Tips on How You Can Help Miller/Walker Creeks:
Start Being a Better Steward Today

We all can be good stewards of Miller and Walker Creeks! Whether you live right next to the streams or a mile away, your actions can help improve water quality and reduce stormwater. This, in turn, will help our region's efforts to improve Puget Sound. These tips also can make your home a healthier place and save money!

Remember,

Clean up after your dog:

• Scoop the poop (external link) 

Practice "natural yard care":

• Build healthy soil
• Plant right for your site
• Water smart
• Think twice before using pesticides
• Practice natural lawn care 
• Additional tips for yard care (external link)

Protect and restore native streamside ("riparian") vegetation:

• Use native plants for beauty, water conservation, and ease of maintenance
• Keep streamside areas naturally vegetated

Control invasive weeds:

• Keep ivy out of trees (external link)
• Control noxious weeds

Keep soap suds and grime out of storm drains:

• Take your car to a commercial car wash (external link)
• Use a car wash kit for your charity car wash
• Burien residents
• Normandy Park residents
• SeaTac residents 

Take care of your car:

• Fix oil leaks in your car (external link)
• Other car care tips (external link)

Conserve water:

• Ways to conserve water in the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room (external link)
• Ways to conserve water outside the house in the yard and garden (external link)
• Conserve water at your business (external link)

Put household hazardous waste in its place:

• Dispose of harmful chemicals properly
• Use less toxic alternatives

Reduce runoff/practice "low impact development":

• Plant trees
• Plant a rain garden (Adobe Acrobat 20 MB) (external link)
• Allow rainwater to soak into the ground (external link)

Volunteer to restore our streams:

• Local stewardship opportunities 
• Stewards of the Cove every second Saturday of the month (external link)
• Water and salmon-related volunteer opportunities in southern King County (external link)

Stewardship of the Miller/Walker Creeks basin is jointly funded by the City of Burien, City of Normandy Park, City of SeaTac, King County, and the Port of Seattle. On behalf of the partners, this page is proudly hosted by King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks - Water and Land Resources Division.