South Fork Saxon Reach Project-Construction
#10-1300 #10-1300
Organization WRIA 1 Watershed Management Board
Sponsor Lummi Nation
Status Completed
Schedule Start Date: 10/7/2010 End Date: 6/18/2013
Category Category: Restoration
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DESCRIPTION
This project constructed seven engineered logjams (ELJs) and a 630 feet bank roughening complex to restore salmon habitat in WRIA 1. Endangered early spring chinook salmon and bulltrout will benefit from 7 new scour pools; more pools may develop indirectly as increased roughness causes dynamic equilibrium. The new bank roughening complex is providing cover for salmonids as well. Scour pools provide thermal refugia (holding pools) from elevated South Fork water temperatures during summer spawning months in addition to pools for juvenile overwintering (rearing pools). This project addresses the number one known limiting factor for WRIA 1 salmonids: habitat diversity. ELJs, LWD habitat structures, and reinforced wood accumulations will increase the availability of complex instream habitat while providing deep pool habitat in a reach associated with cool groundwater inputs. The Saxon Reach project was rated Moderate to High in benefit to habitat and on the 2-3 year Implementation Feasibility list in the Acme-Saxon Alternatives Development. This was a High Priority Project on the WRIA 1 3-year Capital Projects List. SRFB #08-1923N funded the design for this project.
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Requested08/23/2010Lummi NationMatch$296,000.00
Requested08/23/2010Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon State Projects$1,091,388.00
Allocated06/18/2013Lummi NationMatch$296,000.00
Allocated06/18/2013Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration$884,247.07
Spent06/18/2013Lummi NationMatch-$296,000.00
Spent06/18/2013Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration-$884,247.07
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
$1,387,388.00 $1,387,388.00 $1,180,247.07 $1,180,247.07 $0.00
OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Other Funding Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
Grand Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
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LOCATION
Chinook-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Puget Sound, South Fork Nooksack River, Threatened
Chum-Pop (ESU):Chum-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Not Warranted
Coho-Pop (ESU):Coho-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Species of Concern
County:Whatcom
HUC12:Black Slough-South Fork Nooksack River (171100040406)
HUC12:Hutchinson Creek-South Fork Nooksack River (171100040405)
HUC8:Nooksack (17110004)
Lead Entity Area:WRIA 1
Legislative District:42
Pink-Pop (ESU):Pink-Odd Year, Not Warranted
Puget Sound Action Areas:San Juan Islands
Salmon Recovery Regions:Puget Sound
Sections:19
Sections:21
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Puget Sound, Nooksack River, Threatened
Township:T37NR05E
Township:T38NR05E
Watershed Administrative Unit:Acme
Watershed Administrative Unit:Howard Creek
WRIA:Nooksack
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  APPLICATION FINAL 
RESTORATION METRICS
Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Treated or Protected (C.0.b)
1.36mi0.62mi
Instream Habitat Project    
Total Miles Of Instream Habitat Treated (C.4.b)
1.36mi0.89mi
 Channel reconfiguration and connectivity (C.4.c.1)    
Acres Of Channel/Off-Channel Connected Or Added (C.4.c.5)
32.00acres0.00acres
Instream Pools Created/Added (C.4.c.6)
1.000.00
Miles of Off-Channel Stream Created or Connected (C.4.c.4)
0.47mi0.00mi
Miles of Stream Treated for channel reconfiguration and connectivity (C.4.c.3)
0.47mi0.00mi
 Channel structure placement (C.4.d.1)    
Acres Of Streambed Treated for channel structure placement (C.4.d.4)
60.36acres39.50acres
Miles of Stream Treated for channel structure placement (C.4.d.3)
1.36mi0.89mi
Number of structures placed in channel (C.4.d.7)
11.007.00
Pools Created through channel structure placement (C.4.d.5)
11.007.00
Yards Of Average Stream-Width At Mid-Point Of Worksite (C.4.d.6)
237.00yd237.00yd
 Streambank stabilization (C.4.e.1)    
Miles of Streambank Stabilized (C.4.e.3)
0.17mi0.12mi
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NOTES
Saxon Reach Restoration Design Project #08-LT-RCO1923