Developing a Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan for Washington Water and Wastewater Utilities

 

ESRI 'Make an Impact with Modern Geo Apps'

 

Fish Monitoring Work Group - PIT Tag Data & Analysis 2025 Webinar Series

Washington's Fish Hatchery and Rearing Areas (2023) (~6.5Mb)

I came across an interesting map of Washington state’s fish hatchery and rearing facilities during the course of taking the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership’s PIT Tag Data & Analysis 2025 Webinar Series.

Software tools for managing the massive and complex amount of data produced by PIT-tag arrays in the Columbia River Basin of salmon and steelhead have been developed to allow researchers to access the accumulated data on nearly 53 million PIT-tagged fish since 1987. The PTAGIS database containing the results of over 267 million detection events from the 283 interrogation sites across the Columbia River Basin, with 842,171 unique fish were detected in 2021 alone.

PTAGIS is continuously updated with data contributions from around 40 different organizations and includes detailed records of fish tagging events, detection, recaptures, and recoveries. In 2021 the system processed 820,000 data files, inserting or updating 26 million records. Included are individual tag histories, detection timestamps, location metadata, and biological data such as species, length, and origin.

The Columbia Basin PIT Tag Information System (PTAGIS) operated a network of 283 interrogation sites across the Columbia River Basin.

Information about the webinar series can be found at Fish Monitoring Work Group – PIT Tag Data & Analysis 2025 Webinar Series. There is no charge to register and recordings of the sessions are available.

A disclosure, I now use “Synthia” my OpenAi bot to develop much of the content for my website.

City of Kirkland Receives Grant to Improve Water Quality in Juanita Creek

City of Kirkland Receives Grant to Improve Water Quality in Juanita Creek

The City of Kirkland has recently received $348,439 in grants from the Washington State Department of Ecology (WECY) for improvements to water quality in Juanita Creek, Kirkland’s largest salmon bearing stream. The project will focus on conducting an evaluation and planning process for a community-based public-private partnership (CBP3) in the Central Kingsgate area of Kirkland.

The work will include the evaluation redevelopment scenarios including the placement of regional storm water management facilities, outreach and discussion with potential CBP3 consultants, and the evaluation of legal aspects of a contract and project. The CBP3 in this area is intended to provide improved stormwater management, specifically targeting total suspended solids and high flows.

King County Wastewater Treatment Division’s WaterWorks [2] grant funding will be used by the City to partner with the Adopt A Stream Foundation and the Washington Conservation Corps. Kirkland Parks and Community Services has been working to restore native vegetation in parks along Juanita Creek with previous WaterWorks grant funding. City staff and Adopt A Stream Foundation ecologists will engage with property owners along Juanita Creek near Windsor Vista Park and Edith Moulton Park, and a limited number of landscaping projects will be selected for implementation by the Washington Conservation Corps crews at no or little cost.

For more information about Kirkland’s efforts to restore natural areas in parks, visit www.greenkirkland.org. For more information about the Adopt A Stream Foundation, visit www.streamkeeper.org.

 

City of Kirkland’s Juanita Creek 2023 Report Card

Ref: Brice, Emma. Ecology proposes to fund 102 clean water projects across the state, Washington State Department of Ecology Blog, 5 February 2025.