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Success Stories Under the Clean Water Act Section 319 Program (Nonpoint Source Pollution Management)

Alaska

Swan Lake & Wrinkleneck Creek: Community Watershed Cleanups, Stormwater Controls, and Lake Dredging Improve Water Quality and Recreation Uses
Restoration Work on the Kenai: Section 319 Funds Are Key to Youth Restoration Corps's Success
Road and Stream Crossing Project in Tongass National Forest: New Data Help Identify Needed Fish Habitat Restoration
Alaska Piggybacks Environmental Projects: A Manual for Stream Crossings Provides Fish Habitat Improvements
Water Watch Develops Environmental Stewardship Partners

Idaho

Cascade Reservoir: Forestry, Agricultural and Stormwater Best Management Practices Improve Quality of Reservoir
Conservation in Hatwai Creek: Partners Work Together on Four Successful Projects
Restoring the Paradise Creek Watershed: Phased Approach Implemented to Address Pollution and Flooding
Streambank Stabilization in the Thomas Fork Watershed: Photo Monitoring Sells Landowners on Bank Stabilization
Protecting Bear Lake: The Thomas Fork Stream Channel Project & Paradise Creek Restoration: Trout Return, Citizens Learn
Project WET--A Formula for Action

Oregon

Diamond Lake: Eradication of Invasive Species Restores Lake Water Quality
Tillamook Bay - Fish Friendly Tide Gates Increase Tidal Fish Habitat in Blind Slough
Dawson Wetland Restoration Project: Landowners and Wetlands Both Win and Wet Meadow Restoration in the Upper Grande Ronde Basin: Channel Restoration Brings Cooler Waters
South Myrtle Creek Ditch Project: Removal of Dam Benefits Aquatic Life
Coos Coquille Watershed: Haynes Inlet Project Allows Shellfish Beds to Reopen & Tualatin River Vastly Improved: TDMLs and Section 319 included in Basinwide Initiatives
Nitrate Concentrations Foster Grassroots Actions

Washington

Dungeness River (Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe): Tributary Achieves Bacteria Target Levels at Several Monitoring Sites
Lower Yakima River: Changes in Irrigation Practices Reduce Turbidity
Nooksack River (Lummi Nation): Water Quality Improvements Benefit Portage Bay Shellfish
Best Management Practices on Model Horse Farms: Farm Plan Management Reduces Nutrients and Sediment
A Moo-ving Approach to Dairy Waste Management: Fecal Coliform Pollution Reduced in Whatcom County
Sediment Reduction in Yakima River Basin: People Become Stewards of Their Own Watershed
Irrigation Best Management Practices in the Moxee Drain: The Yakima River Basin Water Quality Plan & Sediment Control in the Skagit and Stillaguamish River Basins: A Pilot Project
Consensus and Cooperation Protect Forest Resources
Stream Restoration Uses Holistic Methods (Colville Tribe)

Pollutants Decrease Rapidly in Watersheds in Oregon, Idaho and Washington Due to TMDL Development (PDF) (7 pp. 3.1MB)
Phosphorus Levels Declining in Tualatin River Basin in Oregon (PDF) (1 pp. 65K)
Map Illustrating Phosphorus Reductions (PDF) (1 pp. 196K) (courtesy of Clean Water Services)
An Explanation on Phosporus and its Impact on the Environment (PDF) (1 pp. 11K)
Other Governmental Agencies Provide Extensive Data and Expertise to Development of Water Clean Up Plan in Oregon's Little River Watershed (PDF) (1 pp. 65K)

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