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Creek Restoration
Thornton Creek
Creek Restoration projects the Thornton Creek watershed are:
1. Increasing storm water detention on the Jackson Park Golf Course;
2. Restoring several sites along Thornton Creek and planting native vegetation;
3. Building a Thornton Creek Watershed Environmental Learning Center. This will provide kids and adults with information about sustainable building, composting, wildlife habitat and more.
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4. A fish ladder with a series of cascading weirs was completed in fall 2002, tripling the amount of good spawning habitat accessible to migrating salmon in the south branch of Thornton Creek.
Thornton Creek facts:
- • Located in northeast Seattle
- • Drains 7,322 acres, or 11 square miles
- • Runs through some of the most developed areas in the Puget Sound region
- • Home to Northgate Mall, America’s first and oldest shopping mall
- • 187,000 or more cars pass through the watershed on Interstate 5 every day
- • 67,000 people live, and thousands of others work, within the watershed
- • 700 backyards and 15 parks border the creek
- • Salmon return from Puget Sound, through the ship canal and into Lake Washington
- • Blue heron, bald eagle and Pacific Chorus frogs can be seen in the watershed
Related links
Be a Creek Steward
Links to other sites
Thornton Creek Alliance: sponsors creek clean-ups and other events
Homewaters Project
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