Project
Salmon Habitat Restoration
Date
2016 – 2019
Location
Tseatah Cheam IR2, Immediately North of Gilcrest Island at Powerline Bar
Client
Cheam First Nation & Department of Fisheries & Oceans
Project Team
Scott Hawker, Carrielynn Victor
Earth works: Timbro Contracting
Purpose
Our client’s goal is to increase salmon populations by:
01
Reestablishing
spawning habitat
in and near the Fraser River
02
Incorporating
a living foreshore
approach
Purpose
Our client’s goal is to increase salmon populations by:
01
Reestablishing
spawning habitat
in and near the Fraser River
02
Incorporating
a living foreshore
approach
Our Solution
Guided by both deep historical knowledge of the local ecology and modern environmental engineering, our project design includes:
Sediment and Gravel Removal
From a side channel and parts of Powerline Bar in an effort to encourage the return of Chum salmon
Restoration Works
Placement of indigenous plants and large woody debris in the side channel to increase resting and rearing areas for various salmonid and sturgeon species
Enhanced by
Removal of invasive Himalayan Blackberry and ongoing efforts to monitor and mitigate impacts of gravel accretion and invasive plants
Our Solution
Guided by both deep historical knowledge of the local ecology and modern environmental engineering, our project design includes:
Sediment and Gravel Removal
From a side channel and parts of Powerline Bar in an effort to encourage the return of Chum salmon
Restoration Works
Placement of indigenous plants and large woody debris in the side channel to increase resting and rearing areas for various salmonid and sturgeon species
Enhanced by
Removal of invasive Himalayan Blackberry and ongoing efforts to monitor and mitigate impacts of gravel accretion and invasive plants
When this project is complete, Cheam will continue to expand restoration and rehabilitation efforts on the banks and in the reaches of the Fraser River within core tribal Pilalt Territory.