03 Aug Frost Creek Stream Restoration
Frost Creek will be embarking on a stream restoration project beginning in the next few weeks with completion scheduled by the end of this October. Early last summer the club began the process of getting proposals from well respected contractors. Neither Chad or I are hydrologists or anglers so we pulled six of our members together to form a fishing committee to help us evaluate the proposals and spitball what we were looking for. A big thank you to the committee members (in no specific order), Neil Roberts, Mark Spiers, Chris Marks, Meredith Perry, Joe Leininger and John Stafford!
We sifted through the three proposals one year ago and chose Ecological Resource Consultants from Lakewood, CO to perform the work. Take a look at the picture at the top of this post for a general idea of the plan. We have a phenomenal asset in Brush Creek and it just needs some adjustments to make it ideal fish and bug habitat. They will be making a deeper channel along the entire length and then adding riffles (small rapids for aeration), glides (smooth runs) and deeper pools (great fish hotels). They’ll be adding underwater boulders and large trees to create microhabitats in the stream. The goal of the project is to create the best habitat possible for keeping and growing healthy fish.
ERC put in all the hard work and has obtained a permit through the Army Corps of Engineers for the project. They will be using an excavator and articulating (spinning cab) off-road dump truck in the stream to do all of the work. We thank you for your understanding as they make some noise along the length of the creek over the next few months, but we’re certain it’ll be worth it!
If you’d like to learn more please swing by my office.
Mike