Environmental Assessment Completed

Beaver Creek Fish Passage Project

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Union, Oregon La Grande Ranger District

Provide fish passage in Beaver Cr by placing concrete weirs in spillway, rock grade-control structures at intake, and rock and weirs by diversion pool. Place rock to grade channel in Elk, Cove, W Fk Beaver Cr intakes. Install fish screens at intakes

Location

By the La Grande Resevoir, near FS Road 4305270 in Beaver Creek; W Fk Beaver Creek, 12 air miles south of La Grande. Analysis area is 16,000 acres in Upper Beaver Creek subwatershed.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
10/24/2012
2
Comment Period
05/24/2013
3
Decision
07/2014 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
06/2015 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivitySpecies Habitat Improvements
Beaver Creek Fish Passage ProjectDecision Signed Date: 07/15/2014
ForestsWallowa-Whitman National Forest
DistrictsLa Grande Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionTownships 4, 5, and 6 south, Ranges 36 and 37 east.
Wildlife, fish, rare plants