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Press Release - For Immediate Release - Date: March 7, 2007 |
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From: The Adopt-A-Stream Foundation (AASF)
Contacts:
Tom Murdoch, AASF Director (425-316-8592)
Tom Zamzow, Wilder Construction Washington Manager (425-551-3100)
Jerry Dindorf, Association of General Contractors Seattle District Manager (206-284-0061)
Nancy Locket, Gray and Osborne Engineering Principal (206-284-0860)
Event: NW Stream Center Trout Stream Exhibit Construction Begins – March 7, 2007
Location: NW Stream Center, 600 - 128th Street SE, Everett 98208
Driving Directions: Go 1/2 mile east of I-5 off the 128th Street exit in south of Everett and North of Mill Creek (exit #186), turn right into Mc Collum Park, drive straight ahead to the buildings at the south end of the park and the Trout Stream Exhibit construction site.
NEW STREAM RISING
Something very exciting is taking place at the Northwest Stream Center. On Thursday, March 7, at 12:00 PM, concrete
donated by Rinker Materials will be poured creating walls of the mechanical room under the "headwaters" of Washington
State's newest stream. "We have been planning this for a long time," says Adopt-A-Stream Foundation (AASF) Director
Tom Murdoch. "It has been like a slow Amish barn building exercise, but momentum is building rapidly. Now, we have
37 partners from the building industry, Snohomish County Parks and the Tulalip Tribes working with us to create a
200-foot long stream that will become home to a population of Cutthroat Trout."
The new trout stream exhibit is going to be unique. Following designs donated by Gray & Osborne Engineering (G&E),
a 200 foot-long stream channel will flow from its headwaters eight feet above ground level, between concrete retaining
walls, down to a 1/3 acre pond that is 6 feet deep. That pond was part of a recent AASF fish & wildlife habitat
restoration effort at an old parking lot that had been placed on top of a wetland back in the late 1960's.
G&E's Engineer Aaron Pease advises that there will be a large viewing window where you will be able to see into a deep
pool at the headwaters and a second window where, during the winter months, you will be able to see resident trout
spawning in gravel on the stream bottom. "This is a teaching exhibit," said Murdoch, "but it is going to function
like it was created by Mother Nature."
What is also remarkable about this new NW Stream Center feature is that many members of the building industry are pitching
in by donating labor, equipment and materials. Association of General Contractors Seattle District Manager Jerry Dindorf
said "Many of our members thought that the Trout Stream Exhibit would be a terrific asset to the community where people
will learn about how streams work and steps that they can take to protect their local streams." Tom Zamzow, Manger of
Wilder Construction which is donating its services as the project's "general contractor" added, "My kids learned a lot
about streams by helping the Adopt-A-Stream Foundation plant trees next to North Creek which flows past the NW Stream
Center"..."when we finish the exhibit, more than 45,000 people a year will learn about stream ecology just by walking
by, looking in the windows, and reading the interpretive signs that will be placed near the viewing windows."
According to Wilder's on-site superintendent Steve Perrin, a lot more help is needed to finish the exhibit. If your
company wants to to get involved in the construction end of the project give Steve a call at 425-508-3249. If you
would like to make a cash donation and earn a place on the Trout Stream Exhibit's "wall of fame", contact Tom
Murdoch at 425-316-8592.
The AASF is very grateful to the following contributors:
EQUIPMENT/SERVICE/MATERIAL DONATIONS
Apex Steel - Mechanical Room Stairs
CAD of P.S. - CAD Service
Cadman Sand and Gravel - 50 Tons of CSBC
Cascade Saw & Drill LF - Sawcut
Central Rebar - Rebar Installation
CITC - Labor
Concrete Technology - Hollow Core Panels
Emerald City - Temporary Fencing
Glacier Sand & Gravel - 300 tons CSBC
Gray & Osborne, Inc - Design/Engineering
H.D. Fowler - Pipe Material
Hanson Products - Precast Manholes
Harmsen & Associates - Site Survey
Harris Rebar Rebar - (30,000 lbs)
Hertz Rentals - Excavtion/Grading Equipment
Iron Mountain - 90 Ton CSBC
Mason Supply - Concrete Forms/Scaffold Equipment
Matheus Lumber Co. - Concrete Form Lumber
Menzel lake Sand & Gravel - Streambed Gravel
National Waterworks - Pipe Material
Nelson Trucking Delivery - Trucking & Material Delivery
Northwest Cascade - Job Site Sanicans
NW Erosion Control - Erosion/Sediment Control
Ralphs Concrete Pumping - Concrete Pumping Service
Rebar International Install - Wall Rebar
Reliable Concrete Pumping - Concrete Pumping Service
Rinker Material - All Concrete & Aggregates
Riverside Sand & Gravel - Dump Trucking
Service Electric - All Electrical Connections
Spring Brook Clearing - Debris Disposal
United Trench Shoring - Excavation Trench Box
University Mechanical - Mechanical/Plumbing
Wilder Construction - Project Management/Labor
CASH DONATIONS
Tulalip Tribes $150,000
Larry Torerson Memorial Fund $5,000
Additional Background: The Northwest Stream Center (NWSC) is the first environmental learning facility in the Pacific
Northwest with stream and wetland ecology and fish and wildlife habitat restoration as its central themes. The Adopt-A-Stream
Foundation (AASF) is developing the NWSC in partnership with Snohomish County's Parks and Recreation Department on a beautiful
20-acre site in Mc Collum Park. A Visitors Building is nearing completion next to the Trout Stream Exhibit. "On the drawing boards"
are one mile of raised boardwalk interpretive trails that will lead visitors through beautiful old second growth forest, to two
other planned features: a forest canopy viewing tower and a salmon habitat viewing platform next to North Creek. AASF has begun
a $2.5 million campaign to complete the NWSC ( contact Tom Murdoch for details - 425-316-8592). After the NWSC is fully operational,
the numbers of visitors will “metered” by a reservation process to ensure a quality outdoor experience and to limit stress on the
NWSC's resident wildlife.
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