Instream Flow Protection: Southeast – Phase 18_ROW

The reservation of water application for Eva Creek Reach A was completed and submitted. More effort than expected was put toward the companion project (AK54019_GAGE) to collect additional flow measurements for future reservation applications; the balance of funds originally budgeted for this project were utilized there for setting up a new gage and taking measurements on 17 anadromous stream reaches.

The rivers of SE AK support some of North America’s most viable and productive salmon and steelhead fisheries. Salmon and steelhead depend on sufficient quantities of water to meet their spawning, rearing, incubation, overwintering, and migration habitat requirements. This project will benefit salmon and steelhead populations (including those used for important subsistence fisheries) throughout SE AK by legally reserving water needed to sustain their production.