Cedar River Trail closed for levee repair

News from King County Parks:

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A portion of a levee along the Cedar River near Renton that protects State Route 169 and other important public infrastructure and was damaged during wintertime flooding is being repaired before the next flood season.

In order to repair the levee, King County must close its Cedar River Trail from Aug. 16 to Sept. 3 while the work is under way.

The trail will be closed to all use between 154^th Place Southeast and 175^th Avenue Southeast, just east of Renton’s Ron Regis Park. The trail will be closed 24 hours a day, and there will be no flagged reroute during construction.

Work on the 85-foot-long section of levee will include adding large boulders to stabilize the base of the riverbank and adding large wood to help deflect flows from the bank and to improve habitat.

The project, estimated to cost $150,000, is critical to protecting State Route 169, a nearby fiber optics cable and the Cedar River Trail, which stretches 17.3 miles from the river’s mouth at Lake Washington upstream to Landsburg, at the boundary of the City of Seattle’s Cedar River Watershed.

For project information please contact Kate Akyuz, King County Water and Land Division, 206-263-4859 or Robert Nunnenkamp, King County Parks Division, 206-263-6207.