Light rail, new apartments, retail redevelopment. Northgate is adding impervious surface faster than any neighborhood in the watershed. Your yard might be one of the last green patches.
Apply for Pilot ProgramNorthgate is in the middle of a development boom. The Link Light Rail station opened. The mall is being redeveloped. New apartment buildings are going up. Every new building adds impervious surface - rooftops, parking structures, sidewalks, plazas. Water that used to soak into the ground now runs straight into the storm drain.
The older residential streets around the development core still have yards, trees, and permeable ground. But they're shrinking. Your lot might be one of the last green patches in a neighborhood that's rapidly paving over.
Underneath the new construction and the old houses alike is the same alderwood soil and hardpan. The Vashon glacier didn't care about zoning. A bioswale on a Northgate residential lot is a counterweight to the development happening around you - absorbing and filtering stormwater at the property level while the neighborhood's impervious footprint keeps growing.
Tailored stormwater and landscaping solutions for your property.
Custom bioswales for Northgate's changing landscape. Designed to handle increased runoff from surrounding redevelopment while protecting the South Fork headwaters.
Rain gardens, French drains, permeable surfaces, and infiltration systems. Meet the stormwater challenge of a densifying neighborhood head-on.
Full-service landscaping using Pacific Northwest native species. Stand out in a neighborhood of new construction with living, breathing green infrastructure.
We're selecting 5 founding homeowners for our first residential bioswale installations. As Northgate develops, residential bioswales become more important - not less.
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