SRP Project

DESCRIPTION

This project proposes to protect steelhead and bull trout by installing a fish screen on an unscreened irrigation diversion and constructing a diversion structure that restores fish passage. The project is located near Five Mile Road and Mill Creek at RM13, within a high priority protection and restoration reach in an MSA identified in the Salmon Recovery Plan for SE Washington (2011). The project site is located on an established side channel of Mill Creek, which provides excellent spawning and rearing habitat for steelhead. Titus Creek is thought to be a spring fed tributary of Mill Creek and has historic irrigation use. In recent years, Titus Creek flows need to be maintained by diverting Mill Creek water into the Titus Creek channel. Without maintaining flows, the channel goes dry in the winter months, therefore posing a threat to fish life in the creek. Additionally, the point of diversion and "makeshift" diversion structure, create a fish passage barrier to fish into the Mill Creek side channel. This project proposes to construct a diversion dam that includes a fish way (pool and chute) for fish passage. A head gate at the dam will divert flows into Titus Creek and will have an ESA compliant fish screen installed with a fish bypass back into the side channel and Mill Creek. The proposal is for design and construction of the new diversion and fish screen. The WDFW Screen shop and/or irrigators/landowners will provide 15% contributing match toward cost of the project

Walla Walla County Conservation District (WWCCD) protected Mid-Columbia River steelhead, Bull Trout, and spring Mid-Columbia River Spring-run Chinook Salmon ESU in Titus Cr by screening fish from the upstream section of the creek that is used for irrigation (many irrigation intakes are unscreened) and often goes dry in winter. WWCCD also restored fish passage and improved instream and riparian habitat in a 2 mile long Mill Cr side channel. Titus Cr is a distributary of Mill Cr originating from a Mill Cr side channel at RM13 in Walla Walla. The Mill Cr side channel provides excellent spawning/rearing habitat for steelhead within a major spawning area and high priority restoration reach identified in the 2011 Snake River Salmon Recovery Plan. Prior to this project, irrigation water was diverted into Upper Titus Cr by boulders and ecology blocks placed in the Mill Cr side channel. The diversion structure blocked fish up-migration through the side channel and effectively guided out-migrating juvenile fish from the side channel into Upper Titus Cr where they may have perished. WWCCD removed the boulder and ecology block diversion dam in the Mill Cr side channel and replaced it with a three boulder weirs to maintain the required bed elevation to divert irrigation water while assuring fish passage through the side channel. They constructed a stop-log control structure in Titus creek to manage the flow of irrigation water into a self-cleaning rotary drum fish screen that was installed by WA State Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. The new screen diverts all fish back into the Mill Cr Side Channel. They enlarged and repaired an earthen berm in lower Titus Creek to prevent fish from entering into the irrigation reach from downstream. Finally, WWCCD planted riparian vegetation and installed large wood in the Mill Cr side channel and along Titus Creek to improve fish habitat. Lower Titus Cr originates from a spring-fed pond, maintains year-round flow, and will remain accessible to fish.

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FUNDING SOURCES

FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT

Type	Date	Funding Org	Funding Program	Match	Amount
Requested	07/10/2014	Walla Walla County Conservation District		Match	$23,009.00
Requested	07/10/2014	Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)	Salmon State Projects		$130,380.00
Allocated	06/17/2016	Walla Walla County Conservation District		Match	$22,710.51
Allocated	06/17/2016	Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)	Salmon Federal Projects		$128,688.63
Spent	06/17/2016	Walla Walla County Conservation District		Match	-$22,710.51
Spent	06/17/2016	Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)	Salmon Federal Projects		-$128,688.63

Grant Project Agreement Totals	Proposed	Requested	Allocated	Spent	Balance
Grant Project Agreement Totals	$151,399.00	$153,389.00	$151,399.14	$151,399.14	$0.00

OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)

Type	Date	Funding Org	Funding Program	Match	Amount

Other Funding Totals	Proposed	Requested	Allocated	Spent	Balance
Other Funding Totals

Grand Totals	Proposed	Requested	Allocated	Spent	Balance
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PRIMARY SPONSOR

Walla Walla County Conservation District

PROJECT CONTACT

Greg Kinsinger

ALT PROJECT CONTACT

Audrey Ahmann
Lisa Stearns
Renee M. Hadley

PROJECT MANAGER

Kendall Kohler

PHOTOS

Titus CreekLocation side by side

Titus Creek End of Project Concrete Barrier under grass - pre-const.

LOCATION

Chinook-Pop (ESU):	Chinook-Middle Columbia River Spring, Not Warranted
County:	Walla Walla
HUC12:	Lower Mill Creek (170701020204)
HUC8:	Walla Walla (17070102)
Lead Entity Area:	Snake River
Legislative District:	16
Salmon Recovery Regions:	Snake River
Sections:	18
Snake Major Spawning Areas:	Mill Creek-Walla Walla River
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):	Steelhead-Middle Columbia River, Walla Walla River, Threatened
Township:	T07NR37E
Watershed Administrative Unit:	Walla Walla Agricultural Lands
WRIA:	Walla Walla

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Walla Walla MSA Irrigation Fish Screens (SRP-96-15816)

		APPLICATION		FINAL
RESTORATION METRICS
	Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Treated or Protected (C.0.b)	0.18	mi	0.25	mi
	Fish Passage Improvement
	*Miles Of Stream Made Accessible (SRFB) (C.2.b.1)	2.00	mi	2.00	mi
	*Number of blockages / impediments / barriers impeding passage (C.2.b.4)	2.00		2.00
	Square Miles Of streambed made accessible (C.2.b.2)	0.10	sq mi	0.10	sq mi
	Fish passage blockages removed or altered (C.2.c.1)
	Number of Blockages/Impediments/Barriers Removed/Altered (C.2.c.2)	2.00		2.00
	Fishway chutes or pools installed (C.2.d.1)
	Number Of Fishway Chutes/Pools Installed (C.2.d.2)	1.00		1.00
	Fish Screening Project
	Quantity Of Water Protected By Screens (acre feet per year) (C.1.b)	1,607.00	acre-ft/yr	1,607.00	acre-ft/yr
	Fish screens installed (C.1.c.1)
	Number Of Fish Screens Installed (C.1.c.2)	1.00		1.00
	The Flow Rate Of Screened Water (C.1.c.3)	4.50	cfs	4.50	cfs
	Instream Habitat Project
	Total Miles Of Instream Habitat Treated (C.4.b)	0.18	mi	0.16	mi
	Channel structure placement (C.4.d.1)
	Acres Of Streambed Treated for channel structure placement (C.4.d.4)	0.20	acres	0.20	acres
	Miles of Stream Treated for channel structure placement (C.4.d.3)	0.18	mi	0.16	mi
	Number of structures placed in channel (C.4.d.7)	10.00		14.00
	Pools Created through channel structure placement (C.4.d.5)	10.00		10.00
	Yards Of Average Stream-Width At Mid-Point Of Worksite (C.4.d.6)	10.00	yd	10.00	yd
	Riparian Habitat Project
	*Total Riparian Acres Treated (C.5.b.2)	0.30	acres	0.30	acres
	*Total Riparian Miles Streambank Treated (C.5.b.1)	0.50	mi	0.25	mi
	Planting (C.5.c.1)
	Acres Planted in riparian (C.5.c.3)	0.30	acres	0.30	acres
	Miles of streambank planted (C.5.c.4)	0.50	mi	0.50	mi

Organization	Snake River Salmon Recovery Board Lead Entity
Sponsor	Walla Walla County Conservation District
Status	Completed
Schedule	Start Date: 12/3/2014 End Date: 6/17/2016