Bellevue, Washington Lake to Lake Television Show, 26 Nov 2019

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From YouTube: Lake to Lake - Holiday Edition 2019

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Catch the Salmon Release on Lake to Lake
On the latest episode Lake to Lake, the City of Bellevue and Muckleshoot Tribe partner to release hundreds of Coho Salmon in Coal Creek.
Also, see how Bellevue Utilities and Parks staff are working together to provide clean drinking water during an emergency— and catch a glimpse of all the fun in store with this year’s Bellevue Magic Season!
Lake to Lake is produced by Bellevue Television and is available on Cable Channel 21 and on the BellevueTelevision You Tube Channel. For more information, email BTV@BellevueWA.gov

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Hello and welcome to Lake to Lake show about our beautiful city of Bellevue I'm, your host Robin Steele today we're coming to you from garden delights at the Bellevue Botanical Garden and on this episode of Lake to Lake were featuring a new spawning ground for coho salmon. How Bellevue is prepared to provide clean drinking water during emergencies and a look at the 2019 Bellevue magic season? First, we'll show you how several hundred salmon have been given a new home in Coal, Creek, KITT Paulsen explains their journey and the benefits they'll bring to our environment.

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We're really lucky today, because the mukil Street Fisheries Department has teamed up with us and we're gonna get five hundred and seventy five to six hundred coho adults. All of the fish that we get are from the Issaquah hatchery. So the muck- oh shoot fisheries crew goes to the hatchery and then they put in the fish into the transfer truck.

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When they get here, they set it all up and they open up the transfer, truck gate and the fish are moved into this slick hose that they use to allow the water to come out of the tank and into the pond. Coho typically are fall spawning, and so they usually come in October November December. They will pair up and spawn it takes about three months for those eggs to hatch and emerge from the gravel they stay in our stream for about 18 months, which is not like the other fish. The other salmon go out earlier.

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The coho live with us for a full year and a half. So then they they leave the watershed and they go out into the ocean. They'll swim up along Vancouver Island and come back as three year old fish they'll come back in they'll spawn and then they'll die and so they're.

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Their bodies, though, provide nutrients to the stream and there's sort of like a vitamin pill for the watershed, because they're bringing back nutrients from marine waters that you wouldn't get here in ankle, Creek alone, the city of Bellevue has a vision for healthy and sustainable environment, and so one of the things that they're looking at is what do we need to do to have urban areas where people and fish can live together and it's a challenge with all of the pollution and with all of the other things that we deal with from our cars from our yards and other things.

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It takes a lot to get an urban area that can sustain salmon I, don't believe we should write off urban areas for salmon. I think that we have the opportunity to be able to keep salmon in our watersheds, and so for me, it's a validation of some of the work we've done on habitat and on water quality, and it's just it's. It's a hope. It's a it's a sign of hope for our system that it's going to become sustainable.

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Next, we show you how the city is prepared to provide clean drinking water during an emergency.

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Projections are that, in case of a major event like a major earthquake, our community could be without water for up to two weeks and water is so essential to our community. So.

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It is our commitment to the residents to provide continuous flow of safe drinking water, so these equipments they are designed to do just that. So in case of natural disasters, emergency happens. We are capable for deliver. Our commitment, so over here is connected right now to the water supply and the plumbing goes through. Underneath the table comes up to the top, and then we have.

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These are an extra points where we can open the bag and start filling with water and we can fill the bag and we have the ability to fill up this table right now. Five bags, we take off one for to relieve the pressure when we only do the exercise and once the facts fill we disconnected and put a cap on, and this is the place into a grocery bag, and so we can handle the customers as customers drive by and work for the place on this table.

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There will be not a person, and these units are mobile. We have ability to deploy them anywhere in the city where it's needed well currently have two sets of these that distribute in tables. So we have an ability to deploy at two different location at the same time. So at the end of the day today, we will have somewhere around 20 personnel in the city that they are familiar with the system and they are capable to deploy this system on their own as we are conducting the training.

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We're also fine-tuning the procedures, make sure that we are able to deploy at a moment's notice. So today's exercise involves utilities as well as Parks Department. In the real event, Parks Department is responsible for deploy the system where utilities come on board to verify the water quality water.

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Is so essential to our community to our customers that we want to be prepared to serve them as quickly and as comprehensively as we can so exercises like these are essential for us to be, and our staff to be trained and ready to serve.

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This beautiful light display is just one of the many wonderful events of the Bellevue magic season. Next Patrick Bannon tells us all about this beloved holiday tradition.

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Truly Bellevue shines its brightest during the Bellevue magic season. The Bellevue magic season features amazing. Community events, one of the centerpieces of the magic season is the Bellevue downtown ice rink presented by Symetra. It's an ice skating rink set in the middle of downtown park open throughout the holiday season, for you to come down lace up your skates and have a great time. Another excellent feature of the Bellevue downtown ice rink is that it's covered for all weathers skating.

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It's open air for open-air skating, but it has a roof, and so whether it's raining snowing just windy or cloudy and gray, you can come down and skate all through the season. In all kinds of weather. The rink includes skate rentals warming, Hut concession, stand, parking is convenient nearby at the Bellevue downtown park and what's great about the Bellevue downtown ice rink is that you can pay once and skate all day garden delights transforms the Bellevue Botanical Garden into a wonderland of over half-million twinkling lights. Whimsical characters come out to play.

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It is just an amazing, come together moment for the community that is orchestrated by hundreds of volunteers, with the both Bellevue Botanical Garden Society, also in partnership with the Bellevue parks and community services department during the Bellevue Magic season, all the world's a stage and no better place to catch a performance than at the Maidan Bower Center Theatre in downtown Bellevue, which again features holiday classics, including two companies presenting the Nutcracker, a Celtic Yuletide, as well as a comedy countdown for New Year's Eve snowflake Lane is all about making memories.

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It's a free event open to the public. It's a nightly parade that features a cast of 300 characters, including jingle bell, dancers, toy soldiers, a light show music falling snow and it happens every night at 7:00 p.m. along the sidewalks at Bellevue square in Lincoln Square.

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The Bellevue Magic season is a true community partnership between private businesses, our city government, volunteers and we're able to come together and a pretty amazing way to present a collection of holiday events to really make an experience. You won't forget right in the heart of downtown Bellevue, to learn more about the Bellevue magic season. You can find all the details at Magic season, comm.

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Bellevue magic season runs now through mid January, be sure to catch. Your favorites December 4th through the 7th come to the hilltop holiday craft, show at the Northwest Art Center find a great selection of handcrafted items for more than 60 Northwest crafters admission and parking are free and craft items vary by price. November 29, through December 24th at 7 p.m. nightly bring the whole family to snowflake Lane, presented by the Bellevue collection, catch the magic on Bellevue way. The event includes a night léa snowfall and a dazzling parade with live toy soldiers.

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Jingle bell dancers, Santa and more November 29th through January 20th come skate at the Bellevue ice rink in Bellevue downtown park. The ice rink is open daily and hours vary. General admission is 12 to 15 dollars and includes skate rental November 30th through December 31st sea garden, delights at the Bellevue Botanical Garden stroll through the spectacular garden night display nightly from 4:30 to 9:00 p.m. enjoy over a half million lights, which transform the Bellevue Botanical Garden into a blossoming winter.

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Wonderland tickets are $5 per person, and children 10 and under are free, December, 2nd through 31st sea holiday, performances that the maiden Bower Center theater enjoy a month of special holiday productions, including the Nutcracker Celtic Yuletide, and a comedy countdown to New Year's Eve. We hope you enjoyed our show today featuring some of the reasons why Bellevue is the city where you want to be, if you have any feedback or questions for us.

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Please email us anytime at bee TV at Bellevue, W a.gov also be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with our latest video news and information. I'm Robin Steele from all of us at the City of Bellevue and Bellevue television, happy holidays.

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