Beaconsfield Restoration Design in Normandy Park
Project Description
- Located in the Nearshore Subwatershed on the Puget Sound shoreline in southern Normandy Park
- Follow-on project to Beaconsfield-on-the Sound feasibility study, which received a sixth-round grant from the Salmon Recovery Funding Board
- Project is part of project NS-11 in the 2005 Salmon Habitat Plan (page 7-118)
- Project to design the restoration (which largely is removal of bulkheads) of one of the last undeveloped stretches of nearshore on the King County mainland
- Project also will continue property-owner outreach begun in 2005 to assemble the necessary number of property parcels to move forward with acquisition and bulkhead removal
Partners and Funding
- Led by the Cascade Land Conservancy
- $100,000 funded by SRFB (seventh round) with the Cascade Land Conservancy providing $64,500
- Additional funding information
Importance for Salmon
- All species of ocean-going salmon use the nearshore for migration, and it is particularly critical for juvenile Chinook and chum for rearing, refuge from predators, and transition to saltwater habitats
- Beaconsfield-on-the-Sound has feeder bluffs that when reconnected to the beach (through removal of a bulkhead) will provide sediment needed to sustain the health of the beach
- The shoreline has overhanging vegetation that should be preserved and enhanced; a study has documented that young salmon rely heavily on terrestrial insects from marine riparian vegetation for their diet
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