The Coffee Creek Project area is located northwest of Glenwood, Oregon, within the Gales Creek watershed of the Tualatin basin. Coffee Creek has been identi�ied as essential �ish habitat, particularly for steelhead trout. Coffee Creek is also a cold-water contributor to Gales Creek that offers cold water refugia to anadromous �ish during the summer months. The Project area spans multiple privately-owned tax lots above the con�luence of Gales Creek. Because it will take place in a residential neighborhood, the Project may need to be completed in phases to minimize impacts and maintain access. The area is accessed via NW Agaard Road. The land is within the traditional territories of the Tualatin Kalapuya, before non-native people settled in the Tualatin River Valley in the mid-1800's. After the Tillamook burns, a logging camp and mill was established on the project area, with a railroad servicing the camp along what is now Agaard Road. This project's key objectives are to: (1) remove an aquatic organism passage barrier replace it with a bridge and (2) address streambank stabilization tasks identified by engineers, and (3) realign channel and improve gradient at the new crossing. This Project aims to address a priority velocity, depth, and aquatic barrier at the intersection of the Coffee Creek and NW Agaard Road, approximately 50 feet upstream of Gales Creek confluence. It features two culverts, a 42-inch and a 29-inch CMP. The project intends to improve and restore passage for native migratory fish through Coffee Creek. To do so, the culverts shall be replaced with a concrete, cast-in-place abutment bridge, and the stream shall be realigned and a roughened riffle shall be constructed to address gradient, and the bank upstream of the Coffee Creek crossing shall be stabilized using wood toe and encapsulated soil lifts.
