Brightwater Committed to Keeping Invasive Out of Native Habitat

A recent on Patch featured the native habitat restored at the soon-to-open Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant. One reader commented that the plants in a photo looked liked Japanese knotweed, an invasive weed on King County’s Noxious Weeds List.

The plant in questions is actually Black Cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa, a Washington native that resembles knotweed, according to Doug Williams, Media Relations Coordinator King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks.

“We’re half-way through a 10-year monitoring period as part of our restoration work at that site. We’re out there weekly to monitor for noxious weeds and assess the condition of the vegetation that we’ve planted,” he said.

Stay Tuned, Woodinville Patch will have a complete story on restoration project in the coming weeks.