Join our team to make a difference! It is our mission to protect, preserve, and enhance Washington’s environment for current and future generations. Our partnerships protect and sustain healthy land, ...

Find answers to common questions about the application process, where to find accommodations for submitting an application, how to calculate work experience and more. How do I request accommodations ...

"That mark that will be found by examining the bed and banks and ascertaining where the presence and action of waters are so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years, as to mark ...

Washington's Shoreline Management Act (SMA) applies to private projects on privately owned lands and to private, local government, and state government actions on local or state government lands. The ...

One of the main pollution sources from urban and suburban communities is stormwater. Stormwater is rain and snow melt that flows over rooftops, streets, landscaping, and parking lots that can pick up ...

We use Geographic Information System (GIS) tools and procedures to help accomplish our mission to protect the land, air, and water of the state. This technology is widely used in support of the agency ...

The Recycling Development Center (RDC) focuses on developing domestic markets for Washington’s recyclable materials. The RDC is a partnership between Ecology and the Washington Department of Commerce ...

If a business emits air pollution, it is probably regulated by Ecology or a local clean air agency. This may require registering every year. A business must pay a yearly fee based on the amount of air ...

Your input is valuable to our decision-making process. We post water right documents for notice or comment. Documents posted for comment have a link to our online comment form. Other documents are ...

The Washington state well report (log) viewer, our most popular online resource, allows you to search for and view detailed records of the construction and subsurface characteristics of individual ...

We also provide educational resources to property owners who want to drill a new well, maintain a well, or close down (decommission) an unused well. Well drillers and property owners have the ...

This is the gateway to Ecology's many web-accessible databases and tools.