DESCRIPTION
This project improves
fish passage and habitat conditions at RM3.2 in McDonald Creek, providing much
better access to 4.5 miles of Coho habitat and 6.1 miles of ESA-listed
Steelhead and Cutthroat habitat by updating the Agnew Irrigation District water
diversion facility. Concurrent with barrier removal, the adjacent degraded
stream channel will be restored. The project will be accomplished by 1)
improving the Agnew diversion head gate, canal, bypass, and fish screen;
removing portions of the structure from the stream channel; building an
all-season fish passage structure; and 2) restoring the degraded channel and
floodplain near the diversion dam.