Replacing Fauntleroy Creek culverts: Still time to comment

As we showed you earlier this week, it’s salmon-release season at Fauntleroy Creek – part of the annual lifecycle since community advocacy led to work that brought the creek back to life. Part of it remains underground, carried in culverts, and some sections need to be replaced, so Seattle Public Utilities is in the early stages of figuring out how. Back in March, SPU offered opportunities to offer early-stage comments. If you missed those, it’s not too late to comment – SPU reopened its online survey seeking your opinion. As the (short) survey explains:

Design options present tradeoffs. This includes the opportunity to enhance creek habitat with open channel sections. However, these features require retaining walls and potential realignment that can have greater short-term construction impacts, as well as require long-term changes to existing site conditions.

So they’re asking about your priorities – when you can spare a moment or two to comment, go here. (Background info from the March open house is here.)

4 Replies to "Replacing Fauntleroy Creek culverts: Still time to comment"

  • Jim P. May 2, 2019 (2:56 pm)

    How does one have a “private” culvert?  You can’t own part of a creek these days can you?

    • WSB May 2, 2019 (4:50 pm)

      Part of the creek goes under private property.

  • Jim P. May 2, 2019 (9:57 pm)

    “Part of the creek goes under private property.”Thank you for the explanation.

  • Eric May 3, 2019 (10:25 am)

    Seattle Public Utilities identifies a stretch of the culvert to be replaced under the Fauntleroy Church parking lot. The church owns that property.

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