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Living on a Creek - Backyard Stewardship
Take care of creeks from your backyard
You can help people, creeks and wildlife by following these landscaping, water quality and water conservation tips.
Landscaping
- • Practice Salmon Friendly Gardening by choosing native plants and reducing pesticide and herbicide use. For more native plant suggestions, refer to the Washington Native Plant Society.
- • Improve the health of your lawn without using chemicals with Natural Lawn Care.
- • Use compost and mulch: Grow Healthy Soil with compost to improve water quality and decrease run off. You can even make compost and mulch at home with yard waste and food scraps.
- • Reduce run-off, which can carry sediment and chemicals into creeks, with Smart Watering. You can also save water with Efficient Irrigation.
- • Reduce impervious surfaces, or surfaces that don’t absorb water, on your property.
Protect Water Quality
- • Protect your creek’s water quality by Storm Drain Stenciling.
- • Report Surface Water Quality Problems such as leaking automobiles, concrete dumped in the street, or paint in the drain.
- • Learn ways to keep water safe and clean.
Conserve Water
- • Save water at home and at work to keep water in our reservoirs and rivers, which provide habitat for fish and other wildlife.
Related links
Streambank Protection
Large Woody Debris (LWD)
Salmon Friendly Gardening
Natural Lawn Care
Grow Healthy Soil
Smart Watering
Tips & Rebates for Automatic Irrigation & Sprinkler Systems
Stencil a Storm Drain
Report Surface Water Quality Problems On-line
Keep Water Safe & Clean
Links to other sites
Washington Native Plant Society Plant List
Contact Information
Chris May at (206) 386-4270 or chris.may@seattle.gov
Deb Heiden at (206) 386-1802 or deb.heiden@seattle.gov
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