Author Archives

We protect, restore, and manage King County's water and land using the best available science, innovation, and through collaboration with our partners and the community.

• The Point Williams Buoy

  By KC Water and Land Resources Division on April 3, 2018

  

  Watch a video of the SoundGuardian crew deploying and anchoring a water quality buoy in Puget Sound at Point Williams, off Lincoln Park in West Seattle.

• King County visits the Enumclaw iSTEM Expo

  By KC Water and Land Resources Division on February 8, 2018

  

  King County will show some of the ways math and science skills apply to jobs in the environment, on Feb. 8 at the Enumclaw Schools Foundation iSTEM Expo, 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Enumclaw Expo Center.

• Beaver Management in King County

  By KC Water and Land Resources Division on October 20, 2017

  

  This year, King County kicked off a Beaver Management Program to help beavers remain in our landscape and provide their ecological benefits while not negatively impacting private property and critical infrastructure.

• Echo Lake Stormwater Study

  By KC Water and Land Resources Division on October 19, 2017

  

  King County recently did a study to see how effective bioretention planter boxes remained three years after construction.

• Modeling Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Precipitation, Stormwater Design Requirements, and Wastewater Conveyance

  By KC Water and Land Resources Division on October 19, 2017

  

  Preliminary modeling results show about 20 to 40 percent more rain will fall during each year’s heaviest hour of rainfall by the end of this century.

• New Fish Resource Monitoring Program

  By KC Water and Land Resources Division on October 19, 2017

  

  A new King County Fish Resources Monitoring Program will track, and drive improvement, of the overall effectiveness of ongoing strategies to conserve fish resources.

• King County Summer Youth Program Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership Field Days

  By KC Water and Land Resources Division on October 7, 2017

  The Summer Youth program provides approximately 15 students the opportunity to learn about watershed management, water quality, local conservation and stewardship activities and careers in environmental fields.

• Salmon spawning at Rainbow Bend

  By KC Water and Land Resources Division on October 5, 2017

  

  This two-minute video contains underwater footage of sockeye salmon and Chinook salmon using a constructed channel at the Rainbow Bend Levee Removal and Floodplain Restoration Project on the Cedar River.