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Stories for Ecology's Eastern Region

Water Quality stories are grouped according to the Water Quality Program's Five Program Activities. Some Stories may fall under more than one category, and are referenced accordingly.

Prevent Point Source Pollution (excluding water cleanup, stormwater, and financial assistance)
- Social Marketing Workshop: Learning to influence public behaviors to protect and enhance the environment
  Ecology's Eastern Regional Office hosted a two-day workshop to help our partners acquire the skills needed to develop education and outreach campaigns that make a difference. This publication provides an overview of the project goals and highlights.
Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution (excluding water cleanup, stormwater, and financial assistance)
- Riparian Restoration: A Collection of Landowner Perspectives
  Perspectives of eleven eastern Washington landowners who installed one or more riparian restoration projects.
- Clarifying the Permitting Process: Working in the Water Workshops
  State employees bridging the gap between the permitting agencies and members of the public who want to complete a project in or near streams and lakes.
- Social Marketing Workshop: Learning to influence public behaviors to protect and enhance the environment
  Ecology's Eastern Regional Office hosted a two-day workshop to help our partners acquire the skills needed to develop education and outreach campaigns that make a difference. This publication provides an overview of the project goals and highlights.
- Straight to Implementation: Cleaner Water Faster
  In smaller watersheds where the pollution problems are often easier to understand and fix, Ecology′s Water Quality staff in Eastern Regional Office piloted an approach called "Straight to Implementation." This method, which is faster and more implementation-focused, is showing success in a number of rural watershed in the eastern region of Washington State.
- Direct Seeding - The Environmental Magic Bullet
  Soil erosion and pollution from agricultural pesticides and fertilizer have plagued the wheat-growing regions of eastern Washington State since the native prairie was converted to farmland. With the help of the State Revolving Fund, a group of farmers is using a new wave of direct seed technology which is reducing erosion, improving soil health, and encouraging more efficient use of water, fertilizer, and fuel. (See also Provide Financial Assistance)
Control Stormwater Pollution
- Social Marketing Workshop: Learning to influence public behaviors to protect and enhance the environment
  Ecology's Eastern Regional Office hosted a two-day workshop to help our partners acquire the skills needed to develop education and outreach campaigns that make a difference. This publication provides an overview of the project goals and highlights.
Provide Financial Assistance
- Direct Seeding - The Environmental Magic Bullet
  Soil erosion and pollution from agricultural pesticides and fertilizer have plagued the wheat-growing regions of eastern Washington State since the native prairie was converted to farmland. With the help of the State Revolving Fund, a group of farmers is using a new wave of direct seed technology which is reducing erosion, improving soil health, and encouraging more efficient use of water, fertilizer, and fuel. (See also Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution)
Cleanup Polluted Waters
- Social Marketing Workshop: Learning to influence public behaviors to protect and enhance the environment
  Ecology's Eastern Regional Office hosted a two-day workshop to help our partners acquire the skills needed to develop education and outreach campaigns that make a difference. This publication provides an overview of the project goals and highlights.

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Last updated November 2009