Dry Creek Head Cut
#SRP-16-3575 #SRP-16-3575
Organization Snake River Salmon Recovery Board Lead Entity
Sponsor Walla Walla County Conservation District
Status Planned
Schedule Start Date: 1/19/2016 End Date: 12/31/2025
Category Category: Restoration
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An active head-cut has been identified on Dry Creek which could produce a migration barrier for fish of all life stages. This project would first work to stop the upstream migration of the head-cut and second assess fish passage habitat work. A large component of this project would be to conduct riparian planting. An additional phase of this project would be to work with landowners to reduce incision thought the headcut areas. The project would work to aggrade the channel through the use of structures placed in the stream and perform similar to beaver dams. The structures would work to collect stream substrate and raise the water table much the same as a beaver dam will rase water and cause deposition. These structures would be place so they do not create passage problems for salmon.
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LOCATION
Chinook-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Middle Columbia River Spring, Not Warranted
County:Walla Walla
HUC12:Upper Dry Creek (170701020805)
HUC8:Walla Walla (17070102)
Lead Entity Area:Snake River
Legislative District:16
Salmon Recovery Regions:Snake River
Sections:06
Snake Minor Spawning Areas:Dry Creek
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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