North Fork Eagle Creek Dam Removal Project

Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Acquisition

Project ID	OWEB 221-3025-19558
Recovery Domains	-
Start Date	10/26/2021
End Date	08/27/2025
Year	2020
Status	Completed
Last Edited	11/21/2025

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Description

The project is composed of two sites: Site 1 - Remove the dam. Site 2 - Side channel connectivity and bank stability. To protect the homes adjacent to the stream and prevent bank sloughing from continuing to contribute sediment to the channel, large wood will be installed on the upstream landowners streambank and an historic side channel will be reconnected to take pressure off the actively eroding bank that threatens the existing well.

The dam was removed successfully. Though the bank stabilization portion of the project was not funded by the OWEB grant, that portion of the project was also completed successfully. Planting of the new bank and other areas specified by the landowner was also completed. The dam site was replaced by a roughened channel which now permits full volitional passage at all flows for both adults and juveniles.

Project Benefit

Implementing this project will remove the only mainstem full-spanning fish passage barrier on the North Fork Eagle Creek and will improve habitat connectivity within North Fork Eagle Creek. It will increase access to over 8 miles of highly productive spawning and rearing habitat for ESA listed fish coho and winter steelhead. Greater access to more appropriate spawning and rearing habitat will result in juvenile rearing in higher quality habitats. Survival of juveniles will improve overall survival leading to an increase in native, wild salmon and steelhead populations.

Accomplishments

Metric

Completed

Originally
Proposed

Fish Passage

Barriers Removed

Miles Opened

8.00

Source

Funds

PCSRF

$106,688

Other

$161,799

In-Kind Donated Labor

$45,575

Report Total:

$314,062

Worksites

20250064

Worksite Identifier: 20250064
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Area Description

No Area Description data was found for this worksite.

Location Information

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Recovery Domain:
Latitude: 45.329588
Longitude: -122.185689

ESU

Upper Willamette River Chinook Salmon ESU
Lower Columbia River Steelhead DPS
Lower Columbia River 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 314,061.60
. . C.0.b Length of stream treated/protected .01

. . C.0.c

Project identified in a Plan or Watershed Assessment

National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Region, 2013-06-01, ESA Recovery Plan for Lower Columbia River Coho Salmon, Lower Columbia River Chinook Salmon, Columbia River Chum Salmon, and Lower Columbia River Steelhead; Office of the Governor, State of Oregon, 1999-01-01, The Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds; Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2010-08-01, Lower Columbia River Conservation and Recovery Plan for Oregon Populations of Salmon and Steelhead; Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2016-01-01, Oregon Conservation Strategy ;

. . C.0.d.1 Project Monitoring (LOV)
. . C.0.d.2 Monitoring Location (LOV)
. . C.2 Fish Passage ImprovementY (Y/N)
- . . . . C.2.a Fish Passage Funding 314,061.60
- . . . . C.2.b.1 Length of stream made accessible 8.00
- . . . . C.2.b.3 Type of blockage/barrier (LOV)
- . . . . C.2.b.4 Number of blockages/impediments/barriers impeding passage 1
- . . . . C.2.c.1 Fish passage blockages removed or altered (other than road crossings reported in C.2.f to C.2.i)Y (Y/N)
  - . . . . . . C.2.c.2 Number of blockages/impediments/barriers removed/altered 1