Cooperative Agreement F24AC01719

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $104,843 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to the Applegate Partnership, Inc., a non-profit organization in Oregon. The funding supports the Watts Toppin Fish Passage Project, which will improve fish passage at the Watts Toppin Irrigation Dam on Williams Creek, a tributary of the Applegate River. The project involves constructing a roughened channel to facilitate passage for endangered coho salmon, Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, coastal cutthroat trout, and Pacific lamprey. This effort builds upon a recently completed lower Bridgepoint fish passage project in the same watershed. The Watts Toppin Fish Passage Project is expected to substantially improve access to valuable upstream spawning and rearing habitats when construction is completed by September 2026.