2011

WRIA 9 Salmon Funding Recovery Board Project Proposals

ANNUAL PROCESS

Status of this year’s funding

Proposed strategy

Project overview

Outyear forecast

Forum decision

ANNUAL PROCESS

Status of this year’s funding

Proposed strategy

Project overview

Outyear forecast

Forum decision

PROJECTED FUNDING AMOUNTS

Funding Source Amount

Salmon Funding Recovery Board

$360,000

Puget Sound Acquisition and Restoration

$553,581

TOTAL $913,581

SRFB PROJECT CRITERIA

PROJECTS MUST:

Address an important habitat condition or watershed process in the area.

Be primarily salmon-related

Be in the Salmon Habitat Plan and the Three-Year Watershed Habitat Work Schedule

WRIA 9 TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP

WRIA 9 TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP

Dhira Brown, People for Puget Sound

Kirk Lakey, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Tyler Patterson, Tacoma Water

SRFB SITE VISITS

Salmon Funding Recovery Board Review Panel Members

Marc Duboiski, SRFB Grant Manager

Jessica Saavedra, King Conservation District

Scott Williamson, Puget Sound Partnership

PROPOSED PROJECTSProject Name and Sponsor

Location Funding Request

Project Phase

Point Heyer Drift Cell Preservation

Nearshore $300,000 Acquisition

Downey Farmstead

Lower Green River Sub-Watershed

$253,581 Final Design and Permitting

Middle Green River Reach Levee Removal (Porter)

Middle Green River Sub-Watershed

$300,000 Design

Big Spring Creek Restoration

Middle Green River Sub-Watershed

$60,000 Construction

PROJECT LOCATIONS

Project Name Rivermile (RM) Latitude/Longitude

Point HeyerAcquisition

not applicable (nearshore)

47.460, 122.438

Downey Farmstead Design

RM 22.3 to 21.5 47.314, 122.205

Middle Green Levee Setback

RM 38 to RM 33 47.296, 122.171

Big Spring Creek Restoration

Tributary to Newaukum Creek

47.217, 122.005

POINT HEYER DRIFT CELL PRESERVATION

King County Water and Land Resources

May, 2011

Pt Heyer Drift Cell Preservation

SAVING THE LAST BARRIER LAGOON IN

KING COUNTY

Vashon Island,King County

The Pt Heyer

drift cell is located on

the eastern shoreline

of Vashon

Long Range Goals

Preserve 90% (~10,500 ft) of

drift cell

Protect nearshore habitat that

supports threatened Puget Sound

salmon

Sustain a rare barrier lagoon

Photo: 2001 Washington State Dept. of Ecology

Nearshore drift processes

Feeder Bluff

Photo: 2001 Washington State Dept. of Ecology

Over 50% of Vashon is armored Pt Heyer Drift Cell less than 10%

$360,000 in funding from SRFB

$2.45 million project to date –

6 different funding sources

Funding History

TO DATE: MAY

2011

1334 FEET OF

SHORELINE

31.4 ACRES, 7

PARCELS

2008

2009

2010

2011

According to the plan, we need to protect:

Forage fish spawning areas

Eelgrass

Geoducks

Sand Lance Spawning

Eelgrass

Surf Smelt Spawning

remaining salt marshes

beaches, backshores

and associated plant communities

dense overhanging riparian vegetation

Cool and clean surface and groundwater

shorelines from armoring

Nearshore sediment transport processes

TIMMONS AND DESTEIGUER

Purchased in 2010 for $709,000

2011 SRFB request $300,000

484 feet of shoreline

9.7 acres

Forage fish spawning

Feeder bluffs

Small tributaries and seeps

REVIEW

Willing Landowners? Yes

Quick completion? Yes

Benefits to Salmon? Many

Certainty of success? Very likely

Questions?

DOWNEY FARMSTEAD

Restoration Project Final Design

City of Kent

21.81 Acres along the Green River from RM 21.5 to 22.3

CostsTotal SRF Request

$300,000 $253,581

Highlights

Creates floodplain storage and off-channel rearing and refuge habitat .

Increase access to floodplain habitat for Chinook and seven other salmonids.

Removal of invasive plants, native riparian re-vegetation and installation of wood debris structures.

Downey Farmstead

DOWNEY FARMSTEAD

Preliminary Conceptual Design

DOWNEY FARMSTEAD

Legend

Riparian Shrubland

Riparian Forest

Wet Prairie

Grass Filter Strip

DOWNEY FARMSTEAD

Creates floodplain storage and off-channel rearing and refuge habitat for use in winter and spring months for juvenile salmon, particularly juvenile Chinook.

Three inlet channels at upstream end of the restored floodplain provide added habitat complexity and long term accessibility to channels for fish.

Increase access to floodplain habitat for Chinook and seven other salmonids.

Removal of invasive plants, native riparian re-vegetation and installation of wood debris structures and engineered log jams.

A greater buffer/setback to the Green River by relocating Frager Road.

DOWNEY FARMSTEAD

Channel Cross Sections

DOWNEY FARMSTEAD

MIDDLE GREEN REACH LEVEE REMOVAL - PORTER

BIG SPRING CREEK

• Pollutants from road, pasture runoff• High temperatures, relative to historical cond.• Low dissolved oxygen

• Minimal shading of creek

• Little cover for fish

• Scarce wildlife habitat

• Reed canarygrass dominated wetland• Lack of native vegetation• Wetland not integrated with stream

• 1,400 coho smolts outmigrate annually (April, May)• Low gradient, slow moving stream• Multiple springs • Cold rearing habitat• Organics, microorganisms

• ERP Feasibility Report (Corps 2000)• ERP EIS (Corps 2000)• Near-term Action Agenda (WRIA 9 2002)• WRIA 9 Salmon Habitat Plan (2005)• Newaukum Cr. Characterization Report (KC 2007)

• Salmon Recovery

• Restore stream & wetland habitat

• Restore historic location of stream

• Re-connect stream to wetland

• Improve water quality

• Attenuate flood flows

• Eliminate need to dredge stream

• Protect springs

1. Restore 4,000 lineal feet of stream channel

2. Enhance 80 acres of wetland habitat

3. Place 400 pieces of LWD in stream, wetland

4. Construct 5 large off-channel open-water wetland pools

5. Install 2 culverts

Community outreach to all landowners

All necessary land, conservation easements acquired

70% design complete

All local permits obtained; tribal consultation ongoing

Wetland and wildlife reports completed

Archaeological testing completed

Corps’ Nationwide 27 Permit application submitted

Enumclaw construction easement completed

KC Code consistency process complete

Secured site; partially revegetated Enumclaw site

2006 Community outreach, acquisitions initiated

2007 Begin surface and groundwater monitoring

2008 Complete acquisitions/easements

2009 Complete 70% design, most permits

2010 Begin agreement process with Corps

2011 100% design and permitting

2012 Phase 1 construction

2013 Phase 2 construction

2014 Begin planting non-construction areas

2012-2018 Maintenance & monitoring

TASK COST

Acquisition of land, easements * $2,115,000

Preliminary Revegetation * $166,000

70% Design and Permitting * $558,728

Final Design and Permitting $486,000

Phase 1 Channel Construction & Planting $1,800,000

Phase 2 Channel Construction & Planting $700,000

Phase 3 Planting Non-construction Areas $350,000

Maintenance & Monitoring $185,000

TOTAL PROJECT ESTIMATE $6,360,728

* Previously expended

2012-2013 FORECAST

Duwamish Gardens Construction

Anticipate construction costs of approximately $3 million

Will require a significant amount of our available KCD and SRFB funding for the next two years

FORUM DECISION

Determine if these projects meets the strategy of the WRIA 9 Salmon Habitat Plan

Approve the four proposed projects for this year’s SRFB round