Washington State Adjusts Strategy to Limit Dangerous Low-Oxygen Levels in Puget Sound
Across the country, states and regions are facing outdated permit processes, overwhelmed wastewater treatment plants, and competing land use policies that are creating oxygen ‘dead-zones’ where marine life cannot survive.
Some of the worst areas in the U.S. are the northern Gulf of Mexico (now known as the Gulf of America) fanning out from the Mississippi River; the Chesapeake Bay, fed by the Susquehanna, Potomac, and James Rivers; and in the Pacific Northwest’s Puget Sound, into which the Skagit, Stillaguamish, Snohomish, Nisqually, and the Skokomish...
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