Lower Dosewallips Floodplain & Estuary Restoration
#04-03-14139 #04-03-14139
 Jefferson County- Dosewallips Dosewallips Estuary Restoration Lower Dosewallips Floodplain & Estuary Restoration
Organization Hood Canal Coordinating Council Lead Entity
Sponsor Wild Fish Conservancy
Status Completed
Schedule Start Date: 1/1/2008 End Date: 12/20/2011
Category Category: Restoration
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DESCRIPTION
The Wild Fish Conservancy completed continuation of a habitat restoration project at the mouth of the Dosewallips River. The Dosewallips River, the second largest tributary watershed to the Hood Canal, is used extensively by three ESA listed species: Puget Sound Chinook, Puget Sound steelhead, and Hood Canal summer chum. Several regional salmon recovery planning efforts have recognized the Dosewallips watershed as offering one of the best chances for effective salmon habitat protection and recovery. Although the upper river basin is pristine due to its protection within Olympic National Park, the lower reaches of the river have experienced severe habitat degradation. In this reach of the river, bank armoring, large woody debris removal, and dredging have all contributed to the disruption of geomorphologic processes such as lateral channel migration and erosion and sedimentation, leading to reduced habitat quality in the river and estuary. In this phase of the project WFC removed 800 ft of bank armoring and levee, and recreated a natural shoreline with woody debris and riparian plantings. This will restore natural process to over 5 acres of historic floodplain. We also construted a large mid channel ELJ that occupies 60% of the bankful width of the river, downstream of all park infrastructure. Additionally, WFC conducted a geomorphological reach analysis to assess the potential for geomorphic work in the lowest reach. This will be used to further target selected reaches for the removal of bank armoring and to site large woody debris placement.
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
RequestedRecreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration$202,000.00
RequestedWild Fish ConservancyMatch$609,000.00
Allocated04/03/2012Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration$201,986.00
Allocated04/03/2012Wild Fish ConservancyMatch$473,969.70
Spent05/16/2011Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon Federal Projects-$0.00
Spent11/21/2011Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration-$201,986.00
Spent11/21/2011Wild Fish ConservancyMatch-$473,969.75
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
$675,955.72 $811,000.00 $675,955.70 $675,955.75 -$0.05
OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Other Funding Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
Grand Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
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LOCATION
Chinook-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Puget Sound, Mid-Hood Canal, Threatened
Chum-Pop (ESU):Chum-Hood Canal, Hood Canal, Threatened
City Areas:Brinnon
Coho-Pop (ESU):Coho-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Species of Concern
County:Jefferson
HUC12:Lower Dosewallips River (171100180503)
HUC8:Hood Canal (17110018)
Lead Entity Area:Hood Canal
Legislative District:24
Pink-Pop (ESU):Pink-Odd Year, Not Warranted
Puget Sound Action Areas:Hood Canal
Salmon Recovery Regions:Hood Canal
Sections:02
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Puget Sound, West Hood Canal Tributaries, Threatened
Township:T25NR02W
Watershed Administrative Unit:Lower Dosewallips
WRIA:Skokomish - Dosewallips
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RESTORATION METRICS
Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Treated or Protected (C.0.b)
0.00mi0.10mi
Estuarine / Nearshore Project    
*Total Amount Of Estuarine / Nearshore Acres Treated (C.9.b)
1.00acres1.00acres
 Dike Or berm modification / removal (C.9.d.1)    
Acres of Habitat Made Available To Salmonids through dike or berm modification/removal (C.9.d.3)
0.00acres
Miles Of Dikes Modified/Removed (C.9.d.2)
0.00mi
 Estuarine plant removal / control (C.9.j.1)    
Acres of Estuary Treated for plant removal/control (C.9.j.3)
1.00acres1.00acres
 Shoreline armor removal or modification (C.9.k.1)    
Acres of Shoreline Treated for armor modification/removal (C.9.k.3)
0.00acres
Miles of Shoreline Treated for armor modification/removal (C.9.k.2)
0.00mi
Instream Habitat Project    
Total Miles Of Instream Habitat Treated (C.4.b)
0.19mi
 Channel structure placement (C.4.d.1)    
Miles of Stream Treated for channel structure placement (C.4.d.3)
0.08mi
Number of structures placed in channel (C.4.d.7)
1.00
Pools Created through channel structure placement (C.4.d.5)
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