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FCZD releases 2022 Progress Report

Photo above: The replacement of a large culvert at Slide Ridge at Lake Chelan with a bridge was completed in 2022, marking the largest construction project the FCZD completed so far. The project cost $3.2 million. FEMA awarded the project a $1.3 million grant. The taxing district paid for the remaining cost.

 

In 2017, the Chelan County Flood Control Zone District Board of Supervisors adopted a Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan (CFHMP), which recommends regional policies, programs, and projects to reduce the risk to people and property from river flooding, alluvial fans and channel migration in Chelan County. The FCZD has prepared the 2022 Annual Progress Report. A few highlights on what the FCZD has accomplished this past year include:

  • Slide Ridge at Lake Chelan: Construction completed that replaced an undersized culvert with a bridge, improved conveyance of flood debris and enlarged berms/side slopes (FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant awarded for construction). 
  • No. 1 Canyon Debris Basins II: At the end of 2022, the construction project was at 90 percent completed. The project includes four basins to detain and release flood waters.  A FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant was awarded for the construction of this project.  The project was completed in March 2023. 
  • Ski Hill Basin Analysis: The analysis has been completed, with the design report outlining mitigation measures that should be implemented to reduce flooding impacts. 
  • No. 2 Canyon Mitigation Strategy: The FCZD received a Department of Ecology Flood Control Assistance Account Program grant for this project. The project team was selected and investigation of the basin has begun.  Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling has occurred and alternatives are being investigated.
  • Added an emergency alert rain gage in the 25-Mile Creek fire parameter.
  • Continued to update the FCZD website as well as provide public education and outreach to residents.

Last Updated: 05/15/2023 08:48 AM

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