Stormwater in the Mendenhall Valley
Five anadromous and resident fish streams in the urban Juneau area are currently on the State of Alaska list of impaired or threatened waterbodies. The Juneau Watershed Partnership is working to improve water quality in these streams by monitoring water quality, hosting stream clean-up and debris removal events, guiding riparian area conservation and re-vegetation, providing watershed assessments and information to the public and land managers, identifying pollutant sources, and working toward improved stormwater treatment.
The Juneau Watershed Partnership is currently working with support from CBJ and US Fish and Wildlife Service to monitor water quality in Jordan Creek and delineate impervious, runoff contributing areas in the Jordan Creek Watershed downstream of Egan Drive. Once this characterization and monitoring effort is complete, JWP will be able to target stormwater hotspots for improved stormwater control and treatment, ultimately improving Jordan Creek in-stream water quality for anadromous and resident fish, invertebrates, and wildlife.
In the past, JWP has monitored Jordan Creek, Duck Creek, and Pedersen Hill Creek water quality with help from University of Alaska Southeast Environmental Science Program faculty and students as part of the ADEC Alaska Clean Water Actions program.
