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Happy Holidays and New Year!
Wishing you the best in the new year! In the picture: The Watershed Company staff at a wetland mitigation site on Novelty Hill in Redmond, WA, where we have been helping Puget Sound Energy.
Interpretive Signs for Stormwater Projects
This year The Watershed Company's graphic design team got to create interpretive signs for three different stormwater and low impact development projects, for a total of 13 signs on topics ranging from filtering runoff with raingardens and stormwater ponds, to allowing infiltration by using permeable paving, to planting drought-tolerant plants.
The Watershed Company researched, wrote, illustrated, and designed five interpretive signs for a stormwater retrofit project along Bear Creek in Redmond.
King County DOT hired The Watershed Company to create two interpretive signs to draw attention to stormwater improvements in Federal Way, including a new raingarden and permeable pavement sidewalks.
For Premera Healthcare, we created 6 signs to accompany a mitigation and parking lot landscape that included raingardens and bioswales.
Greenfire Campus Landscape
The Greenfire Campus is a Low Impact Development mixed-use project under way in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. The Watershed Company led the landscape architectural design for the project, incorporating sustainable practices and elements at every step, and to date has permit plans and 90% construction plans. Read more about our work on the landscape on our project page, or visit the brand new Greenfire Campus website to learn more about the development.
Secret Santa Gift: Edible Culvert
Every December, The Watershed Company staff does a Secret Santa gift exchange. This year, Amy created an edible culvert cake for our new water resources engineer, Sky, complete with salmon, large woody debris, and boulders!
Watershed Hires Water Resources Manager and Landscape Designer
The Watershed Company recently welcomed two new staff members, expanding our capacity in engineering and landscape architecture: Sky Miller, PE, as Water Resources Manager, and Marina French as Landscape Designer.
Sky Miller, P.E., Water Resources Manager
Known for his leadership in developing and implementing strategic ecologically sustainable infrastructure, floodplain and habitat restoration plans and designs, Sky is highly skilled at managing multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers and planners. He is an effective public speaker, administrator and engineer and brings a collaborative style to solve complex environmental problems in a fast-paced, public, political, legal and controversial environment. Sky joined The Watershed Company in 2011 from Wildlands, Inc., a regional mitigation and conservation banking firm, where he was the Pacific Northwest regional manager. He is also the former Surface Water division manager at Skagit County. Recent projects with construction completed include the 300-acre Nookachamps Wetland Bank on the Skagit River, and Hylebos Creek Estuary Restoration in Tacoma, Washington.
Marina French, Landscape Designer
Marina French (formerly Alvarez) combines her training and experience in ecology and landscape design to plan and create living spaces that integrate human and natural elements. She has developed management and recreational plans for regional, state and national parks areas and participated in the site design of projects throughout the West and internationally. Her assessments optimize the human experience while achieving goals for environmental and cultural preservation. Marina recently joined The Watershed Company from Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects. She is enjoying mitigation design and putting on her boots to monitor projects after installation. In addition to a steady stream of mitigation projects and private residential design projects, Marina is currently working on a site plan for the 42nd Street End Park for the City of Yarrow Point, and the exciting mixed-use Ballard Greenfire Campus plan, which includes green roofs, p-patches, and a stormwater biofiltration garden.
