Bibliography on Vancouver Lake Watershed, including Burnt Bridge Creek, Flushing Channel, Lake River, and Salmon Creek
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Bibliography of Vancouver Lake watershed, including Burnt Bridge Creek, Flushing Channel, Lake River, and Salmon Creek

A history of restoration efforts for Vancouver Lake

Dames & Moore. 1980. Operations Plan Rehabilitation of Vancouver Lake: Report. Vancouver, WA: Port of Vancouver.

Vancouver Lake is dying as the result of both natural and man-made causes. The means to reverse this trend are presented in the 1977 Master Plan prepared by Dames & Moore. The Master Plan concluded that successful rehabilitation of Vancouver Lake should include the following three major activities:

1. Flushing the lake with relatively clean Columbia River water.
2. Dredging the lake to provide for recreational usage and distribution of the flushing/dilution water.
3. Control of pollution entering the lake.

It was anticipated in the Master Plan that flushing the lake with Columbia River water will greatly improve the aquatic environment of the lake, but will not create crystal-clear water. Instead, the water quality will reach a level intermediate between the existing condition and that of the Columbia River.

In essence, the purpose of this operations plan is to provide specific criteria and recommendations for implementing the measures and actions presented in the 1977 Master Paln for the rehabilitation of Vancouver Lake. The Master Plan was modified or revised as necessary to conform to requirements imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant conditions and the various local, state and federal resource agencies. In addition, the measures recommended in the Master Plan were reviewed, and modified if appropriate, in light of up-to-date information resulting from other lake rehabilitation projects and cost effectiveness studies.

The Operations Plan does not introduce any concepts that were not included in the Master Plan. For example, the use of islandds for the disposal of dredged material was discussed in the Master Plan, but not included in the adopted or recommended plan since sufficient nearby land disposal sites were assumed available. However, the use of island disposal sites is included in the Operations Plan because a significant portion of the previously identified sites are not available or would be too costly to utilize.

 

Files Available for Document:

Report (242 p.)

Oversize pages (7 p. ; 11x17 ; should be combined to make 3 pages)

 

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