Johnson Creek is a tributary to the Hoko River in WRIA 19, Clallam County, WA. The Johnson Creek, Triple Culverts Restoration Project is at MP 9.4 on the Hoko Ozette Road in the Johnson Creek watershed. The project will utilize previously developed 100% designs and acquired permits to construct the replacement of three adjacent, fish barrier culverts with a fish passable structure in order to restore open access to 15.6 acres of summer and winter juvenile salmon rearing as well as 1.7 linear miles of salmon spawning and rearing habitat. Replacement of these structures will also re-connect hydraulic processes within a wetland that is currently bisected roughly in half by the Hoko-Ozette Road which acts as a low dike bisecting the wetland. Fall Chinook, coho, steelhead, bull trout, and cutthroat trout all inhabit this area and will benefit from the project. An independent tributary we call the Johnson B Tributary runs along the southern edge of the Hoko Ozette Road, within the road ditch, for over 600-feet before joining Johnson Creek at the subject culverts' outlets. The Johnson B Tributary is highly degraded due to its location in a roadside ditch limiting the riparian buffer, creating a straight stream with no Large Woody Debris (LWD) allowed to accumulate due to "ditch" maintenance activities. Road aggregate erodes into the stream and accumulated roadway pollutants are regularly washed into the stream from frequent overtopping events. The realignment will move Johnson B Tributary from the roadside ditch south into the adjacent forest. The new alignment will improve channel sinuosity, riparian cover, will add engineered log jams, and will provide improved spawning habitat while also creating rearing absent in the existing channelized stream section.

WDFW most recently completed a Level A culvert assessment in Mach 2021. This assessment lists the culverts as fish passage barriers. Percent passability cannot be determined due to the need for a Level B assessment. A Level B assessment is not possible at the site due to the road overtopping that occurs and due to the presence of Johnson B Tributary at the culvert outlets. WDFW staff note that two of the culvert inlets are smashed (apparently by heavy machinery dredging the inlets) which would limit passability and that the inlets enter into small upstream impoundments created by the dredging. Exit from these impoundments in low flows could be a further fish passage issue.