As of October, 2024, the King County Flood Control District approved a $1.25 million construction grant to Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) for the Headwaters Project! A huge THANK YOU to the King County Council, especially D2 Council Member Girmay Zahilay, for approving this grant. SPR is the primary landowner in the Arboretum and after assuming project leadership has now secured the largest grant in the project's history.

Click Here to learn more about the grant.

Additional Thanks to the Arboretum Foundation, the Aldarra Foundation, the Chabot Family Fund, Dick Eitel, the Japanese Garden Society, Rick and Anne Matsen, the Seattle Parks Foundation, the Peach Foundation and to the many dozens of additional individuals who have donated time, money and hard work to this creek restoration effort.

SPR, with continued support from Friends of Arboretum Creek, has also applied for additional funding via a potential Water Quality grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology. We will learn more in 2025.

(If you have not yet experienced the joy of giving, Click Here to help fund a thriving stream full of life!)