Redmond Rain #21 - Scotts' Pond Traditional Cache
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Redmond Rain #21 - Scotts' Pond
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Redmond Rain may be stored in a pond to a protect a stream by cleaning and slowly releasing stormwater. Scott's Pond was built by City crews in 2001.
The container is well hidden. A simple mechanism will expose it. As always, please be gentle with the hide and restore it as you found it.
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Scott's Pond
Stormwater ponds are common stormwater facilities designed to clean stormwater and store it before slowly releasing it back to streams. Although on a busy street, Scott's Pond is at a strategic location -- just upstream of Peter's Creek, but downstream of dozens of acres of residential development. If you look north, across Redmond Way, you can see a forest-wrapped pond, "Welcome Pond" that was later built as Scott's twin.
The Scott property is a one-acre parcel. Half of the property is dedicated to the pond, with a paved trail around it. The other half of the property is a natural area with some mature trees and has the potential to be developed in the future into a more active park, particularly if the City vacates a portion of the NE 80th Street cut-through to increase the available area for the park.
What's a better pond; the forest-wrapped pond filled with wildlife across the road, or this mowed grass pond that looks like it might fit on a golf course?
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