Watching Our Water Ways

Anybody who has seen migrating salmon jumping up against a concrete wall and falling back down again probably shares the frustration with the salmon.

Chico Bay work / Kitsap Sun photo

Except at high tide, chum salmon in Chico Creek have been finding it tough to get through a culvert under Kittyhawk Drive at the edge of Chico Bay. For those who don’t recall, Chico Creek is the most productive salmon stream on the Kitsap Peninsula.

This year, Kitsap County Public Works — at the request of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife — built a series of rock structures to raise the pool downstream of the culvert. For more detail, check out the story in today’s Kitsap Sun. You may also view a video of the construction work.

The structure should be finished in a day or two, if it wasn’t completed today. I hope to see the fish swimming easily into the culvert, though they tend to be delayed by another culvert under the Highway 3 freeway.

It’s a good place to watch migrating chum. But if you go, please be careful where you park — and keep a close watch on the kids for their safety.

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Tags: Chico Bay, Chico Creek

This entry was posted on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm and is filed under Puget Sound, Salmon, Stormwater, Streams, Waterfront residents. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.