West Bay Watersheds

Lowland Watershed

Lowland watersheds occur in the glacial plateau, draining to floodplains or Puget Sound

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The West Bay Watersheds includes Schneider Creek Watershed and several smaller ephemeral streams, from the Dam at the mouth of the Deschutes Estuary, northward to the beginning of the drift cell that ends at Butler Cove. This landscape is occupied by the Westside Neighborhood of the City of Olympia. The Olympia Coalition for Ecosystem Preservation has adopted this landscape as a focus of its conservation work, with its genesis around preservation of one of the last heron rookeries on Budd Inlet.

Notes

• Due to the population density and social structure, I'd propose that we make the Schneider Creek Watershed the northern extent of the West Bay system, allowing the small dry bluff system between West Bay and Butler Cove to be a distinct ecosystem with unique character and needs, more defined by a beach management strategy.
• The Ecosystem Guild is starting map work for this system.