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As a surface water management utility, The District's Stormwater Management (SWM) program improves water quality, protects fish habitat and manages drainage by operating and maintaining the stormwater conveyance system, establishing design and construction standards, regulating activities that can impact the watershed and enhancing streams and floodplains. Clean Water Services is the regional SWM utility for urban Washington County. In cooperation with Washington County and the 12 member cities Clean Water Services maintains and enhances the public drainage system to meet public needs and to comply with strict water quality regulations set for the Tualatin River drainage area by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).<ref name=cons/>
Clean Water Services offers a classroom educational program called [https://web.archive.org/web/20100924184740/http://cleanwaterservices.org/Residents/ToolsAndTips/RiverRangers.aspx River Rangers] geared toward 4th-grade students.<ref>Sherman, Barbara. Durham students learn how to protect Tualatin Watershed. ''Tualatin Times'', December 5, 2005.</ref> Environmental educators interactively teach students about the [[water cycle]], watersheds, surface water pollution, water conservation and wastewater
==Tualatin River==
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