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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”Posted: April 30, 2025
Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) crews were out Wednesday mowing vegetation along State Route 104 to help prepare the Edmonds Marsh Restoration site for upcoming volunteer work coordinated by the Edmonds Stream Team. See our previous story for a complete description of the project.
April 30, 2025
By Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times environment reporter
Posted: April 13, 2025
My Edmonds News
On Saturday, April 12th, Megan Moran from Sound Salmon Solutions and Joe Scordino released several thousand Coho fry with the help of volunteers and local residents. These “baby” salmon were released in Yost Park near Olympic Avenue and near Holy Rosary parish in Edmonds.
It was great fun.
Here are a few photos:
Posted Sunday, April 13, 2025
By Joe Scordino, Stream Team Project Leader
A large crowd gathered at Yost Park to help release several salmon at a time. They used clear cups so everyone could see the baby salmon. (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino)
Continue reading “Yost Park: Volunteers help save Shell Creek salmon”by Joe Scordino
April 7th, 2025
The examiner revoked the city’s Determination of Non-Significance, forcing Edmonds to address infrastructure issues on the creek
By by Eliza Aronson
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Link to Everett Herald article
EDMONDS — The city of Edmonds has work to do on Perrinville Creek.
On Friday, City Hearing Examiner Phil Olbrechts decided city staff must address safety issues about a corroded pipe that connects the last few hundred feet of stream to Puget Sound, and consequently restore fish passage along the lower portion of the creek.
Continue reading “Edmonds Hearing Examiner decides on Perrinville Creek saga”By William Alexander
March 30, 2025
My Edmonds News
Editor’s note: This letter to Mayor Mike Rosen is being republished here at the author’s request. We did ask the city last week if they had a response but so far have not received one.
Dear Mayor Rosen:
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: A request to continue Edmonds Marsh work”By Joe Scordino
For the Beacon
Posted 3/20/25
The Edmonds Stream Team released 5,000 baby chum salmon into lower Shell Creek on Monday. The Suquamish Tribe donated the salmon fry to help the community effort to bolster salmon populations in local creeks that flow directly to Puget Sound.
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by Eliza Aronson
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Closing arguments were submitted last week in a hearing that could determine if the creek will be passable for salmon in the next three years.
Continue reading “Examiner to decide route of Perrinville Creek”By Joe Scordino, Project Leader
Edmonds Stream Team
March 12, 2025
Photos by Clint Wright, Joe Scordino, and John Brock
The Edmonds Stream Team released 5,000 “baby” chum salmon into lower Shell Creek on Monday. These chum salmon “fry” were donated by the Suquamish Tribe to help the community effort to bolster salmon populations in local creeks that flow directly to Puget Sound.
Continue reading “Press release: Bolstering Shell Creek’s Salmon Population”