Mill Creek Mouth Restoration Planning Green/Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Watershed Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 9

Project Description

• Located on the Lower Green River in the City of Kent
• Project is part of Salmon Habitat Plan project LG-7 (page 7-62)
• This project will pay for a feasibility study and design of restoration of the lower one-quarter mile of Mill Creek and the confluence with the Green River
• When constructed, this project will create side channels and a pond to provide refuge for Chinook, coho, and other salmonids

Partners and Funding

• Led by the City of Kent in partnership with the Mid-Puget Sound Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group
• $100,000 funded by SRFB (sixth round) with the City of Kent providing $100,000 and King County Conservation Futures Program providing $100,000
• Additional funding information

Importance for Salmon This stretch of the Green River provides rearing habitat and is a migration corridor for all Chinook and other salmonids produced on the Green River This project will benefit coho salmon and cutthroat trout that spawn and rear in Mill Creek 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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