Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
Partners including City of Duluth, South St Louis County Soil & Water Conservation District, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources worked collaboratively to restore over 3,000 feet of stream channel through the City’s popular golf course, where construction in the 1980s altered the stream.
The ongoing construction project reworks the stream out of a ditch and redirects it around ponds that were introducing warm water to the stream. The project will replace perched culverts that are migration barriers with bridges to restore fish passage, while enhancing playability of the golf course and greatly improving the ecological function and aesthetic beauty of Buckingham Creek. Prior to the start of construction, DNR fisheries crews relocated more than 150 trout from the construction area upstream to cold-water refuge.
Funding for the project came from the Environmental Protection Agency’s, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the Minnesota Legacy Amendment – Clean Water Legacy Partnership Program, and the City of Duluth.
Partners including City of Duluth, South St Louis County Soil & Water Conservation District, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources worked collaboratively to restore over 3,000 feet of stream channel through the City’s popular golf course, where construction in the 1980s altered the stream.
The ongoing construction project reworks the stream out of a ditch and redirects it around ponds that were introducing warm water to the stream. The project will replace perched culverts that are migration barriers with bridges to restore fish passage, while enhancing playability of the golf course and greatly improving the ecological function and aesthetic beauty of Buckingham Creek. Prior to the start of construction, DNR fisheries crews relocated more than 150 trout from the construction area upstream to cold-water refuge.
Funding for the project came from the Environmental Protection Agency’s, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the Minnesota Legacy Amendment – Clean Water Legacy Partnership Program, and the City of Duluth.
