April 17, 2018
WSU scientists discover coho salmon die, chum salmon survive in polluted stormwater.
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April 4, 2018
The free livestreaming event will take place 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 11.
February 12, 2018
By Eric Sorensen, WSU News
VANCOUVER, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have found that salmon face a double whammy when they swim in the stormwater runoff of urban roadways.
August 17, 2017
It is estimated that 75 percent of contamination in the Puget Sound is unwittingly produced by citizens — via commercial wastewater, sewage treatment plants, stormwater runoff from roads and paved surfaces, construction and other activities.
April 20, 2017
By Gene Patterson, WSU Public Health/Water Quality
Whether we work or live next to a stream, lake or miles away from either, our everyday actions affect water quality.
November 3, 2016
PULLMAN, Wash. – Seattle landscape architect Peg Staeheli will discuss her projects to retrofit urban areas for livability and sustainability – in particular water use and stormwater implications – at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in Goertzen Hall 21.
October 26, 2016
By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences
PUYALLUP, Wash. – Businesses in the Puget Sound watershed must navigate a complex series of stormwater runoff regulations and permits. But business owners often don’t understand why those regulations exist.
September 26, 2016
By Michelle Fredrickson, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture
PULLMAN, Wash. – Nanoscale materials are helping provide new and better products for society, but researchers know little about what happens when these materials break down in the environment.
September 14, 2016
By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences
SEATTLE – Community workshops to design a “blue greenway” to help the South Park and Georgetown neighborhoods adapt to rising tides associated with climate change will be held Sept. 22-24 at Seattle Community College’s Georgetown campus in C222.
August 16, 2016
By Linda Weiford, WSU News
PUYALLUP, Wash. – Chum rule. In the same toxic stormwater brew that killed coho salmon in less than three hours, their chum cousins did just fine.