DESCRIPTION
The Quivey fish barrier is on Silver Creek, a tributary to Friday Creek in the Samish River watershed. Correction of this barrier improved access to 2.1 miles of habitat for chum, chinook, kokanee, coho, steelhead and searun cutthroat. Habitat gain is to the first total barrier upstream, the dam at Reed Lake. There are 16 more barriers above the Reed Lake dam. Habitat gain also includes over 300,000 square meters of lake habitat. (Cain Lake) There is one partial barrier downstream at the Samish hatchery. There were actually two crossings that were addressed at this site: one is the main crossing which is a 1.22 meter round steel culvert which was replaced with a 13.7' by 9.9' pipearch. The second crossing consisted of three one foot culverts that acted as an overflow but were undersized which caused flow to go over the road. These 3 pipes were replaced with a 14' by 5.5' structural plate bottomless culvert.
The Quivey project site is on Silver Creek, a tributary to Friday Creek in the Samish River watershed. Correction of these barriers improved access to 2.1 miles of habitat for chum, chinook, kokanee, coho, steelhead and searun cutthroat. Habitat gain is to the first total barrier upstream, the dam at Reed Lake. There are 16 more barriers upstream of the Reed Lake dam. Habitat gain also includes over 300,000 square meters of lake habitat. (Cain Lake) There is one partial barrier downstream at the Samish hatchery.
The Quivery Project involved correcting two barriers on a single driveway. The main creek crossing had considted of two side-by side 1.22 meter (48 inch) round steel culverts. These culverts were replaced with a 60-foot long bridge.The second crossing was located on a side channel of Silver Creek, and had consisted of three 0.3m (12 inch) foot culverts. Two of these three culverts were blocked, and the other was so undersized that upstream passage was completely blocked. This site was corrected by installing a 10-foot by 2.5' structural plate bottomless culvert.
