King County targets Snoqualmie River headwaters as part of effort to improve regional water quality
July 20, 2010
By Administrator
King County received a grant worth more than $650,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to pay for removing invasive knotweed from the headwaters of the Snoqualmie River.
The money was part of more than $3.6 million in grants the county received from the EPA to improve water quality in the region. The projects support Puget Sound Partnership’s Action Agenda to restore the sound.
Knotweed, a non-native plant, elbows out native vegetation along streams, hurting the natural ecosystem and water quality.
The grant will pay for replacing knotweed with native plants. King County staff will also lay the groundwork for more community involvement in the effort, according to a news release.
The county also received almost $1 million for monitoring aquatic and riparian habitats in the Cedar River and Sammamish River watersheds.
The money will be used to conduct physical, biological and hydrologic monitoring over four years in 50 streams that are eventually feed into Lake Washington.
The Water and Land Resources Division of King County’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks received the money under the Puget Sound Watershed Management Assistance Program.
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