No Problem fishkisser99

Have you been up on Little Deer Creek lately?

We are replacing culverts that where choke up with rocks, dirt and wood and adding new culverts where they weren’t any before to help with the slide problems in that area and sediment problem. Little Deer Creek was dumping a lot of the sediment into Deer Creek.

We are in the mist of the 20 – 25 year syndrome, it takes that long for the stumps and tree’s to rot and make the hill side move (land slide) like Boulder Creek, Squire Creek.

Getting back to Steelhead Heaven, the creek on top of the slide is getting closer and closer; if they meet on top there will be a huge slide like we never seen before. We had GeoEngineers (out of Bellingham) come and look at it (2001) and make a proposal on how to fix it, we went and look at what they did on the Nooksack and it’s working there and we don’t have as many slides as they do.

I was up there earlier this year when there was a little slide; it went out 200 feet out from the toe of the hill and about 15 – 20 feet high which block the river (dam) for a while. The river blew though it in an hour, the Stillaguamish has been filling up with sediment for years now because of the slides (and Gold Basin Slide) might be a factor in the flooding in the lower Stillaguamish.