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GHannam
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   Topic: New Playpark in Shelton, WA
Posted: 22 Sep 2011 at 10:50am |
According to the post: The town of Shelton, Washington has pretty much built a playpark without knowing it. This section of river had a 35 foot dam on it, which wasn't serving any purpose other than blocking fish passage. so guess what, they installed 34 wiers. all about 1-2.5 feet in height. At around 500cfs, there are a bunch of great ledge/holes with eddy service. There are also significant wood hazards the entire way down, so be careful. i've found wier 31 (4th from the end) to be the best spot with the least wood hazards. At higher flows, the weir just upstream of the fire hut is great, and has proper eddy service.so check it out. let the town of Shelton know what you think. maybe we can get them to make a few adjustments to better suit whitewater paddlers, while still enhancing NW fisheries.
Other background/info: In 2001 the Corps of Engineers with support from Simpson Timber, WDFW, and Squaxin Island Tribe, removed the 35 ft high Goldsborough Creek Dam, near the city of Shelton in southwestern part of Puget Sound. Removal of the dam opened 13-miles of high quality stream habitat. A total of 34 pool and weir structures, with secured large woody debris, were used to re-grade the stream over a 1/2 mile segment. For my part I got to work with the Squaxin Tribe and R2 Consultants to do the post dam-removal monitoring.
Check out this video. Ten years later and look how much fun a human can have with a fish restoration project! Let's see how much fun you can get out of the Elwha River dam removal!
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GHannam
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Posted: 22 Sep 2011 at 10:51am |
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Dang... I was hoping to get the video imbeded in the post... sorry guys, guess you'll have to click on the link I added at the bottom
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James
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Posted: 22 Sep 2011 at 11:02am |
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jP
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Posted: 22 Sep 2011 at 1:04pm |
 hmmm... Guess I'll have to send my own personal R2 consultants (T&K) out there to check it out...
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brig
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Posted: 25 Sep 2011 at 9:13pm |
Thinking this spot needs it's on river page....just sayin'
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JayB
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Posted: 27 Sep 2011 at 11:56pm |
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Gauge and directions?
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GHannam
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Posted: 30 Sep 2011 at 10:38am |
James-- thanks for putting the video in 
JayB-- I've sent an email out to the person who was involved in the dam removal project, to get the exact details for location and gauges. I'll pass the info along when I get it
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kurle
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Posted: 30 Sep 2011 at 7:44pm |
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this site has a map you can click on for directions:
http://www.donkeyfIip.com/video/33/goldsborough-creek-shelton-wa
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jP
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Posted: 30 Sep 2011 at 8:40pm |
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Cool- yall know that as PPeeps of this zone YOU have the power to get its beta "on the map". Just use the tools. They are there. Poke around the rivers page n you'll figgr it out. And if all else fails just mercilessly bug James. That's what I do.
Said it before n I say it again:
This site's most robust potential lies in the wiki-guidebook nature of the rivers pages, and....
YOU interacting with it with your beta, photos and videos.
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Posted: 30 Sep 2011 at 8:43pm |
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An Donkey Flip is cool an all, but this site should never have to outsource its beta to it. No offense to no one but it should be the other way around.
Jus sayin.
Me? I'm goin salt yakkin. Yall got no beta fo me.
An that's how I like it. 360 degrees
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Mr.Grinch
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Posted: 01 Oct 2011 at 10:30pm |
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Basically: spill the rest of the beans already!
At the least: what river, and where to park?
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kurle
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Posted: 02 Oct 2011 at 11:27am |
Whoops, that link didnt work. this one should. there is a link to the map on there as well. http://www.donkeyfIip.com/rivers/goldsborough-creek
Map Link: http://maps.google.com/?q=47.209045+-123.137856
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JayB
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Posted: 04 Oct 2011 at 11:30pm |
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Gauge link:
http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/wa/nwis/uv/?site_no=12076800&PARAmeter_cd=00060,00065
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JayB
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Posted: 04 Oct 2011 at 11:34pm |
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Most likely a winter rain option - max flows briefly peaked at ~200 cfs once in the past 120 days...
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GHannam
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Posted: 07 Oct 2011 at 7:51am |
I'm glad that others had information too, because my contact JUST emailed me back. Here's what he said (hope it helps!):
Hi Gwendolyn,
I'm not sure where kayakers put in but there is a weblink to google maps with the lat/long for the place where supposedly the video was taken you can use to get directions. http://maps.google.com/?q=47.209045+-123.137856
Fred
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