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Category Archives: Thornton Creek
Meadowbrook Update: September 2014
The rain and cooler temperatures of the week of September 21 to 27, 2014, were a signal to fish, that it is almost time for them to swim upstream! The summer dry-season is over, and in-water work at The Confluence … Continue reading
Twentieth Anniversary Celebration: Thornton Creek Alliance
Thornton Creek Alliance (TCA) is an all-volunteer organization whose goal is to benefit the watershed by encouraging individuals, groups, schools, businesses, and government to work together in addressing the environmental restoration of the creek system. It has been twenty years … Continue reading
Posted in Neighborhood features, Thornton Creek
Tagged environmentalism, Seattle, Thornton Creek Alliance, watershed
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August 2014 Update: Construction on the Creek
In the Summer of 2014 work is continuing on improvements at The Confluence, the joining-place of the north and south branches of Thornton Creek on 35th Ave NE at NE 107th Street. The two branches flow into Meadowbrook Pond, a … Continue reading
The Confluence in 2014
Road closure update: As of June 2nd, 2014, 35th Ave NE is CLOSED at NE 107th Street. Summer construction work will be done to enlarge the creek bed of the South Fork of Thornton Creek and put in new, much … Continue reading
Meadowbrook Pond Autumn 2013 Re-opening
Meadowbrook Pond is located east of 35th Ave NE at about NE 107th Street, its entrance framed by the flame ash street trees which line the arterial. The pond is part of a low-lying flat area called the Confluence because … Continue reading
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The Thornton Creek Confluence at Meadowbrook Pond
The Thornton Creek Watershed is a system of big and small streams which drain the region of northeast Seattle, with the final outflow into Lake Washington at Matthews Beach, at about NE 93rd Street. The watershed has two main branches, … Continue reading
Posted in Meadowbrook neighborhood, Thornton Creek
Tagged Meadowbrook Pond, Seattle, stream names, The Confluence, watershed map
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John Thornton of Early Washington Territory
In the Meadowbrook neighborhood of northeast Seattle, the North and South Forks of the Thornton Creek system come to a convergence point on 35th Ave NE at NE 107th Street. Since the 1990s intensive work has gone into this site, … Continue reading
Wedgwood in Seattle History 