In 1997, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) did the original assessment of this barrier culvert as part of a report entitled Thurston County Barrier Culvert Inventory. Methods included a field assessment of the type of barrier problem and cause; physical attributes of the culvert including water depth inside the culvert, slope and outfall drop as well as information about the plunge pool and channel. Quality of the habitat was also considered and a Priority Index was assigned for each barrier culvert. WDFW describes this culvert as a total barrier, with two concrete 2 foot diameter pipes side by side. Both are perched, broken about 2 feet from the end at the outfall and have an outfall of 0.5 feet. The depth of the plunge pool is 1 foot. Both culvets will be removed and replaced with an 8 foot diameter pipe countersunk approximately 1.5 feet. Design work is complete and permits will be submitted in mid-February for a construction target of summer, 1999. This project will open up 254.74 square meters of rearing habitat, and 122.64 square meters of spawning habitat for chum, coho, steelhead, cutthroat and rainbow. A project upstream from this one will remove a barrier on private land, fence the riparian corridor for livestock exclusion, and revegetate the riparian corridor. Stream Team volunteers shall perform revegetation within six months and perform monitoring functions for two years after completion of the project.