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Collaborative Effort to Restore Collaborative Effort to Restore Eelgrass in Puget Sound, WA Eelgrass in Puget Sound, WA Kimberle Stark King County Dept. of Natural Resources &Parks Dana Woodruff Battelle Marine Sciences Laboratory Matthew Boyle Grette Associates Betty Bookheim Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources Laura Arber Washington State Dept. of Fish and Wildlife

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Page 1: Collaborative Effort to Restor Eelgrass in Puget Sound, WA · Study Area * sonar sonar nm UW video nm sonar UW video UW video UW video Reference Area divers divers nm nm nm divers

Collaborative Effort to Restore Collaborative Effort to Restore Eelgrass in Puget Sound, WAEelgrass in Puget Sound, WA

Kimberle Stark King County Dept. of Natural Resources &ParksDana Woodruff Battelle Marine Sciences LaboratoryMatthew Boyle Grette AssociatesBetty Bookheim Washington State Dept. of Natural ResourcesLaura Arber Washington State Dept. of Fish and Wildlife

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Why & Where?

WTD will be building a new wastewater treatment plant that will discharge effluent through a marine outfall into Puget Sound

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Why Care?

Native perennial plant (Zostera marina) that forms meadowsNursery area for fish and shellfishProvides food & spawning habitat

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Conceptual Framework Planning

King County Wastewater Treatment DivisionKing County Water & Land Resources DivisionWashington Dept. of Natural ResourcesWashington Dept. of Fish & WildlifeBattelle Marine Sciences Laboratory/PNNLGrette & AssociatesSea-run Consulting

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Restoration Goal

To restore intertidal and shallow subtidal eelgrass habitat to pre-construction conditions

• Replace excavated substrate with native material• Restore eelgrass in trenched area and any additional areas

disturbed • Maximize probability of transplant success by planting

when plants are healthiest and substrate has stabilized

Objectives

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Plan Elements

Pre-construction surveysPre-construction harvesting & propagationExperimental harvest plotsTransplantPost-construction surveysContingency plan (will be developed in 2010)

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Pre-construction Surveys

• Document extent & mean densities of eelgrass• Assess inter-annual variation• Combination of methods: SCUBA divers, underwater video

& side-scan sonar

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Site divided into distinct areas:

outfall corridor

study area

reference area

donor site (not shown)

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Pre-construction

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Year - 5 Year - 4 Year - 3 Year - 2 Year -1

Marine Outfall divers --- divers --- divers Corridor sonar sonar

UW video UW video Study Area sonar --- --- --- divers

UW video sonarUW video

Reference Area divers --- divers --- divers

sonar sonarUW video UW video

Donor Site sonar --- --- --- ---

UW video

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Grette Associates

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Pre-construction Harvest & Propagation

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Experimental Harvest PlotsFive 2.0 m2 rectangular plots established in 2004Each plot divided into 8 sub-plotsSix harvest treatments: 0,5,10,25,50,100 %Monitored post-harvest in 2005,2006, & 2007

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Transplant

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Post-construction surveys

Identify the spatial extent of eelgrass affected by construction within the Study AreaDocument eelgrass recoveryDetect adverse developments in a timely manner

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Post-transplant Monitoring

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 **

Marine Outfall divers divers nm UW video nm divers Corridor sonar sonar sonar

UW video-quarterly UW video-quarterly UW video

Study Area * sonar sonar nm UW video nm sonarUW video UW video UW video

Reference Area divers divers nm nm nm diverssonar sonar sonar

UW video UW video UW video

Donor Site nm nm nm nm nm nm

* Only if Study Area receives transplants** If performance standards aren't met in 2014, monitoring will be done in 2019

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Lessons Learned So far

Must have a flexible plan!

and….

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Acknowledgements

Pam Erstad, WDFWChance Asher, WDOE (formerly WDNR)Jeff Lundt, King County WTD

http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/waterres/marine/Reports.htm