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BENEFITS: <br />Expansion of spawning and rearing habitat for focal salmonid species in the Upper Yakima <br />Availability of spawning and rearing habitat is a significant limiting factor for salmon recovery <br />in the Yakima Sub -basin. This project will provide areas of rearing habitat in Currier Creek. <br />Enhanced in -stream flows in the project reaches <br />Irrigation water conveyance improvements will create water savings available for conservation <br />after a irrigation strategy and system established. <br />Efficiencies created from previous key actions <br />Downstream barrier removal projects, funded in 2004 & 2005, will create passage from <br />Yakima River to Town Canal (4.1 miles). <br />Improvements <br />Long -tern benefits to fish include biological processes, channel conditions, floodplain <br />conditions, and streambed sediment conditions. <br />• Barriers removed <br />• In -stream flow enhanced <br />• Habitat access and quality will be improved <br />• Landowners will achieve a more water efficient means of irrigation <br />• Water purveyor, Ellensburg Water Co., and landowner will have a simpler, more <br />efficient delivery system <br />Page 4 of 4 <br />