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Colville Watershed Planning - WRIA 59
Grants awarded through June 2008
$1,111,200
Projected grants July 2008 - June 2009
$50,000
Background
Stevens County adopted the Colville Watershed
Management Plan in November 2004 and began Phase 4 implementation
within four months. The planning group completed their detailed
implementation plan in March 2006. An important implementation
activity is to conduct further stream flow studies to support
modifying the existing stream closures in the watershed. The plan
also recommended hiring a Watermaster and performing a detailed
ground water study.
Instream flow status
Instream flows and stream closures were set in 1977 (Chapter 173-559 WAC). The detailed implementation plan calls for further flow studies to support possible opening of some of the closures. Ecology, along with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Spokane Tribe of Indians, and the planning group, gathered flow and habitat data throughout the basin in 2006. The planning group collected more data in the fall of 2008 and instream flow negotiations are ongoing.
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