Edmonds Beacon – Edmonds Environmental Council

Stream Team helps bring salmon back to Edmonds

March 25, 2026
By Joe Scordino

PRESS RELEASE Bringing Salmon Back to Edmonds Download

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It’s now that time of year when the Edmonds Stream Team and Sound Salmon Solutions are working with community volunteers to place ‘baby’ coho salmon from the Willow Creek Salmon Hatchery in Edmonds into local creeks. The 2- to 3-month-old ‘baby’ coho (called salmon ‘fry’) will bolster local populations whose habitat has been affected by development and stormwater.

At Perrinville Creek, neighborhood families, along with students from Meadowdale High School, helped release 4,000 coho salmon fry into the upper creek (near the Perrinville Post Office).

At Shellabarger Creek along the Hwy 104 Marsh Restoration Project, members of the Edmonds Rotary Club and restoration volunteers captured 1,000 coho salmon fry from the Hatchery pond and released them into the restored, re-opened creek (previously enmeshed with invasive bittersweet nightshade).

Next Sunday, March 29, 5,000 coho fry will be released into Lunds Gulch Creek in Meadowdale Beach Park around 10:00am near the wood bridge (visitors are welcome to watch). On May 16, Sound Salmon Solutions will release 3,500 coho into Shell Creek in Yost Park (see SSS website).

The two-inch coho salmon fry will spend their first year of life in freshwater streams and then go out to sea where they’ll grow into 2-foot+ adult salmon. Then in fall of 2028, the survivors will return to freshwater streams as spawning adult salmon to create future salmon generations.
The adult spawners will return to the creeks where they were born, or in the case of these fry to the creeks that they lived in (and imprinted to) prior to going out to sea. Unfortunately, for the Perrinville Creek salmon, they won’t be able to return unless the blockage the City placed in 2021 is removed (for detail on the blockage see 7/15/25 My Edmonds News article on the Edmonds Environmental Council’s complaint about the City’s illegal diversion structures).

The community salmon enhancement program is authorized under Cooperative Agreements between the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, the Edmonds Stream Team, and Sound Salmon Solutions.

Joe Scordino, Project Leader
Edmonds Stream Team
Edmonds.Envir.Council@gmail.com

The Edmonds Stream Team is a community all-volunteer Citizen Science project to monitor and improve the condition of Edmonds creeks and nearshore wetlands to enhance salmon and wildlife populations (and benefit people who appreciate preservation of our natural resources)

Alliance of Citizens for Edmonds joins Edmonds Environmental Council

Posted Monday, March 16, 2026

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Alliance of Citizens for Edmonds joins Edmonds Environmental Council to help protect and preserve the local environment

The Edmonds Environmental Council (EEC) is welcoming prior members of the Alliance of Citizens for Edmonds (ACE) in joining the EEC.

Is development in Edmonds more important than safe drinking water?

By Joe Scordino
Edmonds Environmental Council

Posted Thursday, December 25, 2025

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We have a serious human health issue brewing in Edmonds at the Deer Creek CARA (Critical Aquifer Recharge Area), which provides drinking water to south Edmonds, Woodway, and Esperance. The issue is accommodating potential development instead of avoiding contaminating our drinking water with PFAS – a pervasive, forever chemical known to have serious human health effects.

Believe it or not, the City actually wants to allow new development to inject potentially toxic stormwater (containing forever chemicals, PFAS, carcinogenic pollutants, etc.) into the Deer Creek drinking water Aquifer.

And why?

Perrinville Creek: Critics accuse Edmonds of skirting environmental law

City responds to critics of the flow-diversion structure

By Brian Soergel
Edmondseditor@yourbeacon.net
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2025
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**Perrinville Creek after illegal blockage.**

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.

Stream Team volunteers at work at Edmonds Marsh

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2025

By Beacon Staff

From left: Joe Scordino, Seth Zeon, Eric Monroe, Aiden Curran, Bob Seidensticker, Janelle Cass, John Brock, Heather Marks, Dianna Maish, Chris Walton, Belinda Hughes, and Sally Jo Sebring. Not pictured: Nancy Scordino and Mason Hughes. (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino)

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The Edmonds Marsh restoration volunteers were hard at work last week, spreading wood chips to prevent regrowth of invasive nightshade.

Ecology seeks public input on Paine Field PFAS cleanup agreement

Posted Monday, August 18, 2025

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The Washington State Department of Ecology is inviting public comment on a proposed legal agreement and community involvement plan for cleaning up chemical contamination at the Paine Field Fire Training Pit, located along the western edge of Paine Field near South Everett.

Perrinville Creek: A sad case of politics and wasted taxpayer money

Posted Friday, August 8, 2025 8:15 am
By Diane Buckshnis
Edmonds Resident, Former City Councilmember, EEC Vice President and Treasurer

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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.

EEC files complaint on blocking of Perrinville fish passage

By Edmonds Beacon staff
July 17, 2025

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Perrinville Creek blocked by the City of Edmonds — Perrinville Creek after blockage. (Photo courtesy Edmonds Environmental Council)

Perrinville Creek before blockage. — Perrinville Creek after blockage. (Photo courtesy Edmonds Environmental Council)

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.

Olympic View may sue Edmonds School District over PFAS at Madrona K-8

It gives the school district 60 days to comply with Safe Water Drinking Act

By Brian Soergel
Edmondseditor@yourbeacon.net
May 28, 2025

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**(Photo courtesy Olympic View Water and Sewer District)**

Olympic View Water and Sewer District (OVWSD) has issued a notice of intent to sue the Edmonds School District to protect the drinking water aquifer that is threatened by PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) pollution at the Madrona K-8. This legal action cites violations of environmental laws and follows the school district’s inaction in addressing the pollution, said OVWSD general manager Bob Danson in a news release.

Citizen of the Year: Joe Scordino

Joe Scordino of Save Our Marsh, in front of Edmonds Marsh, with the 22 acres owned by WSDOT in the far background: Making this area into a wildlife sanctuary would have extensive benefits to our community and to our planet.

Posted Monday, May 5

By Brian Soergel
Edmondseditor@yourbeacon.net

Joe Scordino is the Kiwanis Club of Edmonds’ Citizen of the Year for 2024.

Yost Park: Volunteers help save Shell Creek salmon

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)

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Bolstering Shell Creek’s salmon population

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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**Sandra Centala helps carry aerated buckets loaded with chum salmon fry donated by Suquamish Tribe for release in Shell Creek. (Photo courtesy Edmonds Stream Team)**

Administration advice taints environmental perspectives

By Diane Buckshnis
Edmonds Resident, Former City Councilmember

Posted Thursday, February 13, 2025

Intense weather patterns are happening across the world, and we must recognize the impact on our coastal communities.

We are stewards of our watersheds, and intense rain events have become the new challenge, especially because portions of south Edmonds and Esperance rely on underground injection wells (UIC) wells. This watershed, known as the Deer Springs Creek Watershed, has some of the most sensitive soils.

Settlement reached on appeal of Deer Creek regulations

Posted Friday, January 31, 2025
By Beacon Staff

The Edmonds Environmental Council (EEC) reports it has reached an agreement with the City of Edmonds on suspending the EEC’s appeal of City regulations pending results of a scientific study on stormwater infiltration and its risks of PFAS and other toxins polluting the drinking water aquifer.

According to the settlement agreement, the City will use the study results to make recommendations to the Edmonds City Council on the Deer Creek Aquifer Critical Area Regulations.

The full text of the settlement agreement is available on the EEC website.

Stream Team report: Record number of salmon in Shell Creek

Posted Sunday, January 12, 2025

By Joe Scordino
Edmonds Stream Team

20250112-180154-505-3. Maija Jinneman observing a female chum salmon protecting her eggs laid in the gravel..psd

There’s good news coming from the Edmonds Stream Team after completion of its annual adult salmon surveys last month in Edmonds’ Shell Creek and Lund’s Gulch Creek in Meadowdale Beach Park.