July 1999


Pilot Team:

Port of Bellingham

City of Bellingham

Whatcom County

Lummi Nation

Nooksack Tribe

Georgia-Pacific West

Washington Department of Ecology

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Washington Department of Natural Resources

Washington State Department of Transportation

Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team

National Marine Fisheries Service

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service


Bellingham Bay was selected in 1996 by state and federal agencies as the site of a demonstration pilot to develop sediment cleanup and habitat restoration priorities in an urban embayment of Puget Sound. The Bellingham Bay Demonstration Project brings together a cooperative partnership of agencies and tribes, local government and businesses, known collectively as the Pilot Team.

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