What will the plan do?

You can think of Bellevue’s watersheds as a house that needs some repairs.

Just like fixing a house, the Watershed Management Plan will prioritize the areas that need attention first and recommend actions to improve the health of those streams quickly. We need to fix the most important issues first, like a leaking roof, before we take care of smaller problems, like a squeaky front door.

This plan looks 20 years ahead and thinks about all the different projects that can maintain and improve stream health in that time. To help prioritize which actions to take first, the city is asking:

What is the current health of our streams?
What actions in each stream need to happen before others, like a project to improve water quality before programs that improve habitat?

Are there any quick, easy or less expensive fixes we can make at the same time?

Once we address the most important and impactful projects, we can move on to other issues (like the squeaky door!).

Developing the Watershed Management Plan is a group effort. The city is collecting input from our partners, including Bellevue community members, local agencies, and business owners and developers to create recommendations for stream health. This could also help inform stream health actions by neighboring jurisdictions, community members, and other partners.

What kinds of actions would you be interested in participating in to help keep our streams healthy?

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