Ordinance 3129-09 - Laserfiche WebLink

Restoration and Land Use Concepts sides of the BNSF Railway tracks via connections under the existing railroad trestles. • Establishing an area for tidal restoration on most of the land area east of the Marshland Canal and south of the BPA power lines. • Creating three paths for tidal exchange at the Lowell-Snohomish River Road (expanding the existing bridge associated with the pump station and developing two new bridge crossings over Lowell-Snohomish River Road). • Connecting Wood Creek to the southeastern tidally restored area to provide fish passage between the tidal area and Wood Creek. • Providing a connection between the streams flowing from the western hillsides to tidally restored areas and allowing these streams to flow into and through the tidal areas. • Adding an area of preserved forested wetland habitat on the west side of the railroad tracks with fish access from the tidally restored area via a hydraulically controlled culvert. This area is privately owned and several properties have landowners willing to sell some of their lands for public use and habitat preservation/restoration. • Proposing a large area of restored, non-tidal freshwater wetland in the center portion of the study area bounded by the PSE and BPA power line corridors. This restoration is shown on PSE land and other private lands. Access to the transmission lines is provided and wetland restoration below them is limited or excluded for this purpose. • Two channels flowing underneath the BNSF Railway tracks where the existing trestles for the Marshland Canal and former Hardscrabble Slough are located. These two channels would be designed to convey water (and fish) to and from both sides of the tidally restored area only, and no wetland or tidal habitat per se would be created within the BNSF right-of-way. Some modifications to the trestle at Hardscrabble Slough may be required by the railroad. • Constructing new dikes on the south and portions of the north and west sides of the tidally restored area in the central western and northeastern portions of the study area and around the entirety of the perimeter of the land area east of the Marshland Canal and south of the BPA power lines to protect adjacent property from tidal flooding. • Continuing ongoing agriculture in traditionally farmed pockets between and near habitat restoration areas. • Providing an area for passive recreation in a 500-foot-wide-strip bordering Lowell- Larimer Road. This passive recreation area would provide for small- to medium-sized Draft Subarea Plan June 2009 Everett Marshland 33 070346-01