Harper Estuary Culvert Removal and Bridge
#20-1608 #20-1608
Organization West Sound Partners for Ecosystem Recovery
Sponsor Kitsap County
Status Alternate
Schedule Start Date: 7/26/2022 End Date: 7/26/2023
Category Category: Restoration
DESCRIPTION
Harper Estuary is a small but significant pocket estuary with salt marsh fringe, mud flats and small freshwater streams, surrounded by lowland forests. The estuary is bisected by SE Olympiad Drive and tidal exchange is limited by a 36-inch diameter culvert . Kitsap County proposes to remove the 33% passable culvert on SE Olympiad Drive where it bisects Harper Estuary and replace it with a 120-foot bridge to allow full tidal exchange and unimpeded fish passage. This restoration project also includes removing road fill and associated shoreline armor, building a pedestrian pathway and upgrading associated stormwater treatment. This project will restore tidal habitat connectivity to intertidal habitat important for juvenile salmonid rearing, restore habitat processes (e.g. sediment transport) and allow unimpeded fish access to estuarine and stream habitat upstream of the barrier. This project will complete the final piece of a large, multi-agency restoration effort. Priority species to benefit are Chinook. For over 15 years, Kitsap County, WA Departments of Fish and Wildlife, Ecology, Natural Resources, and the Suquamish Tribe have worked together to engage the community and restore the estuary. The first phase removed historic bricks and fill, replaced a small barrier culvert on NE Southworth Dr. and completed the bridge analysis and design. With this final component of the restoration completed, natural processes of this nearshore and estuarine habitat will be fully restored.
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Requested05/29/2020Kitsap CountyMatch$727,861.00
Requested05/29/2020Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)BA Fish Barrier Removal Board$4,124,302.00
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
Not entered $4,852,163.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
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TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
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LOCATION
Chinook-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Puget Sound, Threatened
Chum-Pop (ESU):Chum-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Not Warranted
City Areas:Southworth
Coho-Pop (ESU):Coho-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Species of Concern
County:Kitsap
HUC12:Puget Sound (171100191200)
HUC8:Puget Sound (17110019)
Lead Entity Area:West Sound
Legislative District:26
Pink-Pop (ESU):Pink-Odd Year, Not Warranted
Puget Sound Action Areas:North Central Puget Sound
Salmon Recovery Regions:Puget Sound
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Puget Sound, Threatened
Watershed Administrative Unit:Clovos Passage/Carr Inlet
WRIA:Kitsap
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