Misery Creek Fish Passage Enhancement TA

The Misery Creek Fish Passage Enhancement project is located in the Lower Deadwood Creek sixth-field HUC 171002060504, in the West Fork Deadwood Creek sub-basin. Misery Creek flows from from its headwaters through Federal forest before entering a mix of rural residential and agricultural properties in its lower reach, near the confluence of West Fork Deadwood Creek and mainstem Deadwood Creek. The Siuslaw Coho Partnerships (SCP) Strategic Action Plan for Coho salmon recovery list longitudinal connectivity as a Key Ecological Attribute (KEA) and states that inadequate culverts in tributaries [...] often restrict access for both adult and juvenile coho to prime spawning and rearing areas and this project would support the SCPs goal of upgrading working lands infrastructure to improve water quality and increase habitat availability.

The work proposed in this project would seek to address a high priority crossing in the Lower Deadwood Creek sixth-field HUC by producing a Final design with Plans, Specifications and Estimates (PSEs) for the removal and replacement of a road-stream crossing on an Unnamed tributary to Misery Creek. The road-stream crossing will be designed to meet ARBO II standards and be sized at 1.5 ACW (or greater), as well as utilize stream simulation techniques described in the USFS Guide to Stream Simulation.

Project partners include the Siuslaw Watershed Council, United States Forest Service, and the Siuslaw Coho Partnership. The SWC and USFS will cooperatively raise funds and manage the technical details of the project. The SWC will be responsible for all project procurement and bid/contract documents. The USFS will permit the construction under ARBO II and utilize Programmatic pathways for removal/fill reporting.

This project will benefit ESA listed Oregon Coast ESU Coho and Chinook and Oregon Coast DPS Steelhead by creating designs to improve passage and 1 undersized and perched culvert at a road stream corssing on West Fork Deadwood Creek Road and 44.160453, -123.775692.