For the last decade, the state has developed a plan and budget every two years that specifies the actions that state agencies will take to protect and restore Puget Sound . This page is dedicated to those plans that came before 2007. Listed here are all those available electronically.

The most recent plans (2007-2009 and 2005-2007) were called Puget Sound Conservation and Recovery Plans. Before that, they were called Puget Sound Water Quality Work Plans.  

Regardless of the name change, each was a detailed work plan with very specific results that carried out key elements of the comprehensive, long-term plan for Puget Sound called the Puget Sound Water Quality Management Plan  (management plan), last updated in 2000.  

2005-2007 Puget Sound Conservation and Recovery Plan

The 2005-2007 Puget Sound Conservation and Recovery Plan covers goals, strategies, funding and specific measurable results for recovering and conserving Puget Sound .  

The two-year plan is organized around seven core environmental priorities to protect and sustain Puget Sound . Action Team partners worked together in a multi-agency, coordinated effort to track the progress of results and make course corrections as needed to deliver the measurable results for each priority. The plan represented $182 million in funding.

The 2005-2007 plan and related documents

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2003-2005 Puget Sound Water Quality Work Plan

The 2003-2005 Puget Sound Water Quality Work Plan included a budget approved by the Legislature for state agency actions for Puget Sound within a larger framework of state, federal, local and tribal programs, as well as academic and private efforts.  

By looking across this framework and identifying actions linking, coordinating and leveraging programs, the plan reduced duplication and filled gaps in the broader effort to protect and restore the Sound. The two-year budget included $27.8 million in state and federal funding, a decrease from the $29.6 million allocated in the 2001-2003 biennium.  

The 2003-2005 plan and related documents

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2001-2003 Puget Sound Water Quality Work Plan

The 2001-2003 work plan contains actions that continue to carry out important programs in the management plan, including monitoring and research, agriculture and forestry, spills, municipal and industrial discharges, and contaminated sediments and dredging. The work plan also includes ongoing agency actions that are essential to hold the line on our current successes. The two-year budget for state agencies was $86.7 million.  

>> Read the 2007-2009 Puget Sound Conservation and Recovery Plan.

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