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

Grants awarded through June 2008

$953,000

Projected grants July 2008 - June 2009 

$158,400

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.

Documents prepared by the planning unit

• WRIA 16 Ambient Groundwater Monitoring Plan (1122 kilobytes)

• Final WRIA 16 Detailed Implementation Plan (448 kilobytes)

• WRIA 16 – Brief Overview (211 kilobytes)

• River and Stream Impairment Analysis - WRIA 16 and 14b, Skokomish-Dosewallips Planning Area (45016 kilobytes)

• Webb Hill Biosolids Facility Hydrogeologic Investigation - Phase 1 (5518 kilobytes)

• Webb Hill Biosolids Facility Hydrogeologic Investigation - Phase 2 (10895 kilobytes)

• WRIA 16 Surface Water Quality Monitoring Strategy (3903 kilobytes)

• WRIA 16 Watershed Management Plan (5539 kilobytes)

• WRIA 16 Watershed Management Plan Executive Summary (5086 kilobytes)

• Final Preliminary Assessment of Hood Canal Streams (2417 kilobytes)

• WRIA 16 Planning Unit Members (12 kilobytes)

• Hydrogeologic Study of the Lower Dosewallips/Brinnon Area (107903 kilobytes)

• Skokomish-Dosewallips Basin Watershed Planning (WRIA 16) Level 1 Assessment - Draft

• WRIA 16 Rivers For Life Newsletter (1498 kilobytes)

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.

Links, Studies, Data

• WRIA 16
• WRIA 14