Knickerbocker Reach Floodplain
Project Description
The Confluence Project gets all the press, with its multi-million dollar price tag, conspicuous construction, and extreme traffic impacts but for my money the coolest restoration happening in the Thornton Creek Watershed right now is the Knickerbocker Reach Floodplain Project.
Where once was a tightly armored channel bordered by the rubble of residental fill, there now is broad floodplain, a creek with deep pools, aerating riffles, and ripirian wetlands. Magnificent!
Terraforming wraps up soon, with lots of planting to continue into the fall..
Is this the little park on NE 100th Street, just west of Ravenna Ave. NE, in zip code 98125? As a disabled person who wants to watch birds there, I’m wondering why no parking is allowed on that part of 100th despite ample room. The nearest place to pull off the road is uphill almost one-fifth of mile away.