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Stormwater's Toxic Runoff
Stormwater- It's been called the silent killer of Puget Sound and the biggest challenge in bringing the Sound back to health. Squarely meeting that challenge is where People For Puget Sound stands.
See here Rhoda Green's underwater video of a stormwater event at Seacrest in Puget Sound.
The Olympian on Feb. 17 called toxic runoff the 'silent killer' of Puget Sound:
"Every time it rains, pollution pours into Puget Sound.
"Once the rain hits the ground, it becomes an instant delivery system for much of the pollution that 4 million people in the Puget Sound basin spread across the landscape — oil and grease on parking lots, driveways and roads, fertilizers and pesticides on lawns, animal waste and even the heavy metals that result from wear and tear on brakes and tires.
"The pollution pathway is called stormwater runoff — the No. 1 pollution problem in urban Puget Sound." Read more here.
The stormwater issue is front and center before the Puget Sound Partnership and its Leadership Council in their drafting of the 2020 Action Agenda this year.
To that end, People For Puget Sound has developed a stormwater policy with a goal that by 2020 stormwater runoff no longer adversely affects human health, fish, or wildlife.
Read the policy here and take its recommendations to meetings with the Partnership. And don't forget to tell us your stormwater stories.