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PUGET SOUND WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN
Citation:
PUGET SOUND WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 2000.
Description:
The goal of the Puget Sound Management Plan is to restore and protect the biological health and diversity of Puget Sound by: preserving and restoring wetlands and aquatic habitats and the nat-ural processes and functions that created them; preventing increases in the introduction of pollutants to the Soundand its watersheds; and reducing and ultimately eliminating harm from the entry of pollutants to the waters, sediments and shorelines of Puget Sound. The management plan's emphasis on prevention recognizes that it will cost us far more to clean up pollution later than to prevent it now. The management plan recognizes that we all share responsibility for the Puget Sound region and that fish, wildlife, water and pollutants cross jurisdictionalines. It establishes a framework based on a partnership among levels of government, each having a defined set of responsibilities in different actions of federal, state, local and tribal governments, the private sector and citizens.