The City of Everett is making the commitment to clean water, and we need your help!
Everett and over eighty other cities and counties in Western Washington are developing plans to address polluted runoff from streets, homes, and businesses. Please see the Stormwater Program section of our Surface & Stormwater page for background on these plans.
The goal of the Stormwater Management Action Planning (SMAP) is to identify a high-priority area in the city and develop actions that will accommodate growth and development while preventing water quality degradation. A successful SMAP strategically identifies approaches to alleviate existing stormwater problems and to protect and improve receiving water conditions while meeting future population targets.
We need your input on prioritizing areas for stormwater actions. It is essential for the plan to reflect the community’s values on water quality and inform how and where future actions are implemented.
Over the course of the next year, you can help prioritize and shape the plan. Your input is important to the success of Everett’s Stormwater Management Action Plan. Visit this storymap link or click the image above to learn more and provide comments.
The Everett City Council will receive a briefing about Everett's Stormwater Management Action Plan on June 8, 2022. Visit the City Council webpage for more information on how to attend meetings.
Contact Heather Griffin, Surface Water Manager at [email protected] or 425-257-7206 if you have any questions.
The SMAP will integrate a planning approach that emphasizes protection and improvements to receiving water quality and habitat considering current and future development conditions.
The health of the City’s receiving waters (creeks, streams, etc.) will be evaluated. As part of this study all future work, current projects, and actions to prevent toxins from entering the water will be evaluated and prioritized.
The City then will make a list of the prioritized receiving waters where potential actions will be implemented to reduce polluted stormwater runoff.
We need your input on prioritizing areas for stormwater actions. Once the initial studies are complete and community input is received, we will prepare the SMAP. The result is a long-term plan to implement the projects and actions that will help reduce polluted runoff identified with the community’s input.
Priority basins as identified by previous studies by the City of Everett:
Merrill and Ring Creek
Penny Creek
North Creek
Swamp Creek
Phase 3 - SMAP
The purpose of the SMAP is to identify and document stormwater management activities that may improve the condition of one high priority drainage basin:
Where is the need and beneficial placement of stormwater facility retrofits
Identify land or development strategies needs for protection or water quality management
Are there stormwater management actions and activities that need to be enhanced or customized