Resource Library
About the District:
Partners
- Office of the Chehalis Basin
- Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
- Washington State Department of Ecology
Know Your Flood Risk:
Individual Actions
- Sign up for free safety notifications through the Chehalis River Basin Flood Warning System
- Learn what you can do before, during, and after a flood
- Learn about floodproof measures
- Learn how to protect your home or business, find funding sources, and purchasing flood insurance
- Monitor flood levels on the Lewis County River Gage website
- Find flood emergency resources at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Local-Scale Actions
- Learn more about state funded local projects throughout the basin to reduce flood damage and restore habitat for salmon and other aquatic species
Flood Protection Project Overview:
Flood Retention Facility
- Video rendering of facility
- Project Purpose, Need, and Description (2019)
- Flood Retention Expandable presentation (2018)
- Flood Retention Expandable supplemental design report (2018)
Airport Levee Improvements
State and Federal Environmental Review Documents:
- Chehalis River Basin Flood Damage Reduction Project NEPA Draft Environmental Impact Statement (United States Army Corp of Engineer’s Draft NEPA EIS)
- NEPA Draft EIS Comment Letter (FCZD Comments to United States Army Corp of Engineer’s Draft NEPA EIS)
- Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Chehalis River Basin Flood Damage Reduction Project (Washington State Department of Ecology’s Draft SEPA EIS)
- SEPA Draft EIS Comment Letter (FCZD Comments to Washington State Department of Ecology’s Draft SEPA EIS)
Informational Submittals to WA Department of Ecology and US Army Corps of Engineers
- Transmittal Letter
- Vegetation Management Plan (Updated)
- Conceptual Level Recreation Improvement Options
- Additional Information – Environmental Justice
- Quarry Operations
- Access Roads Updated and Best Management Practices
- Temporary Construction Facilities
- Information from FCZD Related to SEPA Final EIS, Fish Passage Design – Response to Requested Information
- Updated Biological Assessment (due to file size restrictions this document is available upon request)
- Table of Substantive Changes from Draft Biological Assessment
- Water Temperature Model Sensitivity Analysis
Provides technical information for:
- Temporary Construction Fish Passage
- Vegetation Planting Plan
- Quarry Operations
- Access Roads
- Temporary Construction Facilities
- Sediment Transport and Geomorphology Review of SEPA and NEPA Documents
- Power Supply
- Airport Levee Wetland Avoidance
- Commitment to No Net Loss of Aquatic Habitat Function
- Large Woody Material Passage and Placement Clarification
- FRE Site Selection
Provides technical information for:
- Aquatic Habitat Mitigation Capacity and Species Benefit
- Slope Stabilization Mitigation
- Avoidance and Minimization of Rainbow Falls/Fisk Falls Lamprey Fishery Impacts and Related Cultural Effects
- Alternative Quarry Site Selection
- Operations Under Climate Change Conditions
- District’s Committed AMM Measures Catalog (MS Excel Database)
- Letter regarding Land Transfer Use and Jusridiction
- Short Term Aquatic Species Benefits
- Existing All Species Fish Passage Facilities Research
Supporting documents for project impact avoidance minimization and mitigation:
Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan (CFHMP)
The CFHMP provides an overall strategy of programs, projects, and measures aimed at reducing the adverse impacts of flood hazards on the community. The plan will coordinate and support the activities of the Office of the Chehalis Basin, and provide guidance for FCZD projects and activities within Lewis County.
- Interactive CFHMP Website
- 2021 Draft CFHMP
- 2021 Draft CFHMP Appendices
- Previous CFHMP - 2009 Lewis County Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan
Resolutions
- 17-001 Resolution to sponsor and apply for permits for a water retention facility and associated facilities on the upper Chehalis River South of the Town of Pe Ell and to raise the Centralia-Chehalis Airport Levee
- 17-002 Resolution creating Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Advisory Committee
- 17-003 Resolution to appoint members to the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Advisory Committee
- 17-004 Resolution to identify a water retention facility type to be sponsored and to authorize the district administrator to prepare and transmit a purpose and need statement to the United States Army Corps of Engineers
- 17-005 Resolution in the matter of establishment of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Fund No. 653
- 17-006 Notice of hearing on Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Budget for 2017
- 17-007 Notice of hearing on Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Budget for 2018
- 17-008 Resolution to adopt the annual budget of the Chehalis Basin Flood Control Zone District for the calendar year of 2017
- 17-009 Resolution to adopt the annual budget of the Chehalis Basin Flood Control Zone District for the calendar year of 2018
- 18-001 Resolution supporting a grant application submission to the Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority to complete a Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan
- 18-002 Resolution to appoint Bonnie Canaday Coumbs to the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Advisory Committee and renewing the appointment terms for two current committee members
- 18-003 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2018 Budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 653-005, notice of hearing thereon
- 18-004 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2018 Budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 653-005 (Munis Fund 65N1)
- 18-005 Notice of hearing on Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Budget for 2019
- 18-006 Resolution adopting the annual budget of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District for the calendar year of 2019
- 19-001 Resolution authorizing the district administrator to sign an agreement for services between the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District and HDR Inc
- 19-002 Resolution authorizing the district administrator to sign a personal services agreement between the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District and Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell governmental affairs
- 19-003 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2019 Budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 65N1, notice of hearing thereon
- 19-004 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2019 Budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 65N1
- 19-005 Resolution to renew the appointment terms for three current members of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Advisory Committee
- 19-006 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2019 budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 65N1, notice of hearing thereon
- 19-007 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2019 budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 65N1
- 19-008 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2019 Budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 65N1, notice of hearing thereon
- 19-009 Notice of hearing to adopt the 2020 budget for the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District
- 19-010 Adopting the Annual Budget for the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District for the Calendar Year of 2020
- 20-001 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2020 budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 65N1, Notice of hearing thereon
- 20-002 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2020 budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 65N1
- 20-003 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2020 budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 65N1, Notice of hearing thereon
- 20-004 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2020 Budget, supplemental appropriations to Munis Fund No 65N1
- 20-005 Resolution to appoint Frank Corbin to the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Advisory Committee
- 20-006 Resolution to renew the appointment terms for three current members of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Advisory Committee
- 20-007 Notice of hearing on Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District budget for 2021
- 20-008 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2020 budget, supplemental appropriations to Fund No. 65N1, Notice of hearing thereon
- 20-009 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2020 Budget, Supplemental Appropriations to Munis Fund No. 65N1
- 20-010 Resolution Adopting the Annual Budget of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District for 2021
- 21-001 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2021 Budget, Supplemental Appropriations to Fund No. 65N1, Notice of Hearing Thereon
- 21-002 Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District 2021 Budget, Supplemental Appropriations to Munis Fund No. 65N1
- 21-003 Resolution to renew the appointment terms for five current members of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District Advisory Committee
- 21-004 Notice of hearing on the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District budget for 2022
- 21-005 Resolution Approving and Adopting the 2021 Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan
- 21-006 Resolution Adopting the Annual Budget of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Zone District for 2022
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Learn MoreOther studies and reports submitted for consideration as part of the record:
- Operations Plan for Flood Retention Facilities, Anchor QEA, 2017
- Combined Dam and Fish Passage Supplemental Design Report, FRE Dam Alternative, HDR Inc., 2018
- Lewis County Recovery Strategy, Lewis County, 2009
- Chehalis River Hydraulic Model Development Project, Watershed Science and Engineering and WEST Consultants, 2012
- Effect of Climate Change on the Hydrology of the Chehalis Basin, Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington, 2016
- Governor’s Chehalis Basin Work Group Recommendation Report, Ruckelshaus Center, 2014
- Centralia, Washington Flood Damage Reduction, United States Army Corps of Engineers, 1982
- Multi-Purpose Water Storage Assessment, Tetra Tech and Triangle Associates, 2003
- Chehalis River Flood Water Retention Project Phase IIB Feasibility Study, EES Consulting 2011
- Centralia Flood Damage Reduction Project Chehalis River, Washington, General Reevaluation Study, Final Environmental Impact Statement, United States Army Corps of Engineers, 2003
- Chehalis Basin Flood Hazard Mitigation Alternatives Report, The William D. Ruckelshaus Center, 2012
- Chehalis River Basin I-5 Flood Protection near Centralia and Chehalis, Washington Department of Transportation, 2014
- Chehalis River Basin Flood Reduction Project, Pacific International Engineering, 1998
- FRO FRFA Final Conceptual Combined Dam Fish Passage Design Report, HDR Engineering Inc, 2017