG Capacity Building | Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group | Habitat SIL | $500,015 | This project will directly support Puget Sound Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups to implement strategies to onboard, train, and retain project managers thereby increasing the effectiveness of current and future habitat restoration projects. This project will also facilitate opportunities for training, mentorship, and support among new and current project managers. | Click to view resources | 1;3;8;13;15;17 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL24-25735 | Nooksack Watershed Habitat Restoration Project Development and Implementation | Lummi Nation | Habitat SIL | $498,005 | The goal of this project is to expedite the ongoing efforts of the Lummi Nation Natural Resources Department to recover Chinook salmon in the South Fork and Middle Fork Nooksack Rivers, two populations essential to the recovery of ESA-listed Puget Sound Chinook. This project aims to increase staff capacity for implementation of five high-priority habitat restoration projects, secure funding for four habitat restoration projects, develop recommendations for integrating floodplain wetland restoration into habitat restoration projects on the Upper South Fork, and provide training to staff to improve and increase programmatic capacity for river restoration project development, management and implementation. | Click to view resources | 1 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL24-25736 | Capacity for North Olympic Peninsula Habitat Recovery | North Olympic Salmon Coalition | Habitat SIL | $492,355 | This project will increase capacity for the North Olympic Salmon Coalition to coordinate and oversee ecosystem recovery projects and cultivate an environment of collaboration and expertise sharing amongst restoration partners on the Olympic Peninsula. This project will add needed Restoration Project Manager capacity that will enable the North Olympic Salmon Coalition to increase the pace and scale of restoration projects. This project will also convene regional project manager forums to support training and knowledge sharing and will support Washington Conservation Corps members in career development to retain local expertise in the Puget Sound region. | Click to view resources | 15;16;17;18;19 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL24-25737 | Puget Sound Seed Partnership: Collaborative Growth for Resilient Ecosystems | Northwest Natural Resource Group | Habitat SIL | $263,655 | The purpose of this project is to ensure higher quality and more accessible seeds and seedlings for restoration projects around the Puget Sound. The project will include consolidating and sharing online seed resources and developing best practices information, facilitating a seed exchange, and holding trainings and field tours. | Click to view resources | 3;7;8;10 | 2024 | Land Development and Cover | |
| HSIL24-25738 | Building Reliable Habitat Restoration Information in the Whidbey Basin | Skagit Watershed Council | Habitat SIL | $238,225 | The overarching goal of this project is to increase capacity to compile, analyze and ensure quality data within the Salmon Recovery Portal (SRP) database that represents the culmination of successful projects within the Whidbey Basin. By updating SRP project information, metrics, and funding for completed and active projects across all sources of funding, SWC will tell a clear story of past project successes and upcoming project impacts across our individual watersheds and the Whidbey Basin Action Area. | Click to view resources | 1;3;5;6;7 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL24-25739 | StreamWise Prog Dev: Social Marketing Outreach for Behavior Change | Snohomish County - SWM | Habitat SIL | $251,080 | The StreamWise Program Development Project will plan, develop, and implement key program elements to support the application of a social marketing approach to streamside landowner outreach in Snohomish County. This project includes developing effective branding and messaging, including a logo and tagline, a concise guidebook for streamside landowners, and targeted how-to demonstration videos for streamside landowners. These elements will support the broader development of the StreamWise Program, which will improve SWMÃÂÃÂs streamside landowner outreach and increase the rate of stewardship actions taken by streamside landowners, including planting riparian buffers. | Click to view resources | 3;5;7;8 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL24-25740 | Snoqualmie Tribe Ancestral Forest & Floodplains Stewardship Project | Snoqualmie Indian Tribe | Habitat SIL | $501,715 | The Snoqualmie Tribe Ancestral Forest and Floodplains Stewardship Project will advance ambitious ecosystem restoration and protection goals across the Snoqualmie TribeÃÂÃÂs ancestral and existing lands and waters by adding capacity for new staff and supporting existing staff in their ongoing efforts. This funding will directly support Tribal staff and hire a consultant to implement forest habitat restoration in the Ancestral Forest; riparian and floodplain restoration on the Tribe's farm and other Tribal owned properties, and coordination with other landowners to improve habitat management across the ancestral watersheds. | Click to view resources | 7 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL24-25741 | Capacity Building to Advance Puget Sound Habitat Recovery Goals | Sound Salmon Solutions | Habitat SIL | $498,950 | This project aims to increase staffing and capacity to achieve Sound Salmon SolutionÃÂÃÂs mission and goals in salmon habitat restoration and protection. This funding will help fill critical and urgent staffing gaps within the organization, increase staff expertise in fish passage barrier removal projects, significantly increase the number of projects the organization sponsors, thus strengthening partnerships, coordination, and collaboration leading to greater impacts toward salmon recovery. | Click to view resources | 7 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL24-25744 | Building Conservation Capacity in South Sound | Thurston Conservation District | Habitat SIL | $500,000 | Building Conservation Capacity in South Sound supports project development and staffing to support conservation, restoration, and stewardship of working forests, farms, and habitats in South Puget Sound. This project comprises the first phase of a pilot effort to accelerate working land protection through strategic collaboration at a time of immense development pressure. | Click to view resources | 11;13;14 | 2024 | Land Development and Cover | |
| HSIL24-25745 | Development of Collaborative Leaders for Puget Sound | University of Washington Tacoma | Habitat SIL | $481,030 | This project will develop and pilot enduring curricula that will be widely available to train and teach the current and upcoming workforce about collaborative leadership, using Puget Sound examples and case studies. The project is about building the collaborative capacity, competency, and leadership skills of the entities who must work with one another more effectively than ever before. Those skills include interest-based negotiation, conflict resolution, meeting facilitation, collaborative competencies, emotional intelligence, situation assessment, process design, effective leadership styles, and others. | Click to view resources | 9;10 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL24-25833 | Building Capacity for Kelp Forest Monitoring and Restoration Through Inclusive Community Science | Reef Check | Habitat SIL | $374,435 | This project is aimed at building regional capacity by supporting Reef Check to strengthen partnerships and engage diverse constituencies in their community science-based kelp forest monitoring program. This includes increasing staff, updating volunteer training, education, and fundraising materials, and organizing convenings with partner agencies, community outreach and education events. | Click to view resources | 1;2;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;13;14;15;17;18;19 | 2024 | Marine Vegetation | |
| HSIL24-25834 | Science in support of restoration of healthy eelgrass beds in Neah Bay, WA | Makah Tribe | Habitat SIL | $406,650 | The overall goal of this project is to research the extent and health of eelgrass in Neah Bay and to explore options for future restoration. | Click to view resources | 19 | 2024 | Marine Vegetation | |
| HSIL25-26020 | Snohomish County Critical Area Monitoring and Adaptive Management Planning Implementation | Snohomish County - CAR | Habitat SIL | $249,220 | The purpose of this project is to improve Snohomish CountyÃÂÃÂs Critical Area Regulation Monitoring and Adaptive Management program by implementing report recommendations that reduces level of uncertainty in key indicators. This project will improve Snohomish CountyÃÂÃÂs ability to evaluate effectiveness of Critical Area Regulations, including proposing methods to assess ÃÂÃÂno net lossÃÂÃÂ of critical area functions and values. | Click to view resources | 7 | 2024 | Land Development and Cover | |
| HSIL25-26489 | A Strategic Approach for Advancing Coastal Process-Based design in Puget Sound, Phase 1: Information Synthesis and Analysis | Washington State Department of Ecology | Habitat SIL | $232,095 | The Washington State Department of Ecology's Applied Coastal Research and Engineering Section (ACRE) plans to utilize this project to strategically advance the understanding, implementation, and adoption of soft shore alternatives to hard armor throughout the Puget Sound region. | Click to view resources | 1;2;3;5;6;7;8;9;10;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19 | 2024 | Shoreline Armoring | |
| HSIL25-26490 | Informing Soft Shore Best Practices in Puget Sound | Northwest Straits Foundation | Habitat SIL | $311,620 | The goal of this project is to develop the framework for and implement the first stages of a long-term study which will inform the use of soft shore techniques for Puget Sound shoreline land management. This collaborative effort across non-profit, agency, and academic institutions will establish a baseline of data collection at up to ten soft shore sites along shorelines in Puget Sound, utilizing new protocols that will inform soft shore alternatives and address climate resiliency. | Click to view resources | 1;2;3;5;6;7;8;9;10;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19 | 2024 | Shoreline Armoring | |
| HSIL25-26491 | Sea Level Rise-Driven Groundwater Flooding and Salinity Intrusion in the Skagit Delta: Agricultural Challenges and Habitat Restoration Opportunities | Skagit River System Cooperative | Habitat SIL | $339,166 | The Skagit River System Cooperative will use sophisticated numerical models of groundwater flooding and salinity intrusion to predict whether agricultural properties owned by the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve are vulnerable to sea level rise (SLR) and when various SLR impacts could be expected. This will be a pilot project to evaluate how modeling tools can be used to evaluate risks to an agricultural property from SLR and to help in the identification of potential adaptation strategies such as pursuing alternative crops, improving dike and drainage infrastructure, or setting back dikes in areas that may have marginal farmland in the future. | Click to view resources | 3;5 | 2024 | Shoreline Armoring | |
| HSIL25-26492 | Strait of Juan de Fuca Topobathymetric Lidar | Clallam County | Habitat SIL | $434,905 | Within this project, Clallam County, as part of a coalition with Jamestown SÃÂÃÂKlallam Tribe and Washington Sea Grant, will obtain high resolution topobathymetric LiDAR data along the entire 209-mile coastline of the North Olympic Peninsula from Cape Flattery to Point Wilson. The data will establish a vital baseline for current nearshore conditions. | Click to view resources | 17;18;19 | 2024 | Shoreline Armoring | |
| HSIL25-26493 | Incorporating Sea Level Rise Resilience into DNRÃÂÃÂs Aquatic Leasing Program: Case Studies and Recommendations | Washington State Department of Natural Resources | Habitat SIL | $496,685 | The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will engage with Tribes, local governments, and partner state agencies to coordinate on paths forward to incorporate sea level rise (SLR) planning into state aquatic lands management. This proposed work will take an innovative case study approach to understand threats from SLR to state-owned aquatic lands and respond to those threats by developing strategies that maximize climate resilience and minimize habitat loss by employing nature-based solutions.ÃÂÃÂ | Click to view resources | 7;8;10;11 | 2024 | Shoreline Armoring | |
| HSIL25-26812 | Leveraging historical imagery to assess floating kelp canopy changes over 30 years in northeastern Puget Sound | Washington State Department of Natural Resources | Habitat SIL | $338,990 | Led by the WA Department of Natural Resources, this project focuses on historical data of kelp beds in Washington State. This project will fill a critical historical data gap by digitizing and analyzing aerial imagery collected 30 years ago in the years 1995/1996 in northern Puget Sound which is essential to understanding how kelp distribution has changed over time. Identifying areas of historical loss and of persistence can support efforts like the Kelp and Eelgrass Health and Conservation Plan prioritize areas to implement conservation actions. | Click to view resources | 1;3 | 2024 | Marine Vegetation | |
| HSIL25-26813 | Enhancing Shoreline Management, Habitat Restoration, and Carbon Sequestration in Pierce County through South Puget Sound Eelgrass Monitoring | Washington State Department of Natural Resources | Habitat SIL | $499,470 | The WA Department of Natural Resources will monitor eelgrass populations along a 180 km stretch of shoreline in Pierce County during the summers of 2025 and 2026, aiming to collect site-specific data aiming to measure trends in eelgrass conditions at both a site and sub-regional scale. Data from this project will inform Pierce CountyÃÂÃÂs Shoreline Master Program, which guides land use development, ecological protection, and shoreline restoration in the County. | Click to view resources | 10;15 | 2024 | Marine Vegetation | |
| HSIL25-26814 | Green River Restoration Staff Support | Green River Coalition | Habitat SIL | $247,050 | This project supports the capacity of the Green River Coalition to protect and restore the Green River watershed through the implementation of riparian restoration projects. This project aims to help Green River Coalition and additional project partners at Orca Conservancy, Unleash the Brilliance, and Institute for Community Leadership expand on existing restoration efforts. | Click to view resources | 9 | 2024 | Floodplains and Estuaries | |
| HSIL25-EES-WDFW | Evaluating eelgrass stressors to enhance conservation and management in Puget Sound | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife - Eelgrass | Habitat SIL | $499,450 | The project focuses on characterizing eelgrass stressors and aims to provide a picture of the stressor landscape to better understand conditions for successful conservation and restoration. A vital component of this project is research on anchor-out zones through vessel use data and modelling, a critical information need for state, county, and municipal natural resource managers and restoration practitioners concerned about eelgrass bed stability. | Click to view resources | 1;2;3 | 2024 | Marine Vegetation | |
| HSIL25-EKP-WDFW | Enhancing Kelp Protection and Restoration through Community-Based Social Science Research | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife - Kelp | Habitat SIL | $239,020 | The purpose of this project is to contribute social scientific knowledge on the human dimensions of kelp in Puget Sound. This will be accomplished through the implementation of a collaborative community-based social scientific research project that includes multiple methods (e.g., facilitated dialogues, participatory mapping, and photovoice). | Click to view resources | 1;2;3;5;6;7;8;9;10;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19 | 2024 | Marine Vegetation | |
| Kitsap County Derelict & Abandoned Vessel Program | Kitsap County | Habitat SIL | $200,000 | This project will develop a Derelict and Abandoned Vessel program to serve Kitsap County and cities and port districts within Kitsap County. The shoreline and nearshore areas contribute to the health and well-being of residents and visitors alike; however, abandoned and derelict vessels frequently mark that shoreline and pose hazards for boaters and anglers while impacting water quality and habitat. | Click to view resources | 15 | Open | 2021-22 | Marine Vegetation | |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_Ecology | Collaborative Strategy to Reduce Pollution in Shellfish Growing Areas | Washington State Department of Ecology | Shellfish SIL | $70,402 | Fund Ecology's Water Quality Nonpoint program. | Click to view resources | 1, 3, 13, 15, 16, 18 | Closed | 2021-22 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_King | King County Pollution Identification & Correction Priority Actions for OSS Management and Puget Sound Water Quality Improvements | King County | Shellfish SIL | $1,065,000 | Expand Pollution Identification and Correction (PIC) and On-site Sewage System (OSS) management in Poverty Bay Shellfish Protection District (SPD) and Vashon Maury Island (VMI). Expand source tracking and pollution identification to high impact areas not yet surveyed, continue freshwater monitoring in Poverty Bay SPD to support long-term water quality management, provide financial and technical assistance for OSS inspections and repairs, and strengthen partnerships with community-based organizations. Addressing OSS management needs in Quartermaster Harbor and Poverty Bay shellfish growing areas. | Click to view resources | 9, 15 | Open | 2021-22, 2023, 2025 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_Mason | Mason County Partnership for Clean Water | Mason Conservation District | Shellfish SIL | $843,102 | Mason Conservation District, Mason County Environmental Health, and The Squaxin Island Tribe are working to reduce fecal pollution impacts in shellfish growing areas by provide technical assistance to cooperators in the affected watersheds and continue the education and outreach campaign. | Click to view resources | 14, 15, 16 | Open | 2021-22, 2024 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_Pierce | South Sound Shellfish Recovery | Pierce County Surface Water Management | Shellfish SIL | $1,185,000 | The South Sound Shellfish Recovery Project is a multi-partner effort to reduce bacterial pollution sources to Shellfish Protection Districts (SPDs) in Mason, Thurston, and Pierce counties. Partners will perform planning, water quality monitoring, On-site Sewage System (OSS) Pollution Identification and Correction (PIC) work, agricultural PIC work, address point sources, and perform education and outreach with the intent of upgrading shellfish growing areas acreage in South Puget Sound. | Click to view resources | 13, 14, 15, 16 | Open | 2021-22, 2023 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_Skagit | Samish & Padilla Bay Pollution Identification & Correction | Skagit County Public Works | Shellfish SIL | $587,111 | Focus on finding and fixing smaller and dispersed fecal pollution sources and utilizing source ID work using a combination of lab testing, cheaper and faster Coliscan testing, and water level loggers to use with our existing equipment to identify illicit discharges. Work to address barriers to residents identified by a root cause analysis by providing residents temporary solutions while we work on permanent one, providing cost share for permanent solutions, reducing fear of engaging with regulators by providing opportunities to meet us and learn, and normalizing pollution-reducing behaviors. | Click to view resources | 1, 3 | Open | 2021-22 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_SkagWhat | Skagit and Whatcom County Joint Pet Waste Outreach Project | Skagit County Public Works and Whatcom County Public Works | Shellfish SIL | $99,687 | A collaborative regional outreach campaign to decrease the amount of bagged, and un-bagged, dog waste left behind at parks and trails, as well as yards. This regional campaign will identify behavioral motivations and campaign messages using root cause analysis and social marketing techniques, host pop-up events at parks and trailheads promoting messages and incentives, provide scooping kits to dog adoption and training centers to promote messages with new owners, and reach broader audiences through social media and ads. | Click to view resources | 1, 3 | Open | 2021-22 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_Snohomish | Savvy Septic Program | Snohomish County | Shellfish SIL | $850,000 | The Savvy Septic Program in Snohomish County aims to empower residential On-site Sewage System (OSS) owners to engage in a collective Puget Sound water quality solution through outreach, education, and finical aid for OSS maintenance, repair, and replacement. Focus on the Stillaguamish watershed to increase homeowner knowledge of proper OSS maintenance and provide financial incentives to help homeowners with OSS maintenance, repairs, and replacement. | Click to view resources | 5 | Open | 2021-22, 2023 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_Swinomish | Swinomish Indian Tribal Community PIC Program | Swinomish Indian Tribal Community | Shellfish SIL | $1,043,080 | Develop and implement a Pollution Identification and Correction (PIC) program to track sources of fecal pollution, support outreach to homeowners, provide financial assistance for inspections or pumping of On-site Sewage Systems (OSS), and work with Swinomish Utility Authority to initiate ongoing best management practices (BMPs) for homeowners. | Click to view resources | 3 | Open | 2021-22, 2024 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_Tulalip | Shoreline OSS: Education & Assistance for Tulalip Reservation Residents | Tulalip Tribes of Washington | Shellfish SIL | $278,986 | Build a Pollution Identification and Correction (PIC) program on the Tulalip Reservation through foundational research and community meetings. | Click to view resources | 7 | Open | 2021-22 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_Whatcom | Whatcom County PIC Program | Whatcom County Public Works | Shellfish SIL | $3,015,374 | Participate in Whatcom Clean Water Program (WCWP) and coordinate field staff and seasonal plans, coordinate, manage, and map data collected by WCWP partners and community groups. Engage community members in long-term water quality protection through social marketing campaigns and focused messaging based upon root cause analysis and community metrics, provide community workshops and events. Provide technical assistance through farm planners to enhance management practices, and provide financial incentives to expand community knowledge, make behavior changes easier to implement, and engage residents in stewardship pledges and actions. Implement a regulatory backstop for violations and discharges that are not controlled through incentive-based programs. Share data and information with transboundary partners to help identify and address fecal bacteria sources. | Click to view resources | 1 | Open | 2021-22, 2024 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2022_WSDA | Reducing Manure Impacts to Water and Building Climate Resiliency on Livestock Farms | Washington State Department of Agriculture Dairy Nutrient Management Program | Shellfish SIL | $1,500,000 | Improve nutrient management planning, develop adaptive management strategies, and build flood preparedness on livestock farms to support clean water focused in north Puget Sound shellfish watersheds. Equip manure managers with long term planning solutions, adaptive management practices, preparedness resources and will build off and directly support multi-agency and ongoing efforts to monitor water quality, educate landowners to produce results in shellfish priority watersheds. WSDA and its partners will provide inspections, application monitoring, runoff source investigations, climate focused technical assistance, and updates to the design and scope of plans to support manure management. | Click to view resources | 1, 3, 5 | Open | 2021-22, 2023 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2023_Skagit | Equitable Education and Incentives for Improving OSS Management in Skagit Shellfish Protection District | Skagit County Public Health | Shellfish SIL | $1,040,000 | Support local On-site Sewage System (OSS) management program implementation by offering eligible property owners rebate incentives when they complete Septics 101 education course and their required OSS maintenance inspection, following up with property owners to ensure that they correct OSS system deficiencies and fix system failures, and supporting OSS owner access to financial assistance options for their maintenance inspections and any necessary repairs, replacements, or upgrades. | Click to view resources | 1 3 | Open | 2023, 2024 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2023_Snohomish | PIC IV | Snohomish County Surface Water Management | Shellfish SIL | $670,000 | Conduct stormwater sampling to identify sources of fecal pollution, and follow-up targeted fecal source tracing. Enhance multi-agency field investigations to correct fecal pollution from livestock, human and pet waste through education and outreach, technical assistance and progressive enforcement. Increase climate change impact awareness and education by incorporating UW Climate Impact Group (CIG) river modeling to develop outreach materials on flood resiliency and land use management. Utilize Washington State University Social and Economic Sciences Research Center (WSU SESRC) to design and implement a social behavior marketing survey to identify barriers to engaging with the community. | Click to view resources | 5 | Open | 2023 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2023_Thurston | Eld Inlet Manure Management and Technical Assistance Program | Thurston Conservation District | Shellfish SIL | $776,247 | Target Eld Watershed producers through robust and user-friendly Manure Management and Nutrient Technical Assistance programs. Provide manure management workshops, direct outreach and technical assistance to producers, and the integration of web-based manure application tools. A manure exchange program feasibility study will identify motivators and barriers to participation as well as areas and audiences of focus to best utilize manure and reduce water quality pollution. | Click to view resources | 13, 14 | Open | 2023, 2024 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL NpRFP2023_WSU | Pasture Management Outreach, Education and Technical Assistance for Culturally Diverse Populations in Skagit County | Washington State University | Shellfish SIL | $400,000 | Continue outreach and education programs to the community at large and expand outreach and education opportunities to the Spanish speaking members of the community through targeted outreach, translation of printed materials and availability of interpretation during pasture management classes. | Click to view resources | 1, 3 | Open | 2023 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL OfRFP2022_Blaine | City of Blaine Shellfish Restoration Project | City of Blaine | Shellfish SIL | $192,500 | Complete feasibility, design, and preliminary engineering work on five related projects directed at improving the overall performance of the Lighthouse Point Water Reclamation Facility (LPWRF). This work will support ongoing efforts by the city to upgrade LPWRF operations to meet growth demands and identify, design, and complete preliminary engineering development on these projects in preparation for further funding opportunities as such becomes available. | Click to view resources | 1 | Open | 2021-22 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL OfRFP2022_Coupeville | Reclaimed Water Feasibility Study | Town of Coupeville | Shellfish SIL | $220,000 | Update the 2010 Reclaimed Water Feasibility Study. Review existing study, water quality, and quantity data to identify reuse potential. Develop conceptual design and materials lists, solicit construction quotes for trenchless pipelines and develop a budgetary cost estimate for all construction. Develop an operation and maintenance cost estimate and potential water sale value. Phase two of this work will involve implementing supported action(s) identified in the feasibility study that can lead to shellfish bed classification upgrades in Penn Cove. | Click to view resources | 6 | Open | 2021-22 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL OfRFP2022_Lakehaven | Redondo Wastewater Treatment Plant Flow Diversion and Outfall Capacity Improvements, Preliminary Engineering | Lakehaven Water and Sewer District | Shellfish SIL | $1,449,000 | Identifying possible solutions to eliminate wet weather emergency relief events at the Redondo Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). Prepare preliminary engineering documents and design drawings for the selected diversion and outfall capacity alternatives following the current feasibility level analyses that are ongoing. | Click to view resources | 9 | Open | 2021-22, 2024 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL OfRFP2023_Corrections | McNeil Island Feasibility Study | Washington State Department of Corrections | Shellfish SIL | $355,000 | Conduct feasibility study that looks at different options for handling wastewater on McNeil Island. All avenues explored would include the removal of the current outfall. | Click to view resources | 15 | Open | 2023 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL OfRFP2023_Shelton | WWTP Backup Disinfection System WWTP Backup Disinfection System | City of Shelton | Shellfish SIL | $143,687 | Planning for the addition of a fully redundant backup to the existing UV disinfection system. This reliable disinfection with free chlorine aims to reduce the frequency of closure days in the conditionally approved shellfish growing area adjacent the outfall. | Click to view resources | 14 | Open | 2023 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL OfRFP2023_Skagit | Wastewater Treatment Improvements | Skagit County Planning & Development Services | Shellfish SIL | $250,000 | Upgrade the aging UV system to ensure its integrity and to continue to disinfect effluent. | Click to view resources | 3 | Open | 2023 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSIL OfRFP2023_Taylor Bay | Upgrade of WWTP and Outfall Extension to Open Prohibited Shellfish Beds | Taylor Bay Beach Club Homeowners Association | Shellfish SIL | $1,700,000 | Proceed with engineering, design, and permitting for a new outfall and construction of a new wastewater treatment plant. The new outfall will provide a high level of dilution reducing the size of precautionary public health shellfish growing area closure zone adjacent the outfall. | Click to view resources | 15 | Open | 2023, 2024 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSILNpRFP2024_HCCC | Hood Canal Regional Pollution Identification and Correction Program Phase 5 | Hood Canal Coordinating Council | Shellfish SIL | $807,988 | Phase 5 will continue to build on this strong collaborative foundation, as program partners refine and advance their approaches to the essential work of maintaining and improving water quality by reducing bacterial and nutrient pollution. Priority areas will be identified at the start of Phase 5, where work will build on current progress toward water quality upgrades, including in Annas Bay, Tahuya, Lilliwaup, and Duckabush areas. Additional agricultural technical assistance support will help meet the increased demand for these services in south Hood Canal. Mason Conservation District (MCD) activities in this grant will further support their work funded under the Mason County Partnership for Clean Water and improve coordination between both programs. Expanded outreach and education efforts will target specific audiences to improve water quality understanding among K-12 students and vacation homeowners and users. New training opportunities will advance partners data-informed approaches and utilization of new tools to improve pollution investigation efficiency, as well as cross-jurisdictional learning to increase available laboratory capacity, a critical need in Jefferson County, and address a common challenge for improved approaches to management of mobile discharges from RVs and boats. | Click to view resources | 14, 15, 16, 17 | Open | 2024 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSILNpRFP2024_Parks | Potlatch Planning and Mobile Restroom Demonstration | Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission | Shellfish SIL | $506,863 | Reduce the potential of fecal pollution in Annas Bay growing area by funding Phase I master planning and the research, design, manufacture, permit, and installation of a mobile restroom facility to serve day-use visitors to the shoreline at Potlatch State Park. | Click to view resources | 16 | Open | 2024 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSILNpRFP2024_UW | Enhanced SSM-Fecal Bacteria Modeling to Support Shellfish Growing Area Management | University of Washington | Shellfish SIL | $677,696 | Continue site-specific refinement of the Salish Sea Model at 6 priority sites: Skagit Bay, Dyes Inlet, Dungeness Bay, Annas Bay, Budd Inlet, and Commencement Bay. Analyze freshwater plumes under different river discharge, tides, and wind conditions, as well as the fate and transport of fecal bacteria from rivers and local sources. | Click to view resources | 3, 10, 13, 15, 16, 18 | Open | 2024 | Shellfish Beds |
| C2025XXX | Efficacy of currently installed stormwater conveyances to remove 6PPD-quinone: | USGS Washington Water Science Center | Stormwater SIL | $500,000 | This project will evaluate six stormwater conveyance systemsÃÂÃÂcurb and gutter, ditches without vegetation, ditches with vegetation, bioswales, and settlement catchmentsÃÂÃÂto determine their effectiveness in removing 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ) within the Green-Duwamish watershed. | 9 | Open | 2024 | Toxics In Fish | |
| C2025XXX | Toxicokinetic and chemical characterization of tire rubber-derived chemicals in Puget Sound: | NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center | Stormwater SIL | $328,000 | This project will advance our knowledge on TRCs in Puget Sound, by characterizing TRCs in surface water of urbanized watershed and their toxicokinetic behavior in both coho salmon and steelhead. | 7,8,9,10,11 | Open | 2024 | Toxics In Fish | |
| C2500046 | Integration of Urban Stormwater Infrastructure in Modeling Water Quality Patterns in Small Urban Streams | USGS Washington Water Science Center | Stormwater SIL | $249,999 | This study will analyze existing datasets on streamflow, water quality, and subsurface stormwater networks to develop a comparative model integrating landscape characteristics and stormwater infrastructure in small urban streams in King County. The project will pilot this methodology to improve understanding of how stormwater infrastructure may drive degraded water quality and streamflow regimes in urban areas. | Click to view resources | 7, 8, 9 | Contracting | 2023 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish |
| C2600087 | Integrating stormwater drainage into the USGS StreamStats application for the Lower Duwamish watershed | USGS | Stormwater SIL | $492,558 | This project will create a U.S. Geological Survey storm drain StreamStats application that will allow users to delineate drainage areas and calculate basin characteristics for streams, stormwater pipes, and inlets within the Lower Duwamish watershed in Washington. The project will include community input sessions at the start of the project and provide webinars to train stakeholders on how to use the storm drain StreamStats application for use cases that address climate resiliency challenges related to excessive runoff and pollutant loading. | 9 | Open | 2024 | Freshwater Quality | |
| WQNEPSW-2023-HDCSKC-00013 | Addressing Toxics in Affordable Housing Flooring in King County | Housing Development Consortium of Seattle | Stormwater SIL | $996,100.00 | This project will remove priority chemicals from affordable multi-family buildings throughout Puget Sound via product replacement (replacing flooring and carpets in two selected buildings, with a specific focus on housing in communities at high risk of health disparities). | Click to view resources | 7, 8, 9, 10 | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-KiCoRD-00003 | Multi-Criterion Decision Tool to Address 6PPD-Q and Tire Wear Particles | King County | Stormwater SIL | $500,000.00 | This project will result in improved water quality in coho salmon bearing streams in King County through creation of a logical user interface webtool (webtool). The webtool will identify and prioritize public road segments based on stormwater runoff and potential sources of 6PPD-quinone (6PPD-Q). This project will build upon previous studies in 2022 for 6PPD in road runoff and support future stormwater retrofits. | Click to view resources | 9 | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-MasoCD-00004 | Mason Conservation District and the City of Shelton Stormwater Partnership | Mason Conservation District and the City of Shelton | Stormwater SIL | $208,875.00 | This project will develop a Public Road Retrofit Plan for the City of Shelton, identifying and prioritizing potential retrofit projects to address toxic stormwater impacts to salmon and water quality. Funding will also cover preliminary design for the top 2-3 projects identified in the retrofit plan. | Click to view resources | 14 | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-NatCon-00002 | Puget Sound Stormwater Heatmap Version 2.0 | The Nature Conservancy | Stormwater SIL | $541,992.41 | This project updates The Nature Conservancy's Puget Sound Stormwater Heatmap to provide greater user accessibility, data validation, and technical documentation. The Stormwater Heatmap 1.0, first released in 2022, is an open-source tool to inform stormwater planning for regional, local, community, and tribal entities in Puget Sound. | Click to view resources | All | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-SEADIS-00011 | PCBs in Building Materials: Tools and Education for Building Owners | Seattle and Bellevue 2030 Districts | Stormwater SIL | $260,306.00 | This project has additional non NEP funding source. This project will create and execute an outreach and education campaign that promotes the Department of Ecology's PCBs in Building Materials tools and resources to property owners, property managers, construction companies, municipalities, and affordable housing providers. | Click to view resources | 8, 9 | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-ThRePC-00005 | Thurston County Road Retrofit Planning Study | Thurston Regional Planning Council | Stormwater SIL | $438,320.00 | This project funds the Thurston Regional Planning Council to facilitate a roadway retrofit prioritization process for South Sound jurisdictions to plan and prioritize cost-effective stormwater retrofit projects that address inadequate legacy systems and rapid population growth. | Click to view resources | 13 | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-TPCoHD-00012 | Pierce County PFAS Product Replacement: Non-Stick Cookware | Tacoma Pierce County Health Department | Stormwater SIL | $400,947.00 | In this project, TPCHD will reduce human exposure to PFAS and associated toxic chemicals through identification and replacement of PFAS nonstick cookware for safer alternatives. | Click to view resources | 10, 11, 12 | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-UWTaco-00006 | Sampling, Occurrence, and Toxicity of 6PPD-Q and Related Chemicals | University of Washington Tacoma | Stormwater SIL | $999,910.78 | This project will enhance characterization of water quality in watersheds of south Puget Sound, by building upon previous 6PPDQ studies and focusing on specific tire-rubber and PPD-quinone Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) in roadway runoff. This project will develop analytical methods and include improvements of sampling collection while characterizing 6PPD, 6PPDQ and other PPD-quinone concentrations, evaluate individual tires and determine toxicity of legacy tire reefs and embankments. | Click to view resources | 9, 10, 11, 13 | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-UWTaco-00007 | Enhanced Watershed Monitoring and Toxicological Analysis of CECs | University of Washington Tacoma | Stormwater SIL | $571,109.00 | This project will collect enhanced CEC monitoring data in the White-Puyallup and Stillaguamish watersheds to identify priority CEC locations in critical habitat for out-migrating Chinook salmon. | Click to view resources | 5, 10 | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-UWTaco-00008 | Cutting the Chain: Innovation to Destroy PFCs in Wastewater | University of Washington Tacoma | Stormwater SIL | $999,992.00 | This project is a pilot study of the use of foam fractionation and hydrothermal alkaline treatment at the Tacoma Central Wastewater Treatment Plant, to test how these technologies can be used to remove and destroy PFCs from wastewater and reduce PFC loadings to the environment. | Click to view resources | 10, 12 | Closed | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-WeWaUn-00010 | CECs Mixtures: Toxicity & Modeling for Prioritization | Western Washington University | Stormwater SIL | $610,254.00 | This project will conduct field, lab, and monitoring work to identify classes of chemicals and expand modeling of effects on fish, with a focus on estrogenic contaminants and other endocrine disrupting chemicals.Collaborate with local researchers, stakeholders, and Puyallup Tribe to improve the prioritization of CECs in Puget Sound, through increased research and monitoring efforts. These efforts can be used to inform management decisions which can lead to less CECs in Puget Sound that impact fish and other aquatic biota health. | Click to view resources | 10 | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2023-ZeWaWa-00009 | Toxic Chemicals in Durable Products at End of Life and Alternatives | Zero Waste Washington | Stormwater SIL | $661,381.00 | This three-year project will conduct an education program targeted at businesses, agencies, and residents addressing end-of-life of durable consumer products in order to reduce the exposure of humans and wildlife to toxic chemicals including flame retardants, PFAS, CECs (phthalates), and more. | Click to view resources | All | Open | 2023 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-Bellev-00019 | Kelsey Creek Watershed Climate Resilient Stormwater Planning | City of Bellevue Utilities Department | Stormwater SIL | $250,000.00 | This project will conduct feasiblity studies to identify opportunities for climate-resilient retrofits to aging stormwater infrastructure in the Kelsey Creek Watershed. | Click to view resources | 8 | Open | 2024 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-Bellev-00020 | Kelsey Creek Watershed Stormwater Park Planning | City of Bellevue | Stormwater SIL | $100,000.00 | This project will conduct a feasibility study and preliminary design for construction of a stormwater park within Bellevue's Commissioners Waterway Park. Study and design considerations will target BMPs to improve water quality in Kelsey Creek, an important Chinook and coho salmon stream, and opportunities to address environmental justice goals with neighborhood residents. | Click to view resources | 8 | Open | 2024 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-DeMSWD-00024 | Marina Steps Innovative Stormwater BMPs Targeting Priority Pollutants | City of Des Moines | Stormwater SIL | $560,407.00 | This project will incorporate three stormwater BMPs into the City of Des Moines Marina Steps project to assess the removal efficiency of existing and developing treatment on target toxic chemicals, specifically 6PPD-Q, as well as PCBs and metals. The City will quantify influent and effluent levels of these pollutants during storm events over two wet seasons, using one BMP currently approved by Ecology and at least two innovative technologies developed after a thorough literature review and consultation with 6PPD-Q researchers and BMP manufacturers. Runoff will be collected from a 30-acre heavily urbanized upstream basin with heavy traffic. Each BMP will be sized to treat a portion of the runoff with the outfall discharging into the marine waters of Puget Sound, which is considered a hotspot by the City, due to several nearby salmon streams and the multiple aquatic uses at the Marina. The results of the project will inform future stormwater management in the City and will generate data to contribute to the advancement of the technologies to address these high-priority pollutants, helping guide regulatory stormwater policies by Ecology and others. | Click to view resources | 9 | Open | 2024 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-Future-00017 | GreenLink Port Angeles Valley Creek Stormwater Park | Futurewise | Stormwater SIL | $100,000.00 | This project will advance planning of a stormwater park as part of the Valley Creek Daylighting project, a top priority in the GreenLink Port Angeles Master Plan. Building on previous GreenLink activities, the project will conduct community engagement, and build relationships and capacity with partners to support subsequent phases of stormwater park design and construction. | Click to view resources | 18 | Open | 2024 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-KCoNRP-00016 | Accelerating Stormwater Park Development in King County: Preliminary Feasibility Analysis | King County | Stormwater SIL | $100,000.00 | King County will conduct preliminary feasibility analysis to accelerate the strategic siting and effectiveness of up to 30 stormwater parks across the County, in line with regional Stormwater Summit goals. This project will develop a preliminary heatmap to prioritize new stormwater park locations by incorporating data from existing climate, salmon recovery, equity mapping, and stormwater retrofit plans. | Click to view resources | 7, 8, 9 | Open | 2024 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-KiCoPW-00014 | Point No Point Stormwater Management Project to Support Estuary Restoration | Kitsap County Public Works - Stormwater | Stormwater SIL | $250,000.00 | This project will conduct a stormwater assessment in a low-lying coastal basin at Point No Point, a high priority for climate resiliency planning to protect residents from flood impacts and for ongoing estuary restoration work for salmon recovery.. | Click to view resources | 15 | Open | 2024 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-KiCoPW-00015 | Kitsap County Stormwater Parks Planning Study | Kitsap County | Stormwater SIL | $100,000.00 | The project will assess water quality improvement needs and stormwater park opportunities within 300 square miles of unincorporated Kitsap County and develop design concepts and cost estimates for the top 3 sites, to be advanced to the County's capital improvement plan for design and construction. | Click to view resources | 15 | Open | 2024 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-LoLiKi-00023 | Ohop Creek Stormwater Filtration Effectiveness Study | Long Live the Kings | Stormwater SIL | $497,430.00 | LLTK will conduct a stormwater treatment effectiveness study of a compost and stormwater biofiltration system and its ability to reduce 6PPD-q in Ohop Creek. This pilot will help improve water quality in Coho spawning habitat near the project site and establish whether this new technology should pursue TAPE approval. | Click to view resources | 11 | Open | 2024 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-StePar*-00021 | Scaling Adopt-a-Downspout for the Treatment of Toxic Roadway Pollutants | Stewardship Partners | Stormwater SIL | $499,428.00 | Stewardship Partners is leading an initiative to scale the successful Adopt-a-Downspout (AAD) system in partnership with WSDOT that has been proven to reduce the chemical 6PPDq and other toxic chemicals in stormwater runoff from the I-5 Ship Canal Bridge in Seattle. We will expand the scope of this effort by installing and monitoring additional AAD Systems and will provide regional and national organizations with an affordable modular nonproprietary turnkey Best Management Practice (BMP) for reducing 6PPDq toxicity in our waterways. | Click to view resources | 8 | Open | 2024 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-UnivWa-00018 | Selecting, Evaluating, and Optimizing Climate Projections for use in Stormwater Design | University of Washington Climate Impacts Group | Stormwater SIL | $249,983.00 | The partners on this project will evaluate, test, and develop approaches to support integration of climate change projections in stormwater modeling and design across Puget Sound and Western Washington. These approaches will use dynamical downscaling to produce more accurate local estimates of changing precipitation, foundational work necessary for planning and designing stormwater infrastructure capable of handling future weather patterns and extreme events. | Click to view resources | All | Open | 2024 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2024-WaStUn-00026 | Pilot Study Evaluating Stormwater Facilities and BMPs for 6PPD-Q Mitigation | Washington State University | Stormwater SIL | $499,758.00 | This project aims to characterize the efficacy of wet* ponds and of stormwater ditches retrofitted with media-filled check dams to mitigate the harmful impacts of 6PPD-Quinone (6PPD-Q) on downstream receiving waters. Wet ponds and stormwater ditches are ubiquitous in urban stormwater drainage networks and offer impactful and untested opportunities to limit the transport of 6PPD-Q from road surface to stream. | Click to view resources | 8, 9 | Open | 2024 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2025-ECY-10000 | Rehabilitation of Community Wetlands: Protecting Fish and Wildlife from Urban Runoff: | Washington Department of Ecology | Stormwater SIL | $495,977.00 | This project will develop guidance for evaluating and selecting built-stormwater features for wetland rehabilitation to protect fish and wildlife from priority toxics in urban runoff and restore wetland habitat. Paired 6-PPDQ and habitat surveys will be conducted across naturalization and urban gradients and 6-PPDQ toxicity testing will be performed in a laboratory on two amphibian species that regularly reside in stormwater ponds. | 8,9,15 | Open | 2025 | Toxics In Fish | |
| WQNEPSW-2025-GigHPW-00039 | Soundview Forest Stormwater Park | City of Gig Harbor | Stormwater SIL | $110,000.00 | This project proposes a feasibility study for siting green stormwater infrastructure at Gig Harbors Soundview Forest Park and producing a master plan for the park as a stormwater park. The study will consider various best management practices (BMPs) that could be implemented in the park to treat or otherwise control runoff from Soundview Drive and the master plan will incorporate these options while also providing a public space for recreation and conserving a small forest in the downtown waterfront district. | 15 | Open | 2025 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish | |
| WQNEPSW-2025-KCWLRD-00040 | Building climate resilience through community-defined storwmater retrofits in urban unincorporated areas of King County | King County | Stormwater SIL | $500,000.00 | This project is working to improve climate resiliency and public health through investing in communities to update outdated and inadequate stormwater infrastructure within the urban unincorporated areas of King County (i.e. Skyway/West Hill, White Center/North Highline, East Renton, East Federal Way, and Fairwood). The expected results will include preliminary feasibility of community-defined and supported stormwater retrofit projects and investments based on a documented co-creation process used to understand their communitys vision for the future, and the prioritization and sequencing of projects to achieve that vision. | 8,9 | Open | 2025 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish | |
| WQNEPSW-2025-KCWLRD-00047 | Vashon-Maury Island Community-Led GSI Strategy and Pilot Project | King County | Stormwater SIL | $200,000.00 | This project will evaluate the feasibility of Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) in Vashon Islands downtown corridor, guided by the Vashon Groundwater Committee, to ensure community priorities and co-benefits are reflected. The effort will culminate in the implementation of one pilot GSI projects to launch the corridor-wide strategy. | Open | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | ||
| WQNEPSW-2025-KiCoPH-00034 | PPD derivatives and PFAS in fish consumers: determining prevalence across communities and characterizing human exposure profiles to inform the protection of human health and the environment: | Seattle and King County Public Health | Stormwater SIL | $698,275.00 | this study will serve as a pilot to address a data gap in understanding dietary exposure of PPD derivatives and PFAS in human populations through direct measurement in urine and blood samples from fish consuming community populations in King County. Our aim is to characterize human exposure associated with PPD derivatives and PFAS, with specific attention to exposure differences across demographic and fish consuming groups to begin linking environmental data (toxics in fish) to human health exposures. | 8,9 | Open | 2025 | Toxics In Fish | |
| WQNEPSW-2025-KiiPCS-00038 | Spinney Homestead Stormwater Park Development Plan | City of Kirkland Parks and Community Services | Stormwater SIL | $100,000.00 | This project will create a comprehensive Park Development Plan for a stormwater park at Spinney Homestead Park. The facility will treat runoff from up to 26 acres of developed area, with a goal of supporting low summer flows in streams and controlling high flows causing bank erosion and habitat degredation during storm events. The park drains to Forbes Creek, which supports coho and resident cutthroat salmonids. | 8 | Open | 2025 | Freshwater Quality, Toxics in Fish | |
| WQNEPSW-2025-LuInBC-00031 | Protecting Salmon (Schaenexw) Investigating Toxics in Lummi Waters: | Lummi Indian Business Council | Stormwater SIL | $499,995.00 | The goal of Protecting Salmon (Schaenexw) Investigating Toxics in Lummi Waters project is to fill data gaps necessary to refine toxic hotspot and pollutant source identification for pollution control and cleanup actions in the Nooksack and Lummi River watersheds. | Click to view resources | 1 | Open | 2025 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2025-MasoCD-00041 | Shelton Stormwater Solutions | Mason Conservation District | Stormwater SIL | $130,343.00 | This project will install five rain gardens and host two rain barrel workshops in priority Shelton neighborhoods to reduce polluted stormwater runoff and promote natural yard care practices. The work will improve water quality in local salmon streams while increasing community awareness and participation in green stormwater solutions. | Contracting | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | ||
| WQNEPSW-2025-MPSFEG-00043 | GSI Outreach, Education, and Implementation for Bear, McSorley, and Soos Creek Watersheds | MidSound Fisheries Enhancement Group | Stormwater SIL | $301,235.08 | Mid Sound will expand our Salmon Friendly Yards program, which offers free site visits, education, and green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) projects to qualifying private residential landowners on Bear and Soos Creeks. In addition, we will construct a rain garden at an elementary school on McSorley Creek, build our library of outreach and education materials, and participate in community events to reach residents broadly in the Green/Duwamish and Central Puget Sound and Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish watersheds. | Contracting | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | ||
| WQNEPSW-2025-NatCon-00042 | Expanding Neighborhood Implementation of the Western Washington Green Infrastructure Curriculum | The Nature Conservancy | Stormwater SIL | $254,184.00 | This project will expand and deliver the Western Washington Green Stormwater Infrastructure Curriculum to build a skilled, community-based workforce for designing, installing, and maintaining natural stormwater solutions. It will support regional capacity through new training materials, a trainer toolkit, and a hands-on program focused in the Duwamish Valley. | Contracting | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | ||
| WQNEPSW-2025-Olympi-00035 | Olympia Combined Sewer Peak Flow Reduction Plan | City of Olympia | Stormwater SIL | $419,922.00 | This project will identify and prioritize projects to separate portions of the combined sewer system and integrating green infrastructure to reduce flooding in downtown Olympia, and reduce peak flows to the Budd Inlet Treatment Plant, the central wastewater treatment plant for the Lacey, Tumwater, and Olympia region | 13 | Open | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | |
| WQNEPSW-2025-PierCD-00044 | Neighborhood Greening using a Community Ambassador Model | Pierce Conservation District | Stormwater SIL | $400,000.00 | Pierce Conservation District (PCD), Pierce County (PC), and the City of Tacoma (COT) propose to use grant funds to hire an additional FTE at PCD to implement community stormwater BMPs, contract with trusted Community Based Organizations, and extend the project funding capacity of partner jurisdictions that will increase the capacity, geographic range, and focus on overburdened communities of already successful PCD stormwater small grants, depave, and tree planting programs. These programs empower residents, homeowners, businesses, and nonprofits to construct green stormwater infrastructure on their properties or in adjacent rights-of-way. | Contracting | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | ||
| WQNEPSW-2025-SeCiLi-00027 | PCB Sampling of Electrified Transformers: | Seattle City Light | Stormwater SIL | $500,000.00 | The project will conduct PCB testing of older Seattle City Light (City Light) overhead and underground transformers in the census tracks that intersect the Lower Green River watershed and Duwamish watershed, collecting samples from electrified transformers and resealing the transformers without damage. City Light will remove and replace any transformers with >50ppm PCBs and will evaluate the human health and environmental risk from all transformers with 1-49ppm PCBs. | Click to view resources | 9 | Open | 2025 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2025-SnCoEF-00028 | Evergreen State Fairground Park Drainage Design | Snohomish County Parks and Recreation | Stormwater SIL | $862,300.00 | These climate resiliency project will develop alternatives and preliminary designs for retrofitting stormwater infrastructure, installing enhanced flow control and water treatment BMPs to reduce pollutant discharge, and separating natural drainage from contaminated stormwater collected at the Snohomish County Fairgrounds. Outcomes will improve flood resiliency, reduce hydrologic impacts, and address known sources of pollution including 6PPD-quinone and livestock waste contaminating the headwaters of French Creek | 7 | Contracting | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | |
| WQNEPSW-2025-TacoPo-00030 | Port of Tacoma Watershed Source Tracing and Monitoring: | Port of Tacoma | Stormwater SIL | $465,000.00 | With stakeholder engagement, the Port will develop a source tracing and monitoring system throughout the Sitcum, Blair, and Hylebos watershed draining to the Port of Tacomas industrial waterways to identify contaminant sources and appropriate responses to eliminate those sources of contamination. WDFW studies have shown that juvenile Chinook residing in the Hylebos have some of the highest tissue burdens of PCBs in the Puget Sound. | Click to view resources | 10 | Open | 2025 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2025-ThurCD-00045 | From Rain to Resilience: Thurstons Green Stormwater Future | Thurston Conservation District | Stormwater SIL | $198,986.25 | Thurston Conservation District (TCD) is partnering with the City of Tumwater, City of Lacey, City of Olympia and Unincorporated Thurston County to educate, engage, and provide incentives to key audiences in our community around stormwater best management practices, highlighting green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) and nature-based stormwater solutions. | Open | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | ||
| WQNEPSW-2025-UnivWa-00025 | A Pilot Study for Treating CECs in WW: A focus on PBDEs | University of Washington | Stormwater SIL | $999,954.00 | Despite production bans and other management activities, Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a flame retardant, are present in the environment at concentrations that can adversely affect exposed species. Industrial and municipal wastewater is a common pathway for PBDEs. There is a need for sustainable, cost effective, engineered approaches to remove PBDEs from wastewater, and thus reduce loading to Puget Sound. This project will develop and implement a set of pilot tests to evaluate a new, step-wise treatment approach for PBDE removal that combines established sorption and biologic transformation approaches. Previous work demonstrated the efficiency of sorption-based removal of PBDEs, and additionally identified bacterial species capable of degrading PBDE. Separately, each approach is impracticable; spent sorptive materials need to be disposed or recharged, and specialized bacteria cannot compete in wastewater systems and die off. More recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of combining these two technologies for treating wastewater, though this will be a first evaluation of their combined effectiveness for PBDEs. This project will conduct pilot scale testing to document the efficacy of immobilized bacterial cultures on sorptive materials for removal of PBDE from raw and partially-treated wastewater. In preparation for pilot testing, established sorptive material (activated carbon) will be compared to biochar to establish the suitability for use in a pilot reactor by evaluating the materials baseline sorptive capacity, settleability in the reactors, ability to accept inoculation by targeted bacterial species, and resulting removal rates. Testing will be conducted in University of Washington laboratories using wastewater from regional wastewater treatment plants (WWTP).The final outcome will be the demonstration of removal effectiveness of PBDEs and other priority CECs, in wastewater from different sources, and will provide the design parameters (removal efficacy, materials lifespan, materials renewal for reuse, contact time, and potential degradation of co-occurring CECs), to deploy the technology into established wastewater treatment processes in Puget Sound. | Open | 2025 | Toxics In Fish | ||
| WQNEPSW-2025-UnivWa-00032 | Understanding the Regional Climate Resilience, Water Supply and Streamflow Augmentation Benefits of Stormwater Capture | University of Washington Climate Impacts Group | Stormwater SIL | $249,893.00 | The purpose of this study is to quantify the volumetric potential for stormwater capture in the Puget Sound region and assess the magnitude and distribution of potential climate resilience, water supply, and stream flow augmentation co-benefits of aquifer recharge and reuse projects using captured stormwater. This project will co-produce actionable science products supporting regional consideration the co-benefits of stormwater capture projects such as managed aquifer recharge, stormwater parks, and on-site reuse of stormwater in the Puget Sound region. | All | Open | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | |
| WQNEPSW-2025-UWTaco-00029 | Holistic source assessment of PCBs and PBDEs to the Hylebos waterway: | University of Washington Tacoma | Stormwater SIL | $893,433.00 | The Hylebos waterway remains a hotspot for PCBs and PBDEs. We will undertake a monitoring program of air deposition, surface water inputs, and sediment flux to identify primary contaminant loading pathways. | Click to view resources | 10 | Open | 2025 | Toxics In Fish |
| WQNEPSW-2025-WaStUn-00033 | Advanced wastewater treatment to reduce CECs and benefit juvenile Chinook salmon | Washington State University | Stormwater SIL | $624,203.00 | Advanced treatment of wastewater using a bioinspired catalyst system will remove harmful CECs and be shown to benefit juvenile Chinook salmon. Demonstration of the safety and benefit of this cost-effective advanced treatment will reduce the barrier to implementing the advanced treatment of wastewater effluent needed to protect Puget Sound from many CECs that currently accumulate in and affect juvenile Chinook salmon and other species in Puget Sound. | 9 | Open | 2025 | Toxics In Fish | |
| WQNEPSW-2025-WaStUn-00036 | Reducing Stormwater Impacts and Building Climate Resiliency: Multi Model Analysis for Swan Creek | Washington State University | Stormwater SIL | $475,389.00 | This project integrates in-depth, multi-model analysis and field assessment to identify root causes for adverse stormwater impacts on stream peak flow, water quality, and sediment loading for the urbanizing Swan Creek Watershed, South Puget Sound. We propose a specific stormwater management strategy, optimized placement of Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) practices, to reduce urban stormwater runoff, restore water quality, and increase the climate resilience of Swan Creek watersh | 10 | Open | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | |
| WQNEPSW-2025-WeArCo-00046 | Manos Verdes (Green hands): Latino Landscapers del Futuro (of the future): Stormwater smart. Rooted in culture. Building just futures. | We Are Communidad | Stormwater SIL | $397,649.00 | This project trains Latino landscapers in green* stormwater infrastructure (GSI) and climate-resilient landscaping practices (which we call climate-smart), equipping them to reduce runoff, improve water quality, and lead education and assistance efforts in communities most impacted by environmental health disparities. By centering culturally rooted training and workforce development, the project builds long-term capacity for neighborhood-scale stormwater solutions that benefit Puget Sound ecosystems and people. | Contracting | 2025 | Freshwater Quality | ||
| WQNEPSW-2025-WeWaUn-00037 | Behavioral Effects of Antidepressants on Chinook Salmon: | Western Washington University | Stormwater SIL | $384,238.00 | This project will test whether environmentally relevant concentrations of antidepressants (e.g. selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors; SSRIs) will alter the behavior of juvenile Chinook salmon. The implications of the behavioral changes are that the Chinook salmon may be more at risk of predation with long-term exposures to the antidepressants. | All | Open | 2025 | Toxics In Fish | |
| C2600086 | Feasibility Study for Small Scale Wastewater Treatment Systems | Puget Sound Institute | Stormwater SIL | $492,976.00 | Many of the homes in the Puget Sound watershed rely on septic systems. Additionally, large scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in some areas with rapid development are finding it difficult and costly to keep up with growth and demand. Small community-operated systems could alleviate both issues. This investment would identify the areas that are prime for community-operated systems such as small-scale treatment plants or Large Onsite Sewage Systems (LOSS). This feasibility study may also outline co-benefits of switching from either Onsite Sewage Systems (OSS) or large scale WWTP to smaller WWTPs or a LOSS. This investment should pay particular attention to identifying areas in the Puget Sound that are not suitable for OSS and would be good candidates for local investment or existing grant programs. Assessments should include robust communication with local stakeholders and identifying barriers and benefits to local support for community-operated systems. This investment will also advance Shellfish Beds IS priorities in areas impacting shellfish bed classification. | All | Open | 2025 | Marine Water Quality, Toxics in Fish, Shellfish | |
| C25TBD | Efficacy of currently installed stormwater conveyances to remove 6PPD-quinone: | USGS (Washington Water Science Center) | Stormwater SIL | $500,000.00 | This project will evaluate six stormwater conveyance systemscurb and gutter, ditches without vegetation, ditches with vegetation, bioswales, and settlement catchmentsto determine their effectiveness in removing 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ) within the Green-Duwamish watershed. | 9 | Contracting | 2025 | Toxics In Fish | |
| SFSILOSSRFP2025_Thurston | Septic Operation & Maintenance and Pollution Identification & Correction in the Shoreline Regions of Thurston County | Thurston County Environmental Health | Shellfish SIL | $140,000 | Directly support the upgrade, maintenance, and protection of shellfish growing areas by identifying and reducing sources of fecal pollution from OSS. This investment will enable the County to conduct focused shoreline monitoring and septic operation and maintenance compliance work. Funds will also support the riser rebate and septic program, offering incentives to eligible OSS owners for systems that are in need of repair or replacement. This work directly supports water quality for shellfish harvest in the County. | Click to view resources | 13, 14 | Open | 2025 | Shellfish Beds |
| SFSILOSSRFP2025_Clallam | OSS Database Support for the Sequim Bay-Dungeness Watershed Clean Water District | Clallam County Health and Human Services | $218,392 | Modernize the Countys OSS database and strengthen pollution prevention efforts across the Sequim-Dungeness Watershed. This investment will integrate permitting, inspection, and mapping platforms to improve data accuracy, automate compliance reporting, and create public-facing tools that increase transparency and community engagement. The project also supports staff training and collaboration with Tribal partners to ensure long-term stewardship of shared resources. Together, these improvements will enhance operational efficiency and help safeguard water quality critical to the Dungeness Bay shellfish growing area and surrounding marine habitats. | Click to view resources | 18, 19 | Open | 2025 | Shellfish Beds |
Habitat, Stormwater, and Shellfish 1.0 Funded Project List
Below is the current list of projects that have been funded through the Puget Sound Recovery National Program with Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2016 to 2020 funds. You can use the fields at the top to filter the results.
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