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Stabler Cutbank Stabilization,
Wind River. Funded by BPA
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UCD and Northest Service Academy
workers at a just-completed stream headcut repair, Snyder Creek, Klickitat River Watershed. Funded by a Water
Quality Implementation Grant
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The Underwood Conservation
District assists landowners with many projects. UCD supplies technical
assistance to landowners in project design, provides cost-share funds to
partly cover project costs, and can help landowners find other sources of
funding for projects with public benefit.
Currently,
two funding sources drive most of UCD's assistance efforts:
- The Washington Conservation
Commission Water Quality Implementation Grant provides funding
for UCD technical assistance to landowners, and helps fund projects
via cost-share. UCD may be able to fund up to 75% of a project's
cost, if it is water-quality related and involves riparian
(streamside) improvements. Upland improvements may be cost-shared up
to 50%. Cost-share funds are limited and competitive; UCD's Board of
Directors decides which projects are funded. Contact us for more
information.
With
past Implementation Grant funds, UCD has done extensive amounts of
streamside reforestation, bank stabilization, and other projects. In the
upper reaches of Rattlesnake Creek and Snyder Creek (Klickitat River),
UCD has worked in cooperation with local landowners to construct live stake
checkdams and other structures, aimed at slowing erosion, and holding water
in the system longer into the summer. These practices are designed to
enhance later summer streamflow levels, which should ameliorate high stream
temperatures. UCD is utilizing shallow groundwater wells to monitor the
effect these practices have on groundwater levels.
2. UCD assists the Bonneville Power
Administration's Fish and Wildlife Program as a Contractor, performing fish
enhancement work in both the Wind River
watershed, and Rattlesnake Creek in the White Salmon River Watershed. In
the Wind River, UCD is working on stream stabilization and reforestation
along the private land sections of the Wind River,
near the mouth and north of Stabler. In Rattlesnake Creek, UCD is working
in partnership with the US Geological Survey and Yakama Nation, on a
project to describe current conditions in the drainage. Data will serve as
a baseline for comparison when anadramous fish are restored. UCD is
conducting water quality monitoring, shallow groundwater monitoring,
streamflow guaging, and is analyzing levels of nutrients in the stream.
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