SRP Project

Evans/Bear Creek Restoration at Keller Farm

Organization	Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (WRIA 8) Lead Entity
Sponsor	City of Redmond
Status	Completed
Schedule	Start Date: 1/1/2010 End Date: 1/11/2021

DESCRIPTION

Description
Restore instream and riparian habitats of Bear Creek and Evans Creek through the former Keller Farm property. Reconfigure the channel where it has been widened due to past farm practices, enhance the riparian area, and add large wood to the channel.

Opportunities, Constraints, and Other Considerations
City of Redmond is in the process of certifying some of the site as a wetland mitigation bank. Other activities-such as instream restoration, off channel and backwater habitat, and forested buffer restoration-will occur separate from the mitigation-funded elements.

FUNDING SOURCES

Funding detail not available at this time

FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT

Type	Date	Funding Org	Funding Program	Match	Amount

Grant Project Agreement Totals	Proposed	Requested	Allocated	Spent	Balance
Grant Project Agreement Totals

OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)

Type	Date	Funding Org	Funding Program	Match	Amount

Other Funding Totals		Requested	Allocated	Spent	Balance
Other Funding Totals

Grand Totals	Proposed	Requested	Allocated	Spent	Balance
Grand Totals

PRIMARY SPONSOR

City of Redmond

PROJECT CONTACT

Tom Beavers

SECONDARY SPONSOR

Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
King County

ALT PROJECT CONTACT

Roger Dane

LOCATION

Chinook-Pop (ESU):	Chinook-Puget Sound, Sammamish River, Threatened
Chum-Pop (ESU):	Chum-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Not Warranted
City Areas:	Redmond
Coho-Pop (ESU):	Coho-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Species of Concern
County:	King
HUC12:	Bear Creek (171100120301)
HUC8:	Lake Washington (17110012)
Lead Entity Area:	Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (WRIA 8)
Legislative District:	48
Pink-Pop (ESU):	Pink-Odd Year, Not Warranted
Puget Sound Action Areas:	South Central Puget Sound
Salmon Recovery Regions:	Puget Sound
Sections:	01
Sections:	06
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):	Steelhead-Puget Sound, North Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish, Threatened
Township:	T25NR05E
Township:	T25NR06E
Watershed Administrative Unit:	Sammamish River
WRIA:	Cedar - Sammamish

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		APPLICATION	FINAL
RESTORATION METRICS
	Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Treated or Protected (C.0.b)		0.76	mi
	Instream Habitat Project
	Total Miles Of Instream Habitat Treated (C.4.b)		0.76	mi
	Channel structure placement (C.4.d.1)
	Acres Of Streambed Treated for channel structure placement (C.4.d.4)		0.00	acres
	Miles of Stream Treated for channel structure placement (C.4.d.3)		0.76	mi
	Number of structures placed in channel (C.4.d.7)		1,199.00
	Pools Created through channel structure placement (C.4.d.5)		0.00
	Riparian Habitat Project
	*Total Riparian Acres Treated (C.5.b.2)		3.00	acres
	*Total Riparian Miles Streambank Treated (C.5.b.1)		0.76	mi
	Planting (C.5.c.1)
	Acres Planted in riparian (C.5.c.3)		3.00	acres
	Miles of streambank planted (C.5.c.4)		0.76	mi
	Riparian Plant removal / control (C.5.h.1)
	Acres of riparian treated for plant removal/control (C.5.h.3)		3.00	acres
	Miles of streambank treated for plant removal/control (C.5.h.4)		0.76	mi

NOTES

Feasibility study needed to determine scope of project. Seen by local experts as one of the largest opportunities for habitat restoration in Bear Creek. Creation of a wetland mitigation bank is an option here if can be done in a way that meet both wetland and stream restoration needs. Owner may have some interest in selling property to the right buyer. Partially funded.

Effectiveness assumptions assume a 2C drop in water temperature leaving Bear Creek and results from temperature modeling in the Sammamish River. Temperature modeling shows that riparian shading can have an effect -- Appendix B of the Sammamish Corridor Action Plan. Based on modeling, riparian restoration of Bear Creek such that temperature of Bear Creek was 2 degrees C cooler would reduce maximum temperatures in the Sammamish River. Major effect is in Sammmish-5 between the Bear Creek confluence and the RR bridge (effectiveness of 0.2) and lesser effect (0.05) downstream to Blyth Park.

Update 7/2010: Creek relocation is a couple of years out. The cost for the relocation will be around $4.5 million. The total cost of the entire project could range from $15-$25 million.