Woods Creek RR Bridge Removal & Restoration
#07-RPR-804 #07-RPR-804
Organization Snohomish Basin Lead Entity
Sponsor Adopt A Stream Foundation (AASF)
Status Completed
Schedule Start Date: 1/19/2018 End Date: 10/22/2019
Category Category: Planning
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DESCRIPTION
The Adopt A Stream Foundation proposes a Designs Project with the goal of removing an abandon railroad bridge that spans Reach 1 of Lower mainstem Woods Creek immediately upstream of the Al Borlin Park.  Project deliverables: -Preliminary engineered designs for removal and restoration of site. -Determine an environmentally sound and economical way to extract from the streambed and dispose of the creosote wood and pilings. -Secure Landowner Agreement.   -Secure letter of support and possibly matching from City of Monroe and from BNSF. - Work with Monroe Historical Society and DAHP to developed way to remove the bridge while also preserving the sites historical significance, possibly by developing an interpretive sign.   This abandoned bridge is detrimental to the health of Woods Creek and interrupts vital stream processes such as LWD and sediment transport along with leaching toxic creosote into the system.  This bridge has numerous creosote pilings that act as a massive trash rack and accumulate large quantities of LWD, LWD that is periodically removed by BNSF workers and stockpiled on the bank often to be cutup by locals for firewood.  Initial conversation with BNSF in 2012 suggest neither BNSF nor it predecessors ever owned this potion of the Cedar Falls to Monroe rail line.  BNSF removes drift from this bridge only to project the mainline bridge located just upstream.  The low gradient off channel habitat of Reach 1 serves as important reari
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Requested08/09/2016Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon State Projects$78,395.00
Allocated10/22/2019Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration$78,273.89
Spent10/22/2019Adopt A Stream Foundation (AASF)Match-$0.00
Spent10/22/2019Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration-$78,273.89
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
$65,000.00 $78,395.00 $78,273.89 $78,273.89 $0.00
OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
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LOCATION
Chinook-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Puget Sound, Skykomish River, Threatened
Chum-Pop (ESU):Chum-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Not Warranted
City Areas:Monroe
Coho-Pop (ESU):Coho-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Species of Concern
County:Snohomish
HUC12:Woods Creek (171100090701)
HUC8:Skykomish (17110009)
Lead Entity Area:Snohomish Basin
Legislative District:12
Pink-Pop (ESU):Pink-Odd Year, Not Warranted
Pink2-Pop (ESU):Pink-Even Year, Not Warranted
Puget Sound Action Areas:Whidbey Island
Salmon Recovery Regions:Puget Sound
Sections:06
Snohomish Strategy Group:Mainstem-secondary restoration
Snohomish Subbasins:Lower Woods Creek
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Puget Sound, Snohomish/Skykomish Rivers, Threatened
Township:T27NR07E
Watershed Administrative Unit:Woods Creek
WRIA:Snohomish
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PLANNING METRICS
Area Encompassed (acres) (B.0.b.1)
0.30acres2.00acres
Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Affected (B.0.b.2)
0.82mi0.82mi