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Project Features: <br />Proposed key actions in the multi phased plan include: <br />• Remove four (4) passage barriers in Currier Creek. Remove outdated instream <br />agricultural features that currently create anadromous fish passage barriers. <br />• Currier Creek riparian corridor re -vegetation, including a possible grow -in irrigation <br />system <br />• Protective easement over 100 foot Currier Creek riparian reserve <br />• Implement habitat improvements due to development progress. <br />• Pipe conveyance of Town Canal water to meet on-going irrigated agriculture demand <br />• New irrigation strategy supplying irrigation water to the proposed residential <br />development. <br />• Continue Implementing a shared vision with Agencies to see Salmon and Steelhead re- <br />occupy the Currier Creek watershed. <br />Project Schedule: <br />Develop barrier removal engineering plans. Completed in 2007/2008. <br />Habitat restoration due to development improvements. Spring 2016. <br />Establishment of the Currier Creek Buffer. 2016 through 2020. <br />Currier Creek access for transplanting fish into this tributary. Annually with Agency timing. <br />SUPPORTING: <br />This plan expands upon a previously funded riparian project on land that this landowner <br />owned involving the Swauk Creek system. This plan is not has detailed as the Swuak <br />Restoration Plan, but assimilates to the Currier Creek riparian characteristics. By already <br />completing Part A this plan has began the implementation phase and will continue to do so as <br />the Palomino Fields development continues. <br />Agricultural and open space lands at the project site, are expected and starting to be converted <br />to more intensive land uses. The landowner envisions keeping Currier Creek in tact and if <br />needed restoring the natural habitat functions of Currier Creek as part of the conversion to <br />rural residential development. <br />Water conveyance infrastructure improvements will bring efficiencies to the irrigated <br />agriculture component of land uses at the project site. The creek will no longer be used as a <br />conveyance channel for Ellensburg Water Company water, due to the new siphon, because the <br />piped water will serve the entire agricultural demand. <br />Enhanced instream flows, coupled with strategic habitat improvement actions, will <br />significantly improve and restore natural riparian processes in the Currier Creek watershed. <br />Page 3 of 4 <br />