Laughing Jacobs Creek Barrier Removal
#21-1544 #21-1544
Organization Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (WRIA 8) Lead Entity
Sponsor Trout Unlimited Inc.
Status Active
Schedule Start Date: 7/1/2023 End Date: 6/30/2027
Category Category: Planning
DESCRIPTION
Trout Unlimited, City of Issaquah, and Washington State Parks have partnered to complete final design and permitting needed to replace three WDFW documented fish passage barriers including two within East Lake Sammamish Parkway SE with a full span structure and one partial barrier within the State Park on Laughing Jacobs Creek in King County. This streams channel has also migrated recently just upstream of the parkway creating an additional barrier . This project is identified among the top restoration priorities for Laughing Jacobs Creek on the 2020 WRIA 8 4 year work plan (LS-3) and the Blueprint for the Restoration and Enhancement of Lake Sammamish Kokanee Tributaries (2014).This project advances the core components of the preferred restoration alternative selected by a restoration feasibility and alternative analysis completed on Lower Laughing Jacobs Creek (2020). Replacement of the identified barriers will allow unrestricted access to 1.86 miles of high quality habitat that supports threatened Chinook salmon,  federally threatened steelhead and Coho salmon, and kokanee salmon, and cutthroat trout.  The goal of this project is to remove barriers for threatened juvenile Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and kokanee salmon allowing access to this desperately needed rearing, foraging, shelter, and spawning habitat.
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Requested01/13/2022Trout Unlimited Inc.Match$150,000.00
Requested01/13/2022Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)BA Fish Barrier Removal Board$755,860.00
Allocated07/01/2023Trout Unlimited Inc.Match$150,000.00
Allocated07/01/2023Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)BA Fish Barrier Removal Board$755,860.00
Spent05/23/2025Trout Unlimited Inc.Match-$6,092.08
Spent05/23/2025Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)BA Fish Barrier Removal Board-$30,698.40
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
Not entered $905,860.00 $905,860.00 $36,790.48 $869,069.52
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LOCATION
Chinook-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Puget Sound, Sammamish River, Threatened
Chum-Pop (ESU):Chum-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Not Warranted
City Areas:Issaquah
Coho-Pop (ESU):Coho-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Species of Concern
County:King
HUC12:Lake Sammamish-Sammamish River (171100120202)
HUC8:Lake Washington (17110012)
Lead Entity Area:Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (WRIA 8)
Legislative District:41
Pink-Pop (ESU):Pink-Odd Year, Not Warranted
Puget Sound Action Areas:South Central Puget Sound
Salmon Recovery Regions:Puget Sound
Sections:16
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Puget Sound, North Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish, Threatened
Township:T24NR06E
Watershed Administrative Unit:Lake Sammamish
WRIA:Cedar - Sammamish
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