Campaigning for clean water and a healthy environment for humans and wildlife
Subcategory for creek related blog posts.
By Jeff Rice
Puget Sound Institute
Published January 9, 2026
Link to Puget Sound Institute, UW Tacoma article
Untold numbers of hatchery fish may be dying from exposure to tire-contaminated runoff, according to a new study.
Continue reading “Study finds juvenile coho salmon at risk from deadly tire chemical”By Greg Ferguson and Jane O’Dell
December 6, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News article
On Oct. 16, a group of Edmonds-Woodway High School students with the Students Saving Salmon Club were performing routine water quality testing in Shellabarger Creek when they saw something disturbing: a young coho smolt swimming weakly on its side. On the shore nearby was another dead coho smolt.
Continue reading “Reader view: Dead coho in Shellabarger Creek — was stormwater runoff to blame?”By Brian Soergel
Edmondseditor@yourbeacon.net
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Link to Edmonds Beacon article
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has granted the City of Edmonds an expedited permit allowing crews to begin debris-clearing work at the city’s controversial flow-diversion structure on lower Perrinville Creek – a move that environmental advocates say again sidesteps long-standing legal and safety obligations.
Continue reading “Perrinville Creek: Critics accuse Edmonds of skirting environmental law”The permit is the latest controversy in the years-long saga over Edmonds’ management of the stream.
November 17, 2025
Link to Everett Herald article
EDMONDS — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife issued a new permit to the city of Edmonds on Friday, allowing flood-prevention work to commence at a controversial flow diversion structure on Perrinville Creek.
Continue reading “State approves Edmonds permit to do flood mitigation work on Perrinville Creek”By Larry Vogel
November 19, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News article
There’s a new development in the decades-long tug-of-war between the City of Edmonds, the State Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW), environmental groups and adjacent property owners to balance flood control and fish passage on lower Perrinville Creek. The DFW has issued a limited temporary permit to allow the City of Edmonds to clear accumulated debris from the city’s existing sediment trap/overflow structures, with the aim of mitigating potential flooding during the upcoming rainy season. The permit expires on Jan. 13, 2026, and work must be completed by that time.
Continue reading “State issues temporary permit for limited flood control work on Perrinville Creek”August 31, 2025
My Edmonds News
Link to My Edmonds News Article
The Edmonds Waterfront Center welcomes Edward P. Kolodziej, internationally recognized environmental chemist and the Allan and Inger Osberg Professor at the University of Washington (Tacoma/Seattle) as the featured speaker in Annie Crawley’s Environmental Speaker Series. The event takes place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11, the latest installment in a community-based science and conservation initiative focused on Puget Sound.
Continue reading “Edmonds Waterfront Center Environmental Series Sept. 11: ‘Caring About Our Roads, Car Tires and Coho Salmon’”Posted Thursday, August 21, 2025
By Beacon Staff
Link to Edmonds Beacon article
The Edmonds Marsh restoration volunteers were hard at work last week, spreading wood chips to prevent regrowth of invasive nightshade.
Continue reading “Stream Team volunteers at work at Edmonds Marsh”Posted Friday, August 8, 2025 8:15 am
By Diane Buckshnis
Edmonds Resident, Former City Councilmember, EEC Vice President and Treasurer
Link to Edmonds Beacon article
Perrinville Creek was once a thriving, salmon-bearing stream that flowed through Edmonds and Lynnwood. Community groups like the Edmonds Stream Team used it as a teaching creek; it was a vibrant artery in our region’s watershed and a living example of environmental stewardship.
Continue reading “Perrinville Creek: A sad case of politics and wasted taxpayer money”July 26, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News article
The Edmonds Marsh Restoration Volunteers were back at the reopened Shellabarger Creek along Highway 104 Saturday controlling invasive vegetation using wood chips. The volunteers are working under a new four-year Adopt-A-Highway Landscaping Agreement between the Washington State Department of Transportation and the Edmonds Stream Team. The agreement supports continued community volunteer efforts to control invasive vegetation in the Edmonds Marsh and Shellabarger Creek and to plant trees and shrubs to preserve the new stream habitat.
Are you interested in volunteering too?
Email: Joe Scordino at: edmonds.envir.council@gmail.com
The nonprofit claims the city is breaking state law with the placement of diverters in Perrinville Creek, urges the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to enforce previous orders.
by Eliza Aronson
Monday, July 21, 2025
Link to Everett Herald article
By Edmonds Beacon staff
July 17, 2025
Link to Edmonds Beacon article
The Edmonds Environmental Council last week filed a complaint with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife on what it says is the City of Edmonds’ “ongoing refusal” to restore fish passage in lower Perrinville Creek.
By Larry Vogel
July 15, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News article
The Edmonds Environmental Council (EEC) on Monday filed a formal complaint with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) against the City of Edmonds over what it maintains is an illegal diversion of the lower portion of Perrinville Creek that prevents the return of adult coho salmon.
Continue reading “Edmonds Environmental Council files complaint against city regarding fish passage at Perrinville Creek”June 30, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News article
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen (D-2nd District) visited Edmonds’ Willow Creek Hatchery Monday afternoon for a staff briefing on federal funding cuts that threaten hatchery operations and education programs.
Continue reading “U.S. Rep. Larsen briefed on federal funding cuts threatening Sound Salmon Solutions operations”May 20, 2025
Edmonds Stream Team
Link to My Edmonds News article
Students from Meadowdale High School’s Eco Club joined community volunteers with the Edmonds Stream Team and Sound Salmon Solutions in releasing several thousand baby coho salmon into Lunds Gulch Creek Sunday.
Continue reading “Scene at Meadowdale Beach Park: Students helping salmon”July 29, 2002
Pentec Environmental
The attached report was prepared for the City of Edmonds to establish baseline information on stream conditions in order to support work toward meeting National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit and ESA requirements. This report covers all of the appropriate significant streams under the City’s jurisdiction.
Continue reading “Edmonds Stream Inventory and Assessment”