The Kitsap Sun (subscription required) reported on the removal of a partial fish-blocking culvert on Chico Creek, under Kittyhawk Drive. Under the direction of the Suquamish Tribe, the 50-year old culvert is…
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe worked with a local landowner in Sequim, WA to remove a 600-foot long roadway and two culverts and replace them with a bridge in Washington Harbor.…
A small estuary at the Indianola Waterfront Preserve in Kitsap County, blocked from tidal flow for more than 40 years, has been reopened to juvenile fish this fall—part of a broader effort to restore natural resources damaged by a 2003 oil spill at Point Wells in Snohomish County.
Kitsap County Public Works has replaced a fish-blocking 18-inch pipe under Chief Sealth Drive with a 16-foot-wide by 8-foot-tall culvert. County public works also has removed fill material at the site to widen the estuary from 30 to 150 feet. The project is supported by the Suquamish Tribe and several state and federal natural resource agencies.
Restoring the small or “pocket” estuary at the Indianola Waterfront Preserve will provide juvenile Puget Sound chinook, coho and chum salmon a refuge area for resting, eating and hiding from predators. Puget Sound chinook salmon are listed as “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act.
The Indianola Waterfront Preserve is owned by Kitsap County and protected with a conservation easement held by Great Peninsula Conservancy.