Projects - 2010
Six projects were completed in 2010 on Murray Creek. View the full 2010 Annual Report.
Project 10-01:
General Description and Issues: Undersized culverts removed and replaced with arch culvert.
Outcomes: Meets flow requirements and provided fish passage and increased stream availability, increased stream length of 800 metres plus.
Project 10-02 - Demonstration Site:
General Description and Issues: Decades of heavy use created the situation (degraded stream banks and loss of riparian vegetation).
Outcomes: Multiple projects along this section of Murray Creek, known as the Demonstration Site. This site is used as a demonstration site to show what can be done to repair using Bio-engineering. The site is used by School District 91 for Project Agriculture, University of Northern BC for graduate studies and Northern Health as they collaborate with the Northern Regional Drinking Water Team to better understand the linkages between healthy watersheds and human health.
View this video taken in the spring of 2014. The video shows how the armouring and protection of the stream banks is working during high flow conditions.
Project 10-03:
General Description and Issues: Narrowing of flood channel upstream increased velocity.
Outcomes: Rock and log structure installed that allowed stream to meander and continue to utilize old channel.
Project 10-04:
General Description and Issues: Banks had lost their structural integrity along with the breakage if a beaver dam years earlier that moved the stream channel against the clay bank and eroded large section of bank downstream.
Outcomes: Rock and log structures installed along with deciduous cuttings that took well.
Project 10-05:
General Description and Issues: Silt was moved down the ditch line in heavy rains and was silting Murray Creek up.
Outcomes: L&M Lumber had the ditch lined with cobble and installed an additional side culvert that moved this water into the forested land before entering the stream.
Project 10-06:
General Description and Issues: David Martens and Sons (DMS )- previous land owner had put the stream “where it belongs” and had farmed through the stream.æ
Outcomes: DMS fenced of the main stream, hardened of four stream crossings for machinery and cattle watering and planted stream sides with willow.
