Stories about Getting to Clean Water: Shoreline’s Aurora Corridor Improvement

By Diane Dent, Water Quality Stories Lead, Water Quality Program



A raingarden swale along Shoreline’s Aurora Avenue improvement area.


Introduction
A three-mile stretch of Aurora Avenue (Highway 99) between North 145th Street and North 205th Street in
Shoreline, Washington, had problems. Before the city began making improvements here much of the area lacked sidewalks, and the wide roadway