DelBene presents $960K check for Snohomish County work on Chinook Marsh

EVERETT — For three decades, Snohomish County staff have chipped away at restoration projects across the Snohomish River estuary.

Several islands and a meandering network of brackish channels are ideal conditions for threatened Chinook salmon.

Contractors for the county have removed dikes built over a century ago for flood protection to gradually create more fish habitat throughout the marshy landscape.

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“I like to say we’re putting Humpty Dumpty back together,” said Erik Stockdale, planning manager for Snohomish County Surface Water Management.

On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Medina, presented Snohomish County with a ceremonial $960,000 check to restore over 450 acres of tidal wetlands at Chinook Marsh and reconnect Ebey Slough to its natural floodplain. The marsh sits east of Everett, less than a mile from where Ebey Slough splits from the river.

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