Volunteers needed at Duwamish Alive! habitat restoration event, Oct. 17

Put on your work clothes, bring your enthusiasm and celebrate the arrival of fall by helping to restore fish and wildlife habitat around the Duwamish Waterway on Saturday, Oct. 17.

Hundreds of volunteers are needed to staff work parties that begin at 10 a.m. as part of the annual Duwamish Alive! fall community celebration.

There are several sites along the waterway where people are needed to help pull weeds, mulch planting areas, plant native vegetation, and pick up debris and trash. Organizers will provide tools, gloves, instructions and snacks.
 
To sign up or to get more information about parking and work site activities, visit the Web at http://www.pugetsound.org/events/duwamishalive, e-mail da@pugetsound.org or call 206-382-7007.

The October 2009 Duwamish Alive! restoration project sites include:

Herring House, 4460 W Marginal Way SW
West Duwamish Greenbelt, 16th Ave. SW and SW Brandon St.
Urban Forest Restoration-Longfellow Creek, 26th Ave SW and SW Brandon St.
Gateway Park North, 7699 8th Ave. S
Kayak River Cleanup, 7900 10th Ave. S
Roxhill Park, SW Barton and 29th Ave SW
Duwamish Riverbend Hill, South 115th Street, one block east of East Marginal Way South
Codiga Farm, 12535 50th Place S, Tukwila

Duwamish Alive! is organized and supported by the following citizen groups and government agencies: King County; King Conservation District; Alki Kayak Tours; Cascade Land Conservancy; CleanScapes; City of Seattle; City of Tukwila; Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition; EarthCorps; Edwards Mother Earth Foundation; Elliott Bay Restoration Panel;  Environmental Coalition of South Seattle;  EOS Alliance; U. S. Environmental Protection Agency; Friends of Duwamish Riverbend Hill; Green/Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Watershed Forum of Local Governments; Green Seattle Partnership; Georgetown Community Council; IM-A-PAL Foundation; Longfellow Creek Watershed Council; Nature Consortium; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; People For Puget Sound; Port of Seattle; Puget Soundkeeper Alliance; REI; Restore America’s Estuaries; Seattle Parks and Recreation; Vashon Organics; Veterans Conservation Corps; Washington State Department of Ecology.

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 districts 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.

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