Duwamish Alive!

JOIN US for Earth Day - DUWAMISH ALIVE! April 18, 2009, 10 A.M.–2 P.M.

DRCC is a founding member of the Duwamish Alive! Coalition, which coordinates twice-yearly multi-site habitat restoration work parties within the Duwamish watershed. We are looking for school, work, or social network groups to participate. Click here for information about Duwamish Alive! directions and more.

Kayak River Cleanup by Alki Kayak Tours and Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition – meet at Duwamish Waterway Park. Alki Kayaks will provide equipment and instruction for free! All experience levels and personal kayaks welcome, but reservations are required and space is limited. For more information or to RSVP, please e-mail Spring Courtright

The Earth Day - Duwamish Alive! festivities include a free Earth Day Festival at Cooper School (Delridge) from 2-5pm, with music, kids' activities, food, art projects, and more.

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Duwamish River Festival

Saturday August 8, 2009

The Duwamish River Festival began in 2005 as an informational and fun festival to help educate and involve the public in the Duwamish River cleanup. The free family-friendly environmental festival provides updates on the Duwamish River Superfund cleanup, kayak tours on the river, live entertainment, water taxi rides, food, children’s activities,  health information, natural yard care tips, give-aways and more.

2008 Program sponsors included: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; the Washington State Department of Ecology; the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition; King County; Port of Seattle; The Boeing Company; Seattle Public Utilities; Public Health - Seattle and King County; Puget Sound Clean Air Agency; Field Roast Grain Meat Co.; Alki Kayak Tours; Bluefield Holdings, Inc.; Cascade Land Conservancy; Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seawall Replacement Program; Windward Environmental; City of Tukwila; and Global Diving and Salvage, Inc.

If you would like to be involved in the 2009 Duwamish River Festival please send us an email or call: 206-954-0218.

Click here for information about the 2008 Duwamish River Festival event.

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Duwamish Valley Vision Project

A vision without a plan is just a dream,
A plan without a vision is just drudgery,
But a vision with a plan can change the world.

The Duwamish Valley Vision Project is a comprehensive, community-based future visioning project, which engaged people who live, work or visit the Duwamish Valley through workshops, mapping and interviews. The project compiled the community’s ideas, concerns, and visions into a comprehensive ‘future map,’ which includes transportation, housing, recreation, jobs, and habitat restoration.

Next steps will include revisiting stakeholder groups to highlight the communities' work on the Vision, and forming a 'Working Group' to begin to enact the Vision.

The Duwamish Valley Vision Report explains our process and results, and is available for downloaded here (6.7MB file). DRCC will present the Duwamish Valley Vision report to local, state, and federal agencies responsible for the Superfund cleanup, and will encourage organizations working in the watershed to adopt Vision elements as their own.

Click here to view the poster-sized Duwamish Vision Map composite and layers (29MB zip file), or here for a smaller .jpg file.

The zipped file contains:
The Vision map composite
Green layer (Environmental Features)
Red layer (Community Amenities)
Blue layer (Economic Development)
Orange layer (Transportation)

If you would like a copy of the full report and maps on disc, or would like DRCC to make a presentation about the Vision to your school, business, or organization, please contact us at: email or call (206)954-0218.

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Green-Duwamish Watershed Map

Explore the Green-Duwamish Watershed's Past, Present and Future

The Green-Duwamish Watershed map is a joint project of DRCC and ECOSS (the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle). The map is designed to raise awareness and public involvement in the Green-Duwamish watershed, and includes information about parks and public access sites, habitat restoration, cultural history, public art, pollution and cleanup of the river, plus helpful tips on reducing household toxins.

The map serves to illustrate the "current conditions" of the watershed, and as a base for helping the river’s diverse communities envision what the future could look like. To read an article about the results of DRCC’s Duwamish Valley Vision Project, click here.

The map was produced with grant funding from the Mountaineers Foundation and 4Culture, as well as in-kind and financial contributions from project partners: 4Culture, American Whitewater, Cascade Land Conservancy, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, Duwamish Tribe, Environmental Coalition of South Seattle, FeetFirst, Green-Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Forum of Governments (WRIA-9), City of Kent, King County Parks, The Mountaineers Foundation, Muckleshoot Tribe, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nature Consortium, People for Puget Sound, Port of Seattle, City of Renton, City of Seattle, Seattle Southside Visitors Center, City of Tukwila, and Washington Water Trails. Thanks to Holly Taylor and PastForward NW Heritage Consulting for providing historical information, map editing and other map project considerations.

Additional support provided by: Abelard Foundation, Acorn Foundation, Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, Edwards Mother Earth Foundation, and Seattle Foundation.

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Environmental Justice Youth Corps

DRCC’s Urban Environmental Justice Youth Corps is a bilingual (English/Spanish) after-school and weekend service learning program for high school students in South Seattle. The free program teaches young people about environmental health and justice issues, and blends community service and field trips with social and environmental issues in South Park and nearby neighborhoods.

The 2009 Environmental Justice Youth Corps is provided at no cost for participants, and will be starting on March 11th and run through May 30th 2009. Please contact DRCC for enrollment information and additional details.

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Northwest Toxic Communties Coalition

The Northwest Toxic Communities Coalition (NWTCC) is comprised of community groups and tribal members who live near areas identified as hazardous waste sites in the Pacific Northwest and EPA's Region 10. The coalition works to locate, network with, and empower its member groups to share resources, information and support for toxic clean-up efforts throughout the northwest states. The longterm goals of the NWTCC are to achieve parity, knowledge-sharing, and support for each other's cleanup efforts.

NWTCC has had staff and fiscal support provided by the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition (DRCC) and the Superfund Basic Research Program at the University of Washington since it began in the fall of 2005.

NWTCC is hosting its annual summit of groups affected by toxic wastes on April 4-5, 2009 at the Pack Forest Conference Center. For information about activities of community groups affected by toxic sites, or information on how to join NWTCC, please contact the NWTCC Coordinator Fredrika Sprengle.

Northwest Toxic Communities Coalition
(206) 941-9549

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