Ohop Creek Restoration

Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Acquisition

Project ID	23-NISQ-02
Recovery Domains	Puget Sound
Start Date	01/01/2024
End Date	06/30/2025
Year	2023
Status	Ongoing
Last Edited	03/11/2025

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Description

There are several projects ongoing within the nearly 10 mile long reach of Ohop Creel in need of restoration. These funds will support one or more of the following instream and riparian restoration treatments: 1. Excavating a new, sinuous channel and flooding it to divert Ohop out of its ditch along approximately 4 miles of creek ; 2. Adding LWD to add complexity and to better connect Ohop to its floodplain along 4 miles of creek; and 3. Riparian planting across nearly 300 acres of restoring floodplain.

Project Benefit

Ohop Creek was ditched and disconnected from its floodplain from Ohop Lake to its confluence with the Nisqually River. The Nisqually Indian Tribe and our recovery partners, the South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group (SPSSEG) and the Nisqually Land Trust, have been purchasing property and restoring Ohop Creek over the last 20 years. This funding would be used in conjunction with other funding to continue restoration of this vital salmon stream.

Accomplishments

Metric

Completed

Originally
Proposed

Instream Habitat

Stream Miles Treated

4.00

Riparian Habitat

Stream Miles Treated

4.00

Acres Treated

300.0

Worksites

54460663

Worksite Identifier: 54460663
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description
Nisqually River Watershed, Washington State

Location Information

Basin: Puget Sound (171100)
Subbasin: Nisqually (17110015)
Watershed: Middle Nisqually River (1711001502)
Subwatershed:

State: Washington
Recovery Domain: Puget Sound
Latitude: 46.845978
Longitude: -122.370345

ESU

Puget Sound Chinook Salmon ESU
Puget Sound Steelhead DPS
Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia Coho Salmon ESU
Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia Chum Salmon ESU
Un-Named ESU Pink

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Metrics

C.0 Salmonid Habitat Restoration and AcquisitionY (Y/N)
- . . C.0.a Habitat restoration and acquisition funding .00
- . . C.0.b Length of stream treated/protected
- . . C.0.c
  Project identified in a Plan or Watershed Assessment
- . . C.0.d.1 Project Monitoring (LOV)
- . . C.4 Instream Habitat ProjectY (Y/N)
  - . . . . C.4.a Instream Habitat Funding
  - . . . . C.4.b Total length of instream habitat treated
  - . . . . C.4.c.1 Channel reconfiguration and connectivityY (Y/N)
    - . . . . . . C.4.c.2 Type of change to channel configuration and connectivity (LOV)
    - . . . . . . C.4.c.3 Miles of stream treated for channel reconfiguration and connectivity
    - . . . . . . C.4.c.5 Acres of off-channel or floodplain connected through channel reconfiguration and connectivity
  - . . . . 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
  - . . . . C.4.e.1 Streambank stabilization Y (Y/N)
    - . . . . . . C.4.e.3 Miles of streambank stabilized
  - . . C.5 Riparian Habitat ProjectY (Y/N)
    - . . . . C.5.a Riparian Habitat Funding
    - . . . . C.5.b.1 Total riparian miles streambank treated
    - . . . . C.5.b.2 Total Riparian Acres Treated
    - . . . . C.5.c.1 Riparian plantingY (Y/N)
      - . . . . . . C.5.c.2
        Species of plants planted in riparian