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Watershed Opens Wenatchee Office
The Watershed Company’s new Wenatchee office is now conducting permitting, restoration, mitigation, planning, landscaping, and critical areas work throughout eastern Washington. While we have worked in eastern and north central Washington extensively throughout our 30-year history, our newly established branch makes it more convenient and cost-effective for our clients. Read more about the services we offer and see project examples from North Central Washington on our Wenatchee office page.
Issaquah I-90 Underpass Opening
Today, the City of Issaquah officially dedicated the opening of 224th Street (external link), which improves north-south connectivity in Issaquah by providing another route across Interstate 90. With guidance from The Watershed Company, wetland impacts were mitigated by expanding and improving existing riparian wetlands adjacent to the North Fork of Issaquah Creek. Our biologists and landscape architects designed the wetland mitigation plan and are providing construction monitoring services.
Recent Projects Added to Website
We've added a few new projects to our website, check out our recent work!
The Watershed Company is completing one of the first in-lieu fee governing instruments in Washington State, for lower Lake Chelan. In-lieu fee mitigation (or ILF) is a relatively new option for meeting compensatory mitigation requirements. A permit applicant may make a single payment into an ILF program, and that money will be pooled and used for projects designed to improve critical areas function by restoring watershed processes. The applicant is not responsible for the mitigation after the fee is paid.
Our wetlands biologists and landscape architects teamed up to develop a Meridian Park feasibility study that includes innovative street side rain gardens, which are becoming more popular in Seattle.
Watershed Company landscape architects designed a landscape for a modern Tate Creek home that complements the home's bluestone stonework as well as its natural setting.
Watershed Wetland Restorations in DJC Article
The Daily Journal of Commerce featured The Watershed Company in its special 2010 schools issue. Several wetland restorations we designed for local schools are serving double duty - they provide mitigation as well as outdoor classrooms for the students. [PDF] [website]
Photo of the Month: Pacific Treefrog
This Pacific treefrog was observed at the Pierce County Landfill Wetland Mitigation site, which The Watershed Company is continuing to monitor. Pacific treefrogs prefer to breed in shallow, seasonal ponds that have low water level fluctuations. More than two dozen such ponds were created at the mitigation site with the intention of providing quality amphibian breeding habitat. The site has exceeded performance standards for amphibian habitat, providing quality habitat for a number of amphibian species, including Pacific treefrogs, red-legged frogs, Northwest salamanders and long-toed salamanders.
