The Water Resource Department leads, facilitates and participates in many planning and implementation projects throughout the county each year. Our expertise ranges from simple hydrological measurements to technical geomorphology projects.

Our projects and programs result from studies and research, measurement plan recommendations, and landowner requests, to name a few. If you have a project on your property that you would like to discuss with us, please contact Walt Edelen.

What have we done? Here are some numbers regarding the projects completed by the Water Resource Department throughout Spokane County in the past 13 years.

Implementation Since 1998

On the Ground

• 10 grassed waterways (25,000’)
• 15 sediment basins
• 60,400’ of riparian fencing

Best Management Practices

• 15 farm plans
• 5,950’ of bioengineered stream bank stabilization projects
• 4 wetland restoration/enhancement projects & 135 riparian projects
• 125,000’ of riparian plantings with 358,210 trees & shrubs

Family Forest Fish Passage Program (3F2P)

• 9 projects since 2007; 4 projects planned for 2011
• 17 miles of new spawning and rearing habitat opened