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Clerk 09/23/2026

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An ORDINANCE approving the grant funding allocation for the council-designated projects funded through the WaterWorks grant program, for the 2025 cycle, in accordance with Ordinance 18031, Section 1 as amended, and the 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19861, Section 114, as amended by Ordinance 19956, Section 59.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  Ordinance 18031, Section 1, as amended by Ordinance 18261, Section 1, established the grant award criteria and process for the WaterWorks grant program in accordance with the 2015-2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, Section 110, Proviso P2.

2.  Attachment A to Ordinance 18261 contains the implementation guidelines for the WaterWorks grant program, including the project criteria, eligibility, and administration of grants.

3.  As described in Attachment A to Ordinance 18261, projects approved for funding must meet eligibility criteria for water quality improvements.

4.  The 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19861, Section 59, as amended by Ordinance 19956, Section 59, appropriated funding for the WaterWorks grant program.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The King County council authorizes funding of WaterWorks projects recommended by the council for the 2025 cycle, totaling $1,674,967 as follows:

                     A.  Beavers Northwest:  $39,000 for "Urban Beavers and Water Quality Volunteer Program";

                     B.  Bellevue College:  $50,000 for "Coal Creek Stormwater System Phased Design and Build Stage 1";

                     C.  Cascadia College:  $35,000 for "Cascadia College Stormwater and Wetland Community Education";

                     D.  City of Covington:  $80,392 for "170th Place SE Water Quality Retrofit Project";

                     E.  City of Kent:  $71,000 for "Kent Lakes Water Quality Monitoring 2026-2027";

                     F.  City of Maple Valley:  $80,392 for "Witte Road SE Green Stormwater Infrastructure Improvements";

                     G.  Clean Lake Union:  $49,234 for "Eastern Avenue and Fremont Bridge Bioswales";

                     H.  Earthcorps and UW Green Futures Lab:  $60,000 for "Floating Wetlands: Shilshole and Beyond";

                     I.  Environmental Coalition of South Seattle:  $94,874 for "Expansion of Household Hazardous Waste Program with Immigrant Youth Water Stewards";

                     J.  Environmental Science Center:  $55,000 for "Salmon Heroes: from Watershed Engagement to Schoolyard";

                     K.  Friends of Cottage Lake:  $100,000 for "Cottage Lake Water Quality Improvement";

                     L.  Lake Advocates:  $13,000 for "Determination of Factors Driving Toxic Algal Blooms in Lake Washington’s North Basin";

                     M.  Lake Forest Park Stewardship Foundation:  $41,300 for "Urban Stream Ecology Internship (USE-IT) of McAleer and Lyon Creek Sub-Basin 2";

                     N.  Long Live the Kings:  $95,160 for "Addressing Water Quality in the Lake Washington Ship Canal to Protect Salmon";

                     O.  Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group:  $40,000 for "Salmon in Schools and Stewardship";

                     P.  Mother Africa:  $23,237 for "Clean Water 4 All";

                     Q.  Nature Vision:  $37,000 for "Youth Watershed Education, Stewardship, and Community Science";

                     R.  Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides:  $45,000 for "Cultivating Clean Water with Spanish-Speaking Landscapers in King County";

                     S.  Northwest’s Child Inc.:  $19,000 for "Accessible Waters: Inclusive Education and Rain Garden Stewardship for Cleaner Puget Sound";

                     T.  Pacific Science Center:  $29,329 for "Camps for Curious Minds:  Water Quality Education at Mercer Slough";

                     U.  Puget Soundkeeper:  $25,000 for "Lost Urban Creeks Project 2026-2028";

                     V.  Reumo:  $10,784.94 for "ReuMo and Highschool with Rain Gardens";

                     W.  River Access Paddle Program:  $69,110 for "Increasing Education, Safe Community Access, and Recreation on the Duwamish River";

                     X.  Sno-King Watershed Council:  $25,000 for "Lake Leota Water Quality Monitoring";

                     Y.  Stewardship Partners:  $50,000 for "City of Carnation Green Infrastructure Expansion Phase 3";

                     Z.  Three Rivers Chapter of Trout Unlimited:  $25,000 for "Engaging Community to Help Restore a Native Lake Washington Salmon Population";

                     AA.  Trout Unlimited:  $50,000 for "Assessing the Role of Mysis in Lake Sammamish: Implications for Water Quality";

                     BB.  United Indians of All Tribes:  $25,000 for "Lake Union Pocket Forests/Bernie Whitebear Way Stormwater Diversion";

                     CC.  University of Washington Bothell:  $60,058 for "Development of Advanced E. Coli DNA Toolkit for Fecal Source Tracking in Bothell Streams";

                     DD.  Villa Communitaria:  $69,110 for "Futuro del Agua: Family and Youth Water Career Pathways";

                     EE.  Weld Seattle:  $69,110 for "Green Sodo Pilot Program";

                     FF.  Whale Scout:  $30,000 for "Student and Community-led Sammamish River Trail Buffer Restoration";

                     GG.  Whale Scout:  $24,000 for "Valhalla Creek Restoration Phase 2 Benefitting Waynita/Sammamish River Project";

                     HH.  YMCA of Greater Seattle:  $5,000 for "Youth in Action: Stewardship, Education, and Leadership 2025-2027";

                     II.  Zero Waste Washington:  $79,874 for "Youth Reducing Stormwater Pollution in the Greater Duwamish Valley."