This project helped identify, locate, and advance beach restoration in the nearshore area, targeting potential projects located along the railroad impounded shoreline south of Everett in WRIA 7 (from Pigeon Creek #1 to the unnamed stream west of Japanese Gulch in Mukilteo). The project identified the most suitable locations for beach habitat restoration using physical, biological, and socio-economic criteria and prepared two preliminary project designs (30%) for the selected preferred alternative sites (Site #2 and Howarth Park). The selected study reach is appropriately scaled to address landscape and ecosystem processes along a stretch of shoreline characterized by the presence of the railroad and to develop site-specific recommendations in the context of drift cell management. In the Snohomish River Basin, restoration of Chinook juvenile rearing habitat in the Nearshore has been identified as a high priority needed for Chinook salmon recovery. Progress on beach restoration has lagged, until recently. Completion of this feasibility and preliminary design project has lead to a final design project (12-1241) that will complete engineering for five restoration sites, with the potential for restoration in 2014-2015.