DESCRIPTION
Restoration will occur through a number of measures including the removal and relocation of levees, roads, bulkheads, and other infrastructure, and floodplain reforestation. These actions will provide the river with areas to meander, store sediment, create stable anabranches and side channels, and spread out and slow down during floods. The reforested floodplains will serve as permanent, natural sources of long-term large wood recruitment to create stable, complex habitat.
The North Olympic Salmon Coalition will complete final design (90%) to restore 22 acres of the Dungeness River estuary, in Clallam County, WA. The future restoration project will remove approximately 500’ of the northern terminus of the USACE right bank Dungeness River levee to reconnect the river to its right bank estuarine marsh. The project goal is to advance design for a project that will restore juvenile rearing and migratory habitat for Dungeness River salmonids, including ESA-listed Puget Sound Chinook, Hood Canal-Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca Summer Chum, Puget Sound Steelhead and Bull Trout. The restoration of the Lower Dungeness River has been ranked as the number one priority by the Dungeness River Management Team and is the top ranked project on the NOPLE 4-Year work plan (2018).
WRIA18 East: Dungeness River Watershed
