OC Loup Loup Creek Culverts
#SRP-08-11008 #SRP-08-11008
 Okanogan Sub-basin Loop Loop Creek OC Loup Loup Creek Culverts
Organization Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board Lead Entity
Sponsor Okanogan County
Status Completed
Schedule Start Date: 8/1/2008 End Date: 12/1/2011
Category Category: Restoration
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DESCRIPTION
The Okanogan River contains summer steelhead, federally listed as 'threatened'. To recover this stock, habitat within tributaries of the Okanogan River need to be rehabilitated. One tributary, Loup Loup Creek (watershed size 63.9 sq mi), has been utilitzed for spawning by summer steelhead as recently as 2010 (B. Miller personal communication, Colville Tribes). Not unlike many tributaries of the Okanogan River, flows in Loup Loup Creek are diverted for agricultural production. Consequently the lowermost 1.0 mile of Loup Loup Creek has been intermittenly disconnected from the Okanogan River since the 1930's. In an effort to reconnect the lower 1.0 mile of Loup Loup Creek, the Colville Tribes and other entities are working with local irrigation associations for a solution to provide continuous flow. In addition to the lack of sufficient flow, at approx RM 0.1 a perched culvert impedes fish passage into Loup Loup Creek. The road (Burdett St) that crosses Loup Loup Ck accesses private residences. This undersized, perched culvert is proposed to be replaced with a bottomless box culvert. At the project site the channel willbe lined with large bed element to reduce incising. A second culvert, located approximately at RM 0.2 (Figure 1), is not perched but is undersized and is an impediment to passage due to exessive velocity. This culvert will be replaced with bottomless-box culvert. Once continuous flow is reestablished and the culverts are replaced 2.2 miles of Loup Loup Creek would be accessible to migrating steelhead.
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LOCATION
Chinook-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Upper Columbia River Spring, Okanogan River, Threatened
Chinook2-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Upper Columbia River Summer/Fall, Not Warranted
City Areas:Malott
County:Okanogan
HUC12:Lower Loup Loup Creek (170200062203)
HUC8:Okanogan (17020006)
Lead Entity Area:Upper Columbia
Legislative District:07
Salmon Recovery Regions:Upper Columbia River
Sections:09
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Upper Columbia River, Okanogan River, Threatened
Township:T32NR25E
Upper Columbia Assesment Unit:Loup Loup Creek-Lower DS
Watershed Administrative Unit:Loup Loup Creek
WRIA:Okanogan
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