DESCRIPTION
The Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group in partnership with the Kitsap Conservation District and two private landowners will restore 470feet of the lower reach and 1 acre of estuary of a small perennial stream and remove 770 feet of creosote piling bulkhead from the nearshore at Rose Point near Eglon. This project was originally identified in Kitsap County's 2016 assessment of priority nearshore projects as a top tier restoration project. The Kitsap Shore Friendly program has already given a small grant to the northern property owner to do some preliminary analysis and design work which is completed. The southern property owner is in the process of applying for a Kitsap Conservation District Backyard Habitat grant to restore the lower reach of the freshwater stream on her property including removing reed canary grass, replanting with native riparian plants, and replacing a bridge that is impacting natural stream processes. This grant will bring these two efforts together to complete final design work, secure necessary permits and construct the project.
Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group, in partnership with the Kitsap Conservation District and two private landowners, has completed preliminary and final designs to restore a historic barrier embayment estuary connected to a small perennial stream at Rose Point, along the Puget Sound Shoreline in the Eglon neighborhood (Kingston; North Kitsap County). The design includes the removal of 770 feet of creosote piling bulkhead; the restoration of approximately 2.5 acres of salt marsh and embayment estuary by removing berms, re-creating barrier spits, and reconnecting the stream to the salt marsh; replacement of an undersized bridge that poses a barrier to fish passage; and restoring approximately 500 ft of channelized stream upstream and downstream of the bridge. This design project, when constructed, will benefit juvenile Chinook salmon as they outmigrate from Puget Sound in the spring and summer. This future condition will provide the potential to restart a small coho and chum run in the freshwater stream with adults returning in the fall and juveniles outmigrating in the late winter, spring and summer.
This project was originally identified in Kitsap County's 2016 assessment of priority nearshore salmon habitat projects as a top tier restoration project and will contribute to a larger regional effort to restore a series of barrier embayment estuary habitats for migrating juvenile salmon in Puget Sound.