Kellogg Creek Restoration and Community Enhancement Project

Overview: The Kellogg Project is located in downtown Milwaukie, Oregon, and includes removal of a 177-year-old mill dam that is also the foundation of the 4-lane OR-99E highway bridge. Riverlogic is the Kellogg Project Manager facilitating ODOT (delivery agency), City of Milwaukie (owner), North Clackamas Watersheds Council, and American Rivers on a Project Leadership Team. Riverlogic’s project management responsibilities included strategic planning, development of cooperative agreements, project scoping, planning framework and implementation plan development, funding strategy, coordination and relationship building to gain consensus among 23 diverse partner entities, administrative and procurement support, contract and grant management, project team management including oversight of multidisciplinary consultants and contractors, risk management, and technical assistance in design review and permitting. Riverlogic has led applications to secure ~$26 million from private, local, state, and federal funding sources

Project Elements:

INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC SAFETY, MULTI-MODAL TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT

• Replace the seismically vulnerable 4-lane Oregon 99E bridge to increase safety, including a multi-use pedestrian underpass between the City of Milwaukie and Willamette River waterfront.

• Creates connections with surrounding parks, regional trails, public transit, and affordable housing in downtown Milwaukie.

Project Benefits:

FISH PASSAGE - 17 miles

• Remove Kellogg Dam and restore habitat by constructing a natural stream channel through the new Oregon 99E bridge crossing and Kellogg Lake. Benefits Upper Willamette and Lower Columbia Species: Chinook and Coho salmon, Steelhead, Pacific lamprey by removing Kellogg Dam.

HABITAT RESTORATION - 14 acres

• Restore a 14-acre natural area with functional habitat, including floodplain, wetlands, and riparian habitat, and restore hydrologic connectivity with the Lower Willamette River.

• Removes 500,000 cu yds of contaminated sediment, 

• Improves water quality by eliminating the heat trap created by the impoundment

• Reduced flooding risk/expanded floodway capacity.

• Creates a new natural area with functional habitat and restores tidally influenced hydrologic connectivity with the Lower Willamette River.

COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT

• Add community enhancement features to the newly restored natural area including a trail, viewing and access points, and educational signage. 

• Provide interactive learning, research, and workforce development opportunities.