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| Title | Revetment on the Green River at Tukwila, ca. 1963 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1963 |
| Caption | In the early 1960s, King County did extensive work on the Green River to control seasonal flooding. Workers dredged out gravel bars, straightened the channel, and cleared away trees and brush. They also built revetments of gravel and rock to stabilize the banks. The idea of this channelization was to reduce flood damage by moving water through the area more quickly. However, it destroyed salmon habitat and caused more serious flooding downstream.
This aerial photo, probably taken in 1963, shows a channelized bend in the Green River, just south of South 180th Street in Tukwila. This stretch of the river was dredged in preparation for the building of Segalie Business Park. King County's Water & Land Resources Division reports that flooding is still a problem along this same stretch of river in the late 1990s. |
| Notes | On verso: Item III. Segalie contract. Green River right bank. Received December 23, 1963, King County Engineer, Flood Control Division. |
| Subjects | Floods; Flood control; Rivers; King County (Wash.). Engineering Dept |
| Places | Green River (Wash.); Tukwila (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1998.34.4 |
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| Credit Line | King County Engineering Department Flood Control Photographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | King County Engineering Department Flood Control Photographs |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print : gelatin, b&w; 20 x 25 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original photograph using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 5. |
