City Fruit is kicking off the growing season with a celebration at Santoro’s Books on Phinney Ridge. Amy Pennington, Urban Pantry cook book author and gardening expert, will be there to sign her newest book, Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects and Recipes for Growing Food in Your Urban Home. Amy is also known for launching UrbanGardenShare.org and for her business tending edible gardens for Seattleites. More information is available here.
Santoro’s Books
7405 Greenwood Ave N
Thursday, May 12th, 2011 6:30-8:30 PM
The future Crown Hill Park is nearly here! The temporary Fire Station #35 will be moving back into the new quarters later this year. And that clears the way to move forward on the Crown Hill Park. The park is to be located on the southern portion of the former Crown Hill Elementary School site. Seattle Parks and Recreation worked with the community a few years ago to develop a plan for the site. Since that time, the land for the park was acquired, the Crown Hill Project acquired the school building, and there was money allocated in the recently voted on parks levy for development. It is now time to review the former plans with respect to a revised park footprint, and site conditions. Seattle Parks and Recreation is convening this public meeting to define a preferred schematic plan based on the formerly developed plans and current site conditions. This is your chance to see what is in store and provide input. More information on the project (including links to the complete PDF for the schematic below) is available from the Parks department website at: http://www.seattle.gov/parks/projects/crown_hill/
Crown Hill Park public meeting, Wednesday, April 28th, 6:30-8:00 PM, Crown Hill Center, 9250 14th Ave NW.
The Crown Hill Business Association will hold its meeting:
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Noon-1:30
Swanson’s Nursery Cafe
9701 15th Ave NW
Speaker:Â Dennis Galvin will speak on:
Crown Hill Neighbors and how to make Crown Hill a great place to live, play, and work
The Crown Hill Business Association is holding its Lunch Meeting this month:
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Noon-1:30
Mongolian Grill, 10023 Holman Rd (in the QFC Shopping Center)
Speaker: Seattle Police Officer Scott McGlashan will speak on: Crime Prevention and Safety in Crown Hill
OK, what is all this talk about CSO’s? And what is a CSO? And why should I care? Beware that various areas in Crown Hill drain to different treatment plants. Areas south of 85th drain southward rather than to the North Beach and Carkeek treatment plants. If you are reside in the area outlined on the map below, this information affects you. If you reside outside, you may be affected by a different drainage area, and the information may also be of interest. At the end of the article are some more resources you may want to consult. Read on for some easy to understand information extracted from a recent letter from King County, and there is a meeting on March 30 at Loyal Heights Community Center, 6:30-8 PM:
What is a CSO?
Combined sewer overflow
Why are CSOs a problem at North Beach?
Like many cities around the country , the older parts of King County’s wastewater system carry both wastewater and stormwater to the treatment plant. When heavy rains fill the pipes, excess stormwater and sewage flow directly into Puget Sound near North Beach. These events, called combined sewer overflows, or CSOs, help to avoid sewer backups into homes and businesses and onto streets during storms, but they are a public health and environmental concern. When a CSO happens, about 90 percent of the overflow is stormwater and the rest is dilute sewage.
In 2008, King County reported that the North Beach CSO facility has 10 overflows per year on average that discharge a total of 2.2 million gallons into Puget Sound off North Beach. King County’s goal is to reduce the number of CSOs each year, with a long-term goal of no more than one untreated discharge per location per year on a long-term average to meet state regulations.
