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Off-channel Fish Habitat
Additional off-channel fish habitat building is currently being continued by hand on the Noons Creek hatchery site.
Eric and Co.'s work serves as a practical demonstration of what can be done by volunteers, at no-cost/low-cost to effectively restore and enhance
off-channel fish habitat in a heavily-impacted urbanized stream. Eric's fry and smolt trap counts from the hand-built off-channel fish habitat, so far this year and for last year, are encouraging. About 3,500 coho fry and 152 coho smolts emerged from the hand-built off-channel habitat last spring (2000) and were trapped, and then counted and recorded each morning by Eric.
Eric's coho fry trap count this year, was over 3,600.
Fish Habitat Restoration Project
Matt Foy (Biologist, Resource Restoration) and Mike Landiak P.Eng, (Project Supervisor) , both from for Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Salmon and Habitat Enhancement Branch, on August 16, 2001, completed a fish habitat restoration project, mostly to benefit chum spawners, during the 2001 fisheries window, in the main-stem of Noons Creek immediately downstream from the Ioco Road bridge.
Some fish habitat restoration and enhancement projects, in Noons Creek watershed and in other nearby streams are now being funded through court awards and through donations, like the Labatt's donation of
$3,000.00 received by PMES two years ago.
Broadly-based community partnerships are essential to completing fish habitat restoration projects.
All planned and undertaken fish habitat restoration and enhancement projects are done by PMES volunteers in
conjunction with community partners. Community partners wishing to work with Port Moody Ecological Society
volunteers on fish habitat restoration and enhancement projects are welcome and encouraged. Community
partners and volunteers working on each PMES sponsored fish habitat restoration and enhancement project
will be acknowledged and recognized on this web site and in "The Creek Crier"
A list of the other possible and/or potential fish habitat restoration projects in the Noons Creek and West
Noons Creek watersheds:
These include, among others, the following:
 | Removal of or back watering old steel pipe culverts at Noons Creek and West Noons Creek, and possibly Mossom Creek too, along the BC Hydro Right-of-Way Service Road and replacement with low-cost / no-cost and more fish friendly structures;
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| Removal of or diversion around an old rotting wooden coffer dam in Noons Creek immediately downstream of Noons Creek Park, in
Coquitlam;
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| Fixing a dysfunctional bio-remediation marsh immediately upstream from Panorama Drive draining into Noons Creek, in
Coquitlam;
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| Investigating and finding a remedy for the unmarked pipe allowing unknown effluent into the high-water side of the culvert under Panorama Drive at Noons Creek
in Coquitlam;
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| Installing stream awareness signs at Noons Creek and Diamond Crescent, in Coquitlam;
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| Replacing a missing stream awareness sign at Noons Creek and Panorama Drive, in Coquitlam;
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| Installing stream awareness signs at West Noons Creek at Panorama Drive, in Port Moody;
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| Investigate feasibility of possible fish habitat restoration and enhancement projects upstream from the Noons Creek
hatchery site in the Noons Creek ravine between Heritage Mountain Boulevard Bridge and Panorama Drive in
Coquitlam;
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| Investigate feasibility of possible fish habitat restoration and enhancement projects upstream from the Noons Creek
hatchery site, in West Noons Creek, immediately below Deerwood Place bridge, in Port Moody and upstream in West
Noons Creek to Panorama Drive in Port Moody and above Panorama Drive in West Noons Creek up to the BC
Hydro Right-of-Way Service Road;
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| Removal of the cement culvert at West Noons Creek and Panorama Drive and installing a fish ladder on the
downstream side and replacement with low-cost/no-cost and more fish friendly
structures, in Port Moody;
Please note:
The area of the west Noons Creek and Noons Creek watershed above and below Panorama Drive
in Port Moody is of considerable concern, in view of the massive encroachment experienced already, into the
riparian area/set-back along West Noons Creek at Panorama Drive in Port Moody.
Now the riparian zone has
been reduced to less than 6 metres from top of West Noons Creek west side bank versus 15 meters to 30
meters now issued as guidelines. To date, site remediation to fix this encroachment has been minimal. |
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| Installing Stream Awareness signs at Cypress Lake and at the Cypress Lake Access Road and Noons Creek in
Eagle Mountain Provincial Park;
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| Riparian Planting in the lower reaches and/or throughout the Noons Creek
watershed;
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A list of possible and/or potential fish habitat restoration and enhancement projects in other nearby streams flowing into Port
Moody Arm:
These include, among others, the following:
| Suter Brook - continue daylighting and woody debris placement; |
| Hutchinson Creek; |
| Pigeon Creek - daylighting and complexing across IPSCO site, by developer; |
| Slaughterhouse Creek; |
| South Schoolhouse Creek - complexing lower reaches and removal and replacement of an old Deneil fish ladder; |
| Imperial Creek; |
| Hett Creek; |
| Wilkes Creek; |
| Turner Creek; |
| North Schoolhouse Creek; |
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Broadly-based community partnerships are essential to completing fish habitat restoration projects.
The partners are project specific. Partners support for various fish habitat
restoration and enhancement projects is recognized on this web site and with on-site signage.
A list is also available of the fish habitat and enhancement projects already completed and the partners involved.
For example: the stream awareness signs at Reichhold Ltd. and South Schoolhouse Creek, have 11 different groups logos on the two signs. One sign is on either side of the footbridge over the stream, at the end of the Short Street cul-de-sac where it meets the Trans Canada Trail.
To reach us:
Port Moody Ecological Society
300, Ioco Road
Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada
V3H 2V7
Phone and fax: (604) 469-9106
E-mail: PMES
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