Jim Ford Creek Water Quality implementations (Clearwater CD)
Program
Water Quality Implementation
Lead Implementer
Clearwater Conservation District
Funders
Clearwater County, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Idaho Department of Lands, Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission, Private Party
Project Primary Contact
Tim Roehr (clearwater.swcd@gmail.com)
Project Stage
Completed
Duration
2000 - 2005
Natural Resource Projects & Practices
Water Quality Implementation
Jim Ford Creek is one a "high priority" stream within the Clearwater Basin. The goal of the project was to work toward TMDL pollutant reductions within the watershed. Jim Ford Creek drains 65.338 acres from the upper rolling forested uplands and Weippe prairie into the narrow, steep basalt canyon. The major tributaries are Heywood, Wilson, Grasshopper and Winter creeks.
Key Accomplishments
- Access Road (linear feet): 3,438.00 lf
- Fence (linear feet): 100,338.00 lf
- Grade Stabilization Structure (number): 14
- Heavy Use Area Protection (number): 23
- Pasture & Hayland Planting (acres): 203.00 acres
- Pipeline (linear feet): 1,223.00 lf
- Pond (number): 6
- Pumping Plant For Water Control (number): 2
- Riparian Forest Buffer (acres): 250.60 acres
- Roof Runoff Structure (number): 2
- Spring Development (number): 2
- Stream Channel Stabilization (linear feet): 2,718.00 lf
- Subsurface Drain (linear feet): 2,350.00 lf
- Tree/Shrub Establishment (number): 36,675
- Use Exclusion (acres): 322.50 acres
- Waste Storage Facility (number): 6
- Water Well (number): 1
- Watering Facility (number): 9
- Wetland Restoration (number): 1
Project Themes
- Agricultural Lands
- Healthy Watersheds
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Location
Expenditures
Expenditures by Funding Source to Date: $762,200.75
Idaho Department of Lands (IDL): $54,673
Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG): $33,241
Section 319 Grant (IDEQ): $398,923
State Agricultural Water Qua... (ISWCC): $48,705
Potlatch Deltic Corp... (Private Party): $58,515
Private Landowners (Private Party): $80,245
Clearwater Highway ... (Clearwater Co.): $87,898
Photos
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Project last updated 6/24/2020