Puget Sound

Geographic Funding at Work on Puget Sound Recovery

Read our overview of EPA’s work to protect and restore water quality and ecological integrity in Puget Sound.
A Roadmap to Health

EPA helps fund the Puget Sound Partnership's Action Agenda for protecting and restoring Puget Sound. Read the Partnership's Action Agenda
How Healthy is the Salish Sea?

EPA and Environment and Climate Change Canada are studying the health of our shared ecosystem. Find out what we're learning in the Health of the Salish Sea Ecosystem Report.

Puget Sound in northwest Washington is the second largest estuary in the U.S. Learn more about what EPA and our partners are doing to protect it.

Funding

EPA receives money from Congress to help protect and restore Puget Sound.

Puget Sound is designated as one of 28 estuaries of national significance.

To learn more about projects supported by EPA's National Estuary Program, explore the Puget Sound Partnership's NEP Atlas.

Puget Sound is part of a larger marine ecosystem known as the Salish Sea.