Online tools & databases
This is the gateway to Ecology's many web-accessible databases and tools. These tools help you conduct business with us, and give you access to a wealth of scientific data and information.
Featured online tool
Water rights are a cornerstone of the public services and local industries we all depend on. Our updated map is used to explore water use and availability on individual properties and across the state, and link to water right records on our Water Rights Search Application.
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- Washington Air Quality Map – map of current air quality conditions from air monitoring stations that measure air pollution
Water & Shorelines
- Flood hazard maps – Do you live or work in a floodplain? Flood hazard maps help determine the flood risk to your home or business.
- Lake data map – See data, including toxic algae, from state lakes where we do monitoring.
- Public beaches (Coastal Atlas) – maps and information about public beaches in Washington
- Shoreline aerial photos – current and historical photos of coastal, sound and inland shorelines
- Swimming beach closures (Coastal Atlas) – maps and information about beach closures in and around Puget Sound and Washington's ocean beaches
- Water Quality Atlas – maps and information about the state's lakes, rivers, streams, and estuaries
- Well report viewer – information about the location, ownership, construction details, and lithology of completed wells
Waste & Toxics
- Consumer Products Database - Search for results from our consumer product testing.
- High Priority Chemicals Data System – Search for information about chemicals in children's products. No login required.
- Recycling services – information about recycling opportunities in your neighborhood
Cleanup & Spills
- Contaminated sites – We have a couple ways you can learn more about polluted properties we're cleaning up:
- What's In My Neighborhood – interactive mapping tool
- Cleanup and Tank Search – Search for cleanup sites and underground storage tanks by location, status, contaminant, or other features.
- Dirt Alert map – map of the general pattern of arsenic contamination from the Asarco Tacoma Smelter. You can also view information about other areas of arsenic contamination statewide.
- Spills map – interactive map showing the estimated crude oil movement by rail in Washington
Doing business with Ecology
- Ecology Administration of Grants and Loans (EAGL) map – See projects funded by Ecology grants and loans.
- State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) Register – SEPA and NEPA documents posted by Ecology since 2000
Public tools
- Air Permit Search – Find final Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permits and air operating permits (AOP).
- EcoEPay – We accept online payments for some permits and fees. Use this tool to make a payment.
- Facility/Site database – Access information about facilities and sites of interest to Ecology.
- Hazardous waste facilities in Washington search tool – Use this tool to access public records from regulated dangerous waste sites in Washington.
- Plastic producer registration and reporting – guidance to help producers comply with the Post-Consumer Recycled Content in Plastic Containers rule (Chapter 173-925 WAC)
- Washington Water Quality Assessment – 303(d) list – list of streams, lakes, and estuaries whose beneficial uses are impaired by pollutants
- Water quality permitting and reporting information system (PARIS) – information about water quality permits for municipalities, industries, dairies, fish-rearing facilities, stormwater, sand and gravel operations, and aquatic pesticides.
- Water Rights Search – Search records by: location, document/record number, name of the person the water right was issued to, or name of the claimant, if it is a water right claim.
Secure tools requiring log-in
- Advance Notice of Oil Transfer – Submit advance notice of transfer (ANT) to satisfy both Ecology and USCG reporting requirements for the advance notice of oil transfer.
- Air Quality Burn Permit System (AQBPS) – Apply for a burn permit online.
- Children’s Safe Products Act reporting database – login for manufacturers to submit required data
- Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs) – Facilities with an National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) or State Waste Discharge permit are required to monitor the discharge from their facilities and to submit reports to us about this discharge.
- E-Cycle electronic product recycling collector registration – Register as a collector to participate in E-cycle Washington.
- Solid waste facility forms – Access online reporting, as well as solid waste reporting forms, facility checklists, permit deferral applications and notifications.
- Water quality permitting portal (WQWebPortal) – Submit your discharge monitoring reports (DMR) online.
- Water use reporting – Review your metering account and submit your metering data.
- Well construction – information for well drillers to help with licensing and reporting
- Well Construction and Licensing – Submit a well report to our database.
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- Air quality monitoring — This map provides near real-time air quality information to protect health. It's used to determine if air quality meets health-based federal standards.
- Environmental Information Management (EIM) — Access discrete and time-series environmental data for air, water, soil, sediment, aquatic animals, and plants.
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data — Geographic Information System (GIS) data is information that links location to a wide range of environmental, social, and physical features. By combining maps with datasets, GIS makes it possible to visualize patterns, analyze relationships, and support informed decision‑making.
- Lake environmental data — Washington lake data includes: aquatic plants, toxic algae, herbicide use, and fish management
- Long-term marine water quality data — information from all saltwater sampling since 1989
- Marine sediment data — We measure levels of chemicals and toxicity, and identify invertebrates in Puget Sound sediments.
- Consumer Products Database — Search for results from our consumer product testing.
- Freshwater DataStream: Flow Monitoring Network — map-based application for continuous freshwater data, including nearly real-time information on streamflow and water quality
- Freshwater Information Network (FIN) — searchable river and stream data from Environmental Information Management (EIM)
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The following apps are available for download to your mobile device:
- Air Quality Washington – map of current air quality conditions from our air monitoring network that accurately measures air pollution and meteorology conditions around Washington
- Apple App Store: Air Quality Washington
- Google Play Store: Air Quality Washington
- Pump out, don't dump out – See the Puget Sound No Discharge Zone boundary. Find the closest pumpout, dump station, or restroom to any location.
- Apple App Store: Pumpout Nav
- Google Play Store: Pumpout Nav