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Lake Washington Watershed (WRIA 8)
Updated: July 2017
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Land Characteristics
- Basin Area
- 8,735 Total Acres
- City Area
- 38.5%
- Drainage Jurisdiction(s)
- Bellevue: 94.6%
- Beaux Arts: 0.0%
- Clyde Hill: 0.0%
- Issaquah: 0.0%
- King County: 2.0%
- Kirkland: 0.3%
- Medina: 0.0%
- Newcastle: 0.0%
- Redmond: 3.1%
- Renton: 0.0%
- Lowest Elevation
- 20 Ft
- Highest Elevation
- 1,010 Ft
- Total Length of Open Channel
- 26.5 Miles
- Total Length of Storm Drainage Pipes:
- 162.7 Miles
Salmon Present in the Basin
- Chinook*+
- Sockeye
- Rainbow & Cutthroat Trout
- Chum
- Steelhead
- Coho+
* Listed Federal Endangered Species
+ City Species of Local Importance (Bellevue Land Use Code 20.25H.150A)
Population
The population density in Bellevue ranges from 1,344 to 9,851 people per square mile.
- Basin Population (2016)
- 53,253
- % of all Basins
- 35.3%
- Basin Population Density
- 1,508 People per Square Mile
Land Use
| Entire Basin | Within Bellevue | |
| Public Right of Way | 15.1% | 15.2% |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial/Office | 11.8% | 11.1% |
| Industrial | 1.6% | 1.7% |
| Institutional/Government | 6.4% | 6.8% |
| Mixed Use/Misc | 6.0% | 5.6% |
| Multi-Family | 4.7% | 4.9% |
| Open Space/Park | 12.3% | 10.9% |
| Single Family Residential | 35.2% | 36.9% |
| Unknown | 6.8% | 6.9% |
Land Cover
| Entire Basin | Within Bellevue | |
| Impervious | 42.7% | 50.6% |
|---|---|---|
| Tree Canopy | 38.3% | 37.7% |
| Impervious in 100 Ft Stream Buffer | 23.3% | 23.3% |
| Tree Canopy in 100 Ft Stream Buffer | 56.1% | 56.1% |