'Poster child' estuary preserved at Edmonds' Meadowdale Beach Park

EDMONDS — A 5-foot-wide culvert had previously been the only way water from Lund’s Gulch Creek at Meadowdale Beach Park could enter Puget Sound.

Now, the opening is 100 feet across.

That’s thanks to a $15.5 million project celebrated by federal, state and county officials Friday morning at the Edmonds park. It’ll preserve and protect what’s called a pocket estuary.

A 1.3 acre plot of land offering respite to traveling salmon is now protected. The project also opened up a beach to easy public use and added a bridge where an embankment had stood.

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