Butte Creek BDA Designs
Project Overview
Basics
Butte Creek BDA Designs
Completed
The project is located in Wheeler County, in the Butte Creek Watershed. Butte Creek is a direct tributary to the John Day River which drains into the Columbia River. The major watershed issue for this reach is intermittent flow and lethal temperatures for native fish during the summer months. This project will create a comprehensive design set aimed at creating floodplain connection actions lower water temps, create pool habitat increasing juvenile rearing habitat, and extend perennial flows increasing salmonid distribution. Theses proposed restoration treatments are specifically designed to meet goals that center around the recovery of ESA listed salmonid (steelhead) populations.
2019
2021
2021
6/21/2021
Project Attributes
Additional Project Attributes
FIP Status
None
Restoration Actions
16. Beaver Restoration Management, 28. LWD Placement, 3. Pool Development
For Land Acquisition and Easement Projects
Project Type
None
Location
Organizations
Contacts
Wheeler SWCD - John Day Basin Partnership (JDBP) (administration@wheelerswcd.org)
Metrics
Expected Metrics
| Design produced | 1 count |
Reported Metrics
| Design produced | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Units | |
| 1 | count | |
| Total | 1 | count |
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Day Basin Focus Investment Partnership (OWEB) | $0.00 | $23,354.19 | $10,103.81 | $33,458.00 |
| Wheeler County Soil and Water Conservation District (Wheeler SWCD) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $6,360.00 | $6,360.00 |
| Grand Total | $0.00 | $23,354.19 | $16,463.81 | $39,818.00 |
| Note: | Wheeler SWCD Inkind provided in the form of labor by Anabranch Solutions, LLC |
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Focal Species
Focal Species
This project seeks to develop a comprehensive design set aimed specifically at increasing and diversifying habitat components crucial to the rearing of juvenile steelhead. When implemented, this design will also have a positive outcome on floodplain connection and riparian vegetation expanding on key components that contribute to healthy steelhead habitat.
Implementation and Ecological Results
Implementation and Ecological Results
The project will design various structures that are intended to aggrade the stream channel and activate floodplain connection. This increases the availability of floodplain habitat, and ultimately increases suitable aquatic habitat that is crucial to steelhead for surviving over summer during the warmer dryer months.
By increasing riparian connection, riparian plant communities will be given the best chance to survive and expand. These plant communities are vital the survival of threatened steelhead by providing stream shading keeping summer stream temperatures low enough for survival over warmer dryer summer months. These plant communities also provide detritus materials and ultimately aid in the recruitment of large woody debris and help to reach the OWEB state ecological goal of increasing aquatic habitat complexity for native fish species.
Improving instream channel connectivity and complexity can lead to reactivation of side and braided channels and distribution of riffles and pools. This creates and disperses key habitat features needed for the summer rearing of threatened steelhead supporting aquatic habitat for native fish species.
Improving instream habitat diversity and complexity by installing structures throughout the system increases the distribution and quantity of key habitats that are critical to the rearing and survival of summer steelhead. By increasing the quantity of of structures, suitable rearing habitat can be utilized by steelhead juveniles throughout the system ultimately increasing survival rates for native fish species.
The project seeks to support the development of a hydrologically
inefficient riverscape that contributes to increased surface flow volume, duration, and extent, which results in increased spatial distribution of salmonid habitat quantity and quality within mainstem sections of Butte Creek. Surface flow also creates conditions that support woody riparian vegetation establishment, steelhead habitat quantity, and suggests efforts to attenuate flow are successful.
Working Groups
Working Groups
No Working Groups set for this Project.
LJDWG - Critical Issues
LJDWG - Critical Issues
No LJDWG - Critical Issues set for this Project.
Project Details
Attachments
Butte Creek Summary
- Uploaded On
- 11/12/2020
- File Type
- Description
- A brief summary of the Butte Creek watershed and restoration timeline.
Final Design
- Uploaded On
- 11/18/2020
- File Type
- Description
OWEB Final Metrics
- Uploaded On
- 6/21/2021
- File Type
- Description
- Final metrics submitted to OWEB
OWEB Completion Report
- Uploaded On
- 6/21/2021
- File Type
- Description
- Final report submitted to OWEB
No attachments
No attachments
Location Map
- Uploaded On
- 11/12/2020
- File Type
- Description
Notes
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External Links
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