After Eight Year Hiatus, Chinook Salmon Return to Seattle Public Utilities Restoration Site to Spawn

In late October, for the first time in eight years, SPU staff observed and filmed a pair of Chinook salmon laying eggs (spawning) in a SPU-restored part of Seattle’s Thornton Creek. SPU’s Thornton Creek Confluence project, completed in 2014 for $8 million, provided flood control in the Meadowbrook neighborhood and… [ Keep reading ]