VIDEOS
- Toxic Runoff, Combined Sewer Overflow Pipes in Puget Sound – Local Diver Laura James captures the destructiveness of toxic runoff in this powerful 4-minute video (shown above)
- PBS Documentary “Poisoned Waters”
- Building a Rain Garden in the Pacific Northwest: 30 minute video by WSU Extension and Pacific Northwest Regional Water Program
- Lost and Sound: 30 minute video, educational resource made for schools that provides a good overview of stormwater pollution
- Dog Doogity: Hysterical 2:30 min video – rap song about picking up dog poop
WEBSITES
- Puget Sound Starts Here – and introduction to the problem from the Puget Sound Partnership
- Sightline Institute: Curbing Stormwater Pollution
- Sightline Institute: Stormwater Solutions: Curbing Toxic Runoff Blog
- Seattle Public Utilities: Learn about the City of Seattle’s Innovative Natural Drainage Projects
- King County: The Science of Stormwater
- King County: Learn more about natural drainage systems
- People for Puget Sound: Rain Gardens Work!
- People for Puget Sound: I Am a Rain Garden Hero!
- Soundkeeper Alliance: Clean Water Enforcement
- SeedRain.Org: Invasive Species Resource
- Stewardship Partners: 12,000 Rain Gardens in Puget Sound
- Sustainable Seattle: Sustainable Rain Program
- Washington State University Extension: Rain Gardens
- Department of Health Shellfish information page