Bear/PCD/CR-MW4 Culvert replacement JITW01-BR-PCD-CRMW4/WWO00-050/WWO01-061 This project originally funded with FY2000 JITW funds, needed more funds to complete the project. Additional 2001 funds were added. see record 1341000XX. This project entails the removal of one undersized, prone to fail culverts on a tributary to Spyder Creek, which is a tributary to the Bear River. The culvert will be replaced with a adequately sized fish passable pipe, fills will be stabilized by removal of excess material, excavated material will be endhauled, a ditchline created and an adequate number of cross drains installed. This project is particularly important given the high potential for failure and significant reduction of sediment delivery important to salmonid habitat. The project will protect previously completed instream work in Spyder Creek. Culvert 1 is undersized and plugged at both ends causing water to flow over the road at the time it was inspected in 2000. The culvert could fail at any given time, inundating a tributary of Spyder Creek with sediments. The culvert drains 80 acres. Grass seeding and native plant re-establishment will occur on site when construction work is finished. Fish may utilize the portion of the tributary below the proposed site, it is unlikely that they use the stream above the site due to reduced summer flows, lack of pools, small channel size and steep gradients. This site will be monitored by the Pacific Conservation District crew, both pre and post construction. The monitoring plan is based on methods developed by Washington Departments of Ecology and Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service. Baseline information to be collected includes dive counts, photomonitoring, channel dimensions, thalweg, channel cross sections, water velocity, substrate, and pool-riffle-glide habitat using survey equipment and referencing all measurements to a benchmark. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Partners for Fish and Wildlife Grant Number 134100070
