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Join the Crowd: RainWise Celebrates 1,000 Stewards! | King County Wastewater Treatment
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King County Wastewater Treatment. Join the Crowd: RainWise Celebrates 1,000 Stewards! October 11, 2016. The rainy season is upon us early in 2016, with blustery storms to remind us why our region needs to work so hard on managing the stormwater that washes across the region all winter long. Since 2011, the RainWise program. You can find out if you’re eligible to join. Every RainWise steward has a unique story to tell. Here are just a few of them:. Sooz and her family. Have two rain gardens, front and bac...
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Helping Communities Celebrate the Rain | King County Wastewater Treatment
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King County Wastewater Treatment. Helping Communities Celebrate the Rain. December 17, 2016. Our native plants are geared up for rain- but are we? Rain defines the Pacific Northwest. From fall to spring, rain fills streams, creeks and rivers that shrink during our dry summers. Rain transforms into mountain snow that melts and becomes our drinking water. Rain wakes our native evergreen trees from their summer sleep when winds sweep clouds inland from the ocean every fall. King County launched the WaterWor...
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What You Can’t See Makes All the Difference at North Beach | King County Wastewater Treatment
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King County Wastewater Treatment. What You Can’t See Makes All the Difference at North Beach. October 31, 2016. Project teams working at King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD). Begin community outreach on sewer projects with a conversation about something people can’t see: the wastewater treatment system. As long as everything’s working right, sewers are out of sight, out of mind. The “deepwater” outfall at North Beach. Outfall 48b, or the Beach Outfall. Once people realized that downpours cou...
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News | RAIN Community Solutions
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The Umbrella Stormwater Bulletin. Rain gardens blooming across North America. Oct 19, 2016. Photo: A mature rain garden in North Bay, Ontario (Source: http:/ www.raingardentour.ca/ontario.html. With all the benefits this simple green infrastructure provides it is no surprise a growing number of North American cities are supporting the installation of rain gardens. The City of Calgary has created three large demonstration. Since 1996, Maplewood has installed over 700 boulevard rain gardens maintained by h...
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East Ballard GreenStreet planned for construction in September | EBCA
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East Ballard Community Association. Where is East Ballard? 14th Ave NW Park. East Ballard GreenStreet planned for construction in September. Good things take time. Cari Simson’s team has been. Working to complete the. Project since 2013, when The Russell Family Foundation made a generous grant of $65,000 to Antioch University Seattle to launch the project. The goals are to site, design, permit, and build one block of voluntary roadside rain gardens along 11. Avenue NW at 58. The project’s progress will b...
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