Project Title: Algae Biofuels Research
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Pullman, Washington
Purpose: Washington State University would utilize this funding to develop a process to harvest algae biomass resources for the production of biofuel.
Importance: This project would explore the potential to diversify our country’s energy portfolio, slow global warming by decreasing carbon emissions, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil sources.
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Project Title: Baker Bay Channel Dredging
at Ilwaco
Recipient: Portland District, Army Corps
of Engineers
Amount: $727,000
Location: Baker Bay, Pacific County,
Washington
Purpose: The Army Corps of Engineers would use these funds to dredge the channel to the Port of Ilwaco to the authorized depth to maintain safe navigation in and out of the port.
Importance: The Baker Bay Channel provides marina access for the US Coast Guard and the commercial, charter, and sport fishing industries which are vital to the economy of the City of Ilwaco and the region.
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Project Title: Centralia Flood Control
Recipient: Seattle District, Army
Corp of Engineers
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Lewis County, Washington
Purpose: The Centralia Flood Control investigation would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to continue a feasibility study for a project to reduce flooding in urban areas, including the cities of Centralia and Chehalis, and to reduce the risk of flooding to the I-5 corridor.
Importance: Significant flooding in 2007 and 2009 resulted in heavy damages to the urban and rural areas of the Chehalis Basin and closed the I-5 corridor for a total of six days. This project is needed to protect citizens, communities and the interstate from further flooding.
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Project Title: Chehalis River Basin
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $1,020,000
Location: Grays Harbor County, Washington
Purpose: Funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to continue studying measures to reduce flood risks and restore the ecosystem throughout the Chehlis River Basin.
Importance: Significant flooding in 2007 and 2009 caused heavy damages to urban and rural areas of the river basin. Local governments are considering sponsoring an expansion of the study to pursue basin-wide flood risk management.
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Project Title: Columbia River at Lower
Willamette
Recipient: Portland District, Army
Corps of Engineers
Amount: $25,562,000
Location: Clark County, Washington and
Multnomah County, Oregon
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain the federally-authorized depth of the federal navigation channel at the confluence of the Lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers in order to allow for passage of ships traveling to ports in Washington and Oregon.
Importance: This project would allow for the continued transportation of the billions of dollars in imports and exports that are shipped up and down the Columbia River each year.
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Project Title: Columbia River between
Chinook and Sand Island
Recipient: Portland District, Army Corps
of Engineers
Amount: $847,000
Location: Chinook, Washington
Purpose: The Army Corps of Engineers would use this funding to dredge the federal navigation channel to the authorized depth, maintaining a safe navigation channel to the Port of Chinook
Importance: The one-mile channel from the port basin to the Columbia River needs to be dredged to ensure access to the commercial and recreational boats that rely on the Port of Chinook’s seafood processing facilities, stores, campgrounds, and boat-repair shops that are critical to the region’s economy.
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Project Title: Duwamish/Green River
Ecosystem Restoration Program
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $2,600,000
Location: Duwamish/Green Watershed, King
County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would provide critical habitat restoration improvements to help offset the significant loss of fish and wildlife habitat due in part to federally-constructed and -maintained projects.
Importance: This project would assist in the recovery of fish and wildlife species, including the Endangered Species Act federally-listed chinook salmon that are integral to the economic growth and well-being of the region.
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Project Title: Elliott Bay (Alaskan Way)
Seawall Feasibility Study
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $1,400,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: The Army Corps of Engineers would utilize this funding to investigate and document damages to the infrastructure of the 75-year-old Elliot Bay Seawall.
Importance: The aging seawall provides protection to the city of Seattle and the public utility, telecommunications and transportation network along Elliot Bay. Failure of the seawall would disrupt these activities as well as rail operations along a significant national freight corridor.
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Project Title: Everett Riverfront
Redevelopment District Wetland Enhancements
Recipient: City of Everett
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Everett, Washington
Purpose: This funding would be used by the Army Corps of Engineers to restore tidal connections between the wetlands and the Snohomish River and repair, extend, and enhance wetland and riverbank vegetation, all within a larger project to transform the city’s riverfront into a sustainable mixed-use community.
Importance: In addition to restoring wetland habitat critical to salmon restoration on the Snohomish River, this community enhancement project would generate significant job creation and economic development for the region.
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Project Title: Green River Levee Safety
Assessment
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $500,000
Location: King County, Washington
Purpose: The Army Corps of Engineers would utilize this funding to help determine the safety of levee segments along the Green River in King County, which will allow for further efforts to fix and repair the unsafe levee segments.
Importance: In addition to ensuring flood protection to vulnerable residential areas, the Green River Levees, this funding would also provide research into critical flood control for the region’s commercial and industrial industries. If any segment of this levee system were to be breached, the costs to the local, regional, and state economy would be significant.
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Project Title: Lake Washington Ship Canal
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corp of
Engineers
Amount: $11,000,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to provide critical structural, electrical, and mechanical updates to the Lake Washington Ship Canal navigation lock.
Importance: Annually, over 1.5 million tons of cargo and about 50,000 vessels pass through the locks, making Lake Washington Ship Canal the busiest navigation lock in the United States. This project is critical to maintaining the economic vitality of the Pacific Northwest and will aid in salmon restoration through the canal’s fish ladder.
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Project Title: Levee Reconfiguration and
Floodplain Restoration of the Yakima River Gap to Gap Reach
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps
of Engineers
Amount: $300,000
Location: Yakima County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would
allow the Army Corps of Engineers to study options for levee-setback and
floodplain restoration adjacent to the Cities of Yakima and Union Gap.
Importance: This project would produce
positive impacts on flood hazard reduction and safety, improve habitat
function for threatened and endangered species, and has the potential
for increasing economic opportunities and job creation.
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Project Title: Lower Monumental Lock and
Dam
Recipient: Walla Walla District, Army
Corps of Engineers
Amount: $16,735,000
Location: Walla Walla and Franklin Counties,
Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to design, construct, and install a new downstream lock gate to replace Lower Monumental Lock and Dam’s current failing gate.
Importance: This project is critical to the continued movement of the over 2.8 million tons of cargo valued at $750 million that travels on the Columbia Snake River System annually. The failure of this lock would cut off shipments of imports and exports and poses a high risk to salmon recovery efforts in the region.
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Project Title: Marine Energy Technology
Recipient: Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Sequim, WA
Purpose: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory would utilize this funding to examine the feasibility of harnessing renewable marine energy resources, particularly ocean waves, tidal systems, near-shore wind, and evaluate potential environmental impacts.
Importance: This project would help to evaluate the potential of power sources that are predictable, reliable and would help to diversify the country’s energy portfolio.
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Project Title: Mt St Helens Sediment
Control
Recipient: Portland District, Army Corps
of Engineers
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Cowlitz County, Washington
Purpose: The Army Corps of Engineers would use this funding to continue monitoring and analysis of sediment resulting from the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens and to continue analysis of levee modification and dredging for a long-term solution.
Importance: Sediment and debris runoff from the Mt St Helens eruption continues to flow downstream which causes potential flooding concerns and navigation problems for the economically-important recreational watercraft that utilize the Cowlitz and Toutle Rivers.
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Project Title: Northwest National Marine
Renewable Energy Center
Recipient: University of Washington,
Oregon State University
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Seattle, Washington and
Corvallis, Oregon
Purpose: Using this funding, the University of Washington and its partners would continue research on tidal energy, which has the potential to be a carbon-neutral power source.
Importance: This project would help to determine the potential of a power source that could be predictable and reliable and help to diversify the country’s energy portfolio.
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Project Title: Odessa Subarea Special Study
Recipient: US Bureau of Reclamation
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Columbia River Basin, Washington
Purpose: This funding would be used by the US Bureau of Reclamation to continue a feasibility study that will result in options for utilizing surface water resources for use in agricultural irrigation in place of deep wells, which deplete the underlying aquifer.
Importance: In addition to avoiding ecological ramifications by preserving aquifer resources, this project will support the region’s irrigated crops and in turn, the thousands of jobs throughout the region generated by the agricultural industry.
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Project Title: Power Grid Reliability and
Security
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Pullman, Washington
Purpose: Washington State University would utilize this funding to create solutions to improve the existing power grid system, which is vulnerable to natural and man-made interruptions and inadequate to bring online the renewable resources of tomorrow.
Importance: This project would result in increased reliability and security of the nation’s power grid and the ability to integrate renewable resources, like wind or solar.
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Project Title: Processed Biowaste Fuel
Research
Recipient: Central Washington University
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Ellensburg, Washington
Purpose: Central Washington University would use this funding to research the potential of using biowaste as a carbon-neutral fuel source.
Importance: In addition to being a carbon-neutral fuel source, successful biowaste fuel production can benefit agribusinesses, slow global warming, and lead to a reduced dependence on foreign oil. This project will help identify carbon-neutral fuel sources, while educating students in sustainability research practices and efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of college campuses.
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Project Title: Puyallup River
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $600,000
Location: Pierce County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would help the Army Corps of Engineers to determine alternatives for addressing the flood and habitat issues of the Puyallup River.
Importance: In addition to protecting the safety of local populations and minimizing damage to the area’s businesses and infrastructure, this funding would also protect several vital transportation corridors including Interstate 5 and two active rail lines that transport cargo and passengers across the region.
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Project Title: Puget Sound and Adjacent
Waters Restoration Construction General Program
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Whatcom, Clallum, San Juan,
Skagit, Snohomish, Island, King, Pierce, Thurston, Kitsap, Mason, and
Jefferson Counties, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to identify and construct critical ecosystem restoration projects on the locally- and federally-owned lands bordering the Puget Sound.
Location: In addition to restoring habitats for many threatened, endangered, or candidates for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act, this funding would invest in the natural assets that are important to the region’s the shipping, fishing & shellfish production, outdoor recreation and tourism industries.
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Project Title: Puget Sound Nearshore
Ecosystem Restoration
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $1,600,000
Location: Whatcom, Clallum, San Juan,
Skagit, Snohomish, Island, King, Pierce, Thurston, Kitsap, Mason, and
Jefferson Counties, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to identify, design and construct riparian habitat restoration sites in the nearshore, estuarine and marine areas of Puget Sound.
Importance: In addition to protecting public health, water quality and the aesthetics of the nearshore areas and supporting numerous threatened and endangered species, this funding would invest in the natural assets that are important to the region’s the shipping, fishing & shellfish production, outdoor recreation and tourism industries.
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Project Title: Shoalwater Bay Shoreline
Erosion
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Pacific County, Washington
Purpose: This construction project will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to provide flood protection and severe coastal storm damage reduction to the Shoalwater Tribe’s reservation.
Importance: The Shoalwater Tribe’s reservation is experiencing an alarming rate of shoreline erosion which has caused flooding of tribal lands and facilities. This construction project will help protect the reservation and prevent further loss of tidal areas including shellfish beds which provide a major portion of the tribe’s livelihood.
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Project Title: Skagit River General
Investigation Study
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $1,300,000
Location: Skagit County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to analyze possible flood control projects to protect citizens and infrastructure that would be impacted by a flood event on the Skagit River.
Importance: This project would investigate options to protect local commercial infrastructure, the sole north-south interstate and railroad corridor west of the Cascades, state and local roads, and fuel pipelines from Anacortes refineries to Seattle and SeaTac Airport from a major flood event.
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Project Title: Skokomish River Basin Flood
Damage and Ecosystem Restoration
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $700,000
Location: Skokomish River Basin, Mason
County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to examine flood control and ecosystem restoration options for the Skokomish River and would result in the development of a comprehensive watershed restoration plan.
Importance: In addition to creating a plan to prevent the significant and ongoing flooding that has threatened the region for decades, this project would allow for the restoration of critical fish and wildlife habitat.
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Project Title: Southwest Washington Tidal
Energy Project
Recipient: Grays Harbor Public Utility
District and Pacific County Public Utility District
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Grays Harbor and Pacific
Counties, Washington
Purpose: Grays Harbor Public Utility District and Pacific County Public Utility District would use this funding to study the feasibility of a tidal power demonstration project.
Importance: Tidal power has the potential to lessen the country’s dependence on foreign oil by providing a carbon-neutral, predictable, domestic energy source.
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Project Title: Stillaguamish River
Ecosystem Restoration
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of
Engineers
Amount: $130,000
Location: Stillaguamish River Estuary,
Snohomish County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to craft plans for restoring tidal wetland and channel habitats by reintroducing natural processes such as normal tidal and river flows, sediment accretion and erosion, to the site through dike setback.
Importance: This project would help to reinstate the estuary habitat in Puget Sound marshes, mudflats and tidally-influenced channels to support hundreds of thousands of birds and several fish and wildlife species that are currently protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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Project Title: Walla Walla Watershed
Recipient: Walla Walla District, Army
Corps of Engineers
Amount: $500,000
Location: Walla Walla and Columbia
Counties, Washington and Umatilla, Wallowa, and Union Counties, Oregon
Purpose: Using this funding, the Army Corps of Engineers would focus on the restoration and management of a viable ecosystem in the Walla Walla River Basin by evaluating and recommending plans to boost biological resources and natural ecosystem functions and processes.
Importance: In addition to restoring instream flows for chinook salmon, steelhead trout, and other fish, this project would provide a stable water source that provides water for the region’s economically-important agriculture industry.
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Project Title: Washington State Biofuels
Industry Development
Recipient: University of Washington
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: The University of Washington would utilize this funding to create processes to convert biomass sources into transportation fuels.
Importance: This project would explore the potential to diversify our country’s energy portfolio, slow global warming by decreasing carbon emissions, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil sources.
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Project Title: Yakima River Basin Water
Enhancement Project
Recipient: US Bureau of Reclamation
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Benton, Yakima, and Kittitas,
Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the US Bureau of Reclamation to continue their work with farmers, ranchers, local governments, and other stakeholders as well as the State of Washington to move toward solutions to the Basin’s storage needs.
Importance: This project would ensure continued forward movement to address water issues in the Yakima River Basin, where water shortages during the cyclical droughts pose an ongoing situation for farmers and fishermen. This work is important both to local farmers and conservationists.
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Project Title: Yttrium-90 Microspheres
Research
Recipient: Advanced Medical Isotope
Corporation
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Kennewick, Washington
Purpose: The Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation would use this funding to research, develop, and test options for using yttrium-90, a chemical element, to treat brain, head, neck, and other soft tissue cancers.
Importance: Soft-tissue cancers are difficult to remove using traditional surgical or radiation cancer treatments. Isotopes similar to yttrium-90 have been shown to be effective in treating these hard-to-treat tumors, and further research and development may lead to more beneficial and lower-cost cancer treatments.
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Project Title: Tidal Energy Conversion
Recipient: University of Washington
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: Using this funding, the University of Washington would conduct research on generating power from waves and tidal forces.
Importance: This research would help to determine the potential of a carbon-neutral, predictable power source that can help to diversify the country’s energy portfolio.