Research snapshot · Water · 31 August 2026

Stormwater management in Washington: 6 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Already a well-mapped Known topic. NPDES and water resource management merged in.Our definition of the class, 29 August 2026.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 8 dated municipal records flagged as stormwater management in Washington, spanning 6 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Lake Stevens, 6 December 2022. Since then 6 Washington towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Moses Lake on 10 March 2026.

The last 90 days put 0 meetings on the record, well down from 3 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: City Council, Town Council and Legislature — 2025-2026.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202500
Dec 2025 to Feb 202622
Mar 2026 to May 202631
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)00

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Mar 2026 to May 2026, with 3 meetings.

The towns on the record6, earliest first

Every Washington town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Lake Stevensearliest 2022-12-06 · 1 meeting · latest 2022-12-06 · the minutes 12-6-22 CC Special Meeting Minutes
Covingtonearliest 2024-01-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-01-01 · the document 2022 2042%20PROS%20Plan%20AppendicesvFinal%20LINKED
Bothellearliest 2024-11-20 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-11-20 · the document 2021 Storm and Surface Water Master Plan Update PDF
State of WAearliest 2026-01-12 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-01-12 · the document SB5712: Establishing a presumption of compliance for entities covered under the state’s industrial stormwater general pe
Bremertonearliest 2026-03-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-03-01 · a report March 2026 Monthly Budget Status Report (PDF)
Moses Lakeearliest 2026-03-10 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-05-12 · the agenda City Council Regular Meeting

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

12 May 2026 · Moses Lake City Council Meetings

the agenda, on the town's own site City Council Regular Meeting

1 March 2026 · Bremerton Monthly Financial Status Reports

a report, on the town's own site March 2026 Monthly Budget Status Report (PDF)

12 January 2026 · State of WA Legislature — 2025-2026 Regular Session

the document, on the town's own site SB5712: Establishing a presumption of compliance for entities covered under the state’s industrial stormwater general pe

20 November 2024 · Bothell Document Center / Community Development

the document, on the town's own site 2021 Storm and Surface Water Master Plan Update PDF

Companies on this record21 companies, 7 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
Col. Basin Resource CenterMoses Lake
Domestic Abuse Women’s NetworkCovington
Fulcrum Strategy GroupMoses Lake
Gordon Thomas Honeywell LLPMoses Lake
Homeowner Associations (HOAs)Covington
Lake Stevens Food BankLake Stevens
LKQ CorporationMoses Lake
MLUDCMoses Lake
Mobile Outreach and Transp. ServicesMoses Lake
North Jenkins Creek TributaryCovington
ParametrixBothell
Puget Paving & Construction, Inc.Covington
SalmonscapeCovington
Surf N’ SlideMoses Lake
Surface Water Coordinator AndersonLake Stevens
Surface Water Manager FarrantLake Stevens
U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyBothell
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)Covington
WDFWCovington
WSDOTMoses Lake
WTSAMoses Lake

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 109 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Also at this scope: Stormwater management across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Stormwater management, Washington

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Washington

every topic this state carries

Area

Water

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

6

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

6 December 2022

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

0 against 3 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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