French Slough Floodplain and Watershed
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Agricultural use is enabled by a pump station and drainage channel network, managed by the French Slough Flood Control District. The pump station has a fish ladder which does not allow for full fish passage, located where French Slough meets the Snohomish River. In the slough, summer temperatures are high enough to injure fish, and results in low oxygen levels. The site is listed (303d) for Clean Water Act violations. Suburban and agricultural land use contributes nutrients that exacerbate low oxygen levels. Rural residential development is increasing in the uplands, between the towns of Monroe and Snohomish, increasing runoff.
Relationships
- related to: 303d
- related to: city of everett
- related to: clean water act
- related to: coordinated farmland protection
- related to: fcwmc 2004
- related to: french creek drainage management
- related to: french slough flood control district
- related to: leonetti 2015
- related to: lower skykomish floodplain
- related to: npdes
- related to: salmonids
- related to: sammamish river
- related to: scd
- related to: snohomish county
- related to: tmdl
- related to: tulalip tribes
- related to: wdfw 2018
- related to: wdoe
Source: French Slough Floodplain and Watershed on Salish Sea Wiki