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| City staff Roger Dane & Steve Fix bookend Tosh Creek, 8/30/2016 credit: Bob Yoder |
"Restoring Tosh Creek" Bob Yoder (great background on the creek.)
$6.5 Million Restoration, Redmond Reporter
Tosh Creek is a Type 2 Priority watershed destined for complete restoration. It's headwaters are Overlake neighborhood residential adjacent West Lake Sammamish Parkway. The creek runs through acres of undeveloped land (prime recharge area); it's mouth is the Lake Sammamish River. At the mouth the creek provides spawning and backwater for Coho Salmon rearing and cool water for Chinook.
The City's environmental biologist, Jessica Atlakson, presented to Council a Tosh Creek street- sweeping project that could remove copper toxins from vehicular tires. The specific toxin is "6ppdq." A $55,500 King County Waterworks grant would determine the effectiveness of street-sweeping on toxin removal. 3.54 miles of West Lake Sammamish will be swept beginning 10/22 until 9/24.
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