Kahana Stream Restoration Project

Post Date

July 30th 2013

Application Due Date

August 5th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

F13AS00281

CFDA Number(s)

15.608

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

State Governments

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $70000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $70000

Grant Description

This agreement is being implemented in order to restore and enhance fish and invertebrate passage through the lower reaches of Kahana Stream, Oahu. By removing and controlling invasive vegetation and re-establishing a native-dominated riparian vegetation community along the lower Kahana Stream corridor, habitat will be restored, barriers to fish passage will be removed, and water quality will be improved. Much of the upper Kahana Stream system still exhibits good quality aquatic habitat. However, in the lower stream reaches "hau bush" Hibiscus tiliaceus has overgrown the stream channel to the point that in-stream habitat available for native aquatic species has been significantly degraded, and unnatural barriers to upstream migration of these species often exist. This project will benefit the public by increasing production of recreationally, commercially and culturally important fish and invertebrates as well as improving the physical chemical and physical characteristics of the central stream channel and riparian zone within the Kahana watershed.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Fish and Wildlife Service

• Agency Contact:

  Paulette Reyes, 808 792-9447
  Paulette_Reyes@fws.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Paulette_Reyes@fws.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  Paulette_Reyes@fws.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov