North Fork Nooksack Floodplain

Floodplain

Floodplains occur where large rivers and streams meander in their own sediments

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This is a placeholder page for information about the Northfork Nooksack River Floodplain.

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Notes

• Farmhouse Reach Floodplain Restoration is planned for construction in 2014
• Lower Canyon Creek Restoration was constructed in 2013 on an alluvial fan to the N. Fork.
• Nooksack Tribe is very active in restoration involving Engineered log jams
• Wildcat Reach Floodplain Restoration is also in this system
• The North fork is loaded with glacial outwash which affects temperature, hydrology, sediment load and channel form.

particles of clay, silt, sand, gravel, or cobble, transported by water, are called sediment.