Beaconsfield Restoration Feasibility Study in Normandy Park Green/Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Watershed Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 9

Project Description

• Located in the Nearshore Subwatershed on the Puget Sound shoreline in southern Normandy Park
• Project is part of project NS-11 in the 2005 Salmon Habitat Plan (page 7-118)
• Project to ascertain the feasibility of acquiring and restoring one of the last undeveloped, but bulkheaded, stretches of nearshore on the King County mainland
• Project was completed and led to a second, design phase, which also received grant funding from the Salmon Recovery Funding Board in 2006

Partners and Funding

• Led by the City of Normandy Park in partnership with the Cascade Land Conservancy
• $50,873 funded by SRFB (sixth round) with the City of Normandy Park providing $6,000 and Cascade Land Conservancy providing $2,977
• Additional funding information

Importance for Salmon All species of ocean-going salmon use the nearshore for migration, and it is particularly critical for juvenile Chinook and chum for rearing, refuge from predators, and transition to saltwater habitats Beaconsfield-on-the-Sound has feeder bluffs that when reconnected to the beach (through removal of a bulkhead) will provide sediment needed to sustain the health of the beach The shoreline has overhanging vegetation that should be preserved and enhanced; a study has documented that young salmon rely heavily on terrestrial insects from marine riparian vegetation for their diet

More information on this SRFB grant application (Adobe Acrobat 841 KB)

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