The Kitsap Public Health District’s Water Pollution Identification and Correction (PIC) program protects public health and prevents fecal pollution in Kitsap County surface waters.
Health District staff sample dozens of streams and swimming beaches across the county for fecal bacteria, an indicator of fecal pollution caused by human or animal waste. Fecal pollution can carry viruses and harmful bacteria that make people sick.
We use water sampling results to notify the public of potential health risks, and to find and fix fecal pollution problems. This helps keep our streams, swimming beaches and shellfish beds safe and healthy for the public to enjoy.
Read the 2023 WATER QUALITY MONITORING REPORT
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Previous water quality monitoring reports
- Water Quality Monitoring Report, 2022
- Water Quality Monitoring Report, 2021
- Water Quality Monitoring Report, 2020
- Water Quality Monitoring Report, 2019
- Water Quality Monitoring Report, 2018
- Water Quality Monitoring Report, 2017
- Water Quality Monitoring Report, 2016
- Annual Water Quality Priority Area Worklist
- EPA Shellfish Restoration & Protection Project, 2010-2014
Reports summarizing work on individual areas of improvement
- Bainbridge Island Report, 2008
- Barker Creek Watershed Restoration, 2007
- Burley & Lofall Creek Watersheds Final Report, 2017
- Dyes Inlet Restoration Project, 2009
- Enetai Creek Pollution Identification and Correction Project, 2009
- Upper Hood Canal Pollution Identification and Correction Project Final Report, 2008
- Hood Canal: A Public Health Approach to Low-Dissolved Oxygen, 2007
- Hood Canal Final Report, 2019
- Horseshoe Lake Water Quality Improvement Project, 2011
- Jump Off Joe Creek Restoration Project, 2011
- Kitsap Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination Project, 2011
- Liberty Bay Marina Study, 2010
- Liberty Bay Watershed Restoration Project Final Report, 2014
- Murden Fletcher Final Report, 2015
- Port Orchard Passage Restoration, 2013
- Sinclair Inlet Restoration Project Final Report, 2013
- Trend Monitoring Plan, Streams and Marine Water, 2010
Monitoring Plans
Archived Reports (1993-2006)
- Boat Waste-Water Quality Study, 2006
- Burley Watershed Prevention, 1998-2001
- Dogfish creek: City of Poulsbo Nonpoint Pollution Impacts to South Fork
- Dogfish creek: Restoration Project Final Report
- Gorst Area On-site Sewage System Sanitary Survey Project, 1995–1996
- Upper Hood Canal Restoration Project, 2005
- Hood Canal: Water Quality Analysis of Shoreline Discharges (Part 1)
- Kitsap Lake and Chico Creek Project, 2005
- Long Lake Area Sanitary Survey Project, 1998
- Port Gamble Bay/Gamblewood Sanitary Survey Project, 2001
- Shellfish Monitoring Data Summary, 1996-1998
- Tracyton Sanitary Survey Project, 1997
- Yukon Harbor Watershed Restoration Project, 2006
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