Pacific Northwest
Bellingham, WA
January, 2016
After 120 years, a half mile length of Padden Creek will once again see the light of day. In 1892, an eight foot by four foot brick tunnel was built to redirect the creek in order to drain adjacent wetlands and thereby enable building of a Great Northern Railway train station. Now, following a 30 year joint effort by the City, local residents, and the state Departments of Ecology and Transportation, migratory salmon can once again travel from Bellingham Bay to nearly the full two and a half miles to the Creek’s source (Lake Padden) to spawn.
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