2022-2026 ACTION AGENDA EXPLORER
Develop a permit framework for advanced wastewater treatment to reduce nutrient discharge and other pollutants and provide technical and financial support for implementation. (ID #37)
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Increase compliance monitoring, technical assistance, and enforcement to improve wastewater treatment plants’ compliance with discharge limits for disease-causing bacteria and viruses. (ID #38)
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Implement priority upgrades of municipal and industrial wastewater facilities in urban and urbanizing areas to reduce disease-causing bacteria and viruses and their effect on Puget Sound. (ID #39)
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Effectively manage and control fecal pollution and disease-causing bacteria and viruses from small onsite sewage systems (OSS) and larger onsite sewage systems (LOSS). (ID #40)
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Prevent and reduce combined sewer overflows. (ID #154)
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Extend centralized sewer systems in areas where conditions are not suitable for onsite sewage systems (OSS). (ID #155)
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Promote appropriate reclaimed water projects to reduce pollutant loading to Puget Sound. (ID #211)
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Key opportunities for 2022-2026 to integrate human wellbeing considerations and climate change responses into efforts include:
Human Wellbeing
Climate Change
Ongoing programs provide regulatory oversight, technical support, implementation resources, funding, or guidance and serve as the critical foundation for Puget Sound recovery. The following is a list of example state and federal ongoing programs that help to implement this strategy. Many more local, tribal nations, and nongovernmental programs exist that support this strategy.
We achieve our recovery goals of healthy human populations, healthy water quality, and increasing functioning habitat, thriving species, and food webs by ensuring municipal wastewater discharges of nutrients to Puget Sound meet water quality-based effluent limits and other requirements of the nutrients general permit; ensuring municipal wastewater discharges of disease-causing (pathogenic) bacteria and viruses to Puget Sound meet water quality-based effluent limits; reducing spills of untreated sewage; ensuring onsite septic systems (OSS) are inventoried, inspected, maintained, and operational; ensuring levels and patterns of contamination in fish and shellfish harvested from Puget Sound waters and levels and patterns of pollutants and biotoxins in surface waters do not threaten the health of Puget Sound communities or vulnerable populations. Indicators of success include:
This indicator reports on direct, field-based measurements of the ratio of silicon to nitrogen, at representative spatial and temporal scales for the Puget Sound ecosystem. This will enable an understanding of whether Puget Sound has a nutrient balance that supports lipid-rich diatoms all year round, creating the base of the Puget Sound food web.
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Number of onsite septic systems inventoried with their relevant local health jurisdiction
Number of suspected onsite septic systems without documentation
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