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Introduction to WRIA 9

Salmon Recovery

Doug Osterman

Watershed Coordinator

Green/Duwamish and

Central Puget Sound

Watershed (WRIA 9)

Presentation

1. WRIA 9 Watershed Ecosystem Forum in context

2. WRIA 9 Salmon Habitat Plan (2005)

3. Progress in conserving and restoring the lands and waters of the watershed

4. Salmon Habitat Plan and the Corps

King County Watersheds (Water Resource Inventory Areas)

WRIA 9 Watershed

Ecosystem Forum

Stakeholders representing: 16 cities

King County

Water district

Port of Seattle

Environmental groups

Business

Agriculture

State and Federal Agencies Army Corps of Engineers

Role of the WRIA 9

Watershed Ecosystem Forum Funding Strategy – Weaving together the funding quilt

Building Capacity – Enabling others to build projects

Education and Outreach – Nurturing a culture of stewardship

Implementation Oversight – Keeping the regional commitment strong

Technical Guidance – Bringing best available science to decision-making

WRIA 9: Building on

Other Governmental Efforts Green/Duwamish Ecosystem Restoration Project – begun in mid-1990s; 45 restoration projects from Upper Green to Duwamish (29 are in the Habitat Plan)

Howard Hanson Dam Additional Water Storage Project – restoring fish passage to and from the Upper Green past Howard Hanson Dam and Tacoma Headworks

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Presentation

1. WRIA 9 Watershed Ecosystem Forum in context

2. WRIA 9 Salmon Habitat Plan (2005)

3. Progress in conserving and restoring the lands and waters of the watershed

4. Salmon Habitat Plan and the Corps

2005 WRIA 9 Watershed

Salmon Habitat Plan

TEN YEAR PLAN: 2006-2015

Increase abundance of natural-origin spawners

from current 1,737 to 4,200 per year

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50-100 year population adopted target

Escapement of spawning adult Chinook Salmon:

27,000 spawning adult Chinook Salmon

7,000 today’s average annual spawning adults

805 spawning adults this year (2011)

TEN YEAR PLAN: 2006-2015

Implement the 10-year priority project and

program list:

75 habitat restoration projects

57 habitat protection projects

30 programs (e.g., stewardship, public education

and outreach)

Chain of Habitats in the

Green/Duwamish Watershed

“Weakest Links”

Fish passage

to be restored

in 2010s

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Salmon Habitat Plan Strategy

Duwamish Transition

Zone: 40% of Funding

Salmon Habitat Plan Strategy

Duwamish Transition

Zone: 40% of Funding

Rearing Habitat:

30% of Funding

Salmon Habitat Plan Strategy

Duwamish Transition

Zone: 40% of Funding

Rearing Habitat:

30% of Funding

Spawning Habitat:

30% of Funding

Salmon Habitat Plan:

Watershed as Part of Puget Sound

Approved August 2005

Approved January 2007

Action Agenda Approved December 2008/2011 Update

Presentation

1. WRIA 9 Watershed Ecosystem Forum in context

2. WRIA 9 Salmon Habitat Plan (2005)

3. Progress in conserving and restoring the lands and waters of the watershed

4. Salmon Habitat Plan and the Corps

Salmon Recovery Funding Board

Funding Allocations 1999-2011

24 High Priority Salmon Recovery Projects have been

awarded grants to date

5 are Green/Duwamish Ecosystem Restoration/Corps

Partnership Projects

$13,500,000 allocated to WRIA 9 from the Salmon

Recovery Funding Board

$25,519,000 in Matching Funding including Corps

Green/Duwamish Ecosystem Restoration

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Re-Connecting the Upper Green

River Subwatershed

“Broken Link”

Howard Hanson Dam

Downstream Fish

Passage Facility

New fish collection tower

under construction

September 2007

One of the first fish through

during September 2007 testing

Tacoma Headworks

at River Mile 61

Tacoma Headworks

Upstream Fish Passage

Facility

Tacoma Headworks Fish

Passage Facility completed 2004

Re-Connecting the Upper Green

River Subwatershed

“Broken Link”

“Link Renewed”

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Auburn Narrows

Restoration

Side channel

construction Photos: Shelby Smith, Shared

Strategy for Puget Sound

Middle Green

Middle Green River

and the Upper Green

APD

Enumclaw Plateau:

Rosatto Buffer Enhancement

Briscoe Levee on Lower

Green in Kent one year

after reconstruction

September 2008

Briscoe Levee on Lower

Green in Kent one year

after reconstruction

September 2008

Desimone Levee on Lower

Green in Tukwila six years

after reconstruction

June 2008

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Riverview Park

Side Channel

A Green/Duwamish

Ecosystem

Restoration Project -

construction 2011?

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167

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North

2004

March 4, 2010 April 28, 2010

Presentation

1. WRIA 9 Watershed Ecosystem Forum in context

2. WRIA 9 Salmon Habitat Plan (2005)

3. Progress in conserving and restoring the lands and waters of the watershed

4. Salmon Habitat Plan and the Corps

Discussion

Working together to address

key implementation obstacles Predictable/Sustainable Funding

Levee Vegetation Management

Levee Setbacks & Federal Insurance

Downstream Fish Passage at HH Dam

Dredging of Duwamish Turning Basin

SE Green Valley Road Chinook salmon

Carpinito Bros. on the Lower Green Auburn Narrows Restoration