1. Increasing storm water detention on the Jackson Park Golf Course; 2. Restoring several sites along Thornton Creek and planting native vegetation; 3. Building a Thornton Creek Watershed Environmental Learning Center. This will provide kids and adults with information about sustainable building, composting, wildlife habitat and more. 4. A fish ladder with a series of cascading weirs was completed in fall 2002, tripling the amount of good spawning habitat accessible to migrating salmon in the south branch of Thornton Creek.

• • Located in northeast Seattle
  
  
• • Drains 7,322 acres, or 11 square miles
  
  
• • Runs through some of the most developed areas in the Puget Sound region
  
  
• • Home to Northgate Mall, America’s first and oldest shopping mall
  
  
• • 187,000 or more cars pass through the watershed on Interstate 5 every day
  
  
• • 67,000 people live, and thousands of others work, within the watershed
  
  
• • 700 backyards and 15 parks border the creek
  
  
• • Salmon return from Puget Sound, through the ship canal and into Lake Washington
  
  
• • Blue heron, bald eagle and Pacific Chorus frogs can be seen in the watershed

Homewaters Project