DESCRIPTION
The Lower Wenatchee River Leavenworth Boat Launch Off-Channel Reconnection project is located at RM 24.2. This project connects a .25 acre pond to the Wenatchee River by removing a 30 ft. berm that separated the pond from the river. This project was originally identified as Channel Migration Zone (CMZ) 19a in the 2003 study. This project provides refuge and rearing habitat and increased floodplain connectivity. This project builds on the habitat and riparian restoration efforts already completed in the Leavenworth Reach. The project increases habitat complexity and off channel refuge and rearing habitat for juvenile steelhead and spring and summer Chinook salmon on the Lower Wenatchee River near Leavenworth, Washington.