Carlisle Lake is a historic mill pond located in Onalaska. This 29 acre lake was created by damming Gheer Creek in the early 1900 's. Locals have been working on restoring the water quality of the Lake since 1985. In 1987, the Lake was dredged and the spillways were rehabilitated. Unfortunately, no fish passage was included in the project. This project will create a design to allow fish passage into Carlisle Lake and Gheer Creek. This will be a multiphase project. The first phase will be designing fish passage for the dam and assessing the upstream waters for additional projects. There is a total of 8.11 miles of mapped upstream habitat that is currently completely inaccessable to salmon. Currently, salmonscape maps coho and winter steelhead as using Gheer Creek up until the Carlisle Lake dam. The dam is located on Gheer Creek .8 miles upstream from the confluence with the South Fork Newaukum River. Spring and fall chinook salmon spawn in the South Fork Newaukum River in the vicinity of the confluence.