SRP Project

DESCRIPTION

Snohomish County used this funding to reconnect North Meander Slough to the Stillaguamish River, enhancing and restoring natural habitat forming processes for creating off-channel rearing for juvenile salmonids. It involved removal of a plug dike, excavation of deposited material, channel reconfiguration, wood placement, and riparian planting. North Meander Slough, located along the lower mainstem, is a horseshoe shaped channel approx. 4,600 feet in length. Reconnecting the slough to the main channel restored over 3/4 mile of off-channel rearing and refuge habitat for juvenile salmonids and has a broad geographic effect because it created substantial off-channel rearing and refuge habitat, a multi-species limiting factor (WCC, 1999; Stilly TAG, 2000). Reconnecting the slough also provides foraging habitat for adult bull trout. Reconnecting the North Meander created 12 acres of off-channel rearing. Using this area and regional density estimates, we estimate the project provided rearing for approximately 4,200 pre-smolt chinook/year. Pess, et.al. (1999) estimated that reconnecting North and South Meander, another slough just upstream, creates as much or more rearing habitat than the top twenty culvert replacement projects in the Stilly.

FUNDING SOURCES

FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT

Type	Date	Funding Org	Funding Program	Match	Amount
Requested	01/03/2002	Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)	Salmon State Projects		$679,000.00
Requested	01/03/2002	Snohomish County		Match	$2,017,000.00
Allocated	04/12/2002	Snohomish County		Match	$679,000.00
Allocated	04/12/2002	Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)	Salmon State Projects		$679,000.00
Spent	03/16/2007	Snohomish County		Match	-$679,000.00
Spent	03/16/2007	Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)	Salmon State Projects		-$679,000.00

Grant Project Agreement Totals	Proposed	Requested	Allocated	Spent	Balance
Grant Project Agreement Totals	$1,358,000.00	$2,696,000.00	$1,358,000.00	$1,358,000.00	$0.00

OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)

Type	Date	Funding Org	Funding Program	Match	Amount

Other Funding Totals	Proposed	Requested	Allocated	Spent	Balance
Other Funding Totals

Grand Totals	Proposed	Requested	Allocated	Spent	Balance
Grand Totals

PRIMARY SPONSOR

Snohomish County

PROJECT CONTACT

Vaughn Collins

PROJECT MANAGER

Elizabeth Butler

LOCATION

Chinook-Pop (ESU):	Chinook-Puget Sound, South Fork Stillaguamish River, Threatened
Chum-Pop (ESU):	Chum-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Not Warranted
City Areas:	Silvana
Coho-Pop (ESU):	Coho-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Species of Concern
County:	Snohomish
HUC12:	Armstrong Creek-Stillaguamish River (171100080303)
HUC8:	Stillaguamish (17110008)
Lead Entity Area:	Stillaguamish River
Legislative District:	10
Pink-Pop (ESU):	Pink-Odd Year, Not Warranted
Puget Sound Action Areas:	Whidbey Island
Salmon Recovery Regions:	Puget Sound
Sections:	01
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):	Steelhead-Puget Sound, Stillaguamish River, Threatened
Township:	T31NR04E
Watershed Administrative Unit:	Stillaguamish Flats
WRIA:	Stillaguamish

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Related Projects

		APPLICATION		FINAL
RESTORATION METRICS
	Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Treated or Protected (C.0.b)	0.90	mi	0.60	mi
	Fish Passage Improvement
	*Miles Of Stream Made Accessible (SRFB) (C.2.b.1)			0.60	mi
	*Number of blockages / impediments / barriers impeding passage (C.2.b.4)			1.00
	Square Miles Of streambed made accessible (C.2.b.2)			0.01	sq mi
	Bridge installed or improved (C.2.g.1)
	Miles of stream made accessible by bridge installation/repair (C.2.g.3)			0.60	mi
	Number of bridges (C.2.g.2)			1.00
	Culvert installed or improved (C.2.f.1)
	Miles of stream made accessible by culvert installation/repair (C.2.f.3)			0.60	mi
	Number of culverts (C.2.f.2)			1.00
	Fish passage blockages removed or altered (C.2.c.1)
	Change in water flow (fish passage project)(cu feet)
	Number of Blockages/Impediments/Barriers Removed/Altered (C.2.c.2)			2.00
	Instream Habitat Project
	Total Miles Of Instream Habitat Treated (C.4.b)	0.60	mi	0.60	mi
	Channel reconfiguration and connectivity (C.4.c.1)
	Acres Of Channel/Off-Channel Connected Or Added (C.4.c.5)			5.00	acres
	Instream Pools Created/Added (C.4.c.6)			6.00
	Miles of Off-Channel Stream Created or Connected (C.4.c.4)			0.60	mi
	Miles of Stream Treated for channel reconfiguration and connectivity (C.4.c.3)			0.60	mi
	Channel structure placement (C.4.d.1)
	Acres Of Streambed Treated for channel structure placement (C.4.d.4)			5.00	acres
	Miles of Stream Treated for channel structure placement (C.4.d.3)			0.60	mi
	Number of structures placed in channel (C.4.d.7)			300.00
	Pools Created through channel structure placement (C.4.d.5)			6.00
	Yards Of Average Stream-Width At Mid-Point Of Worksite (C.4.d.6)			3.00	yd
	Streambank stabilization (C.4.e.1)
	Miles of Streambank Stabilized (C.4.e.3)	0.00	mi	0.00	mi
	Wetland Project
	Total Acres Of Wetland Area Treated (C.8.b)	4.60	acres	4.60	acres
	Wetland improvement/ restoration (C.8.e.1)
	Acres of wetland Improved/Restored (C.8.e.2)			4.60	acres
	Wetland plant removal / control (C.8.d.1)
	Acres of wetland treated for plant removal/control (C.8.d.3)	4.60	acres	4.60	acres

Organization	Stillaguamish River Salmon Recovery Co-Lead Entity
Sponsor	Snohomish County
Status	Completed
Schedule	Start Date: 9/1/2002 End Date: 3/16/2007