Habitat Projects

Since 2005, Chelan County Natural Resources Department has implemented a series of fish passage barrier removal and habitat complexity projects listed below.

Please check out the fact sheets for more information including project descriptions, funding sources, partners, and site photos.

To learn more about all of the projects that have been completed in Chelan County, please see the information provided in our project tracking system, Habitat Work Schedule.

Fish Passage Projects

Remove fish barriers and if needed, replace them with fish passable structures.

Project	Watershed	Fact Sheet
Peshastin Creek Fishway	Wenatchee	Link
Skinney Creek Culvert Replacement (1 structure)	Wenatchee	Link
Alder Creek Culvert Replacement (2 structures)	Wenatchee	Link
Beaver Creek Replacement (3 structures)	Wenatchee	Link
Clear Creek Culvert Replacement (3 structures)	Wenatchee	Link
Chumstick Culvert Replacement (17 structures)	Wenatchee	Link
North Road Chumstick Creek Culvert Replacement	Wenatchee	Link

Habitat Complexity Projects

Projects that increase fish habitat through the addition of large wood complexes and/or the reconnection or construction of side channels to provide off-channel habitat for high flow refugia.

Project	Watershed	Fact Sheet
Wenatchee Mainstem
Channel Migration Zone 6 (near Monitor)	Wenatchee	Link
Channel Migration Zone 10 Gagnon pond (near Drunkard’s drop rapid)	Wenatchee	Link
Channel Migration Zone 11 (near Drunkard’s drop rapid)	Wenatchee	Link
Channel Migration Zone 12 and 13 (near Dryden)	Wenatchee	Link
Channel Migration Zone 20 (Leavenworth area)	Wenatchee	Link
Cashmere Pond Habitat Project (near snowblind rapid)	Wenatchee	Link

Nason Creek
Nason Creek Oxbow Reconnection	Wenatchee	Link
Nason Creek N-4 Oxbow Reconnection	Wenatchee	Link
Nason Creek Lower Whitepine Reconnection Project	Wenatchee	Link
Nason Creek N-1 (KDIZ3)	Wenatchee	Link
Nason Creek Upper White Pine	Wenatchee	Link

Water Conservation Projects

Project	Watershed	Fact Sheet
Peshastin Pipeline	Wenatchee	Link

Riparian Projects

Project	Watershed	Fact Sheet
Icicle Creek Revegetation	Wenatchee	Link
Wenatchee River (Irwin) property	Wenatchee	Link
Leavenworth Golf Course	Wenatchee	Link
Ponderosa Community Riparian Assessment and Planting	Wenatchee	Link

Entiat Watershed

Project	Watershed	Fact Sheet
Harrison	Entiat	Link
Dillwater	Entiat	Link
Entiat National Fish Hatchery levee removal	Entiat	Link
Entiat Floodplain Reconnection	Entiat