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The Hood Canal Coordination Council (HCCC) is seeking on-call land surveying services with special knowledge and expertise in marine shoreline and tideland survey and mapping. Assistance is needed in land survey and mapping of mitigation projects sites. The land surveying services will be in support of the HCCC In-Lieu Fee ...

The Hood Canal Coordinating Council (HCCC) is seeking a consultant qualified to co-coordinate Phase 3 of the Hood Canal Regional Pollution Identification and Correction Program (funded by the Washington Department of Health). Please submit your information for consideration, or any questions, to Haley Harguth, HCCC Watershed Planning & Policy Coordinator, at ...

The Puget Sound Partnership will release the 2018 Near Term Action (NTA) Solicitation Guide for the Puget Sound Action Agenda on Nov. 13, 2017. HCCC will facilitate a local Local Integrating Organization (LIO) review process for Hood Canal NTAs. Information on the LIO NTA process will also be available by Nov 13th. HCCC ...

Habitat restoration is a major component of the Hood Canal region’s efforts to recover salmon populations, with projects being undertaken in freshwater, estuarine, and marine nearshore habitats.  Although habitat restoration projects involve removing modifications and returning a site closer to its historic and/or unmodified condition, those changes made ...

Approximately 65% of juvenile, out-migrating steelhead that make it to the Hood Canal floating bridge do not make it to Admiralty Inlet, a location just North of the bridge on their migratory route. This high level of mortality may be limiting the species’ recovery, as steelhead are listed as threatened under ...

Hood Canal Coordinating Council’s Summer Chum Symposium was held June 28th, 2017.  Click below to view meeting materials. Symposium summary notes Symposium presentations

The HCCC Lead Entity Citizens Committee reviewed and approved nine projects to be submitted to the Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) for funding consideration for the 2017 grant round.  To view the list and links to full project proposals view our summary document.

HCCC worked with Confluence Environmental Company and Pacific Groundwater Group to compile the scientific documentation relating summer chum productivity to groundwater upwelling and inform how groundwater resources data should be used to guide future salmon habitat restoration work.  Follow the links below to view the full reports. Phase 1: Literature Review ...

Dungeness River Topo-bathy LiDAR is now complete and available from the Puget Sound Lidar Consortium. The data report and all of the data are available for download from the PSLC site http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/lidardata/restricted/projects/2017dungeness.html HCCC funded this project to assist the Jamestown S’...