The Lower Hood Canal Watershed Coalition meeting scheduled for Monday, February 6, 2017 has been canceled due to weather.
The Hood Canal Regional Pollution Identification and Correction program will be the topic for the February 6, 2017 Lower Hood Canal Watershed Coalition meeting. Leslie Banigan, Clean Water Specialist, Kitsap Public Health District, will share results of Hood Canal water pollution sampling this past year and plans for 2017 to ensure that the waters of Hood Canal are fishable, dig-able and swimmable.
Leslie Banigan is a Registered Sanitarian with the National Environmental Health Association and a certified On-Site Wastewater Inspector with Washington State Department of Licensing. She is the Pollution Identification and Correction Program Coordinator at the Kitsap Public Health District and has been with the Health District’s Water Quality Program since 1996.
Leslie has worked on various Pollution Identification and Correction projects throughout Kitsap County including Port Gamble Bay and Burley Lagoon. Her efforts in Port Gamble Bay and Burley Lagoon were key in the identification and correction of fecal coliform pollution sources that eventually led to the upgrade/opening of commercial shellfish growing areas. She coordinates and manages the National Estuary Program grant for three counties and two tribes in the Hood Canal Regional Pollution Identification and Correction program.
The Lower Hood Canal Watershed Coalition meets from 6 to 8 PM on the first Monday evening of each month at the North Mason School District Administration Building and is open to all. The District offices have recently moved to 250 E Campus Drive, just across from the Hawkins Middle School gym.