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. The quality of the habitat was also considered and a Priority Index was assigned for each barrier culvert. The Priority Index for this culvert is 20.94 out of a high of 37 for Thurston County. Culverts with higher priority indexes have already been fixed, are in other jurisdictions or are very expensive. WDFW describes this culvert as a total barrier with a perched outfall and an outfall drop of 0.6 feet. This project removes the existing culvert and replaces it 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. Construction will be completed in the fall of 1999 before fall salmon spawning runs. This project will open up 27 square meters of rearing habitat, and 14,752 square meters of spawning habitat for chum, coho, steelhead, cutthroat and rainbow. Stream Team volunteers shall perform revegetation within six months of project completion and shall perform monitoring functions for one years after completion of the project.