Written by Mayor Law is asking King County Executive Dow Constantine to help us raise the priority of protecting Renton’s bridges when creating habitat for fish on the Cedar River. The Mayor’s letter is attached below, and it adds emphasis and additional details to a request previously transmitted by our Public Works Director in a letter I covered in this journal entry (which includes pictures). Mayor Law points out again that expensive maintenance and extremely high economic risk are being created by logjams formed of washed-out woody debris that has been intentionally chained together with logging chains by King County. In addition, removal of rock armoring in some areas upstream on the river is leading to excessive wash-outs, putting far more full-size trees in the water than we would otherwise see. The resulting logjams cause risks to the bridges which connect our city, and to the bridges which connect our local airplane manufacturer with the airport.
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