2025 Puget Sound Nutrient General Permit - Formal Public Comment Period on the Draft

Comment From: Teresa Peterson

8/27/25 @ 7:06 PM

Please see the attached for the City of Tacoma's comments on the Draft 2025 Puget Sound Nutrient General Permit.

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Comment From: Peter Steelquist

8/27/25 @ 5:22 PM

Please see the attached PDF comment letter on behalf of the Surfrider Foundation.

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Comment From: Corina Hayes

8/27/25 @ 3:57 PM

Pierce County Planning and Public Works - PSNGP comments

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Comment From: Jacque Klug

8/27/25 @ 3:54 PM

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Comment From: Stefanie Stockwell

8/27/25 @ 3:12 PM

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Comment From: Jeff Marrs

8/27/25 @ 3:08 PM

Please see attached for the City of Everett's comments on the 2025 Nutrient General Permit.

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Comment From: Chance Berthiaume

8/27/25 @ 3:05 PM

Please see the attached PDF for complete comments.

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Comment From: Justin Parker

8/27/25 @ 2:58 PM

Good afternoon,

Attached is a letter from Justin Parker, NWIFC Executive Director, to Casey Sixkiller, Washington Department of Ecology Director, regarding Comments on Draft Puget Sound Nutrient Reduction Plan & Nutrient General Permit.

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Comment From: Justin Parker

8/27/25 @ 2:55 PM

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Comment From: Lummi Nation Anonymous

8/27/25 @ 2:47 PM

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Comment From: Jane Steadman

8/27/25 @ 1:40 PM

Please accept the attached comments on the Puget Sound Nutrient Reduction Draft Plan and 2025 Puget Sound Nutrient General Permit (and the eight attachments thereto), which are submitted on behalf of the Suquamish Indian Tribe. Thank you for your con...↓

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Comment From: Nick Martin

8/27/25 @ 1:08 PM

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Comment From: Josiah Hartom

8/27/25 @ 11:33 AM

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Comment From: Kip Summers

8/27/25 @ 10:43 AM

The LOTT Clean Water Alliance (LOTT) is supportive of the Puget Sound Nutrient General Permit (PSNGP) and Ecology's efforts to reduce nutrient discharges across Puget Sound. These discharges impact both Sound-wide water quality and local Budd Inlet d...↓

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Comment From: Erica Marbet

8/26/25 @ 2:03 PM

Please find attached comments from the Squaxin Island Tribe on the 2025 Puget Sound Nutrient General Permit, along with two of our comment letters from 2021.

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Comment From: Steve Bradshaw

8/26/25 @ 11:45 AM

Please see attached file for City of Bellingham comments.

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Comment From: Daniela Escontrela Dieguez

8/26/25 @ 9:55 AM

I am submitting comment in regard to the Department of Ecology's draft Puget Sound Nutrient Permit. As it stands, this draft permit would allow treatment plants to release too much nitrogen into Puget Sound, close to their worst levels in the past fi...↓

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Comment From: Darin Janda

8/26/25 @ 8:12 AM

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Comment From: Russell Parks

8/26/25 @ 2:09 AM

The levels of allowable contaminants are high, and we would all be better off if they were lowered.

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Comment From: Daniel Grey

8/25/25 @ 5:43 PM

For 25 years I have adopted a street in University Place to remove litter before it winds up in the storm drains and in the Puget Sound. As an individual I can only make a small difference to preserve our maritime ecosystem. Limiting emissions of unh...↓

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Comment From: Morgan Brownlee

8/25/25 @ 5:10 PM

I am writing you in regards to the Department of Ecology's draft Puget Sound Nutrient Permit. It does not safe guard against nitrogen pollution into the sound. Wastewater plants would be allowed to continue releasing nitrogen close to
their highest ...↓

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Comment From: Glenn ROLLINS

8/25/25 @ 4:56 PM

Dear Sir or Madam,
Defend and keep your first rules. Better yet make them more strict. Use the data and science to support your position. DO NOT FOLD TO THE POLITICS. This is not the time to be soft on water treatment facilities. All life of the Pug...↓

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Comment From: Janette Brimmer

8/25/25 @ 1:21 PM

Please see attached comments submitted by Janette K. Brimmer and Jaimini Parekh, Earthjustice, on behalf of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, regarding Draft Revised Puget Sound Nutrient General Permit for Wastewater Treatment Plant Discharges.

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Comment From: Lincoln Loehr

8/25/25 @ 12:40 PM

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Comment From: Tracy Faulkner

8/25/25 @ 11:32 AM

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Comment From: Mindy Roberts

8/22/25 @ 1:23 PM

Please see attached comments from Sierra Club, Seattle Aquarium, Friends of the San Juans, Washington Conservation Action, RE Sources, and Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team.

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Comment From: Mindy Roberts

8/22/25 @ 12:50 PM

WCA reinforces 2021 comments attached. Note that we changed our name from Washington Environmental Council.

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Comment From: Mindy Roberts

8/22/25 @ 12:48 PM

Please see attached letter from Washington Conservation Action.

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Comment From: Tara Galuska

8/21/25 @ 4:03 PM

Former Governor Jay Inslee created a Southern Resident Orca Task Force by Executive Order in 2018. A Southern Resident Orca Task Force Final Report and Recommendations (https://www.orca.wa.gov/wp-content/uploads/TaskForceFinalReport-2019.pdf) was pub...↓lished in 2019 with 49 recommendations to recover the endangered Southern Resident killer whales. The Department of Ecology's 2019 Salish Sea modelling report found that human nutrient sources is contributing to low dissolved oxygen in many sensitive areas of Puget Sound resulting in low oxygen levels that prevent marine life from thriving and impacting the foundation of the marine food web. Southern Resident killer whales rely on a diet of primarily salmon, so they are impacted by disruptions in water quality and the food web in Salish sea.
The following three orca task force recommendations were derived through work at the Puget Sound Nutrient Reduction forum, and Appendix 4 of the task force report provides additional information on the impacts of human sources of nutrients to marine water quality.
Recommendation 39: Develop a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit framework for advanced wastewater treatment in Puget Sound to reduce nutrients in wastewater discharges to Puget Sound by 2022.
Recommendation 40: Better align existing nonpoint programs with nutrient reduction activities and explore new ways to achieve the necessary nonpoint source nutrient reductions.
Recommendation 41: Collect high-quality nutrient data in watersheds to fill key knowledge gaps of baseline conditions.
As Orca Recovery Coordinator in the Governor's Salmon Recovery Office, I am pleased to see the nutrient general permit come to fruition. Discharges from wastewater treatment plants represent more than fifty percent of the human sources of nutrients into Puget Sound. Climate change is warming waters and reducing circulation. The addition of excess nutrients contributes to and exacerbates the problem of reduced dissolved oxygen. It is imperative that the nutrient load into Puget Sound is managed and reduced so that the marine ecosystem can thrive to a healthy condition and be resilient in the face of climate change. Ecology's response to the task force recommendations is commendable and Washingtonian's and orcas will benefit from cleaner water. The nutrient general permit will contribute to the opportunity for the Southern Resident killer whale population to be more resilient by improving water quality and the food web.

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Comment From: John Bowman

8/15/25 @ 8:00 AM

Please see the uploaded file for Lakehaven Water and Sewer District comments on the Draft Puget Sound Nutrient General Permit.

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Comment From: Sandi McMillan

7/31/25 @ 9:42 AM

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Comment From: heidi ahlstrand

7/19/25 @ 7:44 AM

save the sound

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Comment From: David Troutt

7/15/25 @ 12:37 PM

See attached file.

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Comment From: Tim Berge

7/07/25 @ 9:46 AM

Below is text from an email exchange referring to Salmon Creek WWTP's action level, TIN lbs/year. Individual NPDES permit # WA0022772.

Southwest Suburban Sewer district respectfully requests a review of the means and methods that set our action le...↓

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Comment From: Tom Giese

7/03/25 @ 2:10 PM

Ecology has stated that grant money will be available for nutrient reduction efforts, as had been offered under the original general permit. Previously, all dischargers to the sound that received grant money were covered under the general permit. W...↓

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Comment From: Derek Benedict

6/22/25 @ 7:52 PM

As a lifelong WA State resident for seven decades, I TRULY hope that our government officials will slow things down -- and reverse the eco-enviro damage that is threatening our quality of life in the Evergreen State!

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Comment From: priscilla martinez

6/18/25 @ 8:44 PM

We need to take better care of what is left of our environment, for wildlife, marine life, plant life, and people.

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Comment From: Kate Butt

6/18/25 @ 1:36 PM

I am a 76 year old resident of the Puget Sound area, born in Tacoma in 1948. I have witness first hand the devastating effects of nitrogen run off in both fresh and salt water. Lakes have disappeared. Sea life has been impacted. Please see that the E...↓

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