DESCRIPTION
BPA Contract 77007. The M2 WDFW Flow Connection project seeks to further enhance floodplain connection to peripheral side channel and wetland habitats by removing the final segment of a levee at the upstream edge of the M2 WDFW Floodplain Project area. The remaining segment is a cross levee that is perpendicular to the river channel and effectively blocks flow from a series of wetlands within an existing floodplain side channel during normal spring high flow periods. MSRF removed the portion of the levee parallel to the river in 2013 as part of the larger project, but did not remove the cross levee due to adjoining landowner concerns. Following four years of post-project observations to demonstrate project benefits, the upstream landowner has agreed to allow removal of the levee. Removing the levee will reconnect a 3,200 foot-long wetland channel flowing through WDFW property and into adjacent protected wetland areas.
BPA Contract 77007.
The M2 WDFW Flow Connection project seeks to further enhance floodplain
connection to peripheral side channel and wetland habitats by removing the
final segment of a levee at the upstream edge of the M2 WDFW Floodplain
Project area. The remaining segment is a cross levee that is perpendicular to
the river channel and effectively blocks flow from a series of wetlands
within an existing floodplain side channel during normal spring high flow
periods. MSRF removed the portion of
the levee parallel to the river in 2013 as part of the larger project, but
did not remove the cross levee due to adjoining landowner concerns. Following
four years of post-project observations to demonstrate project benefits, the
upstream landowner has agreed to allow removal of the levee. Removing the
levee will reconnect a 3,200 foot-long wetland channel flowing through WDFW
property and into adjacent protected wetland areas.
