Nooksack Floodplain Restoration with Engineered Log Jams

Efforts

Efforts describe the goal-oriented activites of workgroups

• Knowledge Creation
  • Adaptive Management
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Lessons
  • Monitoring
  • Research
• Protection
  • Acquisition
  • Green Infrastructure
  • Regulation
• Restoration
  • Beach Nourishment
  • Engineered Log Jams
  • Fish Passage
  • Revegetation
• Social Change
  • Advocacy
  • Coordination
  • Education
  • Funding
  • Integrated Ecosystem Management
  • Legislation
  • Planning

Effort References

• RCO's PRISM Project Search
• Salmon Recovery Portal
• Ecology's Administration of Grants and Loans
• USACE Regulatory In-lieu Fee and Bank information Tracking System

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This effort page is being built to provide an overview of work completed by the Nooksack Tribe to restore floodplain structure particularly in the North Fork Nooksack Floodplain using engineered log jams.

The following reach scale restoration efforts are part of this larger effort:

North Fork Nooksack Floodplain

• Wildcat Reach Floodplain Restoration - 1.5 mi long, 83 log jams, Construction (3 phases) 2011-2013
• Farmhouse Reach Floodplain Restoration - 3 mi long, 154 log jams planned, Construction (6 phases planned) 2014+

South Fork Nooksack Floodplain

• Van Zandt Reach Floodplain Restoration - 0.5 mi long, 15 log jams, Construction 2010
• Hutchinson Reach Floodplain Restoraion - 0.5 mi long, 27 log jams, Construction 2012 and 2014
• Black Slough Reach Floodplain Restoration - 1.3 mi long, design in progress
• Nesset Reach Floodplain Restoration - 1.6 mi long, design in progress

The following planning sequence underlies implementation of this work:

1. Prioritization of limiting factors and geographic areas - WRIA 1 Salmon Recovery Plan
2. System-scale habitat assessment to inform plan development - Fork or Sub-Fork Assessments Reports
3. Reach scale design, including
   1. Geomorphic reach assessment
   2. Feasibility analysis and conceptual design
   3. Hydraulic modeling and geomorphic assessment - hydraulic memo and geomorphic memo
   4. Phased final design
4. Construction
5. Reach-scale project monitoring
   1. As-built monitoring and reporting
   2. Effectiveness monitoring, as described in a QAPP.

A Quality Assurance Project Plan as required by EPA policy.