Gold Creek Final Instream Design Project
#17-1170 #17-1170
 Above Storage Dams Keechelus Gold Creek Final Instream Design Project
Organization Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board Lead Entity
Sponsor Kittitas Conservation Trust
Status Dormant
Schedule Start Date: 4/3/2017 End Date: 4/3/2019
Category Category: Planning
DESCRIPTION
This project aims to build on conceptual and preliminary (60%) designs and to develop and integrate final designs for Gold Creek instream restoration, creation of bid ready documents, and begin the permitting process for restoration of over 1 mile (RM 1.0 – 2.1) of degraded habitat on Gold Creek. Historic disturbances with Gold Creek valley have altered natural geomorphic processes and hydrologic conditions, resulting in degraded habitat conditions. The cumulative impact of these disturbances has resulted in an over-widened, destabilized channel lacking instream complexity and cover, loss of riparian forest and floodplains, and dewaters annually for a significant reach during the summer months. Based on two years of hydrologic and geomorphic assessments, Gold Creek has been impacted by logging of old growth riparian forests, road construction, extensive development in the active floodplain and impacts associated with mining activities. This project will incorporate previous work for design of instream restoration elements to produce final designs, bid documents, and begin permitting efforts for the dewatered reach of Gold Creek, the most degraded reach, to produce a project that will restore natural fluvial processes in Gold Creek to begin the process of creating stable habitat conditions for the Gold Creek Bull Trout population.
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
RequestedRecreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon State Projects$144,020.00
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
$0.00 $144,020.00 $0.00 $0.00 $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:Kittitas
HUC12:Keechelus Lake (170300010301)
HUC8:Upper Yakima (17030001)
Lead Entity Area:Yakima Basin
Legislative District:13
Salmon Recovery Regions:Middle Columbia River
Sections:11
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Middle Columbia River, Yakima River Upper Mainstem, Outside anadromous area
Township:T22NR11E
Watershed Administrative Unit:Keechelus
WRIA:Upper Yakima
Yakima Subbasins:Gold Creek
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