Golf Club Hill Road Culvert Replacement - Chico Creek

Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Acquisition

Project ID	17-SUQU-03
Recovery Domains	Puget Sound
Start Date	11/04/2019
End Date	12/31/2021
Year	2017
Status	Completed
Last Edited	01/25/2024

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Description

The culvert under Golf Club Hill Road on lower Chico Creek blocked approximately 16 miles of high quality upstream spawning and rearing habitat that supports wild populations of coho, Puget Sound steelhead, cutthroat, fall chum and the occasional Chinook. Chico Creek is one of the most productive salmon and steelhead streams in Kitsap County, and in all of WRIA 15. The culvert under Golf Club Hill Road was identified as a barrier to fish passage in the early 2000 ’s as a priority for restoration and has been in various stages of planning since then. Design for removal of the culvert and associated floodplain restoration has been completed. Funding from this project allowed the Tribe to contribute staff time to implement this project. Kitsap County lead construction under a grant from Washington States Brian Abbot Fish Barrier Removal Board. Staff time contributed towards the implementation fish passage improvements, instream structure placement, and riparian treatments in the restored area.

Note conversations occurred with RCO to ensure there is no duplication in metric or fund reporting, i.e this information is not being reported by RCO to the PCSR program.

Project Benefit

This project corrects a barrier in the lower Chico watershed that blocks approximately 16 miles of salmon and steelhead habitat.

Accomplishments

Metric

Completed

Originally
Proposed

Instream Habitat

Stream Miles Treated

.15

Riparian Habitat

Stream Miles Treated

.25

Acres Treated

Fish Passage

Barriers Removed

Miles Opened

16.00

Source

Funds

PCSRF

$25,825

State

$3,413,330

Report Total:

$3,439,155

Worksites

Chico Golf Club Hill Road

Worksite Identifier: Chico Golf Club Hill Road
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description
Culvert and stream channel at Golf Club Hill Road, Chico

Location Information

Basin: Puget Sound (171100)
Subbasin: Puget Sound (17110019)
Watershed: Olalla Valley-Frontal Puget Sound (1711001907)
Subwatershed: Chico Creek-Frontal Sinclair Inlet (171100190705)

State: Washington
Recovery Domain: Puget Sound
Latitude: 47.59279873018211
Longitude: -122.70893454551488

ESU

Puget Sound Chinook Salmon ESU
Puget Sound Steelhead DPS
Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia Chum Salmon ESU
Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia Coho Salmon ESU

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Metrics

C.0 Salmonid Habitat Restoration and AcquisitionY (Y/N)
- . . C.0.a Habitat restoration and acquisition funding 3,439,155.00
- . . C.0.b Length of stream treated/protected .15
- . . C.0.c
  Project identified in a Plan or Watershed Assessment
- . . C.0.d.1 Project Monitoring (LOV)
- . . C.0.d.2 Monitoring Location (LOV)
- . . C.0.d.3
  Monitoring text (from Phase I)
- . . C.2 Fish Passage ImprovementY (Y/N)
  - . . . . C.2.a Fish Passage Funding 3,153,351.00
  - . . . . C.2.b.1 Length of stream made accessible 16.00
  - . . . . C.2.b.3 Type of blockage/barrier (LOV)
  - . . . . C.2.b.4 Number of blockages/impediments/barriers impeding passage 1
  - . . . . C.2.g.1 Bridge installed or improved at road stream crossingY (Y/N)
    - . . . . . . C.2.g.2 Number of bridges installed or improved/upgraded 1
    - . . . . . . C.2.g.3 Miles of stream made accessible by bridge installation or improvement/upgrade 16.00
  - . . C.4 Instream Habitat ProjectY (Y/N)
    - . . . . C.4.a Instream Habitat Funding 283,450.00
    - . . . . C.4.b Total length of instream habitat treated .15
    - . . . . C.4.d.1 Channel structure placementY (Y/N)
      - . . . . . . C.4.d.2 Material used for channel structure (LOV)
      - . . . . . . C.4.d.3 Miles of stream treated through channel structure placement .15
      - . . . . . . C.4.d.5 Pools expected to be created through channel structure placement 10
      - . . . . . . C.4.d.7 Number of structures placed in channel 24
    - . . C.5 Riparian Habitat ProjectY (Y/N)
      - . . . . C.5.a Riparian Habitat Funding 2,354.00
      - . . . . C.5.b.1 Total riparian miles streambank treated .25
      - . . . . C.5.b.2 Total Riparian Acres Treated .1
      -      . . . . C.5.c.1 Riparian plantingY (Y/N)
        
             . . . . . . C.5.c.2
        Species of plants planted in riparian
        
        Polystichum munitum (ferrns), Salix spp. (e.g. willows), and Thuja plicata (western red cedar)
        
             . . . . . . C.5.c.3 Acres planted in riparian 2.0
        
             . . . . . . C.5.c.4 Miles of streambank treated with riparian planting .25