As part of the Snow/Salmon watershed and estuary an ecosystem restoration and protection plan begun in 1997, NOSC will coordinate with landowners WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and Natural Resouces. Funding and technical assistance is provided by WA Depts of Ecology and Natural Resources and Jefferson Co Natural Resources Division as well as partners WDFW, Jamestown Klallam Tribe and Hood Canal Coordinating Council. Volunteers from Water/Beach Watchers, Discovery Baywatch, Jefferson Land Trust and the Marine Resource Committee will continue their work to improve estuary habitat. The main mill building collapsed into intertidal estuary lagoon habitat. Industrial equipment remains in the building and pollutants are likely to be released into marine waters as the mill collapses and debris is moved about on the tide. WDFW performed a Level 1 assessment for hazardous materials on the site prior to purchase with USFWS funds in 2004. The assessment suggested there would be minor leakage of machinery oils left around the concrete slab.

The project removed the derelict buildings and hydrocarbon laden soils, concrete footings and an oil soaked wooden bulkhead rom the nearshore and replaced them with clean marine sediment. The lagoon is habitat for the Olympia oyster and is heavily utilized by ESA-listed juvenile Hood Canal summer chum as they leave Salmon Creek. At the site, machinery footings were soaked in oil and sat atop oil contaiminated fill heald back from the estuary with rotting, oil soaked cedar bulkheading. the project removed 106 tons of concrete footings, 245 tons of contaminated soils, and 6.5 tons of oily bulkheading. 35 creosote treated railroad ties were also removed fromt he adjacent area. 186 tons of clean pit run replaced the contaminated soils. To avoid siltation of tadjacent Olympia oyster beds a toe of mixed drain rocka nd peagravel was put below the high tide mark. Volunteers assist in summer chum spawner counts, nearshore riparian planting and oyster monitoring. In 2009, NOSC's Washington Conservation Corps Crew (WCC) planted 90 native shrubs and trees on the site to prevent erosion and provide riparian habitat.