Oil seep now contained on Bellingham waterfront

---Dustin Terpening, communication manager, Bellingham Field Office---


For the past year there was a small portion of shoreline on the Bellingham waterfront where oil was seeping into Bellingham Bay.





That was until last week, anyway, when crews completed a project to contain the seep.



We worked with the city of Bellingham to develop a project that would temporarily contain the oil seep

Around the Sound: Derelict vessels in spotlight

By Seth Preston, Communications Manager, Toxics Cleanup Program

Boats abandoned around Puget Sound and
in other Washington waterways pose significant environmental risks and possibly some big cleanup bills for taxpayers.

TVW’s “The Impact” program
took a look this week at the problems that derelict vessels can cause. The
report begins at about the 5:25 mark.

In the past two years, Ecology’s