Ceremony Celebrates Project at Gluds Pond

(Port Orchard) A public ceremony Friday ( 10/19/07 ) at 1:00 p.m. marks the completion of improvements to Steel Creek at Gluds Pond.  The project restored about 1,000 feet of open stream channel by reconstructing a meandering stream channel and replacing the two undersized culverts with 24–foot span, three–sided, concrete culverts. Grade controls were also installed to mimic natural channel conditions and to maintain the proposed grade of the stream.  In addition to fish passage, this project created pools and point bars that provide additional spawning and rearing habitat.

Ace Paving was awarded the $1,458,321 contract. A $773,000 grant from the Salmon Fund Recovery Board, $50,000 from the Port of Brownsville , and $10,000 of donated labor from Steele Creek Organization for Resource Enhancement (SCORE) was combined with $635,321 local road fund dollars to fund the project. SCORE has spent years hand–carrying fish past the obstructions in the stream channel.

Kitsap County Commissioner Josh Brown, along with representatives from the Port of Brownsville , SCORE, and Kitsap County Public Works will speak at the ceremony. Light refreshments will be served.

Enter the area by turning on NE Gluds Pond Street from State Highway 303 just north of the Brownsville Highway intersection. Park along the street or along the first street to your right. The ceremony is at the end of NE Gluds Pond Street .

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Map to Celebration Location

Kitsap County Public Works
The Open Line
(360) 337-5777 or (800) 825-4940
openline@co.kitsap.wa.us