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Daylighting Restoration Complete |
 The spring-fed Madrona Park Creek now flows in the steep ravine below 37th Avenue and above Madrona Woods. It travels under 38th Avenue in a new culvert, then falls down a steep cascade. It continues under a trail in a small culvert, then through its original channel in the Spring Street Ravine. A large fish-passable culvert moves it under Lake Washington Boulevard and from there it wends its way through Madrona Park’s northernmost meadow and into Lake Washington at a newly-created wetland cove.
 Before 2007, the stream ran above ground only for very short stretches in both the upper and lower ravines, before being dumped into storm drains. Now, all of the water is channeled into the Creek. The Creek has been 'daylighted,' that is, brought above ground.  The resulting larger stream runs through the Spring Street Ravine to a pond on the west side of Lake Washington Boulevard. From there a fish-passable culvert will take it under the Boulevard. A series of ponds and fish-passable steps in the stream will drop it down to the new cove at the lake shore.  The area around the stream and cove has been revegetated with plants native to the area.  Salmon are likely to find Madrona Park Creek too small for spawning, but they will probably rest under sheltering shrubs in the quiet cove or the pools and feed on the nutrients brought down by the stream before continuing on their way up Lake Washington and out to the Sound. |
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