DESCRIPTION
This is a Snohomish Conservation District project on a dairy farm near the mouth of Peoples Creek in the lower Snoqualmie River basin. This is a large-scale design-build project. Identified project elements include constructing a sinuous stream channel where the ditched channel was historically located, adding large woody debris, planting a native riparian corridor on 3.5 acres, and replacing two undersized culverts with bridges. The 1500 foot long project reach lacks habitat complexity, and the riparian consists almost entirely of reed canary grass. Proposed restoration elements will increase the quantity and quality of instream habitat available to fish, improve water quality by shading the open channel, improve bank stability, and increase channel length and allochthonous inputs that are critical to local food web dynamics with the goal of minimal maintenance. The project will also improve fish passage through the Snoqualmie floodplain.
Snohomish Conservation District proposes to enhance instream habitat near the mouth of Peoples Creek on a dairy farm in Monroe, WA in the lower Snoqualmie River basin. The goal of the project is to improve riparian and instream habitat quality and expand access to spawning and rearing habitat for adult coho and juvenile Chinook and steelhead.T his design-build project includes constructing a sinuous stream channel where the ditched channel was historically located, adding large woody debris, removing invasives and planting a 2.3-acre native riparian buffer (x ft wide on both sides of the creek fox x ft), and replacing two undersized culverts. The 1100 foot long project reach lacks habitat complexity, and the riparian area consists almost entirely of reed canary grass and blackberry. This project will open up access to 1.3 miles of spawning habitat for coho salmon, increase floodplain connectivity, increase in-stream habitat through structure placement, and provide riparian health.
Mainstem - Primary Restoration Sub-Basin Strategy Group
