Eklutna River Aquatic Habitat Monitoring, 2019

In collaboration with The Conservation Fund, Eklutna, Inc. completed deconstruction of the 60-foot high lower Eklutna River Dam in 2018. The deconstruction project was permitted, in part by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) which required Eklutna Inc. to collect a suite of pre- and post-project geomorphic and water quality data. These data were necessary to evaluate secondary effects of dam removal and sediment mobilization on the physical characteristics of the lower river for three years following dam removal. During Autumn of 2017, baseline data were collected describing channel geometry, substrate composition, and water quality at three monitoring locations downstream from the dam site. Year 1 (2018) of this monitoring project was completed by Eklutna Inc. in collaboration with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Native Village of Eklutna, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G)–Habitat. In 2019, Eklutna Inc. contracte...