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According to Puget Sound Energy, which serves approximately 1.2 million electric and over 900,000 natural gas customers in the Puget Sound area, as of 11:59 p.m. local time Wednesday, they have ...
Puget Sound's shoreline is 1,332 miles (2,144 km) long, encompassing a water area of 1,020 square miles (2,600 km 2) and a total volume of 26.5 cubic miles (110 km 3) at mean high water. The average volume of water flowing in and out of Puget Sound during each tide is 1.26 cubic miles (5.3 km 3).
The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas carved out by ...
South Basin (lightest blue) marked on a map of Puget Sound Olympia at the southern end of Budd Inlet. South Puget Sound is the southern reaches of Puget Sound in Southwest Washington, in the United States' Pacific Northwest. It is one of five major basins encompassing the entire Sound, and the shallowest basin, with a mean depth of 37 meters ...
Commencement Bay is a bay of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. The city of Tacoma is located on the bay, with the Port of Tacoma occupying the southeastern end. A line drawn from Point Defiance in the southwest to Browns Point in the northeast serves to mark the generally accepted division between the bay and the open sound ...
Oakland Bay seen from the juncture with Hammersley Inlet, looking north. Oakland Bay is a tidal estuarial body of water near the city of Shelton, Washington.It is connected to the larger Puget Sound via Hammersley Inlet.
Puget prairie, also known as South Sound prairie or South Puget Sound prairie, is an endangered type of prairie found along the southern coast of the Puget Sound in northwestern Washington, in the United States. It is home to many endemic species, and is threatened greatly, with under 10% of the native prairie remaining. [1]
The Colvos Passage is a tidal strait within Puget Sound in the American state of Washington running west of Vashon Island between the island and the Kitsap Peninsula. It lies just north of the Dalco Passage. Colvos Passage has a permanent predominantly northbound current, in contrast to the rest of Puget Sound which varies with the tide.