Snohomish County used funds to initiate restoration of a 4.5 mile drift cell adjacent to the railroad impounded shoreline between Mukilteo and Everett in Snohomish County by a) placing 16,879 cubic yards of sediment at five locations (three sites) adjacent to stream deltas and b) completed restoration at the City of Everett’s Howarth Park, removing 0.4 acres of existing bank protection and associated fill from the beach and placing 9,888 cubic yards of sediment, and planting 0.5 acres of near-shore appropriate plant species. The total project restored 2.4 acres of near-shore habitat. Goals included improving the quality of nearshore habitat along 4.5 miles of shoreline by augmenting the supply of finer sediments to the upper intertidal zone to benefit Chinook salmon, bull trout, steelhead, Pacific Sand Lance, and Surf Smelt. An additional goal was to ease public access to the shoreline at one of only two saltwater parks in the city. This project implemented the beach nourishment restoration designed and permitted with funding from 12-1241. The Nearshore Sediment Feasibility Study (09-1268), completed in 2012, summarizes the restoration site selection proccess and rationale. Together, the City of Everett, the Port of Everett, WA Department of Natural Resources, Snohomish County and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers worked to supplant the natural shoreline processes interrupted by the BNSF railway, using dredge material from the Snohomish River. Providing clean, appropriately sized sediments throughout the drift cell should significantly improve salmon productivity and juvenile capacity in this "most pressing need" as identified in the Snohomish Basin Salmon Recovery 3-yr work plan.