Cherry Creek Fish Passage, La Plata Watershed, Colorado

This culvert is part of a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funded fish passage project will remove a 60-foot galvanized steel culvert that currently blocks fish from moving up Cherry Creek, replacing it with a bottomless structure that allows fish of all species and age classes to pass. It will also open approximately 15-20 miles of habitat for roundtail chub, bluehead sucker, and flannelmouth sucker, more than doubling the amount of 3-species habitat in the La Plata River watershed. In addition, the project will reduce flood risk for local communities.