Sign up for Brightwater habitat restoration tours, April 28

Community members are invited to preview new trails, native plant landscaping, emerging wetlands habitat and rebuilt salmon-bearing stream corridors being developed as part of the Brightwater Treatment Plant project.

The hour-long guided walking tours will take place on Saturday, April 28 from 9 a.m. to noon at 22509 State Route 9 S.E., Woodinville. To sign up, call Rachael Dillman at 206-296-1311, 711 TTY, or e-mail brightwater@kingcounty.gov. 

King County is investing $8 million to restore 43 acres of underused, environmentally damaged land on the north portion of the 114-acre Brightwater site, which will transform the area into a community asset when construction is completed later this year. 
 
Participants should wear sturdy, closed-toed shoes and long pants, and be prepared to walk on unpaved pathways and boardwalks. Children who are accompanied by an adult are welcome, though baby strollers cannot be used on the crushed rock trails.

Reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available on request.

People enjoy clean water and a healthy environment because of King County's wastewater treatment program. The county’s Wastewater Treatment Division protects public health and water quality by serving 17 cities, 17 local sewer utilities and more than 1.4 million residents in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties. Formerly called Metro, the regional clean-water agency now operated by King County has been preventing water pollution for more than 40 years.