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The image above comes from the Bryan Park Watershed Study conducted by the City with funds from NOAA. If you can tolerate a 100K download, we have the map of most of the watershed, from which this is taken.
The red streak there in Bellevue is Princeton Creek. The consultant suggests that spending some $214,000 to control erosion in this area will reduce the sediment loads that are filling in the Lower Pond in the Park. The consultant also has a proposal to dredge and repair that Pond.
The study was not designed to deal with the gross fecal contamination of Princeton Creek and the Lower Pond by leaks from the City sewers in Bellevue. We have some data that show the problem. Our neighbors and President have taken up the issue.
Note added in July, 2000:
At the State Water Control Board meeting on June 15, 1999, the staff reported in response to the earlier appearances by Chuck Epes and Roy Reynolds. They said that the City's efforts to that date had included replacement of 4600 linear feet of sewer line and design work for another 2400 feet in 1999. Total cost of $2.3 million. Staff also reported that the fecal coliform counts were improved (we have not seen those data).
Roy and Nancy Reynolds report this summer that Princeton Creek is running clear this summer. It no longer stinks of sewage and the fish have returned(!). We don't have the fecal coliform data yet but this is anecdotal evidence that the City's sewer rehabilitation program is having the desired effect.
The Friends of Bryan Park have their own web pages for discussion of these and other (particularly VDOT) issues.
Last updated 02/24/02
Please send questions or comments to John Butcher