South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group used this funding to reconnect the 96th Street Oxbow and an associated 23 acre wetland to the mainstem of the Puyallup River. The site is bounded by the Puyallup River on the west and straddles the intersection of Riverside Drive and McCutcheon Road. The oxbow is approximately 4-acres, and it had a perched drainage (10 feet above summer flows) to the river that was choked with invasive vegetation. The oxbow formerly provided no functions beneficial to fish, and the wetland was almost entirely covered with dense Himalayan blackberry. The project involved reconnecting the oxbow by installing a 64-foot long aluminum culvert with a 190-foot channel excavated 4-6 feet wide at 4.9% slope. The project is located on the right bank of the Puyallup River at river mile 14.5. The culvert and roughened channel will provide juvenile salmonids unrestricted access to the oxbow at all but the lowest summer flows. Invasive vegetation (Himalayan blackberry and reed canary grass) was cleared and the area was replanted with native plant species. Juvenile coho, Chinook, steelhead and cutthroat will directly benefit from the habitat that is made available by this project.