Funded habitat recovery projects
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Phase 1: Dungeness Estuary and Lower River
Restoration (Funded 2001)
Current Status: Active
The overall project goal is to restore
the ecological processes of the estuary and lower Dungeness River.
Phase 1 objectives are to purchase approximately 22 acres of property
and associated
improvements on the west bank of the River to RM 0.9, remove approximately
3,400' of dike, and begin revegetation. Functional floodplain in the
river mouth area will then be over 150 acres and will thereby reduce
channel velocities, provide for sediment storage, and allow for meander
development. This 1st phase of the large-scale lower Dungeness restoration
is critical before the upstream bridge and dike can be set back (in
study/planning phase). This restoration project was recommended as the
# ONE PRIORITY
by the DRMT and the River Restoration Work Group, and is described
in the Limiting factors Report and Summer Chum Initiative. The lower
river
and estuary have been altered by diking, roadbuilding, and development
causing degraded estuarine/riparian habitat, channel confinement, aggradation
and related bedload instability, as well as water quality impacts associated
with the current DOH Shellfish Closure Areas (DOE, Lower Dung. TMDL).
The project will primarily benefit spawning and rearing of summer chum,
lower river pink salmon, and chinook. It will also directly benefit
chinook, bull trout and all other Dungeness stocks, shellfish, migrating
shorebirds
and waterfowl, eelgrass and other estuarine resources. Match is available
from landowners, WDFW, USFS and NOLT.