Kittitas County Public Works- status Report

Introductions

• Introductions

• Agenda Review

• Project Background
• Funding Update
• Status of Consultant Contract
• Kittitas County Public Works- Status Report
• Watershed Status Update
• Fish
• Flow
• Presentation by Herrera and Watershed Science & Engineering
• Q & A
• Stakeholder Involvement
• Closing Remarks

Manastash Creek Restoration Project

• Manastash Creek Restoration Project

• Endangered Species Act (Mid-Columbia Steelhead)

• Multiple Flood Events

• Three in 2011
• Significant damage to private and public infrastructure

• Funding

• Converted Existing
• Applied for additional

• Committees

• Technical
• Landowner

Salmon Recovery Funding Board ($112,959)

• Salmon Recovery Funding Board ($112,959)

• Washington State Conservation Commission ($50,038)

• US Bureau Of Reclamation ($25,000)

• Kittitas County ($40,000)

Consultant Selected

• Consultant Selected

• Herrera Environmental
• WATERSHED Science & Engineering

• Contract Signed May 2012

• Task Order Signed June 2012

• Scope of Work

• LiDAR collection pre-authorized

Kirk Holmes, Public Works Director

• Kirk Holmes, Public Works Director

Fish . . .

• Fish . . .

• Screening & Passage
• Barnes Rd, Keach/Jensen, MWDA/Consolidated
• Presence in Manastash Creek
• Sighting
• PIT Tag Detector

Flow

• Flow

• High flow this season to date
• Estimated at 400 CFS

Flow

• Flow

• Seasonally Dry Reach
• Instream Flow Improvements
• Purchases from willing sellers
• Conservation projects (sprinklers)
• Total Trust Water
• Almost 15 CFS
• More planned

Coordinated Resource Management (CRM) Program

• Coordinated Resource Management (CRM) Program

• Serves as a foundation to support collaborative, locally-led processes to address natural resource issues
• Applies to all communities and natural resource situations including areas dominated by public lands, private lands, or a mixture of the two

• CRM History

• started as a way to deal with conflicts that arose over range land and livestock issues
• first collaborative problem-solving group formed in 1949 near Richland, Washington
• In Kittitas County - Big Game Management Roundtable, Wild Horse Grazing Plan, Manastash Creek Restoration Project

Coordinated Resource Management (CRM)

• Coordinated Resource Management (CRM)

• Executive Committee includes
• Regional Forester - USDA Forest Service
• Chair - Washington State Conservation Commission
• Commissioner of Public Lands - Washington State DNR
• Director - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Director - WSU Cooperative Extension
• District Manager - USDI Bureau of Land Management
• State Conservationist - USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Chair - Washington Rangeland Committee
• President - Washington Association of Conservation Districts
• Director - Washington Department of Agriculture
• Director - Washington Department of Ecology

Upcoming Tasks

• Upcoming Tasks

• Begin contract work
• LiDAR Analysis
• Permission to Access forms
• Field Work
• Contact and work with CRM Program to encourage stakeholder participation
• Additional meetings (small groups?)