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• Saving SoundGuardian

  By KC WLR on December 4, 2018

  

  “I got a call from Ben Budka, the Lab’s Field Science Unit Supervisor and Trouble Call Coordinator, at about 9 p.m. Saturday night” said Diane McElhaney, Environmental Lab Manager. “He said, ‘It doesn’t look good. Bob and I are going to try to save SoundGuardian.’”

• Executive meets with employees working in science at latest Listening Session

  By KC WLR on August 29, 2018

  Reposted from KC Employee News Jason Argo / 2 hours ago August 29, 2018 King County has hundreds of employees working in the sciences on some of our region’s biggest challenges, from protecting fish habitat to helping people manage and… Read More ›

• Stormwater mapping: A glimpse into the world of tracking where the rain goes

  By KC WLR on May 29, 2018

  

  Over the course of this short-term project, the crew of 16 assessed nearly 27,000 stormwater structures in King County.

• The Point Williams Buoy

  By KC WLR 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 WLR 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 WLR 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 WLR 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 WLR 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.

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