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A few years ago DD#3 with help from Skagit County completed a levee setback project on the South Fork Skagit River. This project was funded by an 2002 SRFB grant. In the process of creating the new setback levees material was taken from on site. As part of this process channels were created riverward of the new levee. Although not part of the original SRFB proposal it was a cheap and effective way of creating tidally influenced freshwater habitat. These new channels have provided rearing habitat associated with tidally influenced wetlands and channels ever since. This grant request is for engineering and design of more channels within the footprint of the setback levee project. These new channels will be designed to be self-maintaining and will expand the rearing area for juvenile salmonids on this project site. The grant funding for engineering and design will evaluate the hydrology and potentially model the interaction of the tide and river flows on the project site.
This grant provided preliminary engineering and design of more off-channels within the floodplain footprint of the Dike Distrct #3 (DD#3) setback levee project. These new channels are designed to be nearly self-maintaining and expand the rearing area for juvenile salmonids on this project site. The project evaluated the hydrology and modeled the interaction of the tide and river flows on the project site.
A few years ago DD#3, with help from Skagit County, completed a levee setback project on the South Fork Skagit River. This project was funded by an 2002 SRFB grant (02-1625). In the process of creating the new setback levees material was taken from on site. As part of this process channels were created riverward of the new levee. Although not part of the original SRFB proposal it was a cheap and effective way of creating tidally influenced freshwater habitat. These new channels have provided rearing habitat associated with tidally influenced wetlands and channels ever since.
