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Vol. CXXIII, No. 128
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Pierce County resumes Puyallup River flood mitigation project Posted online Mon., June 30 Photos Courtesy Pierce County Work resumed this week on a side channel that will reconnect the Puyallup River to its historic floodplain near Orting. The side channel, which will also reduce flooding and provide salmon habitat, will be built in three segments, which will ultimately be connected together and to the Puyallup River. Most of the work will be An aerial view done during summer (TOP) of the project months to minimize site for a plan to impacts to fish in the reconnect the Puyalriver. lup River to its hisLast sumtoric floodplain near mer, crews built Orting. Crews excaa 2,000-foot-long vated a side channel section of the side (BELOW LEFT) and channel, and they engineered log jams will connect it to (BELOW RIGHT) the Puyallup River last summer as part this summer. In of the project. Crews late July, crews will resumed work on the start to build a secproject this week. ond 1,200-foot-long channel, install engineered log jams, and construct a perimeter access road. The project is anticipated to be completed next year, when a third segment of the side channel will be built, connecting the channel segments together and to the Puyallup River. Construction of the final phase is dependent upon obtaining additional grant funding. "When completed, this side channel will be the longest on the Puyallup River and will have water flows year-round," said Pierce County Public Works and Utilities surface water manager Harold Smelt. "Side channels provide benefits such as additional flood storage and rearing and spawning habitat for salmon." During the work, construction trucks will access the project site on South Fork Road, which crosses the Foothills Trail just north of the McMillin Trailhead and the State Route 162 bridge
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over the Puyallup River. Flaggers will direct truck traffic and trail users. Trail users may be stopped for short periods of time while trucks cross over the trail. Construction is funded with a $1,044,000 Floodplain by Design grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology, and $49,768 in Real Estate Excise Tax funding from Pierce County. To read the Tacoma Daily Index's complete and comprehensive coverage of the Puyallup River South Fork Floodplain Restoration
Project, visit our Web site for the following articles: — Pierce County projects aim to reduce Puyallup River flood risk (Tacoma Daily Index, July 10, 2013) — Summer construction project planned near Foothills Trail, Puyallup River (Tacoma Daily Index, March 26, 2013) — 9 Pierce County organizations receive $2.9M salmon recovery grants (Tacoma Daily Index, December 14, 2011)