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Dissolved Oxygen News

January 2010

• Marine 'dead zones'
  (1/24/2010) KPLU News

April 2009

• Saving our region: Nice plans, but...
  (04/16/09) Crosscut.com

January 2009

• Study: Wastewater polluting Sound Sewage-treatment plants, not rivers
  (1/29/09) The Olympian
  (Link removed 02/12/10)
• Rivers, sewage-treatment plants carry nitrogen to Sound
  (01/29/09) Seattle Times
• Are sewage treatment plants hurting the sound?
  (01/29/09) Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
• State scientists analyzing low-oxygen triggers in South Sound
  (01/28/09) Department of Ecology

March 2007

• Area's population growth puts water quality in jeopardy (pdf)
  Map: Profiles of South Sound Inlets and Watersheds (pdf)
  (10/11/2006) The Olympian

December 2007

• New Agency Tackling Puget Sound Cleanup
  (12/26/2007) Associated Press

October 2006

• South Sound could follow Hood Canal
  (10/20/2006) Seattle Times/Olympian Editorial
• Depleted oxygen target of new study (pdf)
  (10/11/2006) The Olympian
• Scientists worry about South Sound's low oxygen levels
  (10/11/2006) Seattle Times
• State plans $400,000 study of low oxygen levels in Puget Sound (pdf)
  (10/11/2006) The Associated Press
• Ecology launches dissolved oxygen study for South Puget Sound
  (10/10/2006) Department of Ecology