Public Comments

Title:	Birch Creek Floodplain Restoration Project - Draft Environmental Assessment (EA)
Description:	BPA invites you to comment on this project's draft environmental assessment. The EA describes the project and why it is needed, discusses the environmental impacts the project would create and lists the mitigation measures that would lessen those impacts. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) proposes to provide funding for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation to restore a section of Birch Creek and associated floodplains near the town of Rieth, in Umatilla County, Oregon, to enhance fish and wildlife habitat. The project would occur between river miles 1.8 and 2.7. Proposed restoration activities would occur within about a 36-acre area and would include about one mile of main-channel realignment and restoration; improving secondary channel and floodplain interactions; installing habitat-forming in-stream structures made from large pieces of wood; wetland enhancement and creation; and riparian and upland vegetation plantings.
Start Date:	8/6/2020
End Date:	8/21/2020
Related information:	https://www.bpa.gov/efw/Analysis/NEPADocuments/Pages/Birch-Creek-Floodplain-Restoration-Project.aspx