The Story of the Meadowdale Beach & Estuary Restoration Project (Full HD)

[@jenn976]

How great to know of this restoration. I love this park, its trail, and getting out to the beach. Wonderful to know that the salmon came back right away. To me, that’s the best sign. Congrats to everyone involved and to all of us users.

[@ms.burton7075]

What a tremendous achievement! I used to walk to this beach from Haines Wharf and climb through the culvert when we were kids in the 1970's. I'm thrilled to see the stream and estuary restored with the park's habitat intact adding to the health of the stream. This feels like a mini Elwha River restoration. Kudos to all who contributed to this. Fabulous!

[@geovaneparanayba]

Beautiful project! Thanks to all the ones involved in it! 🎉🎉🎉

[@stephanierenando7305]

What an amazing project and even better is that it's in my own back yard! I'm excited for our community and looking forward to checking it out!

[@thomassmestead9905]

I used to catch and release sea run cutthroat trout in the creek at meadowdale park in the 1980's. Improving the runoff problems ought to do a lot for salmon and trout in that creek.

[@StereoSpace]

Geologist-civil engineer Dr David Rogers teaches a geotechnical engineering course. He recommends always clear-spanning a stream channel when possible. Any time you constrict a channel you artificially increase water velocity, especially during high-flow events like storms, which erodes the channel bed, down cuts, increases sediment load and erosion downstream, and destabilizes the stream system. It also impacts the biological equilibrium by disconnecting sections of the stream system from each other. It's just bad practice all around. The problem is, construction projects are often awarded on a low bidder basis, which means installing a pipe to channel the water under the road bed. Cheap to build, but it causes myriad long term problems. An obvious fix is to require clear-spanning stream channels in the project description documents.

[@briansullivan7398]

This is a nice park that Ive enjoyed over the years. It's good to see a nice job done. Howerver, until overpopulation of Sea Lion's & Loss of Kelp in Puget Sound are addressed Salmon have no chance to recover and this effort is wasted. At what cost did this happen ( 10 years....), and what will it continue to cost monitoring this project? There was a judgment against the State that forced the State of Washington to spend huge amounts tax payers money since the State did not comply with the agreement in past to maintain salmon passages and ladders. A recemt recent replacment of a Salmon ladder just took place in Woodinville leading to the Snoqualmie river. This done despite the mass of sedement that was not addressed above or below the new ladder that will suffocate salmonid eggs.

[@princessofthecape2078]

Your tax dollars wasted on this unnecessary video. Bravo.