3.1  Avondale Site with Bridge

This site is located on  95th Street NE in Redmond. The bridge shown below overlooks Bear Creek. There is lush vegetation of black berry bushes and other native plants surrounding the creek. The City of Redmond has teamed up with Arco to take on a habitat improvement project. So far it seems it hasn't helped. The turbidity (cloudiness) of the water was extraordinarily high. They have made some progress in adding surrounding vegetation but there is a lot more work that must be done. 

3.2  Redmond Town Center Site

This site is located at Redmond Town Center mall in downtown Redmond. There is lots of construction upstream which contributes to higher turbidity, sediment and run off. Despite this construction further upstream is an aggressive program toward restoration of the creek. The construction is a key factor in polluting the creek but the state of the creek is much better than the bridge. There is much more vegetation surrounding the creek and there is shade from overhanging trees. Turbidity is a problem still, unfortunately. 

3.3  Cottage Creek Site

This site is located just off Avondale, north of the school, by Mr. Saxby’s house.  There is a very large culvert there that runs under the road.  Water samples were collected underneath the culvert.  The creek appears to the run into a pasture. The culvert has good accoustics, though.  It’s man-made nature made it quite easy to mark off a place from which to take measurements.  It had gravel on the bottom.  There were also blackberry and salmonberry bushes, sand, and vine maples. There is a lot of vegetation surrounding the creek despite the large concave steel tunneling shown in the pictures below. There is a large of amount of sediment in the creek. The depth of the creek is very minimal compared to the other two sites. It is possible to wade across the creek. The bridge above contributes to much runoff. A picture of this runoff is down below (picture 3).