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Assessing and improving nutrient management in North Puget Sound Counties
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Assessing and improving nutrient management in North Puget Sound Counties
SFSIL NTA_2018-0181
WSDA Dairy Nutrient Management Program (DNMP) will protect and improve 10,195 acres of shellfish growing areas by decreasing bacterial pollution from livestock operations by:
*Focused source ID sampling and surveillance to evaluate manure management practices and impacts to surface water in shellfish growing priority areas of Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom.
*Water quality monitoring at the CA-US border to collect data to support transboundary coordination reducing water quality impacts.
*Promote Coli Scan technical assistance through local CD's.
*Enhance GIS tools, such as online WQ results map, Story Map, and manure application map to increase stakeholder collaboration, communi
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SIL - Shellfish
NEP Project
Sub-Regional
Completed
2019
2022
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Location Notes
Non site-specific, work conducted in Whatcom, Skagit, and Snohomish county watersheds draining to priority shellfish growing areas.
Location Information
Classifications
  • Behavior Change - Awareness Raising (Education)
  • Behavior Change - Compliance
  • Enabling Conditions - Technical Capacity
  • Shellfish Beds
2022 - 2026 Action Agenda
  • 12 - Working Lands Runoff
  • 5 - Facilitate the increased use or performance of best management practices to reduce pollutants and the volume of runoff from agricultural lands and working forests. (ID #5)
  • 7 - Expand and improve incentives and education for agricultural land users to motivate voluntary actions for reducing fecal pollution. (ID #7)
  • 2.3 - Reduce bacteria to protect shellfish beds
  • 2.3.4 - Reduce bacteria discharge through runoff
  • 2.3.5 - Reduce bacteria in runoff from ag lands
2018 - 2022 Action Agenda
  • SHELL1.3: Increase compliance with and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and permits
  • SHELL1.4: Promote voluntary and incentive-based programs that help working farms contribute to recovery
  • SHELL1.5: Ensure compliance with programs that reduce, control or eliminate pollution from working farms
  • Skagit
  • Snohomish
  • Whatcom
  • Nooksack
  • Skagit
  • Stillaguamish
  • Skagit / Samish
  • Snohomish / Stillaguamish
  • Whatcom
  • Legislative District 42
Organizations
Washington State Department of Agriculture
CLARA HARD clara.hard@doh.wa.gov
  • Snohomish County
  • Whatcom County
  • Skagit County
Related Activities
Reported Funding

Activity financials are reported by Federal Fiscal Year (Oct. 1 - Sept. 30).

$775,000
$775,000
$0

None provided

2018 2019 2020 Total
NEP Award Funding: SIL - Shellfish $400,000 $175,000 $200,000 $775,000
Total $400,000 $175,000 $200,000 $775,000
Reported Expenditures

Activity financials are reported by Federal Fiscal Year (Oct. 1 - Sept. 30).

$739,712
$739,712
$0

None provided

2022 Total
NEP Award Expenditures: SIL - Shellfish $739,712 $739,712
Total $739,712 $739,712

FUNDING PROVIDED BY

Puget Sound Partnership  |  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency