Celebration at the Confluence
There will be a festival event on Saturday, June 11th in Meadowbrook, the neighborhood just north of Wedgwood, where you can learn about the Thornton Creek Watershed.
Tag: Thornton Creek
Meadowbrook Update: The Work Continues
and 35th Ave NE is still closed to through-traffic. Read More …
The Road is CLOSED.
You’ll have to find another way to get to Fred Meyer. Read More …
The Confluence in 2014
Road closure expected soon: no through traffic on 35th Ave NE at NE 107th Street. Read More …
Extreme Makeover: Thornton Creek Addition
SPU is seeking feedback on designs to repair Thornton Creek and replace the culvert below 35th Ave NE near Meadowbrook Community Center. Read More …
City's RainWise Program Bringing Incentives to Residents to Create Rain Gardens
NE Seattle residents may receive rebates to install low impact stormwater management systems, such as rain gardens, on their property starting in 2012 to help reduce flooding, improve water quality, and sustain our aquifers. Read More …
Lots of Changes to Thornton Creek
NE Seattle has 1 of Seattle’s 4 salmon-bearing streams flowing through it, Thornton Creek. The stream, who’s headwaters is the Ronald Bog in Shoreline at N 175th Street, flows through a highly modified system that had been increasingly encroached upon by construction of I-5 and Seattle’s northward expansion, as it makes its way to its confluence with Lake Washington at Matthews Beach. However, its ever-encroached upon fate has been changing for Thornton Creek in the relatively recent. Many local groups (e.g,. Thornton Creek Alliance), regulatory agencies, and City departments have begun efforts to restore the stream and its hydrograph, improve Read More …