New state mandate, protecting Puget Sound drive proposed Surface Water Management fee increase Under a new state mandate on cities and counties to do more to clean up stormwater, and with increasingly less revenue due to annexations in cities, King County is proposing an increase of $36 a year to its Surface Water Management fee for stormwater projects in unincorporated areas.
See returning salmon across Puget Sound this fall during ‘Salmon SEEson’ With the return of fall almost here, it's time for native salmon to begin their final journey home from the open ocean to where they were born - in the streams and rivers of King County and elsewhere along Puget Sound - and where they will spawn and die to continue the lifecycle.
