Early Action Items

The WRIA 1 Watershed Management Project has given seed money to Early Action Items. These projects address known problems with water quantity, water quality, instream flow, and/or fish habitat, in advance of the development of the Watershed Management Plan.

If you have an idea for a possible Early Action Item, please contact the appropriate technical team and they’ll walk you through the process.

2001 Early Action Items

Tenmile Creek Volunteer Restoration Project: The project is a neighbor-to-neighbor, voluntary effort to educate and empower landowners to improve water quality in the streams and ditches in the Tenmile Creek watershed, while maintaining their ability to farm and work the land. The seed money provided by the WRIA 1 Watershed Management Project was used to set up the project and fund it for the first six months, and has led to further grants from the Centennial Clean Water Fund and other sources.

Drayton Harbor Sewer Line Repair Project: Significant levels of fecal coliform bacteria have been found in Drayton Harbor, with one suspected source being the City of Blaine’s sewer line along Marine Drive. Funds from the WRIA 1 Watershed Management Project were used to leverage money from the City of Blaine, Drayton Harbor Shellfish Protection District citizen's advisory committee, the Semiahmoo First Nation and the Puget Sound Restoration Fund. Through this partnership, broken pipe sections were replaced, pipe joints were repaired, and manholes were patched. A final report that measures the effect of the project on fecal coliform levels is in the works.

Each of the following video clips was taken within a sewer pipe that was suspected of leaking raw sewage into marine waters that have seen high fecal coliform counts. This pipe is now repaired.

Clip 1 -(56K) (DSL/Cable) Looking inside a flowing sewer, the camera pans to observe a leaky joint. The repair device then moves into position, first to pressure test and then to fill the joint with a purple grout material. After the grout injection, the joint is again pressure tested to check the success of the repair.

Clip 2 - (56K) (DSL/Cable) Looking inside a sewer pipe at a cleaning jet system as it approaches a broken section of pipe. This pipe is between manholes C3-2 and C3-1 along Marine Drive in Blaine.

Clip 3 - (56K) (DSL/Cable) Looking inside a broken section of sewer pipe at a device that can pressure test and inject grout into leaky pipe joints. The breakage is so severe that the device could not be positioned to make the intended in-situ repair. City crews had to open cut and remove and replace this section of pipe.

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