Canal Diversion Dam Removal
Project Overview
The Brecksville Canal Diversion Dam and historic Pinery Feeder Dam have been removed, and the Cuyahoga River is now free-flowing in Brecksville for the first time in over 190 years. As a result, the river is open for recreational use.
Status: Complete
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Complete
Funding: Funded via GLRI and OEPA
Completion Date: 2023
Cascade Park Valley View
Project Overview
This project restored and reforested the physical habitat of 5,000 linear feet of the Cuyahoga River. Additionally, it recreated and restored about 200 acres of parkland with 30 acres of wetland.
Status: Complete
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Complete
Funding: GLRI, Clean Ohio, and other sources
Completion Date: 2022
East 185th Spillway
Project Overview
The purpose of this project is to restore connectivity to Euclid Creek by providing passage for fish and aquatic organisms upstream, past the existing 185th Street spillway. It is located approximately 1.5 miles upstream from where Euclid Creek enters Lake Erie.
Status: Active
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations) and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Design
Funded by/through: USEPA GLRI (partially funded)
Anticipated Completion Date: 2025
Little Cuyahoga R. Dam
Project Overview
A prioritized failing dam on the Little Cuyahoga River is slated for removal with this project. This project will assist in enhancing the fish habitat, fish passage, general safety and stability, as well as the structure of the stream.
Status: Active
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Design
Partially funded through GLRI
Anticipated Completion Date: 2025
East of Boston Mills
Project Overview
This stretch of the Cuyahoga River is exhibiting issues of accelerated Channel Erosion, unstable planform, and limited stream habitat in low quality. This project aims to lengthen the channel by creating more meanders and features to achieve a more stable equilibrium.
Status: Active
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Design
Funding: USEPA-GLRI
Anticipated Completion Date: 2027-2029
Little Cuyahoga Memorial Parkway
Project Overview
The Memorial Parkway Restoration will be the removal of the Fish Passage Barrier that still resides in this stretch of the City of Akron. It will boost the water quality.
Status: Active
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Design
Funding: Funded
Anticipated Completion Date: 2025
Station Road Restoration
Project Overview
With the removal of the Canal Diversion Dam, the Dam pool stretching for a couple miles upstream is in need of restoration. This project design will help reestablish the habitat upstream from this effort and will create a higher water quality aligned with the effort.
Status: Proceeding as Design Only MAP
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Design
Funding: Partially Funded
Anticipated Completion Date: 2025
Irishtown Bend - Green Bulkhead
Project Overview
The active part of this project will establish green bulkheads to increase the chances for fish that migrate through the area. The project will improve riparian habitat and fish refuge areas. The project will design, fabricate, and install hundreds of habitat structures along the hard-walled bulkheads at the most-industrialized southernmost 2 miles of the ship channel.
Status: Active
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations) and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Construction
Funding: Funded
Anticipated Completion Date: 2026
Brandywine Creek Restoration
Project Overview
A 200-acre wetland complex with 1.5 miles of stream, including the mainstem of Brandywine Creek. Restoration will occur that will enhance and reconnect the Brandywine Creek with adjacent wetlands.
Status: Active
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Feasibility
Funding: Partially funded through US EPA GLRI
Anticipated Completion Date: 2025
Gorge Sediment and Dam Removal
Project Overview
The Gorge Dam is the single greatest unresolved water quality problem on the Cuyahoga River. Now, only the dam, a 400-foot wide, 60-feet tall obsolete hunk of concrete, remains. The project will remove the Dam and sediment that has gathered and inhibited the Cuyahoga River for over 100 years. Summit Metro Parks – Free the Falls
Status: Active
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Sediment Removal (Construction) / Dam Removal (Design)
Funding: US EPA GLRI, Local Partners, OLEC, and Ohio EPA
Anticipated Completion Date: 2026/2027
Old River Channel Restoration
Project Overview
A sediment remediation project in the Old River Channel that will prevent contamination from entering the food chain. Contaminants have negative impacts on the health of the ecosystem and contribute to fish consumption advisories on fish caught in the Cuyahoga River and the Great Lakes.
Status: Active
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 4 (Fish Deformities), and BUI 6 (Benthos)
Phase: Design
Funding: Funded by the 319 Program
Anticipated Completion Date: 2026
Sowinski Park Stream Restoration
Project Overview
This project in Sowinski Park would retain historic stream walls that can remain with in-stream modifications to improve habitat, replace failing wall segments with natural streambank armoring, and create an oxbow wetland to reduce turbidity and sediment loads.
Status: Complete
Impairments Addressed: BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Complete
Funded by: 319 Program, Local Partners
Anticipated Completion Date: 2023
Mayfield Sandridge
Project Overview
This six-phase project was designed by EnviroScience, Inc. to reduce erosion and improve stream/floodplain habitat by restoring and stabilizing 4,286 linear feet of the West Branch Euclid Creek and 383 linear feet of tributaries. This will be done through grading, creating a floodplain bench, and restoration of riffle and pool features.
Status: Active
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Construction
Funding: 319 Program and Local Partners
Anticipated Completion Date: 2025
West Creek Flume Removal
Project Overview
The goal of West Creek Stabilization in Brooklyn Heights project is to restore fish passage, enhance ecologically beneficially habitat, and stabilize the streambank by removing the concrete flume and applying a raised-bed approach along the main stem of West Creek
Status: Active
Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations) and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)
Phase: Construction
Funding: Funded by GLRI/ NEORSD/ ODOT
Anticipated Completion Date: 2025