Well Education and Testing
Keep Your Well Well in 2015
WET invites you to take a look at the health of your well and learn about keeping your drinking water safe. WET provides homeowners with a local, inexpensive way to test their well water, as well as rivers, reservoirs, and swimming pools. Note: In addition to June, you c...
New pumpout facility serves recreational boaters in the San Juan Islands
August 1, 2019
Facility funded by State Parks’ Clean Vessel Act program
Left from right: Owners Terri and Steve Mason and employees Nick Burne and Jonathan Hogue stand by the new pompous facility at the Shaw Island General Store.
OLYMPIA – A new sewage pumpout for recreational boaters is now ...
Well Education and Testing
Keep Your Well Well in 2015
WET invites you to take a look at the health of your well and learn about keeping your drinking water safe. WET provides homeowners with a local, inexpensive way to test their well water, as well as rivers, reservoirs, and swimming pools.
Cost: $20 per test for coliform
F...
WSG in the News 2024
WSG in the News 2024
December 2024
King tide advisory issued for South Puget Sound
The JOLT News, December 31
King tides are coming again in January
MLT News, December 27
King tides are coming again in January
My Edmonds News, December 27
Rep. Derek Kilmer through the years
Kitsap Sun, December 2...
Habitat Stewards Training
The National Wildlife Federation is hosting a Habitat Stewards Training that starts at the end of June in Kitsap County. Individuals will learn how to protect, restore and create areas for wildlife in their backyard, community and the greater Puget Sound area. A field trip is on June 25 from 10-2pm...
Sea Survival Skills
Washington Sea Grant and the Gig Harbor Boat Shop are co-sponsoring a Coast Guard Approved Drill Instructor course for commercial fisherman and charter boat operators. This Coast Guard-approved course meets the training requirements of the Commercial Fishing Safety Act to conduct drills. Course work...
Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Amy Grondin
October 12, 2020
By James Lee, Science Communications Fellow
Amy Grondin is a salmon fisherman and a sustainable seafood consultant. She owns Duna Fisheries, LLC with her business partner and husband Greg Friedrichs. When they’re not fishing on F/V Arminta, their 48-foot wooden fishin...
Learn First Aid at Sea
Washington Sea Grant and the Port of Seattle Fishermen’s Terminal are co-sponsoring a Coast Guard-approved First Aid at Sea course. Topics covered include patient assessment, hypothermia, cold water, near-drowning, shock, trauma, burns, fractures, choking, immobilization, First Aid kits, and more....
COHORT May Workshop Series
Sea to Soil: Building Resilience for a Healthy Island. COHORT Workshop
Join WSU Extension, VashonBePrepared, and Vashon Nature Center for an event sponsored by the Coastal Hazards Organizational Resilience Team (COHORT). This series of workshops designed to help Island residents build climate resil...
History on the Half Shell at the MOHAI
Enjoy the view of the boats along Lake Union while learning a bit of Pacific Northwest culinary seafood history. Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest, author David Berger and Heaven on the Half Shell author David Gordon will read; concluding with a moderated conversation with cookbo...
CANCELLED: Protection Island Sunset Birding Cruise
Join naturalist/birder George Gerdts for an exciting sunset cruise to Protection Island, a 400 acre National Wildlife Refuge off of Discovery Bay. Over 70% of the marine birds which nest in Puget Sound make Protection Island their breeding ground. Tufted Puffins and marine mammals are usually seen. ...
COHORT May Workshop Series
Sea to Soil: Building Resilience for a Healthy Island. COHORT Workshop
Join WSU Extension, VashonBePrepared, and Vashon Nature Center for an event sponsored by the Coastal Hazards Organizational Resilience Team (COHORT). This series of workshops designed to help Island residents build climate resil...
Green Shores Program
Nicole Faghin, Coastal Management Specialist
Each year Washington loses more of its natural shorelines to development and erosion-control structures such as bulkheads, seawalls and riprap. WSG is a partner in the development of Green Shores for Homes. Patterned after the U.S. Green Building Council...
Well Education and Testing
WET invites you to take a look at the health of your well and learn about keeping your drinking water safe. Washington State Department of Health recommends annual testing of individual wells for fecal coliform bacteria; testing your water is the best solution to identify possible contamination. WET...