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Lake Washington Watershed (WRIA 8) / State Stream #08-0156
Updated: July 2017
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Land Characteristics
- Basin Area
- 1,268 Total Acres
- City Area
- 5.9%
- Drainage Jurisdiction(s)
- Bellevue: 100.0%
- Beaux Arts: 0.0%
- Clyde Hill: 0.0%
- Issaquah: 0.0%
- King County: 0.0%
- Kirkland: 0.0%
- Medina: 0.0%
- Newcastle: 0.0%
- Redmond: 0.0%
- Renton: 0.0%
- Lowest Elevation
- 31 Ft
- Highest Elevation
- 1,196 Ft
- Total Length of Open Channel
- 4.7 Miles
- Total Length of Storm Drainage Pipes:
- 30.1 Miles
Salmon Present in the Basin
- Chinook*+ (Lake only)
- Kokanee+
- Sockeye (Lake only)
- Rainbow & Cutthroat Trout
- Coho+
- Steelhead (Lake only)
* 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)
- 7,498
- % of all Basins
- 5.0%
- Basin Population Density
- 3,785 People per Square Mile
Land Use
| Entire Basin | Within Bellevue | |
| Public Right of Way | 21.4% | 21.4% |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial/Office | 5.2% | 5.2% |
| Industrial | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Institutional/Government | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Mixed Use/Misc | 4.7% | 4.7% |
| Multi-Family | 0.3% | 0.3% |
| Open Space/Park | 2.8% | 2.8% |
| Single Family Residential | 53.8% | 53.8% |
| Unknown | 7.3% | 7.3% |
Land Cover
| Entire Basin | Within Bellevue | |
| Impervious | 39.3% | 39.3% |
|---|---|---|
| Tree Canopy | 45.0% | 45.0% |
| Impervious in 100 Ft Stream Buffer | 17.9% | 17.9% |
| Tree Canopy in 100 Ft Stream Buffer | 73.5% | 73.5% |