Portage
Bay Projects
 Education
and Community Involvement
- Stream Team - This community-based, grass-roots effort
to educate people, monitor the water quality of Bertrand Creek
and get restoration projects started, has been a great forum to
educate people on the environmental problems affecting the entire
Nooksack watershed. The team has had several training sessions
and is now ready to get going on water quality sampling and on-the-ground
restoration projects. Projects like this will help to improve
upstream reaches in the Portage Bay Shellfish Protection District,
with the ultimate effect hopefully being improved water quality
and wildlife habitat throughout the entire watershed, including
the waters over the shellfish beds in Portage Bay. For more info
on this program go to www.whatcomcd.org.
- Quarterly Reports to DOH - Until the closure was lifted in 2006, the shellfish district submitted quarterly summaries of activities to illustrate to the state Department of Health
what efforts were happening to help improve water quality.
Addressing pollution issues is a dynamic process. Problems are
identified, strategies developed, actions taken and then new potential
sources identified, etc. In May 2001, a comprehensive report, Whatcom
County Shellfish Protection Districts Update of the Implementation
Strategies for Drayton Harbor and Portage Bay, was produced that
addressed the accomplishments of the two districts in Whatcom County.
On-site Septic Systems
Municipal Sewer Systems
Agricultural Practices
Stormwater Runoff
Education and Community Involvement
Data Management/Water Quality Monitoring
Reports
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