Willow Creek Daylighting Final Feasibility Study
#PS-8.13-1107 #PS-8.13-1107
 Tier 1 Puget Sound Nearshore Willow Creek Daylighting Final Feasibility Study
Organization Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (WRIA 8) Lead Entity
Sponsor City of Edmonds
Status Completed
Schedule Start Date: 12/5/2013 End Date: 4/6/2016
Category Category: Planning
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DESCRIPTION
Edmonds Marsh is a 32-acre remnant of a historical 100+-acre barrier estuary and marsh complex located a short distance from the downtown core in the suburban City of Edmonds. This project is intended to address the key salmon recovery issue of limited juvenile access to important, yet rare, nearshore rearing habitat. The goal is to identify a design approach to restoration that significantly improves the connection between Edmonds Marsh and Puget Sound to provide juvenile salmon access to this intact estuarine rearing habitat by daylighting the Willow Creek outlet of Edmonds Marsh to Puget Sound. The Early Feasibility Study (completed in May 2013 and funded by RCO 11-1553) indicated this restoration action will provide improved access to 28 acres of estuarine marsh habitat suitable for juvenile Chinook salmon. The goal of the current project phase, Final Feasibility, was to address the remaining technical and social aspects of the project prior to entering into design work. These aspects included evaluating the marsh outlet configuration that would allow for juvenile salmon access into the marsh while still providing public park uses, evaluate the need for structural measures in the daylight channel to improve fish passage conditions and/or protect infrastructure, determine the need for a self-regulating tidegate to protect from coastal flooding, and assess the availability of the Unocal property for a daylighted channel and planted buffers.
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Requested08/12/2013City of EdmondsMatch$35,300.00
Requested08/12/2013Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon State Projects$200,000.00
Allocated08/02/2016City of EdmondsMatch$35,300.00
Allocated08/02/2016Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration$200,000.00
Spent08/03/2016City of EdmondsMatch-$35,300.00
Spent08/03/2016Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration-$200,000.00
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
$193,491.00 $235,300.00 $235,300.00 $235,300.00 $0.00
OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Other Funding Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
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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:Edmonds
Coho-Pop (ESU):Coho-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Species of Concern
County:Snohomish
HUC12:Puget Sound (171100191200)
HUC12:Shell Creek-Frontal Puget Sound (171100190203)
HUC8:Puget Sound (17110019)
Lead Entity Area:Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (WRIA 8)
Legislative District:21
Pink-Pop (ESU):Pink-Odd Year, Not Warranted
Puget Sound Action Areas:South Central Puget Sound
Salmon Recovery Regions:Puget Sound
Sections:23
Sections:26
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Puget Sound, North Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish, Threatened
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Puget Sound, Threatened
Township:T27NR03E
Watershed Administrative Unit:Possession Sound-N Elliot Bay
WRIA:Cedar - Sammamish
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PLANNING METRICS
Area Encompassed (acres) (B.0.b.1)
27.00acres27.00acres
Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Affected (B.0.b.2)
0.33mi0.33mi
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