Baker Farm Drainage Restoration Project
Project ID: 5285
Status: Cancelled
Fiscal Year: 2021
Submitted By: N/A
Project Manager: Tony Richards
PM Agency: Utah Department of Agriculture and Food
PM Office: UGIP Northeast Region
Lead: Utah Department of Agriculture and Food
WRI Region: Northern
Description:
Proposed installation of 50 beaver dam analogs to reduce erosion and sediment loading as well as help restore 2200 ft of severely incised drainage through dry land crop ground in Petersbro area of Cache Valley.
Location:
220 ft long seasonal flow drainage through 80 acres of dryland crop ground along the foothills of the wellsville mountains in Cache Valley, located in the Petersbro / Mendon area.
Project Need
Need For Project:
The drainage continues to degrade and incise deeper, recent storm event in past few years have caused significant erosion and movement of sediment to move down stream, causing a irrigation pond along the drainage to have to be dredged out at the cost of $5000. Structures such s BDAs are needed to slow the velocity of the water reducing erosion and promoting sediment deposition in the channel, while widen out the channel and raise the water table to increase the survivability of stabilizing vegetation. This drainage provides irrigation water for farm fields below, as well as springs in the drainage are used for drinking water for a home on the farm. Drainage also continues on to the Clutter reservoir. Increased vegetation in the drainage will also serve as a habitat corridor for wildlife movement from the national forest area to the west down to water sources to the east.
Objectives:
Reduce the amount of bank erosion and streem incission. Reduce the amount of sedment loading of the stream during high flow increase streambank vegitation and stablizing vegitation
Project Location/Timing Justification (Why Here? Why Now?):
Currently the drainge has areas that are extermly insized but still potentially restorable or a minimum able to be stablized natually. As erosion and down cutting conitues the drainge will continue to insize deeper and create more vertical banks that will be highly unstable. Deep vertical cutting is very difficult to impossible to improve using BDAs. With increased extreme weather events could increase the frequency of seasonal flow in the drainage and increase the erosion rates. With active headcutting visible currently in the channel active erosion is occur annually, and
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Partners inlucde Blacksmith Fork Conservaiton District, as a techincal assistance and assistance in management of the demonstration site and promtoing such conservtion efforts. USU will potentially utilize the site to teach natural resource students.
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Sustainable Uses of Natural Resources:
Resotration of the drainage will reduce stream bank erosion and sedment laoding in the stream will imrpove the longetive of the irrgation pond adn farm land.
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