DESCRIPTION
This project will create a final design for a project to remove 60 feet of concrete groin, three creosoted wood piles, and scattered concrete debris to restore sediment transport processes and nearshore habitat along a high-priority segment of shoreline on the northern Kitsap Peninsula. The project will improve nearshore habitat conditions, including eelgrass beds, for forage fish and out migrating juvenile salmonids.
This project has received ESRP funding, which we are rescoping to support options analysis, preliminary design, and neighbor outreach.
This design project will produce final designs and permitting for a groyne removal project on Skunk Bay in Kitsap County. The goal is to restore sediment transport processes and nearshore habitat along a high-priority segment of shoreline on the northern Kitsap Peninsula in a safe, transparent manner. The project will produce a permitted final design to remove 60 feet of concrete groyne, three creosoted wood piles, and scattered concrete debris on private tidelands at Skunk Bay. Armor removal will improve nearshore habitat conditions for eelgrass beds, forage fish, and out- migrating juvenile salmonids as well as provide a local case study documenting the upstream consequences of groyne removal.
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The landowner initiated this project with the Shore Friendly program, and received through Shore Friendly a mini grant design for the conceptual design. The landowner is highly motivated to see the project implemented from a safety standpoint, and is pleased that restoring the sediment transfer process in the drift cell also restores habitat for forage fish, eel grass beds and outmigrating salmon.
