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Stormwater Awareness Week continues, and today’s post might be the most important of all! Today we’re talking about specific actions YOU can take at home to make sure water quality stays healthy to help protect all the life we share our…
Happy Stormwater Awareness Week! What is stormwater? Stormwater is just another word for the rainwater that falls on our cities. The storm drains on our streets are connected to a network of pipes that carry rainwater to the nearest creek,…
It can be tempting to forget about the outdoors in the winter, especially when we have cold temperatures like we’ve had the past week! However, doing just a little work in the garden in the winter months can reap serious…
At the end of each summer, staff from the Public Works Department put on their rubber boots and head out to local creeks to collect samples of stream bugs. The scientific term for these creatures is “benthic macroinvertebrates” (benthic =…
Petunia’s Journey – A Kirkland Stormwater System Tale With all our winter rainstorms, you can’t help but notice water running everywhere – off roofs, across lawns and sidewalks, down driveways and the edges roads. All that rain flows into stormwater…
From the peaks of the Cascade Mountains, to the shores of Lake Washington, and all the way to Seattle’s waterfront, we all live in the Puget Sound watershed. It’s a long journey for a drop of water, but the raindrops…
We see them every day on the road while driving to work, while parking the car at the grocery store and just about everywhere else that a vehicle with four wheels can possibly go: rainbow-colored stains on the pavement formed…