stormwater

From cities to rural and wild areas, Kevan Moffett wants to better understand the role of water on the planet.

WSU scientists discover coho salmon die, chum salmon survive in polluted stormwater.

The free livestreaming event will take place 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 11.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.