A large three-sided culvert will be installed under 160th Street NW to improve fish passage and fish habitat. The work will start early July and is expected to be complete in late October.
Motorists and residents near Huge Creek at 118th Avenue NW, between 126th Avenue NW and 121st Avenue Ct NW on the Pierce County line should expect delays starting in July 2021, while a county contractor builds a new culvert for Huge Creek.
The contractor, Active Construction Inc., is expected to work Mondays through Fridays and will have several trucks coming and going from the project site including construction equipment. Drivers are asked to be aware of these construction vehicles, add extra travel time and considering that we are restricting traffic to one lane only during construction.
The Huge Creek culvert is being replaced to provide a clear fish passage for native trout and salmon upstream into Kitsap County. This project is part of a larger effort to improve fish passage in the Minter Creek basin. Eliminating blockages to fish passage, allowing migratory fish to access the high quality spawning habitat upstream, is an important part of the County's salmon recovery strategy. The current culvert will be demolished on site and hauled away. New guardrails will be added, and native plantings will be established.