Join Sno-King Watershed Council, in partnership with the City of Kenmore, for habitat restoration in Wallace Swamp Creek Park on Sunday, April 28 from 11 am – 2 pm! All ages welcome. Volunteers under 18, please contact us for a guardian consent form if you won’t bring a grown up […]
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We need your help! Consider making a donation today! Sno-King Watershed Council is appealing the Subject Planning and Development (PDS) decision to allow differences to be made to the Snow Ridge development site (permit #18*113924-SPA). The current plan is to install 26 residential units on 3.94 acres on 3101 and […]
BAD DEVELOPMENT HALTED On February 18, 2020 Snohomish County Hearing Examiner Peter Camp abruptly halted Sno-King Watershed Council’s (SKWC) appeal hearing of the Snow Ridge Development, to allow the developer time to re-design its project to address landslide hazards missed by Snohomish County in its approval of the project. Snow […]
Frognal Estates, formerly known as Horseman’s Trail, is a proposed single-family subdivision project for 112 lots. It is an assembly of three currently forested parcels totaling 22.34 acres in the Picnic Point neighborhood, an area between Mukilteo and Edmonds. SnoKing Watershed Council (SKCW) represented members in the Picnic Point Creek […]
The Sno-King Watershed Council just received a $10,000 grant from the Rose Foundation to implement a volunteer water monitoring program. The grant will fund equipment purchase, volunteer training, data collection and data sharing. Our intent is to inspire local citizen and student involvement, highlight stormwater and water quality issues affecting […]
Squire’s Landing Park Riparian Restoration A $70,000 SRFB grant was given to the Sno-King Watershed Council, partnering with the City of Kenmore and Adopt-A-Stream Foundation to initiate restoration of riparian forest habitat at the confluence of the Sammamish River and Swamp Creek. The long term goal of this effort is […]
There are a lot of watershed and salmon recovery groups in Puget Sound. Did you ever wonder what they all do, and how they inter-relate? Maybe only if you are already part of a group. This somewhat technical report from Puget Sound Partnership lays it all out. Follow the link […]
Stormwater Activism 101 How to Report Construction Stormwater Violations By: William Lider, PE, CESCL Construction Stormwater Runoff: Stormwater runoff from developed commercial and residential sites can carry pollutants that are harmful to our streams and the aquatic organisms that rely on clean water. But developments under construction can generate even […]
Rebecca Ponzio, Puget Sound Policy Specialist, Washington Environmental Council Long-term city planning doesn’t typically make front page news, but it is essential for thoughtful, integrated use of the landscape. The City of Burien is doing just that through a regional stormwater management system for the Northeast Redevelopment Area (NERA), an […]
Just learned about a great watershed organization, the Charles River Watershed Association in Boston. They are so successful that they are helping form a similar group in the Dominican Republic! click the link to learn more http://www.crwa.org/twinning.html