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Initiated in 2001
For more information contact
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Juneau Fish and Wildlife Service
Office
3000 Vintage Boulevard
Juneau, AK 99801
| Project Description: |
Duck Creek is a heavily developed
and polluted stream flowing through the heavily populated Mendenhall
Valley in Alaska's capital city of Juneau. This creek once supported
a spawning population of 10,000 chum salmon that has been extirpated
and current populations of coho salmon and Dolly Varden char risk
the same fate. Numerous problems related to urbanization and improper
development have lead to the current state of Duck Creek and its
fish and wildlife populations. The Service's Juneau Fisheries
Program has long worked actively with the Duck Creek Advisory
Group and its cooperators on projects to restore Duck Creek. |
 
Culvert renovation on Duck Creek; before (left),
during (right), and after (bottom) |
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| Project Outcome: |
Two culverts that restricted fish
passage and sediment transport were removed and replaced with
a cedar footbridge and an oversized partially buried arch pipe
culvert. Partner groups also worked with the Army Corps of Engineers on
an ambitious proposal to restore the entire creek through the
Corps 206 program in cooperation with the City and Borough of
Juneau.
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| Partners: |
City of Juneau, Borough of Juneau,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Duck Creek Advisory Group, and the
USFWS-Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program. |
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