Buck Creek Fish Passage & Irrigation Improvements
#11-1499 #11-1499
 WRIA 29B - White Salmon Basin Buck Creek Basin Buck Creek Fish Passage & Irrigation Improvements
Organization Klickitat Lead Entity
Sponsor Underwood Conservation District
Status Completed
Schedule Start Date: 12/8/2011 End Date: 9/4/2015
Category Category: Planning
DESCRIPTION
This project examined restoring fish passage, installing a fish screen and addressing the need for improved base flow in Buck Ck. The irrigation dam on Buck Creek at the outtake for the White Salmon Irrigation District is a 67% (100% w/ flashboards installed) fish passage barrier, and the diversion itself is unscreened. Additionally, WSID overflow water currently going to White Salmon River may be returned to Buck Ck. SRFB funding was used to assess feasibility of project alternatives and develop 70% designs for the preferred option. These designs will provide fish passage restoration and screening in Buck Creek, and irrigation system overflow improvements. The project focused on providing fish passage at a 2.5ft dam (3.65' with flash boards installed) and screening the irrigation outtake in Buck Creek. These improvements will restore access to 1.3 miles of upstream spawning and rearing habitat to resident cutthroat, rainbow trout, anadromous populations of Threatened bull trout, sea-run cutthroat, ESA listed Mid-Columbia steelhead, spring and fall Chinook, and Coho, all which are anticipated to recolonize and use Buck Creek now that passage is restored at the former Condit Dam site. Additionally, the project focused on returning irrigation overflows, which currently flow to the White Salmon River, back to Buck Creek. This could be accomplished via piping the irrigation system and/or piping the overflow portion back into lower Buck Creek. Instream and riparian ecological conditions will be improved for focal fish species, aquatic organisms, and wildlife by restoring passage, eliminating fish entrapment in the irrigation ditch, and improving base flows in Buck Creek should this design be funded in the future.
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Requested08/26/2011Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon State Projects$135,000.00
Allocated09/04/2015Underwood Conservation DistrictMatch$31,940.87
Allocated09/04/2015Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon Federal Projects$167,356.33
Spent09/05/2012Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon State Projects-$0.00
Spent09/04/2015Underwood Conservation DistrictMatch-$31,940.87
Spent09/04/2015Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon Federal Projects-$167,356.33
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
$135,598.00 $135,000.00 $199,297.20 $199,297.20 $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-Lower Columbia River, White Salmon River Fall, Threatened
Chinook2-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Lower Columbia River, White Salmon River Spring, Threatened
Chum-Pop (ESU):Chum-Columbia River, Upper Gorge Tributaries, Outside anadromous area
Coho-Pop (ESU):Coho-Lower Columbia River, Washington Upper Gorge Tributaries and White Salmon River Late, Threatened
County:Klickitat
HUC12:Buck Creek (170701050810)
HUC8:Middle Columbia-Hood (17070105)
Lead Entity Area:Klickitat County
Legislative District:17
Lower Columbia Basins:White Salmon
Salmon Recovery Regions:Lower Columbia River
Sections:27
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Middle Columbia River, White Salmon River, Threatened
Township:T04NR10E
Watershed Administrative Unit:White Salmon/Buck Creek
WRIA:Wind - White Salmon
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  APPLICATION FINAL 
PLANNING METRICS
Area Encompassed (acres) (B.0.b.1)
140.00acres140.00acres
Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Affected (B.0.b.2)
2.04mi