The river channel fluctuated naturally over time and there were all kinds of curves and meanders – and places like Kellogg Island – throughout the Duwamish Valley.

Early settlers saw the value of the Duwamish River, claiming land beside it in 1851 for what would become Georgetown. ... will culminate in a “vision map” for the Duwamish by the end of the year.

In 2001, Rasmussen helped advocate for EPA’s creation of the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund site. With that designation, the five-mile stretch of the river, deemed a Superfund site, it was ...

If the loss of habitat wasn’t enough to drive wildlife away, pollution finished the job. Over the 20th century, the water and mud was poisoned with arsenic, mercury, and PCBs.

Duwamish River to get $342 million more for cleanup The EPA’s order aims to undo decades of industrial pollution to Seattle’s only river. by Daniel Person December 3, 2014 January 24, 2024.

There are two osprey living at the new Duwamish River People's Park in Seattle's South Park neighborhood. The birds just moved in and are nesting on a man-made tree snag meant to mimic their ...

CORRECTION A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition would be helping to put on a lucha libre match in South Park on July 23.

SEATTLE — Many living in the Duwamish Valley gathered at the South Park Plaza Friday evening to peacefully rally against proposed changes to the river's cleanup plan from the Environmental ...

At a cove on the Duwamish River heavily polluted by cancer-promoting PCBs, envision instead a kayak rental shop, a fish market and a water taxi stop. At the site of the old Malarkey asphalt plant ...

The Duwamish is a study in contrasts—Seattle’s only river, but largely unknown and unexplored by our water-loving populace; once a breadbasket for the Duwamish, Muckleshoot and Suquamish tribes, now a ...

Restoring mudflats and marshes to the lower Duwamish River's shore is being studied -- and has begun in one case. The Elliott Bay Duwamish River Natural Resources Trustees -- representatives from ...