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Skokomish-Dosewallips/South Shore Lower Hood Canal - WRIA 16/14b

Grants awarded through June 2010

$1,245,537

Projected grants July 2010 - June 2011 

$125,000

Background

The planning group approved the watershed plan in May 2006. The Mason and Jefferson Boards of County Commissioners adopted the plan unanimously in July 2006. The plan included 82 recommendations including 14 for all of Hood Canal. The planning group received a Phase 4 Implementation grant in July 2007, and completed their detailed implementation plan in June 2008. They are now working closely with the Puget Sound Partnership to develop the Partnership’s Action Agenda for the Hood Canal Action Area.

Planning Documents

• A Look Under the Hood: Diagnostics for Hood Canal - August 2011
• River and Stream Water Quality Monitoring Plan for the Hood Canal Watershed
• Preliminary Quality Assurance Project Plan for Implementing the Hood Canal Stream Monitoring Strategy
• Recommendations for Future Funding and Data Management for Implementation of the Hood Canal River and Stream Water Quality Monitoring Plan
• Inventory of River and Stream Monitoring Efforts in Hood Canal
• WRIA 16 Instream Flow Studies
• WRIA 16 Ambient Groundwater Monitoring Plan
• Final WRIA 16 Detailed Implementation Plan
• WRIA 16 – Brief Overview
• River and Stream Impairment Analysis - WRIA 16 and 14b, Skokomish-Dosewallips Planning Area
• Webb Hill Biosolids Facility Hydrogeologic Investigation - Phase 1
• Webb Hill Biosolids Facility Hydrogeologic Investigation - Phase 2
• WRIA 16 Surface Water Quality Monitoring Strategy
• WRIA 16 Watershed Management Plan
• WRIA 16 Watershed Management Plan Executive Summary
• Final Preliminary Assessment of Hood Canal Streams
• WRIA 16 Planning Members
• Hydrogeologic Study of the Lower Dosewallips/Brinnon Area
• Skokomish-Dosewallips Basin Watershed Planning (WRIA 16) Level 1 Assessment - Draft
• WRIA 16 Rivers For Life Newsletter

Update

The 2008 Legislature passed a bill (SB 6204) that split WRIA 14 into two separate areas for watershed planning purposes. WRIA 14(b) contains the portion of Kennedy – Goldsborough that drains into the southern portion of lower Hood Canal. The legislation directs that the WRIA 16 Planning group include WRIA 14(b) as a part of their planning and implementation efforts. The bill took effect June 12, 2008.

Instream flow status

The approved plan did not include instream flow recommendations.  Ecology plans to start rule development once agency resources become available.

Outside links, publications, studies, data

• WRIA 16
• WRIA 14

Please send additions or corrections to Chris Anderson, (360) 407-6634.