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Category Archives: Thornton Creek
Lake Washington: Keeping It Clean
The greater-Seattle area is bounded by the saltwater Puget Sound and freshwater lakes including Lake Washington. In summertime, Seattle sparkles with water activities including boating, fishing and swimming. Over the past sixty years the greater-Seattle metropolitan water treatment program … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Seattle
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The Thornton Creek Watershed Restoration Project in Meadowbrook
A car in the ditch…. and then another and another. Over the past three years, residents of the Meadowbrook neighborhood in Seattle often noticed cars in the ditch on the north side of NE 110th Street nearest to the corner … Continue reading
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The Willow Creek Fish Passage Restoration Project in Meadowbrook
The Thornton Creek Watershed of northeast Seattle has two main branches, North and South. These branches converge at The Confluence in the Meadowbrook neighborhood at NE 107th Street, on the east side of 35th Ave NE across from Nathan Hale … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: Meadowbrook
Meadowbrook began as the name for the golf course which opened in 1932 on the former Fischer Farm property, present site of Nathan Hale High School on NE 110th Street. Gradually other entities, including real estate developers, adopted the Meadowbrook … Continue reading
The Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel at Northgate
Thornton Creek, with two main branches north and south, flows in a southeasterly direction through north Seattle to the creek’s outlet at NE 93rd Street (Matthews Beach) on Lake Washington. The North Branch originates in Shoreline, and the South Branch … Continue reading
Dorothy’s Thornton Creek Adventure
The Thornton Creek watershed extends eighteen miles through Shoreline and northeast Seattle, with its outlet into Lake Washington at about NE 93rd Street. The creek has two main branches, North and South, with many tributaries. Just as it is today … Continue reading
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Meadowbrook in Early Years
Where is “Meadowbrook” in Seattle? The Meadowbrook neighborhood in northeast Seattle derived its name from a golf course which was at the present site of Nathan Hale High School. This lowlands acreage with a creek running through it had once … Continue reading
Thornton Creek in 2016: Watershed Updates
Northeast Seattle’s Thornton Creek watershed has had major work done on it in recent years. How healthy is the water now?
Influence of the Confluence Celebration on Saturday, June 11, 2016
It has been a year since the major reconfiguration of the creek bed and flood plain of Thornton Creek at Meadowbrook. A festival event on Saturday, June 11th, sponsored by Thornton Creek Alliance, will offer education and info about the … Continue reading
The Road is OPEN!!!!!
Thornton Creek Confluence Project Construction Update: January 16, 2015 With the advantage of this week’s dry weather, the contractor was able to complete the remaining pieces of work in order to open 35th Ave NE. The road had been closed … Continue reading
Posted in Meadowbrook neighborhood, Thornton Creek
Tagged flood control project, Seattle, The Confluence
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