Monitoring of shellfish safety is a critical function of the Office of Shellfish and Water Protection of the Washington State Department of Health (DOH). The shellfish toxicity surveillance program was initiated by the DOH in the early 1930s as a collaboration between DOH and the George Williams...
and operating factors were given scores based on the following sections: storage-zone confinement, storage-zone transmissivity, storage zone gradient and direction, recharge water quality, native groundwater quality, overall physical, geochemical, and design interactions, and interfering uses and impacts....
right”. Adoption of the 1945 Groundwater Code provided statutes to regulate and appropriate public groundwater within the state, based on a priority system; however, priority is given to surface water right holders when their water right is considered hydraulically connected to groundwater sources ...