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Lower Kenai Peninsula Watershed Health Project

The salmon streams of the lower Kenai Peninsula supply economic and subsistence resources to the region’s rural communities and contribute greatly to the quality of life on the Kenai Peninsula. The Lower Kenai Peninsula Watershed Health Project’s objective is to monitor and protect these salmon streams, including the Anchor River, Stariski Creek, Deep Creek, and Ninilchik River. This project, spawned in 1998, is a partnership between the Homer District and Cook Inlet Keeper to collect baseline data on the four streams and establish natural conditions on these streams. Over the past several years, increases in water temperature, turbidity, and levels of phosphorous have increased local concern regarding stream health. The District and Keeper are beginning to address these issues by:

- Collecting increased discharge data;

- Placing temperature loggers into the four streams to collect continuous temperature data; and

- Creating a plan to identify the sources of phosphorous within the watersheds.

Please download the latest water quality report, read recent press releases, and check out Cook Inlet Keeper’s website for more information.

2006 Water Quality Annual Report (2.6 MB PDF)

Cook Inlet Keeper, www.inletkeeper.org

Taking discharge measurements on the Anchor River.