Puget Sound to receive a $13 million for restoration

摘要

Regional efforts to protect and restore Puget Sound will receive a $13 million helping hand after the latest round of federal science grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since 2006, the EPA has dedicated $71.4 million as part of an ongoing initiative to protect and restore the Puget Sound ecosystem. The grant will fund a shellfish resource survey, pollution source evaluation, a human health assessment, and circulation/dilution modelling, with the goal of identifying what portions of the study area could be potentially opened for shellfish harvest.