WET focuses on ensuring successful restoration projects, but what do we mean by restoration?
The Water Forum focuses our efforts on Nonpoint Source (NPS) pollution solutions. NPS pollution is caused by rainfall or snowmelt moving over and through the ground. As the runoff moves, it picks up and carries away natural and human-made pollutants, finally depositing them into rivers, lakes, wetlands, ground water and coastal waters.
There are 38 streams in the Bitterroot watershed that are considered impaired, usually by
sediment, temperature, and nutrients.