Fenster Levee Setback and Floodplain Restoration Green/Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Watershed Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 9

Project Description

• Located on the Middle Green River on the boundary between the City of Auburn and unincorporated King County
• Project is part of Salmon Habitat Plan project MG-18 (page 7-50)
• Site is owned by the City of Auburn and is publicly accessible
• This project will excavate and remove 700 linear feet of the old Fenster levee (revetment) and construct a low, revegetated bench and gently sloping riverbank to provide overhanging vegetation, accommodate floodwaters, and reduce floodwater velocity along the bank
• Project will be adjacent to a 2004 project that removed a failed culvert and replaced a portion of the levee with a revegetated bench

Partners and Funding

• Led by the City of Auburn in partnership with the King County Green River Flood Control Zone District
• $675,900 funded by SRFB (sixth round) with the King County Green River Flood Control Zone District providing $90,000 and the City of Auburn providing $33,000
• Volunteers from Auburn First United Methodist Church planted trees in 2004 as the first step in restoration and have been maintaining them annually since
• Additional funding information

Importance for Salmon This stretch of river provides rearing habitat and is a migration corridor for all Chinook and other salmonids produced upstream This site is at the lower end of a series of publicly-owned properties that provide good salmon habitat The project will improve refuge for young fish from high flows that would otherwise push them downstream

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

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