Surface Water Management Division

Snohomish River Watershed - Current and Past Projects:

Pilchuck River Watershed

Snohomish County has completed an assessment to determine the health of a major portion of the Pilchuck River between OK Mill Rd and the City of Snohomish Diversion Dam 4 miles SE of Granite Falls.  For more information about this effort, visit the Middle Pilchuck River Assessment page.

Woods Creek Watershed

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Regional and local planning efforts have identified Woods Creek as a priority rural stream in the Snohomish River Watershed. SWM has completed a watershed assessment that identifies sections of the stream where restoration efforts will have the greatest impact on salmon habitat and water quality. If you live along the creek and are interested in learning more, please contact Cindy Flint, Snohomish Watershed Steward.

From 2004 through 2008, with funding assistance from The Tulalip Tribes and construction support from county Road Maintenance work began on Creswell Creek to replace perched and deteriorated culverts, restore streamside habitat and replace an outdated fish ladder.  These activities done to improve salmon habitat occurred along 191st Drive NE from OK Mill Road and north. Creswell Creek is one of the headwaters streams of West Fork Woods Creek

In 2007 through a Centennial Clean Water Animal Waste Grant, a ¼ mile reach of Sister of Friar Creek, a tributary of West Fork Woods Creek, was cleared of blackberries and reed canary grass and replanted with native trees and shrubs. Fencing was placed to keep the horses away from the stream. A fish blocking culvert was removed and replaced by a small bridge and wood placed in the creek bottom for grade control.

Mosher Creek

Mosher Creek is a tributary of Ebey Slough in the lower Snohomish Watershed. From 2005 to 2008, work was done on a 1.5 acre wetland along Mosher Creek to improve habitat for fish and wildlife.

Mosher Creek Stream and Wetland Restoration Project (1.5 MB pdf download)

Quilceda Allen Watershed

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The Quilceda/Allen watershed is located in the Marysville/Arlington/Tulalip area.  In 1999 a watershed plan (Quilceda/Allen Watershed Plan Executive Summary (318 Kb PDF download) was completed for the watershed and a group was formed to implement the plan.  Eventually the group became the AQWA Team (Allen/Quilceda Watershed Action Team), which facilitates implementation of watershed, water quality and salmon conservation plans.  To learn more about the AQWA Team and projects happening in the Quilceda and Allen Watersheds click here.

French Creek Watershed

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French Creek flows from Meadow Lake in the hills to the north of Monroe all the way to the Snohomish River through the floodplain.  The French Creek Watershed Management Plan (10 Mb PDF download) was completed by SWM and the French Creek Watershed Management Committee in early 2005.
 

Friends of Cemetery Creek

A local group, Friends of Cemetery Creek, decided to study the water quality of their streams. From April 2001 until March 2003 the residents volunteered to collect monthly water quality samples at nine sites along the creek. See their results for five parameters: dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH, turbidity, and conductivity.
 

Contact

Peggy Campbell, Watershed Steward, 425-388-6497