Redmond Rain #14 - Tosh Creek Traditional Cache
Redmond Rain #14 - Tosh Creek
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Redmond Rain can be for the fish!
Here is an easy hide in woods near a residential neighborhood. No night caching here unless you want to meet curious and unhappy neighbors. Access from above. Park on 166th Ct. Walk down maintenance driveway. Don't walk in the stream.
FTF: PNW_Native
ALERT! The Invasive New Zealand Mud Snail is being spread to streams by unsuspecting hikers and geocachers. Don't walk in streams or allow your pets to walk in streams. Learn how to decontaminate your gear.
Tosh Creek can be restored to support wild fish like it did 100 years ago! Development of property is important to give us a place to live, but historically our development has come at the expense of the streams nearby. Increased and polluted flows of stormwater runoff cause erosion, muddy the water, and make life unpleasant for fish.
Federal and state laws focus on mitigating development by building ponds and vaults near project sites. This is a bandaid, at best. If development is occurring next to a totally hammered stream, then adding a small detention vault will do little to roll back the damage that has already been done. Redmond is taking a new approach, seeking to focus mitigation efforts on targeted streams to see real improvements in a reasonable amount of time. Redmond's watershed-based approach to surface water management is more strategic with resources, projects, and programs. When applied city-wide, this approach is expected to produce more immediate and measurable positive results relative to the current approach that relies on uncoordinated regulatory drivers to achieve incremental, site-by-site improvements in stormwater management as land is developed or redeveloped over an extended period. Redmond is implementing this approach to achieve the goal of rehabilitating all the City’s surface waters over the next 50 to 100 years. Redmond will target local streams based on existing habitat conditions. Streams that are only slightly impaired will be addressed first. This strategy will provide high quality habitat sooner, albeit in limited areas, as opposed to implementing incremental improvements in all streams that would not provide significant overall habitat benefits, potentially for decades. For streams that have significant degradation, the City will strive to lessen and eliminate further degradation until they are targeted for rehabilitation.
Tosh Creek has been identified as being one of six streams in Redmond with the highest restoration potential. The Washington State Department of Ecology helped fund a study by Redmond to determine the best projects that can be constructed in the Tosh Creek basin to restore that stream quickly. The first project built was removal of a fish-barrier culvert under West Lake Sammamish Parkway and restoration of 600 feet of the stream below the culvert. Go take a look, it is pretty cool. You will have to look hard, because the plants have done their job of growing up around the stream to shade out the blackberries and reed canary grass and cool down the water.
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