L Cowiche Creek Restoration Design
#11-1600 #11-1600
 Naches Cowiche L Cowiche Creek Restoration Design
Organization Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board Lead Entity
Sponsor Yakima County Public Services
Status Completed
Schedule Start Date: 12/8/2011 End Date: 8/11/2014
Category Category: Planning
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DESCRIPTION
Yakima County Public Services contracted with GeoEngineers to complete the final design, special provisions, and cost estimate for a stream restoration, levee removal, and stream relocation project on Lower Cowiche Creek, a tributary of the Naches River near Yakima, WA. The project site was identified in previous studies as critical for plans to return lower Cowiche Creek to a less confined floodplain. Removing levees and relocating the stream back onto its historical floodplain will greatly enhance fish and wildlife habitat conditions. The final design plans address habitat improvement needs for ESA listed steelhead and bull trout along with spring Chinook, coho, and other riverine inhabitants. This project is Phase 2 of the L Cowiche Creek Riparian Easement and Stream Restoration Project. Yakima County is currently working with the landowner on Phase 1 of the project (SRFB project #10-1909), which is to acquire a conservation easement through the historic floodplain to accommodate this stream relocation project. Phase 3 will be project construction. Yakima County and the City of Yakima are continuing to evaluate plans to relocate the existing Naches River / Fruitvale Diversion and related structures upstream of this worksite to the Nelson Dam location. This action will reduce the need for the existing Cowiche Creek levee system, which was created to redirect Cowiche Creek onto an unnatural floodplain in order to minimize risk to landowners and irrigation diversion structures.
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Requested08/23/2011Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon State Projects$105,000.00
Allocated12/09/2011Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon Federal Projects$105,000.00
Spent08/11/2014Yakima County Public ServicesMatch-$0.00
Spent08/11/2014Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon Federal Projects-$105,000.00
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
$105,000.00 $105,000.00 $105,000.00 $105,000.00 $0.00
OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Other Funding Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
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LOCATION
Chinook-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Upper Columbia River Summer/Fall, Not Warranted
Chinook2-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Middle Columbia River Spring, Not Warranted
County:Yakima
HUC12:South Fork Cowiche Creek-Cowiche Creek (170300020311)
HUC8:Naches (17030002)
Lead Entity Area:Yakima Basin
Legislative District:15
Salmon Recovery Regions:Middle Columbia River
Sections:09
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Middle Columbia River, Naches River, Threatened
Township:T13NR18E
Watershed Administrative Unit:Cowiche Agricultural Lands
WRIA:Naches
Yakima Subbasins:Cowchie Creek
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PLANNING METRICS
Area Encompassed (acres) (B.0.b.1)
35.50acres35.50acres
Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Affected (B.0.b.2)
1.10mi
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