Everyone in Kitsap County, Wash., lives in some watershed that drains to Puget Sound. Because the 393-square-mile area looks pristine, the county’s Surface and Stormwater Management Program (SSMP) team found it difficult to convince residents that there were water-quality challenges.Consequently, the team developed approaches with visual and physical benefits. “If people can swim in our waters, eat the shellfish, and watch salmon returning to our streams, then they have hard evidence that our individual actions, combined with those of our neighbors, can affect our watershed’s health and that of Puget Sound,” says Theresa Thurlow, senior program manager of SSMP in
