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

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

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

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

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: 2026

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

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 will help reestablish the habitat upstream from this effort and will create a higher water quality aligned with the effort.

Status: Pending

Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)

Phase: Design

Funding: Not funded

Anticipated Completion Date: N/A

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: Inactive

Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations) and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)

Phase: Design

Funding: Not funded

Anticipated Completion Date: 2025

Project Overview

A wetland estuary is proposed at the entrance of this new stream channel and Lake Erie. This estuary would carve out the flat area of Gordon Park, and provide habitat for lotic fish to enter Doan Brook. The estuary would also provide flushing of the marina area, which due to wave action can be filled with debris and stagnant water. 

Status: Inactive

Impairments Addressed: N/A

Phase: Feasibility

Funding: Not Funded

Anticipated Completion Date: N/A

Project Overview

This project will restore this channelized segment by creating a two staged channel. More natural stream morphology will be created by increasing stream velocities, sinuosity, and water depth while reducing water temperatures and sediment transport without compromising the channel’s ability to convey larger wet-weather flows

Status: Inactive

Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)

Phase: Design

Funding: Not Funded

Anticipated Completion Date: N/A

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

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

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

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

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: Active

Impairments Addressed: BUI 3 (Fish Populations), BUI 6 (Benthos), and BUI 14 (Loss of Fish Habitat)

Phase: Design

Funding: 319 Program and Local Partners

Anticipated Completion Date: 2024

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