SF Nooksack (Nuxw7íyem) Nesset Ph 3 Restoration
#16-2050 #16-2050
Organization WRIA 1 Watershed Management Board
Sponsor Nooksack Indian Tribe
Status Dormant
Schedule Start Date: 1/1/2018 End Date: 12/31/2019
Category Category: Restoration
DESCRIPTION
The Nooksack Tribe will restore instream habitat in the South Fork Nooksack River, RM 10.5-11.1, near Acme in Whatcom County, to address South Fork (SF) Nooksack chinook limiting factors of lack of key habitat, low habitat diversity, and high temperatures. Specifically, this project will construct 15 log jams, lower and notch the right bank levee, and remove riprap blocking a left bank slough outlet, as part of the final of three phases of restoration in the broader Nesset reach (10.3-12). Log jams are designed to: (1) increase number and depth of pools; (2) increase habitat unit diversity and quantity of complex woody cover in the low-flow channel; (3) increase availability of temperature refuges; and (4) improve incubation success and flood refuge habitat by improving connectivity of floodplain and floodplain channels. SF Nooksack early Chinook are essential for ESU recovery, but abundances are critically low. This project implements high priority actions in a high priority reach for SF Nooksack early chinook. The reach is also expected to be heavily used by Chinook returning to the Skookum hatchery (two miles upstream) as part of the South Fork Nooksack Chinook population-rebuilding program. Restoration will also benefit ESA-listed steelhead and bull trout; coho, chum, riverine sockeye, and pink salmon;and cutthroat trout.
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Requested08/11/2016Nooksack Indian TribeMatch$194,412.00
Requested08/11/2016Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon State Projects$1,101,418.00
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
$1,295,830.00 $1,295,830.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
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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: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:09
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Puget Sound, Nooksack River, Threatened
Township:T37NR05E
Watershed Administrative Unit:Hutchinson Creek
WRIA:Nooksack
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